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

Monday 11 May

* Eyal Weizman: The Architecture of Genocide, the architect and investigator delivers a devastating, meticulous account of the history of Israel’s destruction of Gaza,  6:15 – 7.30pm, £16.80, livestream £6.50, The Conduit, 6 Langley Street WC2H9JA. Info: The Conduit

* How To Kill A Language: Power, Resistance and the Race to Save Our Words, Sophia Smith-Galer discusses how the mass extinction of languages is one of the most urgent cultural emergencies we face today, 7pm, £25, Kiln Theatre, 269 Kilburn HighRoad, NW6 7JR. Info: Intelligence Squared

* Imaginary Geographies: Gold and Cultural Memory in Colombia, Vanessa Londoño and Carolina Sánchez Rojas, 6.30pm, free, British Library 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB. Info: Library

* Development finance after Trump, Lord Malloch Brown, 6.30-8pm, in-person and online, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2. Info: LSE

* Internationalisation of Chinese firms in geopolitics, Ziliang Deng, 1-12.30pm, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, WC1

Tuesday 12 May

* The Pill and the Planet: Can We Have Both a Healthy Ageing Population and a Sustainable Future?, Ian Mudway, 8pm, Gresham College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, EC1N 2HH. Info: Gresham 

* Cooling a warming India: ecology and equity in our time, Amita Baviscar, 6.30-8pm, London School of Economics, Houghton Street WC2. Info: events@lse.ac.uk

* Republics of Knowledge; Nations of the Future in Latin America, Nicola Miller, 5.30-7pm, 51 Gordon Square, WC!H 0PN. Info: University College London

* James Baldwin: A Life and Legacy, Ben Okri and Jason Okundaye, 7pm, £25-£15, Kiln Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Road NW6 7JR. Info: Kiln

EXHIBITIONS

i* Hawai’i: A Kingdom Crossing Oceans, a celebration of art and history, £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 tranns 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, anthropologyand 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  

* 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

* Hidden: Photography and displacement under the Khmer Rouge, follows a journey by Prim Sisaphantha during the 1975-79 regime in Cambodia, Wiener Holocaust Library, 29 Russell Square, WC1B 5DP, until 15 May. Info: Holocaust Library

* Ain Bailey: The Jamaica Project, films and compositions, free, Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road NW3, until 14 June. Info: Arts Centre

.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.