Events

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To mark International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), our panellists will discuss the recent  EU LGBTI+ Equality Strategy and consider how issues such as family rights, freedom of  movement, and asylum may be affected by the UK's withdrawal from the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights.

The 3rd annual Julian Priestley Memorial Lecture is taking place on 7 May 2021 from 6pm - 7.30pm, and due to COVID-19, will now take place online.

With this LUX Audience Award, Parliament teams up with the European Film Academy to reach a wider audience. Through its film prize, Parliament has been providing tangible support for the distribution of European films since 2007 by providing subtitles in 24 EU languages for the films in the final competition. The LUX prize has garnered a reputation by selecting European co-productions that engage with topical political and social issues and encourage debate about our values.

As the European Parliament continues to examine the text of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement ahead of its consent vote, this event will examine the governance arrangements for the agreement, which is one of the areas MEPs have are expressing concerns about.

NIGHT OF IDEAS is a project staged simultaneously in Paris, London and worldwide. It was launched by the Institut français in 2016. 

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Sturm und Klang ensemble performed live at the museum. Experience music by European composers impacted by Nazi violence and the Shoah in their bodies and minds, and discover a new piece created especially for the occasion. Learn about the way the Holocaust and its memory feature in the museum's permanent exhibition and contribute to shaping its narrative, during an introductory talk by Blandine Smilansky from the Events and Learning Team.

The current COVID crisis has seen an increased, unequal burden placed upon women. In both our health services and voluntary organisations, but also in the home where many have to juggle work, home schooling and being carers. We have also seen truly inspirational and re-assuring leadership by women in dealing with the pandemic and its consequences.

Join in a participatory online art project re-imagining the relationship between the United Kingdom and France. As we adjust to the new physical and emotional borders now placed between the UK and its continental neighbours, I Love You, Moi Non Plus is a digital art project that allows everyone to imagine and express what this historical change might mean for the UK-French relationship today and in the future.

The European Parliament Liaison Office in London organised an online discussion on the fate of child refugees past and present. This marked Holocuast Memorial Day on 27 January, which commemorates the tragedy of the Holocaust that occurred during the Second World War.