
Raindance Film Festival 2023
The largest independent UK film festival, The Raindance Festival returns to London for its 31st edition in October. Whereas the BFI London Film Festival is the biggest show in town, Raindance

The largest independent UK film festival, The Raindance Festival returns to London for its 31st edition in October. Whereas the BFI London Film Festival is the biggest show in town, Raindance

Raindance 2025: A Daring Tapestry of Global Voices and Bold Debuts From underground squats in California to the post-gangland underbelly of Berlin, this year’s Raindance Film Festival (18–27 June, Vue

London's Southbank winter festival returns to the UK capital on 3 November, running through to the New Year. The Southbank Centre Winter Festival is a highlight...

David Hockney: Drawing from Life, which was staged for just 20 days before the National Portrait Gallery’s closure due to the Covid pandemic in March 2020 returns this November. Read

The EFG London Jazz Festival is a highlight in the UK capital’s music calendar, explains Robert Spellman. Out of the November gloom comes the EFG London Jazz Festival for 2023.

Ghosts will be the first performance of an Ibsen play at the Globe Theatre's Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in its 10-year history. Director Joe Hill-Gibbins breathes new life into the 150-year-old

Jazz on Screen returns to Barbican Cinema during the EFG London Jazz Festival with a series of films that provide some light on modern jazz legends in the 50s and 60s. The three films...

Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends celebrates artist and poet Li Yuan-chia, examining how his LYC Museum and Art Gallery has impacted upon British art. The exhibition is on

With the continuing threat of rising water levels in the UK caused by climate change Flood Barrier is a timely moving image commission created by Catherine Yass, which will be

Lumiere Light Festival Durham is the largest light festival in the UK. Held every other year since 2009, the next Lumiere Festival is slated to occur in November 2023. Organisers

A highlight of the festive season, Winchester Christmas Market opens on 22 November. Since 2006 the market has been recognised as one of the leading Christmas Festivals...

Standing on One Hand is the first solo exhibition in the UK by Don Van Vliet better known by his stage name Captain Beefheart since 1994. Michael Werner Gallery will

Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec will be on display at the Royal Academy from 25 November to 10 March 2024...

Cold War is a beautiful love story. Echoes of Dr Zhivago and Romeo and Juliet permeate throughout this wonderful performance directed by Rupert Goold based on the book by Conor

Jack Thorne's new play The Motive and the Cue, starring Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton, and directed by Sam Mendes will run at the Noel Coward Theatre from 9 December

Adrian Wootton, CEO of Film London, presents Sergio Leone's timeless classic spaghetti western Once Upon a Time in the West at the Barbican Cinema 1 on 10 December. Wootton looks

Once mostly a regional affair, the Harbin Ice Festival, China - or the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival as it is officially known - has grown into...

Billing itself as an underground electronic music festival for adults, the Ocaso Festival has chosen a great location beside a beautiful beach with rainforest close behind...

During Uttarayan, one of India’s most eagerly awaited celebrations, the International Kite Festival in the state of Gujarat sees millions of kites...

Founded in 2003, the London Short Festival (LSFF) is a an independent short film festival. In January the LSFF presents some 250 to 500 UK and international shorts, as well