Human Rights Watch film festival starts for 12th year
	Clapham Picturehouse has teamed up with cinemas across the capital and Time Out magazine for the 12th Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. In all, 25 films and documentaries will be screened from 19 countries, and seven of them will be featured at the refurbished Picturehouse.

	Battersea art fair teams up with zoo
	Art and nature: polar opposites, yet in many ways joined at the hip. And, in a beautiful consummation, Battersea Park Children's Zoo has joined with the Affordable Art Fair for a special offer this weekend.

Rambert raises the barre

A triumphant first for Richmond Orchestra: a ballet with choreography and dancing by Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance students.

Treat for wine buffs at art fair

Gallo Family Vineyards will be the official drinks sponsor of the Affordable Art Fair for the second successive year.

	Talking Heads at Happy Soul Festival
	For all its razzamatazz and explosions, the cinema screen can be an effective tool for bringing taboo subjects to the attention of the masses. And what is more taboo than our own frailties and mortality?

	Chris Atkins takes to Picturehouse stage
	An increasingly sensitive issue in Britain since New Labour came into power is civil liberty. You only have to flick through a few news channels of an evening and you will find Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, opposing some new initiative that promises to smash terrorism by putting fully operating film and sound crews in every UK residents' bedroom.

Honeywood takes trip to China

No sooner have the Chinese New Year celebrations started, then the Honeywood Museum get involved like the proverbial up a drainpipe. For it is Year of the Rat, meaning an afternoon of Chinese and rat-related activities down by Carshalton ponds.

	Jan Etherington has it all Pegg-ed Up
	Fancy writing for the likes of Richard Wilson and Simon Pegg? Jan Etherington has. And now the award-winning comedy writer is running a two-day course in Sunbury to show you how it's done.

Battersea Beer Festival: a Carling free zone

The way I see it, you can legitimately attend this year's Battersea Beer Festival by claiming medicinal purposes'. Why? Because the festival is an antidote to the groundhog day feeling one gets, simply by entering a pub in the 21st century and scanning the choice' of beers.

Hot new talent to enter the Furnace

A night of fresh, young artists and performers is fanning the flames of south west London underground talent.

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