To Kill a Mockingbird by Aaron Sorkin (novel by Harper Lee) @ Gielgud Theatre 10 Mar - 13 Aug 2022
Tickets: From £77.50
Rafe Spall will play Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird, Aaron Sorkin's new play based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, directed by Bartlett Sher, which opens at the Gielgud Theatre in March 2022.

Running with Lions by Sian Carter @ Lyric Hammersmith 10 Feb - 12 Mar 2022
Tickets: From £10
Following the death of a loved one, a British-Caribbean family struggles to come to terms with their grief. Isolated by their generational beliefs and challenges to their faith and mental health, they live between the things they do and do not say.

An Unfinished Man by Dipo Baruwa-Etti @ Yard Theatre 12 Feb - 12 Mar 2022
Tickets: From £13
Juju exists, spirits battle, and the witches and wizards of Lagos chant loudly in East London. Written by Channel 4 playwright bursary winner Dipo Baruwa-Etti, and directed by Taio Lawson.

Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare @ The Royal Shakespeare Company 04 Feb - 12 Mar 2022
Tickets: From £16
In a futuristic world, two very different couples fall in love – but who is really pulling the strings? With dastardly plots, hilarious slapstick and some of Shakespeare’s wittiest dialogue, this story of matchmaking and manipulation is the perfect way to celebrate the joy of live theatre.

A Number by Caryl Churchill @ The Old Vic Theatre 24 Jan - 19 Mar 2022
Tickets: From £10
Every parent makes mistakes. Salter makes a number of them. Now 35 years later, his only child realises he’s not alone.

Ballet Black, Double Bill @ Barbican Centre 24 - 27 Mar 2022
Tickets: from £10
Celebrating their 20th anniversary, this thrilling and imaginative ballet company debut an outstanding double bill featuring choreography from Gregory Maqoma and score by Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante.

the body remembers by Heather Agyepong @ Brixton House Theatre 16 - 26 Mar 2022
Tickets: From £17
Heather Agyepong's powerful new solo performance The Body Remembers explores how trauma lives in the body, particularly for Black British women across different generations. 

Red Pitch by Tyrell Williams @ Bush Theatre 16 Feb - 26 Mar 2022
Tickets: From £10
A coming of age story about what it means to belong to a place; it tells a story about gentrification or regeneration and the impact of this relentless change on London’s communities.

Transpose JOY: Pit Party, CN Lester @ The Pit 31 Mar - 2 Apr 2022
Tickets: from £5
Filmmaker and writer Campbell X curates the latest edition of Transpose, an electric evening of live music, theatre, rap and unbelievable twerking from some of the UK’s most exciting trans artists.

LIFE BETWEEN ISLANDS. CARIBBEAN-BRITISH ART 1950S – NOW 1 Dec 2021 – 3 Apr 2022
Tickets: from £5
Tate Britain presents a landmark group exhibition celebrating 70 years of Caribbean-British art.

Kehinde Wiley @ National Gallery Until 03 Apr 2022
Tickets: Free
In this exhibition, Wiley will shift his focus from one European tradition - Grand Manner portraiture – to another – landscape painting.

Through new artworks, including film and painting, Wiley will look at European Romanticism and its focus on epic scenes of oceans and mountains, building relationships with our collection of historical landscapes and seascapes by Turner, Claude, Vernet and Friedrich.

Le Bal de Paris, Blanca Li Dance Company @ Barbican Theatre 1 - 9 Apr 2022
Tickets: from £10
Step inside a glamorous Parisian ballroom in this stunningly original virtual reality show, as a timeless love story unfolds around you in an unforgettable experience from choreographer Blanca Li.

BOYS The PappyShow @ Silk Street Theatre 12 - 23 Apr 2022
Tickets: from £5
Laugh, cry and celebrate with the performers of The PappyShow as they share a multitude of stories in an electric show bursting with physical energy, tender reflection and playful improvisation.

