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There’s a story behind every product, wherever in the world it comes from. This farmers’ market is a chance for shoppers to meet directly with producers from Ghana, Malawi, Palestine and beyond and reps from a diverse range of Fairtrade suppliers.

It’s a chance to learn more about the huge range of Fairtrade products now on the market, to discover the farming processes behind the products adorning our shelves, and to hear first-hand what life is like in these fascinating parts of the world.

Stallholders include Zaytoun, Liberation Nuts, Buna Oromia Coffee and Tropical Wholefoods, with many more to be confirmed.

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For artists and designers, working with Third World communities can open up new processes, materials and concepts. This talk reflects on various design projects around the world and is strongly recommended for students of art or design, as well as designers wanting to explore the benefits of Fairtrade.

Digital Handmade is a project that turns digital designs of rugs into a hand-woven reality in communities in Nepal. For more info visit www.digitalhandmade.com and visit the in-store exhibition throughout Fortnight.

Kipepeo Designs is a not-for-profit enterprise, selling hand-crafted cards made by impoverished women in Kibera, the second largest informal settlement (or slum dwelling) in Africa. For more info visit www.kipepeodesigns.co.uk

An expert insight into one of the most innovative Fairtrade products, cotton, is provided by Sreeranga Rajan from the Fairtrade Foundation. For more info visit www.fairtrade.org.uk/cotton

Entry to this event is free and operates on a first-come-first-served basis

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Immerse yourself in the lost art of tea-leaf reading, performed with Fairtrade Darjeeling leaves. Produced under fair conditions and traded at a decent price, these leaves may reveal more than you thought you knew about yourself.

Amber Garnet started out as a psychic at 15, reading thousands of palms at Covent Garden Market. She has been featured in Time Out, The Independent and on BBC Radio. For more information, visit her website at www.ambergarnet.co.uk.

Tickets are £6 for a 15-minute session – please select your time-slot as you book. Visit www.thepeoplessupermarket.org or phone the box office on 07910 459 451 to book tickets.

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Face-pack, bubble-up or rub-down in support of Fairtrade. Sample a range of luxurious beauty products produced with Fairtrade ingredients – shea butter from Burkina Faso, cocoa butter from the Dominican Republic and Brazil nut oil from – well, Peru actually. The evening includes expert advice and a free glass of Fairtrade wine or two.

Tickets are £5 and must be booked in advance. Visit www.thepeoplessupermarket.org or phone the box office on 07910 459 451 to book tickets.

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Cofee is the most valuable trading commodity after oil, worth some $80 billion, yet the wages of coffee farmers are so low that many struggle to survive. This film follows Tadesse Meskela, a man on a mission, as he travels the world to find a fair price for the coffee produced by his union of 74,000 struggling workers. This is the film that changed how Starbucks trade.

Entry to this screening is free but there is a suggested donation of £3. Entry operates on a first-come-first-served basis.

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How can Fairtrade possibly have an effect on a problem so big? Does it really make a difference? These are the biggest questions posed to those in the fight for trade justice. This talk, presented by a panel of experts on innovation in Fairtrade, looks at where Fairtrade has triumphed and what will become of it in the future.

Kate Sebag is a co-founder of Tropical Wholefoods, who aim to win lasting markets for producers in developing countries. Alison Ward is the Global Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at Cadbury, who have recently started using Fairtrade ingredients for their Dairy Milk range. More speakers to be confirmed.

This event is hosted by Trading Visions, a London based charity that focuses on education and campaigns about the injustices faced by small-scale farmers. It has a focus on Fairtrade and the terms of trade. Visit www.tradingvisions.org for more info. Entry to this event is free and operates on a first-come-first-served basis.

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This suspenseful documentary follows Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he takes on Dole Food for their use of sterility-causing pesticides. Will this ground-breaking legal battle bring justice, or will the corporation get away with it?

Entry to this screening is free but there is a suggested donation of £3. Entry operates on a first-come-first-served basis.

