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Events in London

Migrant Voice

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Monday 6 July

* BRICS+ After the Expansion - From economic platform to emerging political bloc? The Western response in a changing world order, Lord Jim O’Neill, Marta Fernández, Mulugeta Getu Sisay, 5 - 7pm, King’s College, Strand Campus, Strand, WC2R 2LS

Tuesday 7 july

* Comparative perspectives on international tax from the global South, Sarah Coll-Black, Nick Benequista, Anne Valand, Hisae Kato, Patricia Romero on how governments in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Uganda and Zambia engage with international tax standards, 2 - 3pm, online. Info: Institute of Development Studies

Wednesday 8 July

* How Gaza Changes Everything, Antony Loewenstein, Leila Molana-Allen, 7pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2 1QJ. Info: Frontline

Thursday 9 July

* How the World Made the American Revolution, Tom Holland and Sarah Pearsall uncover the global forces, people and places that shaped America's fight for independence, from Canada and India to Ghana and beyond, 7pm, £15, online £5, British Library, 96 Euston Road NW1. Info: Library

Friday 10 July

* International cooperation amid geopolitical rupture, Nick Benequista, Anne Valand, Hisae Kato, Patricia Romero, Independent Consultant discuss how the he global rules-based order is straining to survive amid a resurgence of nationalism and whether proponents of international development and universal human rights can play a significant role in this era, 1 - 2pm, online. Info: Institute of Development Studies

Friday 10 - Sunday 12 July

* Poetry International Festival, includes 10 July, Benjamin Zephanisah: A Celebration, 8pm, £20; 11 July, After Catastrophe: Futures Beyond Crisis, 12.30pm, from £11; From The Lips To The Moon, 8pm, free; 12 July, A Poet In Every Port - London, 10am, free; Yang Lian and Sudeep Sen: Chinese and Indian Poetry, 12.30pm, from £11; Batool Abu Akleen & Alice Oswold, 2pm, from £15; Kim Hyesoon & Paul Muldoon, 5.30pm, from £15; Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road SE1 8XX. Info: Poetry Festival

Monday 13 July

* How history explains our world: The rise of the East, Peter Frankopan, 7.30pm, £31- £87, Richmond Theatre, The Green, Richmond, TW9 1QJ. Info: History explains

Tuesday 14 July

* Fatherhood and colonial power in Jamaica, and Chinese labour in the British Caribbean, Jacqueling Crooks, Samuel Niu, 1-2pm, free, British Library, 96 Euston Road NW1. Info: Library

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

* 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 9TG until 3 January. Info: Ta te

+ How the Zeitgeist helped creat e Fridamania

* Project A Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, 300 works including posters, paintings, journals, sculpture and film from Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, North America and Western Europe from the 1920s to the present. Artists include Kader Attia, Mariene Dumas, Inji Effiatoun, Sonia Gomes, David Hammons, Nicholas Hlobo, Claudette Johnson, Wilfredo Lam, Simone Leigh Ernest Mancota, Kawira Mwinchia, Abdias Nascimento. Grace Ndiritu, Magdalene Odundo, Chris Ofili, Colette Omogbai, The Otolith Group, Ingrid Pollard, Samir Rafi, Cauleen Smith, Tavares Strachan, £19, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS until 6 September. Info: Projec t A Black Planet

+ About 50 related events have been scheduled, including talks, films, workshops and music. Details here

+ Project Black Planet fights its way through a thicket of jargon

* 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: .Vam.ac.uk

+ Strik ing voices in the Asia-Pacifi c region

* Mil Veces un Instant (A thousand times in an instant), Mexican artist Teresa Margolies’ cuboid on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square is a memorial to trans people worldwide.

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

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

* 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 19 September. Info: Petrie

* 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

* 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 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

* 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

* When words fall silent, cinema speaks, Zineb Sedira’s installation on Algeria’s key role in African cinema in the 1960s and ‘70s, Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1P 4RG until 17 January. Info: Tate Commission

* When Third Cinema was a power in the land

* gadzi, installation by nora chipaumire that draws on the legends, stones, and soil of her native Zimbabwe, free, Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG until 23 August. Info: Tate

* 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.

