LOUDER NOW! Feminism on Film: ‘Eat the Kimono’ 
Thursday 24 May, 7pm, Star and Shadow Cinema
Eat the Kimono is a brilliant documentary about Hanayagi Genshu, a Japanese feminist and avant-garde dancer and performer, who has spent her life defying her conservative culture’s contempt for independence and unconventionality.
Guest Speaker: Dr Nobuko Anan (Northumbria University). Dr Anan’s main research interests are modern and contemporary Japanese theatre/performance and visual arts, and the way that they intersect with nationhood and gender/sexuality in transnational contexts. LOUDER NOW! is a monthly night of film screenings and discussions of a feminist nature and is brought to the Star and Shadow with support from The Gender Research Group at Newcastle University.