Screening
Videotheque - African Oasis
16 Jul 2020 – 22 Jul 2020
Regular hours
- Thu, 16 Jul
- 00:00 – 23:59
- Fri, 17 Jul
- 00:00 – 23:59
- Sat, 18 Jul
- 00:00 – 23:59
- Sun, 19 Jul
- 00:00 – 23:59
- Mon, 20 Jul
- 00:00 – 23:59
- Tue, 21 Jul
- 00:00 – 23:59
- Wed, 22 Jul
- 00:00 – 23:59
Address
- 16 Minerva Works
- 158 Fazeley Street
- Birmingham
West Midlands - B5 5RS
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 4, 5, 6, 37, 37A, 27Y, 41 649, 560, 66Y 57, 57Y, 58, 58A, 60, X66
- New Street, Moor Street
Event map
Our planned open access video viewing space is on hold IRL, so we are taking the Videotheque online with our new Vimeo channel.
About
African Oasis (Yugesh Walia, 1982, produced by Birmingham Film Workshop) is a documentary exploring the former Handsworth Cultural Centre in Birmingham. The centre was a community based cultural project initially set up as the Handsworth Alternative Scheme (HAS) with Home Office funding, to assist the probation service in finding alternatives to custody for young Black offenders from the Handsworth area. Within a few years, the Centre moved on from being an after-care facility to an oasis of cultural activity for Handsworth’s Black community.Produced by the Birmingham Film Workshop, African Oasis is one of a trio of films that Birmingham based director Yugesh Walia made in the early 1980′s highlighting aspects of Black and Asian culture in Britain (Mirror Mirror, 1980; Sweet Chariot, 1981; African Oasis, 1982). The films now form part of the Birmingham Museums Trust collection and were acquired through the Collecting Birmingham project.
