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
Tuesday 23 June
* The British Society of Criminology’s Green Criminology Research Network annual conference, Elliot Doornbos, Melanie Flynn, Angus Nurse, Jac Reed, Damien Short, Nigel South, 10am - 4pm, Senate House, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU. Info: Conference
* Ghost Season by Fatin Abbas, the author discusses his debut novel about five characters caught in the crosshairs of conflict on the Sudan border, 6.30pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
* Reforming multilateral development banks in Africa: What perspectives from client countries?, Annalisa Prizzon, Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, Joseph Matola, Daniel Bradlow, 1- 2pm, online. Info: Overseas Development Institute
Wednesday 24 June
* Trump, Iran and The Future of America, Ben Rhodes, 7-8:30pm, from £21.99, Union Chapel, 19b Compton Terrace, N1 2UN. Info: Union Chapel
* Palestine, health work & solidarity, webinar with Ghassan Abu-Sittah, 6-7pm. Info; Palestine Solidarity Campaign
* The Forgotten Generations: Windrush Veterans panel, Prince Albert Jacob, Donald Campbell, Kenneth Straun, Karen Kelar, Wanda Wyporska, 6 - 8pm, Black Cultural Archives, 1 Windrush Square, SW2 1EF. Info:BCA
* Generation Hope: London Climate Action Night, evening of creativity and natural positivity across multiple events, from battling urban heat to reducing waste, free, 6.30-9.30pm, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road SW7 5BD. Info: Museum
* Indie Night, readings and conversation about work by Amelia Abraham, Speech Debelle, M John Harrison and Jackie Thomas, 7.45pm, £15 + £4 booking, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road SE1 8XX. Info: Southbank Centre
Thursday 25 June
* SIDS Day at ODI Global | London Climate Action Week. 10am-noon, Water Security in Small Island Developing States, 2-4pm, Financing and governing the food system-climate-health nexus in Small Island Developing States; both events in-person and online; 5.30-8pm, three short documentaries on Dominica, Barbados and Vanuatu's fight against climate change + discussion with Sarah Howard and Tim Hemmings; the three free events can be booked individually or together. Info: Overseas Development Institute,
* Towards new strategic partnerships for industry, decarbonisation and economic resilience: opportunities for India, UK and the EU, 10-11.30pm. Info: Overseas Development Institute
* Building Resilience: Demonstrators for a Changing Climate, a day of discussion marking London Climate Action Week, 10.30am-4.30pm, £20/£15, Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High Street W8 6AG. Info: Design Museum
EXHIBITIONS
* 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. Details here
+ 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
from Thursday 25 June
* 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
from Friday 26 June
* Earth Photo, 50 winners of international competitionon issues affecting the climate and life on our planet, free, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR. until 24 July. Info: RGS
Friday 26 June - Saturday 27 June
* Belonging(s) Beyond Borders, works that foster solidarity in exile by displaced and diaspora architects and artists united by a desire to belong in multicultural London’, P21 Gallery, 21-27 Chalton Street NW1 1JD. Info: P21
ARTS OPPORTUNITIES
* The New Diorama Theatre’s next monthly drop-in for 20-minute chats on anything in theatre world will be 23 June.
* The Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series is inviting poems (40 lines or less) and short prose (100words or less) exploring: African and African disasporic migration and (im)mobility; how African and Asian refugees are being left to drown in the Channel, and Afronauts and the 1960s Zambia Space Perogramme.
* 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
* 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.
