Reading Repair Cafe is a community project to bring people together to repair items rather than throw them away! Electronics, computers, bikes, clothes, tools etc. Please visit www.readingrepaircafe.org.uk to find out more.

Director: Eduardo de la Serna & Lucas Marcheggiano. Winner: IBAFF International Film Festival, 2011. Affectionately humorous documentary about Daniel Burmeister, a self-taught Argentinian film maker who spends his working life travelling around remote rural villages in search of locations and actors for his amateur films. He transforms these sleepy villages into bustling film sets and the bored populace into avid performers. A marvellously human story that celebrates the true spirit of creativity and the warmth of community.

Panel discussion on different fair trade labels and what they mean with: Erinch Sahan - Chief Executive, World Fair Trade Organisation. Justin Avern - Head of Media and Communications, Fairtrade Foundation. Cathy Pawson - Co-founder of Zaytoun. Chaired by Laura Cave - BAFTS-Fair Trade Network UK. Live music by La Mort Subite in the Global Cafe (entrance �5)

Between 1995-2015 worldwide production of palm oil quadrupled. It is expected to quadruple again by 2050. Oil palm plantations account for 10% of all global cropland. What is driving this massive increase? What effect is it having on people and planet? What can we do? Film and discussion.

Award-winning sustainable garden: 185 species, low maintenance, multi- use perennial planting, edible forest, water harvesting, hard landscaping with renewable/recycled/reused materials

by Khaled Khalifa (tr by Leri Price) – Syria
Khalifa portrays his native city under the grip of the Assad regimes though the lives of one family over three generations. In the once beautiful city of Aleppo, the family descends into tragedy and ruin. Irrepressible Sawsan flirts with militias, the ruling party, and finally religion, seeking but never finding salvation. She and her siblings and mother are slowly choked in violence and decay, as their lives are plundered by a brutal regime. Set between the 1960s and 2000s, the novel unravels the systems of fear and control under Assad. With eloquence and startling honesty, it speaks of the persecution of a whole society. The story shifts in time and between characters, but Aleppo as a character is a constant, its culture and cuisine, a city with a vibrant life. Khalifa, in lush and sensual prose, chronicles the collapse of the city: “Cities die, just like people.” 256pp

Dir: Patricio Guzmán (The Battle of Chile, The Pinochet Case) Winner: European Documentary, European Film Awards, 2010 While astronomers examine the most distant and oldest galaxies, at the foot of the mountains, women, surviving relatives of the disappeared search, even after 25 years, for the remains of their loved ones, to reclaim their families histories. Gradually the celestial quest of the astronomers and the earthly one of the Chilean women come together.

Tips for successful seed sowing; top ten easy to grow vegetables; sowing seeds inside vs outside; common problems; other methods of propagation, e.g division, cuttings

By Min Jin Lee – Korea/Japan
Yeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then Isak, a Christian minister, offers her a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife.
Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country in which she has no friends, no home, and whose language she cannot speak, Sunja's salvation is just the beginning of her story. Through eight decades and four generations, Pachinko is an epic tale of family, identity, love, death and survival. 560pp

This new programme was launched in September 2018 and supports schools internationally to learn about and collaborate on the big issues that shape our world.

The national GTA promotes skills, confidence and practical approaches to incorporate global learning into the curriculum, and active global citizenship into the school. Endorsed by Oxfam and now approved by the British Council for delivery within its Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning, this 6 hour Intermediate course for the Global Teacher Award is currently offered across the country free to teachers of all phases and all subjects. To achieve Level 1 certification, teachers implement and reflect on an activity in school.

The national GTA promotes skills, confidence and practical approaches to incorporate global learning into the curriculum, and active global citizenship into the school. Endorsed by Oxfam and now approved by the British Council for delivery within its Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning, this 6 hour Intermediate course for the Global Teacher Award is currently offered across the country free to teachers of all phases and all subjects. To achieve Level 1 certification, teachers implement and reflect on an activity in school.

This new programme was launched in September 2018 and supports schools internationally to learn about and collaborate on the big issues that shape our world.

Dir: Kleber Mendonça Filho (Neighbouring Sounds, Green Vinyl) Winner: Nominee, Palme d’Or, Cannes FIlm Festival, 2016 Brazilian–French drama starring Sonia Braga as Clara, a 65 year old widow and retired music critic, born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife. She is the last resident of Aquarius building, who refuses to sell her apartment to a construction company. The film generated uproar in Brazil due to its political connotations.

