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
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
Saturday 13 June
* The Edible Archive: Palestinian Memory and Resistance: Land, Seeds, Roots and Growth, Madees Khoury, Vivien Sansour, Fadi Kattan and Sami Tamimi, 1-2pm, £15, British Library, 96 Euston Road, NW1, part of the Food Season Big Weekend. Info: Library
Saturday 13 - Sunday 14 June
* Migrant Justice and the Far Right Summit 2026, 9.30am-5pm, from £6.11. Info Summit
EXHIBITIONS
* 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
+ 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, Austraolia 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
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
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
* 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
* Ken Loach Remembers: The Old Oak, 10.05pm, BBC4
* The Old Oak, drama about a pub landlord in a northern town who forms a bond with a Syrian refugee - and not everyone is happy: highly topical in view of the race riots in Northern Ireland and England, 10.20pm, BBC4
* To Catch a King, documentary series about tracking down a people smuggler, 9.30am, Radio4
* 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)