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Talks and discussions
Monday 9 March
* Broadcasting Apartheid: British Television and the anti-Apartheid Campaign, 1950-1990, Tal Zalmanovich on her new book, 5.30 - 7.30pm, City University, Rhind Building, Clerkenwell campus, St John Street, EC1V 0HB. City University
* Under Pressure - How climate risks shape peace and security, Jeremy Lind, Iffat Idris, Tobias Ide, Jan Selby, Will Reynolds, 1 - 2.30pm, online. Info: Institute of Development Studies
Tuesday 10 March
* Reimagining Refugee Law in Modern Britain, S. Chelvan, 6 - 7pm, City University. Info: Moot Court
* The promise and pitfalls of AI in health, Helen Shah, 5.30 - 7pm, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street WC1. Info: LSHTM
* Being a Black Female Leader, Natalie Campbell, Miranda Brawn, La Toya Quamina, 6.15pm, University of Westminster, Marylebone campus. Info: Westminster Uni
* Humanitarian Alternatives? Opening up the humanitarian eco-system, Najeeba Wazefadost, Irene Dawa, Sema Genel Karaosmanoğlu, Olivia Goldin, 9 - 10.30am, online, part of Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks.Info: Overseas Development Institute
Wednesday 11 March
* Food and heritage: The politics of food, Asma Khan, immigrant restaurateur of an all-female immigrant kitchen, 7 - 8.30pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: Food Studies Centre
* Photobook: Looking at Afghanistan, Representation and Responsibility, Lorenzo Tugnoli, Stuart Smith and Orzala Nemat discuss Tugnoli’s new book 7pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place W2 1QJ. Info: Frontline
* Reshaping the Middle East, Robert Malley, 6.15 - 7.30pm, £16.80, The Conduit, 6 Langley Street, WC2H 9JA. Info: The Conduit
* The Slow Death of Democracy, Lyse Doucet, Thant Myint-U, Christopher Clark, David Runciman, 7pm, £16.25, Friends House, Euston Road, NW1 2BJ. Tickets: lrb.me/democracy
* From Ebola to an age of pandemics, Peter Piot, 6.30 - 8pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2
* English PEN at the London Book Fair, Selina Brown, So Mayer, Nikesh Shukla, Louis Coiffait-Gunn, Juno Dawson, Louisa Joyner, Will Eaves, Rachel Quin, Jack Thompson, Kit Fan, Mary Glenn, Arabella Pike, Sami Abu Wardeh, Bolu Babalola, Joelle Owusu participate in five events exploring free literary expression - the relationship between free expression and EDI investment; supporting bookshops and libraries facing removal requests; the role of independent publishing in fostering a free and diverse literary landscape; what it means to entertain and be entertained in an increasingly illiberal world; and what books can do in the face of rising authoritarianism, conflict, and division, from 10am, Olympia, W14 8UX. Info: PEN
* Courage without collapse: Academic freedom and the work of staying human,
Thirusha Naidu, 4 - 5.30pm, online. Info: Institute of Development Studies
Thursday 12 March
* War in the Middle East, Faisal Al Yafai, Jasmine El-Gamal, Tarek Ali Ahmad, 7pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place W2 1QJ. Info: Frontline
* Strange Girls, Pakistani novelist Sarvat Hasin in conversation with Julia Armfield, 7 - 8pm, £10, Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road. Info: Foyles
Friday 13 March
* Feminist climate policy: book launch and seminar, Susan Buckingham, Gunnhildur Magnúsdóttir, Baroness Natalie Bennett, Karen Morrow, and representatives from the Women’s Environmental Network, Black Lives Matter, UNISON, and the NEU, 2-6pm, Marylebone campus, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS. Info: Westminster Uni
Friday 13 - Saturday 14 March
* Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Black British Man of Letters and his World, 9am - 5pm, from £10.96, Northeastern University London, Devon House, 58 Saint Katharine's Way E1W 1LP. Info: Sancho conference
Monday 16 March
* When Peace Seemed Possible, Thant Myint-U on diplomacy, global cooperation, and the UN’s future, 6.15 - 7.30pm, £16.80, livestream £6.50, The Conduit, 6 Langley Street, WC2H 9JA. Info:The Conduit
* Something About Living: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and So Mayer, Tuffaha was born in Seattle but grew up in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, and her poetry reflects on her Palestinian, Jordanian and Syrian heritage and on her experience as a first generation American immigrant, 7pm, £10, London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, WC1A 2JL. Info: LRB
* Iranian Women' s Voices, an evening of conversation, poetry, film, music and protest, with Marjorie Lotfi, Sana Nassari, Shara Atashi + Iranian musicians and Hengameh Golestan’s photographs, 7pm, £12, British Library, 96 Euston Road NW1 2DB. Info: Library
* Immigration Detention in Hong Kong: Advocacy in the Dark, Surabhi Chopra, 5 - 6.30pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
* The Mekong: A confluence of power, survival and change, 10am - noon, online seminar. Info: SOAS
Tuesday 17 March
