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14/04/2025

Events in London

Talks and discussions

Monday 30 March

* Trump, China and the New World Order, panel discussion, 7pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place W2. Info: Frontline

* Reclaiming Democracy: Lessons from around the globe, seminar examining how lived experiences and lessons from the Global South can help strengthen democracy in the Global North, and how European countries can collaborate to strengthen democracy around the world. Info: Institute of Development Studies

* Land Day Webinar: The ongoing struggle against ethnic cleansing, Salman Abu-Sitta, Manal Shqair, 6-7pm, online. Info: Palestine Campaign

* (In)security in Brazil: how did we get here, and what could we do about it now?, Gabriel Feltran, on the opening event of King’s Brazil Week, 6-8pm, King’s College, Strand campus, 30 Aldwych, WC2B 4BG

Wednesday 1 April

* Humanitarian aid at a crossroads: how to let go, David Sanderson, Ben Ramalingam, 4 - 5.30pm, online and in person, Overseas Development Institute, 4 Millbank SW1P 3JA. Info: ODI

Tuesday 7 April

* Un–welcome to Denmark. The Paradigm Shift and Refugee Integration, Michelle Pace, 4-5.30pm, online. Info: King’s College

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

* Bibby Boys, documents the experience of the men aboard the Bibby Stockholm barge and the community that rallied around the migrants, Photofusion, Unit2, 2 Beehive Place, SW9 7QR until 4 April. Info: Photofusion

* 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

* Botanical Tales and Seeds of Empire & Flora Indica: Recovering the lost histories of Indian botanical art, The Singh Twins examine the global mythologies of plants and the histories of Empire + Flora Indica – work by historical Indian botanical artists, admission with Kew entry fee, Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Kew Gardens until 12 April

+ The Singh Twins light up the links between empire and botany

+ The Singh Twins spotlight Kew’s role in the business of Empire

* 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 Boy on the Peacock Throne: A Memoir in Images/ Echoes in Print/ Threads of Home From Hopscotch Women’s Centre, three exhibitions (two Iranian, and one by Afghan refugee women), part of Persian New Year celebrations, free, Lauderdale House, Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill, N6 5HG until 6 April. Info: Lausderdale House

* Museum of Edible Earth, explore geophagy, the practice of eating earth for health, ritual and culinary benefit. Created by artist and researcher masharu, the exhibition features edible samples of clay, chalk and mineral-rich earths from around the world, offering a sensory encounter with soil, pay what you can, Somerset House, Strand, WC2R 1LA until 26 April. Info: Somerset House

* 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

Performance

* Jaja's African Hair Braiding, Jocelyn Bioh’s play about life in a bustling Harlem braiding salon where neighbourhood women have their hairstyle dreams come true, all in the hands of a lively group of West African immigrant braiders, from £10, Lyric, Hammersmith, Lyric Square, King Street, W6 0QL until 25 April. Info: Lyric

+ 2 April, Q&A with director Monique Touko + DJ in the bar until 11pm.

Tuesday 7 April

* State of the Nation An Evening with Akala, the award-winning hip-hop artist, bestselling author, historian and social entrepreneur has a reputation for unpacking the forces that shape modern British culture and politics, 7pm, from £32, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre SE1 8XX. Info: An Evening with Akala

from Tuesday 7 April

* The Boy At The Back Of The Class, joyful play about new-boy Ahmet, who never talks or smiles and doesn’t like sweets. After learning that Ahmet has fled his war-torn country, his classmates have ‘The Greatest Idea in the World’ – a magnificent plan to reunite Ahmet with his family, from £16, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX, until 11 April. Info: Southbank Centre

Film

* My Father’s Shadow, two brothers connect with their father in this drama set against the backdrop of the 1993 Nigerian presidential election, Picturehouses Hackney, Ritzy, West Norwood; (BAFTA winner for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer (Akínọlá Davies Jr)

+ A father’s shadow - and the shadow of a Nigerian coup

+ Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù: ’If the west doesn’t say a film is good, that doesn’t mean it’s no good’

* The Secret Agent, Brazilian political thriller about an academic on the run in the dangerous, dictatorial 1970s; cinemas. Picturehouses Central, Crouch End, East Dulwich, Finsbury Park, Hackney, Ritzy, West Norwood;

Tuesday 31 March

* Comparsa, after 41 girls are killed in a state-run “Safe Home” in Guatemala and the government refuses to act, two sisters lead a rebellion - unleashing joy, art, and radical truth in a fight for survival, they also open up about surviving violence in their own home + filmmaker Q&A, 6.20pm, Curzon Bloomsbury

* A Sad and Beautiful World, Lebanese drama across three decades of passion, loss and hope + discussion with Mounia Akl and director Cyril Aris, 6.15pm, Rio Dalston

from Friday 3 April

* Kinoteka: Letters From Wolf Street, Arjun Talwar arrived in Poland over a decade ago to study cinematography. He explored the Warsaw street where he lives, and the resulting intimate, often funny film is a positive contribution to contemporary discussions on immigration, Curzon Bloomsbury + 4, 6 April

Saturday 4 April

* The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), an inexperienced Australian reporter arrives in Indonesia to investigate political turmoil. A charismatic war photographer with dwarfism gives him tips and introduces him to a beautiful British Embassy employee, setting the stage for a whirlwind love affair, 2.40pm, National Film Theatre

Sunday 5 April

* Palestine 36, Yusuf flees his rural home for Jerusalem’s charged streets, forced to confront British colonial rule, rising Jewish migration and the inexorable drift toward a revolt, in this epic historical drama, 6.30pm, Lexi

+ Palestine 1936: A story for today

Tuesday 7 April

* Children of the Snow Land, follows four-year-old children sent to school in Kathmandu and returning home over a decade later + Q&A, 6.15pm, £16.80, The Conduit, 6 Langley Street WC2H 9JA. Info: The Conduit