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People of Theatre Magazine
People of Theatre is not your typical theatre magazine. It’s radical, independent, and rooted in community. A platform for those tir...
Whispers of Identity – Shekinah Mampala
Shekinah Mampala is one of the designers featured in the 2025 graduate fashion show from JCA | London Fashion Academy. Her collectio...
Dance Umbrella 2025
Dance Umbrella is London’s international dance festival running 2–31 October 2025, offering live and digital dance performances acro...
Adilson Naueji – Boscombe Beyond Your Eyes
Self-taught artist Adilson Naueji exhibited Boscombe Beyond Your Eyes in Bournemouth, celebrating Boscombe’s vibrant mixed community...
The Council of the Garden – Immanuel Osamudiame Omoh
Immanuel Osamudiame Omoh is one of the 27 graduating designers in the 2025 Graduate Fashion Show at the Jimmy Choo Academy. The show...
Saly Koné – UNDER COMMAND
Saly Koné is one of the designers featured in the 2025 graduate fashion show from JCA | London Fashion Academy. Her collection is ca...
Festival of Masks – Benin
Porto-Novo Mask Festival 2025 in Benin, West Africa celebrates traditional Beninese masks, culture, and spirituality with parades, p...
Freedom Rising by the late Owusu-Ankomah
Freedom Rising. A posthumous showcase of Owusu-Ankomah’s symbolic, large-scale paintings exploring identity, spirituality, and freed...
Sweet Thang Zine
Sweet Thang Zine is a Black-led indie mag sharing art, stories, and vibes from marginalised voices, all rooted in community. Issue 8...
Gated Canyons – Rachel Jones
Gated Canyons by Rachel Jones is her first major solo show, exploring emotion, identity, and symbolism through vibrant, abstract, an...
Hip Hop – Living A Dream at the Saatchi Gallery
Hip Hop – Living A Dream explores hip hop’s history through iconic photos, capturing legends, culture, and key moments from Ea...
We call it Urapuntja
Last chance to see an exhibition of paintings by six Indigenous Australian contemporary artists. Until 4 September 2025 at JGM Galle...
Brixton Calling
Brixton Calling tells the wild, heartwarming story of how one passionate music lover turned a crumbling cinema into London’s legenda...
SWIPE by Nicola Millington
SWIPE by Nicola Millington helps you deal with online trolls without losing your peace. Using the simple SWIPE method, it shows how...
The Boy With Wings
In The Boy With Wings, Tunde, an ordinary schoolboy sprouts wings, learns his alien heritage, and embarks on a galaxy-saving adventu...
Kelvin Okafor – Drawing Awareness
Drawing Awareness by Kelvin Okafor at Hope93 gallery in June 2025 showcased hyper‑realist graphite portraits elevating stories of v...
Manny and the Baby by Varaidzo
Manny and the Baby by Varaidzo was shortlisted for the 2025 Jhalak Prize. A powerful debut exploring Black British identity, family,...
2025 Jhalak Prize Children’s and YA Winner
King of Nothing by Nathanael Lessore won the 2025 Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize. “Immensely readable and downright hilarious,” ju...