From the Editor

* 435 theatre and arts professionals have signed a letter demanding Islington’s Almeida Theatre end its partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies over what they claim is its “direct and ongoing support for illegal settlements” in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, reports Artists for Palestine UK.

* The Portal Trust has become the inaugural donor for the Migration Museum’s new permanent home in the City of London, promising £500,000 over the next three years to support the museum’s learning programme.

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

TALKS AND MEETINGS

Saturday 31 May

* Latin American Ingredients: Connecting Communities Through Food, Camila Marcías, Sara Castaneda, Laura Hoyos on how desserts forged a connection between Latin America and Europe, 11.15am, £6, British Library, Euston Road, NW1, part of the British Library Food Season Big Weekend. Info: British Library

* Festival of Black History, workshops on preserving and researching family and community histories, talks, art, and film screenings. A new play, Anatomy of a Black Rebellion, will close the festival, free, Goldsmiths, 8 Lewisham Way, SE14 6NW. Info: Festival

Tuesday 3 June

* ESEA Lit Fest summer party, A.Y. Chao, Tuyền Đỗ, Dani Heywood-Lonsdale, Callie Kazumi, Pyae Moe Thet, 6-9pm, £10, Hachette UK, 50 Victoria Embankment, EC4Y 0DZ. Info: Party

* Who is presumed guilty? Amnesty International UK keynote on predictive policing, Prevent and protest clampdowns, Ilyas Nagdee,10.30am-12, City Lit, Keeley Street, WC2B 4BA. Info: Amnesty

Wednesday 4 June

* Red Line for Palestine, encircle Parliament to demand a full arms embargo and sanctions on Israel, 11:30am=5pm. Info: Palestine Solidarity Campaign

* Multilateralism at a crossroads, Ambassadors Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, José Pascual Marco Martínez, Thanisa Naidu-Lewin, Giulia Mascagni, Chenai Mukumba, 9:30-11am, The Conduit, 6 Langley Street, WC2H 9JA. Info: Register

* Women in Myanmar's Ongoing Resistance, Nilanjana Sengupta, 5-6.30pm, King’s College, Bush House North East Wing, Strand Campus, WC2B 4BG.

* Contemporary Issues and Challenges in Public Financial Management, book launch with Richard Allen and Philipp Krause, 3.30-5pm, in person and online, Overseas Development Institute, Blackfriars Road, SE1 8NJ. Info: ODI

Thursday 5 June

* Community Organising for Migration Narrative Change: Strategies & Approaches, 9.30am- 4.30pm, Lift Islington, 45 White Lion Street N1 9PW. Info: Action Network 

* How To Save The Amazon, Jonathan Watts,  Eliane Brum, Beto Marubo, Alessandra Sampaio discuss the legacy of Dom Phillips, murdered in Brazil, £10, Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road. Info: Foyles

* Lawgivers in Modern Revolutions, Melissa Lane, 6pm, Gresham College, Barnard's Inn Hall, EC1N 2HH. Info: Gresham College

* Missing in action: How the world of offshore finance impacts development and what can be done, Susan Hawley, Nicholas Shaxson, Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, 5.30-7pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1

EXHIBITIONS

* Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict, exhibits include sexual slavery of ‘Comfort Women Corps’ in World War Two and of Yazidi women and girls by ISIS in 2014, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road SE1 6HZ until 2 November. Info: War Museum

+ Sexual violence in conflict: ‘The cheapest weapon known to man’

* 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

* 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

* Ancient India: living traditions, the origins of Hindu, Jain and Buddhist sacred art in the nature spirits of ancient India – and how they live on 2,000 years later, from £16, British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG until 19 October. Info: Museum

+ Starring role for snakes in Ancient India exhibition

* 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

* Esther Mahlangu: Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu, brightly coloured geometric paintings rooted in South African Ndebele culture, free, Serpentine North, until 28 September. Info: Serpentine

* 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

* 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 W2 2AR, until 27 July

* '(Un)Layering the Future Past of South Asia: Young Artists’ Voices, 26 emerging artists from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal to interrogate the history, memory, and identity of South Asia through a decolonial lens, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street until 21 June. Info: SOAS

* Eileen Perrier: A Thousand Small Stories and Dianne Minnicucci: Belonging and Beyond, free, Autograph, Rivington Place, EC2A 3BA, until 13 September. Info: Rivington Place

* Art of the Palestinian Poster, exhibition by artists who began Palestinian modern art – Vera Tamari, Sliman Mansour, Tayseer Barakat, and Nabil Anani – alongside contemporary artists such as Gazan Hazem Harb, Khaled El Haber and Haneen Nazzal, P21, 21 Chalton Street, NW1 1JD until 13 June. Info: www.p21.gallery

ARTS OPPORTUNITIES

* Artist Surgeries at the Gate Theatre: on the second Thursday of every month.

* Three £150 bursaries are available from the Bush Theatre for trans artists. No specific outcome is required for applications, which could be anything from an artistic piece, a community event, or paying for your own rest as a form of protest.

* Autograph is also looking for two openings for a project bringing together local grassroots communities and artists from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds to explore issues of identity and belonging – challenging exclusion and inequality in the arts, and a freelance project evaluator (2 June).

* As Yet Unscene is a year-round programme initiative to find and develop scripts in early stages of development. it includes workshops, rehearsed readings and fully-rehearsed performances of longer extracts. Details here

* Poets - submissions are invited for the PEN Heaney Prize 2025. The deadline is 31 May for collections published between 1 January and 30 June this year; for collections published between 1 July and 31 December the submission window is 1 July–31 August 2025.

* 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.

* 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