From the Editor
* Pooja Ghai has taken over as Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer of Tamasha Theatre Company: organisational model - “building a clear pipeline from writer development to mid-scale production and placing Global Majority artists at the centre of British theatre”.
Daniel Nelson london.globalevents@gmail.com
Monday 27 April
* Chasing Freedom: Simukai Chigudu in conversation with Gary Younge, on his book, a story of the inheritance of violence, of struggle, and of African liberation, 2-4pm, £10, Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road. Info: Foyles
* How totalitarian reform revived authoritarian rule in China, Minxin Pei discusses his latest book, 5-6.30pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
Tuesday 28 April
* Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire, Simuka Chigudu on being born in post-colonial Zimbabwe, shaped by his family’s buried trauma of war and liberation, 5.15pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
EXHIBITIONS
* Hawai’i: A Kingdom Crossing Oceans, a celebration of art and history, £16/£14, British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1 until 25 May. Info: Hawai’i
* A Greenland shadow over a wonderful Hawai’i exhibition
* Mil Veces uninstante (A thousand times in an instant), Mexican artist Teresa Margolies’ cuboid on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square is a memorial to transpeople worldwide.
* Nigerian Modernism, Nigerian artrists, working before and after the decade of national independence from British colonial rule in 1960, Tate Modern, Bankside SE1 9TG until 10 May. Info: Tate
* Hurvin Anderson, 80 nworks by the British-Jamaican artist, Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1P 4RG until 23 August. Info: Tate
* The Land Carries, work by three international artists: Ahmed Akasha (UK), Dina Nur Satti (US) and Yasmin Elnour (Bahrain) responding to material in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology,1 - 5pm, Petrie Museum, University College London, Malet Place, WC1E 6BT until 16 May. Info: Sudan exhibition
* 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
* Target Queen, large-scale commission by British-Indian artist Bharti Kher, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre
* Water Pantanal Fire, photography exhibition revealing the fragile beauty of the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland that sprawls across Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, free, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 2DD until 31 May. Info: Museum
* 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
* Beatriz González, the Colombian artist explores the impact of the images we encounter every day, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS until 10 May. Info: Barbican
* Yin Xiuzhen: Heart to Heart, through large-scale installations made from everyday objects, industrial materials and used items of clothing, the Chinese artist invites us to see the familiar in new ways, £19 (includes admission to Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life), Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX until 3 May. Info: Hayward
* 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, the 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
* Museum of Edible Earth, explore geophagy, the practice of eating earth for health, ritual and culinary benefit. The exhibition brings together edible samples of clay, chalk and mineral-rich earths from around the world, pay what you can, Somerset House, Strand WC2R 1LA until 26 April. Info: Somerset House
+ Try a taster at the Museum of Edible Earth
* 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 then 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 Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return, 53 artists from Palestine and the diaspora in London, P21, 21-27 Chalton Street, NW1 1JD, until 29 May. Info: P21
* 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
* Learning in Exile: Stories of Displacement and Education in the Rohingya Community, centred on the experiences of Rohingya children and youth since 1982, Wiener Holocaust Library, 29 Russell Square
WC1B 5DP until 30 May. Info: Holocaust Library
+ 1 May, Learning in Exile: When schooling doesn’t mean learning, discussion, 12-1.30pm,
from Wednesday 29 April
* Being There - Witness, Truth and Trust, news photographs from the last year including pictures by Mariam Dagga and Hussam al-Masri, who were killed in Gaza, St.Art Gallery, 36 Eastcastle Street W1W 8DP until 3 May. Info: Rory Peck Trust
ARTS OPPORTUNITIES
* Applications for Projekt Empower 2026, a mentorship scheme for emerging migrant theatre makers, is now open. (until 29 April). Its Practice Lab workshops for international theatre makers have also kicked off, as has a new Immersion Lab aimed at translating documentary material into performance.
* The Film Fund offers financial and professional support for Palestinian filmmakers, regardless of where they live or what passport they carry. Apply by 24 May.
* 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.com. with 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.
* Applications for the next round of Artist Surgeries at the Gate Theatre will be invited soon.
* 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.
