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Talks and discussions

 

Monday 7 July

* World Swahili Language Day, an international panel of poets, writers and researchers, 2-3.30pm, online. Info: SOAS

Tuesday 8 July

* Gaza-Israel: One Story Double Standards, discussion on alleged BBC bias, with Owen Jones, Richard Gizbert and Ben de Pear, 7pm, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2 1QJ. Info: [email protected]

* ODI Global in Conversation with Amy Pope, Director General of the International Organization for Migration discusses strategies for delivering solutions to displacement, 4-5pm. Info: [email protected]

Wednesday July 9

* City of Sanctuary Conference and AGM 2025, 10:30am - 4:30pm, WC2.  Info: City of Sanctuary

* Sanctuary, Marina Warner discusses her new book on the ancient right of sanctuary and its meaning in the modern world, London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place WC1A 2JL. Info: www.lrbshop.co.uk

* Exile economics - what happens when globalistion fails, Ben Chu, 6.30-7.30pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2

* Engaging with Migration in Museum Learning, 10am - 12:30pm, free, online. Info: Migration Museum

Thursday 10 July

* Who gets to love the “great British poets”?, Kit Fan, Awet Fissehaye, Fran Lock, 7-8.30pm, £5-£20, Keats House, 10 Keats Grove, NW3 2RR. Info: English PEN

* Mediating chieftaincy conflicts in Africa, Elizabeth Izac-Hasan, Nuhu Yidana, 6pm online. Info: SOAS

Saturday 12 July

* Free Palestine - BDS At 20, 10.15am-4.30pm, Central Hall, Westminster, Storey’s Gate, SW1H 9NH. Info: Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Tuesday 15 July

* The State of Us, New research into UK Community and Cohesion, webinar with Jake Puddle, Kelly Fowler  and others, 12:30-1:30pm. Info: British Future

 

Exhibitions

* Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict, exhibits include sexual slavery of ‘Comfort Women Corps’ in World War Two and of Yazidi women and girls by ISIS in 2014, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road SE1 6HZ until 2 November. Info: War Museum

Sexual violence in conflict: ‘The cheapest weapon known to man’

* Thirst: In Search of Freshwater, from ancient Mesopotamia and Victorian London to modern-day Nepal and Singapore, the exhibition combines art, science, history, technology and indigenous knowledge to deepen understanding of our relationships with freshwater, free, Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, NW1 2BE until 1 February. Info: Wellcome

+ Thirst: an exhibition bridge over troubled water

* Ancient India: living traditions, the origins of Hindu, Jain and Buddhist sacred art in the nature spirits of ancient India – and how they live on 2,000 years later, from £16, British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG until 19 October. Info: Museum

+ Starring role for snakes in Ancient India exhibition

Mumbai + London: new perspectives on the ancient world, small show focussed on Greek god Dionysius and India’s Vishnu, British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG until 11 January 2026. Info: 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

* Jose Maria Valasco: A View of Mexico, first UK show of work by the Mexican artist, from £12, National Gallery, Trafalgar Square WC2N 5DN until 17 August. Info: Gallery

* 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

* 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

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

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

* Women of the World Unite: the United Nations decade for women and transnational feminisms 1975 to now, Celebrate International Women’s Day weekend with a discussion of the representation of Black women in All About Love. London School of Economics Library, Houghton Street, WC2 until 22 August. Info: LSE

* 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

* 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

* Eileen Perrier: A Thousand Small Stories and Dianne Minnicucci: Belonging and Beyond, free, Autograph, Rivington Place, EC2A 3BA, until 13 September. Info: Rivington Place

Ghazaleh Avarzamani and Ali Ahadi: Freudian Typo, photography, sculpture, video work and found objects by two Iranian-Canadian artists which playfully critique Britain’s imperial past and how it manifests today, tracing connections between historical sources and current events in politics and finance, free, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre until 31 August. Info: Hayward

* Earth Photo 2025 exhibition, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR. until 17 August. Info: RGS

 

Film

* The Salt of the Earth, documentary about the 40-year career of photographer Sebastião Salgado who travelled the world, tracing the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity, 6.20pm, Curzon Bloomsbury  until 10 July

* Sudan, Remember Us, documentary that captures the hope and accomplishment following dictator Omar al Bashir’s fall and the oppression of the military crackdown and subsequent civil war, National Film Theatre until 9 July; Curzon Bloomsbury, until 10 July; Lexi 11-18 July

+ Remember the Sudanese protesters who thought their time had come

* Safar Film Festival, the festival is over, but several films (Cinema of War in Lebanon, Reprisal, Panoptic ) via Aflamuna online

