Events in London

Events in London

Talks and discussions

from Monday 20 July

* Cyprus Week, theatre, film, discussion, comedy, dance, Theatro Technis, 26 Crowndale Road, NW1 1TT, until 26 July. Info: Cyprus Week

Wednesday 22 July

* Gulf-Africa Economic Cooperation: What Has Changed and What Comes Next?, 9am - 3pm., online. Info: Overseas Development Institute

* The Extraction Pattern, launch of book which argues that what breaks societies is a recurring pattern in which a small minority draws off the wealth, power and trust of the many until the whole system starts to give way, and offers an unexpected remedy, Vaughan Smith, David Loyn and Katalyn Gothard,, 7pm, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place W2 1Qj. Info: Book launch

Monday 27 July

*Industrialising Africa: why manufacturing drives Africa’s transformation - and delivers returns, 11am - 12.30pm, online. Info: [email protected]

* The Revolutionists, Jason Burke on the extremists who hijacked the 1970s, 7pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place W2 1QJ. Info: Frontline

Thursday 30 July

* October, launch of the debut collection by Lebanese poet Nur Turkmani who tells to editor Farhaana Arefin about the six years that inspired the poems, marked by profound change in Lebanon since 2019, 7 - 9pm, Mosaic Rooms, 226 Cromwell Road SW5 0SW. Info: Mosaic Rooms

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, E20 2AR. Info: V&A East Museum

* London Parks: An Exhibition, photographs by young asylum-seekers and refugees, free, Southbank Centre, Riverside Terrace, level 2, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX until 30 August. Info: Parks

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

+ Arresting voices of the Asian-Pacific 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

* 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: https://camdenartcentre.org/whats-on/resistant-forms

* 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

* 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

* 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: Tate

+ How the zeitgeist helped create Fridamania

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

* 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

* Fozia Ismail: A Song for the Xeedho – The Knot Makers, interactive installation that centres on the wedding basket made by Somali nomadic women that has become endangered due to the climate crisis, Whitechapel Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX until 6 September. Info: Gallery + Related events include 13 August, Under the Open Sky, screening and Q&A; 15 Aug, Listening to the Xeedho Archive, 2-3pm; Climate, Censorship and East African Futures, 4 - 5pm; 20 Aug, A song for the Xeedho, 6.30 - 9pm

* 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

* 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

Wednesday 22 July

* Transit, genre-bending investigation of identity, belonging and migration told through vignettes utilising physical theatre, multilingual performance, poetry, dance, multimedia, practical lights and music, It navigates the feeling of being ‘too foreign for here, too foreign for home,’ £14.39, concessions £11.30, Cockpit, Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH until 26 July. Info; Cockpit

from Sunday 26 July

* Bury Me Before You Marry Me, in parts of Asia, there is a belief: that when a young man dies unmarried, his parents will find him a bride and hold a ghost wedding to accompany him in death. One day, a British man discovers that his Chinese girlfriend has been involved in a ghost marriage. Dark comedy in which the audience makes decisions about the fate of the characters, £35/£30/£25/£20/£15, The Cockpit until 1 August. Info: Cockpit

from Monday 27 July

* Bitesize Festival, over 50 shows and events and a three-day short-film festival. Shows include 27July- 2 Sept, PalesTEENian, growing up Palestinian in South London; 28 - 30 July, Crush, two Somali teens meet cute; 11 - 14 Aug, Beige, Swiss-Congolese theatre-maker Jessica Nlabu focuses on a woman caught between cultures, expectations and labels; 14 - 16 Aug, Stuck in Dubai; 17 - 23 Aug, Kingdom of Ghosts, solo performance that moves between rap and direct address to dial into Congo's unresolved past; Riverside studios, 101 Queen Caroline Street W6 9BN, until 30 August. Info: Festival

Film

* 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, Curzon Bloomsbury 20, 22 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, Curzon Bloomsbury until 23 July

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

Monday 20 July

* No Exit From El Fasher, documentary about the civilian survivors in Sudan of an 18-month siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces + panel with Eva Khair, Joey Shea, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Julia Steers, 7pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, 1QJ. Info: Frontline

