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Talks and discussions
Monday 20 April
* Voices from the Global South: listening to climate perspectives, Prerna Singh Bindra, Elspeth Mathau, Benny Qihao Shen, 6.30-7.45pm, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gardens, SW7 2ER. Info: RGS
* An Evening with Beto Marubo, the Indigenous leader will discuss efforts to defend the Amazon rainforest and protect uncontacted Indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon, 7pm, Second Home Spitalfields, 68-80 Hanbury Street, E1 5JL. Info: Eventbrite
* A World Without Work, Daniel Susskind, 6pm, Gresham College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, EC1N 2HH. Info: Gresham
* Toppling Heads: Regime change and immunity in international law, Philippa Webb, 6.30-8pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
Tuesday 21 April
* Scramble for the Seabed, does deep-sea mining pose an unjustifiable environmental and existential risk?, 6.15pm, £6.50 livestream, £16.80 in person, The Conduit, 6 Langley Street, WC2H 9JA. Info: The Conduit
* Honey in the Wound, Jiyoung Han on her debut novel, which follows a Korean family across decades of displacement during a turbulent period in Korean history, 6.30pm, Korean Cultural Centre, Grand Buildings, 1 - 3 Strand, WC2N 5BW. Info: KCC
* How can we solve the inequality emergency, Joseph Stiglitz, 4.30-5.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street WC2.
* Taming AI, Matt Jones, 6pm, Gresham College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, EC1N 2HH. Info: Gresham
Wednesday 22 April
* Cross Border Intimacies: Affect and Emotion in Marriage Migration Between China and Taiwan, Lara Momesso, 1.30-3pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
* Food Fight: From plunder and profit to people and planet, the paperback launch of book by Stuart Gillespie that shines a light on the evolution of global food systems, 6-7.30pm. Info: Institute of Development Studies
Thursday 23 April
* Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire, book talk with Simukai Chigudu, a member of the first generation to be born after liberation in Zimbabwe, on his story and whether the end of colonial rule delivered true freedom for a new generation, 7pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2. Info: Frontline
* Exploring Rangeland Myths, Saverio Krätli, Ruan de Wet, Meenal Tatpati, 11-12.30pm, online. Info: Institute of Development Studies
* Exploring the relationship between care and other infrastructures in Sri Lanka, India and South Africa, Iromi Perera, Vrashali Khandelwal, Mercy Brown-Luthango, Nick Nisbett, Hayley MacGregor, 1-2.25pm. Info: Institute of Development Studies
Friday 24 April
* Translating and Communicating Covid-19 Among London’s Multilingual Communities, Graeme Earl, Ida Hadjivayanis, Yan Jiang, Jo Hemlatha, You-Kyung Ju, Lutz Marten, Martin Orwin, Amy Parsons, Naresh Sharma, Marie Thaut, 5-6.45pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
* Global Report on Food Crisis Launch: High-Level Ceremony, 10am, in person and online. Info: Overseas Development Institute
Saturday 25 April
* Voices of the Diaspora: launch of the Black Africa Diaspora Society, speakers, poetry, music, food, 6-10pm, free, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: Launch
* Resisting Big Tech Empires: The Fight for the Future, Cory Doctorow, Anita Gurumurthy, Cory Doctorow, Sofia Scassera, James Meadway, Khem Rogaly, Cecilia Rikap, Dan McQuillan, Nick Srnicek, Rosa Curling, Nafeez Ahmed, Sophia Goodfriend, 11am-6pm, London South Bank University Hub, SE1 6LN. Info: Global Justice Now
Monday 27 April
* How totalitarian reform revived authoritarian rule in China, Minxin Pei on his latest book, 5-6.30pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
Tuesday 28 April
* Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire, Simuka Chigudu on being born in post-colonial Zimbabwe, shaped by his family’s buried trauma of war and liberation, 5.15pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
Exhibitions
* Moved to Care: Stories of Health and Migration, explores the contributions of migrants from across the globe to healthcare over the last 150 years, from the 19th century colonial legacy of missionary nurses to the Windrush Generation, free, 20 Cavendish Square, W1G OR until 2 November. Info: Royal College of Nursing
+ Migrant nurses: looking after Britain’s health
* Hawaiʻi: a kingdom crossing oceans, a celebration of art and history, £14/ £16, British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG until 25 May. Info: Hawai’i
* A Greenland shadow over a wonderful Hawai’i exhibition
* Mil Veces un Instante (A Thousand Times In An Instant), Mexican artist Teresa Margolles’ cuboid on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square is a memorial to trans people worldwide
* Nigerian Modernism, Nigerian artists working before and after the decade of national independence from British colonial rule in 1960, Tate Modern, Bankside SE1 9TG until 10 May. Info: Tate
