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17/03/2025

Events in London

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Tuesday 18 March

* Refugee Protection and the Narrative of Possibility, Filippo Grandi, 6.15-9pm, Edmond J. Safra lecture theatre, King’s Building, Strand Campus, King’s College, WC2R 2LS. Info: Register

* Navigating the Syrian Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities for Peace and Reconstruction, Samir Aita, Juline Beaujouan, Ribal Azzin, Haian Dukhan, Emel Akcali, Amjed Rasheed, Ammar Azzouz, 6-7.30pm, King’s College, River Room, Strand, WC2R 2LS. Info: [email protected]

* Gender, Disaster, and the Sendai Framework: A Decade of Progress?, Shigeo-Tatsuki, Kristen Guida, Miwako Kitamura, Louisa Acciari, Ilan Kelman, Punam Yadav, 6:30–9pm, University College London, Gower Street WC1E 6BT. Info: UCL

Wednesday 19 March

* Why attitude ambivalence explains tepid support for pro-immigration policies, Victoria Donnaloja, 1-2pm, Institute of Education, 55-59 Gordon Square WC1H ONU. Info: IoE

* Humanitarian diplomacy in a world gone mad, Martin Griffiths, 4-5.30pm online. Info: Institute of Development Studies

Thursday 20 March

* Afghan resettlement in England: Emerging findings, seminar, 12-1pm, Institute of Education, 55-59 Gordon Square, WC1H ONU. Info: IoE

* Lessons from climate-related programming - launching Humanitarian Exchange 86, Kerrie Holloway, Lynn Chemtai Chestit, Achyut Luitel, Robert Burtscher, Mihir R. Bhatt, 10-11am, online. Info: Overseas Development Institute

* Gender Persecution by the Taliban before the International Criminal Court, Lisa Davis, 3.30-4.30pm, King’s College, The Strand, WC2. King’s

Monday 24 March

* World TB Day Symposium, 8.30am-5pm, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, WC1E 7HT. Info: LSHTM

* Prospects for Peace? The International, Regional, and Domestic Implications of Unlawful Proposals in Gaza, Yezid Sayigh, Menachem Klein, 6-8pm, King’s College, Strand campus, 30 Aldwych, WC2B 4BG. Info: King’s

* The Hidden World of Global Scamming Operations, Sam Colber, Geoff White, 7pm, from £6.13, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place W2 1QJ. Info: Frontline

Tuesday 25 March

* Documentary Photography in Apartheid South Africa, Tamar Garb, 6pm, Gresham College, Barnard's Inn Hall, EC1N 2HH. Info: Gresham College

* Conflicts, Elections, and Democracy, Adam Przeworski, 6.30-8pm, King’s College, 30 Aldwych, WC2B 4BG. Info: King’s

Exhibitions

* 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

* Citra Sasmita: Into Eternal Land, the Indonesian artist uses a 15th century painting technique to dismantle misconceptions of Balinese culture and confront its violent colonial past, free, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS until 21 April. Info: Barbican

* 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

* Between Two Worlds: Vanley Burke and Francis Williams, two Jamaican scholars’ portraits, shedding light on a 1745 painting, identity and colonial legacies, free, V&A Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7. Info: Exhibition

* Inspiration Africa: Stories Beyond the Artifacts, exploration of V&A galleries through the lens of African heritage, free, second Saturday of every month, V&A, Cromwell Road, SW7. Info: V&A

* African Deeds, showcases a collection that includes diaries, cassette interviews, videos, photos and documents of three generations of family history, inspired by grandfather Thomas’ land title deeds brought from West Africa in 1901, Black Cultural Archives, 1 Windrush Square, SW2 1EF. Info: BCA

* All Our Stories: Migration and the Making of Britain, the centrality of migration to British life, free, Migration Museum, Lewisham Shopping Centre, SE13 7HB. Info: Museum

* Target Queen, large-scale commission by British-Indian artist Bharti Kher, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre

* Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights, stories of underrepresented workers and their rights within precarious and unsafe labour environments, free, Wellcome Centre, 183 Euston Road, NW1 2BE until 27 April. Info: Wellcome
+ Working yourself into the ground

* Esther Mahlangu: Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, brightly coloured geometric paintings rooted in South African Ndebele culture, free, Serpentine North, North Carriage Drive, Kensington Gardens, until 28 September. Info: Serpentine

* Beware Blue Skies, immersive film installation about battle drones, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, until 16 March. Info: IWM

* The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence, £22, V&A Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL, until 5 May. Info: V&A

* Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism, over 130 works by 10 artists from the 20th century, capturing the diversity of Brazilian art, £23.50-£25.50, Royal Academy, Burlington House, Piccadilly, until 21 April. Info: RA

* Stories of Migration, celebrating 12 years of innovative storytelling from PositiveNegatives., SOAS Gallery, Thornhaugh Street, WC1 until 22 March.

