
Ilkley Festival Announced
This year, the Ilkley festival has over 90 events to entertain and inspire with a programme that’s bursting with variety – featuring novelists, celebrities, chefs, scientists, poets, politicians and experts.
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.

This year, the Ilkley festival has over 90 events to entertain and inspire with a programme that’s bursting with variety – featuring novelists, celebrities, chefs, scientists, poets, politicians and experts.

The 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize will open for entries from 1 September 2024 to 1 November 2024. The prize is free to enter and open to any citizen of

SEVHAGE Literary and Development Initiative and the ALINEA Initiative are delighted to announce the launch of the Eugenia Abu/SEVHAGE International Prize for Creative Nonfiction, funded and administered by their organisations.

The ANNA Award is a prize for women artists from Africa and the African diaspora. It’s given to those who work in art. ANA Pure Organic, a South African company

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

He sits at a table, alone, like a deity, in a sequestered, oblong office at Freedom Park, Lagos, bedecked with papers, files and books. A level gaze from the solitary

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

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

The Nero Book Award aims to celebrate excellence in Literature. It is also available to only people published on traditional publications. Meaning that self published authors are ineligible for this

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,