Global Justice Events in London: July

* Burma VJ, which traces the 2007 uprising by telling the story of the undercover video journalists (VJs) who recorded the uprising and the subsequent brutal crackdown will be screened simultaneously at more than 40 cinemas around the country on 114 July, followed by a Q&A beamed directly from London featuring the director, one of the VJs and Mark Farmaner, director of Burma Campaign UK. More information on www.facebook.com/burmavjfilm

* Two Degrees 2009 is a programme of work by radical and politically engaged artists about climate change and our relationship with the environment. It's part of Respond!, a month of environmental engagement through art, UK-wide in June.

* Following the recent Contingency Plan, there's more climate change drama with When the Rain Stops Falling, at the Almeida Theatre. An epic play spanning four generations and two continents, it moves from the claustrophobia of a 1950s London flat to the windswept coast of Southern Australia and into the heart of the Australian desert.

* The Alfred Fagon Award, set-up to commemorate the life of the late Jamaican playwright and actor, is seeking submissions from playwrights of African or Caribbean descent who are resident in the UK. Deadline: 1 August . The winner gets £5,000 and a staged reading of their work at the Cottesloe in the National Theatre. More information: www.alfredfagonaward.co.uk ; 7251 6644; richard@talawa.com

Daniel Nelson
Editor

One of the most infamous scandals in financial history, Enron, becomes a theatrical epic.

29.06.2009 Every journalist should see this play, and most will squirm with embarrassment. Anyone interested in the media should also spend a couple of hours underneath the arches. It’s a play with a point, but it’s also funny and entertaining.

Talks and Meetings

Thursday 2 July
* Free, Chris Anderson on what happens when so many goods can be produced for more-or-less nothing, 1pm, £10/£9/£8, ICA, The Mall, SW1. Info: 7930 3647/ ICA
* Facts Are Subversive: Political writing from a decade without a name, Timothy Garton Ash, 6pm, RSA, 8 John Adam Street, WC2. Info: general@rsa.org.uk/ 7930 5115
* Arundhati Roy, on democracy, 7.30pm, £12, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank. Info: Roy

2-6 July
* Marxism 2009, meetings, music, drama, art, film, with Tony Benn, Tariq Ali, Slavojh Zizek, Alex Callinicos, Gary Younge, Gareth Peirce, Terry Eagaleton, Ghada Kharmi, Bernadette McAliskey, Nick Broomfield, Michael Rosen, Zoe Williams, Sam West, China Melville, Sheila Rowbotham, David harvey, hosted by Social Workers Party. Info: 7819 1190/ Festival

Friday 3 July
* Democracy and Violence: In South Asia and Beyond, Ramachandra Guha, 6.30pm, Nehru Centre, 8 South Audley Street, W1. Info: nehrucentre@btconnect.com/ nehrucentre@aol.com/ 7491 3567/ 7493 2019

Saturday 4 July
* Brian Chikwava & Petina Gappah discuss their new books, which look at Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwean diaspora in London, 4pm, Southbank Centre.
* A Legacy of Liberation, Mark Gevisser's book takes the pulse of South African democracy, which he discusses at this event, Southbank Centre.
* Current situation in Colombia and Britain: The Minga of Indigenous and Popular Resistance, Carlos Cruz, Andy Higginbottom, Javier Sánchez, Einstein Durango, family member of John Freddy Suarez Santander, G. Saavedra, Sofia Buchuk, 10am–5.30pm, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh St, WC1.
+ Bolivian Dance Extravaganza, 6pm–late, £5/£10, Arch Inka, 202 Coldharbour Lane, SW9

Sunday 5 July
* Adventures in a Megacity, Sam Miller and Vikram Seth on Delhi, 'India's dreamtown - and its purgatory', 3.30pm, £7, Southbank centre. Info: Miller
* Colombia Solidarity Campaign AGM, 11.30am-4.30pm. Info: info@colombiasolidarity.org.uk/ Colombia Solidarity Campaign

Monday 6 July
* Whose landscape is it anyway? Environment versus development in South Asia today, Nicholas Stern, Ramachandra Guha, 6.30pm, £5 including day pass to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1. Info: 7323 8181
* Terry Eagleton on Reason, Faith and Revolution, a challenge to the "new atheism" of Dawkins & co. with a revolutionary account of the Christian gospel, 7pm, ICA, The Mall, SW1. Info: 7930 3647/ ICA