* Kulpreet Singh: Indelible Black Marks, poetic meditation on the urgent link between climate change and agricultural crises, free, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX until 2 August. Info: Hayward

* Collecting an Empire, trail making connections between archaeology, anthropology and the British Empire, British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1. Info: British Mu s eum

* British Library, installation of 6,328 books marks the contributions of migrants to UK,Tate Modern, Bankside SE1. Info: Installation/

* Earth Photo, 50 winners of international competition on issues affecting the climate and life, free, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR. until 24 July. Info: RGS

* Homeland Lost, Alan Gignoux juxtaposes portraits of Palestinian refugees displaced in 1948 and their descendants, alongside images of their former homes and villages inside Israel, P21, 21 Chalton Street, NW1 1JD until 10 July. Info: P21 + 7 July, Documenting the ruined villages of Palestine, Ahmad al-Bazz on his book, The Erasure of Palestine, and conversation between the two photographers, 6.30 - 8.30pm, £5

* Unfolding Narratives: Perspectives in Contemporary Indian Art, free, Mall Galleries, SW1Y 5AS until 8 July. Info: Mall

from Monday 13 July

* The South Asia Edit, series of exhibitions celebrating six modern artists (Francis Newton Souza, Mohan Samant, Bhupen Khakhar, Zarina, Zahoor ul Akhlaq and Sheherezade Alam), Sotheby’s, 4-35 New Bond Street W1A 2AA, until 7 August. Info: Sotheby’s

Performance

* The boy who harnessed the wind, musical based on a book and a Netflix film tells the true story of 13-year-old Willliam Kamkwamba, who dreams of saving his Malawian village, but no-one believes he can, from £25, @SohoPlace, W1 until 18 July. Info: @SohoPlace

* Love You Long Time (Already), funny and moving intergenerational epic about mothers and daughters, migration and memory, written by Vietnamese-American playwright Katie Đỗ and directed by Jennifer Tang,Theatre 503, 503 Battersea Park Road SW11 3BW until 25 July. Info: Theatre 503. Related events include 6 July, Directors Night, discussion + 16 July, Vietnamese Community Night

* Karen Houge: Dreamgirl, what would happen if, instead of starting clown school in Paris, you accidentally ended up following a group of Syrian refugees on their journey to seek asylum in Europe? How would your experience be different from theirs?, from £19, Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street W1D 3NE until 11 July. Info: Dreamgirl

Friday 10 - Sunday 12 July

Monday 13 -Tuesday 14 July

* Ali in Wonder(Eng)land, a twist on the Lewis Carroll novel, telling the story of Ali, who comes to the UK only to find it's a strange land with rules that make no sense. It reflects the experiences of a changed British society as well as new participants, including people from Iran, Venezuela, Eritrea, Cameroon and Poland, £15, Jacksons Lane, 269 Archway Road, N6 5AA until 15 July. Info: Jacksons Lane

Film

* Killing Anna, a Syrian woman goes undercover online to track down a war criminal, creating a fake profile and befriending the man she believes responsible for a massacre during the Syrian civil war, Curzon Bloomsbury until 9 July

* Do You Love Me?, personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory, composed entirely of archival footage, Curzon Bloomsbury until 9 July

* Birds of War, a London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman retrace their love story over 13 years of war, revolutions and exile, Barbican, Curzon Bloomsbury, ActOne, ICA, The Mall, until 9 July

* Cactus Pears, tender romantic drama exploring grief, tradition, longing and the realities of working-class queer life in India, Castle cinema, until 9 July

* Persepolis, based on Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel of the same name, the film follows her life in pre- and post-revolutionary Iran and then in Europe, Cine Lumiere until 26 July