* Hurvin Anderson, 80 new works by the British-Jamaican artist, Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1P 4RG until 23 August. Info: Tate
* The Land Carries, work by three international artists: Ahmed Akasha (UK), Dina Nur Satti (US) and Yasmin Elnour (Bahrain) responding to material in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology, 1 - 5pm, Petrie Museum, University College London, Malet Place, WC1E 6BT until 16 May. Info: Sudan exhibition
* Collecting and Empire, trail making connections between archaeology, anthropology and the British Empire, British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1. Info: British Museum
* British Library, installation of 6,328 books marks the contributions of migrants to UK, Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1. Info: Installation/ 7887 8888
* Target Queen, large-scale commission by British-Indian artist Bharti Kher, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre
* Beatriz González, the groundbreaking Colombian artist explores the power and impact of the images we encounter every day, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS until 10 May. Info: Barbican
* Water Pantanal Fire, photography exhibition revealing the fragile beauty of the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland that sprawls across Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, free, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 2DD until 31 May. Info: Museum
* Bouchra Khalili: Circles and Storytellers, the culmination of the French-Moroccan artist and educator’s long exploration of the Mouvement des Travailleurs Arabes and its theatre groups, Al Assifa and Al Halaka, free, Mosaic Rooms, 226 Cromwell Road, SW5 0SW until 14 June. Info: Mosaic
* Yin Xiuzhen: Heart to Heart, through large-scale installations made from everyday objects, industrial materials and used items of clothing, the Chinese artist invites us to see the familiar in new ways, £19 (includes admission to Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life), Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX until 3 May. Info: Hayward
* Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, the shortlist includes Amak Mahmoodian (Iran) on the effects of exile on memory and identity, imagining a world without borders, £10/£7, Photographer’s Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street W1 until 7 June. Info: Prize
* Museum of Edible Earth, explore geophagy, the practice of eating earth for health, ritual and culinary benefit. The exhibition features edible samples of clay, chalk and mineral-rich earths from around the world, offering a sensory encounter with soil, pay what you can, Somerset House, Strand, WC2R 1LA until 26 April. Info: Somerset House
* The Arab Hall: Past and Present, commissioned short film by Syrian director Soudade Kaadan, three art installations and exhibition and publication containing extensive new research, Wednesdays to Mondays, free with £14 House entry fee (conc. available), Leighton House, 12 Holland Park Road, W8 7BH, until 4 October. Info: Leighton House
* Donald Locke: Resistant Forms, works by Guyanese-British ceramicist, sculptor and painter, free, Camden Art Centre, Arkwright Road NW3 until 30 August. Info: Art Centre
* Nhu Xuan Hua: Of Walking on Fire, reimagines archival photographs from her family’s time in Vietnam and then Europe, building elaborate visual reconstructions that echo how memory in the diaspora can blur and slip from view, free, Autograph, Rivington Place, EC2A 3BA until 19 September. Info: Autograph
* The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return, 53 artists from Palestine and the diaspora in London, P21, 21-27 Chalton Street, NW1 1JD, until 29 May. Info: P21
* The Music is Black: A British Story, how Black British music has shaped British culture from 1900 to the present day through objects like Joan Armatrading’s childhood guitar, fashion worn by Little Simz and photographs, £22.50 weekdays, £24.40, V&A East, Queen Elizabeth Park, Olympic Park. Info: V&A East Museum
* Learning in Exile: Stories of Displacement and Education in the Rohingya Community, centred on the experiences of Rohingya children and youth since 1982, Wiener Holocaust Library, 29 Russell Square, WC1B 5DP until 30 May. Info: Holocaust Library
+ 1 May, Learning in Exile: When schooling doesn’t mean learning, discussion, 12-1.30pm
Performance
* The Authenticator, latest play by Winsome Pinnock ("the godmother of black British playwrights") sees two historians - of Ghanaian and Nigerian ancestry respectively - take on the task of authenticating the records of a former white Jamaican plantation owner: race, class, humour and a dash of spookiness, National Theatre, South Bank SE1 9PX until 9 May. Info. National
* Jaja's African Hair Braiding, Jocelyn Bioh’s play about life in a bustling Harlem braiding salon where neighbourhood women have their hairstyle dreams come true, all in the hands of a lively group of West African immigrant braiders, from £10, Lyric, Hammersmith, Lyric Square, King Street, W6 0QL until 25 April. Info: Lyric