FILM
* Cactus Pears (Sahar Bonda), Rohan Parashuram Kanawade’s debut feature is a sensitive romantic drama exploring grief, tradition, longing and the realities of lower-class queer life in India, National Film Theatre until 25 June; Picturehouses Finsbury Park and Hackney
* 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 25 June
* Loving Karma, In the remote foothills of the Himalayas, former monk Lobsang Phuntsok has built a community for children who have endured abandonment and neglect, Curzon Bloomsbury until 25 June
* Raindance Film Festival, programme includes Lost Land, follows a 4-year-old and his 9-year-old sister, who leave a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh on a perilous journey to reach Malaysia; No Lastname, during the Covid-19 pandemic, an undocumented family living on society’s margins struggles with poverty, grief and emotional collapse. As death and desperation close in, relationships begin to fracture; Paro: The Untold Story of Bride Slavery, Marathi actress Trupti Bhoir plays a woman whose journey exposes the horrors of being sold as a bride, enduring abuse, and losing her son; Rooted Out: Chapter 1, set against the backdrop of the 2024 Southport Riots when a dispute between neighbouring families spirals into a volatile confrontation, Child of Dust, 55-year-old Sang: an unwanted and discriminated child from the Vietnam war, must confront his own weaknesses and fatherly shortcomings when he miraculously finds his American father; Let Us Be, portrait of Intersex individuals across India, Brazil, and the US. Until 26 June. Info: www.raindance.org/festival
Monday 22 June
* White House, vibrant new perspective on favela life, rooted in community, loss and lived experience + Q&A with director Luciano Vidigal 8.40pm, National Film Theatre
from Tuesday 23 Jun
* The Mission, follows British-Iraqi NHS nerve surgeon Mohammed Tahir as he embarks on his third humanitarian mission to Gaza in October 2024: a personal, unfiltered account filmed over four months, filmed on phones smuggled into Gaza, Apple TV, YouTube Movies and Vimeo On Demand
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 Malawian village, but no-one believes he can, from £25, @SohoPlace, W10 3BG until 18 July. Info: @SohoPlace
* The Harder They Fall, based on the cult film that brought reggae to the world, tells the story of a singer who arrives in Kingston, Jamaica determined to live out his dreams on his own terms and become a superstar, £10-£53, Stratford East, until 4 July. Info: Stratford East
+ “What’s this groove becoming? How The Harder They Come captured Jamaice and blazed on to stage
* The P Word, charts the parallel in the lives of two gay Pakistani men under the UK government’s increasingly hostile position against migrants; Bush Theatre, until 27 June. Info: Bush. + post-show discussions: 25 June, Queerness, Justice, and Political Courage, Zarah Sultana MP, Richard Attendet
+ When the P word meets the G word
* Under the Shadow, eerie adaptation of an award-winning horror film. Set during the 1980s Iran-Iraq War, it explores the boundary between the rational and the irrational, and the question of whether to leave or stay, £27.50-£55, Almeida Theatre, Almeida Street N1 1TA until 4 July. Info: Almeida
* Driftwood, drama of power passion and drama set in a downtown gentleman’s club in colonial Trinidad where support for independence is growing, £15-£40, Kiln Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Road NW6 7JR until 4 July. Info: Kiln
* Soldiers of Tomorrow, former Israeli Defence Force soldier Itai Erdal, accompanied by Syrian-born musician Emad Armoush, shares the story of his military service in a personal insight into the Arab-Israeli conflict, the occupation of Palestine, and the conditions that led to 7 October, the horror of Gaza, and war with Iran and Lebanon + discussion after each performance. Erdal says, “Since its original run in 2023, it has been nearly impossible to find a theatre brave enough to present Soldiers of Tomorrow”, £18 - £29, Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, SW10 9ED. until 4 July. Info: Finborough
+ From Israel to Canada: A soldier looks back with regret
* A Fine Idea, aid worker Jo has built a career helping those most in need but now wonders if the system she believes in might be part of the problem and whether we really want to change things - or whether we just like the idea of helping, £15-£29, Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street E8 3DL until 4 July. Info: Arcola
+ When the aid worker clashed wit the Kenyan activist
+ A Fine Idea joins the dots on the future of aid
+ Post-show events: 23 June: Meet the team, the cast, director + writer Christine Bacon discuss the the ideas behind the play and bringing it to the stage + 29 June: Let’s talk about debt, Naomi Nyamweya of Malala Fund and Eva Watkinson of Debt Justice UK + 4 July, Q&A with Jason Hickel
* Safe Haven, set in 1991 between the Kurdish mountains and the Foreign Office in Whitehall, the play follows two diplomats and a Kurdish refugee pushing the British government to act and prevent a genocide. The playwright is a former British diplomat in Iraqi-Kurdistan and the play is based on real events, £15-£39, Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street E8 3DL until 27 June. Info: Arcola
+ How last-minute diplomacy halted a genocide
TV & RADIO
+ The BBC is axing The World Tonight and Crossing Continents, a move condemned by theInternational Broadcasting Trust: ”At a time of increasing conflicts and geopolitical upheaval, we need more programmes about global events, diverse peoples and cultures.”
Saturday 20 June
* Jon Snow: A Last Big Story, despite his Alzheimer’s, the former journalist and Channel4 news reader takes up the cause of a disaster-hit Zambian mining community, 8pm, Ch4
Sunday 21 June
* Free Nelson Mandela, part 2 of documentary, 9pm, Ch4
* If We Can Walk Together, a Palestinian and an Israeli talk peace, 7.15pm, Radio4
Tuesday 23 June
* Thinking Allowed, British Asians’ resistance to racism, 3.30pm, Radio4
Wednesday 24 June
* To Catch a King, documentary series about the search for a people-smuggler, 9.30am, Radio4
Thursday 25 June
* The Coffee Trail with Simon Reeve, the industry in Vietnam, 9pm, BBC4
Friday 26 June
* The Food Programme, how obesity went global, 11am Radio4