From the Editor
* A £10,000 prize dedicated to discovering and developing British Caribbean playwrights has been launched using compensation awarded to a Windrush victim who died before receiving it. It has been set up by Shereener Browne, the founder of Orísun Productions and a former barrister, in memory of her father, Myron Brown. Full story in The Guardian.
Daniel Nelson london.globalevents@gmail.com
TALKS AND DISCUSSIONS
Monday 6 July
* BRICS+ After the Expansion - From economic platform to emerging political bloc? The Western response in a changing world order, Lord Jim O’Neill, Marta Fernández, Mulugeta Getu Sisay, 5 - 7pm, King’s College, Strand Campus, Strand, WC2R 2LS
Tuesday 7 july
* Comparative perspectives on international tax from the Global South, Sarah Coll-Black, Nick Benequista, Anne Valand, Hisae Kato and Patricia Romero on how governments in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Uganda and Zambia engage with international tax standards, 2 - 3pm, online. Info: Institute of Development Studies
Wednesday 8 july
* How Gaza Changes Everything, Antony Loewenstein, Leila Molana-Allen, 7pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place W2 1QJ. Info: Frontline
Thursday 9 July
* How the World Made the American Revolution, Tom Holland and Sarah Pearsall uncover the global forces, people and places that shaped America’s fight for independence, from Canada and India to Ghana and beyond, 7pm, £15, online £5m, British Library, 96 Euston Road, NW1. Info: Library
EXHIBITIONS
* Frida: The Making of an Icon: How Frida Kahlo became one of the most influential artists of all time, from her political activism to global Fridamania, £25, Tate Modern, Bankside SE1 9TG until 3 January. Info: Tate
+ How the Zeitgeist helped create Fridamania
* Project A Black Planet:The Art and Culture of Panafrica, 300 works including posters, paintings, journals, sculpture and film from Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, North America and Western Europe from the 1920s to the present. Artists include Kader Attia, Mariene Dumas, Inji Effiatoun, Sonia Gomes, David Hammons, Nicholas Hlobo, Claudette Johnson, Wilfredo Lam, Simone Leigh Ernest Mancota, Kawira Mwinchia, Abdias Nascimento. Grace Ndiritu, Magdalene Odundo, Chris Ofili, Colette Omogbai, The Otolith Group, Ingrid Pollard, Samir Rafi, Cauleen Smith, Tavares Strachan, £19, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS until 6 September. Info: Project A Black Planet
+ About 50 related events have been scheduled, including talks, films, workshops and music. Detailshere
+ Project Black Planet fights its way through a thicket of jargon
* Rising Voices, Contemporary Arts From Asia, Australia and the Pacific, work by more than 40 artists from 25 countries, £17, V&A Museum, Cromwell Road SW7 until 10 January. Info: .Vam.ac.uk
+ Striking voices in the Asia-Pacific region
* Mil Veces un Instant (A thousand times in an instant), Mexican artist Teresa Margolies’ cuboid on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square is a memorial to trans people worldwide.
* Hurvin Anderson, 80 works by British-Jamaican artist, Tate Britain, Millbank SW1P 4RG. until 23 August. Info: Tate
* Collecting an 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
* 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
* 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 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 Museu
* 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
* gadzi, installation by nora chipaumire that draws on the legends, stones, and soil of her native Zimbabwe, free, Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG until 23 August. Info: Tate
* Anish Kapoor, sculptures and paintings by the Mumbai-born Indian-British artist, £22, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX until 18 October. Info: Hayward.
* Kulpreet Singh: Indelible Black Marks, poetic meditation on the urgent link between climate change and agricultural crises, free, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX until 2 August. Info: Hayward
* Earth Photo, 50 winners of international competition on issues affecting the climate and life, free, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR. until 24 July. Info: RGS
* Homeland Lost, Alan Gignoux juxtaposes portraits of Palestinian refugees displaced in 1948 and their descendants, alongside images of their former homes and villages inside Israel, P21, 21 Chalton Street, NW1 1JD until 10 July. Info: P21 + 7 July, Documenting the ruined villages of Palestine, Ahmad al-Bazz on his book, The Erasure of Palestine, and conversation between the two photographers, 6.30 - 8.30pm, £5
* Unfolding Narratives: Perspectives in Contemporary Indian Art, free,Mall Galleries, SW1Y 5AS until 8 July. Info: Mall
ARTS 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.com with the subject line: Registering interest for Momentum 2026
* Wanted: poems and short prose on the tragedy of refugee deaths in the Channel.
* 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.
