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13/04/2026

Events in London

Migrant Voice

Talks and discussions

Tuesday 5 May

* Accelerating the health equity impact of interventions for infectious diseases in Africa, launch seminar for the Infectious Disease Equity (InDiE) Consortium, Richard Cookson, Grace Kumwenda, Cesar Victora, Primrose Matambanadzo, 2-3pm, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, WC1E 7HT

* Advancing food security in a changing climate: Lessons from Ethiopia and the road to COP32, screening of documentary, Ethiopia Wheat Transformation Journey + discussion with Ambassador Biruk Mekonnen, Jodie Keane, Edward Davey, Binyam Yakob Gebreyes on Ethiopia’s climate-resilient wheat production journey and its implications for food security, trade, development finance and climate action, 4-5.30pm, online. Info: Overseas Development Institute

* Industrial policy in China: Navigating constraints and institutional innovation under a progressive government (2022-2026), Nicolás Grau, 12.30-2pm, online. Info: Institute of Development Studies

Wednesday 6 May

* Rethinking immigration policy: building a popular and effective system, Madeleine Sumption, 1-2pm, online. Info: Bright Blue

* Who is Britain really saving in the fight against modern slavery?, book launch with Insa Lee Koch, Liz Fekete, Kojo Kyerewaa, Coretta Phillips, Glodi Wabelua, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2. Info: [email protected]

* Behind the Headlines - How UK Broadcasters Report the World,

Launch of International Broadcasting Trust report, 11am-noon, online. Info: [email protected]

* Caribbean Politics and the British Monarchy: Decolonisation, Republicanism and Reparations, Grace Carrington, 5.30-7pm. Info: University College London

* The Gulf At A Turning Point, Sanam Vakil, Faisal Al Yafai, 7pm, from £6.13, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2. Info: Frontline

* Corruption, Economic Cycles, and Political Accountability in Latin America, Carlos Scartascini, 2-4pm, University College London, 51 Gordon Square WC1H OPN. Info: UCL

* How to Kill a Language, Sophia Smith Galer talks to Megha Nohan about her call to speak, read and write the languages of our world, 7-8.30pm, Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road. Info: Foyles

* Institutions and the Art of Memory and Repair, Cortland Gilliam, Catherine Hall, Chris Jeppesen, Anthony Joseph, Brian Maina, Stephen Mullen, Eva Namusoke, Liberty Paterson, Mishka Sinha, Sara Smith, Alex von Tunzelmann, 11am-7Pm, King’s College, Strand campus, WC2R 2LS. Info: King’s College

Thursday 7 May

* Migration as anti-fascist movement? Rethinking the question of solidarity, Robin Celikates, 6.30-8pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2. Info: Pre-registration required

* Responding to internal displacement in a shifting humanitarian landscape: challenges and opportunities, David Cantor, Yana Liubymova, Bayard Roberts, Leen Fouad, 6-7pm, Overseas Development Institute, 4 Millbank, SW1P 3JA and online. Info: ODI

* ‘Gen Z’ and Constitutional Instability in Post Conflict Nepal, Mara Malagodi, 1-2.30pm, Batham House, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, WC1H 0EG. Info: University College London

* Remembering the Bangladesh July uprising: Stories, art and politics of memory, Rezwan Rahman, Adnan Fakir, Naomi Hossain on the role of testimonies and art in preserving memories of the uprising, the dilemmas of curating and constructing memories, and what the future holds for Bangladesh, 1-2.30pm,online. Info: Institute of Development Studies

* Challenges of trade and economic reforms for growth in developing countries in an uncertain global era, Sir Vince Cable, K.A Vimalenthirarajah, Sirimal Abeyratne, Yvette Fernando, Ganeshan Wignaraja, Prabir De, 6:45 – 8:45am, online. Info: Overseas Development Institute

* Contestations, Cohesion, and Communities: Sixth Annual Challenging Racisms Conference, 9.30am-4pm, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street. Info: UoW

Monday 11 May

* Eyal Weizman: The Architecture of Genocide, the architect and investigator delivers a devastating, meticulous account of the history of Israel’s destruction of Gaza, 6:15 – 7.30pm, £16.80, livestream £6.50, The Conduit, 6 Langley Street WC2H 9JA. Info: The Conduit

* How To Kill A Language: Power, Resistance and the Race to Save Our Words, Sophia Smith-Galer discusses how the mass extinction of languages is one of the most urgent cultural emergencies we face today, 7pm, £25, Kiln Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR. Info: Intelligence Squared

