Events in London

Events in London

Talks and discussions

Monday 31 March

* A New Authoritarian Tide? Challenges to Democracy around the World, 6:30 - 8pm, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS. Info: Queen Mary

* Climate change, public health and local action, Health Protection Research Unit in Environmental Change and Health annual conference, 9.30am-5pm, hybrid, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, WC1E 7HT. Info: LSHTM

* The role of evidence in Finance Ministries in Latin America;’s budget cycle and crisis response, Aura Martínez Oriol, José Angel Mejía, Juan Andrés Roeschmann, Marcela Numa Paez, Rafael Jovine, 2-4pm online. Info: Overseas Development Institute

Tuesday 1 April

* The looming global financial crisis: The time to re-think, Manfred Bienefeld, Radhika Desai, 7-8.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2. Info: LSE

Wednesday 2 April

* Global education and learning in the Asia Pacific region, Hyun Mook Lim,  Tanya Samu, Eno Nakamura, Nandini Chatterjee Singh, Libby Giles, online. Info: Institute of Education

* Caring Cities: Learning From Latin American initiatives, Paola Jiron, Lorena Zarate, Gabriella Gomez-Mont, with case studies from Uruguay, Colombia, Mexico and Chile, 1-2pm, University College London. Info: UCL

* In Conversation with Mikko Ollikainen, head of the Adaptation Fund, 12-1pm, Overseas Development Institute, 203 Blackfriars Road, SE1 8NJ and online. Info: ODI 

Thursday 3 April

* Reimagining Colonial History in the Built Environment, workshop, 10.30am-5.15pm, Africa Centre, 66 Great Suffolk Street, SE1 OBL. Info: Africa Centre

* Waste land: A World in Permanent Crisis, Robert D. Kaplan, 6.30-8.30pm,  London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2. Info: LSE

Friday 4 April

* Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) conversation and opening reception, discussion about ecological justice and prosecuting the crimes of the British East India Company, free, Ambika P3, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS. Info: Opening session

* Sino-Western Integration: The integration and development of Chinese entrepreneurs in the UK, Xing Wang, Ewan Smith, in Mandarin, 5-6.30pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: SOAS 

Saturday 5 April

* The British East India Company on Trial: Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes hearings, project that stages public hearings in immersive installations functioning as a court; after the hearings, Ambika P3 will host an installation featuring tribunal materials offering lectures, workshops, screenings, and training on climate justice, free, Ambika P3, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS until 24 April. Info: CICC

Sunday 6 April

* Windrush National Vigil, Seema Malhotra MP, Jean-Paul Ennis, Bishop Desmond Jaddoo, 1-2.30pm + Windrush Home Office Surgery, 1-5pm, Windrush Square, Effra Road, SW2 1EF. Info: Black Cultural Archives

Monday 7 April

* Breaking Big Oil’s grip: with the founder of the Fossil Fuel Treaty, Tzeporah Berman, 6.30-8.30pm, Kennington Park Community Centre, SE11 5SY. Info: Global Justice Now

Tuesday 8 April
* Strategic review of TB funding and programming in Pakistan: players, power and politics, Shifa Habib, 12.45-1.45pm, online and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, WC1E 7HT. Info: LSHTM

* The Caribbean reparation movement and the politics of responsibility: mapping new pathways, Sonjah Stanley Niaah, 4-5.30pm, online. Info: Institute of Development Studies

Exhibitions

* 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

* Citra Sasmita: Into Eternal Land, the Indonesian artist uses a 15th century painting technique to dismantle misconceptions of Balinese culture and confront its violent colonial past, free, Barbican Centre, Silk Street , EC2Y 8DS until 21 April. Info: Barbican

* Jose Maria Valasco: A View of Mexico, first UK show of work by the Mexican artist, from £12, National Gallery, Trafalgar Square WC2N 5DN until 17 August. Info: Gallery

* 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

* Between Two Worlds: Vanley Burke and Francis Williams, two Jamaican scholars’ portraits, shedding light on a 1745 painting, identity and colonial legacies, free, V&A Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7. Info: Exhibition

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

* African Deeds, showcases a collection that includes diaries, cassette interviews, videos, photos and documents of three generations of family history, inspired by grandfather Thomas’ land title deeds brought from West Africa in 1901, Black Cultural Archives, 1 Windrush Square, SW2 1EF. Info:  BCA

* Target Queen, large-scale commission by British-Indian artist Bharti Kher, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre

* Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights, stories of underrepresented workers and their rights within precarious and unsafe labour environments, free, Wellcome Centre, 183 Euston Road, NW1 2BE until 27 April. Info: Wellcome

