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”.
* “We are an arts charity – can we take action on Palestine?”. That’s the question that Artists for Palestine UK sets out to answer in a new briefing. The advice begins by declaring, “Yes! While there are restrictions around charities’ ability to undertake work deemed ‘political activity’, this does not mean that you can’t undertake work in solidarity with Palestine.” Full statement here.
Daniel Nelson london.globalevents@gmail.com
TALKS AND MEETINGS
Tuesday 24 March
* England United: Pride Not Prejudice, Sunder Katwala launches a toolkit “for those who want to speak up for an inclusive England”, 12 - 1pm, online. Info: British Future
* Capitalism, ecology and class struggle in the 21st century, Jason Hickel on how we can increase prosperity for all and protect the planet at the same time, 4 - 5.30pm, online. Info: Institute of Development Studies
Wednesday 25 March
* Concentration Camps: A Global History, Alan Kramer on his new book, 6.30 - 8pm, Wiener Holocaust LIbrary, 29 Russell Square WC1B 5DP. Info: Library
* Anti-Racist Nursing & Midwifery: film screening and book launch, 5-8pm, City University, RoomD111 (Rhind building), Clerkenwell Campus. Info: City
* Archives of activism: exploring environmental justice, Judy Ling Wong, Ivié Itoje, Tanya Matthan, 6pm,London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2
* Capitalism: A global history, Sven Beckert “puts forward a revelatory new narrative, vital for understandingthe world iin which we live”, 6.30 - 8pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2
* Daughters of Persia, celebrates one of the world’s great culturesthrough the eyes of its women from history, literature and mythology, 7.30pm, £30, concessions for seniors, students unemployed, Playground Theatre,, Latimer Road 6RQ, part of Women’s Voices: A Celebration. Info: Playground
Tursday 26 March
* Building the UK-Ghana digital trade financxe corridor, 10am-1pm, Overseas Development Institute,4 Millbank SW1P 3JA. Info: Overseas Development Institute.
Friday 27 March
* Digital trade for economic transformation and inclusive growth, Aliyu Bunu, Sheriff , Trudi Hartzenberg, Maria Immanuel, 11-12.30pm, online. Info:Overseas Development Institute
EXHIBITIONS
* Emergency Exits: The fight for independence in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus, how post Second World War “Emergencies” as they were termed by the UK, shaped Britain, its former territories and the modern world, free, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road SE1 6HZ until 29 March.Info: IWM
* Hawai’i: a kingdom crossing oceans, a celebration of art and history, £124/£126, British Museum, Great Russell Street,WC1B 3DG until 25 May. Info: Hawai’i
* A Greenland shadow over a wonderful Hawai’i exhibition
* Botanical Tales and Seeds of Empire & Flora Indica: Recovering the lost histories of Indian botanical art, The Singh Twins examine the global mythologies of plants and the histories of Empire + work by historical Indian botanical artists; admission with Kew entry free, Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Kew Gardens,until 12 April
+ The Singh Twins light up the links between empire and botany
+ The Singh Twins spotlight Kew’s role in the business of Empire
* Bibby Boys, documents the experience of the men aboard the Bibby Stockholm barge and the community that rallied around the migrants, Photofusion, Unit2, 2 Beehive Place, SW9 7QR until 4 April. Info: Photofusion
* 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
* Nigerian Modernism, Nigerian artists 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
* 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 Boy on the Peacock Throne: A Memoir in Images/ Echoes in Print/ Threads of Home From Hopscotch Women’s Centre, two exhibitions by Iranians, one by Afghan refugee women; part of Persian New Year celebrations, free, Lauderdale House, Waterlow Park, N6 5HG until 6 April. Info: Lauderdale House
* 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
ARTS OPPORTUNITIES
* 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
* Projekt Empower’s mentoring programme for migrant theatre-makers at the start of their UK careers opens to applicants on 8 April.
* 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 Young Playwrights Award is a free, open-access competition for any teenager in the UK interested in writing a play. Entries are open until 22 April.
* The Royal Court Theatre’s Writers’ Card aims to help playwrights through mentoring, networking, funding opportunities, events, subsidised meals and free script printing.
* P21 Gallery & Az Theatre invite submissions for an upcoming exhibition and activities programme on artistic responses to genocide: all media, any genocide.
* The Climate Migration Collaborative seeks contributors to its Climate Migration Storytellinginitiative.
* Comedian Munya Chawawa has launched Black Boys Theatre Club “to give young men access to a world of theatre”.
* Women writers, directors, performers, musicians and visual artists are invited to submit projects for the Playground Theatre’s planned Women’s Voices: A Celebration
* 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.
* New Diorama Theatre is distributing grants of £500 to migrant theatre makers to ease the burden of visa, legal, and other bureaucratic costs affecting migrants navigating UK immigration.
* 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 are invited.
* 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, Picturehouses Crouch End, Finsbury Park, Hackney, Ritzy, West Norwood; Barbican 23, 25 March (BAFTA winner for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer (Akínọlá Davies Jr)
+ 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’
* No Other Choice, a man’s desperation to secure a new job finds him exploring unique ways to eliminate his competitors, in South Korean director Park Chan-wook’s madcap thriller; Picturehouse Central 26 March
* The Secret Agent, Brazilian political thriller about an academic on the run in the dangerous, dictatorial 1970s; cinemas all over town
* BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, genre-defying debut feature from artist and filmmaker Khalil Joseph, from £12.50, Wednesday, Saturdays and Sundays, 180 Studios, 180 Strand, Surrey Street WC2R 1EA until 27 March.
