Cartoonist Martin Rowson will be speaking at the Club in his own entertaining fashion about the power of satire, how he uses cartoons to create acerbic critiques of the world of politics and politicians and explaining how he goes about his work.

Rowson has colourfully caricatured the political climate since 1982. His recent depictions of Nick Clegg as Pinnochio have brought him praise and awards (including Political Cartoonist of the Year 2010). In 2001 Ken Livingstone appointed him London’s first Cartoonist Laureate in exchange for one pint of London Pride per annum. This payment is still six pints in arrears, and despite being apparently reappointed by Boris Johnson, not a single pint has been forthcoming from the current mayor.

Rowson‘s work has appeared regularly in The Guardian, The Times, The Independent on Sunday, The Daily Mirror, The Spectator, The New Statesman, Tribune and The Morning Star, as well as many other publications. He has penned comic books, a novel Snatches and a memoir Stuff.

Rowson won the Cartoon Art Trust’s Political Cartoonist of the Year Award in 2000 and 2004, and the Political Cartoon Society’s Cartoon of the Year in 2003 and 2007. He also won the prestigious Premio Satiri de Forte di Marmi International Satire Award in 2006.

Laurie Taylor, who will moderate the event, is a sociologist and broadcaster. He regularly presents Thinking Allowed on BBC Radio 4 and is the commissioning editor for New Humanist.

Bakhtiyar Muhtarov of Andijan – Justice and Rebirth is one of them.  He has interviewed 220 witnesses of the massacre and the subsequent arrests, torture and extrajudicial executions.  Nadejda Atayeva, Association of Human Rights in Central Asia, has collected evidence from Andijan morgue employees.  Shamsuddin Atamatov is one of the 23 businessmen whose trial led to the protests, and was a witness to the massacre.  Monica Whitlock recently produced a documentary film chronicling the tragedy.  She gained interviews with eyewitnesses.

With Bahtiyar Muhtarov, deputy director, Andijan – Justice and Rebirth

Shamsuddin Atamatov, former businessman in Andijan

Nadejda Atayeva, president, Association for Human Rights in Central Asia

Monica Whitlock, producer, Through the Looking Glass: The Andijan Massacre, and former BBC correspondent in Central Asia.

For further information please contact Luis Montero at Luis.Montero@osf-eu.org, telephone 07798737516

Please RVSP to Daniela White, Daniela.White@osf-eu.org

You can enter as an individual or as a team of six. All money raised will go to the Fixers’ Fund which raises money for families of fixers around the world killed or injured while working with the international media. This event is open to everyone.

Stevyn Colgan is an author, illustrator, songwriter and Blue Peter badge winner. He is the author of Joined-Up Thinking (2009 Pan Macmillan) Ten Tall Tales from the Dim Ages (Kowethas 2010) and is a regular contributor to the QI Annual and TV show. He was the official artist for the 2006 national children’s book fair (Scholastic) and has illustrated several books. He is a popular public speaker and a visiting lecturer in metacognition at Barts and the London. www.stevyncolgan.com
 

Photograph courtesy of Stephen Sidlo.

Part two – Case Study (2)
Our new scalpels are applied to Franny Armstrong, director of ‘Age of Stupid’ [again, recommended, but not compulsory, pre-session viewing].

Part Three – New frontiers in digital film marketing
What’s new – in funding, crowd sourcing, production and distribution.

Part four – Put it to the test
The participants are broken into groups, and each given an hypothetical film project. Each group will spend twenty minutes preparing a marketing and distribution plan using lessons learned earlier, and then in turn present to the group.

Part Five – Networking is not a Four Letter Word
I know we’re British, but a little networking never hurt anyone. Go on: be more American. Included in the price of the course is a drink on us, and the opportunity to network in the salubrious surrounds of the Frontline club

dispatches is a new quarterly, a current affairs journal in print rather than online. Book-sized with a bold, cutting-edge layout, dispatches addresses critical global issues through in-depth reportage and photography.

The first issue, "In America," features essays by Paul Theroux, John Kifner, Muzamil Jaleel, and Samantha Power, photographs by Antonin Kratochvil, and an illustration by Gerald Scarfe. For more information on dispatches, please see the website at www.rethink-dispatches.com.

Booking is for members only and can be done online or RSVP to events@www.beta.frontlineclub.com

This unique film focuses on pupils at the Mulberry Bush School, a boarding school which caters for children suffering severe emotional trauma.

Longinotto’s films are renowned for their intimate portraits of characters and insights into the personal worlds of diverse people. Her past work includes: Divorce Iranian Style (1998); Gaea Girls (2000) and Sisters In Law (2005).

Last time a distinguished Frontline member made it to the final, and
though he’ll be a hard act to follow, all Frontline members are very
welcome.

Tournament places are limited.

Facing the World (www.facingtheworld.net) is a cranio-facial surgery
charity providing life-changing surgery in the UK for children from
countries without the necessary medical technology.  This evening is
in aid of an Iraqi child, Ali Hussein, who Facing the World is
sponsoring.  The organiser, Monica Garnsey, is a documentary maker who
introduced Ali Hussein to Facing the World in 2003 after making a
documentary film about him for Channel 4.

Please call 0207 479 8942 for further information or email: marina.calland@www.beta.frontlineclub.com