TRAPLORD @ 180 The Strand 26 Mar - 16 Apr 2022
Tickets: From £25
Award-winning dance artist and cultural innovator Ivan Michael Blackstock's TRAPLORD is an immersive dance performance meditating on life, death and rebirth. Wandering between dreams and reality, TRAPLORD takes us on a new heroic journey to self-actualisation.

Black Love, a musical by Chinonyerem Odimba @ Kiln Theatre 28 Mar - 23 Apr 2022
Tickets: From
An explosion of form-busting storytelling, Black Love celebrates and investigates the Black experience through music, real-life stories and imagined worlds. This ‘beautiful ode to black society and home’ (The Guardian) is not to be missed.

Small Island adapted by Helen Edmundson @ National Theatre 24 Feb - 30 Apr 2022
Tickets: From £20
Based on Andrea Levy’s novel, Small Island follows three connected stories. Hope and humanity meet stubborn reality as the play traces the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK.

Lubaina Himid - Exhibition @ Tate Modern 25 Nov 2021 – 3 Jul 2022
Tickets: from £5
A theatrical exhibition by the Turner Prize-winning artist and cultural activist

Feeding Black: Community, Power & Place @ Museum of London Docklands 16 Jul 2021 - 17 Jul 2022
Tickets: Free
A new display exploring the central role food plays in Black enterprise and identity in South East London. It spotlights four African and Caribbean businesses and their owners, exploring how they are much more than the services and goods they provide. The businesses featured are Livity Plant-Based Cuisine, African Cash & Carry, Junior's market stall and Zeret Kitchen.

The Fellowship by Roy Williams @ Hamps Theatre 17 Jun - 23 Jul 2022
Tickets: From £10
Children of the Windrush generation, sisters Dawn and Marcia Adams grew up in 1980s London and were activists on the front line against the multiple injustices of that time. Decades on, they find they have little in common beyond family... Dawn struggles to care for their dying mother, whilst her one surviving son is drifting away from her. Meanwhile, high-flying lawyer Marcia’s affair with a married politician might be about to explode and destroy her career. Can the Adams sisters navigate the turmoil that lies ahead, leave the past behind, and seize the future with the bond between them still intact?

RELEASES

Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn Releases 31 Mar 2022
Yinka wants to find love. Her mum wants to find it for her. She also has too many aunties who frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, a preference for chicken and chips over traditional Nigerian food, and a bum she's sure is far too small as a result. Oh, and the fact that she's a thirty-one-year-old South-Londoner who doesn't believe in sex before marriage is a bit of an obstacle too...

PAST

Conundrum by Paul Anthony Morris @ Young Vic Theatre 14 Jan - 04 Feb 2022
Tickets: From £10
Growing up, Fidel’s mum always told him he was a genius. Her genius child who was going to be a doctor. But his teachers had other ideas, and years later Fidel is left trying to piece together where it all went wrong.

RACIAL CAPITALISM. WHAT'S IN A NAME? @ Birkbeck Clore Management Centre 10 Feb 2022
‘Tickets: Free
Racial capitalism’ is a term that is being increasingly used in an effort to capture the organic connections between these two interrelated but different systems that continue to dominate the modern world. This talk will argue for the need for temporal and spatial specificities in trying to untangle what constitutes the workings of ‘racial capitalism’. Taking the example of C18 Jamaica it will explore the relation between the plantation economy, the imperial framework within which it operated, constructions of whiteness and hereditary racial slavery. Where, how, and by whom was wealth created? Who accumulated it?

Fair Play by Ella Road @ Bush Theatre 18 - 22 Jan 2022 | Online from 07 Jan - 12 Feb 2022
Tickets: From £10
The clocks are set. The line is drawn. They’ve got a chance to be champions. But at what cost?

Queens of Sheba by Jessica L. Hagan @ Soho Theatre 07 - 26 Feb 2022
Tickets: From £19
Following a sold-out run in 2021, Queens of Sheba tells the hilarious, moving and uplifting stories of four Black Women battling everyday misogynoir; where sexism meets racism.

