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Talks and discussions

 

Monday 25 March

* World TB Day Symposium 2024, 9am-4.50pm, UCL Great Ormond Street, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, WC1N 1EH. Info:  LSHTM

Tuesday 26 March

* War in Gaza, Ramita Navai, Sam Kiley, on  the prospects for an end to the military action, and the state of Israeli and Palestinian politics when that finally happens, 6pm, £15, livestream £5, The Conduit, WC2H 9JA. Info:  The Conduit

* Slavery and Reparations: The British and French experiences, Malla Pratt, Laura Trevelyan, Clive Lewis MP,  Pierre Guillon de Prince, Dieudonné Boutrin, 6:30 – 7:30pm, free, Bayes Business School, 106 Bunhill Row, EC1Y 8TZ. Info:  City University

*The search for democracy in the world’s largest democracy, Alpa Shah + Christophe Jaffrelot, Tarun Khaitan, Priyanka Kotamraju, 6.30-8pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2

Wednesday 27 March

* International Women’s Day: Exploring Gender and Philippine Labour Migration, Sharmila Pamanand, Louie Horne, Joyce Jiang, Velly Cattermole, 6-9pm, SOAS. Info:  SOAS

Thursday 28 March

* The Poetry of Forced Migration - Malka al-Haddad and Loraine Masiya Mponela: In Conversation, online, 6-7.30pm. Info:  Docs

* Ten Days in Gaza, photo book discussion with Anthony Dawton, Khaled Dawas and Dalia Salam Rishani, 7pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2 1QJ. Info:  Frontline

* Who has the Right to Speak and Act in the Public Space?, Tamara Al Mashouk, Eirini Linardaki, Adrian Paci, Almir Koldzic and Niovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou in conversation with co-curators Almir Koldzic and Niovi Zarampouka-Chatzimanou on a series of public artworks in Greece commissioned by London-based Counterpoints Arts, 7pm, free, The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street, W1U 5AS. Info:  Eventbrite

Saturday 30 March

* Letters Home: Stories of Identity and Belonging, discussion with Amerah Saleh and Lisa Luxx, £6, part of AWAN festival, Rich Mix, E1 6LA. Info: Arab Women Artists Now

 

Exhibitions

* Entangled Pasts, 1768-now: Art, Colonialism and Change, “over 100 contemporary and historic works as part of a conversation about art’s role in shaping narratives of empire, enslavement, resistance, abolition and colonialism - and how it may help set a course for the future”, £22, under-16s free, 16-25-year-olds half price, Royal Academy, Piccadilly, until 28 April. Info: RA

+ ‘A world of argument and conflict, disagreement and adoration’

The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, explore the Black figure in Western art history with contemporary artists from the African diaspora, including  Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Hurvin Anderson, Michael Armitage, Jordan Casteel, Noah Davis, Godfried Donkor, Kimathi Donkor, Denzil Forrester, Lubaina Himid, Claudette Johnson, Titus Kaphar, Kerry James Marshall, Wangechi Mutu, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Chris Ofili, Jennifer Packer, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Thomas J Price, Amy Sherald, Lorna Simpson, Henry Taylor and Barbara Walker, curated by Ekow Eshun, £16-£18, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, WC2H 0HE, until 19 May. Info: NPG

African diaspora art: from ‘looking at’ to ‘seeing from’

* Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, using textiles, fibre and thread, 50 international artists (countries of origin include The Philippines, South Africa, Egypt, Chile, Argentina, Morocco, Mexico, Paraguay, Haiti, Panama, Malaysia, South Korea, Uganda, Brazil, Ghana, Zimbabwe, India, Guatemala, India, Lebanon, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Malawi and Peru) challenge power structures and reimagine the world, £16, Thursdays 5-8pm pay what you can, The Barbican, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS, until  26 May. Info: Barbican

+ Goodbye gentle craft, hello subversive stitch

* Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest, artists include: Laia Abril, Hoda Afshar, Poulomi Basu, Guerrilla Girls, Sofia Karim, Mari Katayama, Sethembile Msezane, Zanele Muholi, Tabita Rezaire, Sheida Soleimani,  Tourmaline, free, South London Gallery, 65-67 Peckham Road, SE5 8UH and Gallery Fire Station, 82 Peckham Road, until 9 June. Info: Gallery

* The Cult of Beauty, notions of beauty across time and cultures. Wellcome Collection, Euston Road, NW1, until 28 April.

