HCC 2026 Winter/Spring Programme: The Long Emancipation

Because Black history is not a month, Haringey Community Cinema (HCC) invites you to a powerful series of screenings exploring Black histories, politics, culture, and struggle across the globe. As part of this series, we are interested in examining what Rinaldo Walcott framed as ‘the long emancipation’ through the use of moving images. This series brings into focus how colonialism, empire, racism, gender and sexuality have structured the ways Black life and thought are represented, questioned and resisted on screen.

We begin with the first chapter of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, read by Ms Lauryn Hill in Concerning Violence (dir. Göran Hugo Olsson). Next, Shari Frilot’s Black Nations / Queer Nations? chronicles the groundbreaking March 1995 conference on lesbian and gay sexualities in the African diaspora. To welcome Spring, we will shift our attention to the crucial role played by music in key moments of the Cold War with Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (dir. Johan Grimonprez). We will close with The Stuart Hall Project (dir. John Akomfrah), reflecting on the work and enduring legacy of Stuart Hall.

This event is free and open to all, 16+.

Booking is required for all screenings. Please visit the Haringey Community Cinema website to book

Price

Free

Contact

For more information, please email: haringeycommunitycinema@gmail.com 

Dates and times

First screening: Concerning Violence
Date/Time: 2 March 2026, 7pm to 9.30pm
Location: All Good Bookshop Guest: TBC

Second screening: Black Nations/Queer Nations?
Date/Time: 22 March 2026, 2pm to 4.30pm
Location: Chestnut Community Centre
Guest: Dr Lola Olufemi

Third screening: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Date/Time: April 2026 (TBC)
Location: TBC
Guest: TBC 

Fourth screening: The Stuart Hall Project
Date/Time: May 2026 (TBC)
Location: TBC
Guest: Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonk

Location