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Talks and discussions
* Larry Achiampong: If It Don’t Exist, Build It, the British-Ghanaian artist explores how digital narratives inform his approach to exploring cultural displacement, identity, and belonging, online until 2 July. Info: Fane
Tuesday 1 July
* Demystifying Palm Oil: What are the effects that it is having on our environment?, Charlie Osborne, who has been collaborating on environmental research with the Malaysian palm oil industry since 2022, 9.15-9.45pm, free, part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition and online, Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AG. Info: Royal Society
* Where is the ‘Human’ in Humanitarianism, day of discussions and workshops exploring more effective, human-centred approaches to disaster risk reduction and humanitarian response, 9am-5:30pm, Cinema, UCL East, 1 Pool Street, E20 2AF. Info: University College London
* US–Asia Relations – A New Era of Rivalry and Realignment?, Charles Hecker, 6pm, Frontline Club, Norfolk Place, W2. Info: Frontline
Thursday 3 July
* WritersMosaic: Frantz Fanon the Freedom Fighter, Ekow Eshun, Clementine E. Burnley, Khaldoon Ahmed and Donna Thompson, 7pm, British Library, 96 Euston Road NW1 2DB. Info: Discussion
* Attorney General Lord Hermert, on defending and protecting the rule of law from outside government and within, 6.15--7:30, £16.80, The Conduit, 6 Langley Street, WC2H 9JA. Info: Conduit
Friday 4 July
* Unlocking Nigeria’s digital economic potential: a dialogue on AfCFTA and UK trade and investment, Jumoke Oduwole, Ambassador Mohammed Maidugu, Hans Peter Lankes, Max Mendez-Parra, Nicola Watkinson, 11am-12.30pm. Info: Overseas Development Institute
Monday 7 July
* World Swahili Language Day, an international panel of poets, writers and researchers, 2-3.30pm, online. Info: SOAS
Tuesday 8 July
* 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]
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
* Hamad Butt: Apprehensions, three-part installation of work by artist, born in Pakistan, died in London aged 32, Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX until 1 July. Info: Gallery
* 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
* Sudan, Remember Us, documentary that captures the hope and excitement following dictator Omar al Bashir’s fall and the oppression of the subsequent military crackdown and subsequent civil war, 30 June, Rich Mix + director Q&A; Curzon Bloomsbury, until 3 July;
+ Remember the Sudanese protesters who thought their time had come
from Friday 4 July
* The Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend, focusing on ‘personal documentary’, showcasing the approaches of eight filmmakers, until 6 July, Rio Cinema. Films include 5 July, Kings & Extras: Digging for a Palestinian Image; 6 July, The Taste of Mango. Info: Non-Fiction Weekend
+ A painful love-letter through time
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
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
+ The grand tour: one playwright’s quest to set foot in every African country before turning 60
from Monday 7 July
* 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
TV and radio
Saturday 28 June
* Incredible Journeys With Simon Reeve, a Burmese rights campaigner is among those featured in the TV traveller’s catch-up with past encounters, 9.10pm, BBC2
* John Simpson’s dictators, a reporter’s look-back, 8pm, Radio4
Sunday 29 June
* Past Lives, two people’s lives intertwine again after years apart in this romantic, sad American-Korean film rooted in longing and identity, 10pm, BBC2
* Witness History, rescuing Palmyra’s treasures from IS, 8.48am, Radio4
Friday 4 July
* Sorry, I Didn’t Know, Black comedy quiz, 11.40pm, ITV1
Thanks to volunteer Daniel Nelson (editor of Eventslondon.org) for compiling this list.