FILM
* My Father’s Shadow, two brothers connect with their father in this drama set against the backdrop of the 1993 Nigerian presidential election, Hackney Picturehouse;
+ A father’s shadow - and the shadow of a Nigerian coup
+ Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù: ’If the west doesn’t say a film is good, that doesn’t mean it’s no good’
* The Stranger, Albert Camus’s classic of existential literature is brought to life in 1930s Algeria, where the daily life of an indifferent Frenchman is shaken by the death of his mother and an encounter on a beach, Picturehouses Central, Clapham, Crouch End, Finsbury Park, Hackney, Ritzy, West Norwood
* I, Poppy,a complex power structure governs the lives of poppy farmers in India, who are caught between the corrupt government and the black market, Curzon Bloomsbury until 28 April
Tuesday 28 April
* The Gas Station Attendant, a daughter reflects on her South Asian father’s life, his never-ending pursuit of the American dream, and the human capacity to love and survive + filmmaker Q&A, Curzon Bloomsbury
Wednesday 29 April
* Piagol, one of only 15 South Korean films released in 1955 - a year now seen as the beginning of a Golden Age for Korean cinema, 6pm, Korean Cultural Centre, Grand Buildings, 1 - 3 Strand, WC2N 5BW. Info: KCC
from Friday 1 May
* UK Asian Film Festival, until 10 May. Programme includes Ghost School, Creative Minds of Tomorrow, Mera Lvari, Mamun - In Praise of Shadows, The Unexpected, Umrao Jaan, The Unbroken, 100 Sunsets, Never Had A Chance, Calorie, The Model, Future Forward, Bayaar, Touche, Shadow Box + shorts and discussions. Info: Tongues of Fire
* Queer East Festival, East and Southeast Asia’s queer landscape. Films include The Outsiders, Yu Kan-Ping’s ground-breaking Taiwanese drama; 3670, portraying the hidden codes of Seoul’s gay scene; A Useful Ghost, a wildly camp feature from Thailand skewering the establishment and cultural hypocrisy; Between Goodbyes, poignant documentary about queer adoption and the legacy of Korea’s overseas adoption programme; A Good Child,funny, moving drag comedy from Singapore; Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia; various London venues until 6 June. Info: Queer East
+Queer East Festival returns for its seventh edition
PERFORMANCE
* The Authenticator, play by Winsome Pinnock ("the godmother of black British playwrights") sees two historians - of Ghanaian and Nigerian ancestry respectively - take on the task of authenticating the records of a former white Jamaican plantation owner: race, class, humour and spookiness, National Theatre, South Bank SE1 9PX until 9 May. Info: National
* Between the River and the Sea, Yousef was raised as a Christian-Arab-Palestinian-Israeli kid in Haifa, and is now raising two Jewish-Arab-Austrian kids in Berlin. Only he’s facing a custody battle, so things are getting complicated. A story about family, fear, and imagining a future beyond borders, £15-£30, Royal Court, Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS until 9 May. Info: Royal Court
* Pray-for-Me, work in-progress, as a Black Deaf woman confronts ideas of cure, belief and belonging through poetry, movement and music, 3pm, New Diorama, 15 - 16 Triton Street, Regent’s Place, place, NW1 3BF until 9 May. Info: CPT
* Jeezus!, Catholic guilt collides with unrepentant queerness in this sinful, heart-pounding mix of live music, dark humour, and Latin heat from award-winning migrant-led company Alpaqa,£13-£19,£3 unemployed, pay what you can Saturdays, New Diorama, 15-16 Triton Street, Regent’s Place, NW1 3BF until 9 May. Info: New Diorama
Sunday 26 April
* An Evening With An Immigrant, poet and playwright Inua Ellems in a new version of his autobiographical show + Laura Mvula, Fuel & Chineke! Orchestra,part of Multitudes 2026, the Southbank Centre’s multi-arts festival, powered by orchestral music,7.30pm, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre SE1 8XX. Info: Southbank Centre
* Goodness Gracious Me in Conversation: Episode 1, screening of the first episode of the 1990s radio and TV hit series + discussion of the groundbreaking Asian comedy show withNina Wadia, Sanjeev Bhaskar OBE and Kulvinder Ghir, Anil Gupta and Jon Plowman, 5pm, £32. Riverside, 101 Queen Caroline Street, W6 9BN. Info: Riverside
Monday 27 April
* I Dream, musical that looks at the relationship between Ralph Abermathy and Martin Luther King, 7.30pm, £20-£15, The Other Palace SW1E 5JA. Info: The Other Palace
from Wednesday 29 April
* The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, musical based on international best-selling book, and a Netflix film by Chiwetel Ejiofor. It tells the true true story of 13-year-old William Kamkwamba who dreams of saving his Malawian village — but no one believes he can, from £25 @SohoPlace, 4 Soho Place, W1D 3BG until 18 July. Info: @SohoPlace
* I'm Muslamic, Don't Panik, an intimate spectacle of identity, where being British, Iranian, and a Hip-Hop head collide, 7pm (3pm Saturday matinee), £12-£16, Camden Peoples Theatre, 58-60 Hampstead Road, NW1 2PY until 2 May. Info: CPT
TV &RADIO
Sunday 26 April
* Colombia with Simon Reeve, repeat of intelligent travelogue,8pm, BBC2
Monday 27 April
* One to One: a move from China to the UK aged 9 meant a new language for journalist Cindy Yu. How did that change her upbringing and view of the world?, 2.45pm, Radio4
Wednesday 29 April
* Suez: 24 Hours That Broke the British Empire, history documentary, 2.40am, Channel4
from 29 April: The House of the Spirits, adapted from Isabel Allende’s magical realism novel about four generations of a Chilean family, Prime Video
Thursday 30 April
* Suez: 24 Hours That Broke the British Empire, history documentary, 2.40am, Channel4, 3.25am, Radio4