After a spell in prison, two African-American brothers reunite through Yoruba mythology and live music.

Bijan Sheibani directs this long-awaited revival of a deeply moving fable about the bonds between men.

Admission 19.30 14.00
Duration
Age
Young Vic, 66 The Cut, Waterloo, London SE1 8LZ
020 7922 2922
boxoffice@youngvic.org
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If you’re lucky, Santa might bring you board games for Christmas… but in the meantime, Charlie Fish will be bringing a GIANT SACK of gaming goodness to Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Get into the Christmas spirit by laughing, drinking, rolling dice, and outsmarting your opponents. Charlie takes great joy in welcoming newcomers, teaching games, and spontaneously breaking out into jolly carols.

Please note: After 5pm, the Upstairs bar is for over 18’s only.

Show Times | Admission 17.00
Duration
Age

469 Brixton Rd, Brixton, London SW2 1JQ
0871 902 5739

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IT, by Annabelle Rich, follows the relationship between Allie and It – a young woman and her eating disorder. This piece offers a unique insight into an often misunderstood illness. Francesca Tennant provides a hilarious comment on mindfulness as we watch Nat attempting to find balance both in her life and on her yoga mat in Chitta Vritti.

In The Circle, Emily Renée explores the momentous effects of rape on a loving couple, who are forced to re-examine their sexual identities.

A-Sexual-Being by Sophie Ablett gives us Alia and Bea, girls with very different perspectives on sex, attempting to create an unlikely relationship. Can an asexual girl be herself in a sexual relationship?

The writers have had shows performed at Theatre 503, The Pleasance, Etcetera Theatre, have worked with High Tide, and have been long-listed for the Old Vic 12.

Show Times Daily 19.30

Duration

Age

The Cockpit

Gateforth Street

London, Lnd NW8 8EH

United Kingdom

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Hear about the recent history of feminism in Russia and the new book Cosmic Shift: Russian Contemporary Art Writing at this panel discussion.

Join this panel discussion exploring the recent history of feminism in Russia and its perspectives on art with the curator of Calvert 22 Foundation’s exhibition Dmitri Prigov. Theatre of Revolutionary Action Elizaveta Butakova-Kilgarriff, the co-editor of the new book Cosmic Shift: Russian Contemporary Art Writing Elena Zaytseva, feminist art critic Katy Deepwell, and artists Maria Kapajeva and Natalia Mali.

Show Times  19.00 – 21.00 pay what you wish suggested entry £5

Duration

Age

22 Calvert Avenue

London

E2 7JP

T: +44 (0) 207 613 2141

E: info@calvert22.org

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Man on the Moon is a journey through space and time, fuelled by love, fear and Afro-futurism.

Keisha communicates with her reclusive dad through books, letters and symbols. But when the letters stop coming she is forced to venture into his world. This truth-infused narrative sees the protagonist follow a trail of breadcrumbs that lead her a number of check-points: cultural displacement, religious confusions, political paranoia, misplaced masculinity and more.

With the use of poetry, looped sounds and story-telling, this piece explores the impact that mental health can have on the family dynamic, particularly within the context of the Black British experience.

Keisha Thompson is a Manchester-based writer, performer and singer who has been writing since her primary school days. By age 16 she had been published in three anthologies and has supported artists such as Saul Williams, Amiri Baraka and Kate Tempest.

Show Times Daily 19.15

Duration

Age 12+

Camden People’s Theatre, 58-60 Hampstead Road, London, NW1 2PY

Tel. 020 7419 4841

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Mr Mineshaft explores the extraordinary life and work of forgotten black composer Julius Eastman, articulating his fall from the heights of the American avant grade to the depths of drug addiction, vagrancy, and worse.

Eastman is a lost genius – a virtuoso musician, classical composer, vocalist, dancer, and gay rights activist lost to posterity. At the height of his career, he toured Europe and played with eminent artists like John Cage, Arthur Russell, and Meredith Monk, whilst embracing the heady New York gay scene, sometimes arriving for rehearsals in army boots, a military jacket and vest, and holding a bottle of scotch.

But increasingly dependent on alcohol and drugs, and frustrated with the lack of artistic opportunities for black and gay men, his life fell apart. Having failed to gain a promised lectureship at Cornell University, he eventually became a vagrant in Tompkins Square Park – precipitating an even more severe decline in his physical and emotional health.

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Show Time | Admission 21.00

Duration

Age 16+

Camden People’s Theatre, 58-60 Hampstead Road, London, NW1 2PY

Tel. 020 7419 4841

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It’s a night of live music, poetry and storytelling to celebrate the festive season and the opening of the all-night overground service!

Libreria, London’s hippest bookshop will be serving up mulled wine, mince pies, and tales of Christmas past alongside our signature beers, beats and books!

Go along and be immersed in a magical world of late night literature…

Showtime 18.00 – 06.00

Duration

Age

65 Hanbury St

London

E1 5JP

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A glorious culturally conscious afternoon for the whole family featuring live music, cinema, dance, games, workshops and the best of vibes.

Each month Rich Mix features a different live act with African connections, DJ Sets from Rita Ray and Max Reinhardt, African cinema with introduction and Q&A’s led by Andy Jones of Screen Station.

Lucy Angell John’s dance session for kids lasts all afternoon along with the Oware Society’s non-stop playing of the oldest board game in the world, Oware, as played in Ghana.

Plus, enjoy Kunle’s African street food fresh from the pot.

Talk, dance, clap, cheer, drink, eat, and share a celebration of African culture.

Show Times 14.00

Duration

Age

35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA.

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“I spend the night in an officer’s barracks, where no woman has ever set foot.”
In the darkest recesses of Ukraine, a war is raging.

