From the Editor

* Pooja Ghai has taken over as Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer of Tamasha Theatre Company: organisational model - “building a clear pipeline from writer development to mid-scale production and placing Global Majority artists at the centre of British theatre”.

Daniel Nelson london.globalevents@gmail.com‍

TALKS AND DISCUSSIONS

Tuesday 5 May

* Accelerating the health equity impact of interventions for infectious diseases in Africa, launch seminar for the Infectious Disease Equity (InDiE) Consortium, Richard Cookson, Grace Kumwenda, Cesar Victoria, Primrose Matambanadzo,, 2-3pm, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street WC1E 7HT

* Advancing food security in a changing climate: Lessons from Ethiopia and the road to COP32, screening of documentary Ethiopia Wheat Transformation Journey + discussion with Ambassador Biruk Mekkonen, Jodie Keane, Edward Davey, Binyam Yakob Gebreyes on Ethiopia’s climate-resilient wheat production journey and its implications for food security, trade, development finance and climate action, 4-5.30pm, online. Info: Overseas Development Institute

Wednesday 6 May

* Rethinking immigration policy: building a popular and effective system, Madeleine Sumption, 1-2pm, online. Info: Bright Blue

* Who is Britain really saving in the fight against modern slavery?, book launch with Insa Lee Koch, Liz Fekete, Kojo Kyerewaa, Coretta Phillips, Glodi Wabelua, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2. Info: events@lse.ac.uk

* Behind the Headlines - How UK Broadcasters Report the World, launch of International Broadcasting Trust report, 11am-noon, online. Info: henry@ibt.org.uk

* The Gulf at a Turning Point, Sanam Vakil, Faisal Al Yafai, 7pm, from £6.13, Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2. Info: Frontline

* Corruption, Economic Cycles, and Political Accountability in Latin America, Carlos Scartascini, 2-4pm, University College London, 51 Gordon Square WC1H OPN. Info: UCL

* Caribbean Politics and the British Monarchy: Decolonisation, Republicanism and Reparations, Grace Carrington, 5.30pm, 5.30-7pm. Info: University College London

* How to Kill a Language, Sophia Smith-Galer talks to Megha Nohan about her call to speak, read and write the languages of our world, 7-8.30pm, Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road. Info: Foyles

* Institutions and the Art of Memory and Reair, Cortland Gilliam, Catherine Hall, Chris Jeppesen, Anthony Joseph, Brian Maina, Stephen Mullen, Eva Namusoke, Liberty Paterson, Mishka Sinha, Dara Smith, Sara Smith, Alex von Tunzelmann, 11am-7pm, King’s College, Strand campus,  WC2R 2LS. Info: King’s College

EXHIBITIONS

* Hawai’i: A Kingdom Crossing Oceans, a celebration of art and and history,m £18/£14, British Museum, Great Russell Str‍eet WC1 ‍until 25 May. Info: Hawai’i

*  A Greenland shadow over a wonderful Hawai’i exhibition

* Mil Veces uninstante (A thousand times in an instant), Mexican artist Teresa Maregoles’ cuboid on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square is a memorial to trans people worldwide.

* Nigerian Modernism, Nigerian artists, working before and after the decade of nationalk independence from British colonial rule in 1960, Tate Modern, Bankside SE1 9TG until 10 May. Info: Tate

* Hurvin Anderason, 80 works by the British-Jamaican artist, Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1P 4RG until 23 August. Info: Tate

The Land Carries, work by three international artists: Ahmed Akasha (UK), Dina Nur Satti (US) and Yasmin Elnour (Bahrain), responding to material in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology,1 - 5pm, Petrie Museum, University College London, Malet Place, WC1E 6BT until 16 May. Info: Sudan 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

* Target Queen, large-scale commission by British-Indian artist Bharti Kher, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre

* Water Pantanal Fire, photography exhibition revealing the fragile beauty of the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland that sprawls across Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, free, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 2DD until 31 May. Info: Museum

* Bouchra Khalili: Circles and Storytellers, the culmination of the French-Moroccan artist and educator’s exploration of the Mouvement des Travailleurs Arabes and its theatre groups, Al Assifa and Al Halaka, free, Mosaic Rooms, 226 Cromwell Road, SW5 0SW, until 14 June. Info: Mosaic 

* Beatriz González, the Colombian artist explores the impact of the images we encounter every day, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS until 10 May. Info: Barbican  

* Yin Xiuzhen: Heart to Heart, through large-scale installations made from everyday objects, industrial materials and used items of clothing, the Chinese artist invites us to see the familiar in new ways, £19 (includes admission to Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life), Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX until 3 May. Info: Hayward

