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Monday 1 June
* Adrift in the South, Xiao Hai on his book about factory-hopping between the garment mills and electronics factories of China’s fast-growing southern cities, 7 – 8.30pm, £5/ £12.99 with book, Housmans Bookshop, Caledonian Road N1 9 DY. Info: Housmans
* President Gabrial Boric of Chile in conversation with Isabel Hilton, 7pm, £20, online from £5, British Library, 96 Euston Road, NW1. Info: Library
* Taiwan in China’s Shadow, Chen-Yu Lin, Ed Moon, Renn Lin, 7pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place W2 1QJ. Info: Frontline
* How has East Asia responded to the fallout from the war against Iran?, Owen Miller, Satona Suzuki, Steve Tsang, 5pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1.l
* The Accommodation of Democracy: A New Political Economy of Poverty Alleviation in Rural India, Thibaud Marcesse, 4-5.30pm, King’s College, Room: SE 1.05 Strand campus, 30 Aldwych, WC2B 4BG
Tuesday 2 June
* Lebanon: Notes from a permanent crisis, Iva Kovic-Chahine and Gilbert Achcar, 7pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place W2 1QJ. Info: Frontline
* Here Where We Live Is Our Country, Molly Crabapple and Jon Lee Anderson uncover a new history of the Jewish Bund and its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division, 6.15-7.30pm, £16.80, online £6.50, The Conduit, 6 Langley Street WC2H 9JA. Info: The Conduit
* Entrepreneurship, precariousness and education among youth in Brazil, Carla Corrochan, 1-2.30pm, online. Info: Institute of Development Studies
* AI for global health: From product development to policy, Kerry Millington, Meena Gandhi, Dino Rech, Ambrose Agweyu, Melissa Miles, Maelle-Marie Troadec, 1-2.30pm, online. Info: Institute of Development Studies
* What works for climate and health: lessons from cities, Andy Haines, Ana Fernanda Hierro, Lorna Benton, Aimée Aguilar Jaber, Vicente Ruiz, Mariana Mirabile, Lauren Sellers, María Cortés Puch, Elizabeth Bennett, 12.30-2pm, online. Info: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Wednesday 3 June
* Beyond the buzzword: Decolonising the field of violence against women and girls, Ana Maria Buller, Marjorie Pichon, Beatriz Kalichman, Michelle Lokot, Nambusi Kyegombe, 2 - 3pm, online. Info: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
* Pūtātara: Indigenous Stories and Resistance in the South Pacific, Jamie Tahana explores how stories have been used as a means of resistance over the past 50 years, and how these are now increasingly being utilised on an international level, 2 - 3pm, King;s College, KIN G39 - King's Building, WC2R 2LS. Info: King’s
Thursday 4 June
* Energy security or green transition? China after the Iran war, Anika Patel, Geoffrey Dolphin, Anders Hove, 6.30pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1
Friday 5 June
* At Sea, Y. T. Magied talks about her new novel, 6-9pm, £4.10-£6.32, Africa Centre, 66 Great Suffolk Street, SE1 0BL. Info: Africa Centre
Saturday 6-Sunday 7 June
* Jaipur Literature Festival, talks and panels with Tash Aw, Tishani Doshi, Somnath Batabyal, Fredrik Logevall, Gurnaik Johal, Pia Ghosh-Roy, Archana Sharma, Saad Mohseni, Lyse Doucet, Rashmee Roshan Lall, Nikita Gill, Mallika Kapur, Vivek Singh, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Marcus du Sautoy, Sanjoy K. Roy, Ruchir Joshi, Richard Horton, Deborah Lutz, Samantha Ellis, Bee Rowlatt, Noa Avishag Schnall, Alexander McCall Smith, Nandini Das, William Dalrymple, Jeet Thayil. Passes: single day £30, weekend bundle £54, concessions available; online streaming from £10, British Library, 96 Euston Road NW1 2DB. Info: Festival
Sunday 7 June
* The Empire Podcast: How Empires Fall, William Dalrymple and Anita Anand with Bee Rowlatt, 7-8.15, £35, Vision Hall, Town Hall, Bidborough Street, WC1H 9AU. Info: British Library
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
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
* Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, the shortlist includes Amak Mahmoodian (Iran) on the effects of exile on memory and identity, imagining a world without borders, £10/£7, Photographer’s Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street W1 until 7 June. Info: Prize
* 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
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
+ When the P word meets the G word
* Tomorrow Will Be A Palestinian Day, new short plays by Hossam Madhoun, Ali Abu Yassin, Nahil Mohana, Dareen Tatour, Jehad Abu Daya, Mohammed Al Qudwa, Motasem Abu Hasan and Imad Wahba, performed by a Palestinian cast + extract from English-language play by Walid Daqqa, £20-£24, Theatre 503, 503 Battersea Park Road, SW11 3BW until 6 June. Info: Theatre 503
+ Pre-show events, 6pm, free:
