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Tuesday 26 May
* The Scramble for Critical Minerals, Cleodie Rockard, 6.30pm, New Cross Community Library, 283-285 New Cross Road SE14 6AS. Info: Global Justice Now
* Stories of Power and Survival: An evening with Yassmin Abdel-Magied, the Sudan author discusses her novel, At Sea, drawing on her time as an offshore oil rig engineer. She traces one woman’s struggle to survive an impending natural catastrophe while negotiating the oil industry’s dynamics of power, gender and ambition, £15-£32, The Kiln, 269 Kilburn High Road NW6 7JR. Info: Kiln
* Writing Brazil, Writing the World, Milton Hatoum in conversation with Maya Jaggi, 7-8.30pm, £12, British Library, 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB. Info: Library
* Karen Hao: Empire: Hao unpacks the forces behind AI’s rapid ascent – and why the stakes are so high, 6-10pm, £27.80, Second Home Spitalfields, 68-80 Hanbury Street, E1 5JL. Info: Bureau of Investigative Journalism
* Hope in the Shadow of Unnatural Extinctions, Sadia Qureshi, 6:30 - 7:30pm, Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AG. Info: Royal Society* Braver New World, John Kampfner compares 10 countries confronting shared challenges with bravery and imagination, 6pm, online. Info: Royal Society of Arts
Wednesday 27 May
* The Future is Peace, Aziz Abu Sarah, whose brother was killed by Israeli forces, and Maoz Inon, whose parents died in the October 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel, discuss the prospects for peace, 6.15 – 7.30pm, £16.80/ livestream £6.50pm, The Conduit, 6 Langley Street WC2H 9JA. Info: The Conduit
* Chasing Freedom: Simukai Chigudu in Conversation with Gary Younge, on his book, a story of the inheritance of violence, of struggle, and of African liberation, 7-8.30pm, £10, Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road. Info: Foyles
* Space Geopolitics, Tira Shubart, Christoph Beischl, Ali Stickings, 7pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place W2. Info: Frontline
* Going Global: Chinese Independent Documentary, Luke Robinson, 6pm, Gresham College, Barnard's Inn Hall, EC1N 2HH. Info: Gresham
Thursday 28 May
* This is also a love story: Searching for good in a divided world, Salley Hayden discusses her new book, which explores crisis through love stories gathered across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 7-8.30pm, from £5.95, Frontline Club, Norfolk Place W2 1Q&. Info: Frontline.
* Whose rules-based order? Lessons from the health justice movement for a broken multilateralism, Winnie Byanyima, 6-7.30pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: SOAS
* Exploring Rangeland Myths: Biodiversity, Pablo Manzano, Munib Khanyari, John Harold, 11-midday, online. Info: Institute of Development Studies
Thursday 28-Friday 29 May
* Algeria: historical struggles and imagined utopias, 9.30am-5pm, London School of Economics, 44 Lincoln’s Inn FIelds, WC2A 2LY. Info: British Academy
Sunday 31 May
* Counterpoints x Footnote Prize Readings, the finalists for the £15,000 fiction prize for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds, 7.45pm, from £5, Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road SE1. Info: Counterpoint Arts
Monday 1 June
* 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 nStrand 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
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
* Hawaiʻi: a kingdom crossing oceans, a celebration of art and history, £14/ £16, British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG until 25 May. Info: Hawai’i
* A Greenland shadow over a wonderful Hawai’i 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
* 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
* Water Pantanal Fire, photography exhibition revealing the fragile beauty of the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland that sprawls across Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, free, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 2DD until 31 May. Info: Museum
* 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 Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return, 53 artists from Palestine and the diaspora in London, P21, 21-27 Chalton Street, NW1 1JD, until 29 May. Info: P21
* 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
* Learning in Exile: Stories of Displacement and Education in the Rohingya Community, centred on the experiences of Rohingya children and youth since 1982, Wiener Holocaust Library, 29 Russell Square, WC1B 5DP until 30 May. Info: Holocaust Library
* 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
