From the Editor

* Actors and playwrights are among 261 artists calling on the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Court, the Young Vic, and the Almeida to end partnerships with Bloomberg Philanthropies over its ties to Israel.

Daniel Nelson london.globalevents@gmail.com‍

TALKS AND DISCUSSIONS

Monday 1 June

* Adrift in the South, Xiao Hai on his book about factory-hopping between the garment mills and electronics factories of China’s fast-growing southern cities, 7 – 8.30pm, £5/ £12.99 with book, Housmans Bookshop,  Caledonian Road N1 9 DY. Info: Housmans

* President Gabrial Boric of Chile in conversation with Isabel Hilton, 7pm, £20, online from £5, British Library 96 Euston Road, NW1. Info: Library

* Taiwan in China’s Shadow, Chen-Yu Lin, Ed Moon, Renn Lin, 7pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13Norfolk Place W2 1QJ. Info: Frontline

* How has East Asia responded to the fallout from the war against Iran?, Owen Miller, Satona Suzuki, Steve Tsang, 5pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1

* The Accommodation of Democracy: A New Political Economy of Poverty Alleviation in Rural India, Thibaud Marcesse,4-5.30pm, King’s College, Room: SE 1.05 Strand campus, 30 Aldwych, WC2B 4BG

Tuesday 2 June

* Lebanon: Notes from a permanent crisis, Iva Kovic-Chahine, Andrew Ahsan, Liz Sly, and Gilbert Achcar, 7pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place W2, Frontline Club.

* Here Where We Live Is Our Country, Molly Crabapple and Jon Lee Anderson uncover a history of the Jewish Bund and its radical vision of solidarity, 6.15pm, £6.50, 6 Langley Street WC2H 9JA. Info: The Conduit

* Entrepreneurship, precariousness and education among youth in Brazil, Carla Corrochan, 1-2.30pm, online. Info:  Institute of Development Studies

* AI for global health. From product development to policy, Kerry Millington, Meena Gandhi, Dino Tech, Ambrose Agweyu, Melissa Miles, Maelle-Maria Troadec, 1-2.30pm, online. Info: Institute of Development Studies.

* What works for climate and health: lessons from cities, Andy Haines, Fernanda Hierro, Lorna Benton, ,  Aimé Aguilar Jaber, Vicente Ruiz, Mariana Mirabile, Lauren Sellers, Maria Cortes Puch, Elizabeth Bennett, 12.30-2pm, online. Info: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

EXHIBITIONS

* Rising Voices, Contemporary Art: From Asia, Australia and the Pacific, work by more than 40 artists from 25 Countries. Info: .Vam.ac.uk

+ Striking voices in the Asia-Pacific region

* Mil Veces un instant (A thousand times in an instant), Mexican artist Teresa Margoles’ cuboid on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square is a memorial to trans people worldwide.

* Hurvin Anderson, 80 works by the British-Jamaican artist, Tate Britain, Millbank SW1P 4RG, until 23 August. Info:  Tate

* 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/ 

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

* Bouchra Khalili: Circles and Storytellers, the culmination of the French-Moroccan artist and educator’s 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 

* The Land Carries, exploration of Sudanese history, culture and nationhood through contemporary art, free, 1-5pm, University College London Petrie Museum, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT. Info: Petrie

* 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

+ Migrant nurses: Looking after Britain’s health

* Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, 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

* The Arab Hall: Past and Present, the Hall in the 100-year-old Leighton House is a blend of 13th-century Damascus tiles and Victorian architecture. A new exhibition features contemporary art and a dedicated film, offering a deeper look at how Islamic art has influenced British spaces, £14, Leighton House, 12 Holland Park Road, W14 8LZ until 4 October. Info: Leighton House

* Donald Locke:Resistant Forms, works by Guyanese-British ceramicist, sculptor and painter, free, Camden Art Centre, Arkwright Road NW3 until 30 August. Info: Art Centre

