* Of upcoming TV, War Child looks interesting (15 February). Described as a shocking portrait of children living in the aftermath of the Israeli invasion of Gaza, the documentary gives a voice to a handful of children whose lives have been irreversibly damaged by war. Some witnessed their family or best friends killed in front of them, others have suffered horrific injuries or seen their families' livelihoods destroyed. The film follows them over the course of the next year as they grapple with the harsh realities of their new lives – at home with their grieving families, in the classroom, and as they play graphically violent games which speak volumes of the horrors they have witnessed.
* The Royal Court Theatre's International Playwrights Season, currently underway, includes new plays from Colombia and Latvia and a series of readings and events from Latin America and Eastern Europe.
* Also on stage: three plays on environment and climate change - Greenland; the witty The Heretic and a piece of verbatim theatre, using the words of flood victims around the world, Change. For Greenland, “Seeking to understand a subject of great complexity, the National Theatre has asked four of the most distinct and exciting playwrights in British theatre to collaborate on a new piece of documentary theatre. The team has spent six months interviewing key individuals from the worlds of science, politics, business and philosophy in an effort to understand our changing relationship with the planet.” A programme of free events accompanies the production, including discussions at the Talkaoke table
* If you remember the film East Is East, about a Pakistani family in Bradford, you`ll be looking forward to West Is West, which takes up the story as dad Om Puri tries to marry off his youngest son. There:s an early screening at the BFI on 15 February,followed by a Q&A with Puri, Aqib Khan, writer Ayub Khan Din and producer Leslee Udwin.
* Also in February, the Tricycle is showing 13 of the international films that have been submitted for the Foreign Language Category of this year's Oscars. They include films from Algeria (Outside the Law), Brazil (Lula, the Son of Brazil), Canada (Incendies), Croatia (The Blacks) France (Of Gods and Men), Israel (The Human Resources Manager), Japan (Confessions), Mexico (Biutiful), The Netherlands (Tirza), Serbia (Solemn Promise), South Africa (Life, Above All), Sweden (Simple Simon) and Thailand (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives).
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Talks and Meetings
Monday 14 February
* Malcolm X: Visits Abroad 1964-1965, Marika Sherwood, 6.30pm, free, Bookmarks, 1 Bloomsbury Street, WC1. Info: 7637 1848/ Bookmarks/ events@bookmarks.uk.com
* Climate Forecasting with Chaos, or Chaos in Climate Forecasting?, Dr Roman Frigg, 6pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2.
Tuesday 15 February
* On the Media: Reporting Protest, discussion on what can be learned from last year's university fees protes, the role of social media and political allegiances, 7pm, £12.50/£10/£8, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2. Info: 7479 8960
* English PEN celebrates its 90th anniversary, Marjorie Ann Watts, Simon Barker, John Galsworthy, Victoria Glendinning, 6.30pm, £5/£8, Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, EC1. Info: 7354 2570/ info@freewordonline.com
* Co-existence – Then and Now, Dr Ahmed Chahlene on Jewish-Muslim relations, 7.30pm, £10, Jewish
Museum, Raymond Burton House, 129-131 Albert Street, NW1, until 10 February. Info: 7284 7384/ admin@jewishmuseum.org.uk
* Hot Heads, an exploration of how understanding of people’s complex wants and needs can influence communication about climate change, Samuel Fankhauser, Geoff Beattie, Oliver Payne, Matt Prescott, 7pm, Dana centre, 165 Queen's Gate, SW7. Info: tickets@danacentre.org.uk/ talk@danacentre.org.uk
* (How) Will the 2012 Olympics Impact Trafficking in London?, discussion organised by YounProfessionals in Human Rights, 7-9pm, ULU Building, Malet Street, WC1
* BP in Colombia: Browne’s Disgrace, Colombia Solidarity Campaign London branch meeting, 7pm, The Apple Tree pub, 45 Mount Pleasant, WC1
* Impact, Concerns and Future of Political Transitions in Latin America, Carlos Mesa, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2
* Aliens: African writing in Granta, Mark Gevisser, Binyavanga Wainana, Dinaw Mengestu, 6.30pm, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: RSVP@royalafricansociety.org
* Malaria, environmental change, and a historical epidemiology of 'cold fevers', Dr Tamara Giles-Vernick, 12:45-2pm, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Tavistock Place, WC1. Info: linda.amarfio@lshtm.ac.uk
Wednesday 16 February
