What's On Today

Events on Wednesday 23rd September

“One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live in the West today. As an immigrant, Omar El Akkad believed the West offered freedom and justice for all. Over the past twenty years he reported on the various Wars on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and more. He won awards for his journalism and his fiction. But now, watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, he comes to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie.”
From: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This with Omar El Akkad

“He hits and swerves at extreme stereotypes of cultural and social class. The masks of men as a form of personal defense against the self and the world we live in today. The consequences of boredom on the psyche are ripped open through physical labor on stage. Teetering on the fine lines between comedy and tragedy. To find the importance of self-belief. No matter where you are from, what class you are placed. There are essential needs of love ingrained in all of us. Removing the masks of ego and cultural affectations we hope to find a common ground of truth and hope.”
From: Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus

“A hanging, a hanging, gather round for a Hanging!' is the opening lines of this immersive family comedy theatre show, set in 1726. Think Horrible Histories or Blackadder. Exploring the legends of 18th-century highway robbers, potatoes and inequality. Audiences become jurors, re-enact crimes, and debate verdicts. Blending history with farce. Social commentary and true immersion for the audience. It invites reflection on today's inequalilty—asking is it right? Is it just? To steal from the ultra rich to feed the poor. Funded by Arts Council England with integrated audio description”
From: Stand and Deliver

“This is the situation today, when we are at 1.4°C above pre-industrial levels; currently, we are on track for 2.6°C. Despite this urgency more fossil fuels are being extracted and burned than before and in some cases consumption is not only increasing but accelerating. Many of the effects of climate change are now irreversible and as global temperatures rise more climate tipping points will be triggered, making further irreversible changes. As the far-right is in power or on the rise across the globe, the political conditions to decarbonise and adapt become more hostile. There is no sugar-coating it: the current trajectory is bleak. So what can be done?”
From: On Burning Planet, What Do We Do?