Splintered by Emily Aboud @ Soho Theatre 15 - 26 Feb 2022
Tickets: From £12
Part-play, part-cabaret, join our three MCs as they take you through a queer whirlwind of sad truths, joyful lies and Caribbean history. Expect a form-breaking, joy-inducing cabaret with plenty wining and a f*cktonne of glitter – “come free up yuhself”.

Glow by Alistair McDowall @ Royal Court 24 Jan - 05 Mar 2022
Tickets: From £12
A woman locked in a windowless cell, with no memory as to who she is, or how she arrived there. When spiritualist medium Mrs Lyall requires a new assistant, this nameless woman seems the perfect candidate. But as the woman’s past begins to reveal itself, so do new powers neither are prepared for. “Matter may decay, but the spirit persists. The energy we exude remains.” 

Hair and make-up transfer programme - introduction to film and TV @ Screenskills on Zoom 20 Jan 2022
Tickets: Free.
Are you a hairdresser or make-up artist experienced in working with Black hair or make-up for people of colour? If yes, why not transfer your skills into film and television?

This free online event will be an introduction to working in hair and make-up for the screen industries. It will also be an opportunity to learn about a forthcoming programme that will offer expert training as well as paid placements on productions from the likes of Netflix and ITV Studios for 16 successful candidates.

T A P E Collective: Nolly Nights - Screening + Party 22 Jan 2022
Tickets: From £9
T A P E presents Nolly Nights at Peckham Levels, a new monthly all-out celebration of Nollywood with the classic titles forming part of a live Naija party, with MC, DJ, food from the Plantain Kitchen, a short film and a Nollywood classic.

For the Culture: Celebrations of Blackness @ Lyric Hammersmith Theatre 28 - 30 Jan 2022
Tickets: From free
A festival honouring Blackness through art, performance, conversation, love, and joy

For the Culture is more than a festival, it’s an act of resistance, a space for joy, for reflection and conversation, a place to champion and celebrate Black British artists, activists and thinkers with our community.

The Actors Monologue Showcase @ Lyric Hammersmith Theatre 29 Jan 2022
Monologue showcase featuring exceptional young Black talent, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A chaired by film producer Mathieu Ajan with leading actors Alfred Enoch, Susan Wokoma and Ronke Adekoluejo.

Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress @ National Theatre 02 Dec 2021 - 29 Jan 2022
Tickets: From £20
A radical satire of racism in theatre. In 1950s America, protests for racial equality erupt in the face of voter suppression. On Broadway, Wiletta Mayer, a talented black actress, begins rehearsals for a new play about racism – written and directed by two white men. When Wiletta finds that her arguments to tell the truth of the story are dismissed, she decides to take action.

Nine Nights: Channel B @ ICA 11 Oct 2021 - 30 Jan 2022
Tickets: Tuesday - Free for all visitors. Wednesday – Sunday: £5 (+ £1 booking fee for non-members), free for all ICA members.
Channel B is an audio-visual exploration of black futurism by the black-owned art, music, and creative education initiative Nine Nights. The exhibition features sound and video installations by founding artists Gaika, GLOR1A and Shannen SP, alongside invited guests.

In Conversation with Joshua K. Jackson | Low-light Photography @ Leica Gallery London | Low-light Photography 15 Jan 2022
Joshua will be discussing his latest project “Friday Night Lights” and his unique experience shooting the returning nightlife in London with the Leica M-System. He'll also share insights about his photography approach to capture stunning images at night.

TATE COLLECTIVE AFTER HOURS: LIFE BETWEEN ISLANDS 4th Dec 2021

THE BLACK BRITISH PUB QUIZ @ BOXPARK WEMBLEY 17th Oct 2021
Think of this event as a celebration of Black Britishness and the undeniable impact of the diaspora. Most importantly, it puts a twist on the traditional pub quiz, making it more inclusive and relevant. Black British history is British history, so this event is for any and everyone that has an interest in Black British history or wants to know more!

