Elefest Screening
12 July, 3pm - 10:30pm
St Mary's Churchyard
Elephant and Castle
London , SE1 6SQ
 
  
Elefest, the Elephant and Castle's annual festival, which is held in the late summer has joined forces with the LFA to create a unique outdoor cinema in the newly renovated and re-opened St
Mary's Church Yard, with pre screening DJ and "Knit the Aylesbury" workshops from Knit London and Inspire.
Short Film: 8:30pm " The Elephant Will Never Forget" (1953) The film, completed in London's 'Last Tram Week', takes you round the streets of South London and along the Embankment with two Cockneys who remember a song about trams they sang in the music halls fifty years ago. Finally, 20,000 Londoners cheer and sing their goodbyes to the trams which for ninety-one years had rattled and clanged their way through the colourful and lively part of South London near the Elephant & Castle.
Feature: 9pm "We Was All One" (1972) Thames Television documentary made as the last of the post war slum clearances were being made and the Heygate Estate was being completed, it asks local residents what they think of the new style of housing. The film examines the loss of community spirit, and whether the changes are for the worse or better.
Knit London and InSpire – Knit the Aylesbury Join our free workshops building our urban fabric ! We are knitting a scale model of the Aylesbury Estate, professional knitters and total amateurs welcome to take part in this woolly mammoth project !
Pre screening soundtrack courtesy of DJ John Reynolds (Shortwave).
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