Five Things Listing

Mongrel's debut album, Better Than Heavy, is a powerful fusion of hip-hop and indie. The Disposable Heroes of Hypocrisy meets the Clash, and a love child of last year's Love Music Hate Racism carnival.

The supergroup includes John McClure of Reverand and the Makers, Drew McConnell from Babyshambles, ex-Arctic Monkeys bassist Andy Nicholson and rapper Lowkey.

David Hare's witty new play Gethsemane roots the betrayal of the Labour government in its willingness to abandon its principles in exchange for the good opinion and cash of the wealthy.

An exploration of the work of architect, designer, writer and artist Le Corbusier (pictured), the season contains exhibitions, talks, symposiums and debates about his legacy of urban planning and design.

Amandla, the Xhosa word for "power", is a collection of music celebrating the South African victory over apartheid.

It charts the lives of those living under the brutally racist system, forced to move to the townships and industrial centres to work as servants or miners for their white rulers.

It is a celebration of resistance, and the then-imagined future of blacks in South Africa.

After its run in the Live Theatre Newcastle this play by Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall is based on a true story about a group of miners who in 1934 joined an art appreciation group. What results is a group of workers who get the chance to explore and create art for the first time.

Conference and bookfair celebrating the events of 1968 features speakers from France, the US, Russia, Germany, Eastern Europe and Britain, including Lindsey German, Chris Harman, Eamonn McCann and Sheila Rowbotham.

Iraq Veterans Against the War organised a Winter Soldier event in Washington last month to mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Hundreds of US veterans came together to give testimony about their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The event was named after the Winter Soldier hearings held in 1971 that saw US veterans testifying to the shocking atrocities carried out by the US army in Vietnam.

Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia had a huge impact on contemporary and modern art, and were pioneers in the early 20th century.

Duchamp would remove everyday objects from their contexts and present them as a piece of art. Man Ray used avant-garde photographic and film techniques while Picabia undermined conventional forms of art in the use of popular and kitsch images to create his work.

David Garner's series of sculptural installations explores war and racism, Western assumptions and attitudes towards Islam, and the demonisation of Muslims. Poppycock uses a real soldier's helmet and dried Middle Eastern poppies.

Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 epic film of Russia's failed 1905 revolution is set to a new score by the Pet Shop Boys, performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra. It was first performed in 2004, when the film was shown in Trafalgar Square to an audience of thousands.

Many scenes from the film will already be familiar, even to those who have never seen it before, as it was a true watershed in cinema. The new score has divided critics, but the power of the imagery has lost little over the past 83 years.