* Second Class Queer, solo show written, performed and produced by Kumar Muniandy, a gay Tamil-Malaysian, in which five different dates brings him closer to confronting love, identity, loss, and the truth he never shared with his late mother, £16, conc £12, Riverside, 101 Queen Caroline Street, W6 9BN , until 30 May. Info: Riverside
* 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
from Thursday 28 May
* 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
Saturday 30 May
* An Evening with Siana Bangura and Friends: Celebrating 10 Years of ‘Elephant’, with Shareefa Energy, Tolu Agbelusi, Abu Yillah, Marcus Joseph, 7pm, £15-£20, Playground Theatre, Latimer Road W10 6RFQ. Info: Playground
from Monday 1 June
* 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
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
Film
* Do You Love Me, personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory, composed entirely of archival footage, spanning 70 years of film, TV, home videos and photography, Cine Lumiere, 17 Queensberry Place SW7 2DT until 30 May
* Eagles of the Republic,Tarik Saleh’s comic political thriller where a famous Egyptian actor is 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 28 May, ICA; 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 bleak drama seen through the eyes of a hen, Picturehouse Central; ICA until 28 May
* 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
* The Stranger, Albert Camus’s classic of existential literature is brought to life in 1930s Algeria, where the life of an indifferent Frenchman is shaken by the death of his mother and an encounter on a beach, Cine Lumiere until 26 May
Tuesday 26 - Wednesday 27 May
* 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
Tuesday 26, Thursday 28 May
* Coup 53, the story of the Anglo-American coup that overthrew Iran's Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and reinstalled the Shah, Curzon Bloomsbury
Tuesday 26 May
* Runa Simi, Fernando, a single-parent, is a voice actor from Cusco who became a viral sensation for dubbing animated clips into Quechua, the most spoken indigenous dialect in South America. The film highlights the significance of transforming a language of the oppressed into a language of power, 6.20pm, £12.50/£10, Curzon Bloomsbury
* The Spring Outside the Fence, evocative period drama from Taiwan that traces the relationship between free-spirited Li Lin and introverted Ai Hua, 8.30pm, National Film Theatre
* Cinema Novo, an archival immersion into the ideas, images and urgency of Cinema Novo, 8.45pm, National Film Theatre
from Tuesday 26 May
* Arab Film Nights, 26 May, Aksil; 28 May, Ave Maria; 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
Wednesday 27 May
* Lower City (Cidade Baixa), desire and rivalry ignite in this raw, sensual Salvador drama + intro by season co-curator Renata de Almeida, 8.55pm, National Film Theatre
* The Amazon Film Festival, three films - Matinta, Amazônia Sem Garimpo and Amazônia, 6pm, £14, Genesis
Thursday 28 May
* Between Goodbyes, poignant documentary about a queer Korean adoptee questions our understanding of what a family is + Q&A, 6.10pm, National Film Theatre
* City of God, explosive favela chronicle that transformed Brazilian cinema worldwide, 6pm, National Film Theatre
Friday 29 May
* Black God, White Devil, a restored landmark where faith, banditry and revolt collide, 8.35pm, BFI Southbank
* The Herto (Nayak), a movie star, on a train to collect an honour, confronts the private costs of fame in Satyajit Ray’s quietly devastating portrait of celebrity and conscience, 8.40pm, BFI Southbank
from Friday 29 May
* 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
Saturday 30 May
* Black God, White Devil, a restored landmark where faith, banditry and revolt collide, 8.30pm, BFI Southbank
* We Are Also Brothers, two brothers, two paths in a pioneering Brazilian drama of race and social mobility, 3.20pm, £12.70-£14.50, BFI Southbank
Sunday 31 May
* Dolores, a stunning central performance dominates this character study of a Brazilian woman who suspects her life is about to undergo seismic change, 3.20pm, National Film Theatre
* Manas, an Amazonian teenager challenges the violent structures shaping the lives of women around her, 6.30pm, National Film Theatre
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
TV and radio
Monday 25 May
* India: Nature’s Wonderland, wildlife, 8pm, BBC4
Wednesday 27 May
* East is East, in what became one of Britain’s favourite comedies, a Pakistani father in early 1970s UK finds his authority challenged by his Anglicised children, 9pm, Film4
* To Catch A King, series about tracking down a people-smuggler, 9.30am, Radio4
Friday 29 May
* Rare Earth, on whether war is speeding up the move away from fossil fuels, 12.04pm, Radio4
Thanks to volunteer Daniel Nelson (editor of Eventslondon.org) for compiling this list.