Women of the Rhondda by Esther Ronay, Mary Kelly, Mary Capps, Humphrey Trevelyan, Margaret Dickinson, Brigid Seagrave, Susan Shapiro (UK, 1972, 20mins) will be screened within a workshop led by Dr. Catherine Spencer at Cooper Gallery on Wednesday 22 February at 6:00pm. The workshop is part of the exhibition and programme series Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become Event?
Women of the Rhondda turns much needed attention to the role played by women in the gruelling Welsh Miners’ Strikes of the 20s and 30s.