Past Events
“Slowness as a Bridge” Creative Writing Workshop, with Elgan Rhys
Tickets can be booked here. “If your grief was a river, how fast would it flow? Are you sitting by this riverbank, listening?”(Rithika Pandey, “Questions ... Read more
2nd December 2023 @ 10:30 am - 1:00 pmTHINGS WE DON’T KNOW YET:
An evening with artist Ian Nesbitt What feels uncertain in your life right now?What do you wish you knew?If we don’t know what the future ... Read more
21st November 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmSonia Hughes: Reclaim the Lane
“I’d like to get to know my neighbours beyond accepting parcels…” As part of gentle/radical’s Riverside project SLOWNESS AS A BRIDGE, artist Sonia Hughes has ... Read more
14th October 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 4:30 pmRiverside Cookery Night
Join us in Riverside to learn how to make Sudanese donuts! Riverside residents have been asking to learn more about traditional foods being cooked on ... Read more
17th May 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmGentle Ways into Creative Writing, with Durre Shahwar
“Writing has often been a means of bearing witness, allowing us to capture and record events or moments of personal significance” gentle/radical are delighted to ... Read more
11th May 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmSlowness as a Bridge: Project Launch & ‘Meet The Artists’ event
MEET THE ARTISTS EVENT Welsh, Arabic & Bengali translation below Join us for the launch of our new artist-residency project taking place on our South ... Read more
30th April 2023 @ 10:30 am - 4:30 pm“Estate, A Reverie”: A Riverside Neighbourhood Screening
Join us for a screening of the extraordinary documentary by Andrea Luka Zimmerman – ESTATE, A REVERIE – a deeply moving portrait documenting the final ... Read more
1st December 2022 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm“Mustang” – A Riverside Neighbourhood Women’s Screening
A FILM SCREENING FOR WOMEN IN RIVERSIDE (and beyond!) MUSTANGIn our continuing series of Riverside neighbourhood film events, we invite women, and those identifying as ... Read more
29th November 2022 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pmRiverside Community Breakfast Club
“I went to the gentle/radical breakfast morning, and I came back so elated and excited…! Nothing really happened, we just ate food, and I met ... Read more
30th October 2022 @ 10:00 am - 12:30 pmBeyond Punishment & Control: Film, Conversations & Reimagining Ways of Being Together
“Abolition is about presence, not absence. It’s about building life-affirming institutions.” Ruth Wilson Gilmore “We are seeding the future, including our next systems of justice, ... ...
4th June 2022 @ 2:30 pm - 18th June 2022 @ 9:30 pmThe Sound of Capital Being Grounded
Join Gentle/Radical for a round up of animal videos circa spring 2020, film shorts that explore human and non-human relationships, and post-screening discussion with two ... Read more
13th May 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmAnthologies of Care
Anthologies of Care :: (since I hold the universe within me, my soul is a legacy) Anthologies of Care is an event about self-care…or maybe it’s ... Read more
15th November 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 6:30 pmEmergent Strategy Reading Group
We’re running a reading group! D’you like books? Social change? Are you interested in how naturally emergent patterns connect to how we might build our ... Read more
27th August 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 1st October 2020 @ 8:30 pmRethinking The Harvest
“Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality” Malcolm X Our food ... Read more
20th June 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pmInternational Women’s Day Screening
Screening of KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE followed by panel speakers and discussion With guest speakers Cllr Bablin Molik, Dawn Butler MP, Shahien Taj OBE and ... Read more
19th March 2020 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pmHalf-term Halloween Screening and Workshop!
Young people, children, families and elders are invited for a special Halloween screening. Join us for spooky snacks plus the chance to design your own ... Read more
30th October 2019 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pmWork Under Capitalism: A Community Discussion
We’re told zero-hour contracts and in-work poverty are ‘normal’ – but can we imagine a better system? Join Rabab Ghazoul, artist and Gentle/Radical founder, for ... Read more
29th October 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pmRiverside Film Night
Join us for our first Film & Food Night, which in October celebrates Black History Month (15+). After years of Gentle/Radical screenings, this will be ... Read more
25th October 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmPoetry and Spoken Word Afternoon
We’re delighted to be hosting the Where I’m Coming From collective – a group of diverse spoken word artists and writers from in and around ... Read more
20th October 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmMulti-Cultural Breakfast
What does an Indian, Welsh, Somali or Palestinian breakfast taste like? As part of our AL MISH’AAL project, join us for our first Multicultural Breakfast ... Read more
20th October 2019 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pmInter-generational screening event: A Suitable Girl
Last year, with the support of Age Cymru’s Gwanwyn Festival, the Gentle/Radical Film Club launched its first screening for older people, we’ve been hosting more ... Read more
28th May 2019 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pmImagination Forum #5
What makes a good ally? How is allyship connected to power and privilege?