* Representing Atrocity: distant suffering and the politics of pity, Profs Lilie Chouliaraki and Stjepan Mestrovic, Dr Irene Bruna Seu, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2
* A Bill of Rights for the UK?, Colin Harvey and Conor Gearty, 12.30-1.30pm, London School of Economics, Clement House, Aldwych
* Zimbabwe 2011: An Opportunity for change?, discussion, 7pm, £12.50/£10/£8, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2. Info: 7479 8960
* Designer Life, Cooler World, 7pm, Dana centre, 165 Queen's Gate, SW7. Info: tickets@danacentre.org.uk/ talk@danacentre.org.uk
Thursday 17 February
* Waking the World: Seeking to Ensure Governments Do Not Look Away from Horror, Steve Crawshaw, 7pm, free, The Wiener Library, 4 Devonshire Street, W1. Info: info@wienerlibrary.co.uk/ 7636 7247
* The Age of Polemical Journalism, Peter Hitchens, David Jordan and John Lloyd, 1pm, RSA, 8 John Adam Street, WC2. Info: RSA
* Where is Future Growth Going to Come From?, Prof John Van Reenen, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2
* Aid and Development in Asia & Africa: The Role of Infrastructure and Capacity Development in East Asia growth and its Implications for African Development, seminar organised by Japan International Cooperation Agency in collaboration with The School of Oriental & African Studies. Info: jicauk@jica.co.uk
* Adaptation in an age of Digitisation: its fans, practitioners and foes, Dr Shakuntala Banaji, Professor Andrew Burn, Blake Morrison, 5- 6.15pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2
* Britain and the Commonwealth: Confronting the Past - Imagining the Future, Professor Philip Murphy, 5.30pm, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Stewart House, WC1. Info: troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk/ 7862 8853
Friday 18 February
* City limits: urbanisation and vulnerability in Nyala, Sudan, Margie Buchanan-Smith, El Khidir Daloum, Susanne Jaspars, 1pm, Overseas Development Institute Events, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300/ p.events@odi.org.uk/ ODI
* New Ways to Witness Wars, James Brabazon, Jill McGivering, Ed Vulliamy, 6-7.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2.
* Aid and Development in Asia & Africa: The Role of Infrastructure and Capacity Development in East Asia growth and its Implications for African Development, seminar organised by Japan International Cooperation Agency in collaboration with The School of Oriental & African Studies. Info: jicauk@jica.co.uk
Saturday 19 February
* Protest at the Baby Show run by Clarion Events, which also run East London arms fairs, 2-5pm, Outside the western entrance to Excel Exhibition Centre, organised by East London Against Arms Fairs
* Confronting the Climate Emergency in an era of “austerity”, Campaign against Climate Change Forum/AGM, midday-5pm. Info: AGM
* The sixth annual Huntley conference, conference on struggles for the Black community in Britain
between the 1960s and the 1980s, 9.30am-4.30pm, London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road, EC1. Info: Maureen.roberts@cityoflondon.gov.uk
Sunday 20 February
* Protest at the Baby Show run by Clarion Events, which also run East London arms fairs, 11am-1pm, outside the western entrance to Excel Exhibition Centre, organised by East London Against Arms Fairs
* Palestinian Political Parties, seminar with Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Rafeef Ziadah, Khaled Hroub, Firas Khateeb, £20. Info: palsocseminar@gmail.com
Monday 21 February
* Saudi Arabia - What's wrong with its relationship with the West, Brian Whitaker, 6.45pm, £3/£2, The Gallery, 70/77 Cowcross Street, EC1. Info: Friends of Le Monde
* Making History in Mugabe's Zimbabwe, Blessing-Miles Tendi, Clare Short, Sue Onslow, Tiseke Kasambala, 6pm, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: RSVP@royalafricansociety.org
* Public Health, David Heymann, 5:50pm, London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine, Keppel Street,
WC1. Info: daisy.kirkwood@lshtm.ac.uk
Exhibitions
* Tropical Gift, exhibition of photographs by Christian Lutz on oil industry tycoons working in Nigeria, along with those whose land has been ravaged, Host Gallery, 1-5 Honduras Street, EC1, until 1 March. Info: 7253 2770/ hostgallery@foto8.com/
* The Best View of Heaven is From Hell, Bran Symondson's photos of the Afghan National Police on show for the first time as a soldier returns to Afghanistan as a civilian photographer to document their struggle to defeat the Taliban, Idea Generation, 11 Chance Street, E2, until 20 February
* Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, the earliest known British oil painting of a freed slave and the first portrait to honour an African subject as an individual and an equal, free, at the National Portrait Gallery, until 30 July. Info: http://npg.pmailuk.com/bnmailweb/ct?d=A_LK1wKDAAcAAAOEAABPbw The painting>
