Join Autograph for a hands-on workshop using collage and generative AI to explore identity, history and memory

£10

Join the Whitechapel Gallery and Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq for a BSL-Led tour of Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey.

Free

October Gallery presents its fifth solo exhibition of compelling works by Govinda Sah ‘Azad’, a Nepalese artist now working in Margate. This exhibition highlights Sah’s latest large-scale oil and acrylic paintings on canvas and presents selected smaller scale works. Journey to the Heart of Light weaves together the artist’s personal journeys through both inner and outer realms.

Free

Inspired by the tales of fearless female protagonists emblazoned on Joy Gregory’s Fierce and Fearless installation, the British Bilingual Poetry Collective present a family-friendly storytelling and drawing session, centring on trailblazing Bengali writer, educator, and social reformer Begum Rokeya. 

Free - Booking required

Join artist Joy Gregory for an intimate conversation, tracing the development of her artistic practice over time and speaking to her profound influence on the cultural landscape through the lens of her new exhibition, Catching Flies with Honey. 

£5

Join artist Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq for a BSL response to Autograph’s exhibition I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies. Aurangzeb-Tariq will introduce the key themes in the group exhibition, which explores photomontage’s rich legacy as a powerful tool for artists engaging with experiences of political dissent and erasure. She will use the artwork on display to expand on ideas such as how constructed images can stand in for disputed – and often entangled – narratives when words fail.

£10

A hands-on workshop inviting you to explore storytelling and personal history through paper weaving with photographs.

£10

For this Season’s specially curated late, multi-disciplinary creative Ronan Mckenzie presents an after-hours programme of action, exploration, feeling, and tactility, in dialogue with Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey.   

Free - Booking Required

Dulwich Picture Gallery presents an exhibition by Rachel Jones (b. 1991), the first ever solo contemporary show in the Gallery’s main exhibition space. The show will feature a series of newly commissioned works celebrating this leading artist’s exploration into identity and interiority within the self. 

£12

Founded by Selina Brown, this vibrant, family-friendly festival champions emerging talent, showcases iconic voices and puts Black British authors centre stage. Across one powerful day, expect thought-provoking panels, bold conversations, joyful children’s sessions and the UK’s largest Black book marketplace.

£34

As part of Black History Month, come and join sisters - singer and songrwiter, Dinachi, and award-winning author, Chibundu Onuzo - at The Africa Centre for Wura! A vibrant family-friendly afternoon celebrating the beauty and joy of childhood in West Africa.

STYLE CONGO: WHERE IT ALL STARTS AND WHERE IT ALL ENDS?Architect and cofounder of Traumnovelle, Johnny Leya invites us on a journey where architecture and visual arts intersect to challenge inherited colonial narratives. Spanning from the late 19th century, when Belgium established the Congo Free State in 1885, through to Congo’s independence in 1960, the talk traces how Belgian Art Nouveau absorbed Congolese resources and visual motifs, embedding imperial ideologies into celebrated European aesthetics.

Ugonna Hosten talks with Adjoa Armah about the imaginative journey into her ancestral spiritual and cultural roots that defines her practice. 

Serpentine presents a new project by Peter Doig that explores the role of music, film, and sites of communal gathering, listening and creative exchange within his practice.

Transforming the gallery into a listening space, House of Music brings together recent paintings and, for the first time, integrates sound into Doig’s work.

Free

This theme explores how artists transform humble or found materials — cardboard, beads, market remnants — into carriers of memory and meaning. These materials speak to histories of migration, trade, and belonging, and to the ways everyday objects can embody resilience, identity, and the idea of “home.”

Attend the screening of select films from Africa’s Cultural Landmarks, a new documentary series produced by The Metropolitan Museum of Art with World Monuments Fund (WMF). Africa’s Cultural Landmarks highlights Africa’s diverse architectural vernaculars and preservation efforts against a backdrop of challenges. These films foreground local perspectives and stewardship, bridging ancestral legacies with contemporary narratives. 

Time: 16:00 – 16:30

Location: 1-54 Bookshop

– THE STRANGERS (Penguin)
– BLACK EARTH RISING (Thames & Hudson)

This conversation proposes to examine the role that certain galleries are taking on today by going beyond traditional commercial functions to become true micro-institutions. Engaged in the construction of a critical and decolonial discourse, these entities invest themselves in the work of repairing and rewriting parts of art history by mobilising rigorous processes of research, archival investigation, and artistic lineage. 

The African Creative Industries Symposium will convene leading artists, cultural practitioners, policymakers, investors, and academics from Africa, the UK, and beyond. As part of the UK/Kenya Season of Culture, this landmark event will spotlight Africa’s creative economies as engines of growth, innovation, and cultural diplomacy.

Through four key panels: Fashion, Visual Arts, Music, and Financing, the symposium will foster dialogue, networking, and international collaboration to strengthen Africa’s creative industries and connect them with global markets.

This talk convenes art historians, curators, collectors, and enthusiasts to critically examine the oeuvre and legacy of Ben Enwonwu, a pioneering Nigerian modernist. The programme will feature in-depth analyses of Enwonwu’s innovative synthesis of traditional African art and modernist idioms, with a focus on his impact on global artistic trends and the contemporary art market.

Join Artist Rachel Jones and curator Jane Findlay for an inspiring conversation and wine reception.

£30

Free

After a rebel rousing evening jam packed with soul stirring moments. Open micers, Live Art, Music and Cheza Roho! We return with the best of UK's vocalists;

£22,35

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is pleased to present Winter Remembers April, Shaqúelle Whyte’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Titled in homage to Wynton Marsalis’ interpretation of the jazz standard, I’ll Remember April, the exhibition honours several of Whyte’s musical heroes, from Boris Gardiner and Gil Scott-Heron, to The Beatles.

Free

Vigo Gallery and English Heritage present LAKWENA – HOW WE BUILD A HOME, a vibrant new exhibition of cardboard and bead paintings by celebrated artist Lakwena Maciver at the iconic Wellington Arch.

Free

Explore South African storytelling, beadwork poetics and praise poetry in this participatory workshop with performer and writer Nomakhwezi Becker.

Free

Serpentine presents a new project by Peter Doig that explores the role of music, film, and sites of communal gathering, listening and creative exchange within his practice.

Transforming the gallery into a listening space, House of Music brings together recent paintings and, for the first time, integrates sound into Doig’s work.

Free