📣Events announcement📣
Join the RSL and Black to the Future on Friday 3 May, 6.30pm at the Black Cultural Archives for 'Manifesto for Black Futures'🤝

Catherine Johnson CatherineJohnson , Michael Salu MichaelSalu and Debo Amon will explore the multiplicities and power of Black lives, what…

Seeing term 'black British futurism'. Does it exist? #news Leone Ross FRSL published Glimpse: An Anthology of Black British Speculative Fiction (2022); Irenosen Okojie launched the Black to the Future Festival Black to the Future: blacktothefuture.space/about #Literature

🚀 Join us for a cinematic experience like no other at the UK screening of 'Io Capitano' TOMORROW!
This film captures the resilience and courage of two young Senegalese boys on their quest for a better life in Europe.

‘Io Capitano’ review: ‘Magic and misery are the two compass points on Matteo Garrone’s terrific widescreen migrant odyssey.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐
timeout.com/movies/io-capi…

'The most powerful picture of humanity you’ll witness this year' - The Standard

Matteo Garrone's stunning #IoCapitano is in cinemas now across the UK and Ireland!
See it on the biggest screening possible this weekend.
🎟️: altitude.film/io-capitano

A hugely powerful film giving human face and personality to the tortuous journey of the African migrant seeking a better life . Matteo Garrone’s muscular, passionate and urgent Io Capitano Watershed now.
watershed.co.uk/whatson/12521/…

.Sudan Archives for The New Yorker: How Sudan Archives Became the Violin's Domme. Words by doreen st. félix. #StonesThrow

Read: bit.ly/45klQ6i

The first Black professional actor on a British stage whose name we know was a Black woman, Rachael Baptiste, who played Juliet in the eighteenth century. All power to The Jamie Lloyd Co and their leading lady, Francesca Amewaduh-Rivers. She joins a proud, long tradition.

The production of 'Romeo & Juliet' starring Tom Holland and Francesca Amewaduh-Rivers is facing 'a barrage of deplorable racial abuse online directed towards a member of our company,' the production company says. 'This must stop.” variety.com/2024/theater/g…

April game releases for your diary 📅

🗡️ FFXVI The Rising Tide DLC - 𝗔𝗽𝗿 𝟭𝟴
🌙 Tales of Kenzera: Zau - 𝗔𝗽𝗿 𝟮𝟯
🏜️ Sand Land - 𝗔𝗽𝗿 𝟮𝟲
🍑 Stellar Blade - 𝗔𝗽𝗿 𝟮𝟲
🎾 TopSpin 2K25 - 𝗔𝗽𝗿 𝟮𝟲
🏴‍☠️ Sea of Thieves (PS5) - 𝗔𝗽𝗿 𝟯𝟬
🤿 Dave the Diver (PS4/PS5) -…

BANEL & ADAMA director Ramata-Toulaye Sy on the GFF24 red carpet - “I wanted to write a story where Juliet becomes Lady Macbeth”

See this wonderful film at GFT

🎟️ bit.ly/GFT_BanelAdama

📸Erika Stevenson

This week, Amon Warmann chats to Ramata-Toulaye Sy about her feature debut, BANEL & ADAMA. Plus! Reviews of DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS and MONSTER, alongside the highs and lows of this year's Oscars

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The S.O.U.L. Fest is back for 2024 and we want to see your work…
Submit your film: bit.ly/3xs239x

Reel Impact is our brand-new programme to support Black and Global Majority creatives working behind the scenes! 🎬 We've partnered with We Are Parable for a virtual Q&A session on applying and learning more.

📅 15th April @ 2pm
👉🏽 Sign up now: bit.ly/3TEqxne

This was such an incredible event. Hugely generous panel, supportive and eager audience. Thank you to everyone who came!
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The question of who belongs in gaming is over! Diversity is the future, and we're celebrating it! Stay tuned next week for the reveal of our 2024 'Do I Look Like a Gamer?' participants! #
#LookLikeAGamer #DiversityInGaming

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