Ballroom Experience - Talawa Connect @ Talawa, Fairfield Halls 15th Oct 2021
6.30 - 7.30 pm - History of Ballroom | The KiKi Gallery – With Candy Elijah!
7.30 - 8.45 pm - Voguing Intro to Ballroom – With Jay Jay Revlon – MC Candy Elijah
A history of ballroom and a ballroom experience - join us. For this Black History Month, Talawa is looking at the alternatives to and roots of Black British Club culture and how LGBTQ+ Communities influenced the scene. Join Candy Elijah and Jay Jay Revlon as you travel through the history of ballroom and Kiki with us in this inspiring workshop celebrating Black LGBTQ+ influences on club culture. A dance class and a history lesson! Learn and grow! Be beautiful and Black.

CURIOUS BY JASMINE LEE-JONES @ Soho Theatre 6 Sep – 16 Oct 2021
Tickets: From £13
Jaz is in her second year at drama school.  Jaz is tired of performing. Hence her conundrum. But when she stumbles across a piece of forgotten history – her life is changed forever…

Digging Deep: Coal Miners of African Caribbean Heritage & The North East’ Exhibition  @ The Common Room, Newcastle upon Tyne 25 Sept - 1 Nov
Tickets: Free. General admission tickets are free but booking is required.
Digging Deep reveals personal narratives, memories and creative representations of former coal miners of Black/African-Caribbean heritage and other diverse groups within UK mining history, including the North East.

Can I Live? touring online and in-person Until November 2021
Tickets: Prices vary
Why don't we talk about it? Fehinti Balogun asks this urgent question and offers an invitation in Can I Live?, a vital new digital performance about the climate catastrophe, sharing his personal journey into the biggest challenge of our times. Weaving his story with spoken word, rap, theatre, animation and the scientific facts, Fehinti charts a course through the fundamental issues underpinning the emergency, identifying the intimate relationship between the environmental crisis & the global struggle for social justice, and sharing how, as a young Black British man, he has found his place in the climate movement.

SESSIONS BY IFEYINWA FREDERICK @ Soho Theatre 24 Sep – 4 Dec 2021
Tickets: From £11
Tunde’s 30th birthday is fast approaching. So, he’s just started therapy because he hasn’t been able to get to the gym for weeks and a recent one-night stand ended in tears – his. Interrogating the challenge of opening up and accepting our own vulnerabilities, Sessions by Ifeyinwa Frederick (writer of The Hoes at Hampstead Theatre) is a raw, funny, bittersweet deep-dive into the complexities of masculinity, depression and therapy.

Keisha the Sket Releases 14 Oct 2021
Waterstone says “Published as a book for the first time, this dynamic coming-of-age story and online sensation chronicles the charismatic Keisha as she navigates love, ambition and the challenges and dreams of her inner-city community.”

1xtra & netflix present the black filmmakers @ Secret Location 7th Oct 2021
Tickets: Free
Are you an aspiring filmmaker, director or content creator? To celebrate Black History Month, BBC Radio 1Xtra are teaming up with Netflix to produce a full day of impactful interactive Q&A Panels, Trailblazer Workshops and Immersive Masterclasses with special guests from the Film and TV Industry.

NJAMBI MCGRATH: ACCIDENTAL COCONUT @ Soho Theatre 4 – 9 Oct 2021
Tickets: From £12
Brexit seems inescapable as the British stand at the crossroads of self-identity and nostalgia of a bygone era of an empire.

Run it Back @ Talawa, Fairfield Halls 02 Sept – 18 Sept 2021
Tickets: Free - £15
Run It Back brings rave to the theatre. Set in an explosive club night, Run It Back immerses the audience in Black British club culture with dance, physical theatre and a live set from DJ and turntablist Psykhomantus.

Before Them, We @ Black Cultural Archives 12 Aug – 18 Sept 2021
Tickets: £3 entry. Children under 16 are allowed free entry. *Concession day is Friday for pensioners and students who are currently studying (proof required).
A multidisciplinary project by artist and cultural producer, Ruth Sutoyé. It explores the lives primarily of grandparents & intergenerational relationships of African descent in the UK, and how we archive and preserve oral histories.