* 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
* KIlling Anna, a Syrian woman goes undercover online to track down a war criminal, creating a fake profile and befriending the man she believes responsible for a massacre during the Syrian civil war, Curzon Bloomsbury until 9 July;
* Do You Love Me?, personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory, composed entirely of archival footage, Curzon Bloomsbury until 9 July;
* Birds of War, a London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman retrace their love story over 13 years of war, revolutions and exile, Barbican, ICA, The Mall, until 9 July
* Cactus Pears, tender romantic drama exploring grief, tradition, longing and the realities of working-class queer life in India, Castle cinema, until 9 July
* Persepolis, based on Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel, the film follows her life in pre- and post-revolutionary Iran and then in Europe, Cine Lumiere until 26 July
Tuesday 7 July
* Hunted: Kidnapped, blackmailed and tortured for being LGBTQ, the world of “kito” attacks in Nigeria, where people seen as “sexually deviant” are entrapped, humiliated and extorted by violent gangs + discussions with Bel Trew, Christine Stegling of UNAIDS, Rev Jide Macaulay of House of Rainbow and Charles Ssonko of Medecins Sans Frontieres, 6.30pm, ICA, The Mall
Wednesday 8 July
* Shoot The People, documentary about Nigerian-British photographer and activist Misan Harriman who specialises in covering grassroots protests.+ director Q&A, Curzon Bloomsbury
* Happy Together, Wong Kar Wai’s emotive and beautifully shot drama about a turbulent relationship makes the most of its Buenos Aires backdrop + introduction by Ying-Di Yi, 6pm, National Film Theatre
* Bashu, The Little Stranger, the bond between an orphan and an independent woman who defies tradition and authority lies at the heart of this drama by a filmmaker consistently censored by the theocratic regime of Iran + introduction by Ehsan Khoshbakht, 6.05pm, National Film Theatre
* Bullet in the Head, John Woo Vietnam war melodrama, an underrated, devastating masterpiece + introduction by Katie Smith-Wong, 6.20pm, National Film Theatre
Thursday 9 July
* Life Support, documentary built from first-hand testimony of international doctors and footage shot inside Gaza's overwhelmed hospitals + Q&A, Curzon Mayfair
+ Phone calls from the Gaza apocalypse
from Thursday 9 July
* London Indian Film Festival, premieres from South Asia, plus restorations of classics of Indian cinema and British Asian shorts. Programme includes 52 Blue, All About Weddings, A Mosquito in the Ear, In Search of the Sky, Anmol - Lovingly Yours, parental love is put to the test when a couple's newborn baby's unique identity forces them to confront their own beliefs and biases; White Snow; Master, a powerful story of politics, morality, and the cost of influence; Ancestral Hauntings, programme exploring ancestry, heritage, and the lasting impact of colonialism; + documentaries - If I Could Tell You, Give It A Shot & Britain Through South Asian Eyes. BFI Southbank, BFI IMAX, Ciné Lumière, Forest Cinema Walthamstow, Genesis, ICA, Lumiere Romford, Nehru Centre, Regent Street Cinema + 17, 18 July, special screenings at Lumiere Romford and Forest Green Walthamstow. Festival ends 18 July. Info: Festival
PERFORMANCE
* The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, musical based on a book and a Netflix film tells the true story of 13-year-old William Kamkwamba, who dreams of saving his village but is disbelieved by everyone, from £25, @SohoPlace, W1 until 18 July. Info: @SohoPlace
* Love You Long Time (Already), funny and moving intergenerational epic about mothers and daughters, migration and memory, written by Vietnamese-American playwright Katie Đỗ and directed by Jennifer Tang,Theatre 503, 503 Battersea Park Road SW11 3BW until 25 July. Info: Theatre 503+ Related events include + 6 July, Directors Night, discussion 16 July, Vietnamese Community Night
* Karen Houge: Dreamgirl, what would happen if instead of starting clown school in Paris, you accidentally ended up following a group of Syrian refugees on their journey to seek asylum in Europe? How would your experience be different from theirs?, from £19, Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street W1D 3NE until 11 July. Info: Dreamgirl
Friday 10 - Sunday 12 July
* Poetry International Festival, includes 10 July, Benjamin Zephanisah: A Celebration, 8pm, £20; 11 July, After Catastrophe: Futures Beyond Crisis, 12.30pm, from £11; From The Lips To The Moon, 8pm, free; 12 July, A Poet In Every Port - London, 10am, free; Yang Lian and Sudeep Sen: Chinese and Indian Poetry, 12.30pm, from £11; Batool Abu Akleen & Alice Oswold, 2pm, from £15; Kim Hyesoon & Paul Muldoon, 5.30pm, from £15; Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road SE1 8XX. Info: Poetry Festival
TV & radio
* White Riot, the story of Rock Against Racism, midnight10, SkyArts
Monday 6 July
* The Tea Trail With Simon Reeve, documentary about East Africa’s tea industry, 8pm, BBC4
* Common Ground, Leicester, language and migrant communities, 9am, Radio4
* Ten Fights That Made the Green Movement: Arctic drilling, 1.45pm, Radio
Tuesday 7 July
* Ten Fights That Made the Green Movement, an indigenous community in Uganda is evicted to make way for gorilla conservation, 1.45pm, Radio4
* To Catch a King, documentary series about tracking down a prominent people smuggler, 9pm, Radio4
Wednesday 8 July
* Sorry, I Didn’t Know, Black comedy quiz, 11.50pm, ITV1
* Ten Fights That Made the Green Movement, nuclear power in Germany, 1.45pm, Radio4 + Thursday 9 July, Ten Fights That Made the Green Movement, Just Stop Oil, 1.45pm, Radio4 + Friday 10 July, Ten Fights That Made the Green Movement, what next for the movement?, 1.45pm, Radio4