Dir: Michel Toesca (Démocratie Zéro6), Winner: Golden Eye, Cannes Film Festival 2018 Farmer Cédric Herrou has welcomed migrants to his home since the beginning of the crisis, turning his backyard into a much-needed shelter.With the help of friends and volunteers, he challenges French immigration policies which make impossible for families to set foot in France and seek asylum. Filmed during3 years by documentary maker Michelioesca, this everyday hero will do anything to help them, even risking his own freedom. Sign petition to make 3 October European Day of Memory and Welcome

A funded, Professional Development and Curriculum day for teachers and trainee teachers of Maths at Key Stages 2 or 3

In the terrifying atmosphere of late 1970s Buenos Aires, a young militant couple engaged in the resistance against the military regime adopt a child. Matters had reached a nadir; people were informing on friends and family members, who were then captured by the regime and subjected to horrific torture. Amid this ever-growing oppression, the couple and their baby flee to Brazil, believing it to be a more tranquil country in which to raise a family and pursue their lives.

6 week course beginning Wednesday 25th September, Open to all, All equipment and ingredients provided

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

Explore different harvesting methods; how to extend the harvest; how to store your produce; saving seeds for next year

Ai Weiwei’s magisterial film examines the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profound personal human impact. Film screening and discussion introduced by Andrew Micklebrugh.

Set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries Abdallah after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved, who has emigrated to Canada. These three women and their families witness Oman evolve from a traditional, slave-owning society slowly redefining itself after the colonial era, to the crossroads of its complex present. Elegantly structured and taut, Celestial Bodies is a coiled spring of a novel, telling of Oman's coming-of-age through the prism of one family's losses and loves.

Alone in his room in a London madrasah, Musah tries on an abaya, a hijab and a shawl: he has crossed over - to outsiders he has become a Muslim woman. In a Pakistani haveli, his cousin, the nubile Iram, waits to fulfil the will of Dadaji, their grandfather. She and Musa must marry. When Musa's siblings and friends step in to help him fight tradition and achieve what he wants - a love match - their efforts lead to outrage, hilarity and, ultimately, tragedy.

Panel discussion on the effect of unlimited resource extraction on people and planet.

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.

Identifying common pests and diseases; managing pests and diseases organically; encouraging beneficial wildlife into the garden

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

SAPERE two-day Level 1 Foundation Course facilitated by Jen Simpson.

Politicians tell us we need to grow our economies, but is this possible on our finite planet? Is our drive to consume, leading us to social, economic and environmental collapse? Could a ‘post growth’ economy offer us happy and fulfilled lives within sustainable limits? Come and join in the debate led by Dr Andrew Mickleburgh.

By Negar Djavadi (tr by Tina Kover) – Iran/France
Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself as well as the prospect of a new generation, Kimiâ is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which come to her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves. In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility clinic, generations of flamboyant Sadrs return to her, including her formidable great-grandfather Montazemolmolk, with his harem of fifty-two wives, and her parents, Darius and Sara, stalwart opponents of each regime that befalls them.
In this high-spirited, kaleidoscopic story, key moments of Iranian history, politics, and culture punctuate stories of family drama and triumph. Yet it is Kimiâ herself––punk-rock aficionado, storyteller extraordinaire, a Scheherazade of our time, and above all a modern woman divided between family traditions and her own “disorientalization”––who forms the heart of this bestselling and beloved novel. 320pp

SAPERE two-day Level 1 Foundation Course facilitated by Jen Simpson.

Director: Aki Kaurismäki. Winner: Palm Dog Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival, 2011. A town bands together to reunite a refugee boy with his mother in a tender and loving tale. The director presents a warm embrace to those who find themselves rootless. Le Havre offers them and moviegoers an enchanted port in the storm–a cinematic refuge from real life.

Identifying different types of soil; how to look after the soil; compost - why we make it, what we use to make it and how to use it; compost bins; other composting methods

The Global Teachers’ Award (GTA) is a national award supporting teachers in developing skills, confidence and practical approaches to embed global learning in the curriculum and promote informed, active Global Citizenship with pupils.

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

By Akwaeke Emezi – Nigeria (hardback £10)
Ada is the second child of Saul, a Nigerian doctor, and his Malaysian wife Saachi, a nurse. When Ada is still a child, Saachi leaves to work abroad, first in Saudi Arabia and then in the UK. Although she visits her family in Nigeria once or twice each year, she will never again live in the home she once made with her proud and impatient husband. At 16, Ada also leaves Nigeria, for the United States, where she spends her turbulent college years in Virginia. All the while, there is a claim on her head , “for being born incorrectly, for not returning, for crossing the ocean sifted with death”. While the effects of this claim might read like a curse, they are really a manifestation of a demand that she follow a predestined path. Ada is an ogbanje, a spirit child who is born repeatedly to the same parents, taunting and torturing them with many reincarnations. While most ogbanjes die as children, Ada survives into adulthood, constantly struggling against a pull towards self-annihilation.
When Ada finds a measure of peace, it is not a consequence of eliminating any of her selves: instead, it emanates from accepting that she is “a village full of faces and a compound full of bones, translucent thousands”. When we return to Nigeria, the narrator is Ada: not the tortured Ada who made her way tentatively into earlier chapters in the form of poems and diary entries, but a voice infused with We’s poetic cadence and Asughara’s blistering yet intimate tone. It is a fitting culmination for the extraordinary journeyFreshwater charts, a manifestation of Ada’s realisation that she is irrevocably an amalgamation of all her varied and even divergent selves. 240pp

Gardening organically; watering wisely; weeds and how to deal with them; mulching - why we mulch and materials we can use

The Global Teachers’ Award (GTA) is a national award supporting teachers in developing skills, confidence and practical approaches to embed global learning in the curriculum and promote informed, active Global Citizenship with pupils.

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.