‘The calendar is made up of the past, for those at the top. So that it will stay that way, the powerful fill it up with statues, holidays, museums, homages, parades. That all serves the purpose of keeping the past in place; where things have already happened and not where they will happen,’ says Don Durito, a well-dressed, pipe smoking beetle from the Lacandon Maya jungle, who appointed Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista Liberation Army to be his shield bearer.
Join Hundred Heroines for a film screening of the 1950’s American classic, Little Fugitive, directed by legendary photographer Ruth Orkin.
Oscar and Bafta winner for Best Documentary about one animal’s influence on a man
Suné Woods’s commissioned contribution to Meshell Ndegeocello’s project: Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin
Objects made by hand, some traditional, some unusual, some unexpected, and all show the ingenuity and dexterity of their makers.
Week 35, Health, Drugs and Rock n Roll, Drugs can heal or destroy, they can cause death or prevent it.
Week 34, I am Unbeatable, This programme is about violence against women – violence against minority groups, domestic violence, human trafficking, child marriage, female genital mutilation (FGM) and femicide. The problem knows no geographical borders, race or class boundaries, it is embedded in the power structure and inequalities of patriarchal society.
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