Events archive

30.04.2006 London Sustainability Weeks (4-18 June) celebrate local projects that help make the city a cleaner, greener, healthier place. The campaign, timed to concide with World Environment Day (5 June), includes large outdoor festivals, pond dipping, nature walks, bike rides, business breakfasts and fair trade stalls.

28.04.2006 London's long-term average rainfall is lower than that of Istanbul, Dallas, or Nairobi, yet residents use more water than anyone else in Europe - 165 litres per person per day compared to 120 litres in other European cities such as Copenhagen and Berlin. Learn more about the issues on an evening Thames cruise on 11 May. The event will also see the launch of the "Ripple Effect", an online action campaign to encourage Londoners to do more about water conservation.

28.04.2006 Mary Kayitesi Blewitt lost almost her entire family in the Rwandan genocide and subsequently set up a fund for the 365,000 survivors who continue against the odds, haunted by memories and under threat from perpetrators now released from prison. To accompany the production of The Overwhelming at the National Theatre in London, on 27 June she will discuss the work of the charity and the continuing effect of the atrocities.

25.04.2006 A week of eclectic independent cinema from London's East End, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East - The East End Film Festival is running until Thursday 4 May. It opens with Wah-Wah, set in Swaziland, and ends with Walking On The Wild Side , which follows a group of Chinese boys as they flee the police in a "borrowed" car.

23.04.2006 “We’re having a good week in the Death Penalty Team.” Lorna Lythgoe explains why, and sees a play about the exoneration of six people waiting to die on death row.

13.04.2006 For a play to change a politician's views about the death penalty, it must make one hell of a statement. The Exonerated is said to have done this to a leading Chicago congressman, reports Lorna Lythgoe.

13.04.2006 Sessions on climate change and The Zero Emission City feature in this year's State of London debate, 13 May. It's free and participants can put questions to the Mayor, policymakers and opinion-formers.

12.04.2006 Photographer Juan Medina has been documenting the arrival of African migrants at the Spanish island of Fuerteventura since 1999 – a phenomenon he describes as “one of the most horrific, cruel and important immigration movements of our time”.

12.04.2006 Jeff Zimbalist wanted to make a film “about communities that succeed, that overcome great diversity.” He’s done it.

08.04.2006 If you can get time off, go to the House of Commons on 10 May to press for an International Arms Trade Treaty. There will be a pre-lobby meeting with speakers, and Amnesty will provide advice on how to lobby.

05.04.2006 The London Palestine Film Festival, the largest of its type in Europe, returns for a second year to the Barbican and the School of Oriental and African Studies, with a one-week programme (21 April to 5 May) of rarely seen archive films and critically acclaimed hits of recent years - many introduced by special guests, filmmakers and actors.

05.04.2006 The first ever Wales Social Forum takes place 28 April-1 May, following the model of the World and European Social Forums but with a twist of Cymru.

05.04.2006 VSO is running a series of talks in London, Birmingham and Edinburgh by teachers and education experts from around the world to celebrate the 2006 Global Campaign for Education. Teachers from Mozambique, Guyana and Nepal will explain what life is really like for them, the realities on the ground, and what they want to change. They will be joined by Steve Sinnott from the NUT and Jerry Bartlett from the NASUWT. The events will be chaired by public figures including Jonathan Dimbleby, Gillian Merron MP and Lesley Riddoch.

05.04.2006 We increasingly buy fair trade bananas and recycle more household waste - but what about our clothes? Most are made with environmentally damaging materials and processes. Now a new exhibition showcases designers with an eco-conscience.

04.04.2006 Well Fashioned is an exhibition that looks at the UK’s £43 million eco-fashion industry. It's in the City Museum & Records Office, Portsmouth, 4 Nov 2006 to 7 Jan 2007, and Bilston Craft Gallery, Wolverhampton: 20 Jan to 3 March 2007.