* Phil Collins: Marxism Today, shining a light on what is generally perceived as the losing side in the political and social upheavals of the past two decades, this project follows the fortunes of former teachers of Marxism-Leninism in Communist East Germany, BFI, South Bank, until 10 April
* Raising Dust – Encounters in Relational Geography, "explores contemporary notions of identity and relativity by inviting a group of predominantly Eastern European artists to respond to the poetry and politics of place ... three of the artists (of Indian, Cypriot and British-Pakistani descent) have extended the encounter with Europe even further east so as to question our ideas of what comprises the presumed integrity of this continent", free, Calvert22, 22 Calvert Avenue, E2, until 20 February. Info: 7613 2141/ info@calvert22.org/ Calvert22
* Cuban Gold: Viva la Reproducción , contemporary Cuban prints, London Print Studio, 425 Harrow Road, until 4 June. Info: 8969 3247
* Morocco , photographs of the Jewish community lin the Atlas Mountains and Sahara oases in the '40s and 50s, by Elias Harrus and Pauline Prior, Jewish Museum, Raymond Burton House, 129-131 Albert Street, NW1, until 6 March. Info: 7284 7384
* Through the eyes of a child, photographs from the The Guardian-backed three-year development project in Uganda, free, 10am-6pm, Guardian News & Media, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1
* Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year, more than 100 images chosen from thousands submitted by photographers from around the world, £9/£4.50, Natural History Museum, South Kensington, until 11 March. Info: 7942 5000/ Exhibition
+ Sneak preview
* TOR (igloo), an investigation into experience of place, figure and landscape. Real and invented panoramas depict the beauty and strangeness of the natural world. You're invited into two new installation works - environments inspired by the snow-driven mountains of the Canadian Rockies, artsdepot, 5 Nether Street, N12, until Sunday 27 February. Info: 8369 5454
* atmosphere, the Science Museum's new climate gallery, Exhibition Road, SW7. Info: 7942 4040/ tickets@danacentre.org.uk
* Postcards from the Future, 14 photomontages imagining how London could be affected by climate change, Museum of London, 150 London Wall, EC2, until 6 March 2011. Info: 7814 5511/ nkalimeris@museumoflondon.org.uk/ Museum
+ Climate change hits London
* Baghdad, March 5 2007, a charred and mangled car that was last driven on a suicide mission in the Iraqi capital, originally acquired by artist Jeremy Deller to show on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, Imperial War Museum
+ Recommended Events
+ Baghdad, 5 March 2007: A New Display with Jeremy Deller
+ A gut-churning metal corpse - the true art of the Iraq war
* Street Stories – an oral history project and exhibition, by residents of homelessness charity St Mungo's, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2, until 18 February
* Trash Fashion: Designing out waste Science Museum, Exhibition Road, SW7. Info: Museum/ 0870 870 4868/ Antenna
+ Designing out waste
* The Deep, new exhibition in which strange animals are suspended in the darkened gallery and deep sea giants loom out of the gloom, plus life-size recreation of a whale community, Natural History Museum, South Kensington
* Atlantic Worlds, transatlantic slave trade gallery, National Maritime Museum, Park Row, SE1. Info: 8858 4422/ 8312 6565
* The Road to Kabul: British Armies in Afghanistan 1839-1919, includes Matthew Cook's paintings of the current conflict, National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, SW3. Info: 7730 0717/ Army Museum
* People and change: exploring enforced migration, until March 2011, Museum in Docklands, West India Quay, Canary Wharf, E14. Info: 7001 9844/ info.docklands@museumoflondon.org.uk
+ Tales of three generations of Bengalis in Britain: Oral History and Socio-Cultural Heritage Project
* Journeys, the results of a project that has involved more than 80 local young people from Richmond upon Thames and is part of the Cultural Olympiad project, "Stories of the World: London", Orleans House Gallery, until 22 May. Info: 8831 6000/ artsinfo@richmond.gov.uk/
* 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
+ Post Abolition: Commemorative stamps from around the world
* Eco Zone Gallery, small gallery devoted to sustainable building products and materials, The Building Centre, Store Street, WC1. Info: 7692 4000/ Centre/ reception@buildingcentre.co.uk
Please check times and availability of all events
* Of Gods and Men, measured thriller, based on real events, about monks in an Algerian monastery in the 1990s threatened by Islamic fundamentalists, Renoir, Rio
