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For the first time ever, American protest singer/songwriter David Rovics plays in York, alongside Attila the Stockbroker and Tracey Curtis. Promises to be a great night of entertainment and politics.

Rovics has performed at some of the biggest American anti-war demonstrations, received an award in Palestine for his work promoting Palestinian Human Rights causes, and written songs about a huge array of issues, from the illogical policies of the Bush era and the inadequate response to New Orleans, to historic protest movements and places which have become forgotten victims of recent wars.

Attila describes himself as a punk-poet, who's work is critical of modern pop-culture's often shallow world-view, tabloid misrepresentation of asylum seekers and New Labour's many injustices, not least the Iraq war.

Tracey lives in Wales, and writes all her songs for one or other of her children. An up-and-coming protest folk artist, she's definitely a worthwhile support artist.

York Carnival, put together by University, City and Community groups, will take to the streets of York on Sunday 6th May. There will be events in Parliament Street, St Sampson's Square, Kings Square, Coppergate and elsewhere all day, with money raised going to charity. The theme of this years event will be sustainability, and various local environmental groups will be involved, including York Rotters and participants in the city's Critical Mass.

An outline of the events is now available on the organiser's website, but no route for the procession has been announced. Various schools are set to be involved, with Music Students from University of York having taken schools workshops in recent weeks. Events start in Parliament Street with a balloon launch and will end with a Ceilidh for all to take part in, starting at 7pm. St Sampson's Square will see a long line up of dance acts, and elsewhere there will be art exhibitions and stalls.

As part of the Illuminating York Festival, LUX is a series of small scale public artworks created by graduate and undergraduate students of the York St John University, Faculty of Arts working in collaboration with businesses on Micklegate and in partnership with the City of York Council Economic Development Unit.

Much of art work will be in the form of projections, and will highlight the architecture of the surrounding area. Every night from 5-8pm, the show runs until the 27th January.

With the Joe Auckland Band. A night to raise money for Amnesty, and issues around diamond trafficking. Tickets (£5/£4) from Fairer World in late January.