BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CAMPLE LINE - ECPv6.15.17//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://campleline.org.uk X-WR-CALDESC:Events for CAMPLE LINE REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20150329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20151025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20160327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20161030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20170326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20171029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190206T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190206T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131833 CREATED:20190107T215520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190107T215619Z UID:3477-1549479600-1549486800@campleline.org.uk SUMMARY:Reading Group #9 Madeleine Thien\, Do Not Say We Have Nothing DESCRIPTION:  \nCAMPLE LINE Reading Group\nWednesday 6 February\, 7-9pm\nJoin us for tea\, coffee (decaff!) and conversation about our ninth read – Madeleine Thien’s Do Not Say We have Nothing (2016\, Granta\, 480 pages) \nIn Canada in 1990\, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests. Her name is Ai-ming. \nAs her relationship with Marie deepens. Ai-ming tells the story of her family in revolutionary China\, from the crowded teahouses in the first days of Chairman Mao’s ascent\, to the Shanghai Conservatory in the 1960s and the events leading to the Beijing demonstrations of 1989. It is a history of revolutionary idealism\, music and silence\, in which three musicians\, the shy and brilliant composer Sparrow\, the violin prodigy Zhuli\, and the enigmatic pianist Kai struggle during China’s relentless Cultural Revolution to remain loyal to one another and to the music they have devoted their lives to. Forced to re-imagine their artistic and private selves\, their fates reverberate through the years\, with deep and lasting consequences for Ai-ming – and for Marie. \nMadeleine Thien is the author of the story collection Simple Recipes (2001) and the novels Certainty (2006) and Dogs at the Perimeter (Granta\, 2012). Her books and stories have been translated into 23 languages. The daughter of Malaysian-Chinese immigrants to Canada\, she lives in Montreal. URL:https://campleline.org.uk/event/reading-group-9-madeleine-thien-do-not-say-we-have-nothing/ CATEGORIES:May You Live END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181128T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181128T210000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131833 CREATED:20181009T113228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181009T113438Z UID:3400-1543431600-1543438800@campleline.org.uk SUMMARY:Reading Group #8 Aminatta Forna The Memory of Love DESCRIPTION:  \nIf you like the sound of Forna’s book\, then why not join us on 28 November for (decaff) coffee (or tea) and conversation – it’s our eighth read! \nFreetown\, Sierra Leone\, 1969. On a hot January evening that he will remember for decades\, Elias Cole first catches sight of Saffia Kamara\, the wife of a charismatic colleague. He is transfixed. Thirty years later\, lying in the capital’s hospital\, he recalls the desire that drove him to acts of betrayal he has tried to justify ever since. \nElsewhere in the hospital\, Kai\, a gifted young surgeon\, is desperately trying to forget the pain of a lost love that torments him as much as the mental scars he still bears from the civil war. It falls to a British psychologist\, Adrian Lockheart\, to help the two survivors\, but when he too falls in love\, past and present collide with devastating consequences. \nAminatta Forna was born in Scotland\, raised in Sierra Leone and Great Britain and spent periods of her childhood in Iran\, Thailand and Zambia. She is the award-winning author of the novels Happiness\, The Hired Man\, The Memory of Love and a memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water. She is currently Lannan Visiting Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University and Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. \nPlease bring your own copy of the book. URL:https://campleline.org.uk/event/reading-group-8-aminatta-forna-the-memory-of-love/ LOCATION:Cample Line\, Thornhill\, DG3 4XX\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:May You Live END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180311T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180311T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131833 CREATED:20180209T113653Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180222T232359Z UID:2568-1520784000-1520784000@campleline.org.uk SUMMARY:Screening and discussion with artist Stina Wirfelt DESCRIPTION:Stina Wirfelt\, still from Rolls and Shutters\, 2016\nStina Wirfelt\, Rolls and Shutters\, 2016 (17mins)\nJohn Smith\, Hotel Diaries #6 Dirty Pictures\, 2007 (14 mins)\nFilipa César\, Cacheu\, 2012 (10mins) \n  \nPlease join us for a screening of Stina Wirfelt’s short