Oxford Brookes University has a great reputation for events which highlight human rights issues. Not just the Human Rights Festival, but also events for Black History Month, LGBT History Month and many others. Here are some coming up.
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LGBT History Month Various locations on campus Throughout February 2018 Programme coming soon. Oxford Brookes University Documentary Club Every Thursday - 7pm - during semester time - John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre Upcoming films include: Hard to Believe Thursday 23 November 2017 - 7pm - John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre Hard to Believe is a documentary that examines the issue of forced live organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience, and the response or lack of it around the world. Special Q&A with Ethan Gutmann Author / Investigative Journalist, featured in the documentary, is the author of the most prominent book on the issue of organ harvesting in China: The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China’s Secret Solution to its Dissident Problem. Reserve your free tickets here. MUJERES AL FRENTE. LA LEY DE LAS MAS NOBLES (WOMEN TO THE FRONT) Thursday 30 November 2017 - 7pm - John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre In Colombia, in a country where even the stones bleed with pain, seven Colombian women, strong as oaks and large as armies, struggle to paint a better country. Word, memory, reintegration and justice are their weapons. Reserve your free tickets here. Rwanda & Juliet Sunday 7 December 2017 - 1pm - John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre RWANDA & JULIET follows ivy league professor emeritus Andrew Garrod to Kigali, Rwanda, where he mounts Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet with Rwandan college students from both Hutu and Tutsi backgrounds. Twenty years have passed since the 1994 Genocide that left 1,000,000 Tutsis dead. Predominantly orphans, the cast of young Rwandans, led by a stunning, strong headed Juliet, tackle their country’s past and their own future as hopes, expectations, pasts, personalities and cultures collide as opening night approaches. Reserve your free tickets here. Two soft things two hard things Thursday 15 February 2018 - 7pm - John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre Documentary Club screening for LGBT History Month. As a small group in Nunavut, Canada prepare for a seminal LGBT Pride celebration in the Arctic, the film explores how colonization and religion have shamed and erased traditional Inuit beliefs about sexuality and family structure and how, 60 years later, a new generation of Inuit are actively 'unshaming' their past. Official website. Reserve your free tickets here. |
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