Tuesday 7 July

* Hunted: Kidnapped, blackmailed and tortured for being LGBTQ*, the world of “kito” attacks in Nigeria, where members of the LGBTQ+ community are entrapped, humiliated and extorted by gangs in a rising surge in violence and hatred + discussion with Bel Trew, Christine Stegling of UNAIDS, Rev Jide Macaulay of House Of Rainbow, and Charles Ssonko of Médecins Sans Frontières, 6.30pm, ICA, The Mall

Wednesday 8 July

* Shoot The People, documentary about Nigerian-British photographer and activist Misan Harriman who specialises in covering grassroots protests.+ director Q&A, Curzon Bloomsbury

+ Photographer of protest

* Happy Together, Wong Kar Wai’s emotive and beautifully shot drama about a turbulent relationship makes the most of its Buenos Aires backdrop + introduction by Ying-Di Yi, 6pm, National Film Theatre

* Bashu, The Little Stranger, the bond between an orphan and an independent woman who defies tradition and authority lies at the heart of this drama by a filmmaker consistently censored by the theocratic regime of Iran + introduction by Ehsan Khoshbakht, 6.05pm, National Film Theatre

* Bullet in the Head, John Woo Vietnam war melodrama, an underrated and emotionally devastating masterpiece + introduction by Katie Smith=Wong, 6.20pm, National Film Theatr

Thursday 9 July

* Life Support, documentary built from first-hand testimony of international doctors and footage shot inside Gaza's overwhelmed hospitals, Curzon Mayfair

+ Phone calls from the Gaza apocalypse

from Thursday 9 July

* London Indian Film Festival, premieres from South Asia, plus restorations of classics of Indian cinema and British Asian shorts. Programme includes 52 Blue, All About Weddings, A Mosquito in the Ear, In Search of the Sky, Anmol - Lovingly Yours, parental love is put to the test when a couple's newborn baby's unique identity forces them to confront their own beliefs and biases; White Snow; Master, a powerful story of politics, morality, and the cost of influence; Ancestral Hauntings, programme exploring ancestry, heritage, and the lasting impact of colonialism; + documentaries - If I Could Tell You, Give It A Shot & Britain Through South Asian Eyes. BFI Southbank, BFI IMAX, Ciné Lumière, Forest Cinema Walthamstow, Genesis, ICA, Lumiere Romford, Nehru Centre, Regent Street Cinema + 17, 18 July, special screenings at Lumiere Romford and Forest Green Walthamstow. Festival ends 18 July. Info: Festival

from Friday 10 July

* Life Support, first-hand accounts and visceral footage of three international doctors in the Israeli attack on Gaza offer a rare chronicle of the daily struggles of healthcare workers as they navigate bombed-out hospitals, dwindling supplies, starvation and the overwhelming influx of casualties + Q&A, Curzon Bloomsbury + 11 July; Garden cinema until 16 July; Odeons Acton, Greenwich, Holloway, Kingston, 14 July; Act One, 17 July

+ Phone calls from the Gaza apocalypse

* Replica, follows three women in China whose virtual boyfriends fill emotional gaps left by loneliness, unfulfilling marriages and the pursuit of independence, revealing the fragile boundary between emotional freedom and reliance on AI and explores how AIb reshapes love, intimacy and gender in modern China, Curzon Bloomsbury. until 14 July

* Cactus Pears, a Mumbai call-centre worker returns to his ancestral Maharashtra village to observe the 10-day mourning ritual for his father and reconnects with a childhood friend facing similar struggles in life, Riverside Studios, until 12 July

* The Girls, Sumitra Peries' groundbreaking Sri Lankan film offers a tender and transporting journey through young dreams and first love , The Mall until 16 July

Monday 13 July

* Into The Darkness, former Palestinian detainees describe violence, deprivation and abuse inside Israeli prisons + Q&A with Hind Hassan, Diana Buttu and Nada-Mai Issa, 7pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place W1. Info: Frontline

Tuesday 14 July

* Birds of War, the love story of a London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman, told through 13 years of personal archives across revolutions, war, and exile + Q&A with Abd Al-Kadr, Janay Boulos, Ben De Pear, 7pm, £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2 1QJ. Info: Frontline