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13/04/2026

Events in London

Migrant Voice

Talks and discussions

Monday 7 September

* Trump, Putin and A New Age of Conquest, Luke Harding and Alastair Campbell,

7:30 - 9pm, from £19.99, King's Place, 90 York Way, N1 9AG. Info: Intelligence Squared

* Jason Arday: What Happened? The Journalism of Cruelty: Trial by Media, discussion with Hardeep Matharu, Nafeez Ahmed and others, 7.30pm, £10, conc £8, The Cockpit, Gateforth Street NW8 8EH. Info: Byline Times

Tuesday 8 September

* Thomas Harding, author of Legacy, on his book about the family behind J Lyons, “the business that transformed British life through its catering empire and innovation”, 6.30 - 8pm, Jewish Museum, Top Floor, JW3, 341 - 351 Finchley Road, NW3 6ET. Info: Museum

* Book talk: Days of Love and Rage, Anand Gopal on his book that reconstructs the Syrian revolution through the lives of ordinary people navigating repression and upheaval, 7 - 8:30pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place W2 1QJ. Info: Frontline

* The making of the modern Middle East, Simon Sebag Montefiore, 7.30-8.45pm, from £34, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR. Info: RGS

Wednesday 9 September

* Afghanistan: 25 Years Post 911, Leila Molana Allen, Tam Hussein, 7.30pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2 1QJ. Info: Frontline

Friday 11 September

* Crossing the Red Line: Gaza and the Cost of American Power, Akhbar Shahid Ahmed, 7pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place W2 1QJ. Info: Frontline

Wednesday 13 September

* celebrASIA: Telling stories, fact & fiction, Ivy Ngeow, Khairani Barokka, Nicola Dinan and Will Harris, 3:30 - 4:30pm, £15, Arches Lane Theatre, Circus West Village, Battersea Power Station. Info: celebrASIA

Monday 14 September

* Complicit: How the West is Bankrolling the West Bank Occupation, an undercover Al Jazeera investigation, 7pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2 1QJ. Info: Frontline

* Imagine Flavours, Thai chef Neil Eakapong (also known as Bangkok Delivery Boy), part of supper club series, hosted by migrant artists and chefs. Each evening brings people together around the table to explore how food carries stories of migration, culture and belonging, creating space for conversation and connections, £45. Info: Booking http://www.projektutopia.org/flavours

* Beyond Britain: The Global Value of the BBC, panel discussion, 3-4.30pm, Room B200, City University, Northampton Square, EC1V 0HB. Info: City U

Tuesday 15 September

* Reporting From the Front Lines, with Lyse Doucet, 7 - 8:30pm, from £11.27, Union Chapel, 19b Compton Terrace, N1 2UN. Info: Union Chapel

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

* 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

* 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

* Frida: The Making of an Icon, how Frida Kahlo became one of the most influential artists of all time, from her political activism to global Fridamania, £25, Tate Modern, Bankside SE1 9TC, until 3 January. Info: Tate

+ How the zeitgeist helped create Fridamania

* 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: V&A

+ Arresting voices of the Asia-Pacific

* 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 until September. Info: Petrie

* 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

* Anish Kapoor, sculptures and paintings by the Mumbai-born Indian-British artist, £22, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX until 18 October. Info: Hayward.

* Hybrid forms and live realities: the sculpture of Bharti Kher, the British Indian artist explores the body, womanhood, mythology and cultural identity, V&A Museum, Cromwell Road, until 24 January. Info: Exhibition

* Childhood in War, the UK’s first dedicated exhibition exploring how war affects and shapes young lives, Uk oriented but including contemporary stories and quotes from Afghanistan, Sudan and Ukraine, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, SE1 6HZ until 28 February. Info: War Museum

* Rudy Loewe: Intimacies of Care – Spaces of Grief and Possibility, the lived experience of Black people whose mental healthcare in the UK is shaped by racist discrimination, free, Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, NW1 2BE until 7 February. Info: Wellcome

* A Life of Navigation, Taiwanese artist Musquiqui Chihying explores our ambiguous relationship with both analogue and digital technologies through installation, video, photography, and sculpture, free, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX, until 18 October. Info: Hayward

* 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

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

Performance

* Darkling, one-woman show exploring the impact of the 1984 Bhopal industrial disaster, £15 - £45, Bush Theatre, 7 Uxbridge Road, W12 8LJ until 24 October. Info: Bush

* The Story, when a white teacher is killed in a black neighbourhood, four journalists race to get the headline – at any cost. But when shocking new evidence pulls them into the dark heart of the case, they are each forced to confront what they’re prepared to risk to tell their version of the truth, National Theatre, South Bank SE1 9PX, until 24 October. Info: National

* For coloured girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, “Stories of love and violence, joy and survival - and what it feels like to come out the other side”, Yard Theatre, Queen’s Yard, White Post Lane, E9 until 17 October. Info: The Yard