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Join us for an exclusive weekend, when children and young people from across London will take over and run the Foundling Museum, which will be transformed into an 18th century fair.
Conceived and directed by award-winning artist, Yinka Shonibare MBE, the Museum will be stepping back in time as children dressed in costumes of the period will be in charge of everything from acting as guides and selling tickets, to creating entertainments for visitors. They will be the teachers enacting lessons based on those taught to the original foundling children in the 18th century: singing, needlework, catechism and writing. The lessons will be attended by leading figures from London’s cultural community acting as pupils in their classroom.
Free day-long outdoor events based on the themes of the 18th century fairground, will involve puppet shows, magic demonstrations, music.
Yinka Shonibare MBE, describes the Back to Front Weekend as, “A deliberately contrary project in which the institution will literally be taken over by children. The Foundling Museum has historically provided children with education and accommodation, the Back to Front Weekend will present a shift in power relations between those who have traditionally used the institution and those who have run the institution.”
Yinka has been selected as this year’s Foundling Fellow in the visual arts, awarded in the name of William Hogarth. The Foundling Fellowships are supported by the Clore Duffield Foundation.
Ticket for indoor sessions £10 adults, accompanied children free
Two sessions daily: 11:00 – 13:00 and 14:00 – 16:00. Free outdoor entertainments all day
To book an indoor session call 020 7841 3600 or drop into the Museum. Sessions and outdoor entertainments finish at 16:00 but the Museum will remain open for visitors until 18:00.

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Quentin Blake is one of Britain’s best-loved and most successful illustrators. Well known for illustrating stories by Roald Dahl, Blake was Britain’s first Children’s Laureate. Quentin Blake – As large as life presents recent work created for four hospitals in the UK and France and designed to have a therapeutic effect on their residents.
This exhibition of over sixty works, draws from four series' that were created for a children’s hospital, a maternity hospital, young people with eating disorders and older patients with mental health issues. The subject of each illustration will allow visitors to reflect on artists’ continuing contribution to hospitals and child welfare. Hanging alongside Blake’s work will be paintings by William Hogarth and his contemporaries who donated paintings and sculptures to the Foundling Hospital in the 1740s. The Museum’s art collection, spanning more than four centuries, will provide visitors with an unexpected and resonant backdrop; one that situates Blake within a tradition of great artists creating work for hospitals.
Visitors will discover senior circus characters juggling and tightrope walking; alien creatures from Planet Zog swapping doctor and patient roles with young people; young people engaging in activities that celebrate the quiet poetry and pleasures of everyday life and mothers and babies meeting for the first time underwater, in a parallel world where their swimming expresses and celebrates their new-found liberty after the pains of labour.
"...an exhibition which is ambitious, intrepid and joyful." The Telegraph
The Foundling Museum is closed on Mondays and open fom 11:00-17:00 on Sundays. (10:00-17:00 all other days).

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Quentin Blake is one of Britain’s best-loved and most successful illustrators. Well known for illustrating stories by Roald Dahl, Blake was Britain’s first Children’s Laureate. Quentin Blake – As large as life presents recent work created for four hospitals in the UK and France and designed to have a therapeutic effect on their residents.

This exhibition of over sixty works, draws from four series' that were created for a children’s hospital, a maternity hospital, young people with eating disorders and older patients with mental health issues. The subject of each illustration will allow visitors to reflect on artists’ continuing contribution to hospitals and child welfare. Hanging alongside Blake’s work will be paintings by William Hogarth and his contemporaries who donated paintings and sculptures to the Foundling Hospital in the 1740s. The Museum’s art collection, spanning more than four centuries, will provide visitors with an unexpected and resonant backdrop; one that situates Blake within a tradition of great artists creating work for hospitals.

Visitors will discover senior circus characters juggling and tightrope walking; alien creatures from Planet Zog swapping doctor and patient roles with young people; young people engaging in activities that celebrate the quiet poetry and pleasures of everyday life and mothers and babies meeting for the first time underwater, in a parallel world where their swimming expresses and celebrates their new-found liberty after the pains of labour.

"...an exhibition which is ambitious, intrepid and joyful." The Telegraph

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London-based artist Chris Haughton (featured in Time Magazine’s Design 100) works directly with traditional Nepalese carpet makers to transform digital graphic designs for rugs into a hand-woven reality. This new method of designing connects communities in the developing world with design technology.
The colourful, hand-woven pieces of art come in a diverse range of designs. They have been fairly traded and will be on exhibition in the shop-front along Lamb’s Conduit Street alongside a photographic insight into the processes behind rug-making. They will be open to view throughout Fairtrade Fortnight during the shop’s opening hours.
The rug-makers, Kumbeshwar, are a founder-member of Fair Trade Nepal. Employees are taught literacy and skills. In addition to fair wages their work supports a school of 260 children and an orphanage of nineteen.
Chris Haughton will be sharing his experiences of working in Nepal at Fair Trade in Design on Monday 5 March. For more information on his work, visit www.digitalhandmade.com.

