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16/07/2020

Events in London

Talks and discussions

Tuesday 9 July

* How to move a rhino: the impacts of tourism on conservation in Africa, Niall McCann, Henry Cookson, Jamie Gaymer and Matt Pycroft discuss the impacts of tourism on conservation in Africa, 7-9pm, £5-£12, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR. Info: RGS

* Balfour and Churchill in Ireland and Palestine, Tariq Ali, David Cronin, 7pm, P21 Gallery, 21-27 Chalton Street, NW1. Info: P21

* Hard labour: Understanding children’s experiences of Urban Child Labour and what drives small informal businesses to hire them, Jody Aked, A.K. Maksud and Elizabeth Hacker discuss research findings of a large programme on worst forms of Child Labour in Bangladesh and Nepal, 12:30-2pm. Info: Institute of Development Studies

Wednesday 10 July

* How can critical accounting contribute to development studies?, Farzana Tanima, Trevor Hopper, Jodie Thorpe, 2-3.30pm. Info: Institute of Development Studies

Thursday 11 July

* Black British History and Belonging, David Olusoga charts the story of Black British history, bringing to light underrepresented narratives, 7.30pm, from £15, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre. Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX. Part of You Belong Here. Info: Southbank Centre

* Adding value to coffee and cacao in Latin America, Layla Zaglul Ruiz, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, Andrés Valenciano Yamuni and Vanúsia Nogueria, 4.30-6pm, Canning House, 50 Broadway, SW1H 0BL. Info: Canning House

* The Praxis of Child Protection, webinar based on a five-year programme tackling the worst forms of child labour in Nepal and Bangladesh, with Kriti Bhattarai, Sayma Sayed, Mieke Snijder, 1-2.30pm. Info: Institute of Development Studies

Friday 12 July

* From learning to action through participatory adaptive management, Pedro Prieto Martin, Jiniya Afroze, Sukanta Paul, Marina Apgar,12-1.30pm. Info: Institute of Development Studies

Saturday 13 July

* Haile Selassie & Marcus Garvey: Two African Giants, Ras Benji, 2pm, free, linked to the exhibition, Tavares Srachan: There is Light Somewhere, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road. Info: Hayward

Sunday 14 July

* Empireworld, Sathnam Sanghera on his new book tracing the legacies of the British empire around the world, 2.30pm, from £15, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX. Part of You Belong Here. Info: Southbank Centre

Tuesday 16 July

* ODI In Conversation with Achim Steiner, the head of the UN Development Programme discusses the SDGs, the future of development, and how it can be more relevant and impactful amid major geopolitical, technological, social and economic shifts, 11am-12.30pm, online. Info: Overseas Development Institute

Exhibitions

* Tavares Strachan: There is Light Somewhere, the Bahamian artist spotlights the lost stories of the people of the African Diaspora, £18, under-12s free, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, until 1 September. Info: Southbank Centre

+ Bahamian artists wants us to see the light

* Zanele Muholi, more than 280 photographs by the South African “visual activist” of her country’s Black lesbian, gay, trans, queer and intersex communities, including self-portraits, £18, Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG, until 26 January. Info: Tate

+ Black LGBTQIA+ lives matter, shout Zanele Muholi’s photos

* Ranjit Singh: Sikh, Warrior, King, the life and legacy of the maharaja, 1780-1839, Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, W1 until 20 October. Info: www.wallacecollection.org

+ Ranjit Singh: Sikh, Warrior, King: glittering remnants of empire

* Gavin Jantjes: To Be Free! A Retrospective 1970 – 2023, more than 100 prints, drawings and paintings by the South African artist, £12.50/ £9.50 , Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX, until 1 September. Info: Exhibition

* House of Bondage, revisits South African photographer Ernest Cole’s Apartheid-era record, £6.50-£8, Photographers’ Gallery, Ramillies Street, W1 until 22 September. Info: Gallery

* Shadowlines, the world of Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide, £6.50/£8, Photographers’ Gallery, Ramillies Street, W1 until 22 September. Info: Gallery

* Antelope, Malawian, Oxford-based artist Samson Kambalu’s sculpture on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.

* Suspended States, Yinka Shonibare riffs on colonialism’s ecological impact, imperialism's legacy on conflict and peace attempts, Serpentine Galleries, Kensington Gardens, W2 3XA , until 1 September. Info: Serpentine

* Inspiration Africa: Stories Beyond the Artifacts, exploration of V&A galleries through the lens of African heritage. Free, every second Saturday of the month, V&A museum, Cromwell Avenue, SW7.

* Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence, an architectural style that, despite its British colonial beginnings in the 1940s, evolved into a symbol of a postcolonial future in West Africa and India, £14, Victoria & Albert Museum, Crowell Road, SW7 until 22 September. Info: V&A

+ How sunlight, humidity and independence made a new ism

* Heart of the Nation: Migration and the NHS, until 27 July, Migration Museum, Lewisham Shopping Centre, SE13 7HB. Info: Migration Museum

* Polly Braden: Leaving Ukraine, an intimate portrait of women forced to leave their homes following the Russian invasion in February 2022 — extraordinary journeys undertaken by mothers, daughters, teenagers and babies in arms, £12.75/ £10.50/ 21 & under, free, Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AZ, until 1 September. Info: 7841 3600/ https://foundlingmuseum.org.uk/

* Ibrahim Mahama: Purple Hibiscus, 2,000 square metres of pink and purple fabric woven and hand sewn by hundreds of craftspeople from Tamale in Ghana and embroidered with 100 ‘batakaris’ – robes worn by Ghanaian kings, free, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS, until 18 August. Info: Barbican

* Paper Cuts: Art, Bureaucracy & Silenced Histories in Colonial India, collection of works on paper by British colonialists in 19th-century India + contemporary artworks by Ravista Mehra and Divya Sharma, weekdays 10am - 8pm, free, Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD, until 12 July. Info: Gallery

* Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music, celebration of the trailblazers and innovators that brought new music to the UK, and the layered Black experiences that have birthed a thriving musical culture and history, British Library, Euston Road, NW1 2DB until 26 August. Info: British Library

+ The music that changed Britain

+ 12 July, Black British Music Symposium, 10am-6pm, £7.50-£28. Info: British Library

* Raise the Roof: Building for Change exhibition, explores narratives and attitudes in the Royal Institute of British Architects’ hq, looking at gender, race and imperialism through new works, RIBA, 66 Portland Place, until 21 September. Info: RIBA

+ ‘One of the most racist things I’ve ever seen’

* Orí Inú, solo exhibition by Aisha Seriki, a Nigerian multi-disciplinary artist based in London, is a visual inquiry into spirituality and the history of photography, Doyle Wham, 3rd Floor, 91a Rivington Street, EC2A 3AY. until 27 July. Info: Info: https://www.doylewham.com

* Earth Photo, shortlisted images, free, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR until 21 August. Info: RGS

* Dlúpháirtíocht: Irish Solidarity with Palestine, “the work of Irish, Palestinian, and other international artists, photographers, and filmmakers that share a desire for their work to be representative of their opposition to the apartheid state and the suffering endured by Gaza and the West Bank”, P21 Gallery, 21-27 Chalton Street, NW1 until 13 July. Info: P21

* Collecting and Empire, trail making connections between archaeology, anthropology and the British Empire. British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG.

* British Library, installation of 6,328 books celebrates the ongoing contributions made by immigrants to Britain. Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG.

from Tuesday 16 July

* The Roma Patrin, interactive audiovisual installation drawing on the testimonies of the Roma holocaust and contemporary Roma voices celebrating their culture, music and history, Wiener Holocaust Library, 29 Russell Square, WC1B 5 DP until 19 July. Info: Wiener Holocaust Library

Film

* Green Border, drama in which the lives of an activist, a border guard and a Syrian family intertwine where Poland meets Belarus, pawns in a hidden war as Lukashenko's regime lures refugees to the border through propaganda in order to provoke Europe and with little regard for the refugees seeking sanctuary, 9 July: Odeons Covent Garden, Greenwich, Luxe Acton, Luxe Holloway, Wimbledon , 10 July, ICA, The Mall

+ ‘Making this film was forbidden’: how Agnieszka Holland’s migrant thriller inflamed the Polish right

* Unicorns, a single father and mechanic is forced to rethink his sexual identity when he falls in love with Muslim drag queen Aysha (played by Manchester-raised Jason Patel), directed by Sally El Hossaini and James Krishna Floyd, Barbican, Cineworld at the 02, Picturehouse Hackney, Odeon Covent Garden, Vues Finchley Road, Islington, Shepherd’s Bush, West End, Westfield London, Westfield Stratford City

+ ‘People are realising the power of drag’

* Bye Bye Tiberias, leaving her village to follow her dream of acting, Hiam Abbass also left behind her mother, grandmother and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to capture the stories passed on by four generations of daring Palestinian women, Prince Charles, 8 July; West Norwood Picturehouse, Barbican cinema, until 9 July; Lexi, until 11 July; Cine Lumiere, until 17 July

* The Mother of All Lies, Asmae El Moudir creates a handmade replica of the Casablanca neighbourhood where she grew up, to help her explore the many mysteries of her family's past during the Bread Riots of 1981, Curzon Bloomsbury until 10 July

Wednesday 10 July

* Blink of an Eye: Beijing’s Urbanisation on Film, documentary and experimental shorts on urban construction and development in Beijing and surrounding areas across five decades + discussion, 6.15pm, £13, Barbican