El Anatsui, the Ghanaian-born, Nigeria-based artist is best-known for his cascading metallic sculptures constructed of thousands of recycled bottle-tops articulated with copper wire. Themes include the environment, consumption and trade. Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1, until 14 April.

* Burtynsky: Extraction/ Abstraction, largest exhibition of works by the world- renowned photographer featuring large-scale photographs, murals, film and augmented reality, Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Road, SW3 4RY , until 6 May. Info: https://www.saatchigallery.com/

* Soulscapes, contemporary retelling of landscape by artists from the African Diaspora, £17.50, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, SE21 7AD, until 2 June. Info: Soulscapes

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

* 茶, चाय, Tea (Chá, Chai, Tea), explores the many stories of the beverage, spanning millennia and connecting communities across the world, free, Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, SE23, until 7 July. Info: Exhibition

* 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.

* 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.

* Windrush Generation, 10 portraits commissioned by King Charles. National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, WC2, until 1 April.

* Art Now: Zeinab Saleh, paintings and drawings by Kenyan-born, London-based artist, free, Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1P 4RG, until 23 June. Info:  Tate

* Wilfred Ukpong: Niger-Delta / Future-Cosmos, visual meditations on the environmental crisis in the Niger Delta, free, Autograph, Rivington Place, EC2A 3BA until 1 June. Info:  Autograph

* Monica Alcazar-Duerte: Digital Clouds Don’t Carry Rain, indigenous knowledge, colonial legacy and ecological urgency, free, Autograph, Rivington Place, EC2A 3BA until 1 June. Info:  Autograph

* Raul Canibano: Human Landscapes, photographs of Cuban life, Photographers Gallery, Ramillies Street, W1, until 7 April. Info: Gallery

* Genocidal Captivity: Retelling the Stories of Armenian and Yezidi Women, using records of Armenian survivors from the 1920s and recent interviews with Yezidi survivors in Iraq, Wiener Holocaust Library, 29 Russell square, WC1B 5DP, until 31 May. Info: Wiener Library

* Bamboo as Method, Hong Kong-based artist Zheng Bos bamboo garden using 300 locally sourced bamboos. Visitors are encouraged to select from 10 species of bamboo arranged in alcoves with seating and spend time sketching the unique characteristics of individual leaves on biodegradable paper, which will then be composted into the soil to fertilise the garden – completing a cycle of creativity and ecology, Somerset House, The Strand, WC2R 1LA, until  28 April. Info: Somerset House

* Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2024, shortlisted artists include India-born Gauri Gill & Rajesh Vangad, Lebohang Kganye, born in South Africa, and Syria-born Hrair Sarkissdian, Photographer’s Gallery, Ramillies Street, W1 until 2 June. Info: Photographers Gallery

* 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

+ 29 March, Curator’s talk online, free

* Heart of the Nation: Migration and the NHS, until 27 July + Nowhere To Go but Anywhere, solo exhibition by Tribambuka, until 25 May, both free, Migration Museum, Lewisham Shopping Centre, SE13 7HB. Info:  Migration Museum

* transfeminisms Chapter I, Zainab Fasiki, Kyuri Jeon, Alex Martinis Roe, Fatima Mazmouz, Ada Pinkston, Bahia Shehab and Lorena Wolffer look at issues faced by women, queer and trans people across the globe, Mimosa House, 47 Theobalds Road, WC1X 8SP, until 20 April. Info:  Mimosa