Tuesday 21 July

* Bullet in the Head, John Woo’s Vietnam war melodrama, an underrated and emotionally devastating masterpiece + introduction by Katie Smith-Wong, 8.25pm, National Film Theatre

Tuesday 21 - Wednesday 22 July

* The Secret Reading Club of Kabul, in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, where women are barred from education, work and public life, a group of young women secretly form a reading club. They document their lives through handwritten diaries and covert phone footage, recording moments of fear, defiance and solidarity. Interwoven with their journey is director Shakiba Adil’s return, as she reconnects with a new generation confronting the same repression she once fled, Curzon Bloomsbury

from Friday 24 July

* Flavours of Iraq, French-born journalist Feurat Alani narrates an animated documentary about his complicated connection to Iraq, the country of his parents, and the impact of US intervention, Curzon Bloomsbury

Saturday 25 July

* AltB Arab Film Club Turns 6, programme of shorts, 8pm, £20, Bush Theatre, 7 Uxbridge Road, Shepherd’s Bush, W12 8LJ. Info: Film Club

* Bhaji On The Beach, Gurinder Chadha’s tale of British Asian women bonding on a coastal day-trip is an understated gem and a vital portrait of Thatcher’s Britain + introduction by Bhavini Goyate, 8.45pm, National Film Theatre

* John Woo Double Bill: Red Cliff Part 1/ Red Cliff Part 2, Historical epic, 5pm, National Film Theatre

* Letters From Baghdad, a unique look at the extraordinary story of Gertrude Bell, known as the female Lawrence of Arabia, and the tangled history of Iraq, 2pm, Curzon Bloomsbury

Monday 27 July

* How To Feed A Dictator, the story of five brutal regimes, from Iraq to North Korea, through the eyes of the personal chefs who served them + director Q&A, 6.20pm, Curzon Bloomsbury

Tuesday 28 July

* Lamo Auru - Old Forest, New Lines, a tree climbing expedition documentary where three British climbers with their indigenous Nakanai guides set out to make first ascents of giant Strangler Fig trees in Papua New Guinea’s remote and untouched Lamo Auru Caldera + Q&A, 6.20, Castle cinema

from Wednesday 29 July

* Ish, set and filmed in the South Asian and Middle Eastern community in Luton, the film follows 12-year-old best friends, Ish (Farhan Hasnat) and Maram (Yahya Kitana) who are navigating childhood against a backdrop of political tension and personal loss. After a police stop and search, where Maram is searched and Ish manages to run away, they wrestle to hold onto their friendship + Q&A with co-writer, director, producer and actors + 30 July, Ritzy Picturehouse, 31 July, Curzon Bloomsbury

from Friday 31 July

* The Phantom Pain of Rojava, in the autonomous Kurdish state of Rojava, northern Syria, a group of female fighters once dreamt of changing the world. In the shadow of a failed revolution. Once celebrated as global heroes in the war against Islamic State, they now find themselves abandoned by their allies, living secretly in a house for wounded soldiers, Curzon Bloomsbury, until 6 August

TV and radio

Monday 20 July

* Global Eye, foreign affairs magazine, 7pm, BBC2

* Becoming Frida Kahlo, documentary about the Mexican artist, 10pm, BBC4

Tuesday 21 July

* Oti and Richard’s South African Odyssey, first of four-part travelogue, 9pm, More4

* Sorry, I Didn’t Know, Black comedy quiz, 11.45pm, ITV1

Thursday 23 July

* Who Do You Think You Are?, actor Adeel Akhtar looks at his origins, with his mother from India, Kenya and UK, 9pm, BBC One

* The Big Payback, comedy drama by Lenny Henry in which a white actor discovers that an ancestor was a brutal slave owner in Jamaica, 2.15pm, Radio4

Friday 24 July

* Michael Palin in Venezuela, travelogue, 8pm, Channel5

* Polite Society, an 11-year-old British-Pakistani girl tries to save her older sister from a forthcoming marriage in 2023 British martial arts action comedy film written and directed by Nida Manzoor, midnight05, Channel4

* Central Intelligence, drama about the CIA’s involvement in the Vietnam War, 2.15pm, Radio4

Saturday 25 July

* Sorry, I Didn’t Know, Black comedy quiz, 11.45pm, ITV1

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