* Tomorrow's Freedom, documentary about jailed Palestinian politician Marwan Barghouthi + Q&A with Sophia Scott, Arab Barghouthi and Daniel Levy, 7-8.30pm, £11.29-£16.53, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2 1QJ. Info: Eventbrite

+ Hopes and fears for the Palestinian serving five life sentences

* Freedom From Torture: No Borders Film Night, five refugee shorts and poetry written by members of Write to Life + discussion on lack of safe routes to UK, 6pm, £10/£12 in aid of Freedom From Torture; Garden Cinema

Thursday 11 June

* Appropriate Behaviour follows a flawed, messy central character who grapples to make sense of her LGBTQI+ and Iranian-American identities + 4pm, Garden Cinema. Part of Women Aren't Funny

Friday 12 July

* The Japanese Wife, “a love poem by Aparna Sen” + discussion with Sen, 5pm, The Nehru Centre, 8 South Audley Street, W1K 1HF. Info: Sen Retrospective

Friday 12-Saturday 13 July

* Agent of Happiness, a journey through Bhutan meeting people from all walks of life, Curzon Bloomsbury + 18 July

Saturday 13 July

* Night of the Kings,a sick and ageing crime lord in an overcrowded West African prison believes his strength will be bolstered through the rekindling of a ritual that forces a prisoner to tell stories throughout an entire night + intro and panel discussion on the role of griot with Tony Warner, 2pm, £6.50, National Film Theatre

* Bezness, dramatic treatment of the impact of tourism and sexwork in Tunisia as the country struggles to resolve tradition and modernity.

8.30pm, £11.20-£13, National Film Theatre

* Chile Estyle, documentary about street art in Chile + Q&A with director Pablo Aravena, 4pm, Garden cinema

Performance

* My Father’s Fable, in Faith Omole’s play, Peace discovers after her father’s death that she has a half-brother, Bolu, and invites him to England. But there are questions about his intentions, and desperate to keep her fractured family – and herself – together, Peace must face the fact that the answers she desperately seeks might just lead to everything falling apart,

£15- £25, Bush Theatre, 7 Uxbridge Rd, W12 8LJ until 27 July. Info: Bush

+ It’s a (Nigerian-British) family affair

* London International Festival of Theatre. Programme includes 13-27 July, Echo: Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen, Nassim Soleimanpour and Omar Elerian, an uncharted theatrical odyssey through time and space, where unrehearsed brilliance meets climate crisis innovation, £23- £35. Info: https://www.liftfestival.com

* The Dao of Unrepresentative British Chinese Experience, semi-autobiographical, free-form and explosive, Daniel York Loh’s psychedelic gig-theatrical punk pop rap rock riff on what path to choose, which identity politics to embrace or whether it’s just easier to follow the ‘Dao’ of ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi and dream you’re a butterfly, from: £12, Soho Theatre, Dean Street, W1 until 13 July. Info: Soho Theatre

* Medea Gosperia, new musical experience that reimagines Euripides’ classic Greek tragedy set against a vibrant Caribbean backdrop, £15–£10, Cockpit Theatre, Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH, until 20 July. Info: thecockpit.org.uk

Tuesday 9 July

* The Forensic and the Fantastic, in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Quechua, poets will explore translation between cultures[ Akolá Tambó, Amanda Vilanova, Gaby Sambuccetti, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Marina Sánchez, Jon Herring, Raúl Cisneros, Constantina Higbee, Suene Honorato, Francisco Vilhena, Tania Montenegro, Helen Dixon, performed by: Cristina Reynoso, Paula Catalina Fajardo Riofrío, Patrizia Longhitano, José Buera, Alba Frederick, Lester Gómez Medina, Andrea Puerta and Sim Pereira-Madder, 7-8.45pm, £4-£8, British Library, Euston Road, NW1. Info: British Library

from Saturday 13 July

* Echo (Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen), “asks us to confront what it feels like to be a immigrant in time, as much as in space … an experiment for the age of climate crisis”: a different performer each night (Including Benedict Wong, Adrian Lester, Jeremy O. Harris, Sheila Atim, Meera Syal, Mawaan Rizwan, Nick Mohammed) will star without a clue of what is going to be asked of them connected (perhaps) live from writer Nassim’s Soleimanpour’s flat in Berlin, from £15, Royal Court, Sloane Square, until 27 July. Info: Royal Court

from Monday 15 July

* Death of England: The Plays, Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’ series of three state of the nation plays performed together for the first time. Watch one as a standalone experience or discover the connections between the plays as Michael, Delroy, Denise and Carly navigate the joys and challenges of what it means to be British in 2024, Soho Place, 4 Soho Place,Charing Cross Road, W1D 3BG, until 28 September. Info: Soho Place