Events in London

Events in London

Talks and discussions

Monday 24 March

* World TB Day Symposium, 8.30am-5pm, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, WC1E 7HT. Info: LSHTM

* Prospects for Peace? The International, Regional, and Domestic Implications of Unlawful Proposals in Gaza, Yezid Sayigh, Menachem Klein, 6-8pm, King’s College, Strand campus, 30 Aldwych, WC2B 4BG. Info: King’s

* The Hidden World of Global Scamming Operations, Sam Colber, Geoff White, 7pm, from £6.13, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place W2 1QJ. Info: Frontline

Tuesday 25 March

* Documentary Photography in Apartheid South Africa, Tamar Garb, 6pm, Gresham College, Barnard's Inn Hall, EC1N 2HH. Info: Gresham College

* Conflicts, Elections, and Democracy, Adam Przeworski, 6.30-8pm, King’s College, 30 Aldwych, WC2B 4BG. Info: King’s

Wednesday 26-Thursday 27 March

* Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks, online sessions from the Geneva meeting: 26 March: Cash-based livelihoods interventions: a tool for durable solutions programming, Human mobility in the face of climate crisis: context, challenges and the role of diaspora in solutions: Neutrality in humanitarianism: what can we learn from Gaza?; 27 March, Accountability in action: exploring the need for effective feedback loops in humanitarian research; The impact of narratives on humanitarian action, principles and partnerships in Ukraine. Info: Overseas Development Institute

Thursday 27 March

* Architecture of Enslavement, Colonialism and Independence: The Story of James Fort in Accra, Elsie Owusu, 6pm, Gresham College, Barnard’s Inn Hall EC1N 2HH. Info: Gresham

* Controlling women, controlling society: The politics of virtue in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, 6.15pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: SOAS

* Finding Clarity in Chaos, Ronak Gopaldas, first in African Conversations series, 5pm, free, SOAS, 10 Thornhaugh Street, WC1H 0XG. Info: SOAS

* International Development Annual Lecture: Restitution and Development, 5–6:30pm, Barbara Harriss-White, 5pm, University College London, Rockefeller Building, 21 University Street, WC1E 6DE. Info: UCL

Monday 31 March

* 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

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

* 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 tou

* 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

*  All Our Stories: Migration and the Making of Britain, the centrality of migration to British life, free, Thursdays-Saturdays, Migration Museum, Lewisham Shopping Centre, SE13 7HB. The museum’s final day at its Lewisham address is 30 March. It plans to re-open in the City of London in two years and in the meantime is exploring possible temporary sites. Info: Museum

* 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 Central, Crouch End, Finsbury Park, Gate, Hackney, Ritzy; Odeons Camden, Greenwich, Luxe & Dine Islington, Luxe Acton, Luxe Haymarket, Luce Holloway, Luxe Lee Valley, Luxe Swiss Cottage, South Woodford, Streatham, Wimbledon; Vues Finchley Road, Islington; Barbican

* No Other Land, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta teams up with an Israeli journalist to fight Israel’s expulsions, Curzon Bloomsbury until 24, 27 March

* On Falling, powerful drama about the gig economy and the loneliness of working-class immigrants, centring on a Portuguese worker in a Scottish warehouse, Ritzy Picturehouse, 24, 25 March .

* Sister Midnight, unexpectedly original genre-bending Indian comedy about a frustrated and misanthropic newlywed who discovers feral impulses, Finsbury Park Picturehouse, Ritzy Picturehouse, Vue Finchley Road, Vue Islington; Barbican

* Screen Cuba 2025, films from the ‘60s till now, Garden Cinema,  ICA and Birkbeck University until 29 March. Info: Screen Cuba

* BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, 34 world premieres, 56 features and 81 shorts from 41 countries,  BFI Southbank until 30 March. Info: Flare

* Hearts, bodies and minds at Flare

* Santosh, a government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of northern India. When a low-caste girl is murdered, Santosh is pulled into the investigation by charismatic feminist inspector Sharma, Garden cinema until 27 March, Barbican

Tuesday 25 March

* Kim’s Video, a film about a search for the stock of a famous but extinct New York video rental store, 8pm, Garden cinema

from Friday 28 March

* War Paint: Women at War, shining a light on the trailblazing role of women war artists, on the front lines round the world, 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

Sunday 30 March

* The Other Profile, documentary about French filmmaker Armel Hostiou’s discovery that he has a second Facebook account: a fake Armel who has photos of the real one and many, many female friends, all of whom live in Kinshasa, 2.30pm, Garden cinema

* Soundtrack To A Coup d’Etat,  intricately layered megalith of a documentary teases out the complex, sordid details of Congo's liberation from Belgian colonial rule in 1960, through to the assassination of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba only months later, 1pm, Curzon Bloomsbury

+ Congo, colonialism, Cold War conflict and all that jazz

Monday 31 March

* State of Silence, documentary that follows four Mexican journalists as they shine a light on the failings of the ‘War on `Drugs’ and highlight the dangers faced by journalists, 6.20pm, Curzon Bloomsbury

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?, panel discussion with James Mudge, Victor Fan and Tammy Cheung, 4pm. Info: New Wave

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

* 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

Saturday 29 March

* Seedlings Climate Theatre Festival, explores the impact of the climate crisis in the Global South through performances and talks, made and curated by its British diasporic community, presented by Kali, New Earth and Tara Theatres, 11:30am-7pm, £25/ £18 day pass | £10/ £8 per show, Tara Theatre, 356 Garratt Lane, SW18 4ES. Info: Tara

TV and radio

Monday 24 March

* Start the Week, family migration and resistance discussed by  Shahidha Bari,  Jason Allen-Paisant,  Abdulrazak Gurnah and Samantha Ellis, 9am, Radio 4

Tuesday 25 March

* This Cultural Life: Salman Rushdie, interview with the writer, 10pm, BBC4

* Faith, Hope and Glory, drama series: three African-Caribbean women’s lives in 1940s Britain, 2.15pm, Radio 4

* New Generation Thinkers, Ethiopian thinker Zera Yacob, 9.45pm, Radio 3

Wednesday 26 March

* Brian Cox’s Jute Journey, looks back at Scotland’s links with the jute industry in Kolkata, 9pm, BBC 4

* Banel and Adama, Senegalese film in which reluctant chief Adama and troublesome widow Banel battle local hostility to continue their relationship, 1.20am, Film4

+ Senegalese village love story with echoes of Romeo and Juliet

* Faith, Hope and Glory, drama series: three African-Caribbean women’s lives in post-war Britain, 2.15pm, Radio 4

Thursday 27 March

* Stacey Dooley: Growing Up Gypsy, four women guide us through their lives, 9pm, BBC3

* Dying Democracies: Europe in Decline,  9.15pm, PBS America

* This Cultural Life: Salman Rushdie, interview with the writer, midnight10, BBC4

* Faith, Hope and Glory, drama series: three African-Caribbean women’s lives in post-war Britain, 2.15pm, Radio 4

Friday 28 March

* Unreported World, France’s far-right feminists, strongly anti-migrant, 7.30pm, Channel 4

* Jackie Chan’s Police Story, amazing action film, 6.25pm, 2.05am, Sky Cinema Greats

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