Events

Screening of the Catalan film 'Uncertain Glory' (Agustí Villaronga, 2017) at 6pm on 3 October in Andrew Stewart Cinema, Gilmorehill, 9 University Avenue. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with film producer and president of the Catalan Film Academy, Isona Passola. 

Concert to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the arrival in Scotland of Basque child refugees from the Spanish Civil War; 8.30pm-11.30pm, at The Jaffle Joint, 87 Portobello High Street, Edinburgh EH15 1AW, with Scottish-Spanish folk collective Gallo Rojo and folk duo Na-mara. Organised in conjunction with the Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival and the Basque Children ’37 Association.

‘Anti-Fascist Footprints’: a walk through the 1930s East End; organised by David Rosenberg of East End Walks; 2pm-4.30pm; booking: http://www.eastendwalks.com/?page_id=82

Public seminar organised by the LSE’s Cañada Blanch Centre: ‘Cinema serving the nation: Spanish feature films from 1939 to 1975’ by Gabriela Viadero (LSE postdoctoral researcher); chaied by Professor Paul Preston; 6pm at Cowdray House, London School of Economics, Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HJ; free. www.lse.ac.uk/collections/canadablanch

2017 SO Davies Memorial Lecture by actor Richard Harrington, who earlier this year In presented the BBC 2 Wales programme ‘Richard Harrington: My Grandfather's War’, in which he followed the journey his grandfather, Timothy Harrington, made to Spain in 1937 to join the International Brigades.