* Analogue Africa, Jeremy Harding and Kevin Okoth explore the anti-colonial imagination through the works of African artists and film-makers, including Seydou Keïta, Sanlé Sory, Ernest Cole, Sarah Maldoror, John Akomfrah, William Kentridge and Binyavanga Wainaina, 7pm, £10, London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, WC1A 2JL. Info: LRB
* Reclaiming Agency: The role of African organizations in continental politics, Anna Kapambwe Mwaba, noon, SOAS, Thornaugh Street, WC1H OXG
* Protocol 1 In Focus: Progress and the way forward, Frederik Heitmüller, Faith Amjaro, Liselott Kana, 2 - 3.30pm. Info: Overseas Development Institute
Exhibitions
* Emergency Exits: The Fight for Independence in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus, how post Second World War “Emergencies” , as they were termed by the UK, shaped Britain, its former territories and the modern world, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road SE1 6HZ until 29 March. Info: IWM
* 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
* Botanical Tales and Seeds of Empire & Flora Indica: Recovering the lost histories of Indian botanical art, The Singh Twins examine the global mythologies of plants and the histories of Empire + Flora Indica – work by historical Indian botanical artists, admission with Kew entry fee, Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Kew Gardens until 12 April
+ The Singh Twins light up the links between empire and botany
+ The Singh Twins spotlight Kew’s role in the business of Empire
* 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
* I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies, examination of political dissent and erasure through collage, Sabrina Tirvengadum, Sunil Gupta, Qualeasha Wood, Jess Atieno, Sheida Soleimani, free, Autograph, Rivington Place, EC2A 3BA until 21 March. Info: Exhibition
* 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
* Tixinda, A Snail’s Purple, exhibition about a sea snail whose ink can be milked to produce a purple pigment known as Tyrian or Royal purple, by British-Mexican artist Melanie Smith and Patricio Villarreal Ávila, Peltz Gallery, 43 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD, until 11 March. Info: Pellz
* 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
* To Survive To Witness, works by Gaza-based Palestinian artist Marwan Nassar created during the 2023-25 war in Gaza, P21, 21-27 Chalton Street, NW1 1JD until 13 March. Info: P21
* 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
* 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
* 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
Performance
* Sweatmeats, a touching love story between two South Asian elders begins in a London diabetes clinic when a “scary Indian woman” meets an “irritating Pakistani man”, £10 - £35, Bush Theatre, 7 Uxbridge Road, W12 8LJ, until 21 March. Info: Bush
+ A British-Indian~Pakistani rom com sparked by diabetes
* Ukraine Unbroken, cycle of short plays by Ukrainian and British writers about courage, truth and survival in the face of tyranny, £15 - £39, Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street E8 3DL until 28 March. Info: Arcola
Tuesday 10 March
* Collective Authorship - Hotel Britannia, whodunnit by Zakiyyah Deen, Soria Hamidi and Isabella Leung, 7pm, £7, Riverside, 101 Queen Caroline Street,
W6 9BN. Info: Theatre experiment
Sunday 15 March
* Hossam’s People: Accounts from Gaza during the ongoing genocide, staged adaptation of testimonies, written by Hossam Madhoun, a theatre maker and child protection manager from Gaza. The accounts describe his experiences during the genocide to the present + Q&A, including Madhoun, presented by White Kite Collective, a group of artists and cultural workers, including Az Theatre, formed in response to the genocide, 3pm, £7.50 - £20 (fundraiser for Thilal, which runs trauma-informed workshops in Gaza and Ma’an Development Centre ), Bush Theatre, 7 Uxbridge Road, W12 8LJ. Info: Bush
Film
* My Father’s Shadow, two brothers connect with their father in this drama set against the backdrop of the 1993 Nigerian presidential election, Picturehouses Crouch End, Finsbury Park, Hackney, Ritzy, West Norwood + until 10 March, Barbican
+ 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 President’s Cake, despite hardships in 1990s Iraq, Saddam Hussein requires every school to prepare a cake to celebrate his birthday. So 9-year-old Lamia must use her wits to gather ingredients for the cake or face punishment; Greenwich Picturehouse
+ A girl, a boy, a rooster and a cake for Saddam
* No Other Choice, a man’s desperation to secure a new job finds him exploring unique ways to eliminate his competitors, in South Korean director Park Chan-wook’s madcap thriller; Picturehouses Central and Greenwich, Odeon Luxe Haymarket
* The Secret Agent, Brazilian political thriller about an academic on the run in the dangerous, dictatorial 1970s; cinemas all over town + until 15 March Lexi; National Film Theatre, Riverside
* BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, genre-defying debut feature from artist and filmmaker Khalil Joseph, from £12.50, Wednesday, Saturdays and Sundays, 180 Studios, 180 Strand, Surrey Street WC2R 1EA until 27 March.
