FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT 2008
GREEN GOLD events
About Green Gold
Green Gold is a collaborative art project. Scottish artist, Jan Nimmo has been working since 2000 with Latin American banana workers, gathering their images and testimonies to form a body of work which aims to give a human face to their struggle for economic and environmental justice. The project does this through artworks, portraits, documentary film and web based testimonies and images.
For more info visit Jan's Green Gold website >>>>>
PLYMOUTH
Monday 25th February 6.30
In collaboration with the School of Earth Ocean and Environmental Sciences University of Plymouth, Roland Levinsky Building, Theatre 1
Jan Nimmo will be talking about the iniquities of the banana trade and Martin Mowforth on environmental activism in Central America and the high price that some activists pay. Film screening.
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LONDON
Tuesday 26th February
Battersea and Wandsworth TUC, Screening of "Bonita: Ugly Bananas" at The Bread and Roses, 68 Clapham Manor Street. London SW4 6DZ details nadine@bwtuc.org.uk
OBAN
Tuesday 4th March
Oban Co-op – 11am to 3pm
Jan will be showing some of the art work that she has made for Green Gold. Liz Armstrong, Scottish Co-operative Affairs Officer for West of Scotland, will also be there showcasing Fairtrade products and explaining how Scottish Coop put values into action.
DUMFRIES
Robert Burns Film Theatre
Screening of "Bonita:Ugly Bananas" - for details visit The Centre's website http://www.web-link.co.uk/rbc/march.html#fair
LOCHGILPHEAD
Wednesday 5th March
Lochgilphead Co-op
Jan will be showing some of the art work that she has made for Green Gold. Liz Armstrong, Scottish Co-operative Affairs Officer for West of Scotland, will also be there showcasing Fairtrade products and explaining how Scottish Coop put values into action.
Lochgilphead High School
A film screening of "Pura Vida?" for a selection of secondary pupils from Mid-Arygll followed by a Q&A session with Jan Nimmo and Liz Armstrong .
Film screening at Lochgilphead Community Centre 7pm - Free Entry
Bonita: Ugly Bananas (23 mins)
Pura Vida? (29 mins)
Followed by a Q&A/Discussion session
Try out Scottish Co-op Fairtrade products
TARBERT
Thursday 6th March
Tarbert Academy, Argyll
Film screening of "Pura Vida?" for pupils. Followed by a Q&A/Discussion session.
CAMPBELTOWN
Friday 7th March
Campbeltown Co-op Store
Jan will be showing a presentation of some of the work that she has made for Green Gold with Liz Armstong, Scottish Co-operative Affairs Officer for West of Scotland, will be there showcasing Fairtrade products and explaining how Scottish Coop put values into action.
The Wee Picture House
Free Entry Doors open at 7pm - Showtime at 7.30pm
A trailer for “The Road to Drumlemen: Memories of the Argyll Colliery”, a forthcoming film by Jan Nimmo (4 mins)
Bonita: Ugly Bananas (23 mins)
Pura Vida? (29 mins)
Followed by a Q&A/Discussion session
Argyll events are supported by 
Pura Vida at INTERFERENCIA AUDIOVISUAL BARCELONA 10th July 2007 about Interferencia Audio Visual
Pura Vida was screened at FICMAC, the 14th International Environmental Film Festival of Catalunya For information about FICMAC
DOUBLE BILL @ EDINBURGH WORLD JUSTICE FESTIVAL
28th June St Augustine’s United Church Edinburgh
Information about events at EWJF
Pura Vida? @ screening organised by Dundee Fair Trade Forum and Abertay Fair Trade Steering Committee
Abertay University, McLure Building, Top Floor Monday 5th March 07 6pm with Mireya Rodriguez , (Banana Workers Trade Union), Costa Rica.
Read what the Dundee Courier wrote. >>>>>
Read an article in the Scotsman by Billy Briggs, >>>>>
SCOTTISH PREMIERE OF LA CHACINA DE LA SUERTE
Deep Fried Film Festival 12th July 2007 North Lanarkshire
Festival information about DFFF
Images from the Green Gold Exhibition and Pura Vida? Film Screening at the Byre Theatre, St Andrews.
More about screenings >>>>>
Jan has been working wth Art in Partnership and Barrhead Housing Association on the BASIS project (Barrhead Arts Strategy for Social Inclusion) with the the FABB Art Group (Facilitating Access Breaking Barriers) where she was lead artist working with young adults with additional needs. More info at BASIS 3
ONGOING GREEN GOLD PROJECT
Jan is currently working towards an exhibition as part of her Green Gold project which has been running for the last 4 years. The project was initiated by Jan to work in collaboration with Latin American banana workers and their organisations. The aim of the work is to find different artistic means to highlight the injustices that routinely face the workers who produce Britain's favourite fruit. Jan tells the stories of workers and their families through woodcut portraits, recorded testimonies, installation, drawing and film. The exhibition should be completed by the end of 2006 when Jan hopes that the it can tour. For more details, images, film screening dates and testimonies visit the Green Gold web site http://www.greengold.org.uk
Jan is working on her second documentary which looks at the social and environmental impacts of agrochemicals in Costa Rica and the expansion of pineapple cultivation. On this project she is collaborating with Carlos Arguedas, Costa Rican trade unionist and environmentalist. This film was premiered at Document 4 Human Rights Film Festival in October 2006 and has has been screened at many venues including FICMAC in Barcelona.
Jan now wants to take the project "home" to Campbletown, where she was brought up. Her father Neil, was a miner at the Argyll Colliery at Machrihanish. Jan plans to work with Scottish Coop and local people to make installations and events including showing her Latin American films along with a short film about the Argyll Colliery which will look at testimonies and personal history. The idea is to link workers' occupational health in Latin America with that of her father's, who died this year, and his colleages at the pit.
Lifelines Article by Billy Briggs in The Herald
More about Billy Briggs
WORKSHOPS
Jan's latest Art for Action bannner workshop took place at RaPAL's (Research and Practice in Adult Literacy) annual conference at the University of Glasgow. She was accompanied by CTDU volunteer, Ann Gray. visit RaPAL
Volunteer, Ann Gray and Finished Banner
GLASGOW WOMEN'S LIBRARY
Documenting 109 Trongate @ Glasgow Women's Library. Jan has been working over the last 6 months recording testimonies of some 50 women and gathering film images of the library so that GWL will have a video archive of its time at 109 Trongate. The library will be relocated at the Mitchell Library in March 2007.
Visit Glasgow Women's Library
Some film from the project was recently shown at at Flying Colours Glasgow at University to coincide with RaPAL's conference and looked at the work that learners are doing at the library as well as being shown by the Library Life Long Learning Coordinator at The Know How Conference in Mexico City in 2006. To see "Beatrice's Journey" and "Stitch and Bitch" on DVD contact Jan
