Sonia will be reporting back from the British Museum Open Evening 30th November
Couple of items from the programme which I think will be interesting:
Meet the author and book signing /18.15–21.00 Book Shop
19.30 Colin McEwan, Exhibition Cur ator of Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler & Elisenda Vila Llonch, Assistant Curator of Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler/ 19.45 Susan La Niece, Conservation and Scientific Research, author of Gold. Her book is apparently about the human race’s obsession with gold as seen through jewellery, money etc. Us South Asians of course are particularly obsessed, the word ’shorno’ actually means gold as well. Funnily enough, i’ve never been myself interested in gold in that kind of way, but i do find our species’ interest in it - quite significant.
I will be trying to catch the following talk I think - I’ve always been fascinated with Aztec history, and I’d like to go hear the Curator speak about the Exhibition before I go and actually see it. (as a member i can get in free, but this is one of the priced exhibitions)
Moctezuma: fame, fortune and misfortune
20.00, BP Lecture Theatre: Exhibition Curator Colin McEwan gives a 40-minute talk exploring the exhibition - Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler - which should be interesting.
PERFORMANCES/: A couple of things sound interesting - I’ll try and catch ” The joy of living and dying: tales from Central and South America” @ 19.45 - too much good stuff all at the same time!
Now, as I have not yet sorted out my mobile broadband (I know! Blame Vodafone - !) I don’t think i shall be able to report back this evening itself, which is a shame, as it would be so handy with my new netbook. Unless I can pick up someone else’s wireless? I think the BM should consider getting itself some kind of open access wireless - assuming it hasn’t already of course. The quality of the space is inspiring - & i feel its one of the few places where one could actually start dealing with writers block and other creative blockages. Space to think and be creative in.
(via the brilliant UnitedDiversity blog)
One child dies every three minutes because of armed conflict. Children should never be affected by war. Full stop.
“Immodesty Blaize the famous burlesque dancer is headlining the first ever War Child UK fundraising ball this summer. Come and join in the fun at Koko”s club, Camden and help raise money for projects in Northern Uganda, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Thursday 28th June.
Want to help raise funds to support important work with children in worn torn areas across the globe? Tickets are £155 each or £1400 for a table of 10.
A bit pricey, but well worth it, and if you can’t afford it yourself, please forward on the details to someone who can. You can also donate at the War Child UK website if you would like to contribute something. Non-financial help I”m sure is also welcome - publicising the cause and contributing to raising awareness will go a long way towards helping!
Please contact wendy@warchild.org.uk for more information or check out the facebook event invitation page here. Some People have worked very hard at organising this event and I”m sure it will be really good.
A photography exhibition at St. Paul”s Cathedral which documents the ordinary lives and everyday locations caught up in human trafficking and calls for an end to this illegal 21st century trade. The exhibition seeks to expose the reality of trafficking and the action needed to tackle it. Running until the 29th March, produced by Panos Pictures, in partnership with Amnesty International, Anti-Slavery International, Eaves and UNICEF UK. Photographs by Karen Robinson and David Rose.
Calling all modern-day abolitionists! Please sign the petition to urge the UK government to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings, bringing help and protection for all trafficked people in the UK a step closer. Tony Blair announced in Jan 2007 that he would do so - the petition requests that this be done so as a matter of urgency.
Amartya Sen will be speaking on what Bengal”s history tells us about living with multiple identities.
Not a free lecture i”m afraid - £10 at the British Museum today at 6:30 p.m.
“Bengal has arguably the longest history of engagement between East and West, stretching back over several centuries of settlement, with Calcutta once the capital city of the British in India. For Bengalis, the British were just one chapter in a long history of cultural exchange and accommodation. That history has seen a cultural heritage shared across faiths (in particular, Hinduism and Islam) and then split, in the twentieth century, across two nations: India and Bangladesh. How does this story of multiple identities - of faith, nation, culture - shed light on the challenges of globalisation in the twenty-first century as many Bengalis migrate across the sub-continent and across the globe? How do those diaspora identities, whether in Tower Hamlets or Delhi, refashion their past and what insights can history can offer for the increasing primacy of religious identity?“
Part of the Voices of Bengal season at the British Museum
Good question indeed.
