Close up and personal
A newly arrived woman from Sudan is placed in cramped temporary accommodation.with two other families. Strangers. Forced together. No space is personal.
from National Theatre on Dec 6, 2016.
From the editor
* It’s not curtains for the Climate Refugees Opera project after all.
Early last year Somerset House, the central London arts centre, trumpeted the writing of the opera to be staged simultaneously in London, Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town. It was inspired by British composer Jonathan Dove’s voyage to the Arctic where he witnessed first-hand the impact of climate change. With his music, and words by Alasdair Middleton, the production was billed as part of an ambitious “once-in-a-lifetime celebration of London through theatre”.
In May 2012 the centre’s public relations manager, Josephine Rodrigues, said that the opera was “in development” and that production was planned for May 2013. It quickly became obvious that something was wrong because every inquiry about the progress of the work was parried with a “nothing to report” response.
Now the cultural centre has admitted that the opera "is not happening at Somerset House.” Later Dove told OneWorld that the project is “still very much alive” but that the Young Vic theatre has taken over from Somerset House as lead producer.
* Three strong documentaries are on show: Dirty Wars, about US hit squads around the world; How To Survive A Plague, about US gay activists' successful drive to force government and companies to step up research for a cure; and Utopia, John Pilger's latest attempt to force the world to acknowedge Australia's racist policies.
* Illustration: Poster from the The Great Refusal: Protesting 1948--1984, an exhibition of photographs, posters and ephemera relating to protest and counter-culture from the late 1940s to the early 1980sat the Hayward Gallery, Southbank
Daniel Ne lson
Editor
events@oneworld.org
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Talks and meetings
Monday 9 December
* Time to Act: Climate, Fuel Poverty and Energy Reform, focus on the connection between fuel poverty and climate change and how addressing climate change through better energy policy can solve social injusticies such as fuel poverty, 7.30pm, room G50, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: 07914 627359/ jack@campaigncc.org
* Extreme Energy (fracking, tar sands etc) and climate change/ Christmas Party, 7pm, Fairly Square cafe, 51 Red Lion Street, WC1. Info: www.luddites200@yahoo.co.uk
* Scientists Must Protect and Promote Human Rights: It is Principled and in their Interest, 6pm, free, Carol Corillon, Gresham College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, EC1. Info: 7831 0575/ enquiries@gresham.ac.uk
* Final Solutions: Human Nature, Capitalism and Genocide, Sabby Sagall, 6.30pm, £2 redeemable against any book purchase on the night, Bookmarks Bookshop, 1 Bloomsbury Street, WC1. Info: events@bookmarks.uk.com/ 7637 1848
* Public Health in Armed Conflicts, Bayard Roberts & Karl Blanchet, 5:15pm, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, WC1. Info: ghls@lshtm.ac.uk
Tuesday 10 December
* Lobby Against The Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill, briefing meeting for NGO supporters from 11:30am, meet MPs and peers from 12.30pm. Info: alice.moore@smk.org.uk/ http://www.smk.org.uk/
* Meet VSO Kingston, find out about volunteering as a skilled professional with VSO, 7-8.30pm, Voluntary Service Overseas, 100 London Road, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey KT2 6QJ. Info: www.vso.org.uk/meetvso
* From Moral Panics to States of Denial: A celebration of the life and work of Stan Cohen, Robin Cohen; David Downes; Daphna Golan; Thomas Hammarberg; Harvey Molotch, 6-8pm, Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2. Info: human.rights@lse.ac.uk
* Women in the Public Sphere in the 21st century, Caroline Criado-Perez, 5pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2. Info: Media Agenda talks
* Where do we stand on the world?, Jerry Brotton, 7pm, The Clothworkers’ Hall, EC3. Info: http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/London+Lectures/London+city+lectures.htm
* Feminism in the Media, Natalie Hanman, Lola Okolosie, Tracey Reynolds, 6pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2. Info: events@lse.ac.uk/ 7955 6043
* Sanctions on Iran, International Law and international human rights standards, Mansour Talebpour, 5:45pm, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: vp6@soas.ac.uk/ 7898 4330 / 4490
* The End of Poverty? The post-2015 development agenda and global health, David Hulme, 5-6.30pm, UCL Institute for Global Health, 30 Guilford Street, WC1. Info: c.hoyland@ucl.ac.uk
* Obama's Not-So-Grand Strategy, Peter Trubowitz, 7pm, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: rg35@soas.ac.uk
* The future of next generation humanitarian technology, Patrick Meier, 5.30-6.30pm, Imperial Collegem South Kensington Campus. Info: events@imperial.ac.uk
Wednesday 11 December
* Dirty money: breaking the link between organised crime and politics, Catalina Uribe Burcher, Artis Velšs, Kwesi Aning, Camino Kavanah, Francesca Recanatini, 2.30-4pm, Overseas Development Institute, 203 Blackfriars Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300/ p.events@odi.org.uk/ www.odi.org.uk
* Was Karl Marx always wrong?, Douglas McWilliams, 6pm, Museum of London, London Wall, EC2. Info: 7831 0575/ enquiries@gresham.ac.uk
* Middle East: violence and fear, Dominique Moisi, 6.15-7.30pm, Kings College, The Strand, WC2. Info: 7836 5454/ https://middleeasternfears.eventbrite.co.uk/
Thursday 12 December