* The Social Network, a version of the story of Facebook's birth, Prince Charles, Odeon Panton Street
* Nenette, documentary about 40-year-old orangutan Nénette who has been captivating visitors at Paris' Jardin des Plantes since 1972, Institut francais, 17 Queensberry Place, SW7, until 16 February. Info: 7073 1350/ Institut francais
* My Kidnapper, documentary about the kidnapping of Mark Henderson and seven other backpackers while trekking in the Colombian jungle, Greenwich and Straatford Picturehouses
* Son of Babylon, a 12-year-old Iraqi boy and his grandmother try to find the boy's father, Empire
+ Road movie puts the spotlight on missing Iraqis
Sunday 13 February
* Our Generation, described as Australia’s Inconvenient Truth, this new documentary looks at Aboriginal history from colonisation to the present day, 4pm, £10/£8/£5, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2. Info: 7479 8960
15 February
* West is West, follow-up to successful British film about a UK-Pakistani family, East Is East + Q&A with Om Puri, Aqib Khan, Ayub Khan Din and Leslee Udwin, 6.20pm, National Film Theatre
+ Where the twain meet
* Cul-de-Sac, based directly on the experiences of Kiana Firouz, an Iranian lesbian whose political
activities, documentary film-making and refusal to be ashamed of her sexuality led to her eventual flight from Iran to the UK, followed by Q&A with director Ramin Goudarzi Nejad, 6.30pm, free, Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, EC2. Info: 7033 1500/ sct@amnesty.org.uk/ eleanor.clayton@amnesty.org.uk
Wednesday 16 February
* Our Generation, described as Australia’s Inconvenient Truth, this new documentary looks at Aboriginal history from colonisation to the present day, plus Q&A, 7pm, £12/£8, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7. Info: 7354 7960
* Made in Dagenham, the story of the 1960s Ford Dagenham strike that helped bring about the Equal Pay Act, Riverside, Crisp Road, W6, 8.40pm, £6.50/£7.50. Info: 8237 1111
17 February
* Power of the Powerless, Czechoslovakia’s 1989 Velvet Revolution, instigated by a student-led movement which drew half a million people to the streets of Prague, is documented in this film narrated by Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons, 7pm, £10/£8/£5, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2. Info: 7479 8960
Friday 18 February
* Leufu + Children of the Amazon, film about Mapuche communities standing up to defend their river - presented by the directors, followed by the story of the what happens to the inhabitants of the largest forest on Earth when a road was built straight through its heart, School of Orientasl and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: 7898 4995/ Native Spirit Foundation/ info@nativespiritfoundation.org
Friday 18-Thursday 24 February
* First International Oscar Festival, selection of the best international submissions for the 83rd Academy Awards®, including Algeria (Outside the Law), Brazil (Lula, the Son of Brazil), Canada (Incendies), Croatia (The Blacks) France (Of Gods and Men), Israel (The Human Resources Manager), Japan (Confessions), Mexico (Biutiful), The Netherlands (Tirza), Serbia (Solemn Promise), South Africa (Life, Above All), Sweden (Simple Simon) and Thailand (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives).
+ Oscar festival
* Water, in Canada two half-brothers clash over the legacy of their dead father. Meanwhile in Germany a young female special advisor tries to push through a deal at a political summit, and in Mexico a young Englishman prepares to dive the deepest freshwater cave in the world, Tricycle, 269 Kilburn High Road, NW6. Info: 7328 1000, until 5 March. Info: Tricycle/
* Greenland, “What on earth is happening to our planet? Who knows what, and what can or should be done about it? The questions we all have about the environment and the future are exhilaratingly intricate. Knowing what and who to trust is an increasingly bewildering challenge, National Theatre, South Bank, SE1, until 2 April. Info: 7452 3000/ National Theatre. After each
performance you can discuss and debate the issues raised in the play by sitting at the ‘Talkaoke’ table. Info: Talkaoke
+ Green and threatened land
+ Pre-show Platforms, 6.45pm, 45 minutes, £3.50/£2.50:
15 February, Bjørn Lomborg, Cool It! – The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming
23 February, Prof John Shepherd, Earth System Modelling
10 March, Tim Flannery, Here on Earth – A New Beginning, the Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist and advisor on climate change to the South Australian Premier discusses his twin biography of life and the planet which presents a new future for life on Earth – where man and planet together can increase Earth’s energy budget and thereby the sustainability of all life living on its surface.
