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Not happy to sit on your loins in the library all summer? In the run up to dissertation deadlines next month we at the shrp are strong advocates of keeping you informed and separating your butt from assuming the study position - so check these out, get organised and stay active!

Talks and Meetings

2-6 July
* Marxism 2009, meetings, music, drama, art, film, with Tony Benn, Tariq Ali, Slavojh Zizek, Alex Callinicos, Gary Younge, Gareth Peirce, Terry Eagaleton, Ghada Kharmi, Bernadette McAliskey, Nick Broomfield, Michael Rosen, Zoe Williams, Sam West, China Melville, Sheila Rowbotham, David harvey, hosted by Social Workers Party. Info: 7819 1190/ Festival

Friday 3 July
* Democracy and Violence: In South Asia and Beyond, Ramachandra Guha, 6.30pm, Nehru Centre, 8 South Audley Street, W1. Info: / / 7491 3567/ 7493 2019

Saturday 4 July
* Brian Chikwava & Petina Gappah discuss their new books, which look at Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwean diaspora in London, 4pm, Southbank Centre.
* A Legacy of Liberation, Mark Gevisser’s book takes the pulse of South African democracy, which he discusses at this event, Southbank Centre.
* Current situation in Colombia and Britain: The Minga of Indigenous and Popular Resistance, Carlos Cruz, Andy Higginbottom, Javier Sánchez, Einstein Durango, family member of John Freddy Suarez Santander, G. Saavedra, Sofia Buchuk, 10am–5.30pm, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh St, WC1.
+ Bolivian Dance Extravaganza, 6pm–late, £5/£10, Arch Inka, 202 Coldharbour Lane, SW9

Sunday 5 July
* Adventures in a Megacity, Sam Miller and Vikram Seth on Delhi, ‘India’s dreamtown - and its purgatory’, 3.30pm, £7, Southbank centre. Info: Miller
* Colombia Solidarity Campaign AGM, 11.30am-4.30pm. Info: info@colombiasolidarity.org.uk/ Colombia Solidarity Campaign

Monday 6 July
* Whose landscape is it anyway? Environment versus development in South Asia today, Nicholas Stern, Ramachandra Guha, 6.30pm, £5 including day pass to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1. Info: 7323 8181
* Terry Eagleton on Reason, Faith and Revolution, a challenge to the “new atheism” of Dawkins & co. with a revolutionary account of the Christian gospel, 7pm, ICA, The Mall, SW1. Info: 7930 3647/ ICA

Tuesday 7 July
* The Mediterranean Solar Power Initiative, Giancario Aragona, Janis Folkmanis, 9am-4pm, Italian Culture Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, SW1
* Watching the Detectives: the media and anti terrorism laws, Margaret Gilmore, Peter Clarke, Marc Vallée, Turi Munthe, 7pm, £10, Frontline Club, Norfolk Place, W2
* Climate Change; Effective Communication Course. Info: 7324 4774/ Action/ jelliott@talkaction.org
* 9.9.9. it’s time, 6.30pm, The Bridge Bar, The Westbridge, 74-76 Battersea Bridge Road, SW11. Info: 999itstime@org/ 9.9.9.it’s time
* What role for Latin America in the world: Policy shaper or policy consumer?, Chris Bryant, Michael Reid, 1pm, Overseas Development Institute, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300/ meetings@odi.org.uk/ ODI
* The search for new sources of energy is stimulating worldwide innovative thinking and ‘green sky’ research., Prof. Vernon Gibson, Prof. John Beddington, Lord Hunt, Prof. James Barber, Prof. David Cahen, Royal Geographical Society, Kensington Gore, SW7. Info: 7424 6860/ events@weizmann.org.uk

8 July
* Renewable Energy, All Party Parliamentary Climate Change group meeting with WWF, Dr Keith Allott, 4-6pm, House of Commons
* The impact of US and UK legislatures on aid delivery, Jonathan White, Jim Kolbe, Simon Burall, 9.30pm, Overseas Development Institute, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1. Info: 7922 0300/ meetings@odi.org.uk/ ODI

