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Talks and discussions
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
* In Focus: A Photography Evening, documentary photographers David Hadland and Sarah Hickson explore stories shaped by conflict and displacement and the search for a new sense of belonging, 7.15pm, £5, Riverside, 101 Queen Caroline Street, W6 9BN/ Info: Riverside
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
Wednesday 16 September
* Americas@UCL200 Conference, four panels on inequality, climate & sustainability, democracy & the rule of law, and health & wellbeing, 9:45am – 5.15pm, featuring leading experts on the Americas, Wilkins Building WC1E 6BT. Info: University College London Institute of the Americas
* An Evening with Sebastian Faulks, the novelist on his new book, Farewell to Eden, which follows a soldier recently returned from the beaches of Normandy, who arrives in Palestine on a peace-keeping mission in the final days of the British Mandate, 7:30 - 8:45pm, £18 - £59, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, WC1R 4R. Info: Intelligence Square
* Clean Energy Transitions: A care economy lens, webinar with Jane Mariara, Michele Diop, Maria-Ancilla Bombande, Ibrahim Diarra exploring how clean energy transitions can reduce drudgery, shift how unpaid care work is recognised and shared, and open new opportunities for women and young people in agriculture, enterprise and renewable energy value chains; 1 - 2pm. Info: Institute of Development Studies
Friday 18 September
* 5 Years Disappeared: Proof of Life Now, Ghirmai Negash, Nduko o’Matigere, Martin Plaut, Abdurahman Sayed, 5 - 8pm, King’s College, Strand Campus, Strand, WC2R 2LS. Info: King’s
Saturday 19 September
* ESEA Festival Day, East and South East Asian literary festival programme includes On crossing continents and generations, Carla Montemayor and Natalie Gregory, 11-noon; On rules and devotion, Catherine Cho and Stephanie Sy-Quia; Kamayan, Rex de Guzman’s food fundraiser for Project Pearl, 1.45-3pm; On Girlhood and Wanting, Stacey Yu and Divua Maniar, 3.30-4.30pm; On Vastness and Ambition, Cecile Pin and Xiaolu Guio, 5-6pm + workshops, Foyles, Charing Cross Road. Info: Foyles
* Rebecca F Kuang: The Future of Education, the best-selling author on the transformative ideas redefining learning, plus Rose Luckin and Xine Yao, 2pm, from £24, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road. Info: Southbank
Sunday 20 September
* Chuseok Festival London 2026, celebrate one of Korea’s most important traditional holidays, at Chuseok Festival London 2026, Samsung KX London, 1 Stable Street N1C 4DQ. Info: Instagram:
Monday 21 September
* A Life in Human Rights - the Story of Amnesty International, exploring the archive of the organisation’s founder, Peter Berenson, 7 - 8.15pm, £12, British Library, 96 Euston Road NW1. Info: BL
Tuesday 22 September
* The world looks at America in the age of Trump, Madeleine Schwartz, Taran Khan, Barry Malone, Hannah Rosefield, 7pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place W2 1QJ. Info: Frontline
* The Disappearers: Marlon James in Conversation with Jason Okundaye, when eight gay men meet for the first time, in Kingston, Jamaica in 1988, answering the casting call for an openly queer play, they are already taking a big risk. But that is nothing compared to what rains down on them when a mob descends on one of their rehearsals, 7-8.30pm, £15, Floyle’s, St James’s Piccadilly. Info: Foyle’s
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
Wednesday 16 September
* Between Homes: Redefining Migration + Together at House of Annetta, two exhibitions of creative work made through community-led, collaborative projects, 5 - 8pm, UCL East - Marshgate, First Floor Galleries. Info: Exhibition
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
* Housemates 2026, six plays including 15 - 19 September, Runner Girl; Brixton House, 385 Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8G until 19 September. Info: Brixton House
* 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
Wednesday 16 September
* The Honour Table, three years after their father's death, the Frimpong siblings gather for their annual memorial dinner. Godwin arrives with an offer that will divide the family but secure the future of The Root, the organisation their father founded: but is the price worth paying? New play by Selorm Adonu, 7.45pm, Royal Court, Sloane Square, 50-51 SW1W 8AS. Part of Autumn Open Submissions Festival.
