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Events in London

Migrant Voice

Talks and discussions

Tuesday 1 September

* What now? Solidarity with Palestine in a might-makes-right era, Omar Barghouti and Aimee Shalan, 7-9pm, £3-£8, Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA. Info: Rich Mix

Wednesday 2 September

* Days of Love and Rage, Anand Gopal on his new book about a small group of people in Syria who began one of the most remarkable experiments in democracy in modern times, 7 - 8.30pm, £10, Foyle’s, Charing Cross Road. Info: Foyle’s

* New perspectives on histories of educational resistance in South Africa, seminar with Linda Chisholm, Elaine Unterhalter, June Bam and Shireen Motala on the history of the South African National Education Co-ordinating Committee in 1985-1995, 3 - 5pm, in-person and online, UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL. Info: IoE

Thursday 3 September

* Samudaripen - Roma Genocide Remembrance Day, Robert Marin, Lord Alton, , 2pm, free, Consulate General of Romania in London, 1st Floor, Glen House, 22 Glenthorne Road, W6 0PP. Info: Roma Voice Centre

* From Palestine to Scotland: Celebrating the Raja Shehadeh Archive, the Palestinian writer, lawyer and activist marks the accession of his personal archive to the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Research Collections, 3pm, online. Info: University of Edinburgh

Monday 7 September

* Trump, Putin and A New Age of Conquest, Luke Harding and Alastair Campbell,

7:30 - 9pm, from £19.99, King's Place, 90 York Way, N1 9AG. Info: ]ntelligence Squared

* Jason Arday: What Happened? The Journalism of Cruelty: Trial by Media, discussion with Hardeep Matharu, Nafeez Ahmed and others, 7.30pm, £10, conc £8, The Cockpit, Gateforth Street NW8 8EH. Info: Byline Times

Tuesday 8 September

* Thomas Harding, author of Legacy, on his book about the family behind J Lyons, “the business that transformed British life through its catering empire and innovation”, 6.30 - 8pm, Jewish Museum, Top Floor, JW3, 341 - 351 Finchley Road, NW3 6ET. Info: Museum

* Book talk: Days of Love and Rage, Anand Gopal on his book that reconstructs the Syrian revolution through the lives of ordinary people navigating repression and upheaval, 7 - 8:30pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place W2 1QJ. Info: Frontline

* The making of the modern Middle East, Simon Sebag Montefiore, 7.30-8.45pm, from £34, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR. Info: RGS

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

* Project A Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, 300 works including posters, paintings, journals, sculpture and film from Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, North America and Western Europe from the 1920s to the present. Artists include Jude Kader Attia, Mariene Dumas, Inji Effiatoun, Sonia Gomes, David Hammons, Nicholas Hlobo, Claudette Johnson, Wilfredo Lam, Simone Leigh Ernest Mancota, Kawira Mwinchia, Abdias Nascimento. Grace Ndirutu, Magdalene Odundo, Chris Ofili, Colette Omogbai, The Otolith Group, Ingrid Pollard, Samir Rafi, Cauleen Smith, Tavares Strachan, £19, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2 Y 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: 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.

* 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, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX until 6 September. Info: Gallery

* 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

* 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.

* Target Queen, large-scale commission by British-Indian artist Bharti Kher, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre

* 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

* 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

Performance

* 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

* Housemates 2026, six plays including 8 - 12 September, Pressure, a journey through rebellion, revolution, and Caribbean resistance; 15 - 19 September, Runner Girl; two shows for £30, three for £42 or four shows for £50; Brixton House, 385 Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8G until 19 September. Info: Brixton House

Friday 4 - Saturday 5 September

* 63 Days of Sit In, documentary theatre performance based on the true story of a sit-in by Palestinian disability rights activists inside the Palestinian Legislative Council during the Covid-19 pandemic, 7pm, £17/ £15, Theattro Technis, 28 Crowndale Road, NW! 1TT. Info: Technis

