From the Editor

* The Migration Museum’s Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS exhibition has won Temporary or Touring Exhibition of the Year at the 2024 Museums + Heritage Awards.

* Following the UK Asian Film Festival, the London Indian Film Festival begins: 26 June.

* After 13 years as a temporary warehouse theatre, The Yard is to build “a bigger and better state-of-the-art theatre in Hackney Wick”. Impressive achievement for what was originally seen as a three-month pop-up.

Daniel Nelson london.globalevents@gmail.com X: @EventsNelson

TALKS AND MEETINGS

Saturday 18 May

* Fossil Fuel Treaty Nationwide Lobbying Day, meet your local MP or councillors to tell them why they should support the Fossil Fuel Treaty. Info: Global Justice Now

* Nakba National Demo, from BBC Portland Place to Whitehall, “to mark the 76th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing & colonisation that saw 750,000 Palestinians driven into exile”, noon-4pm Info: Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Monday 20 May

* HongKong pays the price of dissent - was it worth it?, Stephen Vines, 5.30-7pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: SOAS

* Charting a path to prosperity: Sri Lanka’s journey from debt to growth, Ganesh Wignaraja, Indrajit Coomaraswamy, Sharmini Cooray, Phyllis Papadavid, Shanta Devarajan, 12.30-2pm, Overseas Development Insitute, 203 Blackfriars Road, SE1 8NJ, in-person and online. Info: ODI

* Kabul. Final Call, discussion on new book on the last days of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan with Laurie Bristow, Zahra Joya, 7pm, £15/ £10/ £5, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2 1QJ. Info: Frontline

Tuesday 21 May

* The anti-corruption capital of the world?, conference on combating transnational kleptocracy, David Lammy MP, Carys Roberts, Parth Patel, 12.30-8.30pm, One Birdcage Walk, SW1H 9JJ. Info: Olivia Vaughan.

* ODI in conversation with Mark Malloch-Brown, outgoing Open Society Foundation president  on the role of philanthropy for global good, 6.30pm, Overseas Development Institute. Info: ODI.  

* Bring in the Bondholders: inside the Argentinian debt crisis, Frederique Dahan, Gregory Makoff, Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal, Théo Maret, 12-1.15pm, Overseas Development Institute, 203 Blackfriars Road, SE1 8NJ and online. Info: ODI

* Dealing With China, Ian Duncan-Smith, 11-midday, online. Info:  Bright Blue

Wednesday 22 May

* Assemblages of Sanctuary: Art Displacement and Mental Health, Thahmina Begum, Dana Olărescu, Amanda Camenisch, Therese Westin and Frieda N. Coleman discuss the positive role of art in the well-being and mental health of sanctuary seekers, 1-2.30pm, online. Info: Counterpoints

Thursday 23 May

* TheYazidi Genocide today - “it’s been nine years, and we are still there, in the tent”, Rebecca Jinks, Christine Schmidt, Hewan Omer and Khalida Ilyas on the challenges facing Yezidi genocide survivors and internally displaced people in the camps of northern Iraq, how Yezidi society is changing, how survivors feel about returning to their homes and how humanitarian organisations are trying to help, 6.30-8pm, free, Wiener Holocaust Library, WC1B 5DP. Info: Library

* Podcast launch: Uganda’s Anti-LGBTQ Law, 6-7.30pm, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2.  Info: emmanuelle@radioworkshop.org

EXHIBITIONS

* Ranjit Singh: Sikh, Warrior, King, the life and legacy of the maharaja, 1780-1839, Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, W1 until 20 October. Info: www.wallacecollection.org

+ Ranjit Singh: Sikh, Warrior, King: glittering remnants of empire

* The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure, explore the Black figure in Western art history with contemporary African diaspora artists, curated by Ekow Eshun, £16-£18, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, WC2H 0HE, until 19 May. Info: Portrait Gallery.

