Friday 15th April,
7.30pm
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Billy Bragg and special guests
perform live at Bristol's Colston Hall
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A great live set from Billy plus
special guests. This will be one of only a few shows Billy will perform
this year. He says: "International solidarity is the best way to combat
the inequalities that lead to conflict in the world. Join us in Bristol
to do your part."
George Monbiot will speak about global poverty and what you can do to
make a difference. Other contributors include Charles Abugre (Head of
Christian Aid's Global Advocacy & Policy team).
Tickets are on sale now, priced £15 (£13 concessions).
Tel: 0117 9223686
www.colstonhall.org
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Saturday 16th April,
10am - 5pm
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FREE EVENT: Everything you need
to know about tackling poverty and global trade!
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An action-packed day of
activities, training (including media skills, direct action and street
theatre) and short films - all to inform, motivate and organize on
local and global social justice issues.
Paul Bradley will show in public for the first time his photographs
about the effects of the Rwandan genocide.
Speakers include:
Mark Curtis - WDM Director
Krishnamurphy Pushpanath - Oxfam Campaign Executive Make
Trade Fair
Bimal Kumar Phnuyal - Nepal
Simon Daffi - Tanzania
POLYP - New Internationalist cartoonist (workshops)
Activists from Nepal, Tanzania, Ghana.
Supported by World Development Movement, Christian Aid, Action for
Southern Africa, Baby Milk Action, Friends of the Earth, Kiptik,
Campaign Against The Arms Trade, Bristol G8 Dissent, No Sweat, Action
Time Vision, Columbian Solidarity, the Simultaneous Policy Group,
Unison, Jubilee Debt, Oxfam, New Internationalist
This day-long event is FREE. To find out more about workshops and to
book workshop spaces please call Laura at African Initiatives on 0117
9166452 or emailing dont_agonise_organise@yahoo.co.uk
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Wednesday 13th April
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6th Form Parliament on Trade
Justice
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The Council Chambers, College
Green, Bristol
A day to enable young people to develop critical thinking and
self-awareness. Includes exciting speakers from Bristol as well as
global campaigners from Africa and Asia to talk about the effects of
trade, debt and the power of large multinational corporations,
including how these affect young people in developing countries.
Workshops include one specially designed by People & Planet (a
youth campaigning organisation ), with input from Christian Aid, on
Trade Justice, including its relation to the G8 meeting this July. A
dynamic spoken word artist will take part in live feedback with
participants and will produce a piece for performance at the end of the
day about participants' views on trade justice. This piece will be
available for distribution to schools.
If you are interested in your school taking part please contact African
Initiatives on 0117 9166452 or email annainbristol@yahoo.co.uk
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Friday 15th April
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10 Downing Street Vigil
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Two coaches will take protesters
from Bristol to Downing Street to join thousands of campaigners in
Whitehall and Westminster for a night to change the world. They will
take part in an all-night vigil on the Prime Minister's doorstep and
join a dawn procession past Downing Street.
One coach leaves the Colston Hall after the Bill Bragg concert at
around 11pm.
To book contact Hilary Farey: 0117 940 9725 or email
hfarey@blueyonder.co.uk
The other leaves earlier from Bristol Christian Fellowship Hall,
Blackhorse Road, Westerleigh Road (off the A4174 Ring Road).
To book, click here to find your local contact.
Donations will be taken on the coaches to cover the cost.
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Friday 8th April to Thursday
21st April,
(times may vary)
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Two weeks of fantastic films at
the Watershed
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Booking line: 0117 9275100
www.watershed.co.uk
In This World (15), Sunday 10 April at 15:15hrs.
Directed by Michael Winterbottom, this BAFTA-winning film is an
intimate yet hard-hitting response to the asylum controversy follows
two Afghan teenagers as they escape from the Shamshatoo refugee camp in
Pakistan, along the smugglers' route known as The Silk Road. Shot on
digital video, In This World is a real piece of guerilla filmmaking,
styled as an ultra-realist fictional documentary and using voiceover
narration with real refugees and locations.
Lilya 4-ever (18), Saturday 16 April at 1445hrs
Frequently hailed as Sweden's most important director since Bergman,
Swedish writer-director Lukas Moodysson (Show Me Love, Together)
delivers a devastatingly powerful portrait of Lilya (Oksana Akinshina),
a 16-year-old Eastern European teenager who moves to Sweden to begin a
new life. Full of trust and anticipation, she boards the plane, unaware
that whilst she dreams of angels, she is destined to lie with devils.
Although darker in tone than his previous work, Moodysson's third
feature again displays his unerring ability to see things from the
point of view of his young protagonists, and to draw incredible
performances from his youthful actors. It also further establishes him
as one of European cinema's most significant directors, and judging
from the Swedish response to Lilya, one of its most successful.
Maria Full of Grace (15), Friday 15 - Thursday 21 April
Looking beyond the sensationalized accounts of heroin trafficking.
Maria Full of Grace focuses on Columbian 17-year-old Maria (Catalina
Sandino Moreno) who drifts into an assignment as a drug mule. Locked in
an uninspiring relationship and thankless job, pregnant Maria chooses
to be flung into this risky and reckless underworld, seduced by the
promise of high earnings and travel. Credible, finely tuned
characterisation encourages an emotional investment that is both
unexpected and overwhelming. Writer-director Joshua Marston's
refreshing debut is teething with insight, suspense and yet skilfully
maintains a measured, unflinching focus without oversimplifying.
The Yes Men (15), Friday 15 - Wednesday 20 April
The Yes Men is a comic, biting guerilla-style documentary that traces a
small group of prankster-activists whose radical approach relies on
identity hi-jacking. Gaining worldwide notoriety for impersonating the
World Trade Organisation on television and at business conferences
around the world, The Yes Men taps into the sophomoric thrill of an
elaborate practical joke going undetected. From their spoof beginnings
with GWBush.com and on to their parody of the WTO's website, Andy
Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno (The Yes Men) don thrift-store suits and set
out to shock their unwitting audiences with their darkly comic satires
on global free trade. (See www.theyesmenmovie.com)
Salvador Allende, Friday 8 April (TBC)
Patricio Guzman's film focuses on the socialist leader Salvador Allende
who was briefly elected president of Chile. Taking his political
philosophy from an Italian shoemaker, he swore to depend on the
integrity, patriotism and morality of the Chilean people. Allende
strove for 20 years to become elected, but was shot after two years, on
a fateful September 11th 1973. Former U.S. President Richard Nixon
ordered the CIA to do anything necessary to prevent him from becoming
president even after he had been elected. Later the CIA backed the coup
d'etat that led to Pinochet's dictatorship. Described as 'a decent,
reasonable man' Allende's socialist alliances arguably tarnished his
turbulent relationship with the United States. Old friends say he was a
libertarian whose inspiration was the French Revolution. Using current
interviews and old footage, Guzman makes a compelling and moving case
for an extraordinary man. The depth of Chile's and the world's loss is
seen in the close-ups of the old men who were there and who live with
their regret.
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