War and People, 7-12 July, St John's Waterloo, Waterloo Road, SE1, concerts, arts, theatre, poetry, talks and tours. Info: 7633 9819/
St Johns. Programme includes
11 July,
The Art of War, discussion with Joanna Cheetham, Nigel Cliffe, David Harsent, Roger Tolson, Richard Chew, 7pm
Tuesday 12 July *
Voices of the Land: Nga Reo o te Whenua, Dr Richard Nunns, 6pm, Gresham College, Barnard's Inn Hall, EC1. Info:
Gresham *
The People Demand Al-Sha`ab Yurid, Yasmine El Rashidi, 6.30pm, £5/£3, Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, EC1. Info:
Free Word/ 7 324 2570
Wednesday 13 July *
The Arabs: A History, Eugene Rogan, 6.30pm, free, Foyles, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, WC2
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Change in the Middle East? Democracy, Authoritarianism and Regime Change in the Arab World, Prof Lisa Anderson, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2
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Migrants and intellectual life, Sir Harry Kroto, Philippe Sands QC, Mike Phillips, Gita Sahgal, 6.30-8pm, free, New Academic Building, LSE, Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC1. Info:
/ 7955 6944.
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Focus on Sudan: What does independence mean for North and South?, Sara Pantuliano, Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi, Natznet Tesfay, 7pm, £12.50, Frontline Club, Norfolk Place, W2
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Caine Prize, symposium on African writing, with this year's shortlisted writers and specialists, 5pm, British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1. Info:
RSVP@royalafricansociety.org *
Chavs – the Demonisation of the Working Class, Owen Jones, 7pm, £7/£5, London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, WC1. Info: 7269 9030/
books@lrbshop.co.uk/
Review Bookshop *
Phone-Hacking: Is It Time to Get Tough on the Press?, public discussion, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC1. Info:
polis@lse.ac.uk/ 7405 7686
Thursday 14 July *
Should we limit family size in the UK, discussion, 7pm, Dana centre, 165 Queen's Gate, SW7. Info: 7942 4040/
tickets@danacentre.org.uk *
The future of Japan's ODA: defining donor identity in a crowded marketplace , Alina Rocha, Dr Keiichi Tsunekawa, Penelope Jackson, 1pm, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300/
p.events@odi.org.uk/
ODI *
Modern Ruins, Patrick Kieller, Owen Hatherley on urban regeneration in recent few decades and the future of British towns and cities, 6.45-8.15pm, £12/£11/£10, ICA, The Mall, SW1. Info:
ICA *
We-First Capitalism, Social brand specialist Simon Mainwaring explores how brands and consumers can use social media to build a better world, 1pm, RSA, 8 John Adam Street, WC2. Info: 7930 5115/
general@rsa.org.uk *
Are there still Jews in Ethiopia?, Sybil Sheridan, 7pm, School of Oriental and AfricanStudies, Russell Square, WC1
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The 'Arab Spring', Prof. Jeremy Keenan, 4pm, School of Oriental and African Studies, Vernon Square Room, WC1. Info: http://anthropologytoday.ning.com/group/thelondonanthropologyforum/page/london-anthropology-forum Forum>
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Business Perspectives on Investing in Energy and Carbon Management: Understanding the Implications for Business and Policy, Prof Andy Gouldson, Richard Ellis, Katie Webber, Simon Allan, 2-4pm, House of Commons, SW1. Info:
catherine.martin@carbonneutral.com/ 7833 6035
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Contemporary Arab Culture, discussion, 6.30pm, British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1. Info: 7323 8000/
Museum *
Have the elites failed? Lessons from the Arab spring for Israel and Palestine, panel discussion with Dr Claire Spencer, Con Coughlin, Tal Harris and Samer Makhlouf, 6pm, RSA, 8 John Adam Street, WC2. Info: 7451 6868/
lectures@rsa.org.uk Hassan Daoud in Conversation, on culture, politics and writing in the Middle East, 6.30pm, £5/£3, Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, EC1. Info:
Free Word/ 7324 2570
Friday 15 July *
The Politics of Post-2015, Amy Pollard, Kudakwashe Dube, Dr Mukesh Kapila, 1pm, Overseas Development Institute Events, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300/
p.events@odi.org.uk/
ODI Saturday 16 July *
Zero Carbon Britain Day, zero carbon beach party by the Thames, central London, exact location will be revealed on Friday 15th via e-mail, text, Twitter, Facebook etc, 7.30pm-midnight. Info:
info@campaigncc.org Exhibitions *
Wembley to Soweto, photos by disadvantaged teenagers from South African townships, free, gallery@oxo, Oxo Tower Wharf, South Bank, SE1 until 24 July
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Current, six contemporary artists of Aotearoa/New Zealand and the Pacific whose work addresses issues of concern around the environmental sustainability of the region and the relevance of specific cultural traditions, October Gallery, until 23 July. Info: 7613 7498/