+ Working yourself into the ground

* Esther Mahlangu: Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, brightly coloured geometric paintings rooted in South African Ndebele culture, free, Serpentine North, until 28 September. Info: Serpentine

* The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence, £22, V&A Museum, Cromwell Street, SW7 2RL, until 5 May. Info: V&A

* Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism, over 130 works by 10 artists from the 20th century, capturing the diversity of Brazilian art, £23.50-£25.50, Royal Academy, Burlington House, Piccadilly, until 21 April. Info: RA

* SOIL: The World at Our Feet, includes Fernando Laposse’s work on the impact of the North American Fair-Trade Agreement and use of agrochemicals in a Mexican village, Asunción Molinos Gordo’s visual geometry of Egypt’s Nile’s valley, inviting visitors to explore global agri-business; Annalee Davis drawing on knowledge of the former Barbados sugar plantation where she lives; Somerset House, The Strand, WC2R 1LA until 13 April. Info: Soil + Events programme

* Women of the World Unite: the United Nations decade for women and transnational feminisms 1975 to now, Celebrate International Women’s Day weekend with a discussion of the representation of Black women in All About Love. London School of Economics Library, Houghton Street, WC2 until 22 August. Info: LSE

* Mickalene Thomas: All About Love, vibrant, large portraits of Black women at rest reclaim representation in art history, celebrating love and radical repose, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX, from £19, until 5 May. Info: Hayward

* Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker, survey exhibition of the late Jamaican-heritage British multi-media artist, Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX until 4 May. Info: Whitechapel

* Visions from the Amazon, photography, painting and film by Claudia Andujar, rubber tapper Hélio Melo; Indigenous artists Denilson Baniwa and Tayná Satere plus Paula Sampaio, Luciana Magno, Nay Jinknss and Rosa Gauditano, Peltz Gallery, 43 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD until 9 April. Info: Peltz:

* Making Egypt, exploring ancient Egypt's creativity and how it continues to influence art, design and popular culture today, £10, Young V&A, Cambridge Heath Road, E2 9PA. Info: V&A

* Deutsche Borse Foundation Photography Prize, shortlist includes work by Lindokhule Sobekwa on poverty and long effects of apartheid in South Africa, and Tarah Krajnak, Peru, £10/£7, Photographers Gallery, Ramillies Street, W1, until 15 June. Info: Gallery

* Planetary Portals: I am in your dreams, but you are not in mine, weaves together the environmental landscapes of 19th-century mining of gold and diamonds in South Africa with the scripting process of AI, £10/£7, Photographers Gallery, Ramillies Street, W1, until 15 June. Info: Gallery

*  Arpita Singh: Remembering, her first solo exhibition outside India, she draws from Bengali folk art and Indian stories, interwoven with experiences of social upheaval and global conflict, free, Serpentine North, until 27 July

Film

* I’m Still Here, as Brazil faces the grip of a military dictatorship,  Eunice Paiva, mother of five, is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent act by the government, Picturehouses Finsbury Park, Gate, Ritzy

* Sister Midnight, original genre-bending Indian comedy about a frustrated and misanthropic newlywed who discovers feral impulses, Ritzy, 1, 3 April Finsbury Park Picturehouse

* Santosh, a government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a policeman in the rural badlands of northern India. When a low-caste girl is murdered, Santosh is pulled into the investigation by  feminist inspector Sharma, Picturehouses Finsbury Park and Ritzy, Vues Finchley Road and Shepherd’s Bush; until 2 April, Lexi
+ A new film about modern India you should not miss

* War Paint: Women at War, shines a light on the trailblazing role of women war artists, championing the female perspective on conflict through art and asking: when it's life or death, what do women see that men don't?, Garden cinema until 2 April;  1 April + Q&A with Margy Kinmonth and Catherine Fairweather, 7pm, Frontline Club 

* Myriad Voices: Reframing Taiwan New Cinema, “a blend of insight, candour and delicate lightness”, National Film Theatre, Belvedere Road, until 31 March. Info: Taiwan Now

Monday 31 March
* State of Silence, documentary that follows four Mexican journalists covering the failings of the ‘War on Drugs’, highlighting the dangers facing journalists, 6.20pm, Curzon Bloomsbury

* No Other Land, a Palestinian activist and an Israeli journalist fight Israeli expulsions in the West Bank + Q&A , 7pm, Frontline Club, Norfolk Place, W2. Info: Frontline

Tuesday 1 April 
* Coconut Head Generation, observational documentary capturing the words and emotions of University of Ibadan students in  Nigeria, presenting spirited debates over power imbalances and heated discussions around ethnicity, feminism, and gender + Q&A with the director, 6.15pm, £6/ £7.50, families from £15, Rich Mix

from Tuesday 1 April
* Hong Kong New Wave: 1979-1989, includes The Story of Woo Viet, Love in a Fallen City, Boat People, The Butterfly Murders, Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind, Nomad, My Heart is That Eternal Rose, An Amorous Woman of Tang Dynasty, Ah Ying, Homecoming, Garden cinema

