Global Justice Events in London: November
* The London Film Festival is over, but there are outstanding seasons to savour this month, including the BFM International Film Festival, "the leading and longest running platform for Black World Cinema in the UK"; the Latin American Film Festival; Behind the Wall, a look at the significance of the Berlin Wall; the UK Jewish Film Festival; popuplink http://www.institut-francais.org.uk/memorydoc Memory, A Season of European Documentaries>; We the Peoples Film Festival and at the end of the month Festival of German Films and the London Kurdish Film Festival.
* The Native Spirit Festival is a season of films, talks and performances promoting the cultures of indigenous people. It offers a "glimpse into the worlds of some of the oldest surviving and most marginalised people on this planet; from the Chilean Andes to Arctic Canada." The opening night on Friday features two new releases from Bolivia, The Gift of Pachamama and Evo, plus poetry from Australian aborigine Rikki Shields, Albert Pellicer and guests.
+ If you have doubts about the veracity of documentaries, you are not alone. In a posting on Hub, Grace Lile cites a new report, Honest Truths: Documentary Filmmakers on Ethical Challenges in Their Work, which addresses issues such as staging and reenactments, editing, paying subjects, protecting vulnerable or endangered subjects, reusing footage for other purposes, and using archival materials.
The film Burma VJ - about the Burmese who risked their lives getting and transmitting video footage of the last round of government repression of protest, is given as an example. Earlier this year Time magazine's Andrew Marshall expressed dismay at the film's use of reenactments to fill in gaps in the actual footage: "I felt moved by a sequence showing protesters gathering on a Rangoon backstreet in defiance of the junta. But when I learned that it had been shot from scratch in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai, I felt something else: manipulated."
* New exhibitions include Prove It! All the evidence you need to believe in climate change, a free Science Museum exhibit that encourages visitors to explore the scientific evidence that human activity is behind climate change, and Eco Home, which examines current ideas around 'eco-living'.
* Other climate events include Climate change: London Public Forum and Put People First G20 Counter Conference.
* iceandfire is touring its latest play for young people, on 16 November-11 December. The show, aimed at Key Stage 3 Citizenship students, explores the balance between individual rights and duties to the community. Performed by professional actors who will also run accompanying workshops the iceandfire team can be at the school for a whole day. The performance comes with a specially commissioned resource pack exploring the themes of the play in more depth. For information email alex@iceandfire.co.ukand quote "Mailing List Offer" or call 07834 152535.
* Migration is the theme of a series of Rich Mix screenings: The Brother from Another Planet, part of an evening with Kwame Kwei-Armah, the first black Briton to have a play staged in the West End; Soleil O, Touki Bouki, L’Afrance (in which a Senegalese student in Paris is confronted with a bleak choice: either return home or continue to live in France as an illegal immigrant, but where he has found love and happiness); Teza and Waiting for Happiness, about a 17-year-old who has been away from his West African hometown of Nouadhibou for so long he’s forgotten the local dialect.
* On the stage, there's Seize The Day, Kwame Kwei-Armah's new play about a would-be Black mayor, and What Fatima Did..., a lively, pacey debut play about a schoolgirl who starts wearing the hijab.
Daniel Nelson
Editor
* The Native Spirit Festival is a season of films, talks and performances promoting the cultures of indigenous people. It offers a "glimpse into the worlds of some of the oldest surviving and most marginalised people on this planet; from the Chilean Andes to Arctic Canada." The opening night on Friday features two new releases from Bolivia, The Gift of Pachamama and Evo, plus poetry from Australian aborigine Rikki Shields, Albert Pellicer and guests.
+ If you have doubts about the veracity of documentaries, you are not alone. In a posting on Hub, Grace Lile cites a new report, Honest Truths: Documentary Filmmakers on Ethical Challenges in Their Work, which addresses issues such as staging and reenactments, editing, paying subjects, protecting vulnerable or endangered subjects, reusing footage for other purposes, and using archival materials.
The film Burma VJ - about the Burmese who risked their lives getting and transmitting video footage of the last round of government repression of protest, is given as an example. Earlier this year Time magazine's Andrew Marshall expressed dismay at the film's use of reenactments to fill in gaps in the actual footage: "I felt moved by a sequence showing protesters gathering on a Rangoon backstreet in defiance of the junta. But when I learned that it had been shot from scratch in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai, I felt something else: manipulated."