Origins festival *
Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America, a visual testament to lynching as a form of social violence in the US from 1880 to the 1960s, Autograph ABP, Rivington Place, EC2, until 30 July. Info: 7729 9200
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Amiowhenua – Encircle the Lands, Amiorangi – Encircle the Heavens, works by Rosanna Raymond and George Nuku, Rich Mix, Bethnal Green Road, E1, until 29 July. Info: 7613 7498/
Origins festival *
The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany, photo exhibition, free, German Historical Institute, 17 Bloomsbury Square, WC1, until 29 July. Info:
Institute/ 7309 2050/
schattner@ghil.ac.uk *
South Africa: Figures and Fictions, work by 17 photographers, including David Goldblatt, Pieter Hugo, Zanele Muholi and Sabelo Mlangeni, that responds to the country's "powerful rethinking of issues of identity across race, gender, class and politics", £5/£4, Victoria & Albert Museum, until 17 July. Info:
charset Museum / 7907 7073
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Black and white South Africa gives way to colour *
Bell Epoque, exhibition of Steve Bell cartoons, £5.50/£4/£3.35, Little Russell Street, WC1, until 24 July. Info: 7580 8155/
info@catoonmuseum.org *
Double Exposure: Jewish Refugees from Austria in Britain, photographic display by Dr. Bea Lewkowicz of 25 refugees from Austria who settled in the UK, Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 Rutland Gate, SW7, until Friday 2 September. Info: 7225 7300
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Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World, £10/ concessions, British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1, until 17 July. 7323 8181/
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Exhibition information *
Exhibition events +
Afghan miracle at the British Museum *
Helmand, Robert Wilson's large-format prints recording the daily lives of troops and civilians over a two-week period in 2008, free, Hayward Gallery rooftop, Southbank Centre, until 4 September 2011
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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 *
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:
The painting *
Census and Society: Why Everyone Counts, free, British Library, Euston Road, NW1. Info: 0843 208 1144
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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
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War story: Jeremy Deller talks about his project +
Baghdad, 5 March 2007: A New Display with Jeremy Deller +
A gut-churning metal corpse - the true art of the Iraq war *
Trash Fashion: Designing out waste, free, Science Museum, Exhibition Road, SW7, until 29 August. 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
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Atlantic Worlds, transatlantic slave trade gallery, National Maritime Museum, Park Row, SE1. Info: 8858 4422/ 8312 6565
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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 +
dirtiest secret +
Post Abolition: Commemorative stamps from around the world *
Women War Artists explores responses to conflict since World War One, Imperial War Museum. Info:
War Museum *
Climate stories: Past and present , examines how different communities have met the challenge of climate change in the past, and explores the ways we perceive climate change today, A.G. Leventis Gallery of Cypriot and Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31–34 Gordon Square, WC1, until 31 January. Info: 7679 7495 |
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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 *
Dirt: The filthy reality of everyday life, 200 artefacts spanning visual art, documentary photography, cultural ephemera, scientific artefacts, film and literature, Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, NW1, until 31 August. Info: 7611 2222
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Exhibiton events *
European Fish Week: Back to the Future, photography exhibition that examines fishing in Europe, London Zoo Aquarium, until 31 July 2011
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Hard Rain: What'll You Do Now?, photography exhibition illustrating Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall", as well as images and text that explore proven solutions to the problems illustrated in the song, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, until
25 September . Info:
Hard Rain Project *
atmosphere: exploring climate science, gallery, free, Science Museum
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Ten Climate Stories, showcases artworks from established and emerging artists plus hidden stories behind some of the museum's best-loved exhibits.
from 14 July *
High Arctic, digital exhibition, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, until January 2012
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