* SOIL: The World at Our Feet, includes Fernando Laposse’s work on the impact of the North American Fair-Trade Agreement and use of agrochemicals in a Mexican village, Asunción Molinos Gordo’s visual geometry of Egypt’s Nile’s valley, inviting visitors to explore global agri-business; Annalee Davis drawing on knowledge of the former Barbados sugar plantation where she lives; Somerset House, The Strand, WC2R 1LA until 13 April. Info: Soil + Events programme

* Through Motion, British Ghanaian artist Heather Agypeong focuses on mental health and wellbeing, invisibility and the African diaspora, Doyle Wham, 91A Rivington Street, EC2A 3AY until 22 March. Info: Doyle Wham

* Women of the World Unite: the United Nations decade for women and transnational feminisms 1975 to now, representation of Black women. London School of Economics Library, Houghton Street, WC2 until 22 August. Info: LSE

* Mickalene Thomas: All About Love, vibrant, large portraits of Black women at rest reclaim representation in art history, celebrating love and radical repose, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX, from £19, until 5 May. Info: Hayward

* Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker, survey exhibition of the late Jamaican-heritage British multi-media artist, Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX until 4 May. Info: Whitechapel

* Visions from the Amazon, photography, painting and film by Claudia Andujar, rubber tapper Hélio Melo; Indigenous artists Denilson Baniwa and Tayná Satere plus Paula Sampaio, Luciana Magno, Nay Jinknss and Rosa Gauditano, Peltz Gallery, 43 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD until 9 April. Info: Peltz
+ 20 March, Curator tours, 5 - 6pm

* Making Egypt, exploring ancient Egypt's creativity and how it continues to influence art, design and popular culture today, £10, Young V&A, Cambridge Heath Road, E2 9PA. Info: V&A

* Spirit of Lagos, Abi Morocco’s photographs, free, Autograph, Rivington Place, EC2A 3BA, until 22 March. Info: Autograph

* Deutsche Borse Foundation Photography Prize, shortlist includes work by Lindokhule Sobekwa on poverty and the long effects of apartheid in South Africa, and Tarah Krajnak, Peru, £10/£7, Photographers Gallery, Ramillies Street, W1, until 15 June. Info: Gallery

* Planetary Portals: I am in your dreams, but you are not in mine, weaves together the environmental landscapes of 19th-century mining of gold and diamonds in South Africa with the scripting process of AI, £10/£7, Photographers Gallery, Ramillies Street, W1, until 15 June. Info: Gallery

from Thursday 20 March
* Arpita Singh: Remembering, her first solo exhibition outside India; she draws from Bengali folk art and Indian stories, interwoven with experiences of social upheaval and global conflict, free, Serpentine North, until 27 July.

Film

* I’m Still Here, as Brazil faces the grip of a military dictatorship, Eunice Paiva, mother of five, is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent act by the government, Picturehouses Central, Crouch End, Ealing, East Dulwich, Finsbury Park, Gate, Hackney, Ritzy; Vues Finchley Road, Fulham Broadway,, Islington, Shepherd’s Bush, Westfield London, Westfield Stratford City; Garden 17 March; Rich Mix; Cine Lumiere until 20 March

* No Other Land, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta teams up with an Israeli journalist to fight Israel’s expulsions, Curzon Bloomsbury until 20 March

* On Falling, powerful drama about the gig economy and the loneliness of working-class immigrants, centring on a Portuguese worker in a Scottish warehouse, Picturehouses Finsbury Park, Hackney; Vues Finchley Road, Westfield Stratford City; 17 March, Garden cinema until 20 March, Lexi

* Kamay, in the remote mountains of central Afghanistan a Hazara family look for answers about their eldest daughter, Zahra, who died while attending university in Kabul in this quietly emphatic depiction of persecution, loss and perseverance, Curzon Bloomsbury, until 20 March .

* Sister Midnight, genre-bending Indian comedy about a frustrated and misanthropic newlywed who discovers feral impulses + intro by director Karan Kandhari, National Film Theatre, Castle, Garden until 20 March

* Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, the South African photographer was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to the world, Ritzy, 18, 19 March; Curzon Bloomsbury until 20 March

* Seed of the Sacred Pig, an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Court investigator finds political issues affecti his family in an Intense psychological drama, Cine Lumiere until 20 March

* Screen Cuba 2025, films from the ‘60s til now, Garden Cinema, ICA and Birkbeck University until 29 March. Info: Screen Cuba

Monday 17 March

* The Harder They Fall, Jamaica’s first feature film, based on the life of a real-life criminal, stars Jimmy Cliff as a country boy who moves to Kingston to find fame as a reggae singer, but soon confronts trouble, 5.30pm, National Film Theatre

Wednesday 19 March

* Silent Trees, observational documentary about a Kurdish family caught in a forest between Belarus and Poland who become geopolitical pawns + Q&A, 6.20pm, Curzon Bloomsbury

from Wednesday 19 March

* BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, 34 world premieres, 56 features and 81 shorts from 41 countries, BFI Southbank until 20 March. Info: Flare

Sunday 23 March

* No Other Land, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta teams up with an Israeli journalist to fight Israel’s expulsions; fundraiser screening at London LGBTQ+ Community Centre,4.30pm, £11.55, 60-62 Hopton Street Thames Path, Bankside SE1 9JH. Info: Fundraiser

Performance

* Kyoto, the world’s nations are in deadlock and 11 hours have passed since the UN’s landmark climate conference should have ended. Agreement feels a world away. The greatest obstacle: a US oil lobbyist and strategist, from £25, Soho Place, 4 Soho Place, Charing Cross Road, W1D 3BG, until 3 May. Info: Soho Place

+ Kyoto turns climate change into an entertaining thriller

from Wednesday 19 March

* The Society for New Cuisine, debut play from East-Asian writer and performer Chris Fung is a deliciously twisted Buddhist inspired folk fable about power, masculinity and heartbreak, £20-£5, Omnibus Theatre, 1 Clapham Common Northside, SW4 0QW until 5 April. Info: Omnibus

Thursday 20-Friday 21 March

* We wear our wheels with pride, in a joyous tribute to the spirit of the Rainbow Nation, Robyn Orlin’s ‘rickshaw dance’ is inspired by Zulu men pulling brightly coloured rickshaws in apartheid era South Africa, from £22, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX. Info: Southbank