* The Land Carries, exploration of Sudanese history, culture and nationhood through contemporary art, free, 1-5pm, University College London Petrie Museum, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT. Info: Petrie

* Moved to Care: Stories of Health and Migration, explores the contributions of migrants from across the globe to healthcare over the last 150 years, from the 19th century colonial legacy of missionary nurses to the Windrush Generation, free, 20 Cavendish Square, W1G OR until 2 November. Info: Royal College of  Nursing

+ Migrant nurses: Looking after Britain’s health

* Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, the shortlist includes Amak Mahmoodian  (Iran) on the effects of exile on memory and identity, imagining a world without borders, £10/£7, Photographer’s Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street W1 until 7 June. Info: Prize

* The Arab Hall: Past and Present, the Hall in the 100-year-old Leighton House is a blend of 13th-century Damascus tiles and Victorian architecture. A new exhibition features contemporary art and a dedicated film, offering a deeper look at how Islamic art has influenced British spaces, £14, Leighton House, 12 Holland Park Road, W14 8LZ until 4 October. Info: Leighton House

* Donald Locke:Resistant Forms, works by Guyanese-British ceramicist, sculptor and painter, free, Camden Art Centre, Arkwright Road NW3 until 30 August. Info: Art Centre

* Nhu Xuan Hua: Of Walking on Fire, reimagines archival photographs from her family’s time in Vietnam and then Europe, building visual reconstructions that echo how memory in the diaspora can blur and slip from view, free, Autograph, Rivington Place, EC2A 3BA until 19 September. Info: Autograph

* The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return, 53 artists from Palestine and the diaspora in London, P21, 21-27 Chalton Street, NW1 1JD, until 29 May. Info: P21

* The Music is Black: A British Story,how Black British music has shaped British culture from 1900 to today through objects like Joan Armatrading’s childhood guitar, fashion worn by Little Simz and photographs, £22.50 weekdays, £24.40, V&A East, Queen Elizabeth Park, Olympic Park. Info: V&A East Museum

* Learning in Exile: Stories of Displacement and Education in the Rohingya Community, centred on the experiences of Rohingya children and youth since 1982, Wiener Holocaust Library, 29 Russell Square
WC1B 5DP until 30 May. Info: Holocaust Library

* Being There - Witness, Truth and Trust, news photographs from the last year including pictures by Mariam Dagga and Hussam al-Masri, who were killed in Gaza, St.Art Gallery, 36 Eastcastle Street W1W 8DP until 3 May. Info: Rory Peck Trust

ARTS OPPORTUNITIES

* Applications for Projekt Empower’s Practice Lab workshops for international theatre makers are invited, and a new Immersion Lab aimed at translating documentary material into performance is underway.

* The Film Fund offers financial and professional support for Palestinian filmmakers, regardless of where they live or what passport they carry. Apply by 24 May.

* 30 Black UK-based filmmakers and content creators are wanted for Momentum - a free, nine-month professional development programme supported by Channel 4 and Sony Pictures Television. To register your interest, email: momentum@weareparable.com. with the subject line: Registering interest for Momentum 2026

* Entries for the London Palestine Film Festival must be submitted by 30 June. contact@palestinefilm.org.uk

* Wanted: poems and short prose on the tragedy of refugee deaths in the Channel.

* the other side of hope: journeys in refugee and immigration literature invites submissions for its next issue, “other tongue, mother tongue.” It seeks poetry by migrants in any language except English. Guidelines.

* The Royal Court Theatre’s Writers’ Card aims to help playwrights through mentoring, networking, funding opportunities, events, subsidised meals and free script printing.

* The Climate Migration Collaborative seeks contributors to its Climate Migration Storytelling. initiative.

* Comedian Munya Chawawa has launched Black Boys Theatre Club “to give young men access to a world of theatre”.

* The BFI is to invest £150m over the next three years under six headings: audiences, education & heritage, filmmaking & talent development, skills & workforce development, international, and insight & industry. 

* Good Chance, formed in the Calais Jungle refugee camp, is launching Stage Door 10 - a national programme placing 10 creatives from refugee backgrounds in paid roles across 10 UK theatres and arts organisations.

* Theatro Technis and Hyphen Artist Collective’s offer free in-person & online writing sessions + community chats for hyphenated & global majority creatives.

* Applications for the next round of Artist Surgeries at the Gate Theatre will be invited soon.

* As Yet Unscene, year-round 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

* The Cockpit Theatre offers 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. Its advantages include digital workshops, lone-to-one, and thousands of pounds in open-access funding.

* If you are a refugee, immigrant or asylum-seeking writer interested in exploring your own poetry and prose, Exiled Writers Ink offers classes.