There’s a concert at Birmingham Cathedral, Colmore Row tomorrow, 12 December, starting at 11.30am.
It’s being put on by The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture and Amnesty International UK (via Bourneville Amnesty). Tickets are a fiver.
Birmingham’s Amnesty International group is putting on an event with Writers Without Borders called Rights Without Borders. It’s on Saturday 6 Dec from 7.30pm at the Library Theatre and entry is free.
In the video for Amnesty International’s Unsubscribe campaign, Birmingham-based artist Jiva Parthipan ‘played’ the part of a detainee subjected to waterboarding. That is, for a short while he was actually subjected to it with the treatment (judged by the Bush administration not to be torture) filmed in slow motion at 1000 frames per second.
The video has generated a great deal of coverage and no small amount of controversy. You can see it for yourself here:
Jiva is giving a talk at BIAD on 14 May and will be performing a piece called ‘The Terror Of Living‘ at Warwick Arts Centre on 21 May, both as part of the Fierce Festival.
His own website is at www.jivajiva.com.
