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What’s On Your Weekly Entertainment Guide Pick of the week What’s On *I Am Not Your Negro   I Am Not Your Negro Various Cinemas On General Release | Tickets from £9.50 Film. A documentary centering on the late African-American writer James Baldwin which paints a vivid portrait of black life in America and the lives…

What’s On Your Weekly Entertainment Guide Pick of the week What’s On *Stand Firm Stand Firm Tate Britain 07 April | Free Event. A night of rediscovery and mediation of the music, literature, moving images, visual art and political engagement of African and Caribbean migrants to the UK Music, film, poetry, discussion and more. Using Jamaican-British…

What’s On Your Weekly Guide What’s on London Walk For The Homeless Pick of the week *The Big London Night Walk 2017  The Big London Night Walk 2017 St John’s Church | 03 March 2017 Fundraising walk with a difference. Hot drinks and snacks will be provided along the way at  rest stops It will be…

What’s On Your Weekly Guide Whatson Valentine’s week. Pick of the week *Extremism Extremism Rich Mix | 17 Feb 2017 Extremism is a youth theatre play about fear, friendship and the creeping polarisation of our society. The police just took Jamal away. Because Miss Tomlinson called them. Because she had to. Because of Prevent. But…

What’s On Your Weekly Guide Pick of the week *Hidden Figures Hidden Figures Various Cinemas |Out on February 17 2017 The incredible untold story of genius African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind America’s space launches. The incredible untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson. These brilliant African-American…

Oracle’s guide to what’s on featuring Gal Dem, Girls and One Night In Miami (review) Gal Dem V&A | 28 Oct 2016 This October the V&A is teaming up with online magazine and collective gal-dem. Made up of over 50 women of colour, Gal-Dem offers their take on the world. With an all-female lineup, you are invited…

  The New Black Film Collective Various Cinema’s | Black History Month Oct 2016 The New Black Film Collective 2016 Black History Month Programme Jungle Fever              20 Oct Dir. Spike Lee *25th Anniversary* A United Kingdom     24 Oct Dir. Amma Asante – See review Chi-Raq            …

  Maman Le Mot Secret London Location | To 30 Sept 2016 It’s 1943, and the French Resistance are recruiting secret agents to join the battle to liberate France. Receive your briefing. Get yourself kitted out. Then get stuck in. Expect mischief, moustaches, misinformation and the odd exploding meringue. Practice your accent, learn the new…

  THE EY EXHIBITION: WIFREDO LAM TATE MODERN | 19 September 2016 – 08 January 2017 Wifredo Lam sought to portray and revive the enduring Afro-Cuban spirit and culture. Wifredo Lam’s distinctive style shook the assumptions of western Modernism. His distinctive paintings introduced the symbolism of his Cuban roots and defined a new way of…

  Bedlam: The Asylum Welcome Collection  | 15 Sept 2016 – 15 Jan 2017 Asylums are a thing of the past in Britain, whether they helped the patients is debatable. Named after the South London Royal Bethlem Hospital, Bedlam a new exhibition at the Wellcome looks at the tensions between biomedical and psychosocial therapy for mental…