From the Editor
* Poet Anthony V. Capildeo, Trinidad & Tobago/Scotland; dramatists Roy Williams (Death of England and The Lonely Londoners) and Matilda Feyisayo Ibini, and author and essayist Rana Dasgupta are among the winners of the US Windham Campbell Prizes. Each receives £135,000 in recognition of their life’s work.
Daniel Nelson london.globalevents@gmail.com X: @EventsNelson
TALKS AND MEETINGS
Friday 4 April
* Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) conversation and opening reception, discussion about ecological justice and prosecuting the crimes of the British East India Company, free, Ambika P3, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS. Info: Opening session
* Sino-Western Integration: The integration and development of Chinese entrepreneurs in the UK, Xing Wang, Ewan Smith, in Mandarin, 5-6.30pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1. Info: SOAS
Saturday 5 April
* Don’t Buy Apartheid – Day of Action, 11am, Sainsbury’s, 17-21 Camden Road, NW1 9LJ. Info: Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Saturday 5-Sunday 6 April
* The British East India Company on Trial: Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes hearings, project that stages public hearings in immersive installations functioning as a court; after the hearings, Ambika P3 will host an installation featuring tribunal materials offering lectures, workshops, screenings, and training on climate justice, free, Ambika P3, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS until 24 April. Info: CICC
Sunday 6 April
* Windrush National Vigil, Seema Malhotra MP, Jean-Paul Ennis, Bishop Desmond Jaddoo, 1-2.30pm + Windrush Home Office Surgery 1-5pm, Windrush Square, Effra Road, SW2 1EF. Info: Black Cultural Archives
Monday 7 April
* Breaking Big Oil’s grip: with the founder of the Fossil Fuel Treaty, Tzeporah Berman, 6.30-8.30pm, Kennington Park Community Centre, SE11 5SY. Info: Global Justice Now
Tuesday 8 April
* Strategic review of TB funding and programming in Pakistan: players, power and politics, Shifa Habib, 12.45-1.45pm, online and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, WC1E 7HT. Info: LSHTM
* The Caribbean reparation movement and the politics of responsibility: mapping new pathways, Sonjah Stanley Niaah, 4-5.30pm, online. Info: Institute of Development Studies
Wednesday 9 April
* A World Remade by Decolonization?, Martin Thomas, 6pm, Gresham College, Barnard's Inn Hall, EC1N 2HH. Info: Gresham College
* How British imperialism has shaped the globe, Sathnam Sanghera, 6.30pm, £30, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, SW7 2AR. Info: RGS
EXHIBITIONS
* 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
* Citra Sasmita: Into Eternal Land, the Indonesian artist uses a 15th century painting technique to dismantle misconceptions of Balinese culture and confront its violent colonial past, free, Barbican Centre, Silk Street , EC2Y 8DS until 21 April. Info: Barbican
* 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
* Between Two Worlds: Vanley Burke and Francis Williams, two Jamaican scholars’ portraits, shedding light on a 1745 painting, 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 Road, SW7. Info: V&A tou
* 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
* Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights, stories of underrepresented workers and their rights within precarious and unsafe labour environments, free, Wellcome Centre, 183 Euston Road, NW1 2BE until 27 April. Info: Wellcome
+ Working yourself into the ground
* Esther Mahlangu: Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, brightly coloured geometric paintings rooted in South African Ndebele culture, free, Serpentine North, until 28 September. Info: Serpentine
* The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence, £22, V&A Museum, Cromwell Street, SW7 2RL, until 5 May. Info: V&A
* Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism, over 130 works by 10 artists from the 20th century, capturing the diversity of Brazilian art, £23.50-£25.50, Royal Academy, Burlington House, Piccadilly, until 21 April. Info: RA