Exhibitions War Inna Babylon: The Community’s Struggle for Truths and Rights @ ICA 7 July – 26 Sept 2021
Tickets: Tuesday - Free for all visitors. Wednesday – Sunday: £5 (+ £1 booking fee for non-members), free for all ICA members.
The exhibition, the first of its kind to accurately assess the conditions of Black lives across Britain, will be accompanied by an extensive public programme presented both in Tottenham and at the ICA that will include film screenings, community educational groups, talks, cultural events, performances, painting, and a digital presentation focusing on the interrelation between artificial intelligence (AI) and racism.

696: Celebrating Black music in South London 30 Jun - 29 Sept 2021
Tickets: Free and Ticketed events
The Black British sounds of south London take centre stage at the Horniman Museum and Gardens for 696. This two-year programme is supporting and showcasing the area’s cutting-edge live music scene, from Afrofuturist hip-hop to reggae, jazz and soul, curated by Adem Holness FRSA.

ON THESE STREETS @ BRIXTON HOUSE 27th Aug – 30th Sept 2021
Tickets: FREE (must be booked online) via here
A free interactive audio experience by non zero one through the streets of Brixton that invites you to witness, interact, and respond to the voices, stories, and legacy of the Uprising. ON THESE STREETS is part of 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance, a radical reclaiming of heritage – to imagine, experiment and create new futures.

Black Joy Releases 2 Sept 2021
The first anthology of its kind, BLACK JOY is a candid, contemporary and fresh perspective on race, identity, and belonging for the Black British community. Join us for this evening of celebration and conversation, appreciation and music. Settle in and experience Black Joy at its finest.

Highlife Romance @ Kings Place Sat 11th Sept 2021
Tickets: £12
An ode to music, highlighting its impact on identity as well as its ability to unify people with different experiences. A romantic comedy-drama by Jacob Roberts-Mensah (DEM TIMES) with a live performance directed by Jessica Kaliisa (Queens of Sheba)

Constellations @ Vaudeville Theatre Sheila Atim & Ivanno Jeremiah (18 Jun - 1 Aug 2021)
; Omari Douglas & Russell Tovey (30 Jul - 11 Sept 2021)
Tickets: from £23.
Four new casts. One relationship. Infinite Possibilities. A quantum physicist and a beekeeper meet at a barbeque. They hit it off, or perhaps they don’t. They go home together, or maybe they go their separate ways. In the multiverse, with every possible future ahead of them, a love of honey could make all the difference.

Black Joy Live: A celebration of being Black and British @ Rio Cinema 2 Sept 2021
Tickets: From £16.50
Love, literature, friendship, music, carnival, travel, dance, work, nature, food - Black Joy can be found in so many places. Join us to celebrate the launch of BLACK JOY, an anthology curated and edited by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff and Timi Sotire, this September at the Rio Cinema in Dalston. They will be joined by BLACK JOY contributors Bukky Bakray, Isaac James and Tobi Kyeremateng to discuss themes such as community empowerment, the importance of diaspora, and what provides happiness in their lives.

An Ode to Notting Hill Carnival @ White City House 29 Aug – 1 Sep 2021
Tickets: RSVP for 29th Aug for Opening Event
An exhibition at White City House, to commemorate Notting Hill Carnival on its second year of cancellation. All print sale proceeds are being donated to the Grenfell Foundation.

STRING V SPITTA, WORK IN PROGRESS @ Soho Theatre 4th Sept 2021
Tickets: From £12
A late-night musical kids party, but for adults

Archival Resistance: Rastafari Women in Britain, Screening + panel event @ Independent Cinema Office 26 Aug 2021
Tickets: £7
Archival Resistance is an online event exploring the moving, living and visual archives of Rastafari women in Britain. The live event has been curated by Aleema Gray and will feature discussions with Sister Rasheda Malcolm and June Givanni. The live event will run alongside the film Omega Rising Women of Rastafari which will be available to stream from 19 August – 2 September.

