 First Wednesday
Wed 1 Sep, 7pm
Price: £12.50 (£10 early booking)
Paddy O'Connell of BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House will be in the chair for the return of the Fronline Club's First Wednesday discussions. A guaranteed lively public meeting where experts and commentators mix their views with contributions from our audience.
 Screening: The Trouble With Pirates
Thu 2 Sep, 7pm
Price: £10 (£8 early booking)
Followed by a Q&A with Director James Rogan. The Trouble with Pirates is a revealing look at how piracy has come to threaten world trade in the Indian Ocean and the human cost.
 Insight with Joumana Haddad: Confessions of an agry Arab woman
Tue 7 Sep, 7pm
Price: £12.50 (£10 early booking)
Poet, writer and journalist Joumana Haddad has fought against the West's over-simplistic stereotypes of Arab women. She will be talking to BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen about her work and and her mission to challenge notions of the oppressed woman under the veil.
 In the picture: Documentography
Wed 8 Sep, 7pm
Price: £12.50 (£10 early booking)
How do photographers establish themselves in the competitive world of photojournalism? If you’re not represented by an agency what’s the best way to secure stories and promote your work? Go it alone and try and make a name for yourself in the dog-eat-dog photography business? Or form a collective? Hear from two people who did just that.
 Liberation Season - Screening: Kabul at Work
Fri 10 Sep, 7pm
Price: £10 (£8 early booking)
Followed by a Q&A with Director Oliver Englehart. A documentary that follows four ordinary, yet extraordinary, men and women throughout the course of their working day to show a different side of life in Afghanistan's bustling capital.
 Liberation Season - Screening: A Small Act
Mon 13 Sep, 7pm
Price: £10 (£8 early booking)
Followed by a Q&A with Director Jennifer Arnold. When Swedish teacher Hilde Back decides to sponsor a young, rural Kenyan student she thought little more about it. Years later, out of the blue she hears from Chris Mburu, now a Harvard Graduate and human rights lawyer for the United Nations. A film that bears witness to the ripple effect a single action can create.
 Third party event: Who is winning the media war in Afghanistan?
Wed 15 Sep, 7pm
Price: £12.50 (£10 early booking)
Is the conflict in Afghanistan becoming Britain's Vietnam? Is the media reporting it properly or simply embedding the truth with the journalists? The Media Society is hosting a lively discussion with: Alex Thomson, chief correspondent, Channel Four News, moderated by Kevin Marsh of the BBC College of Journalism.
 Should human rights be at the heart of climate change policy?
Thu 16 Sep, 7pm
Price: £12.50 (£10 early booking)
What will be the impact of climate change on the world's poorest people? Can climate change rights violations can be remedied in courts of law? Join us at the Frontline Club in the last of three events in association with Communications INC to discuss the relationship between human rights and climate change.
 Liberation Season - Screening: Good Fortune
Fri 17 Sep, 7pm
Price: £10 (£8 early booking)
Panel discussion hosted by BOND and Jubilee Debt Campaign. Good Fortune explores how massive, international efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa may be undermining the very communities they aim to benefit.
 UK Premiere Screening: Collapse
Mon 20 Sep, 7pm
Price: £10 (£8 early booking)
Followed by a Q&A with Director Chris Smith. A former Los Angeles police officer turned investigative journalist, Michael Ruppert predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter. Drawing from data and news stories he explains his unique interpretation in the face of fierce opposition.
 The US midterm elections:What's at stake?
Tue 21 Sep, 7pm
Price: £12.50 (£10 early booking)
Join us at the Frontline Club where we will be looking ahead to the midterm elections and the next two years for President Obama in the White House with congressional scholar, Professor Thomas Mann, an expert on campaigns, elections and the effectiveness of Congress.
 On the Media: Data skills and techniques for journalists
Wed 22 Sep, 7pm
Price: £12.50 (£10 early booking)
Managing large amounts of data is one of the key skills of the modern, digitally-minded journalist. Join us to find out how top data-driven journalists collate, analyse and present vast amounts of facts and figures into interactive graphics, searchable databases and hard-hitting news stories.
 Liberation Season - Screening: We Are Together
Fri 24 Sep, 7pm
Price: £10 (£8 early booking)
Panel discussion hosted by BOND and Jubilee Debt Campaign. Filmed over three years, We Are Together tells the remarkable and moving story of a group of children who use music to overcome hardship and loss.
 Screening: Cameraman - The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Mon 27 Sep, 7pm
Price: £10 (£8 early booking)
Followed by a Q&A with Director Craig McCall. Featuring unique interviews with over twenty of the world's greatest actors, directors and technicians, Not only a valuable testimony to British and international cinema history, Cameraman is an informative and sometimes humorous one too -- an amazing story about an exceptional life. |
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