24 October 2017, Evening Meetup with Peter Tatchell, central London by Kings Cross, 6:30-8:30pm
PLEASE NOTE: This is our regular space for our monthly meet-ups; if you would like to attend, please email [email protected] to register and receive further information. If you already know the location, just show up.
Suggested donation: £3 waged; £1 unwaged.

Biography:

Peter Tatchell has been campaigning for human rights and global justice since 1967. New Statesman readers voted him sixth on their list of “Heroes of our Time” 2006. He won Campaigner of the Year at The Observer Ethical Awards 2009, as well as Secularist of the Year 2012. He writes and broadcasts on many human rights and social justice issues. In protest against the Archbishop of Canterbury’s support for legal discrimination against LGBT people, he interrupted Dr. Carey’s Easter Sunday Sermon in 1998. He attempted a citizen’s arrest of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in 1999 and again in 2001, and was beaten unconscious the second time. He was also arrested and beaten when he went to support Moscow LGBT Pride in 2007. Both attacks left him with brain and eye damage. He is currently the Director of the human rights organisation, the Peter Tatchell Foundation.

7 November 2017, Evening Meetup with Sadia Sadia, central London by Kings Cross, 6:30-8:30pm
PLEASE NOTE: This is our regular space for our monthly meet-ups; if you would like to attend, please email [email protected] to register and receive further information. If you already know the location, just show up.
Suggested donation: £3 waged; £1 unwaged.

Biography:

Sadia Sadia is a Canadian-born British installation artist. She was one of the first women in the world to be signed to a major label as a record producer, and became the first female member of the British Record Producer’s Guild (now the MPG Music Producer’s Guild), under the chairmanship of Sir George Martin. Her work has been sequenced to film and television by companies such as Polygram/Miramax, Interscope and Universal Pictures. Sadia was the music producer of the inaugural TUC ‘Respect: Unite Against Racism’ campaign, featuring dozens of international musicians. As an artist and film maker, Sadia’s work has been screened around the world in venues including the Melbourne International Film Festival, the Tricycle Theatre, the National Science and Media Museum and the Cinematheque Francaise. Her work forms part of the permanent collection of ACMI (the Australian Centre for the Moving Image). Sadia has a master’s degree in design from Central St Martin’s as well as a master’s degree in political science and economics with a specialisation in gender from Birkbeck University. She was born to a Pakistani Muslim father and is an atheist and ex-Muslim.