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Dak’Art Biennale 2024 – Pt2
Established in 1989, the Dak’Art Biennale showcases contemporary African art, exploring diverse perspectives. Design made a welcome...
Interview with Malian artist Abdou Ouologuem
The Dak’Art Biennale is a major contemporary art event held every two years in Dakar, Senegal. We spoke to Abdou Ouologuem fro...
Dak’Art Biennale 2024 – Pt1
The Dak’Art Biennale is a major contemporary art held event every two years in Dakar, Senegal. This edition’s theme was...
Making a Rukus!
Making a Rukus! Black Queer Histories Through Love and Resistance at Somerset House London, until 19 January Playful, radical and di...
The Importance of Being Earnest
The “fun, flamboyant, and campy” Importance of Being Earnest @NationalTheatre is SOLD OUT!!! But … you can see the...
As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic
@saatchi_gallery Final 2 weeks! ★★★★★ The Guardian. Portrait photography as a way to capture Black self-expression, blending famous...
PAN! at Theatre Peckham
Last few days to catch PAN! @TheatrePeckham Feel the vibe of the Caribbean, from a theatre seat in Peckham. A festive twist on the c...
Winter Light at Southbank Centre
Southbank Centre Winter Light transforms the night with vibrant light-based artworks exploring themes like identity, the environment...
The Alfred Fagon Award
The Alfred Fagon and Mustapha Matura awards are the leading awards for Black British Playwrights. Winners will be announced on Frida...
What Have We Here? at the British Museum
“Beautiful. Dark”. Hew Locke’s exhibition WHAT HAVE WE HERE? invites viewers to question the British museum’...
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland. The multi-award-winning show returns weaving rap music and the sights and sounds of Brixton into a hundred-mile...
Wolves on Road
Beru Tessema’s Wolves on Road dives into the high-stakes world of cryptocurrency blending ambition, risk, and immigrant struggles wi...
Alexis Peskine – Forest Figures
October Gallery’s Forest Figures, Alexis Peskine’s latest exhibition, explores ancestral African spirituality and the Bl...
Much Ado about Nothing Remixed
Much Ado About Nothing Remixed opens TODAY at the Collective Theatre in North London from 11 Nov-7 Dec. Intermission Youth Theatre a...
Going for Gold
Inspired by the story of Frankie Lucas, GOING FOR GOLD, is about a young black boxer navigating the challenging world of 1970s Londo...
The Mountaintop
Last chance to see this ★★★★★ show! THE MOUNTAINTOP ends Sat. 2nd Nov. The thrilling and often funny reimagining of Dr. Martin Luthe...
Act for Action report 2024
The Act for Action Report is a comprehensive investigation into the challenges and inequalities faced by Black professionals within...
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair PT.2
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair returned to London from 10 Oct 2024. Our series profiles some of the incredible galleries on show...