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Closing session: screening event

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Wednesday 29th of June | 5.30-7.30pm | Maurice Keyworth Building room 1.04 & Zoom  We look forward to welcoming you to our next and final Quilting Points session of the year with a screening event. To bring this year’s activities to a close we will be meeting on Wednesday the 29 th of June at 5.30pm for a screening of the film The Riots 2011: One Week in August directed by James Jones followed by a short period of reflection and general discussion. If you are based in the UK the film is available to watch on the BBC iPlayer for the next month. As usual our meeting will take place both in person ( Maurice Keyworth building room 1.04 ) and online over Zoom. For those joining us online please do watch the film in your own time, and join us for the discussion after the screening which should start at approximately 7.00pm. Although the meeting will focus on One Week in August , we are suggesting as potential further reading an article by Paul Gilroy on the ‘riots’ titled ‘ 1981 and