* SOIL: The World at Our Feet, includes Fernando Laposse’s work on the impact of the North American Fair-Trade Agreement and use of agrochemicals in a Mexican village, Asunción Molinos Gordo’s visual geometry of Egypt’s Nile’s valley, inviting visitors to explore global agri-business; Annalee Davis drawing on knowledge of the former Barbados sugar plantation where she lives; Somerset House, The Strand, WC2R 1LA until 13 April. Info: Soil + Events programme
* Women of the World Unite: the United Nations decade for women and transnational feminisms 1975 to now, London School of Economics Library, Houghton Street, WC2 until 22 August. Info: LSE
* Mickalene Thomas: All About Love, vibrant, large portraits of Black women at rest reclaim representation in art history, celebrating love and radical repose, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX, from £19, until 5 May. Info: Hayward
* Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker, survey exhibition of the late Jamaican-heritage British multi-media artist, Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX until 4 May. Info: Whitechapel
* Visions from the Amazon, photography, painting and film by Claudia Andujar, rubber tapper Hélio Melo; Indigenous artists Denilson Baniwa and Tayná Satere plus Paula Sampaio, Luciana Magno, Nay Jinknss and Rosa Gauditano, Peltz Gallery, 43 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD until 9 April. Info: Peltz
* 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
* Deutsche Borse Foundation Photography Prize, shortlist includes work by Lindokhule Sobekwa on poverty and long effects of apartheid in South Africa, and Tarah Krajnak, Peru, £10/£7, Photographers Gallery, Ramillies Street, W1, until 15 June. Info: Gallery
* Planetary Portals: I am in your dreams, but you are not in mine, weaves together the environmental landscapes of 19th-century mining of gold and diamonds in South Africa with the scripting process of AI, £10/£7, Photographers Gallery, Ramillies Street, W1, until 15 June. Info: Gallery
* 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
ARTS OPPORTUNITIES
* The Gate Theatre’s artist surgeries are for artists seeking advice or expertise about their work. The next is on 10 April.
* A reminder that The Other Side of Hope (the UK’s only literary magazine edited by migrants), is open to submissions for the next edition until 30 April. Guidelines here.
* Interested in taking a show to this year’s Camden Fringe? Programming is underway. Apply here.
* Southwark Playhouse invites actors aged 19-25 living in Southwark or Lambeth who have some performing experience but no significant training or professional employment to rehearse a new production and perform onstage at the Playhouse.
* Tamasha Tales is a new series of commissioned short pieces that aims to celebrate global storytelling and cultural intersectionality through artist collaboration. Tamasha Theatre is looking for two artists from any Global Majority background with 5-10 years of experience) with an established body of work.
* The Royal Court Theatre has launched The Writers’ Card, part of its programme of helping playwrights. It offers mentoring, networking, funding opportunities, events, and use of resources in the building, subsidised meals and free script printing. For more information, visit https://royalcourttheatre.com/playwriting
* The Royal Court has also launched a London-wide playwrights award for 13-18-year-olds.
* Theatre in the Pound: The Cockpit Theatre’s monthly scratch night enables performers to try out 10-15 minutes of new work + a short Q&A. Also classes, workshops, readings, advice sessions, support & performance opportunities.
* Papatango hopes its new Playwrights’ Studio will be a home for playwrights of all levels of experience. It aims to be a joined-up, sustained writing package with a variety of free advantages, including digital workshops, lone-to-one, and thousands of pounds in open-access funding.
* 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 meet-ups are informal, fun and open to everyone.” It has also launched songwriting sessions.
* 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.
* 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
FILM
* I’m Still Here, as Brazil faces the grip of a military dictatorship, Eunice Paiva, mother of five, is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent act by the government, Picturehouses Finsbury Park, Gate, Ritzy.
