31 Aug 2026 – 6 Sept 2026
This Week: Closure, Witnesses, Inheritance (w/c 31 Aug)
A live weekly selection of listings that read London through endings, testimony, and what we inherit from those who came before.
31 Aug 2026 – 6 Sept 2026
This week's picks trace a thread of reckoning: films about the weight of history and the spaces where it settles; conversations with people documenting conflict and change; performances and talks about what endures when institutions close or power shifts. From a Taiwanese cinema mourning a closing picture palace, to journalists unpacking geopolitical scars, to a woman refusing erasure in 1930s Germany, to breadfruit's colonial past reframed—these are works about bearing witness to what doesn't disappear, even when it should.
6 events
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
Sat 5 Sept · The Cinema Museum
A film about cinema's last day, filmed in slow beauty. Tsai Ming-Liang mourns not nostalgia but the rituals—cruising, intimacy—that die when doors close.
‘Did you know this theatre is haunted?’ The Cinema of Tomorrow (F.K.A PEPCOT) presents the first of three screenings on the theme of ‘Movies at the Movies’. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (20…
View event →Oshima: Dear Summer Sister
Tue 1 Sept · ICA
Oshima's camera holds Okinawa's war scars steady, watching a teenager discover what her island refuses to forget. History as lived geography, not lesson.
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 →Days OF Love And Rage: Anand Gopal in Conversation with Sally Hayden
Wed 2 Sept · Foyles
Two journalists on documenting what governments want buried: love, rage, and the bodies caught between them. Testimony as form.
Anand Gopal visits Foyles to discuss his newest publication 'Days of Love and Rage' with Sally Hayden
View event →The Remarkable Breadfruit | Botany, Culture and Politics
Wed 2 Sept · Linnean Society of London
A breadfruit's journey from Indigenous staple through colonial appropriation to modern nutrition—a plant's history as a mirror of power and theft.
Tracing breadfruit's varied and vivid history through tropical horticulture, Indigenous knowledge, colonial food, and modern nutrition.
View event →Man to Man
Sat 5 Sept · Royal Court Theatre
Tilda Swinton returns to a role she originated: a woman in her dead husband's trousers, enduring fascism and war by refusing to be erased from the stage.
Age guidance: 14+. In 1930s Germany, a woman puts on her dead husband’s trousers and never takes them off. As the world around her changes, she endures war and dictatorship, hung…
View event →Book Launch: Liquid Reflections with Liliane Lijn
Fri 4 Sept · Housmans
Three Ayatollahs, three generations, one fracturing grip. Empire's hosts on what happens when a system appears unsustainable but nobody knows what comes next.
We are profoundly honored to be hosting the paperback launch for a memoir by one the world’s greatest living artists, the sculptor Liliane Lijn, who will be joined in conversation…
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