Charter88 Human Rights Festival

Human Rights. It's Personal

Hampstead Theatre
Eton Avenue
London NW3 3EU
Swiss Cottage Tube - Exit 2 (See area map)

Sunday 22 June 2003, 1pm-11pm
Tickets £17 in advance or £20 on the door
For tickets, please call: 020 8880 6088 or email tickets@charter88.org.uk

Charter88 presents an amazing, and controversial day exploring deeply personal aspects of human rights

Featuring

Mike Mansfield QC, Billy Bragg, Beatrix Campbell, Judith Jones, Judith Katz, Polly Toynbee and Jennifer Dworkin.

This is a major arts-based festival with music dance, film, theatre, photography, discussion and personal testimony.

Welcome and introduction by Karen Bartlett, Director of Charter88: main auditorium 1.00pm

The Dream: main auditorium 1.15 pm

Inspired by the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King's 'I have a Dream' speech contemporary composer Daryl Runswick has written a piece of music to be premiered on the day.

The Dream Dance

This is a special commission inspired by Daryl Runswick's music 'donated' to Charter88 by the the Claire Russ Ensemble to launch this festival. The dance also features Rebecca Seymour, Nathaniel Parchment, Angus Russ, Olu Taiwo and Oni Taiwo.

Fluid and urgent contemporary movement is touched by jazz and African dance forms, creating a language of its own for this piece.

What I want my words to do to you (a Sundance Freedom of Expression award winner): main auditorium 1.30 PM

This powerful documentary features Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues, as she directs a writing class at a New York women's maximum security prison. Women convicted of murder or terrorism are confronted with the horror of their crimes. This film challenges preconceptions of crime and punishment, and justice and redemption. This production also features Glenn Close, Rosie Perez, Marisa Tomei, Hazelle Goodman and Mary Alice. Followed by discussion with the filmmaker, Judith Katz. Click here for film details Presented in association with the V-Day campaign.

Break: 3.10-3.20pm

Injustice: main auditorium 3.30 PM

The controversial documentary about deaths in police custody. Winner of the BFM 2002 Award Injustice is the story of the struggle for justice of families of people who died whilst in police custody. Since 1969 there have been 1,000 deaths in custody in the UK but not one police officer has been convicted.

Followed by a Q&A with filmmaker, Ken Fero and United Families and Friends campaigners. www.injusticefilm.co.uk

Democracy Café: foyer & downstairs 3.30pm

This exciting new project will bring people together to challenge the myth that people are apathetic, and create a public space for political discussion. This new arena is intended to be a relaxed environment to chat about politics and current affairs.

The theme for this special event opened by Michael Mansfield QC and Simon Davies is the Government's proposals for ID Cards. There will also be representatives from other campaigning organisations. You are welcome to join us !

Later in the year we will be launching our regular Democracy Café at a central London location. Watch this space.

Billy Bragg, poet and activist, will be taking part and performing some of his songs.

And All the Children Cried: main auditorium 5.20pm

Reading of the acclaimed play based on Myra Hindley by Judith Jones and Beatrix Campbell, performed by Sharon Maughan and Gillian Wright.

Two women, each serving a life sentence for killing children, face each other and the audience with confessions which challenge our attitudes to crime and punishment. Excerpts of the play read by the performers.

Followed by discussion with Judith Jones, Beatrix Campbell, Annie Castledine, Gillian Wright and Sharon Maughan.
Click here for details

Break: 6.50-7pm

Plenary Discussion: main auditorium 7.00-7.30 PM

Love & Diane: main auditorium 7.40pm

Already a multi-award winner, this excerpt from the Oscar tipped American documentary is followed by discussion with the filmmaker, Jennifer Dworkin, Rhon Reynolds of the Black Londoners Forum, chaired by Polly Toynbee.

A moving examination of poverty, welfare, drug rehabilitation and family policy in New York. Click here for film details

Protest: downstairs all day

A specially commissioned exhibition of photography by Paul Mattsson, charting 20 years of political protest and the struggle for social justice in the UK.

Spotlights: downstairs

Courageous people who have experienced and overcome human rights injustices in this country will talk about their experiences in five-minute personal testimonies.