The Hot Zone By Nirjay MahindruWarehouse Theatre,Croydon, south London18 –23 October,Phone 020 8680 4060
Black Victorians — Black people in British Art 1800–1900Manchester Art GalleryUntil 8 January 2006www.manchestergalleries.orgPhone 0161 235 8888
Degas, Sickert and Toulouse Lautrec — London and Paris 1870–1910Tate Britain, central London, until 15 January
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were RabbitDirected by Nick Park and Steve BoxAt cinemas now
It’s ten years since the height of Britpop — the chart battle between Blur’s Country House and Oasis’s Roll With It that was considered so important it was covered on major news programmes and in the broadsheets.
Author, poet and regular Socialist Worker columnist Michael Rosen is a man on a mission. His latest book, Dickens: His Work and His World, published by Walker Books, is a lavishly illustrated introduction to the Victorian writer Charles Dickens. It is aimed at opening up his novels to a new generation of readers, both adults and children, while underlining their often neglected social and political aspects.
Before there was the welfare state there was the workhouse. Those who could not support themselves by working for a wage were more or less kept alive in this most grim of institutions.
Different influences had merged together to form one kind of music. The influences went back and forth between the black and the white musicians.
October is Black History Month and hundreds of events have been organised around Britain to celebrate the lives and achievements of black people.
William Morris Gallery, Lloyd Park, Forest Road, London E17 4PPUntil 9 October