+ African diaspora art: from ‘looking at’ to ‘seeing from’

* Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, using textiles, fibre and thread, 50 artists from about 30 countries challenge power structures and reimagine the world, £16, Thursdays 5-8pm, pay what you can, Barbican, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS, until 26 May. Info: Barbican

+ Goodbye gentle craft, hello subversive stitch

* Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2024, shortlisted artists include India-born Gauri Gill & Rajesh Vangad, Lebohang Kganye, born in South Africa, and Syria-born Hrair Sarkissdian, Photographer’s Gallery, Ramillies Street, W1 until 2 June. Info: Gallery

* Antelope, Malawian, Oxford-based artist Samson Kambalu’s sculpture on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. Info: Malawian Pan-Africanist the world forgot

* Soulscapes, landscape by artists from the African Diaspora, £17.50, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, SE21 7AD, until 2 June. Info: Soulscapes

* 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

* Between Two Worlds: Vanley Burke and Francis Williams, two portraits of Jamaican scholars from different centuries, shedding light on a 1745 painting and reflecting on identity and colonial legacies, free, V&A Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7. Info: Exhibition

* 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 Rod, SW7. Info: V&A tours

* Chá, Chai, Tea, explores stories of the beverage over millennia and connecting communities across the world, free, Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, SE23, until 7 July. Info: Exhibition

* Art Now: Zeinab Saleh, work by Kenyan-born, London-based artist, free, Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1P 4RG, until 23 June. Info: Tate

* Wilfred Ukpong: Niger-Delta / Future-Cosmos, meditations on the Niger Delta environmental crisis, free, Autograph, Rivington Place, EC2A 3BA until 1 June. Info: Autograph

* Monica Alcazar-Duerte: Digital Clouds Don’t Carry Rain, indigenous knowledge, colonial legacy and ecological urgency, free, Autograph, Rivington Place, EC2A 3BA until 1 June. Info: Autograph

* Genocidal Captivity: Retelling the Stories of Armenian and Yezidi Women, records of Armenian survivors from the 1920s and interviews with Yezidi survivors in Iraq, Wiener Holocaust Library, 29 Russell Square, WC1B 5DP, until 31 May. Info: Wiener Library

* Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence, an architectural style with British colonial beginnings in the 1940s that evolved into a symbol of a postcolonial future in West Africa and India, £14, Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7. Info: V&A

+ How sunlight, humidity and independence made a new ism * Post-colonial party pads 

* Heart of the Nation: Migration and the NHS, exhibition, until 27 July. Nowhere to Go but Anywhere, Tribambuka’s solo exhibition on the many meanings of “home”, until 25 May, Migration Museum, Lewisham Shopping Centre, Molesworth Street, SE13. Info: Migration Museum

* Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest, artists include: Laia Abril, Hoda Afshar, Poulomi Basu, Guerrilla Girls, Sofia Karim, Mari Katayama, Sethembile Msezane, Zanele Muholi, Tabita Rezaire, Sheida Soleimani, Tourmaline, free, South London Gallery, 65-67 Peckham Road, SE5 8UH and Gallery Fire Station, 82 Peckham Road, until 9 June. Info: Gallery

* Performing Colonial Toxicity, maps, photographs, film, stills, documents and archival testimonies documenting France’s secret nuclear programme in Algeria in 1954-62, free, Mosaic Rooms, Tower House, 226 Cromwell Road, SW5 0SW, until 16 June. Info: wwwmosaicrooms.org

* Their mouths were full of bumblebees but it was me who was pollinated, Moroccan artist Soufiane Ababri explores questions of desire, queerness, and diaspora and challenges the dominance of Western narratives in queer history, free, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS until 30 June. Info: Barbican

* Ibrahim Mahama: Purple Hibiscus, 2, 000 square metres of pink and purple fabric woven and hand sewn by hundreds of craftspeople from Tamale in Ghana and embroidered with 100 ‘batakaris’ – robes worn by Ghanaian kings, free, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS, until 18 August. Info: Barbican

* Suspended States, Yinka Shonibare riffs on colonialism’s ecological impact, imperialism's legacy on conflict and peace attempts, Serpentine Galleries, Kensington Gardens, W2 3XA , until 1 September. Info: Serpentine

* Paper Cuts: Art, Bureaucracy & Silenced Histories in Colonial India, works on paper by British colonialists in 19th-century India + contemporary works by Ravista Mehra and Divya Sharma, weekdays 10am-8pm, free, Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD, until 12 July. Info: Gallery

* Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music, “celebration of the trailblazers and innovators that brought new music to the UK, and the layered Black experiences that have birthed a thriving musical culture and history”, British Library, Euston Road, NW1 2DB until 26 August. Info: 500 years of Black British music

+ Beyond the Bassline: events

* Raise the Roof: Building for Change exhibition, explores narratives and attitudes in the Royal Institute of British Architects’ hq, looking at gender, race and imperialism through new works, RIBA, 66 Portland Place, until 21 September. Info: RIBA

+ ‘One of the most racist things I’ve ever seen’

* Ties that Bind: Reflections on Black life, surviving hostile environments, and Mental Health Gallery, mixed-media exhibition based on an exploration of the mental health consequences of the Windrush scandal on the Black community, Black Cultural Archives, 1 Windrush Square, SW2, until 9 June. Info: BCA

ARTS OPPORTUNITIES

* Palestinian filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky will lead a free two-day project development workshop in June for six early-career Arab filmmakers (or filmmakers working on projects connected to or inspired by the Arab world). Applications must be in by 22 May.

* The Royal Court has launched a national open call to find a sixth member of its team of Associate Playwrights “to help develop the theatre’s mission, artistic programme, support of fellow writers and see the writers’ theatre placed in the hands of playwrights.” Submissions must be in by 27 May.

* New role: managing delivery of Autograph’s exhibition, loans and touring activity. Apply by 3 June.

* The Migration Museum is looking for artists, sculptors, photographers and people working in mixed media, installation and digital art - especially artists with experience of migration - to take part in a forthcoming exhibition  Inside/ Outside and All In Between. Application deadline: 31 May.

* £10,000 is on offer to help transform your short script into a film. There are conditions and a fee, but the fee can be halved if you apply with code RICHMIXHALFPRICE.

* Wanted: dancers of Latinx backgrounds to participate in workshops and perform at Hoxton Hall, east London to tell the story of Latin America's Indigenous communities. Workshops on 11 May and 8 June, weekly evening workshops from September, Hoxton Hall performances 27 November to 1 December.

* Film Africa, 25 October - 3 November, will present film in London venues You can enter your film now.

* London Film Festival is accepting submissions for UK shorts and features for LFF 2024 in October. Contact lffsubmissions@bfi.org.uk 

* Papatango has launched a digital playwriting course, with tips and insights from top artists.

* Cassava Republic Press has launched a $20,000 Global Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize for exceptional works by Black women (cis, trans and gender queer). Two runners-up will each receive a $5,000 advance. All three will be published. Applications close at one minute to midnight on 30 June.

* Artists and companies “with bold stories to tell” are invited to contact Theatro Technis, which is accepting applications for the Camden Fringe Festival. Email programme@theatrotechnis.com with details of your proposed show, technical requirements and information about you or your company.

* Riverside Studios is offering a regular drop-in playwriting group:  “Whether you’re working on a script and want creative inspiration, you're intrigued by the idea of writing a play, or simply want a creative outlet, these monthly meetups are informal, fun and open to everyone.”

* Are you a writer, director, producer or theatre-maker with a piece of new writing that you’d like to put in front of an audience? This is the place.

* London is to get a memorial to slave trade victims in Docklands. “It is vital that our public spaces reflect the heritage of our great city - in all its diversity and complexity,” said Mayor Sadiq Khan. Public consultation will be followed by a competition for the artist. Unveiling is scheduled for 2026. 

* Sounds Like Home invites women of all backgrounds to celebrate heritage through songs from their native lands, culminating in a choir performance in March. Meet Wednesdays 10.30am -12.30pm. Refreshments and travel costs are provided for those needing assistance. More information here

* Citizens of the World, a choir that grew out of the Calais “Jungle” and has 50 members from 30 countries, welcomes newcomers. It rehearses on Wednesday evenings. Details on the website

* Artists Karen Jelenje and Esther Phillips will lead a hands-on workshop on 25 May, sharing how they incorporate questions of identity, culture and heritage into creative practice. A collaborative artwork will be made, pieces of which will be posted to each participant.