* New exhibitions include Prove It! All the evidence you need to believe in climate change, a free Science Museum exhibit that encourages visitors to explore the scientific evidence that human activity is behind climate change, and Eco Home, which examines current ideas around 'eco-living'.
* Other climate events include Climate change: London Public Forum and Put People First G20 Counter Conference.
* iceandfire is touring its latest play for young people, on 16 November-11 December. The show, aimed at Key Stage 3 Citizenship students, explores the balance between individual rights and duties to the community. Performed by professional actors who will also run accompanying workshops the iceandfire team can be at the school for a whole day. The performance comes with a specially commissioned resource pack exploring the themes of the play in more depth. For information email alex@iceandfire.co.ukand quote "Mailing List Offer" or call 07834 152535.
* Migration is the theme of a series of Rich Mix screenings: The Brother from Another Planet, part of an evening with Kwame Kwei-Armah, the first black Briton to have a play staged in the West End; Soleil O, Touki Bouki, L’Afrance (in which a Senegalese student in Paris is confronted with a bleak choice: either return home or continue to live in France as an illegal immigrant, but where he has found love and happiness); Teza and Waiting for Happiness, about a 17-year-old who has been away from his West African hometown of Nouadhibou for so long he’s forgotten the local dialect.
* On the stage, there's Seize The Day, Kwame Kwei-Armah's new play about a would-be Black mayor, and What Fatima Did..., a lively, pacey debut play about a schoolgirl who starts wearing the hijab.
Daniel Nelson
Editor
Image: Black Filmmaker (bfm) International Film Festival, the leading and longest-running platform for Black World Cinema in the UK
The 3rd Native Spirit Festival is a season of films, talks and performances promoting the Cultures of Indigenous people.
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What Fatima Did… was adopt the veil, to the amazement of her teenage classmates and friends. This sharp, fast-moving play shows what happened next.
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Image: Arsher Ali and Gethin Anthony in What Fatima Did (Photo: Alex Rumford)
Talks and Meetings
Saturday 7 November
* Put People First G20 Counter Conference, Tony Juniper, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Jon Cruddas MP, Deborah Doane, Billy Hayes, Caroline Lucas MEP, Diane Elson, Jesse Griffiths, Noel Hatch, John Hilary, Catherine Howarth, Neal Lawson, Larry Lohman, Sarah-Jayne Clifton, Andrew Simms, Glen Tarman, Hilary Wainwright, Central Hall Westminster, SW1. Info: Programme
* Climate change: London Public Forum, Aubrey Meyer, Oliver Tickell, John Stewart, Johann Hari, Jean Lambert MEP, Damian Carrington, Alexis Rowell, Chris Baugh, Tony Juniper, Dr Stuart Parkinson, mid-day-6pm, South Camden Community School, Charrington Street, NW1
* The Global Change We Need, David Miliband MP and others in a Fabian Society conference on how to develop a progressive movement for change in Europe, 10am-4pm, £10, Amnesty Human Rights Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, EC2. Info: 7227 4903/
* Sudanese Diaspora Symposium for a Sudan-Sudan Dialogue, 9.30am-5pm, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: Events
* What Is Psychogeography Today?, Rich Cochrane, 5-6.30pm, Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, N1. Info: 07950 269 286/ 7837 4473
Sunday 8 November
* Comic Art Propaganda, Fredrik Strömberg, Pat Mills, Asia Alfasi, 6.30pm, free, part of Comica 2009, ICA, The Mall, SW1. Info: ICA/ Comica
Monday 9 November
* Capitulation, capitulation, capitulation: the UK government's relationship with the City of London , John Christensen, 6.45-8.30pm, £3/£2, The Gallery, 70/77 Cowcross Street, EC1. Info: Friends of Le Monde
* 1989: The fall of the Berlin Wall, Ann Leslie, Glen Oglaza, Peter Millar, 7pm, £12.50, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2