* Sister Midnight, original genre-bending Indian comedy about a frustrated and misanthropic newlywed who discovers feral impulses, Ritzy,
* Santosh, a government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a policeman in the rural badlands of northern India. When a low-caste girl is murdered, Santosh is pulled into the investigation by feminist inspector Sharma, Picturehouses Finsbury Park and Ritzy, Vues Finchley Road and Shepherd’s Bush; 4-7 April, National Film Theatre; 5-10 April, Garden cinema
+ A new film about modern India you should not miss
* Hong Kong New Wave: 1979-1989, includes The Story of Woo Viet, Love in a Fallen City, Boat People, The Butterfly Murders, Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind, Nomad, My Heart is That Eternal Rose, An Amorous Woman of Tang Dynasty, Ah Ying, Homecoming, Garden cinema
+ 19 April, what is the Hong Kong New Wave?, discussion with James Mudge, Victor Fan and Tammy Cheung, 4pm. Info: New Wave
from Friday 4 April
*Balomania, a secret society of giant hot air balloon makers in Brazil's favelas risk everything to create and fly their illegal masterpieces, Curzon Bloomsbury + 4-6, 10 April
Saturday 5 April
* Forager, shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Jerusalem, the film moves between fiction, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws + introduction by filmmaker Zeina Ramadan, 6pm, Garden cinema
Sunday 6 April
* AWAN x Fhamtini: Through the Moroccan Lens, programme celebrating Moroccan cinema curated by French-Moroccan programmer Imane Lamime, 5.30pm, £12.50, Rich Mix
* 35 Shots Of Rum, four characters in a Parisian suburb, starring Mati Diop; food preparation and domesticity are quiet acts of intimacy, the warmth of a rice cooker casting a glow throughout the film, 6.40pm, National Film Theatre
Thursday 10 April
* The World's Womb, featuring works by Minia Biabiany, Ayesha Hameed, Sofía Galliza Muriente, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz and Hope Strickland, it reveals the Caribbean region as a site of exploitation and resilience, 7pm, free, Ambika P3, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS. Info: Serpentine
PERFORMANCE
* Kyoto, the world’s nations are in deadlock and 11 hours have passed since the UN’s landmark climate conference should have ended. Agreement feels a world away. The greatest obstacle: a US oil lobbyist and strategist, from £25, Soho Place, 4 Soho Place, Charing Cross Road, W1D 3BG, until 3 May. Info: Soho Place
+ Kyoto turns climate change into an entertaining thriller
* The Women of Llanrumney, set in 18th century Jamaica, Azuka Oforka’s play explores the experience of women during slavery – those who benefited, those brutalised and those who fought to destroy it, £10-£40, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Gerry Raffles Square E15 1BN until 12 April. Info: Theatre Royal
* Alterations, comedy illuminating the Guyanese experience of 1970s London and the hopes and fears of the Windrush generation, National Theatre, South Bank, SE1 9PX until 5 April. Info: Alterations
* The Society for New Cuisine, play by East-Asian writer and performer Chris Fung is a Buddhist inspired folk fable about power, masculinity and heartbreak, £20-£5, Omnibus Theatre, 1 Clapham Common Northside, SW4 0QW until 5 April. Info: Omnibus
* Container, multi-vocal performance that “opens up a space to experience a more empathetic view of humanity and reasserts the dignity and ambitions of the migrant figure”, £3-£19, New Diorama Theatre, 15 - 16 Triton Street, Regent's Place, NW1 3BF until 12 April. Info: New Diorama
from Monday 7 April
* Open Submissions Festival, staged readings of new plays includes 12 April, Benjamin Kuffuor’s Working Men, about money, social housing and how decisions are made for those who have no choice, 7.45pm, £7.50, Royal Court, 50-51 Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS. Info: Royal Court
Tuesday 8-Thursday 10 April
* More, reimagines Great Expectations in modern-day London, in which Pip is a young man of Caribbean descent, orphaned by the bureaucratic nightmare of the Windrush scandal and drawn into the lives of wealthy, eccentric Miss Havisham and her daughter Estelle. £18.60, The Other Palace, 12 Palace Street, SW1E 5JA. Info: The Other Palace
TV and RADIO
Sunday 30 March
* Stacey Dooley: Growing Up Gypsy, interviews with four four women, 12.30pm, BBC3
* Tribe With Bruce Parry, the Waimaha in Brazil, 9pm BBC2,
* Our Land: Israel’s Other War, documentary on the battle for land in the West Bank, 10.20pm, BBC1
Monday 31 March
* Who Is Alice Guo?, a mayor in The Philippines accused of trafficking, money laundering and tax evasion, 4pm, Radio 4
Wednesday 2 April
* The Watermelons: Myanmar’s Military Moles, they’re green on the outside, spearing loyal to the army junta. But inside they are red, working for the pro-democracy uprising, 11.05pm, BBC2
* The carbon offset trap, 11am, Radio 4
Friday 4 April
* Unreported World, the impact of Elon Musk’s Starlink internet network on people in remote areas of the Amazon, 7.30pm, Channel 4
* Tribe With Bruce Parry, the Colombian Amazon, 11.05pm BBC2
* Rare Earth, threats to wildlife on New Guinea, 12.04pm, Radio 4