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Weds 29th Sept, 1pm, (meet outside Goldsmiths Library)
Anti-Fascist Tour of East London, FREE

Fri 1st Oct, 8pm til late, The Stretch, Tiananmen Building, Dixon Road
Love Goldsmiths Hate Racism Hip Hop night, £2 entry

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Black History Month Film Festival @ Goldsmiths!
Every Monday at 6pm in the Common Room, 1st floor of Tiananmen Building, Dixon Road

4th – Deacons for Defence
Starring Forest Whittaker and Ossie Davis, this film follows the true story of the black community in Bogalusa, a small southern town in the USA during the height of the civil rights movement. Under constant harassment from local police and the Ku Klux Klan, the community arm themselves and form the Deacons for Defence, a people’s militia to fend off racist attacks. A stunning film, it uncovers a rarely heard of, yet crucial chapter of, the civil rights movement.

11th – Malcolm X In His own Words
One of the most iconic, yet misunderstood and misrepresented, figures of the civil rights movement, Malcolm X paved the way for the dynamic Black Power movement of the 1970s and 80s. This film, using documentary footage, takes us through an incredible journey of his firebrand oration and political maturity up to his assassination. Arguably the best film available on Malcolm, a not-to-miss film.

18th – Tsotsi
“Tsotsi” literally means “thug” or “gangster” in the street language of South Africa’s townships and ghettos.  Set amidst the sprawling Johannesburg township of Soweto - where survival is the primary objective - Tsosti traces six days in the life of a ruthless young gang leader who ends up caring for a baby accidentally kidnapped during a car-jacking. Winner of numerous international film awards, Tsotsi is one of the most ground-making films to emerge from the African continent.

25th - Injustice
Described by the Guardian as “one of the most powerful films ever made” in the UK, Injustice looks at the appalling record of black deaths in police custody; an account of the relentless struggles of families as they find out how they lost their loved ones in extremely violent deaths at the hands of police officers. Each family is met with a wall of official secrecy and the film documents how they unite and challenge this together; the fight to retrieve the bodies for burial, the mockery of police self-investigation and the collusion of the legal system in the deaths.
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Tuesday 5th October, 6pm, Small Hall Cinema
B-Movie Society Film showing: ‘Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song’

Wednesday 6th October, 6pm, Small Hall Cinema
History Society presents ‘A History of Racism’ - 6pm

Thursday 7th October, 5pm, Room: RHB 309
“The New Cross Massacre”, talk and photo exhibition from the George Padmore Institute.

Tuesday 12th Oct, 5pm, Room: RHB 309
“Islamophobia: The New Racism in the War on Terror”, co-hosted by the Sisters’ Islamic society.

Wednesday 20th October, 4pm, Room: RHB 309
“Apartheid: From South Africa to Palestine”, with Vicky Araj (PhD student from Bethlehem), Tony Dykes (Director, Action for Southern Africa).
Co-hosted by the Goldsmiths Palestine Campaign.

Tuesday 26th October, All day, The Stretch, Tiananmen Building,
“Celebrate Multiculturalism Day”, food, music, dancing, stalls, hosted by the South Asian Society.

Friday 29th October, 6pm, RHB Great Hall
“Roc The Runway Culture Show”
This is a variety show featuring the best Goldsmiths and London has to offer in music, drama, dance, and other performing arts, including a fashion show for Black History Month. We will be exploring both the historical and contemporary aspects of slavery and where we have arrived.
There will also be giveaways, raffles and food on the night and a live DJ. Tickets are £7, doors open at 6 and the show starts at 6.30pm in the great hall. No admittance after 7 and will finish approx 8.45pm.