From the Editor

* The British and science museums in London have defended their financial ties to BP after the company announced this week that it was abandoning its climate targets to focus on growing fossil fuel production, The Guardian reported.

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

TALKS AND MEETINGS

* Jewish Book Week, King’s Place, 90 York Way, N1 9AG until 9 March. Talks include 8 March, Trump 2.0: What’s Next?, Mark Malcomson, Ian Morris, Zoe Striumpel, Tom Segev; 9 March, One Palestine, Complete, Tom Segev; The Battle For Israel’s Soul, Isabel Kershner; Young Zionist Voices, David Hazony, Oliver Anisfeld, Noah Katz; The Shortest History of Migration, Ian Goldin. Info: Book Week

* Africa Week, King’s College, Bush House, Strand campus, 30 Aldwych WC2, until 7 March. Events include discussions on 7 March, Book Launch: The Convoy by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, 10-noon; The Nature of Peace Movements in the Horn of Africa, 2-3.30pm.

Friday 7 March

* The Convoy: Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, the Rwandan-French writer discusses her new book, with Michael Flavin and Shuvai Busuman Nyoni, 10am, King’s College London, Strand Campus and online. Info: Convoy

* Linguistic Injustice and Inequality in the public domain, 10am-5pm, free online. Info: British Academy 

Monday 10 March

* Gender Apartheid: The Case for a New International Law, Helena Kennedy, Horia Musadiq and Negin Shiraghaei, 6.15pm, £16.80,  The Conduit, 6 Langley Street, WC2H 9JA. Info: The Conduit

* Sudan’s Forgotten War, Anthony Loyd, Eva Khair, Mohanad Hashim, 7-8.30pm, from £5.94, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2 1QJ. Info: Frontline

* Accelerate Action for Detained Refugee Women, Meryl O'Rourk, Agnes Tanoh, Reem Assil, Sophie Cartwright, 6.30-7.30pm online. Info: Eventbrite 

* Soviet Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction, Karolina Krasuska, 6-8pm, Room 104 Senate House, University of Malet Street, WC1E 7HU. Info: Wiener Holocaust Library

* Countering Backlash: Towards a feminist future, Tessa Lewin, Nay El Rahi, Iffat Jahan, Maíra Kubík Mano, Phil Otieno, 12:30–2pm. Info: Institute of Development Studies

Tuesday 11 March

* Righting Wrongs, former Human Rights Watch chief Ken Roth on three decades confronting autocrats, exposing atrocities, and fighting for justice, 6.15pm, £16.80, The Conduit, 6 Langley Street, WC2H 9JA. Info: The Conduit

* Towards a New Syria: Understanding the Motivations and Values of Syria’s New Rulers, Rahaf Aldoughli, Nafees Hamid, Nils Mallock, Broderick McDonal, 1-2.30pm, King’s College, The Strand. Info: Registration

* Book talk with Jessica Horn, author of African Feminist Praxis: Cartographies of Liberatory Worldmaking, 4.15–5.45pm. Info: Institute of Development Studies

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

* 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 

* All Our Stories: Migration and the Making of Britain, the centrality of migration to British life, free, Thursdays-Saturdays, Migration Museum, Lewisham Shopping Centre, SE13 7HB, until December. Info: Museum

* 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

* Beware Blue Skies, immersive film installation about battle drones, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, until 16 March. Info: IWM

* 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

* Stories of Migration, celebrating 12 years of innovative storytelling from PositiveNegatives., SOAS Gallery, Thornhaugh Street, WC1 until 22 March.

* 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

* Through Motion, British Ghanaian artist Heather Agypeong focuses on mental health and wellbeing, invisibility and the African diaspora, Doyle Wham, 91A Rivington Street, EC2A 3AY until 22 March. Info: Doyle Wham

* Women of the World Unite: the United Nations decade for women and transnational feminisms 1975 to now, Celebrate International Women’s Day weekend with a discussion of the representation of Black women in All About Love. 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

+ 9 March, Afro Goddesses: Mickalene Thomas panel discussion, Emma Dabiri, Aindrea Emelife, 2pm, £9

* 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:

+ 10 March, Artists in conversation, 5-7pm; 13, 20 March, Curator tours, 5 - 6pm

* 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

* Spirit of Lagos, Abi Morocco’s photographs, free, Autograph, Rivington Place, EC2A 3BA, under 22 March. Info: Autograph

* 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

ARTS OPPORTUNITIES

* Submit an idea to be made and exhibited at LUMIERE 2025, the UK’s light art biennial. Deadline: 23 March

* Interested in taking a show to this year’s Camden Fringe?  Programming is underway. Apply here. 

* Southward 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