* The Invention of the Jewish People, Professor Shlomo Sand in conversation with Denis McShane MP, 6.30pm, free, Borders, Charing Cross. Info: events@newstatesman.co.uk
* Berlin and Beyond: Revolution Now, David Chipperfield, David Edgar, Anna Funder, Misha Glenny, Susanne Schadlich, 7.45pm, £10, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank centr. Info: 0844 847 9911/ Southbank centre
* The Ugly Truth: Threats to Women in Political Spaces, 1-6pm, Senate House, Malet Street, WC1. Info: 7862 8870/ americas@sas.ac.uk
* Sustainability As A Matter of Survival: 10 Years of Architecture for Humanity, Cameron Sinclair, 6pm, RSA, 8 John Adam Street, WC2. Info: general@rsa.org.uk/ 7930 5115
* Pakistan: Eye of the Storm, Owen Bennett-Jones, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street
* Superfreakonomics, Stephen J Dubner, Professor Steven D Levitt, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street
9-10 November
* Water and Society: Past, Present and Future, Profs Julia Slingo, Pinhas Alpert, Rob Potter, Paul Valdes, Sandy Harrison, Michael Barton, Katja Tielboerger, Drs Stuart Black, Andrew Wade, Rebecca Foote, Iyad Dahiyat and Debbie Hemming, Royal Society, 6–9 Carlton House Terrace, SW1. Info: Booking
from 9 November
* GFest - gayWise LGBT Arts Festival, until 22 November. Info:festival/ Wise Thoughts/ 8889 9555
Tuesday 10 November
* Ground Control: fear and happiness in the twenty-first century city, Anna Minton argues for shared public spaces, 6.30pm, Bookmarks, 1 Bloomsbury Street, WC1. Info: 7637 1848/ events@bookmarks.uk.com
* Palestine in Pieces: Graphic Perspectives on the Israeli Occupation, athleen and Bill Christison, 7-9.30pm, free, The Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, EC2. Info: Rights centre
* Why Poverty Neighbourhoods Exist: An examination of a poor neighbourhoods in urban China through the lens of their livelihoods and vulnerabilities, Ying Chang, 6:30pm, UCL, Wates House, 22 Gordon Street, WC1. Info: 07967 307 572
* The Reform of the International Financial System: a proposal with the lessons from the crisis, Jose Maria Aznar, 2pm, London School of Economics, New Academic Building, Aldwych
* The Value of Health: why current measurements are wrong and how they can be improved, Professor Han Bleichrodt, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street
11 November
* UK Security - New Challenges, New Responses, Lord Paddy Ashdown and Ian Kearns, House of Commons, SW1. Info: Conflict Issues
* Slums, dogs, but few millionaires: what else can we learn from slums?, Dr Gareth Jones, 6.30pm, Latymer Upper School, 237 King Street, W6. Info: mca@latymer-upper.org/ 0845 638 5800
* Them and Us: how capitalism without fairness is capitalism without a future, Will Hutton, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street
Thursday 12 November
* Towards a responsible state: building legitimate and accountable institutions, Professor Charles T Call, Dr Sarah Cliffe, Alina Rocha Menocal, 1pm, Overseas Development Institute, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300/ meetings@odi.org.uk/ ODI
* Avi Shlaim in conversation with Shlomo Sand, 7pm, £12.50, Frontline Club
* Field Notes: Human Rights Defenders speak, Bo Kyi and Mathilde Muhindo, 12.30-1:30pm, LSE, Houghton Street, WC2. (In connection with Heroes of Our Time: Rwandan Courage & Survival see Exhibitions
* Not Swords Into Ploughshares - But Guns Into Art, Albino Forquilha, founder of Fomicres, a Mozambiquan NGO that is the only civil society organisation in the world to have taken responsibility for a large scale
* East London Against The Arms Fair, 7.30pm, Kingsley Hall, Powis Road, Bromley by Bow, E3. Info: elaaf@hotmail.co.uk
Saturday 14 November
* Speak Out Against Racism and deportations, 12-3pm, next to Brixton tube station. Info: 7837 1688/ office@rcgfrfi.plus.com
* Climate Change and Multinationals – A view from the grassroots in Colombia, Isaac Marín and Cristian Domínguez, 3pm-6pm, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1.
