Cultures of Resistance

Monday 9 July 7pm
Mean Fiddler, Charing Cross Road, next to Astoria
A coming together of music and cinema fusing hip-hop, jazz, rap and world music

Jerry Dammers DJ Set
Founder of The Specials – hit singles include Ghost Town and Free Nelson Mandela. Jerry's DJ set will feature a selection from the history of radical black music.

Soweto Kinch
performs music from his album A Life in the Day of B19: Tales of a Tower Block. “Packed with rhymes, full of fire and ideas that speak directly to people”– Guardian

Gilad Atzmon and Nizar Al Issa
Dissident Israeli sax player and Palestinian singer create a live soundtrack to clips of the classic anti-imperialist film The Battle of Algiers

Jean Binta Breeze
Jamaican dub poet Breeze is "a master storyteller... renowned for a powerful stage presence... intent on telling stories with a political edge" – New Internationalist

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Ghosts

Screening and Q & A with award winning director Nick Broomfield & Guardian journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai
Saturday 7pm, Jeffery Hall

A hard-hitting docudrama about a migrant Chinese worker who comes to England and ends up on the fateful road to Morecambe Bay, where 23 Chinese cockle pickers drowned in February 2004.

Ghosts is a powerful account of the circumstances that drive migrants into some of the most dangerous industries in the country – profiting some of the UK’s biggest supermarkets.

“A valuably tactless, clear-eyed look at the tragedy and cruelty of the new globalised serfdom” – Guardian

Nick Broomfield
Nick Broomfield is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with a large repertoire of films to his name, most notably Kurt and Courtney, Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer, Biggie and Tupac and Ghosts. His next film is on the massacre in Haditha by US soldiers.
 

Celebrating Blake with Adrian Mitchell & Kate & Mike Westbrook

Adrian Mitchell the “shadow poet laureate” teams up with Kate and Mike Westbrook whose musical interpretations of Blake’s work have been met with wide acclaim.  

Their album The Westbrook Blake has been described by the Guardian as a  “marriage of inspirational lyrics and uplifting scoring, performed by some of the most talented musicians in Europe, it harks back to the jazz suites of Ellington...”

Saturday 9pm , Logan Hall
 

The Mask of Anarchy - A tribute to Paul Foot

A performance of Shelley’s great revolutionary poem with Dave Clinch, Chris Aylife and other poets, songwriters and musicians.

Saturday 5-7pm, SOAS bar

 

Spoken Word

with Lemn Sissay and Michael Rosen

Lemn Sissay and Michael Rosen host a poetry
evening – Black and White Unite and Write.
Sunday 9pm , Jeffery Hall

Cabaret

1933 and all that: Brecht, Weill and friends
Friday 9pm, Jeffery Hall

A smash hit at the Edinburgh Festival follows the careers of some of the 20th century’s most famous poets and composers – Wedekind, Brecht, Eisler, Weill and Hollaender – from the subversive cabaret underworld of 1930s Germany to the glittering lights of Broadway and Hollywood.

Critics’ Choice, Scotsman.
 

The Writing on the Wall

Sunday 7pm, Room 101

Tony Benn and folk-singer Roy Bailey explore the hidden history of political dissent in England through spoken word and song – from the Peasants’ Revolt of the 14th century up to the present day.

“Best Live Act” at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards (2003).
Read the review from Socialist Review, 2005.

Oh What a Horrible War exhibition

Cartoon Gallery, 6-9 July
Launch with George Galloway Friday 6pm

A pick of the best cartoons to have appeared in the pages of the Guardian, Independent, Times, Daily Mirror, Socialist Worker and others
during the course of the disastrous Iraq war. Participants include Steve Bell, Martin Rowson, Dave Brown, Tim Sanders, Peter Brookes, Ralph Steadman and many others.
 

Left in Vision exhibition

An exhibition of visual art curated by Chanie Rosenberg and John Molyneux and sponsored by the Hackney Cultural Association, featuring
a wide range of art by people on the left.

To submit work contact John on 07801 290 411.

Launch: 1-2pm Saturday 7 July, SOAS KLT
 

Love Music Hate Racism gig

Saturday 7pm till late, Room 101

LMHR hosts a forum on punk with Babyshambles guitarist Drew McConnell and others followed by a gig.

Alistair Beaton

Alistair Beaton is Britain's leading writer of political comedy. His stage play 'Feelgood' is a world-wide hit and won the Evening Standard Award for best comedy. More recently, two of his films were broadcast on Channel 4: A Very Social Secretary, and The Trial of Tony Blair.

Alistair will speak at a meeting titled What's so funny about politics? at 3.45pm on Friday 6 July in the Elvin Hall.