2 June, Literature of Resistance, speakers from Palestine, Congo, Lebanon and Sudan on cultural resistance
3 June, DIY Collective Crafting, Palestinian Tatreez facilitated by Gamze Sanli.
4 June, Palestinian Food and Music, Fatihma Lahham and Mario Christofi, Basima’s Kitchen
from Tuesday 2 June
* 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
from Wednesday 3 June
* 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
Film
* Eagles of the Republic,Tarik Saleh’s comic political thriller famous Egyptian actor forced to star in a propaganda film and is drawn into a dangerous, shadowy world, Barbican, Crouch End Picturehouse, Vues Fulham Broadway and Westfield Stratford City; until 4 June: Cine Lumiere
* Hen, a chicken escapes from an industrial farm but finds that a new home on a small family-owned restaurant is tied to a people trafficking ring; it’s a bleak drama seen through the eyes of a hen, Picturehouse Central, Castle; ICA until 4 June
* Queer East Festival, East and Southeast Asia’s queer landscape. Films include The Outsiders, Yu Kan-Ping’s ground-breaking Taiwanese drama; 3670, portraying the hidden codes of Seoul’s gay scene; A Useful Ghost, a wildly camp feature from Thailand skewering the establishment and cultural hypocrisy; Between Goodbyes, poignant documentary about queer adoption and the legacy of Korea’s overseas adoption programme; A Good Child,funny, moving drag comedy from Singapore; Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia; various London venues until 6 June. Info: Queer East
+ Queer East Festival returns for its seventh edition
+ A love story about animated vacuum cleaners
* All That’s Left of You, an epic drama spanning seven decades, tracing the hopes and heartaches of an uprooted Palestinian family, revealing the scars of displacement and the unbreakable spirit of survival, Lexi
* Coup 53, the story of the Anglo-American coup that overthrew Iran's Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and reinstalled the Shah, Curzon Bloomsbury
* Arab Film Nights, 2 June, Waiting for Happiness; 4 June, Ifriqiya Shorts + Q&As with Ibbi El Hani, actress/writer Nadia Nadif, Khalil Hefaf and Sofia Asir; 7pm, £6, Cockpit Theatre, Gateforth Street NW8 8EH. Info: Cockpit
* 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
from Monday 1 June
* SXSW, short film festival, includes 2, 3 June, Gaza’s Twins, Come Back To Me; 3 June, Hijra; Bayaan; 4-6 June, Irkalla - Gilgamesh’s Dream; 5 June, Roya; Distant Voices; 6 June, It Would Be Night in Caracas, Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA, until 6 June. Info: Festival
Tuesday 2 June
* Ritwik Ghatak Season Introduction: A River Called Ritwik, an introduction to the Indian filmmaker’s work, 6.15pm, £6.50pm, National Film Theatre: joint ticket available with The Pathetic Fallacy + The Life of Adivasis, 8.30pm, £17, concessions £14
* Barren Lives (Vidas Secas), Cinema Novo classic of drought, migration and human resilience, 8.45pm, National Film Theatre
Tuesday 2-Wednesday 3 June
* Gaza’s Twins: Come Back To Me, Mohammed Sawwaf’s documentary chronicles a mother’s plight to be reunited with her children amidst the destruction of war, while also exposing the cruelty of withholding basic healthcare for families at times of horrific violence, £12, Rich Mix
Wednesday 3 June
* Khartoum, five Sudanese citizens act out the lives they were forced to flee in this moving documentary + Q&A, 6.40pm, Genesis
+ Sudan’s war re-enacted in exile
* Incomplete Works, three incomplete films and a short documentary by Indian director Ritwik Ghatak + intro by season curator Sanghita Sen, 5.50pm, National Film Theatre
* Reason, Debate and a Story, autobiographical last film by Ritwik Ghatak – and a critically intricate commentary on contemporary Bengal + intro by Sanghita Sen, 8.25pm, National Film Theatre
