Music Las Poderosas – Colombian Queens Barbican, London May 4 A Colombian night headlined by the Caribbean rhythms of Adriana Lucía. Also on the bill is Nidia Góngora, specialising in ancestral marimba sounds, and Isabel Ramírez, aka La Muchacha, an activist singer, whose folk songs protest against everything from environmental destruction to right-wing paramilitaries.


Theatre Kenmure Street Oran Mor, Glasgow, and Lemon Tree, Aberdeen May 11–23 Verbatim lunchtime play by Simon Jay recalling the day in 2021 when a Glasgow street was brought to a standstill by protesters who prevented the Home Office from removing two men in an immigration raid. The same story has just been told on film in Everybody to Kenmure Street.


Spotlight Franco’s artist foes


Mother Courage and her Children Shakespeare’s Globe, London May 7 –June 27 Bertolt Brecht’s parable about the economic prerogative of war stars artistic director Michelle Terry as a woman trading her way through the 30 years’ war. Elle While directs the translation by Anna Jordan.


An Ideal Husband Gate, Dublin May 8–July 11 Director Marc Atkinson Borrull leans into the modern-day resonances of Oscar Wilde’s play about an insider- trading politician and the blackmail plot to shame him.


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Established in London in 1933 in the wake of the Great Depression, the Artists’ International Association (AIA) was a left-wing network dedicated to peace, democracy and cultural development. In those interwar


years, its members were concerned about the rise of fascism. They were prominent in the fight against Franco in the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Hitler in Germany. At the Towner


Eastbourne, their work is being commemorated in the


most comprehensive exhibition of its kind. Taking its name from


Andy Friend’s Comrades in Art: Artists Against Fascism 1933–1943 published last year, it is the first display in over 40 years to focus on the AIA. The artists were


united in left-wing sympathies more than artistic styles, which promises an eclectic exhibition. Works on


display include those by surrealist Ithell Colquhoun, realist Laura Knight, modernist Paul Nash and landscape artist Lucien Pissarro, as well by ALA founding members, who included caricaturists, designers and illustrators. Where today’s art


industry is often linked to high finance, these artists were committed to connecting with ordinary people – and they attracted the attentions of MI5. A smaller collection


is also on display in London’s Tate Britain.


Comrades in Art:


Artists Against Fascism, Towner, Eastbourne, May 7–October 18


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