Events archive

21.06.2008 A new Indian writing talent returns to London: Anupama Chandrasekhar. Her play, Free Outgoing, which played here in 2007, is being staged again at the Royal Court in Sloane Square.

21.06.2008 Pete Postlethwaite stars in climate change documentary from the director of McLibel and the Oscar-winning producer of One Day In September.
+ Jim Killock’s Green Party blog

21.06.2008 Londoners will soon be able to get off the tube at King’s Cross and walk into a Palestinian refugee camp.

20.06.2008 Remember Saro-Wiwa is a day of contemporary African films and documentaries at Trinity Buoy Wharf on 28 June, in support of the "Africa at the Pictures" festival at the Rich Mix cinema.

19.06.2008 Coming soon: Think global, fuck local, a play that looks at the private lives of UN and NGO workers; Image, two pieces based on interviews with British Muslims; and Midnight Revolutions, exploring what it means to live in today's Cuba, 50 years after the Revolution.

17.06.2008 The way the US and Britain are tackling terrorism is entirely wrong, former Lebanon hostage Terry Waite said at the opening of an exhibition of artworks made by Muslims detained under Britain’s controversial anti-terror legislation.

13.06.2008 It’s a great idea: a play about a Ukrainian who comes to Britain to find work and a better life, loses his job as a result of a police raid on a Scottish fish-processing plant and sets out to build up his own business providing cheap labour.

13.06.2008 A new film season looks at what it means to be Tibetan, offering a window into a fascinating culture protected and developed within the exile community.

05.06.2008 The Lift Festival is a programme of international premieres, talks, screenings and participatory events that engage with climate change, migration, communities, regeneration, and individual and collective freedoms.

02.06.2008 Did you know that road traffic accidents in London kill less than one 1 person a day, while cigarettes kill one Londoner an hour? Nevertheless, 2 million Londoners regularly smoke. One year on from the smoking ban, The Big Smoke looks at the history of smoking in London and life in the capital since the ban.

02.06.2008 Did you know that road traffic accidents in London kill less than one 1 person a day, while cigarettes kill one Londoner an hour? Nevertheless, 2 million Londoners regularly smoke. One year on from the smoking ban, The Big Smoke looks at the history of smoking in London and life in the capital since the ban.