Monday 16 November
* Why we disagree about climate change, Mike Hulme, 6.30pm, Royal Geographical Society, Exhibition Row/ Kensington Gore. Info: 0871 360 2959
* The Value of Nature, Pavan Sukhdev, 7.30pm, £13.50/£10, Natural History Museum. Info: Details
* People Power and the End of the Cold War, Professor Sir Adam Roberts, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street
* Beyond Crisis, one-day conferebnce with ian brinkley, Aditya Chakrabortty, Jon Cruddas MP, Ann Pettifor, Dave Prentis, Andrew Simms, Gillian Tett, Larry Elliot, free, Congress House, Great Russell Street, WC1. Info: crisis Programme
Exhibitions
* Travels in No-man’s-land, Kurt Kaindl's photographs along the former east/west border, from Lübeck to Triest, documenting the remnants of the Iron Curtain in the lives of Europeans today, Austrian Cultural Forum London, 28 Rutland Gate, SW7, until 30 December. Info: 7225 7300/ culture@austria.org.uk/ Austrian Cultural Forum
* Europe — Work in Progress, photograph exploring the changes taking place in Europe 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Austrian Cultural Forum London, 28 Rutland Gate, SW7, until 30 November. Info: 7225 7300/ culture@austria.org.uk/ Austrian Cultural Forum
* Human Rights in the Frame: Amnesty International Media Awards 2009, exhibition of the winning entries from the three shortlisted photojournalists Eugene Richards, Jim Goldberg and Lefteris Pitarakis, Human Rights Action Centre, EC2, until 5 November. Info: Details
* Wildlife Photographer of the Year, £9/ £4.50/ £24 (up to two adults and three children), Natural History Museum, SW7, until 11 April. Info: Wildphoto
* Prove It! All the evidence you need to believe in climate change, new project that encourages visitors to explore the scientific evidence that human activity is behind climate change, free, Science Museum
* Eugene Richards, Jim Goldberg, Lefteris Pitarakis the work of three photojournalists shortlisted for the Amnesty Media Awards, free, 9am-8pm Monday-Friday, Amnesty Human Rights Centre. Info: Events
* Eco Home, examines current ideas around 'eco-living', Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road, E2, until February. Info: 7739 9893/ Museum
* Open See, Jim Goldberg's photographs of those who travel from war-torn countries to make new lives in Europe: they tell their own stories by writing on and defacing his photographs of them, free, Photographers Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, W1, until 17 January. Info: 0845 262 1618
* Striking Wom,en: Voices Of South Asian Workers From Grunwick and Gate Gourmet, free, The Women's Library, Old Castle Street, E1, until 1 March. Info: 7320 2222
* Ms Understood: Women's Liberation in 1970s Britain, The Women's Library, Old Castle Street, E1, until 31 March. Info: 7320 2222
* NS Harsha: Nations. Chen Chieh-jen: Factory, exhibition , installation and film, until 21 November, Rivington Place, EC2. Info: 7729 9616
* Nostalgia, a three-part audio-visual installation by Omar Fast, adapted from a true story, that tells the story of a migrant from a dystopian Britain, seeking asylum in Africa, using the conventions of 1970s Sci-Fi films, South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Road, SE5, until 6 December. Info: South London Gallery
* Growing Up Black, photographs of Hackney's West Indian community in the 1950s and '60s donated by Deniis Morris, Hackney Museum, Hackney technology and Learning Centre, 1 Reading Lane, E8, until 23 January. Info: 8356 3500
* Black comic book superheroes, free, until 6 November, Swiss Cottage Library and Gallery. Info: 7974 1648/ arts.tourism@camden.gov.uk/
* Chasing Mirrors, exhibition of new work exploring alternative forms of self-representation and portraiture by contemporary artist Faisal Abdu-Allah and the Chasing Mirrors Collective, a group of young people from Arabic-speaking communities in Brent, Barnet and Ealing, free, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, WC2, until 10 January. Info: 7306 005
* Banking on Life, exhibition about the Millennium Seed Bank, entrance to Gardens £13/£12, under-17s free, Kew Gardens, Kew Road, Richmond, TW9, until 13 November. Info: 8332 5655
* North-West Passage: An Actic Obsession, British Arctic exploration but with a glance at the potential impact of climate change, National Maritime Museum, Park Row, SE10. Info: 8858 4422, until 4 January
* Atlantic Worlds, transatlantic slave trade gallery, National Maritime Museum, Park Row, SE1. Info: 8858 4422/ 8312 6565
* Helmand: The Soldiers Story, "the first museum exhibition about a contemporary, ongoing conflict", National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, SW3. Info: 7730 0717/ Exhibition
* From War To Windrush, the experience of people from the West Indies and black Britons in the two world wars, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, SE1, until 1 November. Info: 7416 5320
* Outside Edge, a journey through black British lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history of the last 30 years, Museum in Docklands
* London, Sugar & Slavery gallery, permanent gallery at the Museum in Docklands, with new display that gives a snapshot of those who received compensation when slavery was abolished in the 1830s, No 1 Warehouse, E14. Info: 0870 444 3852/ 0870 444 3851/ info@museumoflondon.org.uk
+ London's dirtiest secret
from 9 November
* Heroes of Our Time: Rwandan Courage & Survival, a history of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that focuses on four survivors, until 18 December, London School of Economics, Houghton Street. Info: arts@lse.ac.uk/ 7955 604/ LSE/ 7955 6043.