* Everest Dark, as the death toll on the world's highest peak rises, a legendary Nepali climber leads an elite Sherpa team on a life-threatening mission to retrieve fallen climbers from Everest’s Death Zone. The mountain through the eyes of people who call it home, Curzon Bloomsbury until 12 March
Monday 9 March
* Amores Perros, three stories of animalistic desire drive this modern Mexican classic, the debut of Alejandro González Iñárritu, 3pm, BFI Southbank
Tuesday 10 March
* Palestine Comedy Club, six Palestinian comedians tour a stand-up show exploring the humour that surrounds the complexity of Palestinian identity, Curzon Bloomsbury + 12 March
+ Have you heard the one about the six Palestinians who walk into a theatre?
* Gaza Eyewitnesses, film by Palestinian artists based on on-the-spot testimonies + Q&A with Hossam Al Madhoun, 7 - 9pm, £4, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1B 5DQ. Info: Film
Wednesday 11 March
* Wajib, drily humorous film about a father and son driving around Nazareth to deliver wedding invitations + introduction by Sarah Agha, 5pm, part of a season celebrating the films of Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir, 6.10pm, Lexi
* Re-connecting the Diaspora, when British multicultural TV began to serve as a point of reconnection between Black and Asian Britons and their nations of origin, 8.30pm, BFI Southbank
Thursday 12 March
* Our Planet, The People, My Blood, follows nuclear veterans' advocate Alan Owen as he attempts to secure justice for the millions of people around the world impacted by nuclear weapons testing programmes and his fight for transparency and accountability surrounding one of the darkest chapters in modern history, 6pm, Prince Charles Cinema
Friday 13 March
* Everybody to Kenmure Street, in May 2021 a Home Office dawn raid triggered a memorable act of civil resistance as hundreds of Glaswegians rushed to the scene to stop the deportation of their neighbours + Q&A with director Felipe Bustos Sierra, 6.20pm, Curzon Bloomsbury + 13 - 26 March, Lexi
* Multicultural TV in Europe, introduced by Momtaza Mehri, part of Counter-History of British TV season unpacking the history of Black and Asian British representation on television screens, 6pm, National Film Theatre
Monday 16 March
* Palestine Action, the Truth Behind the Ban, documentary that includes interviews with Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, Ellie Kamio, Jonathan Hall KC, and Lords Hain and Walney + Q&A with Katie Arnold, Haroon Siddique, Matt Shea, 7 - 8:30pm, from £6.13, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2. Info: Frontline
* A Focus on Skin, chronicling some of the most important junctures of Black and Asian British life + intro by season curator Xavier Alexandre Pillai, 6pm, £12.20-£2, BFI Southbank
TV and radio
Sunday 8 March
* Thailand: The Dark Side oi Paradise, documentary series, from 10.40pm, BBC3
Monday 9 March
* Global Eye, topical magazine, 7pm, BBC2
* Mistress Dispeller, documentary about a professional adultery breaker-upper in China, 10pm, BBC4
* No Other Land, documentary on destruction in the West Bank and the friendship between a Palestinian filmmaker and an Israeli journalist, 2.15pm, Channel4
* 48 Hours in Isfahan, 4pm, Radio4
* How did we get here?, series on. the Israel-Palestine dispute, 8pm, Radio4
Tuesday 10 March
* Landays: Poems of Afghan rebellion, 4pm, Radio4
Wednesday 11 March
* Slim’s Guide to Life, series in which a 53-year-old stand-up looks back at his Black British life, 11pm, Radio4
Thursday 12 March
* Alexander Armstrong in India, yet another celebrity travelogue, 9pm, Channel 5
* The Killing Fields, 1984 film about two men amidst the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia in the 1970s, 11.05pm, Film4
Thanks to volunteer Daniel Nelson (editor of Eventslondon.org) for compiling this list.