Thursday 9 July
* Conflicting Environmental Goods and the Future of the Countryside, Caroline Lucas MEP, 5-7pm, free, The Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street, EC1. Info: judithr@cpre.org.uk/ 7981 2835 / dustinb@cpre.org.uk
* Rally for a Change, Jo Swinson MP, Peter Tatchell, Gerald Batten MEP, Dave Rowntree, Oona King, Billy Bragg, Dave Neita. Info: Naomi@voteforachange.co.uk www.voteforachange.co.uk
* Medical Justice AGM, Brian Keenan, Sir Al Ainsley-Green, 6.30pm, Holy Apostles Church, 47 Cumberland Street, SW1. Info: emma.ginn@medicaljustice.org.uk/
* Arts and ecology, Jane Trowell, Michaela Crimmin, Robert Butler, 6.30pm, free, Rivington Place, EC2. Info: 7729 9616/ iniva@iniva.org/
* Communication Power, Professor Manuel Castells, 6.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2
* Econutrition: integrated approaches for human health, Professor R J Deckelbaum, 5:15pm, South Courtyard Building, London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine, Keppel Street WC1. Info: mail: mathilde.savy@lshtm.ac.uk
* A Climate Mission for Europe: Leadership & Opportunity, Lord Browne, Roger Carr, Lord Giddens, John Gummer MP, Roland Rudd, 8–9.30am, Royal Academy of Engineering, 3 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y

Friday 10 July
* Migrant Workers in the UK Sex Industry, Dr. Nick Mai, 10.30am–3.30pm, Graduate Centre, London Metropolitan University, 166-220 Holloway Road, N7. Info: Workers/ 7320 2927/ iset@londonmet.ac.uk

Exhibitions

* Currents of Time, video installation by Zineb Sedira filmed on the coastline of Mauritania, a bird watcher’s paradise that has also become a scrapyard for the world’s shipping and point of departure for African immigrants trying to reach Europe, until 25 July, Rivington Place, EC2. Info: 7729 9616/ iniva@iniva.org/

* Still Human Still Here: The underground world of destitute asylum-seekers, Abbie Trayler-Smith’s photographs of men and women seeking refuge in UK whose bids for sanctuary have been rejected by the government, the Crypt at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, WC2, until 31 July. Info: Still Human

* The Press Photographer’s Year 09, National Theatre, until 31 August. Info: 7452 3000/ National

* Forward to Freedom , display marking the 50th anniversary of the formation of the The Anti-Apartheid Movement, Museum of London, until 6 September

* Bitter Fruit: Pictures from Afghanistan, photographs of Afghanistan through the decades, including images by Eve Arnold, Steve McCurry, Abbas, Paolo Pellegrin and Chris Steele-Perkins, until 31 July, Magnum Print Room, 63 Gee Street, EC1. Info: Magnum

* Living Ancestors of Dominica, portraits of long-living Domincans by Gabrielle Le Roux, Museum of London Docklands, until 31 July. Info: Living Ancestors
+ Dominican old wives’ tales

* The Human Face of Death Row, Claire Phillips photographs of people who have faced the finality of execution, until 5 July, gallery@oxo

* Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969–2009 draws on ideas that have emerged out of Land Art, environmental activism, experimental architecture and utopianism, until 18 October, Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, Silk Street. Info: Barbican Gallery

* The Sound and the Fury, rousing public speeches, British Library, 96 Euston Road, NW1. Info: 7412 7332, until 31 August

* Drowned and Other Stories, imaginative exhibition of photographs by Seba Kurtis on immigrants, negotiating the treacherous seas between Africa and Europe or traversing the lawless borders between Mexico and the US, Host Gallery, 1 Honduras Street, EC1, until 4 July. Info: 7253 2770/ info@hostgallery.co.uk

* Visions of the World, photographs from the collection, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7. Info: 7591 3000, until 28 August

* Unspeakable: The Artist as Witness to the Holocaust, Leslie Cole, Doris Zinkeisen, Paul Ryan, Darren Almond and survivor artists Roman Halter, Edith Birkin and Alicia Melamed Adams, free, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, SE1, until 31 August. Info: mail@iwm.org.uk/ 7416 5000

* Hale Man: A Mirrored Community, collaboration between the artist and South London’s Chinese communities, Horniman Museum and Garden, London Road, SE23. Info: 8699 1872, until 28 September

* Arab and Iranian Modern Masters, Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Road, SW3.

