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Wild about Film: Fashion Reimagined
£5 Please book tickets in advance via Eventbrite or pop into the Hwb and buy a ticket. Welcome to Wild About Film! our film club that sparks conversation and inspires action through the power of cinema.
Fashion Reimagined
Director: Becky Hutner 100 min | UK, USA | 2022 Raised off-grid by activist parents, fashion designer Amy Powney has always felt uneasy about the devastating environmental impact of her industry. When she wins the coveted Vogue award for the Best Young Designer of the Year, which comes with a big cash prize, Amy decides to use the money to create a sustainable collection from field to finished garment, and transform her entire business. This film follows her painstaking efforts to produce clothes that do no harm, examining every step of long and winding supply chains and uncovering shocking practices and statistics. “A must watch, not just for the fashion industry, but for everyone who wears clothes.” – Jess Cartner-Morley, Associate Editor (Fashion), The Guardian Amy Powney is widely considered a leader in the UK’s sustainable fashion movement. In just 13 years, she went from sweeping the cutting-room floor at fashion brand Mother of Pearl to taking the helm as its Creative Director. Sustainability has been a life-long passion for Amy and she’s been on a mission for Mother of Pearl to reduce its impact on the planet. Her sustainable collections have been shown at London Fashion Week and Copenhagen Fashion Week and are stocked by prestigious global retailers including Net-a-Porter, Harrods, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, and Goop. She also designs sustainable collections and homeware for John Lewis. She is the winner of the 2017 BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund and writes the “Ask Amy” column in British Vogue. After 20 years at Mother of Pearl, Amy stepped down in 2025 in order to launch a new contemporary womenswear brand: AKYN with the aim of demonstrating that it is possible to create beautiful, desirable clothes with a transparent supply chain, organic, best practice, natural materials; and a socially-responsible ethos.Discussion
Join us and our invited speakers to talk about issues raised by tonight’s film and hear about inspiring [local] projects. Tonight our panel includes Emily James (Carpenter and Cloth); and Sarah Poland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb2IKlyETiU
Film: 6.30 pm
Interval: 8.05 pm - order your drinks / food from the cafe as you arrive
Discussion: 8.30 - 9.15pm
For more details on Wild about Film see our Film Club Page
Wild about Film: Mothers of the Revolution
£5 Please book tickets in advance via Eventbrite or pop into the Hwb and buy a ticket. Welcome to Wild About Film! our film club that sparks conversation and inspires action through the power of cinema.
Mothers of the Revolution
In 1981 a group of 36 women set off on a 120 mile march from Cardiff to Berkshire to protest against the planned arrival of American nuclear missiles on UK soil. The Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp grew from that small number of individuals to thousands. It challenged world leaders, altered the course of history and inspired millions as the world’s first and biggest female-only demonstration
Our panel for the evening consists of Karmen Thomas, one of the four friends from Ammanford and nearby, whose original idea the march was, and Jill Evans, one of the original marchers and current Vice Chair of CND Cymru
“We changed ourselves and in changing ourselves, we inspired so many women to change the world” - Rebecca Johnson, Greenham Woman
Film: 6.30 pm
Interval: 8.15 pm - order your drinks / food from the cafe as you arrive
Discussion: 8.30 - 9.15pm
Our panel: Jill Evans was born and still lives in the Rhondda Valley. Jill was a Plaid Cymru councillor in the Rhondda, on Mid-Glamorgan County Council and Rhondda Cynon Taf council until she was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for Wales in 1999. She was re-elected four times and was an MEP until 2020 when the UK left the European Union. Jill was Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Cymru/Wales and is now Vice-Chair. She was a member of Heddwch Nain/Mamgu (Our Grandmothers’ Peace), formed to mark the 2024 centenary of the Welsh Women’s Peace Petition to the women of the United States and to work to realise the aims of the women a century ago. She is Vice-Chair of Academi Heddwch Cymru, Wales’s peace institute. Karmen Thomas lived in the Amman Valley for over three decades, bringing up her four children, working in different roles including as a trade union official, co-founding Women for Life on Earth, and volunteering with various community projects. In 2009 she moved to Swansea and was awarded a doctorate in history from Swansea University. She now combines research and writing with her role as President of the Royal Institution of South Wales. For more details on Wild about Film see our Film Club Page [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c5ZuyVE7E4[/embed] MOTHERS OF THE REVOLUTION Director: Briar March Featuring: Karmen Thomas, Rebecca Johnson, Peggy Seeger, Julie Christie, Olga Medvedev Narrator: Glenda Jackson 2021 Certificate 15 1h 42m