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HEXEN2.0/Literature is a new solo exhibition by Suzanne Treister. Treister's HEXEN2.0 project is an expansive cross-media investigation into the interwoven histories of government mass control systems, technological and scientific discovery, behavioural theory and countercultural movements, and diverse philosophical, literary and political responses to advances in technology such as the rise of cybernetics and the Internet.

HEXEN2.0/Literature is the 'bibliographical' component of HEXEN2.0: a series of beautifully detailed drawings of reversed book covers, exhibited here for the first time.

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Meet Rory McCreadie, a Barber-Surgeon from the 17th century, and his pet leech! From trephining to blood-letting, Rory reveals the gory secrets of surgery from centuries past.

Performances at 11am and 2pm

Suitable for all ages. Tickets £5 per group of 4/£2.50 per person. Booking essential on 020 7869 6560.

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How do doctors identify disease and find cures for common illnesses? Working with real pathologists you will be able to make your own microscope slides, learn how to use a microscope and become a Disease Detective!

Organised in collaboration with the Royal College of Pathologists.

Workshops at 11am and 2pm

Free workshop for families with children aged 10+.

Booking essential on 020 7869 6560 or museums@rcseng.ac.uk

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Meet Rory McCreadie, a Barber-Surgeon from the 17th century, and his pet leech! From trephining to blood-letting, Rory reveals the gory secrets of surgery from centuries past.

Performances at 11am and 2pm

Suitable for all ages. Tickets £5 per group of 4/£2.50 per person.

Booking essential on 020 7869 6560.

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How do doctors identify disease and find cures for common illnesses? Working with real pathologists you will be able to make your own microscope slides, learn how to use a microscope and become a Disease Detective!
Organised in collaboration with the Royal College of Pathologists.
Workshops at 11am and 2pm
Free workshop for families with children aged 10+. Booking essential on 020 7869 6560 or museums@rcseng.ac.uk

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To celebrate Museums at Night we throw open the doors of our archives and mark the 150th anniversary of a man who fought the College of Surgeons every step of the way! Talks, activities and archival displays will look at the life of Thomas Wakley, surgeon, Lancet founder and editor and medical crusader. You can also discover some of the stranger things that the college has acquired, try your hand at surgical ‘top trumps’ and take the opportunity to research a surgical ancestor.

Free, drop-in event but on-the night registration will be required for individual activities.

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Over several weeks and using the collections at the Hunterian Museum as initial source material; students from Rose Bruford College have designed a cutting edge blend of sound, light and costume to create an Installation Promenade Performance. Anatomize will immerse you in the world of John Hunter and the collection of surgical and biological specimens.

Anatomize is a site sensitive performance installation created by students from Performance Sound, Lighting Design and Theatre Design BA programmes at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, London.

Free event but booking required. Contact box.office@bruford.ac.uk or phone 020 8308 2616.

Two performances: 7.15pm and 8pm

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Professor Sir Roddy MacSween
Although he is most celebrated for his contribution to surgery, Joseph Lister was also an expert in pathology – the study of how disease affects the body. Leading pathologist Sir Roddy MacSween will discuss this aspect of Lister’s career in light of new research in the archives of the Royal College of Surgeons. Professor MacSween’s talk is lavishly illustrated with Lister’s watercolours and camera lucida images.
Lunchtime lecture tickets: £3.
Booking is essential on 020 7869 6560 (text relay: 018001 020 7869 6560)
Live speech-to-text for deaf and hard of hearing visitors delivered by STAGETEXT.

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Sir Barry Jackson
Joseph Lister is famed for his introduction of antisepsis in surgery using carbolic acid. Using original manuscript material and paintings to be seen in the College, this illustrated lecture will describe how his epoch -making discovery was quickly adopted by country surgeons but either ignored or denied by London surgeons including Presidents of this College. The lecture will conclude with a surprise!
Lunchtime lecture tickets: £3.
Booking is essential on 020 7869 6560 (text relay: 018001 020 7869 6560)
Live speech-to-text for deaf and hard of hearing visitors delivered by STAGETEXT.

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The Hunterian Museum has worked with the Medical Artists’ Association to generate new artworks that explore the anatomy and physiology of elite athletics. Ranging across different media and sporting disciplines, the artists illustrate the key role played by sports and exercise medicine, and surgery in particular.
Find out about the latest techniques in orthopaedic surgery, innovative developments in prosthetics and the importance of training to muscle development. World-leading medical artists have used a variety of art-forms including watercolour, video and sculpture to represent a selection of sports and para-sports. Their art provides a unique opportunity to study in detail the best of British at running, hurdling, canoeing and hockey.
Free and Open to All, Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00-17:00

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Timberlake is organising The Graving Tool, a series of conversations between herself and leading theatre practitioners probing how they create complex characters.

