Power of Food with Just FACT - Whitechapel Gallery

Power of Food with Just FACT

  • Photo credit - Heshani Sothiraj Eddleston

    Photo credit – Heshani Sothiraj Eddleston

Sun 21 Sept, 2-5pm

Monday Closed
Tuesday 11am–6pm
Wednesday 11am–6pm
Thursday 11am–9pm
Friday 11am–6pm
Saturday 11am–6pm
Sunday 11am–6pm

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Screening & Discussion
Power of Food with Just FACT

Join us for a film screening of the documentary Any Time Money by Heshani Sothiraj Eddleston and short films by grassroots collectives on food and climate issues as part of the Power of Food Festival across Tower Hamlets from 19 – 28 September, with events and activities celebrating food cultures, community, and agitating towards a fairer, more sustainable food system.

These films address the need for social and political change to address the climate disaster from a globally and locally perspective. Join us for this special screening where you’ll have a chance to take part in a discussion on the topics raised in the films and speak to the filmmakers.

Alongside this event at Whitechapel Gallery, there will be inspiring, thought-provoking and delicious events across the borough, including community meals, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions, film screenings, walking tours and more.

Find out more about the rest of the festival programme here.

Just FACT

Just FACT is a 5 year partnership programme led by Women’s Environmental Network (Wen) with research from Platform London. It is made up of a network of people and projects in Tower Hamlets, and is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF)’s Climate Action Fund.

Heshani Sothiraj Eddleston

Heshani Sothiraj Eddleston is an Edinburgh-based, Sri Lankan-born, visual storyteller. Grounded in her own experience of enforced migration to India after the 1983 Sri Lankan riots, she uses photography and filmmaking to tell stories about our shared humanity with migrants and ‘others’.

Her work in South Asia has focused on refugees, militant groups, and women who have experienced self-harm and abuse. She currently works with the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention to translate academic work on self-harm to broader audiences.

In Scotland, she has worked with migrant women groups, women coming to terms with cancer and their loss of identity, and institutions such as the Scottish Prison Service, Glasgow Modern Art Gallery, and Historic Scotland. She creates collaborative art through exhibitions and workshops that question anger, shame, and identity, drawing out hidden and visible scars.