The Music is Black: A British Story celebrates the voices, talent and stories of Black British music and its global impact

Queer East Festival returns for its seventh edition from 1 May to 6 June, showcasing cinema and performing arts in venues across London.

Human rights theatre company ice&fire presents the world premiere of A Fine Idea, inspired by political economist Jason Hickel’s bestseller The Divide.

The pick of April’s shows.

Films from the Global South at BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, 18 - 29 March.

Two groundbreaking new exhibitions examine Kew’s role in the business of Empire, and recover lost stories of remarkable artworks and illuminate traditional Indian art.

Thirst: In Search of Freshwater is an exhibition exploring freshwater as an essential source of life and a pillar of health for both living beings and land masses.

The London Film Festival returns in October, with films from around the world.

Europe’s largest annual Indian film event returns with the UK premiere of high-action gangster film Little Jaffna, with a rookie cop going undercover to infiltrate Tamil gangs battling it out in the mean streets of Paris.

The Southbank Centre is launching a new series of events showcasing East and Southeast Asia and the diaspora: ESEA Encounters.

Shubbak Festival, the UK’s largest biennial celebration of contemporary Arab and South West Asian & North African culture, returns fon 23 May-15 June.

When Nigerian-British musician Helen Epega announced that she would be writing the world’s first Pidgin opera, a woman responded, “Oh, but you’re an educated woman. Why would you do an opera in pidgin?”

This year’s BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival is divided into three strands: Hearts, Bodies and Minds, with 34 world premieres, 56 features and 81 shorts from 41 countries.

Two Palestinians scrabble for survival in a run-down area of Athens, desperately trying to earn enough to pay for the rest of their journey to Germany, where they plan to open a cafe and re-start their lives.

Elon Musk making himself First Buddy to President Trump and Mark Zuckerberg’s 180-degree policy turn on fact-checking and moderation make Antigone [on strike] highly topical.

A spectacular open-air installation will explore the histories and myths around Britain’s imperial salt monopoly at Somerset House, once home of the offices that administered Britain’s colonial-era salt taxes.

After saying "no" on her wedding day, Aya leaves the Ivory Coast to start a new life in Guangzhou, China: 'Black Tea is one of the films at the forthcoming London Migration Film Festival.

A book, Slave, changed Caroline Clegg’s life 20 years ago. She’s still hoping the play of the book of the real story of the 12-year-old girl captured by raiding Mujahidin in the Nuba mountains of Sudan will open more eyes.

A British Museum exhibition, Silk Roads, will challenge the idea of the ‘Silk Road’ as a simple history of trade between ‘East’ and ‘West’.