Events and Activities

Monday, 8th March to Sunday, 14th March at 7.45pm
Matinee performance Wed, 10 March at 2.30pm.
The Al-Hamlet Summit presented by The Sulayman Al Bassam Theatre Company
Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, Hammersmith, London
A rare chance to see contemporary Arabic theatre in London. Performed in Arabic with English surtitles. Intense and intelligent new Middle Eastern theatre, The Al-Hamlet Summit is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet set in a modern Arab state on the brink of war. Written and created by the young Anglo-Kuwaiti director, Sulayman Al-Bassam, The Al-Hamlet Summit received rave reviews and international awards when it was presented in Edinburgh and Cairo in 2002. A new company of actors drawn from across the Middle East now bring this remarkable play to London, directly from Tokyo International Festival and Bath Shakespeare Festival.
Post show discussion on Thur, 11 MARCH hosted by Dr.Peter Clark, former special advisor to The British Council on Middle Eastern Affairs
Tickets £15 (£9 concessions)
Cheap Tuesday first 70 tickets £7.50 (maximum 5 tickets per booker)
Groups £12 tickets for groups of 10 plus
Student groups £6 tickets for groups of 10 plus (excluding Saturday show)
Please quote 'OFFER NAME' when booking.
Box office phone: 020 8237 1111
www.riversidestudios.co.uk
How to get to Riverside Studios:
BY ROAD
Find the Hammersmith Broadway roundabout. Turn left just after the Carling Apollo into Queen Caroline Street, then left into Crisp Road. Parking bays at Riverside Studios are extremely limited and parking at Hammersmith Broadway is recommended.
BY BUS:
To Hammersmith Broadway. Numbers 9, 9a, 11, 27, 33, 72, 91, 220, 283 and 295.
BY TUBE AND FOOT:
District, Piccadilly and Hammersmith & City lines to Hammersmith. Exits from Bus and District/Piccadilly Tube routes are in Hammersmith Broadway shopping centre. Take the south exit (by Tesco Metro) from the centre, pass in front of the Carling Apollo and left into Queen Caroline Street. Take a left into Crisp Road Riverside Studios is on your right.

March
Anti War Exhibition
Aquarium Gallery, Woburn Walk
An exhibition of anti-war art is being organised. To find out more contact Steven Lowe or Andrew Burgin on 0207 7387 8417.

Friday, 2nd April to Saturday, 15th May
Exhibition of Argentinian photographer Marcelo Brodsky.
Photofusion, 17a Electric Lane, Brixton, London SW9 8LA
Gallery open: Tuesday to Saturday, 10am - 6pm & Wednesday 10am - 8pm
The exhibition addresses what has now become known as Argentina's Dirty War in which the state systematically executed its own citizens and, more personally, the disappearance of his brother Fernando at the age of twenty two; one of the many victims of a country devastated by the obscenity of death without bodies.
Private view: Thursday, 1st April from 6.30pm - 9pm
Gallery closed: Sunday, Monday & Bank holidays
Free admission and wheelchair access
For further information and images, please contact Photofusion on 020 7738 577 or email: galery@photofusion.org

Sunday, 4th April at 4pm
Marcelo Brodsky screening & panel discussion
The OTHER Cinema, 11 Rupert Street, London W1D 7PR
Photofusion and Autograph ABP have organised a special event at The OTHER Cinema where Marcelo Brodsky will give a presentation about his work with screenings, followed by a panel discussion chaired by curator Gabriela Salgado.
Telephone: 020 7734 1506
Tickets £8.00

new economics foundation presents...
ANTI-APATHY at the Spitz
Spitalfields, East London
ANTI-APATHY is a new bi-monthly event designed to cultivate social, environmental, and political awareness. Each event will combine spoken word, music, and film while focusing on an overall theme - from democracy, the fallacy of free trade, and ecological debt, to global mono-culture, the arms trade, and inequality - while making connections between the bigger picture and our daily lives.
AA aims to inform, inspire, and encourage non-politically engaged people to become more proactively involved in finding solutions to globalisation. Each event will go beyond just presenting the predicaments by providing individuals with tangible tools to effect positive change. Debate and participation highly recommended

Activities

The organisers of the Peace Not War Festival at Ocean are keen for artists/performers to be involved. If you have work you would like to exhibit please call Doug on 07976 589927. (The work however will not be insured, that will be down to the individual artist to take care of if they want to.) If you would like to lend any other creative contribution to the event do get in touch with Kelly on 07789991591.

Jim Mann, an American graphic designer living in Barcelona is currently collecting anti-war posters and graphics from around the globe and will present the best of them in a book titled 'Peace Signs'. The project was initiated in response to the tremendous global backlash to the actions taken by George Bush and his administration following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the pre-emptive strike on the 'axis of evil' and countries coined 'rogue nations'. This project aims to bring as many posters together from around the world as an archive for future generations documenting the creative, satirical and thought-provoking posters carried by those who voiced their opposition to the war against Iraq. The final product will be a comprehensive large format graphic art book with over 200 original illustrations from over 20 countries and in over six languages. As it will be published after the war ends, the messages from these posters will live on into history and that is the goal.
For further information please contact Jim:
Jim Mann,
c/Duana 3, 1º-1ª, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
artwork to: artwork@peacesigns.info
www.peacesigns.info

Joe Berryman, street poet, is planning a cycle ride for peace in June this year. The Peace Ride will stretch 4,000 miles to Athens (to link up with the Olympics) and will start from several different European cities. Please get in touch with Joe as soon as possible to find out more, join in, offer help...
Joe Berryman, badge number 3222, c/o The Big Issue Foundation, 1-5 Wandsworth Road, London SW8 2LN

Lisa Goldman wants to get a group together to workshop some ideas for portable theatre which could be taken to the streets and demonstrations with Leon Kuhn's images screen printed providing a scenic banner backdrop. A number of people have already expressed an interest. They need performers, musicians, writers, poets, visual artists, comedians, etc. to create small pieces/songs/stunts which are bite size moments making bold, funny or shocking interventions - they might be poetic, populist, conceptual, character-led or ideally a mixture of forms, so they can explore what has most impact in different contexts and take it forward. If anyone would enjoy being part of this theatre action against the war, please let Lisa know how you'd like to get involved and some idea of availability. If anyone knows of a free to cheap centralish space where they could work, please let her know.
Contact Lisa Goldman through Artists Against the War email address.

Performance poets/artists who are interested in contributing to a new series of events entitled ANTI-APATHY, please contact Cyndi Rhoades on (020)7 831 2641 or 07778 933 465.

Stop the War Coalition are asking groups to lobby their MPs over the war and the restriction on civil liberties. Check their website for details on doing this.