From the Editor
* Actors and playwrights are among 261 artists calling on the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Court, the Young Vic, and the Almeida to end partnerships with Bloomberg Philanthropies over its ties to Israel.
Daniel Nelson london.globalevents@gmail.com
TALKS AND DISCUSSIONS
Wednesday 10 June
* Education in conflict: Bridging past and present in preparing educators in era of conflicts, Tejendra Pherali and others, 5-7pm, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, WC1H. Info: IoE
* Citizens to traitors: the Bengali internment in Pakistan, Ilyas Chattha, 6.30pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
* C.A.S.A. Casablanca Art School, launch of book drawing on nearly a decade of research that tells the story of how after independence a constellation of artists drew on Moroccan and Afro-Amazigh heritage to forge new forms of abstract art, 7pm, free, Mosaic Rooms, 226 Cromwell Road SW6 0SW. Info: Mosaic Rooms
* Community- based food initiatives: everyday solidarity and care to address food insecurity (Germany-Spain), the first webinar of the Food Solidarities Network, hosted by the UNESCO Chair in World Food Systems and the Food Equity Centre, 2.30-3.30pm, online. Info: Institute of Development Studies
Thursday 11 June
* The refugee archive: documenting England’s refugee history from a refugee perspective, Lucy Bond, Linda Mannheim, Nazek Ramadan, Sumaya Yasin, Zara Mehmood, 5.30 - 8pm, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street. Info: UoW
* Unhealthy finances: the global health funding crisis and its human cost, Toby Green, Kara Hanson, Tess Hewitt, 5.30-7pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
Friday 12 June
* Disabling Migration Controls: Shared Learning Solidarity and Collective Resistance, author Rebecca Yeo,Ellen Clifford and Nicolette Busuttil, 6pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
* Schism: The story of sectarianism in the Modern Middle East, Simon Mabon, 5-6.30pm, King’s College, Strand camps, 30 Aldwych, WC2B 4BG
EXHIBITIONS
* 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
* Bouchra Khalili: Circles and Storytellers, the culmination of the French-Moroccan artist’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
* 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 Museum
* Ain Bailey: The Jamaica Project, films and compositions, free, Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road NW3, until 14 June. Info: Arts Centre
* 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
from Thursday 11 June
* Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of PanAfrica, 300 works including posters, journals and film from , Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, North America and Western Europe, from the 1920s to the present. Artists include Kader Attia; Marlene Dumas; Inji Efflatoun; Sonia Gomes; David Hammons; Nicholas Hlobo; Claudette Johnson; Wifredo Lam; Simone Leigh; Ernest Mancoba; Kawira Mwirichia; Abdias Nascimento; Grace Ndiritu; Magdalene Odundo; Chris Ofili; Colette Omogbai, The Otolith Group; Ingrid Pollard; Samir Rafi; Cauleen Smith, Tavares Strachan, £19, Barbican, Silk Street EC2Y 8DS until 6 September. Info: Project A Black Planet
+ 23 June, Technologies for Imagining Otherwise, Elijah, Lex Fefegha, Arda Awais and Sara Berkal discuss technology as a Pan-African device,7.30pm, £15
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
* 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
* Landmarks (Nuestra Tierra), the first documentary by Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel reflects on a 2009 land dispute that resulted in the death of indigenous leader Javier Chocobar, Curzon Bloomsbury until 11 Junel
* 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 17 June
Wednesday 10 June
* Barren Lives (Vidas Secas), landmark Cinema Novo classic of drought, migration and human resilience, 6.10pm, National Film Theatre
* Subarnarrekhar (The Golden Line ), a Partition epic of separation, fateful encounters and new beginnings, 8.25pm, National Film Theatre
* Babylon, a young Black DJ combats racism and police brutality of Thatcher-era London through dub and reggae sound-system music, 8pm, £9, Rich Mix
from Wednesday 10 June
* The Little Sister, 17-year-old Fatima, youngest of three daughters, treads carefully as she searches for her own path, grappling with emerging desires, her attraction to women, and her loyalty to her caring French-Algerian family; based on Fatima Daas’ autofictional book The Last One, Cine Lumiere, 17 Queensberry Place SW7 2DT
Thursday 11 June
* The Partition Trilogy: The Cloud-Capped Star + introduction by Manaishita Dass, 6pm, National Film Theatre
* Cinema, Aspirin and Vultures (Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus), lyrical road movie wherein cinema and friendship cross Brazil’s arid countryside + introduction by season co-curator Adriana Rouanet, 6.10pm, National Film Theatre
* Carlota Joaquina, Princess of Brazil, an irreverent hit that reignited Brazilian cinema in the 1990s, 9pm, National Film Theatre
Friday 12 June
* Limit, mythic, dreamlike and newly restored – Brazil’s most legendary silent film, 6.10pm, National Film Theatre
* Dreamers, Nigerian migrant Isio (Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́) finds love while detained in the Hatchworth Removal Centre, Lexi + 15-17 June
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 classic 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 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: 11 June: Borders, Belonging, and the Stories We Carry. Shobna Gulati, Jasmin O’Hara; 18 June, Being Seen and Heard: Representation and Visibility in the Digital Age. Nikita Gill, Ranj Singh; 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 + post-show 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, and I am glad to be able to finally bring the show back to the UK at the ever-courageous Finborough Theatre”, £18 - £29, Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, SW10 9ED. Info: Finborough
from Thursday 11 June
* 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
+ A Fine Idea joins the dots on the future of aid
Wednesday 17 June
* Alt B: This Is Who I Am, rehearsed reading of verbatim testimonies of three LGBTQIA+ refugees navigating the UK asylum system + Q&A on the making of the script, the realities behind the testimonies, the wider pressures faced by LGBTQIA+ people seeking asylum, and how audiences can support LGBTQIA+ refugees, 8pm, £10-£20, Bush Theatre, 7 Uxbridge Road, W12 8LJ. Info: Bush
TV & RADIO
Coverage from or about the Global South has become thinner and thinner…
Monday 8 June
* Sorry, I Didn’t Know, Black comedy quiz show, 11.30pm, ITV1
Wednesday 10 June
* Ten Years After Brexit: How immigration shaped the referendum debate, 1.45pm, Radio4 (part of a series on Brexit at 1.45pm Monday to Friday this week)