Talk: The Baby and the Snake

The Baby And The Snake is a short documentary exploring patriarchal roles within Romani Gypsy culture, the impact of culturally constructed ideas of masculinity, social exclusion and paternal relationships.

A screening of The Baby and the Snake will follow a short introduction to the film by the director Corrina Eastwood. This film has been acquired into the museum’s permanent collection.

Following the screening there will opportunity for audience members to ask Corrina questions about the film, her identity and wider practice.

Corrina is an artist, art psychotherapist, lecturer, writer and activist. She is a Romani woman and has been prompted by personal experiences of marginalisation and oppression felt at the intersect of being both Romani Gypsy and a woman, to develop an interest in the privileging of marginalised voices and the challenging of social disparities and normative power, through art, activism and education.

Image: Corrina Eastwood.