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Hackney History Festival presents: EXPLODERS

                           A  Rio Dalston Premiere

                  Hackney History Festival presents

                                  EXPLODERS

                 The story of the Exploding Galaxy

                                   1967 - 1969

                    

                             A film by Jill Drower 

          Witness the moment when these flower child 

                  performance artists first hit Dalston

Based on the book, The Exploding Galaxy: Performance Art, 

      LSD and Bent Coppers in the Sixties Counterculture

                     Who were the Exploding Galaxy?

                 Were they.............................
                 *  a hippie ballet troupe?

                 *  a confluence of transmedia activators?

                 *  Britain's answer to anarchy in dance?

                 *  a brave rebuttal of schizoid aesthetics?  

 See what you think,  in the Festival's first ever showing about those galactic activators known as The Exploding Galaxy.


Hackney History Festival presents: EXPLODERS

  • Runtime: 80 minutes
  • Director: Jill Drower 
  • Year: 2026
  • Rating: (12A)
  • Documentary

Event Key:

  • SO Sold Out
  • PP Pink Palace
  • SP Special Event
  • CM Classic Matinee
  • QA Q+A / Discussion
  • FF Family Flicks
  • HoH Hard of Hearing
  • RS Relaxed Screening
  • CB Carers + Baby
  • NoAds No Ads or Trailers
  • RF Rio Forever