UP:RISE In Conversation // Jamming The Signal @ FACT 88 (LIVERPOOL) 28th Aug
Tickets: Free (In-person and stream)
Ten years on from the nationwide uprisings sparked by the police killing of a Black man in London, many of the issues those protests highlighted remain unchanged. The use of technology to coordinate protests in 2011 brought about a new era of activism, and with it, an exponential increase in digital surveillance. Join us for a conversation with artists and activists as we consider how we might use these technologies to bring about meaningful change. This event will take place at FACT and have live BSL interpretation.

QUEENS OF SHEBA BY JESSICA L. HAGAN @ SOHO THEATRE 16 – 21 Aug 2021
Tickets: From £20
Turned away from a nightclub for being “too black”, four women take to the stage with their own explosive true stories: the music and the misogyny, the dancing and the drinking, the women, and, of course, the (white) men.

Exclusive Preview: Candyman + Pre-recorded cast intro @ BFI 22nd Aug 2021
Tickets: from £12 (Discount Code: SOUL21)
Delayed for well over a year, Nia DaCosta’s film finally arrives as an exclusive preview at S.O.U.L Film Fest! This contemporary incarnation of the cult classic unleashes a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend that your friend’s older sibling probably told you about at a sleepover: Candyman.

Film4 and Fruit Tree Media present: Foresight @ BFI 22nd Aug 2021
Tickets: From £3
S.O.U.L Fest is delighted to be teaming up with Film4, Fruit Tree Media and the BFI Young Audiences Fund to screen Foresight - a series of five short films that explore alternative realities for Black and Brown people in the UK.

Young Rebels on the Streets: Racism and Resistance in Southall from 1976 to 1981 @ ICA 22 Aug 2021
Tickets: From £5
Guest speakers from The Monitoring Group examine Institutional Racism and the origins of their organisation. https://www.ica.art/learning/the-monitoring-group-presents-institutional-racism

TWO FINGAS & JAMES T. KIRK WITH SUKHDEV SANDHU @ Rough Trade East 19th Aug 2021
Tickets: Free
A live in-conversation & signing event with Two Fingas (Andrew Green) & James T. Kirk (Eddie Otchere) hosted by Sukhdev Sandhu. This unique event celebrates the re-publication of 'Junglist', released August 10th on Repeater Books.

Junglist by Two Fingas and James T Kirk (Andrew Green and Eddie Otchere) Released on 10th Aug 2021
Back in print after two decades, Junglist tells the compelling, comic, stream-of-consciousness story of four young Black men coming of age among the raves and Jungle music scene in London during the 1990s.

Nightshade @ Hackney Empire 14th Aug 2021
Tickets: £3-6
Inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. Adaptation is written by Sumah Ebelé. Devised by the ADP 2021 Company. The classic love story, reimagined and retold by a young ensemble experiencing the summer of their lives; brought to you this August by the ADP 2021 Company at Hackney Empire.

Klippies @ Young Vic 4 Aug - 13 Aug 2021
Tickets: £!8
A coming-of-age drama about an unlikely friendship and the intensity of first love. Set in the twentieth year of South Africa's democracy, two girls struggle to navigate their troubled past.

GUAP X Kunstraum : The Community Exhibition @ Kunstraum 27th Jul - 1st Aug 2021

Bounce Cinema: Screening of Summer of Soul @ Genesis Cinema 25th Jul 2021

J'OUVERT @ Harold Pinter Theatre 16 Jun - 3 Jul 2021
Tickets: from £5
2017. Carnival is here. The streets of Notting Hill are alive with history and amidst the soca, sequins, and endless feathers, Jade and Nadine are fighting for space in a world that should be theirs. A timely echo of Caribbean resistance across centuries, J’OUVERT is a joyful and fearless story of two best friends, battling to preserve tradition in a society where women’s bodies are frequently under threat.

Ajamu: Archival Sensoria @ Cubbit Gallery 20 May - 11 Jul 2021
Tickets: Free
A solo exhibition of new and archival works that spotlight Black Queer legacies in Britain by photographer, artist-scholar, archive curator and radical sex activist Ajamu X, curated by Languid Hands.