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The national cultural institutes and diaspora cultural centres that keep a public door in London, with the libraries, galleries, film programmes and language classes they run, and the international festivals that return to the same ground each year. Much of what they put on is free.
Where those countries' people lived, in the past tense: The World in London
Turkey's cultural institute in Fitzrovia, where the classes are in marbling and calligraphy as often as in the language.
ExhibitionsLanguage coursesConcerts
The Yunus Emre Institute is the Turkish state's network for its language and arts, named for the thirteenth-century poet whose verse is still quoted in Turkish, and the London branch is a house on Maple Street behind the Post Office Tower.
Turkish is taught across all six European framework levels on weekday evenings and Saturdays, but the more unusual half of the timetable is the crafts: ebru, the marbling that floats pigment on water and lifts it onto paper; tezhip, the gold illumination of manuscripts; miniature painting; and calligraphy. There are music classes too, on the oud and the ney, the long reed flute of Turkish classical and Sufi music. Exhibitions, concerts and talks run alongside.
By course and event; the programme is on the institute's own page
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.