A journalist takes a research trip to the front line.
Teenage girls wait for soldiers on benches.
A medic mourns her lover killed in action.

Heart-breaking, powerful and bitterly comic accounts of what it is to be a woman in war

Natal’ya Vorozhbit is the leading Ukrainian playwright of her generation. Bad Roads will be directed by Royal Court Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone.

Showtime 19.45
Captioned: Wed 20 Dec 19.45pm
Duration 1hr 40mins
Age 16+
ROYAL COURT THEATRE
Sloane Square
London SW1W 8AS
020 7565 5000

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The world premiere production of the acclaimed CBS television series lands on stage for the first time in its history. Or its present. Or its future.

Between light and shadow, science and superstition, fear and knowledge is a dimension of imagination. An area we call the Twilight Zone.

Admission 19.30 14.30
Duration
Age
ALMEIDA STREET
LONDON, N1 1TA
020 7359 4404
boxoffice@almeida.co.uk

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The Magical Lantern Festival London is back with all new, bigger, brighter and more spectacular lanterns! The Festival is a spectacular fusion of art, heritage and culture. Illuminating outdoor installations of beautifully sculpted lanterns taking various forms.

Admission Thurs–Sun 12.00 – 18.00
Duration
Age
Chiswick House Gardens
London, W4 2QN.
02075371290
info@welicreative.com
The entrance to the park is the Dukes Avenue Gate, accessible on foot only from A4 Westbound.

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A place where people suffered and dreamed.

Okot wants nothing more than to get to the UK. Beth wants nothing more than to help him.

Meet the hopeful, resilient residents of “The Jungle”– just across the Channel, right on our doorstep.

Join refugees and volunteers from around the world over fresh baked naan and sweet milky chai at the Afghan Café.

From Good Chance Theatre, a new play where worlds collide. In the worst places, you meet the best people.

Show Time | Admission
Duration
Age
Young Vic,
66 The Cut,
Waterloo, London SE1 8LZ
020 7922 2922
boxoffice@youngvic.org

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‘100 years ago the biggest killer of young men was war, now they kill themselves.’

Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK.
Every 31 hours someone takes their own life by jumping in front of a train.
They are ten times more likely to be a man.

31 HOURS is the story of four men who clean up after rail suicides. Filled with humour and humanity, it takes us on a high-speed kaleidoscopic journey through masculinity, mental health and messy aftermaths in modern Britain.

Admission | Show Times 19.30 15.00
Duration 80 mins no interval
Age
53a Southwark Street
London, SE1 1RU
boxoffice@bunkertheatre.com
0207 234 0486

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Fleet Street. 1969. The Sun rises. A young and rebellious Rupert Murdoch asks the impossible and launches The Sun’s first editor’s quest: to give the people what they want. No matter the cost.

This roller-coaster play tells the story of The Sun, an ailing minor title bought for a song by Murdoch and relaunched with a skeleton staff of weirdos and rejects, led by scar-faced Yorkshire sub-editor Larry Lamb.

Admission 19.30 14.30
Duration
Age
104 St Martin’s Lane
London
WC2N 4BG

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Discover the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the pioneering prodigy of the 1980s downtown New York art scene. This unprecedented exhibition brings together an outstanding selection of more than 100 works from international museums and private collections.

Engage in the explosive creativity of Basquiat who worked with Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Blondie, among others. Featuring rare film, photography and archive material, the show captures the spirit of this self-taught artist, poet, DJ and musician whose influence, since his death at 27 in 1988, has been enormous.

Admission 10.00
Silk St
London
EC2Y 8DS
020 7638 4141

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Lies. Greed. Corruption. It’s all business as usual.
Glengarry Glen Ross takes place in the office of a group of cut-throat Chicago salesmen, willing to go to any lengths to get sales, legal or not. Pitting against each other, it’s a high-stakes competition to get one up on each other, and soon the increasingly desperate four employees are fighting to win. But as time and luck begin to run out, one thing becomes clear: close the deal and you win; blow the deal and you’re out.

Glengarry Glen Ross features a stellar cast, including American actor Christian Slater.

Show Times 19.45 14.30
Age 12+
Playhouse Theatre
Northumberland Avenue
London, WC2N 5DE

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Encounter some of the world’s most venomous creatures and discover their surprising connection to human health.

Get up close to all kinds of specimens, from snakes, centipedes, snails and scorpions to the unassuming platypus.

See the world through the eyes of both predator and prey and explore the effects of venom and the role it plays in the natural world.

Please note this exhibition contains images that some may find distressing.

Get up close to a live venomous creature
Hear from scientists whose ideas represent the cutting edge of venom research and its use in modern medicine

Admission
Open daily 10.00-17.50
Last entry 17.30
Closed 24-26 December
Duration Age 15+
The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD

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From humble beginnings in Nutbush, Tennessee, to her transformation into the global Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Tina Turner didn’t just break the rules, she rewrote them. This new stage musical in London reveals the untold story of a woman who dared to defy the bounds of her age, gender and race.

Show Times 19.30 14.30
Duration 75 mins
Age
49 Aldwych,
London WC2B 4DF

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The UK’s first major exhibition of artists’ responses to war and conflict since the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001. Age of Terror: Art since 9/11 will feature more than 40 British and international artists, including Ai Weiwei, Grayson Perry, Gerhard Richter, Jenny Holzer, Mona Hatoum, Alfredo Jaar, Coco Fusco and Jake & Dinos Chapman.

Artists’ unique ways of communicating through their art provide different levels of understanding. The stories they tell, whether first or second-hand, come from alternative viewpoints not always reflected in the mainstream media, often challenge our perceptions.

Admission 10.00 – 18.00
IWM London
Lambeth Road
London SE1 6HZ
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7416 5000

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