* Richard Long: Heaven and Earth, calm, nature-centred works, Tate Britain, SW1, until 6 September. Info: 7887 8888

* Where do you stand on GM?, small Science Museum exhibition, South Kensington, until March 2010. Info: GM exhibition
+ GM food: technology vs democracy

* Helmand: The Soldiers Story, “the first museum exhibition about a contemporary, ongoing conflict”, National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, SW3. Info: 7730 0717/ Exhibition

* Outside Edge, a journey through black British lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history of the last 30 years, Museum in Docklands

* 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
+ London’s dirtiest secret

* Atlantic Worlds, transatlantic slave trade gallery, National Maritime Museum, Park Row, SE1. Info: 8858 4422/ 8312 6565

* Medals of Dishonour, British Museum, 44 Great Russell Street, WC1, until 27 September. Info: 7323 8181

from 8 July
* Humanity in War, frontline photography since 1860 presented by the International Committee of the Red Cross to mark the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Solferino where the Red Cross Movement was founded, free, until 18 July, gallery@oxo

Performances

* Who Will Carry the Word?, based on true story of a group of women in Auschwitz, Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield Street, N1, until 5 July. Info: 0870 163 0717

* Apologia, a son challenges his mother’s memoir about her political activist past, until 18 July, Bush Theatre,Shepherd’s Bush Green, W12. Info: 8743 5050/ Bush Theatre

* Taking Sides/Collaboration, separate but linked Ronald Harwood plays about the role of art and the artist in totalitarian regimes, Duchess, until 29 August. Info: 0844 412 4659

* The Observer, an international group of observers arrives in a West African country to oversee and rubber stamp its first democratic election; new voters queue in their thousands, but a senior member of the observation team find herself both horrified by the President’s repression and, for once, in a position to do something about it; yet as violence on the streets escalates and the country enters free fall, an increasingly angry young translator forces this well-meaning outsider to confront the impact of her intervention, Cottesloe, National Theatre, Southbank, until 3 September. Info: 7452 3000

* S-27, May is fighting for a better world and has sacrificed more than most. So when the old regime is destroyed, she is rewarded with a job as a prison photographer. But as the enemy pass one by one before her lens can she maintain her unflinching eye? Inspired by the work of photographer Nhem En, who photographed the inmates of Tuol Sleng prison in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, the play was the inaugural winner of Amnesty International’s Protect The Human Playwriting Competition, £13/£9 conc, Tuesday evenings £9 all seats, Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, SW10, until 4 July. Info: 0844 847 1652
+ see also Facing Death: Portraits From Cambodia’s Killing Fields, Exhibitions

* England People Very Nice, described as a “riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the 17th century to today”, the play examines recurring anxiety over waves of migrants – whether French Huguenots, Irish, Jews or Bangladeshis, National Theatre, South Bank, SE1. Info:
7452 3000/ National Theatre, until 9 August

* Karoo Moose, British Premiere of a play set in a remote village in the Karoo where a young girl struggles to survive; winner of 14 South African Awards, including Best New South African Play, Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn, until 11 July

* Dr Korczak’s Example, summer 1942, Warsaw Ghetto: Dr Janusz Korczak, founder of the Jewish orphanage, finds his pacifist principles pushed to the limit, not only by the Nazi regime - “I’ve trained them well. For a perfect world. How will they survive this one?”, until 18 July, Arcola Theatre. Info: 7503 1646/ Arcola

1-10 July
* Rough Cuts, mini-season of experimental readings and works-in-progress. Programme includes:
* Article 19 (of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”), a series of specially commissioned 10-minute plays by April De Angelis, Juan Mayorga, Anthony Neilson and Winsome Pinnock, Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, Sloane Square
* Behind The Image/ The Spiral - responses from interviews with a diverse group of British Muslims
* Thrown, about surveillance, intrusion and identityall tickets £7.50,Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, Sloane Square, SW1. Info; 7565 5000/ Royal Court

Saturday 4 July
* The Wedding or The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, what are the consequences when a careless act disturbs the delicate balance between humanity and nature? Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s classic poem comes to life in a major new outdoor production with original music by Southbank Centre Artists in Residence Bellowhead and a cast featuring 150 children from Lambeth and Southwark primary schools, free, Southbank Centre Square

8-12 July
* Last Seen, about missing people, £15, Almeida Theatre, Almeida Street, N1. Info: Info: 7359 4404/ Almedia/

9 July
* Political Animal, political stand-up gig returns to London to harangue a naughty planet, 9pm, £15, Southbank Centre, SW1