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Blood ah go Run & Dread Beat and Blood: film screening

08/10/2026

Blood ah go Run & Dread Beat and Blood: film screening

08/10/2026

Visit UCL East Cinema at One Pool Street on 8 October for a double bill screening of Blood ah go Run, directed by Menelik Shabazz, and Dread Beat and Blood, directed by Franco Rossi. This event is part of The Music is Black Festival from East Bank at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Protest and poetry

Blood Ah Go Run chronicles the Black community’s response to the 1981 New Cross house fire in south-east London, which killed thirteen young people and sparked widespread outrage. The film documents the historic Black People’s Day of Action march through central London, capturing the anger, solidarity and political awakening that followed the tragedy. Combining newsreel immediacy with activist filmmaking, it stands as a powerful record of protest and the emergence of Black British political consciousness.

Dread Beat and Blood provides a vibrant portrait of dub poet and political activist Linton Kwesi Johnson, transporting us back to the turbulent streets of Brixton in the late 1970s. Jamaican-born Johnson explains with precise and powerful eloquence the violence and racism meted out to Black and Asian communities in London and beyond - and how his poetry acts as a weapon in the struggle for justice.

 

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