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
Sunday 28 June
* Sage, Screen & Social Change, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Harewood, Indira Varma, Juliet Stevenson & Toby Jones in support of Compass Collective, a charity supporting and empowering young refugees and asylum seekers through the arts, 6pm, Cinema 1, Barbican Arts Centre
* AltB: Returning to Each Other - Palestine and Lebanon, testimonies, comedy, music, literature, discussion, 4pm, from £10, Bush Theatre, 7 Uxbridge Road, W12 8LJ. Info: Bush
Monday 29 June
* The Murderous Business of Oil and Gas, panel discussion, Manveen Rana, Alex Perry on how energy holds the world to ransom, 7pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place W2. Info: Frontline
* Embracing the eco-system: a discussion on the findings of the Advisory Panel on the Future of Humanitarian Action, 1 - 3pm, online. Info: Overseas Development Institute
Tuesday 30 June
* The politics of passage: New research on checkpoints and revenue in conflict, Vanessa van den Boogaard, Peer Schouten, Shalaka Thakur, Florian Weigand, 2 - 4pm, online. Info: Institute of Development Studies
Wednesday 1 July
* Pathways to a low-carbon, climate-resilient Africa, webinar with Joy Phumaphi, Lolem Lokolile Bosco,Nurudeen Alhassan, Bianca Anton, Elizabeth Wambui Kimani-Murage, 2 - 3.30pm. Info: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Disease
* Financing the Frontline: Ensuring scarce health funds efficiently reach and can be effectively used by PHC facilities, Nathan Blanchet, Nida Hameed Afridi, Tom Hart, Peter Binyaruka, Nirmala Ravishankar, 2 - 3.30pm, online. Info: Overseas Development Institute
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
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 wish to belong in multicultural London, P21 Gallery, 21-27 Chalton Street NW1 1JD. Info: P21
ARTS OPPORTUNITIES
* 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
* 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 2 July
* Do You Love Me?, personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory, composed entirely of archival footage, Curzon Bloomsbury until 2 July
* The Little Sister, coming-of-age drama in which 17-year-old Fatima is torn between her attraction to women and her loyalty to her caring French-Algerian family.= Cine Lumiere until 4 July
* Bala: The Boy, Malayaalan comedy thriller drama, Vue Westfield Stratford City; 28 June: Vues North Finchley and Westfield London
Saturday 27 June
* The Partition Trilogy: The Cloud-Capped Star, cinematic masterpiece that portrays sacrifice and Partition’s enduring trauma, 2.20pm, National Film Theatre
* The Partition Trilogy: E-Flat (Komol Gandhar), a semi-autobiographical work about Partition, with a special recorded introduction by director Ritwik Gahatak’s son, Ritaban, 5.30pm, National Film Theatre
* The Father and the Shaman (O Pai e o Pajé), an Indigenous director confronts the rift between pastor and shaman inside his own home + Q&A with Felipe Tomazelli and Yula Rocha, 3.15pm, National Film Theatre
* The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?), funny, piercing look at class and care inside a privileged São Paulo household, 8.40pm, National Film Theatre
Sunday 28 June
* Arab Film Club, three shorts + Q&A with filmmakers Arsalan Motavali, May Ziadé and Waseem Khair, 3pm, £12, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road SE1 8XX. Info: Film Club
* Alien Nights (Noites Alienígenas), Amazon-set drama of youth, violence and Indigenous identity, 3.30pm, National Film Theatre
* A River Called Titas (Titash Ekti Nadir Naam), 1973 Bangladesh-Indian poetic depiction of memory, loss and a vanishing fishing community + intro by Tanjil Rashid, 2.50pm, National Film Theatre
* The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmao (A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão), ravishing melodrama of sisterhood and resilience in 1950s Rio, 6pm, National Film Theatre
* The Diamond Butterfly (Heerer Prajapati), an intriguingly charming journey of a lost butterfly-shaped diamond brooch, 6.15pm, National Film Theatre
* The Partition Trilogy: Subarnarekhar(The Golden Line ), Partition epic of separation, fateful encounters and new beginnings, noon, National Film Theatre
* City of God, an explosive favela chronicle that transformed Brazilian cinema worldwide, 3pm, National Film Theatre
PERFORMANCE
* The boy who harnessed the Wind, musical based on a book and a Netflix film tells the true story of 13-year-old Willliam Kamkwamba, who dreams of saving his Malawian village, but no-one believes he can, from £25, @SohoPlace, W1 until 18 Juiy. 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.
+ When the P word meets the G word
* Under the Shadow, eerie adaptation of a horror film. Set during the 1980s Iran-Iraq War, it explores the boundary between rational and irrational, and 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, £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 + Post-show events: 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
+ When the aid worker clashed wit the Kenyan activist
+ A Fine Idea joins the dots on the future of aid
* 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
Saturday 27 June
* It sounds like courage, music, comedy and spoken word shaped by migration, with Nish Kumar, Inua Ellams, Nikita Gill, Salana Godden, Nai Barghouti, Seckou Keita, MoYahm Nadine Shah, Nectar Woode, 7.30pm, £22 + £4 booking fee, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, SE1. Info: Southbank Centre
from Monday 29 June
* Talawa First 2026: New Writing Festival, 29 June, Mothership, The Black Nile; 3 July, Chew and Spit, In Vitro; Talawa, Fairfield Halls, Park Lane, Croydon CR9 1DG Info: Talawa
TV & RADIO
Sunday 28 June
* Free Nelson Mandela, last in series, 9pm, Channel4
* Thinking Allowed: Strikes, Solidarity and South Asian Britain, 6.05am, Radio4
* Take Four Books, Tahmima Anam, the Bangladeshi writer takes her pick, 4pm, Radio4
Monday 29 June
* Ten Fights That Made the Green Movement, 1.45am, Radio4
Tuesday 30 June
* Jon Snow: The Last Big Story, despite an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, the journalist investigates a Zambian community’s claims that a mining company has destroyed their homes, 1.50am, Channel4
* Ten Fights That Made the Green Movement: The Greenpeace, 1.45am, Radio4
Wednesday 1 July
* The Last Tree, Nigerian-British boy Femi moves from the countryside to London and is challenged by a new urban culture, 1.25am, Film4
* Ten Fights That Made the Green Movement: The Ecologist, 1.45am, Radio4
Thursday 2 June
* Ten Fights That Made the Green Movement: Terror, 1.45am, Radio4; Friday 3 July, * Ten Fights That Made the Green Movement: Brokenhagen, 1.45am, Radio4