Events archive

27.01.2008 It’s not just a Birds Eye View: it’s a window on the world, with films from Afghanistan, Argentina, Brazil, India, Israel, Mozambique and Pakistan.

22.01.2008 Calling all VSO volunteers since 1958...join the celebrations to mark the organisation's 50th anniversary. Events include a panel debate at London's Festival Hall in March featuring Trevor Phillips, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Harriet Lamb of the Fairtrade Foundation, CBI director general Richard Lambert, activist Peter Tatchell and Africa expert Richard Dowden.

21.01.2008 Still Life starts with a huge advantage: it is set in a town being demolished brick by brick, stone by stone, before being flooded by China’s vast Three Gorges dam.

20.01.2008 VSO is trying to reconnect with the 33,000 people who have volunteered since the organisation's inception in 1958, in the hope that many will attend the 50th anniversary at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

20.01.2008 Like all docudramas, Battle for Haditha raises the issue of the ethics of imagining a real event – in this case, the retaliatory massacre of 24 Iraqis after a roadside bomb killed two US soldiers – and presenting it as a drama.

15.01.2008 A new film, without commentary or obvious viewpoint, looks at modern farming.

10.01.2008 A small exhibition, Outside Edge, is a journey through black British lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history of the last 30 years. It opens at Museum in Docklands on 7 February.

08.01.2008 Ladbroke Grove FILM WRITE is a monthly film night showcasing groundbreaking films/authors/poets. Free film screenings, incredible authors and poets reading from their recent publications, local filmmakers discussing what brought them to achieve their works and discussions with figures from the community participating.

07.01.2008 LYRICAL MC is a show about young people in a multicultural world: it illuminates the sophisticated, lyrical cultural exchange that is happening between young people in urban schools, every day. It opens on 5 February