By César Aira - In the town square of Coronel Pringles stands a lime tree from which the author’s father used to brew a sedative tea. This Proustian infusion evokes dark memories of the 1955 anti-Perónist revolution, which dashed the family’s middle-class dreams. The Lime Tree is a portrait of the artist as a child and a lucid analysis of a family's social trajectory. 256pp

Two venturesome women on a journey through the land of their fathers and mothers. A wrong turn. A bad decision. They had no idea, when they arrived in Morocco, that their usual freedoms as young European women would not be available. So, when the spry Saleh presents himself as their guide and saviour, they embrace his offer.

We are constantly being encouraged to update our smartphones and we should be be asking what the environmental and social costs are. How can we all enjoy the benefits of owning a smartphone while causing minimal damage to people and planet? How do we have informed conversations with each other and our children and students about the problem of digital technology?

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

The national GLOBAL TEACHER AWARD is available across the country from the Consortium of Development Education Centres (CoDEC) and promotes skills, confidence and practical approaches to incorporate global learning into the curriculum, and active global citizenship into the school.

Photographic exhibition and talk by Rosa Gauditano, one of the most important photographers in Brazil who focuses on the life, culture and struggle for survival of Brazil’s indigenous people. Film screening of Darini, on the spiritual initiation ritual of the Xavante people. Enjoy Brazilian music by Ife Tolentino and Steve Pierce while sampling delicious Brazilian food by Pau Brasil.

The national GLOBAL TEACHER AWARD is available across the country from the Consortium of Development Education Centres (CoDEC) and promotes skills, confidence and practical approaches to incorporate global learning into the curriculum, and active global citizenship into the school.

Hear from the people behind this year’s Palestine Book Awards’ fabulous shortlist of authors & books on Palestine. With Victoria Brittain, former associate foreign editor of The Guardian, Haifa Zangana, Iraqi author & chair of the judges will bring you Palestine in poetry, novels, memoirs & new academic research. Book stall, Zaytoun exhibition, fair trade stall & Palestinian snacks.

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

Ah Hock is an ordinary, uneducated man born in a Malaysian fishing village and now trying to make his way in a country that promises riches and security to everyone, but delivers them only to a chosen few. With Asian society changing around him, like many he remains trapped in a world of poorly paid jobs that just about allow him to keep his head above water but ultimately lead him to murder a migrant worker from Bangladesh. This is a portrait of an outsider like no other, an anti-nostalgic view of human life and the ravages of hope.

A mining company suing a country for £2 billion because its government wants to protect its people and environment from the toxic effects of gold mining! Is this dystopian science-fiction or reality? Come and find out why we need rights for the people and rules for the corporations. Film and discussion.

A concert with oud master Francesco Iannuzzelli and Iraqi singer, oud musician and author Sahera Saeed who will take the audience on a musical journey through time. Azad Zangana will give a brief history of the making of the oud. Iraqi food and refreshments will be served.

Screening of Eat, Grow Love which looks how permaculture has been applied in six different locations around the world, including the RISC roof garden. Followed by presentation by Dave Richards on the benefits of community food growing using the experience of RISC’s Food4families gardens, including Lavender Place Community Gardens.

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.

Leading reparations advocate Esther Stanford Xosei links the living history of slavery and colonialism to anti-black oppression in Britain today, and shares stories and from the vibrant global movement for reparations. Plus speakers on Reading’s links to slavery, and solidarity activist Miriam Rose shares a white perspective on the origins of Britain’s wealth and the need for reparations.

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.