A season of films exploring women’s fights for rights!

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Presented by the Lincoln Womens’ Institute, The Women’s Equality Party, The Jammy Tarts in Association with Lincoln Film Society, University of Lincoln and The Venue.

November 24 – Thelma & Louise

Ridley Scott’s funny, heartbreaking, action-packed drama isn’t simply a feminist film (though many think it is), it’s also classic cinema.
Showing at EMMTEC, University of Lincoln  Screening starts 6.30pm.  Free entry.

November 25 – Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer

Filmed over six months, this documentary tells the story of 3 young women and their protest about life and attitudes in contemporary Russia, whose trial gripped the nation and the world beyond.   Showing at EMMTEC, University of Lincoln.  Screening starts 7pm.  Free entry

Tickets for screenings at EMMTEC are free but should be reserved at http://the-time-is-now-lincoln.eventbrite.co.uk

Plus Suffragette on November 25

With a female writer and director and a cast of leading women actors, Suffragette dramatizes a significant moment of social change in Britain’s history.

Showing at The Venue, Bishop Grosseteste University on 25th November 2.30pm, 7.30pm and December 2nd  2.30pm.

Go to http://www.thevenuelincoln.co.uk/ for details and tickets.