* AWAN Festival, the UK's only Arab female-led festival. Exhibitions include Fables of the Sea, artist Rehaf Al Batniji's interpretation of stories from the Palestinian shores; Palestinian artist Malak Mattar's response to the Gaza crisis; Tale Tonic, Egyptian artists Marianne Fahmy and London-based Nada Elkalaawy, Africa Centre, 66 Great Suffolk Street, SE1 0BL all until 30 March; + 30 March, Aswat Commissions, Ala Hamou, Bint Mbareh, Jessica E Mar, Riwa Saab and Tasneim Zyada show their art. Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, E1. Info: AWAN 2024/ Arts Canteen

* Don’t Stop Drawing - Visual diaries of solidarity with Gaza, works in response to the war on Gaza by Lebanese artists and friends Mazen Kerbaj in Berlin and Jana Traboulsin in Beirut, P21 Gallery, 21-27 Chalton Street, NW1 until 29 March. Info: Gaza exhibition

* Performing Colonial Toxicity, maps, photographs, film, stills, documents and archival testimonies documenting France’s secret nuclear programme in Algeria in 1954-62, free, Mosaic Rooms, Tower House, 226 Cromwell Road, SW5 0SW, until 16 June. Info: www.mosaicrooms.org

 

Film

* The Persian Version, migration and cross-cultural differences in the spotlight when Iranian-American filmmaker Leila’s father needs a heart transplant in New York:  Leila is reunited with her large family but a secret involving an actor strains the tense relationship between Leila and her mother, Shireen, Picturehouses Central, Ritzy, Stratford East, West Norwood, Clapham, Crouch End, Ealing, Fulham Road, Greenwich, Hackney; Odeons Covent Garden, Greenwich, Luxe Acton, Luxe Lee Valley, Wimbledon; Vues Finchley Road, Shepherd’s Bush, Westfield London, Westfield Stratford City; Everyman Broadgate

* Four Daughters,  between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear, and filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses to fill in their absence, Garden Cinema, Curzon Bloomsbury until 26 March; JW3, until 28 March

* Coconut Generation, filmmaker Alain Kassanda makes an argument for young Nigerians’ determination to fight for their country and freedom of thought, Curzon Bloomsbury until 27 March; ICA, 26 March

* Copa 71, in 1971, a football tournament  in Mexico City drew national women’s teams  from across the globe. The film is a lively retelling of the highs and lows of this groundbreaking championship, Castle, Vue Islington  until 28 March; Hackney Picturehouse, Westfield Stratford City; 26, 27 March, Vue Finchley Road

+ Beauty and colonialism in a French childhood in Madagascar

Banel & Adamaliving in a sleepy Senegalese village, Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. Yet as a drought strikes their village, superstition and the weight of tradition place the couple's love for one another on a collision course with their community. 25 March, Barbican; 25, 26 March, Odeon Covent Garden 

* Phantom Parrot, unravels a secret British government surveillance programme designed to copy the personal data of individuals at airports and border crossings + Q&A with director Kate Stonehill and Muhammad Rabbani, director of human rights organisation CAGE, whose arrest and prosecution under British Anti-Terror laws is highlighted, 6.20pm, £12.50/£10, Curzon Bloomsbury 25 March, Barbican; 25, 26 March, Odeon Covent Garden 

* The New Black Film Collective XPO, four-day convention by The New Black Film Collective, promoting Black excellence and diversity in the screen industries. Programme includes 25 March, The Book of Clarence, Jeymes Samuel’s bold take on a timeless Biblical-era epic; 26 March, Drift, Anthony Chen’s English-language drama about a young refugee on a Greek island trying to survive and cope with her past; 27 March, Omen, Belgian-Congolese rapper Baloji’s magic realist film is a tale of family, relationships, suspicion and belonging that navigates the thin layer between reality and sorcery; 28 March, Io Capitano, Matteo Garrone's portrait of two Senegalese cousins in pursuit of freedom;  Rich Mix, until 28 March. Info: Rich Mix

Tuesday 26 March

* Stone Flowers – songs of hope and defiance,  documentary about a collective of refugee torture survivors based in north-west England on their journey from starting a new life in the UK to becoming recording artists + Q&A with filmmaker James Sandy, 6.30-9pm, £5/£10, asylum-seekers free, LSO St Luke’s, 161 Old Street, EC1V 9NG. Info:  Music Action

