ACCLAIMED film director Ken Loach is heading to the region to attend a Workers Memorial Day.
The free event, organised by the York TUC, will include a showing of Loach’s topical film Riff Raff and takes place on April 28 at the York Early Music Centre, just off Walmgate.
There will be short speeches from York TUC president Leigh Wilks and York Central Labour MP Rachael Maskell.
Loach will give an introduction to his work, which most recently has included the film I, Daniel Blake about the bureaucratic nightmare of the benefits system, with previous landmark films including Cathy Come Home and Kes.
There will also be a short service of remembrance for Workers’ Memorial Day by a humanist minister.
The vice-president of York TUC, Bri Clark, said that every day, more people were killed at work than in war – with scores of former York Carriageworks employees killed by their exposure to asbestos dust – and the Memorial Day was about remembering the dead and fighting for the living.
Riff Raff is a 1991 film which won that year’s European Film Award Best Picture award.
It is a portrayal of modern Britain, following a Glaswegian recently released from prison who has moved to London and got a job turning a derelict hospital into luxury apartments.
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