+ 19 April, what is the Hong Kong New Wave?, discussion with James Mudge, Victor Fan and Tammy Cheung, 4pm. Info: New Wave

Wednesday 2 April
* The Taste of Mango, director Chloe Abrahams probes raw questions her Sri Lankan mother and grandmother have long brushed aside, tenderly untangling painful knots in her family's unspoken past + director Q&A, 6.45pm, Castle cinema 
+  A painful love-letter through time                                 

from Friday 4 April
* Balomania, a secret society of giant hot air balloon makers in Brazil's favelas risk everything to create and fly their illegal masterpieces, Curzon Bloomsbury + 4-6, 10 April

* London Independent Film Festival, Genesis cinema, until 13 April. Info: LIFF

Saturday 5 April
* Forager, shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Jerusalem, the film moves between fiction, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws + introduction by filmmaker Zeina Ramadan, 6pm, Garden cinema

Sunday 6 April
* AWAN x Fhamtini: Through the Moroccan Lens, programme celebrating Moroccan cinema curated by French-Moroccan programmer Imane Lamime, 5.30pm, £12.50, Rich Mix

Performance

* Kyoto, the world’s nations are in deadlock and 11 hours have passed since the UN’s landmark climate conference should have ended. Agreement feels a world away. The greatest obstacle: a US oil lobbyist and strategist, from £25, Soho Place, 4 Soho Place, Charing Cross Road, W1D 3BG, until 3 May. Info: Soho Place

+ Kyoto turns climate change into an entertaining thriller

* Alterations, comedy illuminating the Guyanese experience of 1970s London and the hopes and fears of the Windrush generation, National Theatre, South Bank,  SE1 9PX until 5 April. Info: Alterations

* The Society for New Cuisine, play by East-Asian writer and performer Chris Fung is a Buddhist inspired folk fable about power, masculinity and heartbreak, £20-£5, Omnibus Theatre, 1 Clapham Common Northside, SW4 0QW until 5 April. Info: Omnibus

from Wednesday 2 April

* Container, multi-vocal performance that “opens up a space to experience a more empathetic view of humanity and reasserts the dignity and ambitions of the migrant figure”, £3-£19, New Diorama Theatre, 15 - 16 Triton Street, Regent's Place, NW1 3BF until 12 April. Info: New Diorama

Friday 4-Sunday 6 April
* Roadside, free-spirited Milly is drawn to the parties and festivals of the new travelling community. A  show inspired by Maddie’s personal experience  and featuring real-life testimonies from new travellers living across the south-west, £11.30, The Cockpit, Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH. Info: Cockpit

from Monday 7 April
* Open Submissions Festival, staged readings of new plays includes 12 April, Benjamin Kuffuor’s Working Men, about money, social housing and how decisions are made for those who have no choice, 7.45pm, £7.50, Royal Court, 50-51 Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS. Info: Royal Court

Tuesday 8-Thursday 10 April

* More, reimagines Great Expectations in modern-day London, in which Pip is a young man of Caribbean descent, orphaned by the bureaucratic nightmare of the Windrush Scandal and drawn into the lives of wealthy, eccentric Miss Havisham and her daughter Estelle. £18.60, The Other Palace, 12 Palace Street, SW1E 5JA. Info: The Other Palace

TV and radio

Sunday 30 March
* Stacey Dooley: Growing Up Gypsy, interviews with four four women, 12.30pm, BBC3

* Tribe With Bruce Parry, the Waimaha in Brazil, 9pm BBC2, 

* Our Land: Israel’s Other War, documentary on the battle for land in the West Bank, 10.20pm, BBC1

Monday 31 March

* Who Is Alice Guo?, a mayor in The Philippines is accused of trafficking, money laundering and tax evasion, 4pm, Radio 4

Wednesday 2 April

* The Watermelons: Myanmar’s Military Moles, they’re green on the outside, appearing loyal to the army junta. But inside they are red, working for the pro-democracy uprising, 11.05pm, BBC2

* The carbon offset trap, 11am, Radio 4

Friday 4 April

* Unreported World, the impact of Elon Musk’s Starlink internet network on people in remote areas of the Amazon, 7.30pm, Channel 4

* Tribe With Bruce Parry, the Colombian Amazon, 11.05pm BBC2

* Rare Earth, threats to wildlife on New Guinea, 12.04pm, Radio 4

Thanks to volunteer Daniel Nelson (editor of Eventslondon.org) for compiling this list.