* Imaginary Geographies: Gold and Cultural Memory in Colombia, Vanessa Londoño and Carolina Sánchez Rojas, 6.30pm, free, British Library, 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB. Info: Library

* Development finance after Trump, Lord Malloch Brown, 6.30-8pm, in-person and online, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2. Info: LSE

* Internationalisation of Chinese firms in geopolitics, Ziliang Deng, 1-12.30pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1

Tuesday 12 May

* The Pill and the Planet: Can We Have Both a Healthy Aging Population and a Sustainable Future?, Ian Mudway, 6pm, Gresham College, Barnard's Inn Hall, EC1N 2HH. Info: Gresham

* Cooling a warming India: ecology and equity in our time, Amita Baviscar, 6.30-8pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2. Info: [email protected]

* Republics of Knowledge: Nations of the Future in Latin America, Nicola Miller, 5.30-7pm, 51 Gordon Square, WC1H OPN. Info: University College London

* James Baldwin: A Life and Legacy, Ben Okri and Jason Okundaye, 7pm, £25-£15, Kiln Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR. Info: Kiln

Exhibitions

* 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

* Hawaiʻi: a kingdom crossing oceans, a celebration of art and history, £14/ £16, British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG until 25 May. Info: Hawai’i

* A Greenland shadow over a wonderful Hawai’i exhibition

* 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

* Hurvin Anderson, 80 new works by the British-Jamaican artist, Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1P 4RG until 23 August. 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

* Beatriz González, the groundbreaking Colombian artist explores the power and impact of the images we encounter every day, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS until 10 May. Info: Barbican

* 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 long 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

* 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

* 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 Arab Hall: Past and Present, commissioned short film by Syrian director Soudade Kaadan, three art installations and exhibition and publication containing extensive new research, Wednesdays to Mondays, free with £14 House entry fee (conc. available), Leighton House, 12 Holland Park Road, W8 7BH, 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 then Europe, building elaborate visual reconstructions that echo how memory in the diaspora can blur and slip from view, free, Autograph, Rivington Place, EC2A 3BA until 19 September. Info: Autograph

* The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return, 53 artists from Palestine and the diaspora in London, P21, 21-27 Chalton Street, NW1 1JD, until 29 May. Info: P21

* The Music is Black: A British Story, how Black British music has shaped British culture from 1900 to the present day 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

+ The Music is Black

* Learning in Exile: Stories of Displacement and Education in the Rohingya Community, centred on the experiences of Rohingya children and youth since 1982, Wiener Holocaust Library, 29 Russell Square, WC1B 5DP until 30 May. Info: Holocaust Library

from Tuesday 5 May

* Hidden: Photography and displacement under the Khmer Rouge, follows a journey by Prum Sisaphantha during the 1975-79 Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, Wiener Holocaust Library, 29 Russell Square WC1B 5DP until 15 May. Info: Holocaust Library

Performance

* The Authenticator, latest play by Winsome Pinnock ("the godmother of black British playwrights") sees two historians - of Ghanaian and Nigerian ancestry respectively - take on the task of authenticating the records of a former white Jamaican plantation owner: race, class, humour and a dash of spookiness, National Theatre, South Bank SE1 9PX until 9 May. Info. National

* Between the River and the Sea, Yousef was raised as a Christian-Arab-Palestinian-Israeli kid in Haifa, and is now raising two Jewish-Arab-Austrian kids in Berlin. Only he’s facing a custody battle, so things are getting complicated. A story about family, fear, and imagining a future beyond borders, £15-£30, Royal Court, Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS until 9 May. Info: Royal Court

* The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, musical based on an international best-selling book, and a Netflix film by Chiwetel Ejiofor. It tells the true true story of 13-year-old William Kamkwamba who dreams of saving his Malawian village — but no one believes he can, from £25 @SohoPlace, 4 Soho Place, W1D 3BG until 18 July. Info: @SohoPlace

* Pray For Me, work-in-progress exploring faith, deafness and identity, as a Black Deaf woman confronts ideas of cure, belief and belonging through poetry, movement and music, 3pm, New Diorama, 15 - 16 Triton Street, Regent's Place, NW1 3BF until 9 May. Info: CPT

* Jeezus!, Catholic guilt collides with unrepentant queerness in this sinful, heart-pounding mix of live music, dark humour, and Latin heat from award-winning migrant-led company Alpaqa, £13-£19, £3 unemployed, pay what you can Saturdays, New Diorama, 15 - 16 Triton Street, Regent's Place, NW1 3BF until 9 May. Info: New Diorama