Wednesday 27 March

* As British As A Watermelon, examines systemic racism experienced by artist mandla, a Zimbabwean writer and performer, in the process of migrating to the UK to seek asylum + discussion led by Black Cinema Project, 7-8.30pm, £10/ £8, South London Gallery, 65-67 Peckham Road, SE5 8UH. Info: https://www.southlondongallery.org/events/as-british-as-a-watermelon

Thursday 28 March

* Celluloid Underground, elegiac tribute to a maverick Iranian underground film collector who rescued and hid thousands of banned prints, to save them from fundamentalist fanatics + filmmaker Q&A,  6.20pm,  £12.50/ £10 , Curzon Bloomsbury

Saturday 30 March

* It’s Winter, subtle and lyrical drama of a man and a woman, the struggle to survive for a generation torn between wanting to leave Iran, yet bound by blood to home, 5.45pm, ICA, The Mall

Sunday 31 March

* Brick and Mirror + Crown Jewels of Iran, a moody critique of modernising Tehran, and Iranian society, during the Pahlavi era, 5.30pm, ICA, The Mall

 

Performance

* Just For One Day, the story of Live Aid, The Old Vic, The Cut, SE1 8NB, until 30 March. Info:  Old Vic

* Shifters, “fierce romance for anyone desperate for a different kind of love story”, starring Tosin Cole & Heather Agyepong, written by Benedict Lombe, directed by Lynette Linton, £12.50-£27, Bush Theatre, 7 Uxbridge Road, W12 8LJ, until 30 March. Info: Bush

* The Big Life, “the story of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost meets that of the Windrush generation in a Ska musical that’ll have you dancing in your seats”, £6-£32, Theatre Royal, Stratford East, Gerry Raffles Square, E15, until 30 March. Info: Theatre Royal

* The Lonely Londoners, In this adaptation of Sam Selvon’s novel about the Windrush Generation, Trinidadian Henry ‘Sir Galahad’ Oliver is impatient to start his new life in 1950s London. Will he and other new arrivals make a home in a city that sees them as a threat?, £10-£35, Jermyn Street Theatre, 16B Jermyn St, St. James's, SW1Y 6ST, until 6 April. Info: Jermyn Street

+ ‘What is it we want that the white people find it so hard to give?’

* For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy,  six young Black men meet for group therapy, and let their hearts and imaginations run wild, from £15, Garrick Theatre, Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0HH until 4 May. Info: Garrick

Friday 29 March

* Arabs Are Not Funny!, NADZ, Omar Badawy, Steve Bennett, Chortle, Farah Sharp, Ahmed Ibrahim, 8-10pm, £17/  £14.50, Woolwich Works, The Fireworks Factory 11 No. 1 Street, SE18 6HD. Info:  Arabs Are Not Funny!

 

TV and radio

Sunday 24 March

* Three Million, latest in series about the 1943 Bengal famine, 1.30pm, Radio 4

Monday 25 March

* Indian Hill Raiways, trains on slopes,  in the Himalayas, 7pm, BBC 4

* Panorama: Immigration - The UK’s Record Rise, 8pm, BBC1

* Grand Indian Hotel, tourism exotica, 8pm, Channel 4

* Start the Week, East and Southeast Asian diaspora experiences, 9am, Radio 4

* Death, Suspicion and the Sikh Diaspora, 8pm, Radio 4

Tuesday 26 March

* Indian Hill Railways, Nilgiri Mountain Railway, 7pm, 1.20am, BBC 4

* On Assignment, climate change in the Bahamas, 10.45pm, ITV1

Wednesday 27 March

* Indian Hill Railways, Shimla, 7pm, 1.45am, BBC 4

* Himalaya With Michael Palin, travelogue, 8pm, BBC 4

* Death, Suspicion and the Sikh Diaspora, 11.30am, Radio 4

Thursday 28 March

* India’s Hospital Train, health on track aboard the Lifeline Express, 7pm, BBC 4

* Tracking the Planet, Earth in transition, 4pm, Radio 4

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

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