Saturday 5 September

* 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

Monday 7 September

* Meera Syal: Vigilauntie!, stories that have shaped her life and work as one of Britain’s most beloved comedy legends, £34, 7.30 - 8.45pm, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR. Info: RGS

Film

* How To Feed A Dictator, five brutal regimes, from Iraq to North Korea, through the eyes of the personal chefs who served them Curzon Bloomsbury until 3 September

* Songs of Forgotten Trees,‍ an aspiring actress and a call centre employee are thrown together in Mumbai in an engrossing tale of selfhood and survival, ‍ICA, until 3 September

* Ish, set and filmed in the South Asian and Middle Eastern community in Luton, the film follows 12-year-old best friends, Ish and Maram as they navigate childhood against a backdrop of political tension and personal loss, ICA, the Mall until 3 September

+ The tug of home, the lure of the street

* Bouchra,wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, a queer Moroccan jackal living in New York starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project. Her emotional reckoning with her mother and herself becomes her path to expression in this weird film, ICA until 3 September, Cine Lumiere, until 4 September

+ A hen, a ghost in a vacuum cleaner and talking canids

* Disciples, on the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi, two boys enter a revered Hindu school where lessons in ancient scripture blur into something more troubling, Curzon Bloomsbury until 3 September

Tuesday 1 September

* Gaza’s Twins, Come Back to Me, when Rania's newborn babies are evacuated from a hospital in northern Gaza to safety in the south, her family is suddenly torn apart, Curzon Bloomsbury

* Coup 53, documentary about the 1953 US-backed coup in Iran, 6pm, Lexi

Wednesday 2 September

* Sambizanga, reveals the human cost of colonial oppression during Angola’s struggle for independence + intro by Annouchka de Andrade and Henda Ducados, 8.40pm, National Film Theatre, part of A Poet with a Camera: The Cinema of Sarah Maldoror

* Planet Israel, documentary into why after the shock of the 7 October Hamas attacks in Israel, most of this sympathy disappeared as the world recoiled in horror at the brutality of the Israeli response, supported by 73 per cent of Israeli Jews + Q&A with director Gillian Moseley, 6.30pm, Castle

+ Israel is off the rails, says brain-fry documentary

* The Mole Agent, when a family becomes concerned about their mother’s well-being in a retirement home, an 83-year-old private investigator becomes a new resident, struggling to balance his assignment with increasing involvement in the lives of several residents, 5.30pm, £10, Lexi

Saturday 5 September

* Sudanese Cinema: Artist in Exile - Hussein Shariffe, three films by one of Sudan’s most distinctive modernist artists and filmmakers, 6pm, Curzon Bloomsbury

* Poetry Is Political, the power of culture through her portraits of Haitian poet René Depestre, Colombian artist Ana Mercedes Hoyos and Martinican French author Aimé Césaire, 3.10pm, National Film Theatre

* The Battle of Algiers, riveting film that presents a true-yo-life portrait of the fight for Algerian independence and the French military’s response, 5.50pm, National Film Theatre

Tuesday 8 September

* Fiesta, captures the carnival traditions of Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau and explores the building of post-independence societies in those countries, 6.20pm, National Film Theatre.

* 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, 8.40pm, National Film Theatre

TV and radio

Saturday 29 August

* Kabul, last part of the drama about the lives of an Afghan family at the time of the US withdrawal in 2021, 9pm, 9.55pm, BBC4

* 9/11: The Unseen Footage, recently discovered newsreel footage, 9pm, Channel4

* You’re Dead to Me, the light-touch history series looks at two medieval Korean dynasties, 10am, Radio4

* Archive on 4, Nelufar Hedayat re-examines the West’s 2021 retreat from Afghanistan, 8pm, Radio4

Sunday 30 August

* The Dictator’s Survival Guide, the disappearance of China’s General Zhang Youxia, 1.30pm, Radio4

Monday 31 August

* Surviving 9/11, personal accounts, 9pm, BBC2

* How Did We Get Here: No World Order, series about contemporary events, 9.30am, 9.30pm, Radio4