Events archive

26.02.2007 Tongues on Fire Film Festival, London, 9-31 March, "celebrates the excellence, performance and achievements of Asian women in cinema". It showcases work by women or stories where women are the central protagonists "in order to encourage debate and hold up a mirror to life".

25.02.2007 As the UK commemorates the end of the slave trade, an original sculpture has been commissioned by Christian Aid and National Museums Liverpool from a group of Haitian artists representing their continuing struggle for freedom and human rights.

22.02.2007 Authors talk about their new books set during the Bangladesh independence war and the civil war in Sri Lanka, about activism, about Bitch Lit and Les Lit, about forced marriages, plus discussions on The Politics of The Veil and on Brickbats, Bovver-Boots and Bans, as well as comedy, music and poetry. It's the Spit-Lit Festival, celebrating women's writing, London, 2-10 March.

19.02.2007 Students and young people from Student Action for Refugees will be campaigning against the Learning and Skills Council’s planned cuts to English language tuition and Further Education for asylum-seekers and refugees on 28 February.

18.02.2007 A "Live Earth" concert will take place in London - as well as in Australia, Brazil, China, Japan, South Africa and the US - on 7 July, in an attempt to engage billions of people in the issue of climate change.

13.02.2007 Black Heroes in the Hall of Fame, the UK’s most successful black theatre project, is back. It tells the story of the heroes and sheroes of the Black Diaspora with a mix of dance, music, history and colour, and shares with audiences the triumphs and struggles of a history coloured with blessings and darkened by curses.

10.02.2007 Is our political-economic system capable of addressing climate change? Where does an issue such as climate change leave the principle of the "sovereignty of the consumer"? Join a discussion at the University of Westminster, London, 20 March.

10.02.2007 "May contain disturbing subject matter", says the advance publicity. And if watching people killing themselves is disturbing, the warning is right.

08.02.2007 London is to have a permanent gallery - London, Sugar and Slavery - on the city's involvement in transatlantic slavery and its legacy on the capital. Marking the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade by Britain, the gallery is part of a series of events and projects planned by the Museum in Docklands for 2007 and 2008.

06.02.2007 Films such as An Inconvenient Truth can play a part – sometimes a big part - in mobilising people and reinforcing and perhaps occasionally changing views. But Nothing but the truth shows that there's still life in political theatre.

06.02.2007 The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival returns to London for an 11th year with a programme of 22 powerful documentary and feature films that go beyond the headlines to reveal the human and economic realities of today’s global stories. This year’s festival also includes three Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Language Film.