Tuesday 7 July
* The Mediterranean Solar Power Initiative, Giancario Aragona, Janis Folkmanis, 9am-4pm, Italian Culture Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, SW1
* Watching the Detectives: the media and anti terrorism laws, Margaret Gilmore, Peter Clarke, Marc Vallée, Turi Munthe, 7pm, £10, Frontline Club, Norfolk Place, W2
* Climate Change; Effective Communication Course. Info: 7324 4774/ Action/ jelliott@talkaction.org
* 9.9.9. it's time, 6.30pm, The Bridge Bar, The Westbridge, 74-76 Battersea Bridge Road, SW11. Info: 999itstime@org/ 9.9.9.it's time
* What role for Latin America in the world: Policy shaper or policy consumer?, Chris Bryant, Michael Reid, 1pm, Overseas Development Institute, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300/ meetings@odi.org.uk/ ODI
* The search for new sources of energy is stimulating worldwide innovative thinking and ‘green sky’ research., Prof. Vernon Gibson, Prof. John Beddington, Lord Hunt, Prof. James Barber, Prof. David Cahen, Royal Geographical Society, Kensington Gore, SW7. Info: 7424 6860/ events@weizmann.org.uk

8 July
* Renewable Energy, All Party Parliamentary Climate Change group meeting with WWF, Dr Keith Allott, 4-6pm, House of Commons
* The impact of US and UK legislatures on aid delivery, Jonathan White, Jim Kolbe, Simon Burall, 9.30pm, Overseas Development Institute, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300/ meetings@odi.org.uk/ ODI


Exhibitions

* Currents of Time, video installation by Zineb Sedira filmed on the coastline of Mauritania, a bird watcher’s paradise that has also become a scrapyard for the world’s shipping and point of departure for African immigrants trying to reach Europe, until 25 July, Rivington Place, EC2. Info: 7729 9616/ iniva@iniva.org/

* Still Human Still Here: The underground world of destitute asylum-seekers, Abbie Trayler-Smith's photographs of men and women seeking refuge in UK whose bids for sanctuary have been rejected by the government, the Crypt at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, WC2, until 31 July. Info: Still Human

* Forward to Freedom , display marking the 50th anniversary of the formation of the The Anti-Apartheid Movement, Museum of London, until 6 September

* Bitter Fruit: Pictures from Afghanistan, photographs of Afghanistan through the decades, including images by Eve Arnold, Steve McCurry, Abbas, Paolo Pellegrin and Chris Steele-Perkins, until 31 July, Magnum Print Room, 63 Gee Street, EC1. Info: Magnum

* Living Ancestors of Dominica, portraits of long-living Domincans by Gabrielle Le Roux, Museum of London Docklands, until 31 July. Info: Living Ancestors
+ Dominican old wives' tales

* The Human Face of Death Row, Claire Phillips photographs of people who have faced the finality of execution, until 5 July, gallery@oxo

* Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969–2009 draws on ideas that have emerged out of Land Art, environmental activism, experimental architecture and utopianism, until 18 October, Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, Silk Street. Info: Barbican Gallery

* The Sound and the Fury, rousing public speeches, British Library, 96 Euston Road, NW1. Info: 7412 7332, until 31 August

* Drowned and Other Stories, imaginative exhibition of photographs by Seba Kurtis on immigrants, negotiating the treacherous seas between Africa and Europe or traversing the lawless borders between Mexico and the US, Host Gallery, 1 Honduras Street, EC1, until 4 July. Info: 7253 2770/ info@hostgallery.co.uk

* Visions of the World, photographs from the collection, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7. Info: 7591 3000, until 28 August

* Unspeakable: The Artist as Witness to the Holocaust, Leslie Cole, Doris Zinkeisen, Paul Ryan, Darren Almond and survivor artists Roman Halter, Edith Birkin and Alicia Melamed Adams, free, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, SE1, until 31 August. Info: mail@iwm.org.uk/ 7416 5000

* Hale Man: A Mirrored Community, collaboration between the artist and South London's Chinese communities, Horniman Museum and Garden, London Road, SE23. Info: 8699 1872, until 28 September

* Arab and Iranian Modern Masters, Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York's HQ, King's Road, SW3.

* Richard Long: Heaven and Earth, calm, nature-centred works, Tate Britain, SW1, until 6 September. Info: 7887 8888

* Where do you stand on GM?, small Science Museum exhibition, South Kensington, until March 2010. Info: GM exhibition
+ GM food: technology vs democracy

* 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

* 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

* Atlantic Worlds, transatlantic slave trade gallery, National Maritime Museum, Park Row, SE1. Info: 8858 4422/ 8312 6565

* Medals of Dishonour, British Museum, 44 Great Russell Street, WC1, until 27 September. Info: 7323 8181

from 4 July
* The Press Photographer's Year 09, National Theatre, until 31 August. Info: 7452 3000/ National

from 8 July
* Humanity in War, frontline photography since 1860 presented by the International Committee of the Red Cross to mark the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Solferino where the Red Cross Movement was founded, free, until 18 July, gallery@oxo

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