* The Heretic, a black comedy that “dares to question what we think we know and whether the science [of climate change] really is settled”, Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court, Sloane Square, SW1, until 19 March. Info: 7565 5000/ Royal Court/
+ Post-show talk: Tuesday 1 March
+ The Heretic: one up to the deniers
* Another Biafra, a British journalist is drawn into intrigue in Nigeria, £12/£10, Rosemary Branch, 2 Shepperton Road, N1, until 20 February. Info: 7704 6665
* As We Forgive Them, the murder of a US congressman's daughter makes him consider his position on the death penalty, £15/£11, pay what you can Tuesdays, Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street, E8, until 19 February. Info: 7503 1646/ Arcola
* Reading Hebron, a look at the mass killing in a mosque by a US-born Israeli settler, Orange Tree Theatre, 1 Clarence Street, TW9, until 12 March. Info: 8940 3633
* Invasion, sharp, complex play about Muslim identity, Selkirk Pub, 60 Selkirk Road, SW7, until 19 February. Info: 0845 680 1926
14 - 19 February
* Ava Vidal, the comedienne deals with the Arab-Israeli conflict and HIV, among other subjects, 9.30pm, Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, W1. Info: Soho Theatre/ 7478 0100
22-26 February
* Change uses the words of flood-afflicted people in Australia, Pakistan and Maldives to give an insight ibto the impact of climate change, £15/£11, pay what you can Tuesdays, Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street, E8. Info: 7503 1646/ Arcola
+ post-show discussions:
Wednesday 22 February, Creative Communication, the role of the arts in shaping understanding of climate change
Thursday 23 February, Climate Doubt - is climate change scientific fact or a series of convenient coincidences?
19 February
* The Feminist Library 35th Birthday Benefit: Celebrating 35 Years of Archiving and Activism, Viv
Albertine, Martha & Eve, Trash Kit, Lorraine Jordan, Julie McNamara, Women Sing East with Laka D, Girl Germs DJs, 7pm, £5/£10/£15, The Round Chapel, Powerscroft Road, E5, £5/£10/£15. Info: Feminist Library
* The Promise, second instalment of a drama set against the Israel-Palestine conflict, 9pm, C4
* Babylon, fascinating '80s feature about young, black working class Brits, 11.35pm, BBC4
* Toughest Places to be a Medic, murders in Guatemala City, 9pm, BBC2
Monday 14 February
* Today expects to present the first of three reports on the Lord's Resistance Army, from 6am, R4
* Geert Wilders: Europe's Most Dangerous Man?, profile of the Dutch demagogue, 7pm, BBC2
* The World's Worst Place To Be Gay, (for the purposes of this programme it's Uganda, but it's a big claim to make), 9pm, BBC3
* Dispatches, inquiry into allegations of violence by teachers in some of Britain's Islamic schools, 8pm, C4
* Archive on 4 - A Mystery in the Village, the beginning of the AIDS crisis, 3pm, R4
* Power of Scotland, Alex Salmond's plans for turning his country into the green capital of Europe, 8pm, R4
Tuesday 15 February
* True Stories: War Child, shocking portrait of children living in the aftermath of the Israeli invasion of Gaza, 10pm, More4
* The Chinese Are Coming, documentary series about China's rising trade influence, 9pm, BBC2
* Who Killed the Honeybee?, investigation into the decline of bees, 9pm, BBC4
* The Long View, the future of Britain's forests, 9am, R4
Wednesday 16 February
* Madagascar, second part of David Attenborough doc, so you know it will be good, 8pm, BBC2
* The Elephant: Life After Death, what happens when an elephant dies, 9pm, C4
Thursday 17 February
* Endgame Afghanistan, report on the preparations for the withdrawal of British troops from Helmand province, 7.30pm, ITV1
* The Spice Trail, new series on the history of spices and the spice trade, 9pm, BBC2
Friday 18 February
* Sugar, gentle, intelligent film about a young baseball in the Dominican Republic who tries to make it big in the US, 11.50pm, BBC2
* East is East, popular British film about a Pakistani family in northern England, 9pm, More4 (the sequel, West is West, hits cinema screens this month
* David Attenborough's Life Stories, the National Living Treasure's new series begins with an account of the first time he filmed from the treetops, 8.50pm, R4
22 February
* True Stories: My Kidnapper, documentary about the kidnapping of four backpackers in Colombia, 10pm, More4
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