* Everybody to Kenmure Street, when a Home Office raid triggered an act of civil resistance, as hundreds of Glaswegians rushed to the scene to stop their neighbours’ deportations, Hackney Picturehouse 26 March; Curzon Bloomsbury, Lexi until 26 March
* BFI Flare, London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, BFI Southbank until 29 March. Info: Flare
+ A celebration of queer cinema from around the world
Tuesday 24 - Thursday 26 March
* TNB XPO 2026, The New Black Film Collective’s fifth annual convention celebrating Black excellence on screen, Rich Mix, 35 = 47 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA. Info: XPO
Wednesday 25 March
* Palestine 36, historical drama about a Palestinian uprising against Britain and Jewish immigrants fleeing antisemitism in Europe + Q&A with director and cast,;ticket sales “go towards educational projects supporting young Palestinians”, £20 - £30, Vue Leicester Square
+ Palestine 1936: A story for today
Thursday 26 March
* The Eyes of Ghana, a voyage through Ghanaian cinema and a portrait of the country, from cinema’s inception through to the present day + Q&A, 8pm, £5 - £15, Rich Mix
+ A love letter to Ghanaian cinema gold
PERFORMANCE
* The Wrong They Knew, musical about the 1958 race riots in London, from £12, Rayne Theatre, Chickenshed, 290 Chase Side Southgate N14 4PE.until 28 March. Info: Chickenshed
* Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Jocelyn Bioh’s play about life in a bustling Harlem braiding salon where neighbourhood women come to have their greatest hairstyle dreams come true, all in the hands of a lively group of West African immigrant braiders, from £10, Lyric Hammersmith, Lyric Square, King Street, W6 0QL until 25 April. Info: Lyric
+ 26 March, post-show Q&A with playwright Jocelyn Bioh and the Lyric’s Rachel O’Riordan
+ 2 April, Q&A with director Monique Touko + DJ in the bar until 11pm
Tuesday 24 March
* The Spy Princess, the story of Noor Inayat Khan, a descendant of an Indian prince, Tipu Sultan (the Tiger of Mysore). She became a British secret agent during World War II and was captured by Germany and executed in 1944, 7.30pm, £20, concessions for seniors, students unemployed, PlaygroundTheatre, Latimer Road, part of Women’s Voices: A Celebration. Info: Playground
* Bayangkan Bayang (Imagine A Shadow), what happens to migrant children as they mature into societies that fail to acknowledge them?, 7.15pm, £12 - £28, Camden Peoples Theatre, 59 - 60 Hampstead Road NW1 2PY. Info: CPT
Wednesday 25 March
Pressure, Horace Ovè's pioneering drama, widely hailed as Britain's first Black feature film. 8pm, Rich Mix
* Asian Folx Stories (Work-In-Progress), trans reworking of Mulan and hilarious exploration of what it means to be trans and Asian through folklore and drag – “the version Disney would never dare make”, devised by award-losing Hong Kong drag artist Mild Peril, 9pm, £10,part of Sprint 2026, Camden People’s Theatre 58- 60, Hampstead Road, NW1 2PY. Info: CPT
* Daughters of Persia, celebrates a great culture through the eyes of its women from history, literature and mythology, 7.30pm, £30, concessions for seniors, students unemployed, Playground Theatre, Latimer Road 6RQ, part of Women’s Voices: A Celebration. Info: Playground
Thursday 26 March
+Untitled Indian Political Prisoner Show (work in progress), mutimedia performance based on accounts of Indian political prisoners and activists, 7.15pm, £10,part of Sprint 2026, Camden People’s Theatre, 58 - 60, Hampstead Road, NW1 2PY. Info: CPT
TV and RADIO
Saturday 21 Marcgh
* Captain Phillips, thriller about the capture. of a ship bhy Somali pirates, 9pm, FilmFour
* Bill Bailey’s Vietnam, yet another celebrity travelogue, 9.15pm, Channel4
* The second Map, stories from the Asian front in the Second World War, 7.15pm, Radio4
Sunday 22 March
* Licence to Hate: Racism on the Frontline, the rise in abuse of health workers, 12.30pm, Radio4
Monday 23 March
* Global Eye, topical magazine, 7pm, BBC2
* Clash of the Superpowers: America v China, first of two programmes,9pm, BBC2
* Hidden Letters, follows two millennial Chinese women fascinated with an almost forgotten secret women’s language, 9.30pm, PBS America
+ From misogyny to mansplaining
* Licence to Hate: Racism on the Frontline, the rise in abuse of health workers, 4pm, Radio4, Radio4
* How Did We Get Here?, series about the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict, 8pm, Radio4
Tuesday 24 March
* Khartoum, imaginative documentary portrait of the experiences of five Sudanese citizens, 10pm, BBC4
+ Sudan’s war, re-enacted in exile
*Sorry, I Didn’t Know, Black comedy quiz, 11.45pm, ITV1
* Faith, Hope and Glory, drama serial about the impact of the Windrush scandal, 2.15pm, Radio4
Wednesday 25 March
* The Last Tree, 2019 drama about a country boy who returns to London to live with his Nigerian-origin birth mother and has to adapt to being a young black man in London in the early 2000s, 1.45am, Film4
* Faith, Hope and Glory, drama serial about the impact of the Windrush scandal, 2.15pm, Radio4
* Slim’s Guide to Life, series in which a 53-year-old stand-up looks back at his Black British life, 11pm, Radio4
Thursday 26 March
* Clash of the Superpowers: America v China, first of two programmes, 11pm, BBC2