* ‘Yes to Life! No to the Mine!’, South Africa-based AngloGold Ashanti's La Colosa project in Colombia is the subject of a debate about the social, environmental and economic impacts of open-cast gold mining, picket of South African Embassy, 4.30-6.30pm, Trafalgar Square. Info: mining@colombiasolidarity.org.uk/ www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk
* Medical Justice Festive Awards Ceremony, 10-minute film by ex-detainees plus awards to Best Doctor, Best Lawyer, Best Detainee Befriender, Best Organisation, Best Campaign, 6pm, Andover Estate Community Centre, Andover Estate, Finsbury Park, N7. Info: l.incledon@medicaljustice.org.uk
* Preventing violent conflict in Africa: inequalities, perceptions and institutions, Frances Stewart, Yoichi Mine, Lisa Denney, 4.30-6pm, free, Overseas Development Institute, 203 Blackfriars Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300/ odi@odi.org.uk/www.odi.org.uk
* The Revenge of History: The Battle for the 21st Century, Seumas Milne, 7pm, £3 redeemable against purchase, Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, N1 . Info: 837 4473/ www.housmans.com
* Feminist Reflections on Researching So-called 'Honour Killings', Aisha Gill, 5pm, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: gh21@soas.ac.uk/ 7898 4367
* Campaign against Climate Change London Christmas Social, from 6.30pm, the Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, N1. Info: 7833 9311/ https://www.facebook.com/events/201868119997892/?ref=5
Friday 13 December
* What are we learning from responding to Syria?, Jane Cocking, James Darcy, Wendy Fenton, David Peppiatt, 11am-1pm, free, Overseas Development Institute, 203 Blackfriars Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300/ odi@odi.org.uk/www.odi.org.uk
* On Palestine, G4S and the Prison Industrial Complex: an evening with Angela Davis and Gina Dent, 6pm, suggested donation £8, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: waronwant.org/AngelaDavis
Wednesday 18 December
* Academics and NGOs International Development Open Mic Night, an opportunity to explore ideas and exchange opportunities, 6-8pm, free London Internaional Devcelopment Centre, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Tickets
* Securing Britain's Energy Future, Edward Davey, 5.30—7:30pm, University College London, Gower Street, WC1. Info: 7679 9027/ energy-events@ucl.ac.uk
Exhibitions
* Making Freedom, exhibition marking the 175th anniversary of the 1838 emancipation of nearly 1m Africans in the Caribbean, free, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7, until 21 December
* Tammam Azzam: I, The Syrian, digital media response to conflict in Syria, free, Ayyam Gallery, W1, until 30 January. Info: 7409 3568
* With A Conscious Eye, photographs about the observation of planetary alignment in India, Osborne Samuel gallery, 23a Bruton Street, W!, until 21 December. Info: 7493 7939
* The Great Refusal: Protesting 1948--1984, photos and paraphernalia, free, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, SE1. Info: 7960 4200/ http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/the-great-refusal-1000451
* Ben Okri on Ayuba Suleiman Diallo: A Dialogue Across Time, commentary on a 1733 painting of an educated man from a family of Muslim clerics in West Africa who had a lasting impact on Britain’s understanding of West African culture and Islam, free, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, WC2, until 16 March.
* Wael Shawky: Al-Qurban, films challenging Western assumptions about Islam and Arabic culture, Serpentine Gallery, W2, free, until 9 February. Info: 7402 6075
* Mike Moore and Lee Craker, photographic perspectives of Iraq from 1991–2011, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, until 5 January; ALSO: Vision as Power, Donovan Wylie's mpictures of the impact of modern military architecture on the landscape, until 21 April. Info: 7416 5000/ mail@iwm.org.uk
* Kara Walker, paper silhouettes about slavery in the US by the "Celebrated American Negress", free, Camden Arts Centre, NW3, until 5 January Info: 7472 5500
* Wildlife Photographer of the Year, £12/£6, Natural History Museum, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, until 23 March. Info: www.nhm.ac.uk/wildphoto
* The Life and Afterlife of David Livingstone, Brunei gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, Tjhornhaugh Street, WC1, until 22 March. Info: www.soas.ac.uk/gallery
* Four Four Jew: football, fans and faith, Jewish Museum, Raymond Burton House, 129-131 Albert Street, NW1, until 23 February. Info: 7284 7384/ admin@jewishmuseum.org.uk
* Look Again, photos from Cafod awareness-raising campaign on violence against women, Salvation Army HQ, 101 Queen Victoria Street, EC4, until 6 December
* Extinction: Not the End of the World? explores the crucial role extinction plays in the evolution of life, Natural History Museum, Exhibition Road, SW1. Info: Tickets
+ Are we in the midst of another Great Dying?
* London, Sugar & Slavery , 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
* atmosphere: exploring climate science, free, Science Museum, South Kensington. Info: Museum
* Atlantic Worlds, transatlantic slave trade gallery, National Maritime Museum, Park Row, SE1. Info: 8858 4422/ 8312 656
* Eco Zone Gallery, small gallery devoted to sustainable building products and materials, The Building Centre, Store Street, WC1. Info: 7692 4000/ reception@buildingcentre.co.uk/ Centre
Photo: Fault Lines, Hampstead Theatre: "Christmas is actually a very good time to have a disaster. It's the season of goodwill..."
Immigration detention: what's love got to do with it?
Feeling a little jaded with traditional theatrical formats? Try 'Removal Men'.
from Daniel Nelson on Nov 18, 2016.