+ Thursday 12 November, Human Rights Defenders Speak, defenders from Burma, Democratic Republic of Congo and Human Rights Watch, 12.30-1.30pm, Clement House, LSE. Info: arts@lse.ac.uk/ (0)955 6043
+ Tuesday 1 December, debate on media and identity examining reporting of the Rwandan genocide
* The Wall; Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, exhibition of illustrations by Czech illustrator Peter Sís, who provides a personal account of life behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War and shows what life was like for a child who proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer and believed whatever he was told to believe, free, Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, W6, until 29 November, part of the Velvet ®evolution season (see: Film). Info: 8237 1111
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Saturday 7 November
* Put People First G20 Counter Conference, Tony Juniper, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Jon Cruddas MP, Deborah Doane, Billy Hayes, Caroline Lucas MEP, Diane Elson, Jesse Griffiths, Noel Hatch, John Hilary, Catherine Howarth, Neal Lawson, Larry Lohman, Sarah-Jayne Clifton, Andrew Simms, Glen Tarman, Hilary Wainwright, Central Hall Westminster, SW1. Info: Programme
* Climate change: London Public Forum, Aubrey Meyer, Oliver Tickell, John Stewart, Johann Hari, Jean Lambert MEP, Damian Carrington, Alexis Rowell, Chris Baugh, Tony Juniper, Dr Stuart Parkinson, mid-day-6pm, South Camden Community School, Charrington Street, NW1
* The Global Change We Need, David Miliband MP and others in a Fabian Society conference on how to develop a progressive movement for change in Europe, 10am-4pm, £10, Amnesty Human Rights Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, EC2. Info: 7227 4903/
* Sudanese Diaspora Symposium for a Sudan-Sudan Dialogue, 9.30am-5pm, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: Events
* What Is Psychogeography Today?, Rich Cochrane, 5-6.30pm, Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, N1. Info: 07950 269 286/ 7837 4473
Sunday 8 November
* Comic Art Propaganda, Fredrik Strömberg, Pat Mills, Asia Alfasi, 6.30pm, free, part of Comica 2009, ICA, The Mall, SW1. Info: ICA/ Comica
Monday 9 November
* Capitulation, capitulation, capitulation: the UK government's relationship with the City of London , John Christensen, 6.45-8.30pm, £3/£2, The Gallery, 70/77 Cowcross Street, EC1. Info: Friends of Le Monde
* 1989: The fall of the Berlin Wall, Ann Leslie, Glen Oglaza, Peter Millar, 7pm, £12.50, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2
* The Invention of the Jewish People, Professor Shlomo Sand in conversation with Denis McShane MP, 6.30pm, free, Borders, Charing Cross. Info: events@newstatesman.co.uk
* Berlin and Beyond: Revolution Now, David Chipperfield, David Edgar, Anna Funder, Misha Glenny, Susanne Schadlich, 7.45pm, £10, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank centr. Info: 0844 847 9911/ Southbank centre
* The Ugly Truth: Threats to Women in Political Spaces, 1-6pm, Senate House, Malet Street, WC1. Info: 7862 8870/ americas@sas.ac.uk
* Sustainability As A Matter of Survival: 10 Years of Architecture for Humanity, Cameron Sinclair, 6pm, RSA, 8 John Adam Street, WC2. Info: general@rsa.org.uk/ 7930 5115
* Pakistan: Eye of the Storm, Owen Bennett-Jones, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street
* Superfreakonomics, Stephen J Dubner, Professor Steven D Levitt, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street
9-10 November
* Water and Society: Past, Present and Future, Profs Julia Slingo, Pinhas Alpert, Rob Potter, Paul Valdes, Sandy Harrison, Michael Barton, Katja Tielboerger, Drs Stuart Black, Andrew Wade, Rebecca Foote, Iyad Dahiyat and Debbie Hemming, Royal Society, 6–9 Carlton House Terrace, SW1. Info: Booking
from 9 November
* GFest - gayWise LGBT Arts Festival, until 22 November. Info:festival/ Wise Thoughts/ 8889 9555
Tuesday 10 November
* Ground Control: fear and happiness in the twenty-first century city, Anna Minton argues for shared public spaces, 6.30pm, Bookmarks, 1 Bloomsbury Street, WC1. Info: 7637 1848/ events@bookmarks.uk.com
* Palestine in Pieces: Graphic Perspectives on the Israeli Occupation, athleen and Bill Christison, 7-9.30pm, free, The Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, EC2. Info: Rights centre
