Professor Esther Johnson’s ‘Asunder’ – Screenings announced
Professor Esther Johnson‘s Asunder tells the story of what happened to an English town during the First World War, with almost all of its men fighting abroad and its women and children left behind. The North East was in the front line, thanks to its shipyards and munitions factories.
New dates for screenings of Asunder, with Q&As are below:
21 February 2018
Q&A with Esther Johnson
21 February 2018
Q&A with Esther Johnson
08 March 2018 – International Women’s Day screening
The Cumberland Arms, Newcastle
Donations for charities Plan International and Newcastle Women’s Aid
Q&A with Esther Johnson
11 April 2018
Screening as part of Changing Lives: 200 Years of People and Protest in Sheffield
Q&A with Esther Johnson
15 June 2018
Screening as part of Suffrage 18: A Centenary Exploration at LSE
Q&A with Esther Johnson
11 November 2018 – Armistice Centenary events
With live music by Field Music, Warm Digits, The Cornshed Sisters, and the Royal Northern Sinfonia.
11 November 2018
Q&A with Esther Johnson
11 November 2018
The Customs House, South Shields
Q&A with Esther Johnson
Esther Johnson works at the intersection of artist moving image and documentary. Her poetic portraits focus on marginal worlds, revealing resonant stories that may otherwise remain hidden or ignored. Work has been exhibited internationally in 40 countries, and has also featured on television and radio. In 2012 Johnson won the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Performing and Visual Arts for young scholars. She is a Professor of Film & Media Art at Sheffield Hallam University. Find out more about Esther’s work here.
Asunder is co-commissioned by Sunderland Cultural Partnership and 14–18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, supported by The National Lottery through Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Sunderland Business Improvement District, Culture Bridge North East and Sir James Knott Trust.
Asunder is on Twitter @1916asunder.