24 Aug 2026 – 30 Aug 2026
This Week: Arrival, Displacement, Memory (w/c 24 Aug)
A live weekly selection of listings that read London through stories of displacement, arrival and what remains when places change.
24 Aug 2026 – 30 Aug 2026
This week's selections trace how displacement—physical, temporal, emotional—reshapes both city and self. From walking tours led by people with lived homelessness experience mapping their own geographies, to films about characters arriving in unfamiliar terrain searching for connection, to architectural histories of immigration written into East London's streets, these events refuse the clean narrative of progress. They ask instead: who arrives, who is erased, what do we carry with us, and how do sound systems, grandmothers' stories, and shared meals hold space for those on the margins.
7 events
London Bridge Tour - Mysterious Alleys, Hidden Pathways
Mon 24 Aug · Unseen Tours
A guide who has lived homelessness maps London Bridge's hidden pathways—the real geography beneath the tourist version.
A walking tour led by David, a guide with lived experience of homelessness, through London Bridge mysterious alleys and hidden pathways.
View event →Brixton to Stockwell with Rah - commuting and the communities
Sat 29 Aug · Unseen Tours
Rah traces commuting and community from Brixton to Stockwell, anchoring lived experience to the spaces between destinations.
A walking tour led by Rah, a guide with lived experience of homelessness, exploring Brixton to Stockwell through the lens of commuting and community.
View event →Songs of Forgotten Trees
Tue 25 Aug · ICA
Two migrant women in Mumbai discover kinship in a shared apartment, finding tenderness within the city's relentless pulse.
Migrant and aspiring actress Thooya navigates Mumbai by leveraging beauty and wit, occasionally trading intimacy for opportunity. When she sublets her sugar daddy’s upscale apartme…
View event →Oshima: Dear Summer Sister
Sun 30 Aug · ICA
A teenager travels to Okinawa seeking family, encountering the island's colonial wounds beneath the surface of tourism.
14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she has never met. Their guide, a beer-guzzling e…
View event →A World Elsewhere
Wed 26 Aug · Shakespeare's Globe
A boy finds refuge in stories drawn from Shakespeare, but his imagined worlds begin to unravel into darkness.
This summer, the Olivier Award-nominated creators of Rough Magic and Midsummer Mechanicals invite you on an epic journey into the greatest world of all: the imagination. Cass is a…
View event →Spitalfields to Stepney Green walking tour
Sat 29 Aug · Open City
Five centuries of arrival written into Spitalfields' walls—immigration visible as architecture, layered and still changing.
Witness 500 years of immigration through architecture in Spitalfields and Stepney Green Photo: London, Middlesex Street (1971) by Helmut Zozmann , licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 . Via…
View event →Dub Sound Systems, Dhikr on Loudspeakers and the Politics of Amplification
Thu 27 Aug · Ibraaz
Sound systems as gathering: dub bass and amplified dhikr both claim temporary space for communities refusing erasure.
Part screening, part listening session, part conversation, Dub Sound Systems, Dhikr on Loudspeakers and the Politics of Amplification is curated by Sarah El Miniawy in response to…
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