* Second Trimester, trans performance artist Krishna Istha and his mother, Geetha Shankar, confront pregnancy, loss, gender, and the weight of inherited memories in this cinematic, Bollywood-inspired epic family saga, £28-£9.50, Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, SW11 5TN until 25 April. Info: Battersea Centre
+ 22 April, Bring Your Folks, queer folks and their guardians
* Between the River and the Sea, Yousef was raised as a Christian-Arab-Palestinian-Israeli kid in Haifa, and is now raising two Jewish-Arab-Austrian kids in Berlin. Only he’s facing a custody battle, so things are getting complicated. A story about family, fear, and imagining a future beyond borders, £15-£30, Royal Court, Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS until 9 May. Info: Royal Court
* Pray For Me, work-in-progress exploring faith, deafness and identity, as a Black Deaf woman confronts ideas of cure, belief and belonging through poetry, movement and music, 3pm, New Diorama, 15 - 16 Triton Street, Regent's Place, NW1 3BF until 9 May. Info: CPT
from Tuesday 21 April
* Jeezus!, Catholic guilt collides with unrepentant queerness in this sinful, heart-pounding mix of live music, dark humour, and Latin heat from award-winning migrant-led company Alpaqa, £13-£19, £3 unemployed, pay what you can Saturdays, New Diorama, 15 - 16 Triton Street, Regent's Place, NW1 3BF until 9 May. Info: New Diorama
Saturday 25 April
* Wozzeck - Wretches Like Us, Berg’s devastating opera in a semi-staged production with film by director Ilya Shagalov, reframing the story through the modern lens of migrant labour and social precarity, 7.30pm, part of Multitudes 2026, the Southbank Centre’s multi-arts festival, powered by orchestral music, 7.30pm, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre SE1 8XX. Info: Wozzeck
Sunday 26 April
* An Evening with an Immigrant, poet and playwright Inua Ellams in a new version of his autobiographical show + Laura Mvula, Fuel & Chineke! Orchestra, part of Multitudes 2026, the Southbank Centre’s multi-arts festival, powered by orchestral music, 7.30pm, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre SE1 8XX. Info: Southbank Centre
* Goodness Gracious Me in Conversation: Episode 1, screening of the first episode of the 1990s radio and TV hit series + discussion of the groundbreaking Asian comedy show with Nina Wadia, Sanjeev Bhaskar Kulvinder Ghir, Anil Gupta and Jon Plowman, 5pm, £32. Riverside, 101 Queen Caroline Street, W6 9BN. Info: Riverside
Film
* My Father’s Shadow, two brothers connect with their father in this drama set against the backdrop of the 1993 Nigerian presidential election, Hackney Picturehouse;
+ A father’s shadow - and the shadow of a Nigerian coup
+ Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù: ’If the west doesn’t say a film is good, that doesn’t mean it’s no good’
* The Secret Agent, Brazilian political thriller about an academic on the run in the dangerous, dictatorial 1970s, Finsbury Park Picturehouse,
* The Stranger, Albert Camus’s classic of existential literature is brought to life in 1930s Algeria, where the daily life of an indifferent Frenchman is shaken by the death of his mother and an encounter on a beach, Picturehouses Central, Crouch End, Finsbury Park, Gate, Greenwich, Hackney, Ritzy
* I, Poppy,a complex power structure governs the lives of poppy farmers in India, who are caught between the corrupt government and the black market, Curzon Bloomsbury until 22 April
Monday 20 April
* Matabeleland, in the shadow of a forgotten massacre, a Zimbabwean man haunted by his father’s unburied spirit sets out to break a family curse, confronting both past horrors and his own troubled legacy, Curzon Bloomsbury
* The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), an inexperienced Australian reporter arrives in Indonesia to investigate political turmoil. A charismatic war photographer gives him tips and introduces him to a beautiful British Embassy employee, setting the stage for a whirlwind love affair, 8.30pm, National Film Theatre
TV and radio
Monday 20 April
* Suez: 24 Hours That Broke the British Empire, the catastrophic British-French-Israeli attack on the Suez Canal, part 1, 9pm, Channel4
* Egypt With Dan Snow, can these endless bland travelogues really be the main way we see the Global South?, 9pm, Channel5
Tuesday 21 April
* Suez: 24 Hours That Broke the British Empire, catastrophic British-French-Israeli attack on the Suez Canal, second part, 9pm, Channel4
* Egypt With Dan Snow, second in series, 9pm, Channel5
* I Am Not A Witch, a young girl is banished from her village for alleged witchcraft in this off-beat, witty drama by Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni, 1.45am, Film4
Wednesday 22 April
* Egypt With Dan Snow, third in series, 9pm, Channel5
* Matt Hutchinson: Are You Really The Doctor?, the comedian talks about his days as an NHS doctor, 6.30pm, Radio4
Thanks to volunteer Daniel Nelson (editor of Eventslondon.org) for compiling this list.