* New Lebanese Cinema: Reclaiming Storytelling, until 11 July. Info: Garden

Tuesday 8 July

* The Cow, with this, his second feature, Dariush Mehrjui defined the Iranian New Wave and transformed Iranian cinema + intro by Ehsan Khoshbakht, 6.05pm, £12.20 - £14, National Film Theatre

Wednesday 9 July

* Tamango, an enslaved African man plans a shipboard rebellion and wants the captain’s sexual slave to help + intro by Miriam Bale, 6.15pm, National Film Theatre

* On The Frontlines of Hunger, documentary on famine in Ethiopia and Tigray, produced by Mary’s Meals charity, 7pm, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2 1QJ. Info: [email protected]

Thursday 10 July

* Turkey’s Hidden War, the untold story of Turkey’s military expansion in northern Iraq + discussion with Simona Foltyn, Renad Mansour, Amberin Zaman, 7pm, from £5,94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place W2 1QJ. Info: Frontline

from Thursday 10 July

* The Tree of Authenticity, artist Sammy Baloji examines the colonial history of D R Congo and its lasting ecological impact and entanglements, ICA, The Mall, until 17 July

from Friday 11 July

* Apocalypse in the Tropics, exposes the clash between religion and freedom in Brazil, revealing how apocalyptic theology fuels the far right and threatens the nation’s fragile democracy (11 July + director’s Q&A, 6.10pm), Curzon Bloomsbury until 17 July

Saturday 12 July

* Bar Girls (Gái Nhảy), 2002 Vietnamese film that shattered box office records: it follows the lives of women working in Vietnam’s sex and club scene in the midst of the AIDS crisis, 8.15pm, £15, Rich Mix

* Island in the Sun, interracial relationships, political struggles and murder unfold in this drama set on a fictional Caribbean island, National Film Theatre

Monday 14 July

* rituals: union black, Akinola  Davies Jr. new moving-image essay that captures the  everyday rituals and rhythms of Black life across the UK, £14, Somerset House, Strand WC2R 1LA. Info: https://www.somersethouse.org.uk

 

Performance

* Miss Myrtle’s Garden, five characters interact in the garden of an elderly, first-generation Jamaican woman with dementia, £10-£35, Bush Theatre, 7 Uxbridge Road, W12 8LJ until 12 July. Info: Bush

* 54.60 Africa, blending story, song, and dance, 11 friends are given seven days to prove that Africa is a continent to be celebrated. Inspired by the creator’s travels to every African nation before his 60th birthday, £12-£39, Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street E8 3DL until 12 July. Info: Arcola

+ Postcards from Africa

+ The grand tour: one playwright’s quest to set foot in every African country before turning 60

* Talawa Firsts Festival 2025, “groundbreaking Black British new work”, including double-bills: There's a Mouse in the Kitchen, staged reading by  Cal-l Jonel; Small Revolutions by Savannah Acquah, My Father, The Addict by Valerie Isaiah Sadoh. Until 19 July. Info: www.talaw.com

from Thursday 10 July

* Young Playwrights Award Festival, includes Happily Haunted by Aasiya Nsubuga; Hello, My Name Is... by Marcos Byrne; Library of the Imagination by Leon Chin-Kemp; Bad Hair Day by Sapphire Naggie; Fox Hunt by George McAree…; Godot’s To-Do List by Leo Simpe-Asante, £5, Royal Court, Sloane Square until 12 July. Info: Royal Court

Saturday 12-Sunday 13 July

* Are You Even Indian - Trial of Identity?, surreal dance-theatre piece set in a courtroom, where a couple on the verge of divorce faces a bigger question: What makes us Indian?, part of Bitesize Festival, Riverside, 101 Queen Caroline Street, W6 9BN. Info: Bitesize

 

TV and radio

Saturday 5 July

* Half of a Yellow Sun, adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‘s novel set at the time of Biafra’s failed attempt to secede from Nigeria, 3pm, Radio4

Sunday 6 July

* LiveAid at 40: When Rock’n’Roll Took on the World, 9pm, BBC2

* LiveAid at 40, 10pm, BBC2

* Mahabharata Now, first of two-part drama based on the Indian poem, 3pm, Radio4

Wednesday 8 July

* LiveAid At 40: How Rock’n’Roll Took on the World, 11pm, BBC2

Thursday 9 July

* World’s Great Rivers, the Zambezi, 9pm, BBC2

* LiveAid At 40: How Rock’n’Roll Took on the World, 11pm, BBC2

Friday 10 July

* Central Intelligence, drama series about various hot-spots through the eyes of the CIA, 2.15pm, Radio4

 

Thanks to volunteer Daniel Nelson (editor of Eventslondon.org) for compiling this list.

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