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Monday 8 June
* The Assault on Freedom, Mehdi Hasan and Arwa Mahdawi, 6.30pm, £39.38, Union Chapel, 19b Compton Terrace, N1 2UN. Info: Union Chapel
Tuesday 9 June
* Election Analysis Webinar: Peru, John Crabtree, Paulo Drinot, Luis OIganes, 2-3.15pm, online. Info: Canning House
* A question of parity? How to elect women into power in times of economic backlash, Mona Lena Krook on her latest book, 5.30-7pm, Overseas Development Institute, 4 Millbank, SW1P 3JA. Info; ODI
Wednesday 10 June
* Education in conflict: Bridging past and present in preparing educators in era of conflicts, Tejendra Pherali and others, 5 - 7pm, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, WC1H AL. Info: IoE
* Citizens to traitors: the Bengali internment in Pakistan, Ilyas Chattha, 6.30pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
* C.A.S.A Casablanca Art School, launch of book drawing on nearly a decade of research that tells the story of how after independence a constellation of artists drew on Moroccan and Afro-Amazigh heritage to forge new forms of abstract art, 7pm, free, Mosaic Rooms, 226 Cromwell Road, SW5 0SW. Info: Mosaic Rooms
* Community-based food initiatives: everyday solidarity and care to address food insecurity (Germany-Spain), the first webinar of the Food Solidarities Network, hosted by the UNESCO Chair in World Food Systems and the Food Equity Centre, 2.30-3.30pm, online. Info: Institute of Development Studies
Thursday 11 June
* The refugee archive: documenting England’s refugee history from a refugee perspective, Lucy Bond, Linda Mannheim, Nazek Ramadan, Sumaya Yasin, Zara Mehmood, 5.30 - 8pm, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street. Info: UoW
* Unhealthy finances: the global health funding crisis and its human cost, Toby Green, Kara Hanson, Tess Hewitt, 5.30-7pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
Friday 12 June
* Disabling Migration Controls: Shared Learning, Solidarity and Collective Resistance, author Rebecca Yeo in conversation with Ellen Clifford and Nicolette Busuttil, 6-7.20pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
* Schism: The Story of Sectarianism in the Modern Middle East, Simon Mabon, 5-6.30pm, King’s College, Strand campus, 30 Aldwych, WC2B 4BG
Saturday 13 June
* The Edible Archive: Palestinian Memory and Resistance: Land, Seeds, Roots and Growth, Madees Khoury, Vivien Sansour, Fadi Kattan and Sami Tamimi, 1-2pm, £15, British Library, 96 Euston Road, NW1, part of the Food Season Big Weekend. Info: Library
Saturday 13- Sunday 14 June
* Migrant Justice and the Far Right Summit 2026, 9.30am-5pm, from £6.11. Info Summit
Monday 15 - Sunday 21June
* Refugee Week. Info: Refugee Week
from Monday 15 June
* How To Save the Planet, the LSE Festival includes talks, debates, films, workshops and family events, in-person and online, free, until 20 June. Info: Festival
* Outsourcing surveillance: Online public opinion management in China, Lynette Ong, 5pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
Tuesday 16 June
* Feeding the world without costing the earth, Andrew Balmford gives the inaugural Royal Society Environment Prize Lecture, 6.30-7.30pm, free, in-person and online, Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace SW1Y 5AG. Info: Royal Society
* Grooming, coerced marriage and conversion of minority women: Global incidence and evidence, Martz Tadros, Lord Alton of Liverpool, Archbishop Angaelos, Javaid Rehman, 5-7pm, Committee Room 16, Houses of Parliament, SW1A 0AA. Info: Institute of Development Studies
* Big Tech and Democracy, Beeban Kidron joins Misha Glenny, 6.15pm, £16.80, online £6.50, The Conduit, 6 Langley Street WC2H 9JA. Info: The Conduit
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
* Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific, work by more than 40 artists from 25 countries, V&A South Kensington until 10 January. Info: Vam.ac.uk
+ Striking voices in the Asia-Pacific region
* 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
* Hurvin Anderson, 80 new works by the British-Jamaican artist, Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1P 4RG until 23 August. Info: Tate
* 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
* 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
* 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
* 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 then Europe, building elaborate visual reconstructions that echo how memory in the diaspora can blur and 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 the present day 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
* Ain Bailey: The Jamaica Project, films and compositions, free, Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road NW3, until 14 June. Info: Arts Centre
* 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
from Thursday 11 June
* Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, 300 works including posters, journals, and film, from Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, North America and Western Europe, from the 1920s to the present. Artists include Kader Attia; Marlene Dumas; Inji Efflatoun; Sonia Gomes; David Hammons; Nicholas Hlobo; Claudette Johnson; Wifredo Lam; Simone Leigh; Ernest Mancoba; Kawira Mwirichia; Abdias Nascimento; Grace Ndiritu; Magdalene Odundo; Chris Ofili; Colette Omogbai, The Otolith Group; Ingrid Pollard; Samir Rafi; Cauleen Smith, Tavares Strachan, £19, Barbican, Silk Street EC2Y 8DS until 6 September. Info: Project A Black Planet
+ 23 June, Technologies for Imagining Otherwise, Elijah, Lex Fefegha, Arda Awais and Sara Berkai discuss technology as a Pan-African device, 7.30pm, £15
from Tuesday 16 June
* 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. Into: Hayward
Performance
* The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, musical based on an international best-selling book, and a Netflix film by Chiwetel Ejiofor. It tells the true true story of 13-year-old William Kamkwamba who dreams of saving his Malawian village — but no one believes he can, from £25 @SohoPlace, 4 Soho Place, W1D 3BG until 18 July. Info: @SohoPlace
* The Harder They Fall, based on the cult classic film that brought reggae to the world, tells the story of Ivan, an aspiring singer who arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, determined to live out his dreams on his own terms and make it as a music superstar, £10-£53, Stratford East, until 4 July. Info: Stratford East
+ “What’s this groove becoming? How The Harder They Come captured Jamaica and blazed on to stage
* The P Word, charts the parallel lives of two gay Pakistani men under the UK government’s increasingly hostile position against migrants, Bush Theatre, until 27 June. Info: Bush + post-show discussions: 11 June: Borders, Belonging, and the Stories We Carry. Shobna Gulati, Jasmin O’Hara; 18 June, Being Seen and Heard: Representation and Visibility in the Digital Age. Nikita Gill, Ranj Singh; 25 June, Queerness, Justice, and Political Courage, Zarah Sultana MP, Richard Attendet
+ When the P word meets the G word
* Under the Shadow, eerie adaptation of an award-winning horror film. Set during the 1980s Iran-Iraq War, it explores the boundary between the rational and the irrational, and the question of whether to leave or stay, £27.50-£55, Almeida Theatre, Almeida Street, N1 1TA. Info: Almeida
* Driftwood, drama of power, passion and drama set in a downtown gentleman’s club in colonial Trinidad where support for independence is growing, £15-£40, Kiln Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Road NW6 7JR until 4 July. Info: Kiln
from Wednesday 10 June
* Soldiers of Tomorrow, former Israeli Defense Force soldier Itai Erdal, accompanied by Syrian-born musician Emad Armoush, shares the story of his military service in a personal insight into the Arab-Israeli conflict, the occupation of Palestine, and the conditions that led to 7 October, the horror of Gaza, and war with Iran and Lebanon + post-show discussion after each performance. Erdal says, “Since its original run in 2023, it has been nearly impossible to find a theatre brave enough to present Soldiers of Tomorrow, and I am glad to be able to finally bring the show back to the UK at the ever-courageous Finborough Theatre”, £18 - £29, Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, SW10 9ED. Info: Finborough
from Thursday 11 June
* A Fine Idea, aid worker Jo has built a career helping those most in need but now wonders if the system she believes in might be part of the problem and whether we really want to change things - or whether we just like the idea of helping, £15-£29, Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street E8 3DL until 4 July. Info: Arcola
+ A Fine Idea joins the dots on aid
Film
* Landmarks (Nuestra Tierra), the first documentary by Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel reflects on a 2009 land dispute that resulted in the death of indigenous leader Javier Chocobar, Curzon Bloomsbury until 11 June
Monday 8 June
* Pixote ( Pixote, a Lei do Mais Fraco), visceral portrayal of abandoned childhood and institutional violence in Brazil, 8.30pm, National Film Theatre
* The Uprooted (Chinammul), the earliest documentation of the refugee crisis caused by the Partition of India, 8.35pm, National Film Theatre
Tuesday 9 June
* City of God, an explosive favela chronicle that transformed Brazilian cinema worldwide, 8.25pm, National Film Theatre
* Mogul Mowgly, Riz Ahmed stars in Bassam Tariq's 2020 drama about a British Pakistani rapper who flies home to the UK to visit the family he has not seen in two years but while trying to reconnect with his parents is struck down by an autoimmune disease, 6.30pm, £12.80, Rich Mix
