Events in London

Events in London

Talks and discussions

Tuesday 15 April

* Elections in Ecuador, webinar on the presidential election, 3-4.15pm. Info: Canning House

Thursday 17 April

* Return- Stories Of Return And Ongoing Genocide, a public conversation that presents testimonies, videos, live interventions, giving accounts of the return of the people of Gaza to their homes, Jamal Al Rozzi, Hossam Madhoun, Ruth Lee, 4.30-8.30pm, P21 Gallery, 21-27 Chalton Street, NW1 1JD. Info: P21

Tuesday 22 April

* Protecting the planet: who holds the power?, 7-8.30pm, £5 - £10, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR. Info: RGS

* The role of evidence used 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, 3-5pm, online. Info: Overseas Development Institute

* Reducing the cost of capital in small vulnerable states, Emily Wilkinson, Anton Edmunds, Gail Hurley, Ian Durant, Henry Mooney, Ritu Bharadwaj, 4-6pm, online event from World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings in Washington. Info: Overseas Development Institute

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

* 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

* 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

from Wednesday 16 April

* Eileen Perrier: A Thousand Small Stories and Dianne Minnicucci: Belonging and Beyond, free, Autograph, Rivington Place, EC2A 3BA, until 13 September. Info: Rivington Place

Film

* Caught by the Tides, a singer and dancer quits life In a north-eastern Chinese city to embark on a long, countrywide search for a lost lover, ICA, The Mall, until 24 April

+ Two-decade relationship tells the story of China’s epic transformation

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

* Sister Midnight, original genre-bending Indian comedy about a frustrated and misanthropic newlywed who discovers feral impulses, 16 April: Castle Cinema, screening + director Karan Kandhari Q&A

* Hong Kong New Wave: 1979-1989, Garden cinema

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

* Balomania, a secret society of giant hot air balloon makers in Brazil's favelas risk everything to fly their illegal masterpieces, Curzon Bloomsbury, until 16 April

* All The Mountains Give, two close friends are forced to smuggle goods across the border between Iraq and Iran, Curzon Bloomsbury until 17 April

Monday 14 April

* Kumba, African shorts, 8pm, Garden Cinema. Info: Kumba

Tuesday 15 April

* The Takeover, chronicles the Taliban’s determination to reshape Afghan society in line with their ideology, removing women’s rights, freedoms of speech and media, and the right of assembly + discussion with Anders Hammer and Fereshta Abbas, 7pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2 1QJ. Info: Frontline

Wednesday 16 April

* Borderland – The Line Within, documentary on the war waged against immigrants in the US + Q&A with director Pamela Yates, producer Paco de Onis and Human Rights Watch researcher Nadia Hardman, 6.20pm, Curzon Bloomsbury

Wednesday 16-Thursday 17 April

* Warfare, following a platoon of US Navy SEALs as they occupy the home of an Iraqi family in this boots-on-the-ground narrative that thrusts viewers into the immediacy of combat, drawn from the memories of the men who lived it, BFI IMAX

Thursday 17 April

* Invisible Beauty, fashion revolutionary Bethann Hardison’s documentary and Q&A about her life as a Black model, agent and activist, 6.30-9.30pm, £20-£25, V&A Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL. Info: V&A

Performance

* Speed, in Mohamed-Zain Dada’s drama, a nurse, a delivery driver, and an entrepreneur walk into a speed awareness course. Is it a coincidence that they’re all British Asians?, £10-£35, Bush Theatre, 7 Uxbridge Road, W12 8LJ until 17 May. Info: Bush

+ Comedy drama of warp-speed Desi drivers

* Shanghai Dolls, an unusual friendship in China between China’s first female director and the architect of the Cultural Revolution, Kiln, 269 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR until 10 May. Info: Park

* 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 Guest, play set in an overheated near future and developed in collaboration with migrants, Omnibus Theatre, 1 Clapham Common Northside, SW4 0QW, until 26 April. Info: Omnibus

+ Home truths about hospitality, asylum and climate change

from Tuesday 15 April

* a practical guide on how to save the world when no one f***ing else is, a ragtag climate action group meets weekly in a community hall. Tensions rise as they try to decide between peaceful protest or eco-terrorism, £23/£16, Tara Theatre, 365 Garratt Lane, SW18 4ES, until 19 April. Info: Tara

Saturday 19 April

* Anastasia and Loraine, comedians Anastasia Chokuwamba and Loraine Mponela, hosted by Selam Amare, plus guest comedians, 7pm, pay what you can, Hoxton Hall, N1 6SH. Info: No Direction Home

Sunday 20 April

* Re-Enchant: An Evening Of Radical Poetry, London-based Ugandan poet and playwright Nick Makoha reads from his new work The New Carthaginians, 5pm, £12/ £10, The Cockpit, Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH. Info: Cockpit

TV and radio

Monday 14 April

* The Last Tree, the story of a British-Nigerian boy growing up in rural Lincolnshire and inner-city London , 1.15am, Film 4

* Eden: Untamed Planet, Zambia’s Luangwa Valley, 7.10pm, BBC 4

* Start the Week, discussion on justice, human rights abuses and impunity, 9am, Radio 4

* Language City, little-known languages in New York, 11.45am, midnight30, Radio 4

* Laila Soueif: A Mother’s Life, profile of the parent of a British political prisoner in Egypt, 5.04am, Radio 4

Tuesday 15 April

* The Island: Murdered in Paradise, the deaths of two men in the Caribbean in 2018, 10pm, Channel 5

* Tribe With Bruce Parry, with the Sumba in Indonesia, 11pm, BBC 2

* Language City, little-known languages in New York, 11.45am, midnight30, Radio 4

Wednesday 16 April

* Untamed Planet: Patagonia, 7.10pm, BBC 4

* Targeted: Lebanon’s Deadliest Attack, 10pm, Channel 4

* Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story, documentary by the former singer covers “race relations” in Britain and her own fascinating “rude girl” upbringing, 9pm, Sky Arts

* Language City, little-known languages in New York, 11.45am, midnight30, Radio 4

Thursday 17 April

* Stacey Dooley: Growing Up Gypsy, the lives of four Roma women, 11pm, BBC1

* Sorry, I Didn’t Know, Black comedy quiz, 11.40pm, ITV 1

* Language City, little-known languages in New York, 11.45am, midnight30, Radio 4

from Thursday: No 1 Happy Family USA, adult animation about the Hussein family in the US, Prime Video

Friday 18 April

* Unreported World, marriage plans for two Gaza couples, 7.30pm, Channel 4

* Racism: My Story, 3am, Channel 5

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