Free screening: Hip Hop Revolución + Chile’s Student Uprising at UNISON

British-Chilean jorunalist and film maker Pablo Navarrete is the founder of Alborada, a Latin American magazine and website covering media, culture and politics around the ever-restless continent. This Saturday sees him foray into Manchester for a double-bill of documentary films from the movie branch of Alborada over at Unison’s North West base and following a daytime seminar event: Latin & Central America 2017 – Achievements and Threat. Up first is brother Roberto Navarrete’s 2014 short, Chile’s Student Uprising, documenting the struggle for a free and state-funded education system, something non-existent in the leftover economic climate which followed Pinochet’s all-too-long dictatorship. Film #2, Hip Hop Revolución, heads north to Venezuela as British activist Jody McIntyre and UK-Iraqi rapper Lowkey spend time with this inspiring grassroots movement exploring changes in the country coupled with the power of music, community and an ongoing spirit of rebellion.

Sat 18 Feb, UNISON North West Arena Point, 1 Hunts Bank, Manchester, M3 1UN, 6pm-8.45pm, free, www.eventbrite.co.uk

Thanks to Groovement.