Friday 18 September
* Theertham, as drought tightens its grip on a community, a diviner discovers an extraordinary source of water beneath a widow's garden. But as people exploit it for profit, ghosts of the past begin to rise to the surface.New play by Nayantara Nayar, 7.45pm,. Royal Court, Sloane Square, 50-51 SW1W 8AS. Part of Autumn Open Submissions Festival.
Sunday 20 September
* Harsh Gujral: Live in London, Indian stand-up comedian, 7.30-10pm, £25, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR. Info: RGS
from Tuesday 22 September
* The First Year (of the Gaza Genocide in the Media), BÉZNĂ Theatre’s multimedia investigation into the relationship between mainstream media, public opinion and state crime, £13 - £19, New Diorama Theatre, 15 - 16 Triton Street, Regent's Place, NW1 3BF, untll 10 October. Info: New Diorama
+ 28 Sept, Shadow World Investigations workshop, 6-8pm; 1 Oct, post-show Q&A: Media Ethics, Mike Berry; 2 Oct, International State Crime Initiative workshop, 4-6pm; 5 Oct, Shadow World Investigations community workshop, 6-8pm; 6 Oct, Producing Political Theatre workshop, 4-6pm; 9 Oct, International State Crime Initiative community workshop, 4-6pm
Film
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
* The Best Mother in the World, to escape an abusive relationship, Gal puts her two young children into the recycling cart she uses to collect trash on her Brazilian city’s streets and runs away. Alone and facing the dangers of homelessness, she convinces them that they are on an adventure, 6.10pm, Lexi
Thursday 17 September
* From Saint-Denis to Algiers, French-Algerian history is explored in these stories of exile, belonging and memory + intro by Arthur Asseraf, 8.:40pm, National Film Theatre
Friday 18 September
* The Cycle of Love, a film that reconstructs a 1977 journey, when a Delhi street artist set off on a 6,000-mile trip to find the woman who had captured his heart, Curzon Bloomsbury, until 22 September
Saturday 19 September
* Sambizanga, reveals the human cost of colonial oppression during Angola’s struggle for independence + pre-recorded introduction, 3pm, National Film Theatre
* Among Mountains and Streams, two Chinese artists in exile walk through a forest, exchanging views on the authoritarian regime they fled and their artistic practice, 3.30pm, Curzon Bloomsbury
Monday 21 September
* 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, 2.30pm, National Film Theatre
Tuesday 22 September
* Rebellion, three films on the influence and legacy of poet, author and politician Aimé Césaire + discussion curated and hosted by programmer and writer Jonathan Ali, 5.05pm, National Film Theatre
TV and radio
Monday 14 September
* Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventure, travelogue, 6.30pm, BBC2
* Global Eye, news magazine, 7pm, BBC2
* Lubaina Hamid: This Cultural Life, interview with the artist including on her role in the Black Arts Movement, 10.30pm, BBC4
Tuesday 15 September
* Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventure, travelogue, 6.30pm, BBC2
Wednesday 16 September
* England Til I Die, follows an anti-immigration activist following the announcement of a camp for asylum-seekers in a Sussex town, 10pm, Channel 4
* Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventures, travelogue, 6.30pm, BBC2
Thursday 17 September
* Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventures, travelogue, 6.30pm, BBC2
* lo Capitano, adventure action drama about two two young Senegalese boys who set out to get to Europe, 11.15pm, Film4
* Omid Djalili: Namaste, the British-Iranian comedian gets his own programme. This week’s topics are stereotyping and identity, 6.30pm, Radio4
* Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventures, travelogue, 6.30pm, BBC2
Friday 18 September
* Escape From Pretoria, film based on a true-life prison escape by three political prisoners in apartheid South Africa, 11.35pm, Film4
Thanks to volunteer Daniel Nelson (editor of Eventslondon.org) for compiling this list.