* Why Poverty Neighbourhoods Exist: An examination of a poor neighbourhoods in urban China through the lens of their livelihoods and vulnerabilities, Ying Chang, 6:30pm, UCL, Wates House, 22 Gordon Street, WC1. Info: 07967 307 572
* The Reform of the International Financial System: a proposal with the lessons from the crisis, Jose Maria Aznar, 2pm, London School of Economics, New Academic Building, Aldwych
* The Value of Health: why current measurements are wrong and how they can be improved, Professor Han Bleichrodt, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street
11 November
* UK Security - New Challenges, New Responses, Lord Paddy Ashdown and Ian Kearns, House of Commons, SW1. Info: Conflict Issues
* Slums, dogs, but few millionaires: what else can we learn from slums?, Dr Gareth Jones, 6.30pm, Latymer Upper School, 237 King Street, W6. Info: mca@latymer-upper.org/ 0845 638 5800
* Them and Us: how capitalism without fairness is capitalism without a future, Will Hutton, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street
Thursday 12 November
* Towards a responsible state: building legitimate and accountable institutions, Professor Charles T Call, Dr Sarah Cliffe, Alina Rocha Menocal, 1pm, Overseas Development Institute, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300/ meetings@odi.org.uk/ ODI
* Avi Shlaim in conversation with Shlomo Sand, 7pm, £12.50, Frontline Club
* Field Notes: Human Rights Defenders speak, Bo Kyi and Mathilde Muhindo, 12.30-1:30pm, LSE, Houghton Street, WC2. (In connection with Heroes of Our Time: Rwandan Courage & Survival see Exhibitions
* Not Swords Into Ploughshares - But Guns Into Art, Albino Forquilha, founder of Fomicres, a Mozambiquan NGO that is the only civil society organisation in the world to have taken responsibility for a large scale
* East London Against The Arms Fair, 7.30pm, Kingsley Hall, Powis Road, Bromley by Bow, E3. Info: elaaf@hotmail.co.uk
Saturday 14 November
* Speak Out Against Racism and deportations, 12-3pm, next to Brixton tube station. Info: 7837 1688/ office@rcgfrfi.plus.com
* Climate Change and Multinationals – A view from the grassroots in Colombia, Isaac Marín and Cristian Domínguez, 3pm-6pm, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1.
Monday 16 November
* Why we disagree about climate change, Mike Hulme, 6.30pm, Royal Geographical Society, Exhibition Row/ Kensington Gore. Info: 0871 360 2959
* The Value of Nature, Pavan Sukhdev, 7.30pm, £13.50/£10, Natural History Museum. Info: Details
* People Power and the End of the Cold War, Professor Sir Adam Roberts, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street
* Beyond Crisis, one-day conferebnce with ian brinkley, Aditya Chakrabortty, Jon Cruddas MP, Ann Pettifor, Dave Prentis, Andrew Simms, Gillian Tett, Larry Elliot, free, Congress House, Great Russell Street, WC1. Info: crisis Programme
Exhibitions
* Travels in No-man’s-land, Kurt Kaindl's photographs along the former east/west border, from Lübeck to Triest, documenting the remnants of the Iron Curtain in the lives of Europeans today, Austrian Cultural Forum London, 28 Rutland Gate, SW7, until 30 December. Info: 7225 7300/ culture@austria.org.uk/ Austrian Cultural Forum
* Europe — Work in Progress, photograph exploring the changes taking place in Europe 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Austrian Cultural Forum London, 28 Rutland Gate, SW7, until 30 November. Info: 7225 7300/ culture@austria.org.uk/ Austrian Cultural Forum
* Human Rights in the Frame: Amnesty International Media Awards 2009, exhibition of the winning entries from the three shortlisted photojournalists Eugene Richards, Jim Goldberg and Lefteris Pitarakis, Human Rights Action Centre, EC2, until 5 November. Info: Details
* Wildlife Photographer of the Year, £9/ £4.50/ £24 (up to two adults and three children), Natural History Museum, SW7, until 11 April. Info: Wildphoto
* Prove It! All the evidence you need to believe in climate change, new project that encourages visitors to explore the scientific evidence that human activity is behind climate change, free, Science Museum
* Eugene Richards, Jim Goldberg, Lefteris Pitarakis the work of three photojournalists shortlisted for the Amnesty Media Awards, free, 9am-8pm Monday-Friday, Amnesty Human Rights Centre. Info: Events