+ post-show events

* Housemates 2026, six plays including 8 - 12 September, Pressure, a journey through rebellion, revolution, and Caribbean resistance; 15 - 19 September, Runner Girl; two shows for £30, three for £42 or four shows for £50; Brixton House, 385 Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8G until 19 September. Info: Brixton House

Monday 7 September

* Meera Syal: Vigilauntie!, stories that have shaped her life and work as one of Britain’s most beloved comedy legends, £34, 7.30 - 8.45pm, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR. Info: RGS

from Wednesday 9 September

* Our Eyes Looking for God, opera exploring Black British experiences, telling an urgent national story of state violence through joy, love, laughter and pain, from £39, Barbican Centre, Silk Street EC2Y 8DS until 13 September. Info: Barbican

* Fire, Fire, the latest attempt to put global heating on stage, £15 - £29, Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street E8 3DL until 3 October. Info: Arcola

Film

* Disciples, on the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi, two boys enter a revered Hindu school where lessons in ancient scripture blur into something more troubling, Curzon Bloomsbury until 9 September

Monday 7 September

* Ish, set in the South Asian and Middle Eastern community in Luton, the film follows 12-year-old best friends, Ish and Maram, who are navigating childhood against a backdrop of political tension and personal loss, National Film Theatre + 10 September

* The tug of home, the lure of the street

* Songs of Forgotten Trees, an aspiring actress and a call centre employee are thrown together in Mumbai in an absorbing tale of selfhood and survival, ICA, The Mall + 9 September

Thursday 10 September

* The Battle of Algiers, riveting, true-to-life account of the fight for Algerian independence and the French military’s response, 5.50pm, National Film Theatre

* Bacurau, a woman returns to her village in Brazil and sees that its citizens are under attack. The villagers must prepare an organised resistance to avoid greater damage + introduction by André Souza Machado Cortez from the Brazil Embassy, 4.30pm, Lexi

Tuesday 8 September

* Fiesta, captures the carnival traditions of Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau and explores their building of post-independence societies, 6.20pm, National Film Theatre.

* Victims of Sin, an abandoned baby is saved and raised by Violeta, a rhumba dancer and indomitable mother who faces down all who threaten her new family in this 1950 Mexican film, 8.40pm, National Film Theatre

Wednesday 9 September

* Ola Bola, sports drama inspired by the Malaysian national football team's path to the 1980 Olympics, 7pm, Battersea Power Station, outside The Power Station, in the Arches under Grosvenor Bridge. Info: CelebrAsia

Thursday 10 September

* Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie + discussion with director Alex Gibney, producer Rachel Eliza Griffiths and writer Salman Rushdie, 7pm, Barbican

* When the Tiles Spoke + Damascus Roof and Tales of Paradise, two films by Syrian filmmaker Soudade Kaadan + discussion with Kaadan, Stefanie Van de Peer and Nadine Kaadan, 7 - 9:30pm, £25, Leighton House, 12 Holland Park Road, W14 8LZ. Info: Leighton House

Friday 11 September

* Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story, the work of photographer Kwame Brathwaite, a pioneer in the Black is Beautiful movement + Q&A, 8.25pm,National Film Theatre

* Cuadro negro, “artistic documentary” about the Chilean army + introduction by Cici Peng, Close-Up Film Centre, 97 Sclater Street E1 6HR. Info: CloseUp

* Babah, as Isyak and his daughter Maya face the ups and downs of life, from losing a job to battling illness and the loss of hearing, their strong bond reveals the enduring power of love and family to carry them through the toughest times, 7pm, Battersea Power Station, outside The Power Station, in the Arches under Grosvenor Bridge. Info: celebrAsia

Saturday 12 September

* Children of Blood and Bone, select footage from Gina Prince-Bythewood’s adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi’s bestselling novel + Q&A with Prince-Bythewood, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lashana Lynch, Tosin Cole and Zackary Momoh, 2.45pm, £17, concs £14, National Film Theatre

* All Is Politics, influential African and diasporic figures in beautifully filmed and intimate portraits, 3.15pm, National Film Theatre

* Rebellion, three films consider the influence and legacy of poet, author and politician Aimé Césaire, 8.40pm, National Film Theatre

Tuesday 15 September

* Maybe Tomorrow + Allies in Exile, two documentaries (on activist Wafa Mustafa's search for her father, who was forcibly disappeared by Assad's regime + the story of two lifelong filmmaker friends who move from the Syrian revolution to navigating life in a UK asylum hotel) + Q&A with directors Waad Al-Kateab and Hasan Kattan, 6:20pm, £10 - £12.50, Curzon Bloomsbury. Info: Dochouse

* Out Laws, three queer activists fight to overturn the colonial-era laws that still criminalise their lives + Q&A with directors Lexi Powner and James Lewis, 6.30pm, Castle cinema

* Hard Labour, documentary about some of the world's most dangerous places for pregnancy and childbirth, meeting mothers, babies and healthcare workers as they confront the devastating consequences of conflict, poverty and collapsing health systems, 6.30pm, ICA, The Mall