NEW Screening - Afghanistan in the UK
Tue 31 Aug, 7pm
£10 (£8 early booking)
Followed by a Q&A with Director Andy Capper, associate producer Stuart Griffiths and Richard Dare, former private in the Royal Anglican Regiment.
Traveling to STANTA training camp in East Anglia which is designed to exactly replicate army strongholds in Afghanistan, the VICE team show the gruelling recruitment training process required before soldiers are ready for combat.
First Wednesday: Natural disaster and political turmoil in Pakistan
Wed 1 Sep, 7pm
£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 Frontline Club's First Wednesday discussions. We will be focusing on recent events in Pakistan, where some 14 million people were displaced by floods, amid a turbulent political landscape and security worries.
Screening: The Trouble With Pirates
Thu 2 Sep, 7pm
£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..
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