* Eco Home, examines current ideas around 'eco-living', Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road, E2, until February. Info: 7739 9893/ Museum
* Open See, Jim Goldberg's photographs of those who travel from war-torn countries to make new lives in Europe: they tell their own stories by writing on and defacing his photographs of them, free, Photographers Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, W1, until 17 January. Info: 0845 262 1618
* Striking Wom,en: Voices Of South Asian Workers From Grunwick and Gate Gourmet, free, The Women's Library, Old Castle Street, E1, until 1 March. Info: 7320 2222
* Ms Understood: Women's Liberation in 1970s Britain, The Women's Library, Old Castle Street, E1, until 31 March. Info: 7320 2222
* NS Harsha: Nations. Chen Chieh-jen: Factory, exhibition , installation and film, until 21 November, Rivington Place, EC2. Info: 7729 9616
* Nostalgia, a three-part audio-visual installation by Omar Fast, adapted from a true story, that tells the story of a migrant from a dystopian Britain, seeking asylum in Africa, using the conventions of 1970s Sci-Fi films, South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Road, SE5, until 6 December. Info: South London Gallery
* Growing Up Black, photographs of Hackney's West Indian community in the 1950s and '60s donated by Deniis Morris, Hackney Museum, Hackney technology and Learning Centre, 1 Reading Lane, E8, until 23 January. Info: 8356 3500
* Black comic book superheroes, free, until 6 November, Swiss Cottage Library and Gallery. Info: 7974 1648/ arts.tourism@camden.gov.uk/
* Chasing Mirrors, exhibition of new work exploring alternative forms of self-representation and portraiture by contemporary artist Faisal Abdu-Allah and the Chasing Mirrors Collective, a group of young people from Arabic-speaking communities in Brent, Barnet and Ealing, free, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, WC2, until 10 January. Info: 7306 005
* Banking on Life, exhibition about the Millennium Seed Bank, entrance to Gardens £13/£12, under-17s free, Kew Gardens, Kew Road, Richmond, TW9, until 13 November. Info: 8332 5655
* North-West Passage: An Actic Obsession, British Arctic exploration but with a glance at the potential impact of climate change, National Maritime Museum, Park Row, SE10. Info: 8858 4422, until 4 January
* Atlantic Worlds, transatlantic slave trade gallery, National Maritime Museum, Park Row, SE1. Info: 8858 4422/ 8312 6565
* Helmand: The Soldiers Story, "the first museum exhibition about a contemporary, ongoing conflict", National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, SW3. Info: 7730 0717/ Exhibition
* From War To Windrush, the experience of people from the West Indies and black Britons in the two world wars, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, SE1, until 1 November. Info: 7416 5320
* Outside Edge, a journey through black British lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history of the last 30 years, Museum in Docklands
* London, Sugar & Slavery gallery, permanent gallery at the Museum in Docklands, with new display that gives a snapshot of those who received compensation when slavery was abolished in the 1830s, No 1 Warehouse, E14. Info: 0870 444 3852/ 0870 444 3851/ info@museumoflondon.org.uk
+ London's dirtiest secret
from 9 November
* Heroes of Our Time: Rwandan Courage & Survival, a history of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that focuses on four survivors, until 18 December, London School of Economics, Houghton Street. Info: arts@lse.ac.uk/ 7955 604/ LSE/ 7955 6043.
+ Thursday 12 November, Human Rights Defenders Speak, defenders from Burma, Democratic Republic of Congo and Human Rights Watch, 12.30-1.30pm, Clement House, LSE. Info: arts@lse.ac.uk/ (0)955 6043
+ Tuesday 1 December, debate on media and identity examining reporting of the Rwandan genocide
* The Wall; Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, exhibition of illustrations by Czech illustrator Peter Sís, who provides a personal account of life behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War and shows what life was like for a child who proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer and believed whatever he was told to believe, free, Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, W6, until 29 November, part of the Velvet ®evolution season (see: Film). Info: 8237 1111
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