From the Editor

* 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

Monday 12 May

* Crossing: A love story between Italy and Palestine, Sabrin Hasbun, 7.30pm, Palestine House, 113 High Holborn EC1V 6JQ. Info: Palestine House  

* The Precarious Migrant Worker, book launch on precarity in Glasgow, with author Panos Theodoropoulos, Bridget Anderson, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Valentine Guruuswa, Marley Davies, 6.30-8pm, King’s College, Strand, WC2R 2LS. Info: King’s 

Tuesday 13 May

* Sanctions on Israel: Why the UK Must Act Now, Omar Barghouti,Ines Abdel Razek, Ghassan Ghaben, Shaista Aziz, Nick Dearden, 7pm, Zoom. Info: Global Justice Now

* Climate Justice: What is Possible?, Jeevan Vasagar, Farhana Yamin, Dominique Palmer, 6.30-8.30pm, Science Gallery London. Info: King’s College

* Report on the status of the UK refugee and migration sector in 2025, webinar, 2 – 3pm. Info: Migration Exchange

* Cash transfers, past, present and future, Ugo Gentilini, Anna McCord, 9.30-10.30am online. Info: Overseas Development Institute

Wednesday 14 May

* Exzpanding our understanding of racism and antiracist politics, Camila Bassi, Alastair Bonnett, Kenan Malik, 1-2.30pm, free, online. Info: Royal Geographical Society

* “‘You laugh at it as a joke, but it’s not funny.” Young Peoples Experience of Colourist Banter, Aisha Phoenix, 1-2pm, King’s College, Stamford Street, SE1 9NH. Info: King’s 

* Launch of he Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health, Sarah Hawkes, 4-5.30pm. Info: Institute of Development Studies

* PR at 50: Reflecting on the history of Participatory Research and its current and future challenges, Budd Hall, Juan Mario Diaz, Jo Howard, Marina Apgar, Jiniya Afroze, 1-2.30pm. 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

* 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

* 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 + 14 May, Artist Talk, Lindokuhle Sobekwa, 2pm, £10/£7

* 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

+ 17 May, Remembering - Tamsin Hong on Arpita Singh, noon, free

* '(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

ARTS OPPORTUNITIES

* Six filmmakers will be selected for a two-day Arab Film Development Workshop with Palestinian director and SAFAR co-founder Saeed Taji Farouky. Bring an idea - rough notes, early script, half a thought. You’ll get feedback, space to explore it, and time to connect with others doing the same. Applications close 16 May.

* The Gate is looking for an Assistant Director for an as yet undisclosed UK premiere of a new play directed by Gate Artistic Lead Atri Banerjee. Deadline for applications: 12 May.

* Autograph is offering emerging creatives a paid opportunity to develop and deliver a live event at its London gallery on the themes of collaboration, identity and belonging across generations. Apply by 26 May.

* Autograph is also looking for a team assistant to take care of day-to-day administration and support the organisation’s activity programme with project delivery (by 12 May) and 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.

* 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