Heather Masoud, Director and co-founder of Zaytoun will talk about the impact of fair trade on Palestinian women producers. Bayt Exhibition of Palestinian clothing, textiles and jewelry by Suhad Jarrar. Trish Whitham will speak about her Protective Presence olive picking experience near Nablus. Debke dance by members of the Reading community. Wear your Palestinian clothes and garments! Men and women welcome! Fair Trade stall, snacks and refreshments.

By Sulaiman Addonia – Eritrea/Sudan
Saba arrives in an East African refugee camp as a young girl, devastated to have had to abandon her books as her family fled. In this crowded and often hostile place, she must carve out her new existence, always protecting her mute brother Hagos.
A moving portrait of a woman of courage and intelligence, an insider’s view of the textures of life in a refugee camp, and a compelling story of exile, survival and love, Silence is My Mother Tongue bears vivid testimony to the power of imagination and illusion and the infinite reach of human minds to reinvent themselves. This subversive and sensual novel dissects society’s ability to wage war on its own women and explores the stories we must tell to survive in a broken, inhospitable environment. 308pp

Trade Justice and Fairtrade activists campaign for a system that puts people and planet before big business profits. The inspiring Nick Dearden, Director of Global Justice Now UK, will consider what the UK’s trade deals with other countries look like after March. Will they reflect trade justice? What can we do?

Dir: Mikhail Kalatozov (The Cranes Are Flying, True Friends) Winner: Archival Award, National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA, 1996
Initially commissioned as propaganda, its technical tour-de-force and celebration of communist kitsch has made it a cult film, earning admiration from film-makers Francis Ford Coppola to Martin Scorsese. In four stories of the revolution, Mikhail Kalatov’s astonishingly acrobatic camera takes the viewer on a rapturous roller-coaster ride of bathing beauties, landless peasants, fascist police, and student revolutionaries.

Black Bark Films with Landworkers’ Alliance. Official selection: British Documentary Film Festival, 2018. The inspiring story behind the blood, sweat and tears of nine British farmers seizing the Brexit moment to outgrow an outdated industrial food system.This film explores their daily reality and refusal to be ground down by the machinery of big agribusiness and reveals the wisdom of the old and the innovations of the young, who are bringing back the worm to the soil, the ‘culture’ to ‘agriculture,’ and the flavour to the tomato!

By Joanne Hillhouse – Antigua/Barbados. Zahara is a loner. She's brilliant on the guitar but in everyday life she doesn't really fit in. Then she meets Shaka, himself a musical genius and the first boy who really gets her. They discover that they share a special bond, their passion for music, and Zahara finds herself a part, not just of Shaka's life, but also that of his boys, the Lion Crew. When they all get roles in a summer musical, Zahara, Shaka, and the rest of the Lion Crew use the opportunity to work on a secret project. But the Crew gets much more than they bargained for when they uncover a dark secret linking Shaka and Zahara's families and they're forced to confront some uncomfortable truths about class, colour, and relationships on the Caribbean island of Antigua. 280pp

British banks and companies give secret loans to poor countries, by-passing local laws. Then British companies make huge profits while poor people suffer. Come to hear Tim Jones, campaigner and economist at Jubilee Debt Campaign, explain the situation and what the UK can do about it.

Workshop for anyone who has ever been shopping! Explore how the whole school community can become more aware of the issues behind the products they buy & take action to support producers. Find out how Fair Trade makes a difference.

Reading Repair Cafe is a community project to bring people together to repair items rather than throw them away! Electronics, computers, bikes, clothes, tools etc. Please visit www.readingrepaircafe.org.uk to find out more.

Director: Felipe Bustos Sierra (Tixeon, Five Six Seven Eight!) Winner: Best feature Film, BAFTA Awards Scotland, 2018 A heartfelt documentary that tells the true story of Scottish workerswho managed to ground half of Chile’s Air Force, from the other side of the world, in the longest single act of solidarity against Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship that had toppled the government of Salvador Allende.

By Kamal Abdullayev - Azerbaijan. Translated from Azerbaijani by Anne Thompson, this is a novel narrating the imaginary life of medieval icons. When a young researcher accidentally comes across a manuscript in the Manuscripts Institute, he discovers the unexpected but well-known epic Kitabi Dada Korkud, combined with the history of Azerbaijani shah and poet Shah Ismail's life set in an entirely new interpretation. 210pp