Events archive

30.04.2007 The biggest climate change talk-in, learn-in and plan-for-action of the year. London, 12-13 May.

26.04.2007 Question: What happened when Olaudah Equiano, one of the most famous slaves in history, met John Newton, British slave trader and writer of the hymn Amazing Grace? Answer: Nothing - because they didn’t meet. African Snow imagines the confrontation, and shows us what might have occurred.

19.04.2007 Starting with the fact that the vast majority of votes in America are counted by computers, Hacking Democracy takes apart any pretence of security in electronic voting systems. The film offers a fascinating view into how a world of vested interests can ride roughshod over the lynchpin of the democratic system, raising the possibility of universal disenfranchisement.
London release: 20 April.

16.04.2007 London will be dotted with Beacons – 40-metre-high Y-shaped wind turbines – if Julia Barfield and David Marks get their way. Unlikely? Yes, but remember that Barfield and Marks are the husband and wife team who designed the London Eye and persevered with the idea after its initial rejection.

12.04.2007 Apocalyptic warnings of melting ice-caps? Millions of refugees worldwide made homeless by rising seas? Forget it. If you want to mobilise the middle-classes into action on climate change, warn them of the threat to their gardens and the country’s stately homes.
*Other climate change and global justice events

11.04.2007 A day-long attempt to discuss ways of tackling the global economy's failure to deliver to people in both the developing and industrialised world while it propels us towards catastrophic climate change, London, 16 June.

08.04.2007 A Fine Balance is moving, shocking, funny. That’s Rohinton Mistry’s spellbinding novel. Unfortunately, the play of the book (at the Hampstead Theatre, London) is not as good.

06.04.2007 From Gaddafi to Gandhi - English National Opera’s current season is bringing new figures into the spotlight, reports Daniel Nelson.

05.04.2007 The full story of the siege of Fallujah in April 2004 - one of the most extensive human rights violations of recent times - has never been told. Now a performance using only the words of participants collected by a researcher is being staged in London in May.

04.04.2007 A discussion of Philippe LeGrain's new book, Immigrants: your country needs them, will be held in London on 16 April.

01.04.2007 The title of the beautifully filmed Iraq in Fragments refers to the impressionistic nature of the documentary as much as to the looming state of the nation.