film Rolls and Shutters\, a personal and poignant meditation on the ways we respond to documentary photography and to events\, moments\, places and gestures captured as image. \nWirfelt’s film takes as its starting point the photographic archives of the Thistle Foundation and Craigmillar Festival Society: ‘Pictures of a community doing stuff\,’ as Wirfelt\, as the film’s narrator\, tells us. From black and white b&w images of Craigmillar children and royal visits to a local community centre\, she elaborates something of an arc that includes reflections on her own memories of both making and reading images and the impact of a radio discussion of the shocking image of refuge Alan Kurdi published in the press in 2016. Wirfelt’s narration seamlessly moves from the local and observational to more distant and often tragic circumstances\, and as the film progresses\, we understand that these constitute an emotional continuum for Wirfelt. In a disarmingly conversational way\, she brings them to a finely judged point of connection. \nThe artist will introduce Rolls and Shutters\, and has chosen to screen two additional short films by John Smith and Filipa César\, which equally achieve the same fine judgment between personal or performed circumstance\, observation and incident\, and the broader narratives that draw us towards notions of nationhood and history. \n£4 (£2)\nPlease book via Eventbrite. You can also book by emailing us directly: info@campleline.org.uk \n  \nSTINA WIRFELT was born in Sweden and graduated from Malmö Art Academy in 2007. She is based in Scotland and teaches at Edinburgh College of Art. \nJOHN SMITH lives and works in London and currently teaches part-time at the University of East London where he is Professor of Fine Art. His work is held in numerous public collections including Arts Council England\, Tate\, Ella Fontanals-Cisneros\, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg\, Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Ferens Art Gallery\, Hull\, and is distributed by LUX\, London\, Video Data Bank\, Chicago and Light Cone\, Paris. \nFILIPA CÉSAR was born in Porto\, in Portugal in 1975. She currently lives and works in Berlin\, Germany. URL:https://campleline.org.uk/event/screening-discussionwith-artist-stina-wirfelt/ LOCATION:Cample Line\, Thornhill\, DG3 4XX\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:May You Live,May You Live Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171119T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171119T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131833 CREATED:20171106T215232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171106T220421Z UID:2430-1511107200-1511114400@campleline.org.uk SUMMARY:TALKJane McArthurThe Witness in the Archive DESCRIPTION:Residents survey damage after the bombing of an unnamed street in London on the night of 17/18 May 1943. HU_129139. Copyright IWM\, Imperial War Museum\nAs part of our May You Live In Interesting Times programme\, Jane McArthur will talk about an uncatalogued archive of 37 photographs in the Imperial War Museum. Part of the Press and Censorship Bureau Photography Library\, images from the archive show people salvaging their possessions and digging through damage after the bombing of an unnamed street in London on the night of the 17/18 May 1943. Jane will talk about her doctoral research process\, which has extended to other archives\, and about an elderly man in Canada who had waited nearly sixty years to share the loss of his childhood home in that street on that night. \nJane McArthur is based in D&G\, and is a Collaborative Doctoral Researcher with The University of Edinburgh & Imperial War Museum\, London. \nTickets are £2 URL:https://campleline.org.uk/event/talkjane-mcarthurthe-witness-archive/ LOCATION:Cample Line\, Thornhill\, DG3 4XX\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:May You Live END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171029T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171029T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131833 CREATED:20171013T205722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171013T210456Z UID:2302-1509300000-1509309000@campleline.org.uk SUMMARY:ScreeningStories We Tell\, 2012Sarah Polley DESCRIPTION:  \nStories We Tell (2012\, Canada\, SARAH POLLEY\, 1h48mins) \nTo open the next instalment of our May You Live In Interesting Times programme\, we are screening Sarah Polley’s award-winning documentary about her family and their complex inter-relations. Peter Bradshaw has called it ‘a semi-dramatised documentary\, which has a blazingly emotional story to tell.’ A beautifully crafted and deeply personal film\, it also circumscribes the question of what families are and how they are bound together\, all against the backdrop of a changing society. \n  \nHarriet Warman from Regional Screen Scotland and Behind the Curtain will introduce the film and lead a short discussion afterwards. \n  \nYou can book a seat by emailing us directly at info@campleline.org.uk \nWe accept cash payments on arrival. \nYou can book and pay online via Ticket Source URL:https://campleline.org.uk/event/screeningstories-tell-2012sarah-polley/ LOCATION:Cample Line\, Thornhill\, DG3 4XX\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:May You Live END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170219T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170219T200000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131833 CREATED:20170309T095327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T223642Z UID:1466-1487525400-1487534400@campleline.org.uk SUMMARY:May You Live in Interesting Times\, 1997Fiona Tanfilm screening DESCRIPTION:Fiona Tan\, still from May You Live in Interesting Times\, 1997Courtesy of Fiona Tan and Frith Street Gallery\, London\n\n£2.00\nBooking essential | Information | info@campleline.org.uk\n\nFIONA TAN is an internationally renowned artist and filmmaker. She is known for compelling video and film installations that explore memory\, time\, image and history. She was born in
1966 in Pekan Baru\, Indonesia\, the daughter of a Chinese father and an Australian mother with Scottish roots. Growing up in Melbourne\, as an adult she relocated to Amsterdam to study\, and she continues to live and work there. \nMay You Live In Interesting Times is a 60 min documentary that Fiona Tan produced for
Dutch television in 1997. The film follows Tan as she undertakes a search for her own cultural background and identity. She seeks out her wider Chinese family\, particularly those who lived through the anti-Chinese pogroms of the 1960s in Indonesia as well as those who left and settled elsewhere. She visits her parents\, who left Indonesia for Australia. She briefly films her two siblings\, who reveal their own different senses of identity. Her journey takes her back to Indonesia\, and to other places such as Berlin\, the Netherlands\, Hong Kong and the ancestral seat of all Tans in China. In a voice-over toward the end of the film\, Tan explains that she ‘started this journey in search of mirrors’ – images or individuals that might reflect something of her identity back to her. More broadly\, the film draws our attention to the way families live in the world in a constant negotiation of place\, kinship and cultural roots\, and how these shape our sense of who we are. URL:https://campleline.org.uk/event/screening-3/ CATEGORIES:May You Live END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170115T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170115T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131833 CREATED:20161207T133143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T223014Z UID:1383-1484496000-1484503200@campleline.org.uk SUMMARY:Corin Sworn\, The Foxes\, 2014Laura Horelli\, The Terrace\, 2011Rania Stephan\, Memories for a Private Eye\, 2015Screening DESCRIPTION:£2.00\nBooking Essential | Information | info@campleline.org.uk\n\nLaura Horelli\, The Terrace\, 2011Courtesy of Laura Horelli and Av-Arkki\, Helsinki\nRania Stephan\, still from Memories for a Private Eye\, 2014Courtesy of Rania Stephan\nCAMPLE LINE is delighted to present three short film works by Corin Sworn\, Rania Stephan and Laura Horelli respectively. The screening\, organised in association with Driftwood Cinema\, is the second of three that launch our on-going programme May You Live In Interesting Times\, and other family stories. \n  \nCorin Sworn’s film The Foxes was commissioned by The Common Guild in Glasgow for Scotland+Venice 2013. Sworn’s starting point for the film was a collection of slides taken in 1973 by her father Gavin A. Smith\, who is a social anthropologist. The slides were taken during his fieldwork in Huasicancha\, a highland village in Peru. While Sworn’s film touches on her father’s original work on Peruvian land reform and tactics of peasant rebellion\, it also poses questions about the general legibility of photographs and the layers of story that we draw out of them. Sworn sat down with her father over two days in July 2012 to project and look at the slides. As they talked\, Sworn learned more about the trip the slides documented. As she has noted: ‘At 8 years old\, your parents’ adult life is very foreign to you in a way\, and it just seemed more weird back then than necessarily interesting.’ Snippets of a conversation between the artist and her father discussing the slides and the places\, events and people they depict are woven into the film alongside footage of a trip that they make together back to the region in 2013. \n  \nLaura Horelli’s film The Terrace shares features with Sworn’s The Foxes: central to both is the consideration of images taken by a respective parent. As a small child Laura and her family lived in a row house in a compound in the neighbourhood of Kilimani in Nairobi\, Kenya\, staying there for a period of four years before moving back to Helsinki. The Selborne Apartments consist of four vaguely modernist row houses\, designed by the architect Braz Menezes and constructed in the late 1970s. Shots of the buildings and grounds are interspersed with sequences in which the artist sifts through a series of photographs\, taken by her mother in the late 1970s and early 1980s. At certain points\, the camera pans over photos of Esther\, a local Kenyan woman who the Horellis employed as a housekeeper. In a voiceover\, Horelli also recounts that during the 1980s\, her father worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN\, and her mother worked with a Kenyan women’s organization. However\, this is not a straightforward return to a childhood home: the filmed footage resists giving dimension easily to remembered places and relationships. \n  \nRania Stephan’s film Memories for a Private Eye was commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and premiered at Berlin Film Festival in February 2015. Memories for a Private Eye will comprise a trilogy of films\, of which it is the first part. In contrast to the films of Sworn and Horelli\, in which both artists maintain a more direct\, analytical approach to their source images\, Stephan approaches a small snippet of film of her mother less directly\, drawing on cinematic forms and footage to elaborate an exploration of her own memories. The investigative impulse is present in her film\, however it is embodied in a fictional Hollywood detective who Stephan artfully cuts into the flow of the film. Beguiling cinematic images are interspersed with documentary footage of Stephan’s hometown Joun\, and attempts made by Stephan to interview and record her father. Stephan has said of this film: ‘I tried to explore my personal archive by invoking a fictional detective to help me unfold deep and traumatic memories. The images\, which come from different sources\, weave together into a labyrinthine maze to create a blueprint of memory itself. The film spirals around a lost image\, the only moving image of my dead mother. What remains of love\, war and death with the passing of time? These are the questions that are delicately displayed for contemplation in this film.’ URL:https://campleline.org.uk/event/screening-2/ LOCATION:Cample Line\, Thornhill\, DG3 4XX\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:May You Live END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20161204T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20161204T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T131833 CREATED:20161207T142838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180220T130632Z UID:1401-1480867200-1480874400@campleline.org.uk SUMMARY:Miranda Pennell\, The Host\, 2015 Werner Kissling\, Eriskay – A Poem of Remote Lives\, 1935SCREENING DESCRIPTION:  \n\n£2.00\nBOOKING ESSENTIAL | Information | info@campleline.org.uk\n\nMiranda Pennell\, still from The Host\, 2015Courtesy of Miranda Pennell and Lux\, London\nMiranda Pennell\, still from The Host\, 2015Courtesy of Miranda Pennell and Lux\, London\nWe are delighted to be screening MIRANDA PENNELL’S recent film The Host a year on from its debut at the London Film Festival. Pennell originally trained in contemporary dance before making films\, and later studied visual anthropology. Her recent moving-image work uses archival materials as the starting point for a reflection on the colonial imaginary. Pennell’s father was employed by the Iranian Oil Company\, later known as British Petroleum\, and much of her childhood was spent in Iran. The Host sets out to decipher images\, texts\, objects\, maps\, diagrams\, markings and photographs all buried in the BP Archive. What is revealed in the process is a hauntingly beautiful landscape objectified from the point of view of utility\, for resources that need to be extracted. The film interweaves a number of stories drawn from both the records of an imperial history and Pennell’s own memories\, and ultimately it is a personal essay film about the stories we tell about ourselves and others\, the facts and fictions we live by\, and their consequences. \nAlongside The Host\, we are screening WERNER KISSLING’s Eriskay – Poem of Remote Lives. His only surviving film\, it was shot in 1934 on the island of Eriskay and released the following year. It stands as a key document in the developing ethnography of Hebridean and Northern Isles cultures in the 1920s and 1930s. Kissling had a complicated personal history\, settling permanently in the UK in the 1930s to escape the consequences of the rise of Nazism in Germany and residing in his later years in Dumfries. Following an early career as a diplomat\, he established a practice as an ethnographer and photographer\, working in Yorkshire\, the south of Scotland and the Outer Hebrides\, and travelling to New Zealand in 1938 to record Maori culture. URL:https://campleline.org.uk/event/the-host-2015-and-eriskay-a-poem-of-remote-lives-1935/ LOCATION:Cample Line\, Thornhill\, DG3 4XX\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:May You Live ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://campleline.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/The-Host2.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR