A new exhibition highlights how migration has shaped who we are in Britain – as individuals, as communities and as a nation.

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

Bodies of Water is a site-specific show to be staged on the banks of the Thames in Greenwich, exploring the moving stories of  people travelling across land and water to seek refuge.

South Asian Heritage Month films and events: from Bhutan to Bangladesh, tales of resilience, identity, and personal freedom with a focus on music, female voices and queer stories. 

British people of East and Southeast Asian heritage are still regarded as “niche exotica”, says writer/ actor/ filmmaker/ musician Daniel York Loh.

Beyond the Bassline at the British Library is the voice of community, resistance, culture and joy, a celebration of the trailblazers that brought new music to the UK, and the layered Black experiences that have birthed a thriving musical culture and history.

Challenging negative Muslim stereotypes, story-telling and faith are three key issues for Sajid Varda, creator of the inaugural Muslim International Film Festival.

The inaugural Muslim International Film Festival in London (30 May – 2 June) champions the narratives of Muslim filmmakers and spotlights their compelling stories.

Indigo Giant revisits a forgotten moment in British history and a moment in Bengali history that will never be forgotten

Ten films will be featured at at this year’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival (14-24 March).

In a decade of neon and noise, one moment made the world stand still and brought 1.5 billion people together – and they all have a story to tell about ‘the day rock ‘n’ roll changed the world’. 

The Royal Court presents six new plays by writers from five different countries.

Attacks on civilians. Global anti-rights movements. Anti-democratic forces. Populism. Many believe that we are witnessing increasingly authoritarian rollbacks to democracy that are intimately connected to a global backlash on rights.

The aim of the London Migration Film Festival is to challenge the narrow rhetoric on migration that often sees migration, and people on the move, framed in reductive and dehumanising terms.

The Empress takes you from the gangways of Tilbury docks to the grandeur of Queen Victoria’s Palace, unveiling the long culture of British Asian history.

A selection of films from Africa, Asia and Latin America, or dealing with migration issues, from this year’s BFI London Film Festival (4-15 October).

“If you not give elephant proper burial he’ll haunt you forever.” 

Railway, dock and factory worker, military conscript, labour organiser in Senegal, Marseille and Paris, novelist and, of course, filmmaker – Ousmane Sembène was larger than life.

Shubbak Festival returns to London and the UK with an invitation “to pause and take a breath”.