* My Foreign Land (Minha Terra Estrangeira), collective cinema rethinking land, identity and belonging from Indigenous perspectives, 8.45pm, National Film Theatre
Thursday 4 June
* The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão (A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão), a ravishing melodrama of sisterhood and resilience, set in 1950s Rio, 8.20pm, National Film Theatre
from Friday 5 June
* Loving Karma, In the remote foothills of the Himalayas, former monk Lobsang Phuntsok has built a community for children who have endured abandonment and neglect, Curzon Bloomsbury until 7 June, then 11 June
* Planet Israel, documentary that sets out to examine why 73 per cent of Israelis were polled as supporting the war in Gaza, and ends up exploring the road towards authoritarianism that Israel has taken, and that looms over other Western democracies.
Saturday 6 June
* Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos), Sonia Braga dazzles in this sensual and hugely popular classic, noon, National Film Theatre
* White House, vibrant new perspective on favela life, rooted in community, loss and lived experience + Q&A with director Luciano Vidigal, 5.50pm, National Film Theatre
* Saint Bernard (São Bernardo), a stark Brazilian masterpiece of ambition, patriarchy and psychological control, 8.40pm, National Film Theatre
* The Traveller (Musafir), three families, one house echoing memories of love, loss and belonging, 8.10pm, National Film Theatre
Sunday 7 June
* Pilar’s Diary in the Amazon (O Diário de Pilar na Amazônia), on visiting the Amazon, young Pilar decides to take some environmental action, in this powerful family drama, 12:20pm, National Film Theatre
* Newsreel Retrospective (1968–1972): Anti-Imperialism in Action, second of two programmes expands the focus globally, turning to the global struggle for liberation and decolonisation, Curzon Bloomsbury
* Shorts and Documentaries, a selection of work directed and supervised by Indian director Ritwik Ghatak, 12:30pm, National Film Theatre
* Lúcio Flávio, o Passageiro da Agonia, Brazilian thriller about a real-life criminal, 2.50pm, National Film Theatre
* The Day I Met You (O Dia Em Que Te Conheci), a chance encounter transforms routine and longing in this quietly luminous Brazilian romance, 6.30pm, National Film Theatre
Monday 8 June
* Pixote ( Pixote, a Lei do Mais Fraco), visceral portrayal of abandoned childhood and institutional violence in Brazil is considered a masterpiece of social realism, 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
* Pilar’s Diary in the Amazon (O Diário de Pilar na Amazônia), young Pilar decides to take some environmental action, in this powerful family drama, 12:20pm, National Film Theatre
* Newsreel Retrospective (1968–1972): Anti-Imperialism in Action, second of two programmes expands the focus globally, turning to the global struggle for liberation and decolonisation, Curzon Bloomsbury
TV and radio
Saturday 30 May
* Ghost Trail, French thriller about identifying a former Syrian torturer in Strasbourg - but is he really the culprit?, 9.05pm, BBC4
Sunday 31 May
* Unlocked, how so many West Africans are involved in running British prisons, 1.30pm, Radio4
Monday 1 June
* Great Lives, Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali, 3pm, Radio4
* Unlocked, how so many West Africans are involved in running British prisons, 4pm, Radio4
Wednesday 3 June
* To Catch A King, the hunt for a people-smuggler, 9.30am, Radio4
Thursday 4 June
* The London Recruits, drama about the African National Congress’ search for volunteers in London for an anti-apartheid mission to South Africa, 2.15pm, Radio4
Thanks to volunteer Daniel Nelson (editor of Eventslondon.org) for compiling this list.