* Nhu Xuan Hua: Of Walking on Fire, reimagines archival photographs from her family’s time in Vietnam and Europe, building visual reconstructions that echo how memory in the diaspora can blur and slip from view, free, Autograph, Rivington Place, EC2A 3BA until 19 September. Info: Autograph

* The Music is Black: A British Story, how Black British music has shaped British culture from 1900 to today through objects like Joan Armatrading’s childhood guitar, fashion worn by Little Simz and photographs, £22.50 weekdays, £24.40, V&A East, Queen Elizabeth Park, Olympic Park. Info: V&A East Museum

* Ain Bailey: The Jamaica Project, films and compositions, free, Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road NW3, until 14 June. Info: Arts Centre

* When words fall silent, cinema speaks: Zineb Sedira’s installation on Algeria’s key role in African cinema in the 1960s and ‘70s, Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1P 4RG until 17 January. Info: Tate Commission

* When Third Cinema was a power in the land

Saturday 6 - Sunday 7 June

* Giants on the Move: A Puppet Street Parade, large-scale procession of giant puppets, live percussion and moving sculpture, drawing from India’s rich heritage of artisanal puppet-making to reimagine the street as a shared civic stage, 12.45-1.15pm, 3.15-3.45pm, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, part of The Great Exhibition Road Festival

OPPORTUNITIES

* The Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series is inviting poems (40 lines or less) and short prose (100 words or less) exploring: African and African diasporic migration and (im)mobility; how African and Asian refugees are being left to drown in the English Channel; and Edward Nkoloso, Afronauts and the 1960s Zambian Space Programme.

* Autograph is looking to publish new writing that creatively reflects on issues of memory, language and migration. Successful applicants will receive a £400 fee and publication on Autograph's website. Submission deadline: 10am, 13 July

* Applications for Projekt Empower’s Practice Lab workshops for international theatre makers are invited, and a new Immersion Lab aimed at translating documentary material into performance is underway.

* 30 Black UK-based filmmakers and content creators are wanted for Momentum - a free, nine-month professional development programme supported by Channel 4 and Sony Pictures Television. To register your interest, email: momentum@weareparable.comwith the subject line: Registering interest for Momentum 2026

* Entries for the London Palestine Film Festival must be submitted by 30 June. contact@palestinefilm.org.uk

* Wanted: poems and short prose on the tragedy of refugee deaths in the Channel.

* the other side of hope: journeys in refugee and immigration literature invites submissions for its next issue, “other tongue, mother tongue.” It seeks poetry by migrants in any language except English. Guidelines.

* The Royal Court Theatre’s Writers’ Card aims to help playwrights through mentoring, networking, funding opportunities, events, subsidised meals and free script printing.

* The Climate Migration Collaborative seeks contributors to its Climate Migration Storytelling initiative.

* Comedian Munya Chawawa has launched Black Boys Theatre Club “to give young men access to a world of theatre”.

* The BFI is to invest £150m over the next three years under six headings: audiences, education & heritage, filmmaking & talent development, skills & workforce development, international, and insight & industry. 

* Good Chance, formed in the Calais Jungle refugee camp, is launching Stage Door 10 - a national programme placing 10 creatives from refugee backgrounds in paid roles across 10 UK theatres and arts organisations.

* Theatro Technis and Hyphen Artist Collective’s offer free in-person & online writing sessions + community chats for hyphenated & global majority creatives.

* As Yet Unscene, year-round initiative to find and develop scripts in early stages of development. it includes workshops, rehearsed readings and fully-rehearsed performances of longer extracts. Details here

* The Cockpit Theatre offers classes, workshops, readings, advice sessions, support & performance opportunities.

* Papatango hopes its new Playwrights’ Studio will be a home for playwrights of all levels of experience. Its advantages include digital workshops, lone-to-one, and thousands of pounds in open-access funding.

* If you are a refugee, immigrant or asylum-seeking writer interested in exploring your own poetry and prose, Exiled Writers Ink offers classes.