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Every Cook Can GovernSeptember 2017
The Manchester Salon was delighted to host the Lancashire premiere of Every Cook Can Govern – the first feature-length documentary to explore the life, writings and politics of the great Trinidad-born revolutionary C.L.R. James who died in Brixton in 1989.
This unique screening was at Texture, 67 Lever Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester M1 1FL with producers Fraser Myers and Marisa Pereira answering Questions afterwards.
This award winning film, much acclaimed as a historical tour-de-force, interweaves never before seen footage of C.L.R. James with unique testimony from those he knew, alongside interviews with the world’s most eminent scholars of James’ life, work and politics. From slavery to colonialism, cricket, Marxism, movies, reading and revolution, what emerges in this film is an understanding of what it meant to be an uncompromising revolutionary in the 20th Century.
Already screened at the Trinidad and Tobago film festival, the Pan African Film Festival in LA and nominated for Best documentary in the Learning On Screen Awards, it is apt that this next premiere is in Manchester, where CLR James was a cricket correspondent for the Guardian. The year he spent in nearby Nelson, which shook his world, is fully explored in the film too and the friends he made there funded his seminal work The Black Jacobins.
Every Cook Can Govern marks the culmination of a five year multimedia project arranged by the education charity WORLDwrite and its Citizen TV station WORLDbytes. Its unique production history – crowd-funded, crowd-featured and crowd-filmed – does credit to James’ conviction that every cook can govern.
For the trailer, reviews, more information about the film and about C.L.R. James, visit the C.L.R. James Knowledge Portal. The film is also available on DVD here.
Watch the trailer here
Venue and Time In Texture, 67 Lever Street, Manchester, M1 1FL. If you're familiar with the area, it's towards the far end of Lever Street away from Piccadilly Gardens.
This discussion, including audience comments, will hopefully be filmed and made available online as a reference resource.
Discussion PartnersWORLDbytes is a unique online Citizen TV channel set up and run by the education charity WORLDwrite. Dedicated to advancing new knowledge, skills and ideas, the charity promotes excellence in citizen reporting and provides free training to volunteer-learners which combines practical film making with tackling challenging issues.
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