Arts & Culture

Arts and culture is life if you are not making it. They are making you through a fusion of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary interpretations, unveiling the intricate tapestry of global cultures. From visual arts that paint vivid stories on canvases to timeless writings weaponized like scissors to trim your mind to fit the writer’s perceptions in literature, our Arts & Culture section is a sanctuary for people of black heritage seeking inspiration and cultural enrichment.

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Poets in Residence

Remembering What’s Forgotten has launched a new eight-week® poet in residence opportunity for emerging poets of black and South Asian heritage, from Leeds, who wish to explore and centre lived

World Raggae Day

IRD UK XTRA SATURDAY JUNE 29, 2024 International Reggae Day Xtra London Hub Event is at Goldsmiths, University of London.  Saturday 29 June 2024, 12 noon to 9pm.  FREE EVENT

Mboka Festival Gambia

You are invited to “Kai Fecha” (come and dance) at the Gam Afro Latin Fest (GALF) for 7 nights.   For more information, please click on the QR code on

World of Love Festival

World of Love Festival is a multicultural Arts and Culture Festival in the heart of Bournemouth. There are dozens of cultures that are regularly present to display their crafts, food,

ALAFIA FESTIVAL SHOWS

ALAFIA is a Yoruba phrase, a native language of Nigeria. Also spoken amongst Caribbean descents. The Alafia phrase signifies a successful and positive energy commonly spoken by traders. Other times

Six Poems by The Philosopher Poet

Windrush Squared Trains, planes, and automobiles. Transformers and transporters of livestock. First, they were ships but then they took flight. So fast and so far, that we barely felt the

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