4th May 2019 @ 10:30 am - 2:30 pmInternational Women’s Day Screening & Celebrating 15 Years of The Film Club!!
A screening for women “The Film Club is a ray of hope, light and enjoyment for women”
27th March 2019 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pmLove & Desire in Palestine
LOVE AND DESIRE IN PALESTINE An evening of short films with Gentle/Radical What – and where – is love? To coincide with Valentines, Gentle/Radical invite ... Read more
13th February 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pmAdventures in (Old)er Age
Gentle/Radical are delighted to be taking part in GWANWYN this May – a month-long Wales-wide festival celebrating creativity in older age. In a world which ... Read more
8th February 2019 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pmPaa Joe & The Lion
A film screening for men and women over 55 Our Film Club for older people returns this New Year with another exciting documentary! Paa Joe ... Read more
28th January 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pmImagination Forum #1
All are invited to the Gentle/Radical Imagination Forum – a brand new networking space for discussion, ideas, collaborations, speaker events, PechaKucha nights, sharings, talkings, ... Re...
27th January 2019 @ 3:00 pm - 6:00 pmScoring in between the spaces
As part of the Artes Mundi 8 exhibition, Gentle/Radical will be hosting a writing workshop responding to the themes of Otobong Nkanga’s incredible sculptural and ... Read more
11th January 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pmConflict Resolution Training with Alternatives to Violence Wales #2
Our Conflict Resolution Training is BACK! Gentle/Radical are delighted to be teaming with the ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE (AVP) Project Wales, once again. Whilst our ... Read more
1st December 2018 @ 9:30 am - 2nd December 2018 @ 6:30 pmBoy and the World
We are delighted to announce our most inclusive screening yet – open to all generations across Cardiff to include children, young people, men, women ... Read more
29th October 2018 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pmIMAGINATION FORUM, GATHERING #4
We’re delighted that the Imagination Forum – our platform for decolonising the arts in Wales – will continue to deliver another five events between ... Read more
11th October 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pmBad Lucky Goat
A screening for women We’re delighted to welcome all women to the Riverside Warehouse for another film screening with Gentle/Radical Film Club (formerly WOW Film ... Read more
26th September 2018 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pmGentle/Radical & Lumin In Conversation With The National Trust
Gentle/Radical will be teaming up with Sadia Pineda Hameed, the co-editor of Lumin Journal to explore the hidden narratives across museum collections, colonialism, labour, slavery ... Read more
6th August 2018 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pmAsk The Sexpert
An Intergenerational Film Screening On the back of our hugely successful screening for elders in May, in July we’ve decided to combine our longest standing ... Read more
18th July 2018 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pmDecolonising Environmentalism
A Gentle/Radical People’s Symposium Film Screening // Invited Speakers // Presentations // Q & A + Discussion // Community Meal SKLP SAMAJ COMMUNITY CENTRE ... Read more
1st July 2018Women and War: An Un-silencing
Curated by Gentle/Radical with The Open University, in Wales, as part of Festival of Voice 2018. ‘‘The history of war is also a history ... Read more
9th June 2018 @ 3:00 pmImagination Forum #3
For our third Imagination Forum, Gentle/Radical are delighted to welcome invited guest speakers SANDRA SHAKESPEARE of MUSEUM DETOX & TEJU ADELEYE, to present and ... Read more
10th May 2018 @ 6:00 pmRethinking Riverside: a community conversation about place with Stephen Pritchard
You are invited to a presentation, discussion and shared meal – on the future of Riverside. – What changes are afoot in Riverside? – ... Read more
8th March 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmImagination Forum #2
You are invited to the second of three Gentle/Radical Imagination Forums – a brand new platform and networking space for discussion, events and activities ... Read more
4th March 2018 @ 3:00 pm - 7:00 pmPalestine, Partition and Parallels Across the Colonial Terrain
Gentle/Radical are delighted to host their first ‘people’s symposium’, bringing together archival films, invited speakers and panel discussion around two key footnotes in British ... ...
12th November 2017 @ 2:00 pm - 6:00 pmYouth Get Scary + Food!
“Adultism is ‘the power adults have over children. More narrowly, adultism is defined as ‘prejudice and accompanying systematic discrimination against young people.'” GE...
1st November 2017 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmTechnical Ambassadors Training
Gentle/Radical are delighted to be teaming up with Film Hub Wales and the Independent Cinema Office to host a FREE workshop on the technical aspects ... Read more
22nd September 2017 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pmConflict Resolution Training with Alternatives to Violence Wales #1
Gentle/Radical are delighted to be teaming with the ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE (AVP) Project Wales to bring their FREE renowned conflict resolution training to WOMEN in ... Read more
15th September 2017 @ 6:00 pm - 17th September 2017 @ 5:00 pm