Tuesday 5 May

* Nadeem Islam: An hour of stand up, a Bengali deaf man who just wants to breathe, get a normal coffee and see the blue sky for once, 7pm, £12 - £18, Camden Peoples Theatre, 58-60 Hampstead Road, NW1 2PY. Info: CPT

Sunday 10 May

* Omeros, drawing inspiration from Homer, Derek Walcott’s groundbreaking poem begins with three fishermen in modern-day St. Lucia, before plunging into a globe-spanning, time-jumping journey; whole day ticket £80, single part £35, Jermyn Street Theatre, 16b Jermyn Street, SW1Y 6ST. Info: Omeros

from Tuesday 12 May

* Assata Taught Me, fictional two-hander based on Assata Shakur, escaped convict and former Black Panther turned FBI’s Most Wanted Woman in 2016 Cuba, Riverside, 101 Queen Caroline Street, W6 9BN until 24 May. Info: Riverside

* Noughts and Crosses, a segregated society teeters on a volatile knife edge and a romance will lead a young couple into terrible danger in this gripping Romeo and Juliet story by Malorie Blackman adapted by Sabrina Mahfouz, £18-£46, Hackney Empire, 291 Mare Street E8 1E3 until 24 May. Info: Empire

* Second Class Queer, solo show written, performed and produced by Kumar Muniandy, a gay Tamil-Malaysian, in which five different dates brings him closer to confronting love, identity, loss, and the truth he never shared with his late mother, £16, conc £12, Riverside, 101 Queen Caroline Street, W6 9BN , until 30 May. Info: Riverside

Film

* The Stranger, Albert Camus’s classic of existential literature is brought to life in 1930s Algeria, where the life of an indifferent Frenchman is shaken by the death of his mother and an encounter on a beach, Picturehouses Clapham, Crouch End, Finsbury Park, Hackney, Ritzy

* Days and Nights in the Forest, four friends embark on a countryside holiday that will transform them in this Satyajit Ray., gem, National Film Theatre until 5 May

* UK Asian Film Festival, until 10 May. Programme includes Ghost School, Creative Minds of Tomorrow, Mera Lvari, Mamun - In Praise of Shadows, The Unexpected, Umrao Jaan, The Unbroken, 100 Sunsets, Never Had A Chance, Calorie, The Model, Future Forward, Bayaar, Touche, Shadow Box + shorts and discussions. Info: Tongues of Fire

* Queer East Festival, East and Southeast Asia’s queer landscape. Films include The Outsiders, Yu Kan-Ping’s ground-breaking Taiwanese drama; 3670, portraying the hidden codes of Seoul’s gay scene; A Useful Ghost, a wildly camp feature from Thailand skewering the establishment and cultural hypocrisy; Between Goodbyes, poignant documentary about queer adoption and the legacy of Korea’s overseas adoption programme; A Good Child,funny, moving drag comedy from Singapore; Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia; various London venues until 6 June. Info: Queer East

+ Queer East Festival returns for its seventh edition

+ A love story about animated vacuum cleaners

Wednesday 6 May

* Battle of Algiers, released in 1966 but still a powerful drama about Algeria's fight for independence from French colonial rule, 8pm, £9, Rich Mix

Thursday 7 May

* The Hero (Nayak), a movie star on a train to collect an honour confronts the private costs of fame, in Satyajit Ray’s quietly devastating portrait of celebrity and conscience, 6.10pm, BFI Southbank

* Free Nelson Mandela, the story behind the remarkable release of Nelson Mandela, following decades in captivity + Q&A with director and crew, hosted by Clive Chijioke Nwonka, 8.15pm, National Film Theatre

Saturday 9 May

* With Hassan in Gaza, in 2001, filmmaker Kamal Aljafari took a road trip through Gaza, searching for a former cellmate from his time in prison. This forgotten footage captures a Gaza of the past and lives that may never be found again, 4pm, Curzon Bloomsbury

* Bye Bye Brazil, bittersweet journey through a nation where modernity erases popular traditions, 6.15pm, BFI Southbank

* City of God, explosive favela chronicle that transformed Brazilian cinema worldwide, 8.20pm, National Film Theatre

Monday 11 May

* Lower City (Cidade Baixa), desire and rivalry ignite in this raw, sensual Salvador drama + intro by season co-curator Renata de Almeida, 8.50pm, National Film Theatre

Tuesday 12 May

* An introduction to Brazil on film, an illustrated overview of the Brazil on Film season, 6.15pm, National Film Theatre

* Foreign Land, exile and noir romance in the film that relaunched Brazilian cinema + Q&A with co-director Daniela Thomas, 8.20pm, National Film Theatre