Harriet Walter has enjoyed a varied and distinguished career on stage screen and radio spanning 30 years. She is an associate artist of the RSC where she has played most roles from Viola and Beatrice to Lady Macbeth and Cleopatra as well as regularly appearing with the NT.

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The Freud Museum London is delighted to announce an exhibition of works by Louise Bourgeois. Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed will show original documents from the artist’s recently discovered psychoanalytic writings, as well as drawings and sculptures, in the house of the founding father of psychoanalysis.
 
 
Extended opening hours 8 March – 27 May 2012:
Wednesday 12 - 8pm
Thursday and Friday 12 – 5pm
Saturday and Sunday 11 – 5pm
Closed Monday and Tuesday

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Parlour Arts presents their premier exhibition 'The Body Sublime' a dyanmic showcase of contemporary artists and their interpretations of the body's relationship with the sublime.

Taking place in the Parlour Gallery, Queens Crescent, the week is anticipated to present a dynamic series of events including a private view, performances and life drawing.

Dates are:
-Private view: Monday February 27th, 6:30pm.

-Life drawing session: Wednesday February 29th, 7:00-9:00pm.

-Tuesday and Thursday's opening hours: 6:00-9:00pm.

-Saturday: 12:00-4:00pm.

-Closing night featuring live performances: Friday March 2nd 6:30pm.

Admission free.

Email info.parlourarts@gmail.com for further information.

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Celebrated artists, politicians, performers, community workers and LGBT activists will offer insights into contemporary gender issues in this unique symposium hosted by October Gallery Education. Taking Palestinian artist Laila Shawa’s 'Disposable Bodies No.3'(pictured), as a trigger, the symposium offers a layering of narratives to create a collective portrait of women today. How conflicted will these multiple perspectives be? Do we really need a Women’s History Month anyway?
 
Explore the politics of motherhood, conflict, careers and disability with poet Dr. Benjamin Zephaniah (When I Grow Up, Talking Turkeys), actor Zawe Ashton (Dreams of a Life, Fresh Meat), Tulip Siddiq (Camden Councillor), artist collective DARTER (currently exhibiting at Whitechapel Gallery) as well as Laila Shawa herself.
 
This event takes place during Laila Shawa’s current exhibition at October Gallery The Other Side of Paradise. Her mixed media works depict the current chaos in Gaza and explore the psychology of the female suicide bomber.
 
Along with lively discussion and debate, there will be a film screening by a local young women’s group, in response to being a young woman in London. There will also be a live performance by dub duo The YuYa.
 
Tickets: £6/ £5(concs)
Under 12s - Free
Tickets include refreshments throughout the day. Wheelchair accessible. Children welcome.
 
Contact Ella/Beth Education Coordinators for more information
Email: education@octobergallery.co.uk
Tel: 0207 242 7367

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Choose your favourite image from our Judah Passow exhibition and create your own ‘Pop Art’ masterpiece with artist Anna Roth.

Please note: Under 8 years old must be accompanied by an adult in the workshop.

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This evening Jane McAdam Freud joins us to discuss her exhibition 'Lucian Freud My Father - A personal portrayal'

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Inspired by the exhibition No Place like Home and the museum's permanent displays, Write Queer London and the Jewish Museum invites you to explore the way objects inform our personal histories and create an LGBT history of now.

Objects tell stories. Objects are prompts for poems, short fiction, novels, and memoirs. They tell personal stories, family stories, stories about our communities, our faith, and our lovers. Some objects are lost, even if the stories are still remembered, and some objects we carry with us. Some objects we put on our shelves, at our bedsides, or we keep in boxes tucked away.

In this final event of Write Queer London this year, writer Shaun Levin invites you to share stories of objects relating to queerdom. Bring along a personal object of your choice - it could be something prosaic or magnficent, mass produced or personal. We'll be photographing everything and use the stories to put together a History of Us to go on the untoldLondon website.

Listen to writers telling stories about the objects that changed their lives and listen to stories created in our Objects of Love and Desire Creative Writing Workshop (click 'preview' for a free peek).

Part of Write Queer London in partnership with Chroma: A Queer Literary and Arts Journal

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Enjoy the questions and answers of your favourite aurthors and illustrators online and borrow their books

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We will be making paper dolls that you can take home and design more clothes for their wardrobes