* Eagles of the Republic,Tarik Saleh’s comic political thriller sees a famous Egyptian actor forced to star in a propaganda film and drawn into a dangerous, shadowy world, 1.25pm, Crouch End Picturehouse
Wednesday 10 June
* Barren Lives (Vidas Secas), landmark Cinema Novo classic of drought, migration and human resilience, 6.10pm, National Film Theatre
* Subarnarrekhar (The Golden Line ), a Partition epic of separation, fateful encounters and new beginnings, 8.25pm, National Film Theatre
* Babylon, a young Black DJ combats racism and police brutality of Thatcher-era London through dub and reggae sound-system music, 8pm, £9, Rich Mix
from Wednesday 10 June
* The Little Sister, 17-year-old Fatima, youngest of three daughters, treads carefully as she searches for her own path, grappling with emerging desires, her attraction to women, and her loyalty to her caring French-Algerian family. based on Fatima Daas’ autofictional book The Last One, Cine Lumiere, 17 Queensberry Place SW7 2DT
Thursday 11 June
* The Partition Trilogy: The Cloud-Capped Star + introduction by Manaishita Dass, 6pm, National Film Theatre
* Cinema, Aspirin and Vultures (Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus), lyrical road movie wherein cinema and friendship cross Brazil’s arid countryside + introduction by season co-curator Adriana Rouanet, 6.10pm, National Film Theatre
* Carlota Joaquina, Princess of Brazil, an irreverent hit that reignited Brazilian cinema in the 1990s, 9pm, National Film Theatre
Friday 12 June
* Limit, mythic, dreamlike and newly restored – Brazil’s most legendary silent film, 6.10pm, National Film Theatre
* Dreamers, Nigerian migrant Isio (Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́) finds love while detained in the Hatchworth Removal Centre, Lexi + 15-17 June
Saturday 13 June
* Babenco: Tell Me When I Die (Babenco: Alguém Tem que Ouvir o Coração e Dizer Parou), tender portrait of one of Brazil’s most influential filmmakers,m 12.50pm, National Film Theatre
* A River Called Titas (Titash Ekti Nadir Naam), 1973 Bangladesh-Indian poetic depiction of memory, loss and a vanishing fishing community + intro by Tanjil Rashid, 2.20pm, National Film Theatre
* The Partition Trilogy: E-Flat (Komol Gandhar), lyrical tale of exile, human connection and collective hope, 8.20pm, National Film Theatre
* The Woman of Everyone (A Mulher de Todos), a delirious anti-heroine tears through São Paulo, in a defining classic of Brazil’s Cinema Marginal, 8.45pm, National Film Theatre
* Layla (2024), Amrou Al-Kadhi’s bold and tender British romance about a British-Palestinian drag performer who moves fluidly between worlds in contemporary London and begins an unexpected relationship with Max, a marketing executive from a very different background + intro and post-film discussion, 5.15-9pm, Good Shepherd Studios, 15a Davies Lane, E11 3DR. Info: Layla
Saturday 13 - Sunday 14 June
* A Last Big Story, Jon Snow comes out of retirement to travel to Zambia to uncover a mining disaster covered up by officials in what becomes a year-long pursuit to expose how a Chinese-owned mine has decimated a community’s land and water, Curzon Bloomsbury
Sunday 14 June
* Ewir Amora Kelabi, 2016 Ethiopian drama about a desperate man’s search for a better life via the Sinai and Sahara deserts, 3pm, £16, Rich Mix
* Cyclone, a working-class playwright battles patriarchy and scandal to claim her future in early-20th-century São Paulo, 6.20pm, National Film Theatre
* The Traveller (Musafir), three families, one house echoing memories of love, loss and belonging, 6pm, National Film Theatre
Monday 15 June
* 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, 6.30pm, Curzon Bloomsbury
From Monday 15 June
* Dreamers, Nigerian migrant Isio (Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́) finds love while detained in the Hatchworth Removal Centre, Lexi + 16, 17 June
Tuesday 16 June
* Allies In Exile, traces Hasan Kattan and Fadi Al-Halabi’s 14-year friendship from documenting the Syrian uprising to life inside the UK asylum system + Q&A, 6.20pm, £9.50, National Film Theatre
* My Foreign Land (Minha Terra Estrangeira), collective cinema rethinking land, identity and belonging from Indigenous Brazilian perspectives, 8.50pm, National Film Theatre
* The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?), funny, piercing look at class and care inside a privileged São Paulo household, 6.10pm, National Film Theatre
* Cactus Pears (Sahar Bonda), sensitive romantic drama exploring grief, tradition, longing and the realities of lower-class queer life in India + Q&A with the director, Rohan Kanawade, 6.15pm, National Film Theatre
TV and radio
Monday 8 June
* Sorry, I Didn’t Know, Black comedy quiz show, 11.30pm, ITV1
Wednesday 10 June
* Ten Years After Brexit: How immigration shaped the referendum debate, 1.45pm, Radio4 (part of a series on Brexit at 1.45pm Monday to Friday this week)
Thanks to volunteer Daniel Nelson (editor of Eventslondon.org) for compiling this list.