We are concluding Estate Talks project with something really special!

Saturday 14 November, 3:30pm-6:30pm

FILM SCREENINGS & TALKAOKE TALK SHOW – Booking required via this link (spaces limited) 

At Haggerston Community Centre, 8 Lovelace Street, London, E8 4FF

We would love to invite you to the final event of the Estate Talks series! Join us for a screening of the award winning film ‘Estate. A Reverie’ (2015, 83 mins, PGCert) by resident filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman and residents over seven years. Interweaving intimate portraits with the residents’ own historical re-enactments, landscape and architectural studies and dramatised scenes, Estate asks how we might resist being framed exclusively through class, gender, ability or disability, and even through geography…

Cast of the Haggerston Estate in "Estate. A Reverie"

“Knowing the previous work of its creators, I believe this project will achieve something very significant for the times we are living in. It will remind us ­- and how appropriate this is for the medium of film ­- that, both politically and humanly, the past is not behind us, not obsolescent, but beside us and urgent” – John Berger

“Her eye for process over time, and her practice of honoring process – the process is the act of witness, in the act of recording – is a humanizing act and an expansive meditative gift” – Ali Smith 

More information about the film can be found on Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s website.

Eric - a still from "Estate. A Reverie" film

We will also screen ‘Taking over King’s Land’ (2014, 23 mins, PGCert) by Gillian McIver about the mural project, which happened on the Kingsland Estate in 2012 in the run-up to the Olympics. The biggest solo street art project in London EVER! In a forgotten corner of East London,  Naz is battling weather, vandalism and lack of funds, to create a massive mural installation throughout a condemned housing estate.  Can art counter the urban atmosphere of deprivation, blight and neglect? Gillian McIver has been following Nazir Tanbouli around with a camera from the very first day of the King’s Land project, invading his artistic space and asking awkward questions. What’s it about? Art and Life? Man versus beast? Man versus nature? All of the above?

The evening will include a free-flowing conversation around the Talkaoke table – a pop up talk show by The People Speak. Talkaoke has been sparking unexpected conversations on street corners, at festivals, cultural events, universities, museums, youth clubs (…) in the UK and all over the world. We appear everywhere there are people and a need to chat. For us conversation is a creative medium. For almost three decades we have been creating live events that bring strangers together and help with collective decision making. In the world of polarisation our formats aim to create spaces where differences of opinion is encouraged and explored through a shared journey. Just show up – the conversation will do the rest.

Refreshments will be provided.

About the Estate Talks project 

The Haggerston and Kingsland Estate has undergone significant regeneration over the past decade. This summer and autumn we are organising Estate Talks – a programme of free public events for the local residents to celebrate the community and imagine the future of the neighbourhood.

Find out more about Estate Talks here.

The inspiration for the project comes from an award-winning film Estate: A Reverie (2015) made with the residents of Haggerston Estate by Andrea Luka Zimmerman – also a local resident.

Read more about Estate: A Reverie here.