This week’s public lectures at the LSE are asking some hard-hitting questions. This particular lecture is presented by the LSE Cold War Studies Centre as part of the ‘End of the Cold War and Making of a New World Order Lecture Series‘ and delivered by Professor Barry Buzan.
Many have talked of the ‘war on terror’ as if it were a new Cold War. This simplistic and misleading understanding is subject to a major critique by one of the leading writers on international relations today.
Date: Wednesday 4th October - 6:30 p.m. @ Old Theatre
Further details and directionsÂ
Three weeks of outdoor performances - gymnastics, dance, art, and music - at Trafalgar Square this month - Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sunday until Aug 20
Featuring:
Awaz by Akademi - A fusion of classical, folk and festive dance that celebrates the dynamism of modern Asian women.
Pax Pace Paz Paix Peace - A powerful evocation of those who fight for peace.
Road to Nowhere by the Shout - A rousing musical theatre performance of Goodbye Old Ship of Mine.
Dervish in Progress by Ziya Azazi - A spectacular performance of contemporary and traditional Sufi dance.
Ritual Imaginaire by Nzi Dada - Funk, Jazz, electronics and African percussion dance and music.
Urban Rotations by Acrojou Acrobatic Theatre - Two performers spin around each other in giant steel wheels.
Return Journey by Expressive Feat - An aerial performance suspended from a sculptural spiral with Palestinian Jazz.
Vem - Beyond Loneliness by Gisele Edwards - Amazing aerial theatre and live music.
Spell by the Cathy Marston Project - Spell celebrates the seduction of summer in London with energy and elegance in dance
Steve Salfield: Jazz
Saturday 19th August 2006: Jazz in a summer garden
3-6 pm. Vicarage gardens, Baslow.
Steve with friends Sarah (vocals) Chris (piano) Bennett and Geoff Pearson on double bass will be making things swing at a unique afternoon of Jazz and Song in the lovely Vicarage Gardens, Baslow.
All proceeds will go to Village AiD, a Bakewell charity that works in West Africa with poor marginalised rural communities.
Tickets are £6.00 including a strawberry cream tea & a glass of fizzy wine and can be obtained in advance from Village Aid on 01629 814434 or from their offices at Lumford Mill, Riverside Business Park, Buxton Road, Bakewell.
Sunday 20th August 2006:
Steve plays a wedding gig in Birmingham with singer Alice Harvey and band led by Eugene Portman. This will include a solo sax set by Steve. It’s a private do but I put it here to remind you that bookings like this are easily arranged by contacting me!
Then I’m off to France for a lot more jazz and back to play for a private party on 16th September.
Friday 29th September: The Strand, Dale Road, Matlock
Steve with that old groover Pete Moxley on piano at one of our regular haunts playing cool and hot jazz. Lovely restaurant. Booking recommended. tel: 01629 584444
Hope to see you soon.
Steve
via Steve Salfield
Zadie Smith discusses her latest book “On Beauty” at Wanstead Library this Saturday - 29th July.
This is her third novel and was published in 2005, and won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction. It”s been referred to in a lot of reviews as a “homage to EM Forster”.
Starts at 7.00 p.m. and tickets are £3.
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Wanstead Library is in the London Borough of Redbridge
Spratt Hall Road
Wanstead
London
E11 2RQ
Tel: 020 8708 7400
Undercover Surrealism explores the ’subversive climate’ of the dark undercurrent within Surrealism in the late 1920’s spearheaded by Georges Bataille. The exhibition draws together work by Picasso, Miro, Masson, Giacometti as well as imagery from the magazine Bataille edited from 1929 to 1930 called DOCUMENTS :
“..a shocking and bizarre juxtaposition of art, imagery, ethnography, archaeology and popular culture in such a way that overturned conventional notions of ‘primitive’ and ‘ideal’. Bataille described himself as Surrealism’s ‘enemy from within’… â€
The exhiition is running at the Hayward Gallery till the 30th July.
The Cold War Studies Centre and the Institute for the Study of Americas at LSE presents a public lecture by Orlando Patterson who is Professor of Sociology at Harvard, this evening at 6:00 p.m. {Old Theatre}
The lecture focuses on the relevance of what people actually mean by “freedom” and how these underlying ideas impact on race issues, immigration and multiculturalism in the USA.
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