Join us for the launch event for SADACCA F.M. - a weekend of film screenings brought together by Memory Dance, White Teeth, and Ashley Holmes.
Launch Event
Friday 2 May, 5-8pm
Join us to celebrate the launch of the SADACCA F.M. Screenings at Site Gallery. The programme of films feature a combination of archival material, installation art and experimental sound and moving image work exploring Sheffield’s rich musical and social histories. Screening in Site Gallery Studio I throughout the weekend of 2-4 May.
Free entry, there will be a donations bar in our reception area.
About the SADACCA F.M. Screenings
The following films will be played on a loop throughout the weekend:
A Weekend in ‘84
A Weekend in ‘84 by Memory Dance was a mixed media archive activation using exclusive BBC Radio Sheffield collections, and rare local newspapers to reflect on 40 years since the tumultuous coal dispute in South Yorkshire. From trade union meets, to picket line violence and pit tensions. To a snapshot of Smash Hits and Sounds and Top 40 mega hits. A Weekend In ‘84 ran through audio collections from October of that year, played back during No Bounds in real-time in 2024. Here we reset it for one weekend only. A celebration of the power and importance of local media, archives, and documentation – then and now.
Agency and Revelation
In Agency and Revelation, White Teeth responds to the latest research project from the Bantu Archive Programmes, From Soundsystem to Pirate Radio, Music from the Front Room. This installation, developed by Ella Barrett and Jashan Walton of White Teeth, explores the impact of Sheffield’s pirate radio scene. It delves into how this subculture redefined third spaces for the Black community and for the youth in the city, while also reshaping and subverting concepts of freedom, direct action, and Black entrepreneurship.
What Your Sound Can Do
What Your Sound Can Do is an experimental short film and visual poem by multidisciplinary Sheffield-based artist Ashley Holmes that continues his ongoing work and research around the genealogies of Black music to explore social histories and the politics of space. Written, edited and soundtracked by Holmes and narrated by Jamaican-British poet Danae Wellington, What Your Sound Can Do ruminates on the DIY ethos, and historical impact of soundsystems occupying public space. Consisting of 35mm film photography and warped audio recordings, Holmes brings together a range of his interests around Dub and post-war Britain, illuminating the inner workings and relationships between displacement rootedness and locality.
Works commissioned by No Bounds Festival 2024: Agency and Revelation
Image: Rhea Storr, Subjects of State, Labours of Love production still (2024).