
Phuket Vegetarian Festival 2025
Thailand is certainly no stranger to everything that’s quirky and out of the ordinary. The Phuket Vegetarian Festival held in autumn – also known under its more Taoist-inspired...

Thailand is certainly no stranger to everything that’s quirky and out of the ordinary. The Phuket Vegetarian Festival held in autumn – also known under its more Taoist-inspired...

Visions of Haiti is a programme of films, poetry and discussions on Haiti running at the Barbican Centre from 18 to 31 October. The programme allows a rareopportunity to see

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.

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

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...

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

Expressions of Life is the first solo exhibition by Judith Godwin in Europe. It will run at the Pippy Houldsworth Gallery in London from 26 January to 9 March, 2024.

Entangled Pasts, 1768–now, Art, Colonialism and Change is an exhibition running at the Royal Academy of Arts from 3 February to 28 April 2024. Entangled Pasts...

The Turner Contemporary presents Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, 1950 to 1970, a group exhibition about abstraction as a global language shared by women artists...

Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art shines a light on artists from the 1960s to today who have explored the transformative and subversive potential of textiles. It

Dreams Have No Titles, a solo exhibition by Zineb Sedira, will be shown for the first time in the UK at the Whitechapel Gallery, London from 15 February to 12 May. The exhibition was conceived ...

The Bruges Triennial (TRIBRU) is a contemporary art and architecture event held every three years in the city of Bruges, Belgium. This summer will see the fourth version of the

From April to November, the Venice Biennale (la Biennale di Venezia in its original Italian, and in English also called the Venice Biennial) is one of the world’s most prestigious cultural happenings, famous

The Royal Court Theatre presents ECHO by Nassim Soleimanpour in July at its Jerwood Theatre Downstairs. ECHO ECHO stands for Every Cold-Hearted Oxygen, but apart from that little is know

Newcastle will celebrate the LGBTQ+ community with Northern Pride in July. It will be from 19 to 20 July, 2025. Further details can be found here. UK Pride Events A

Archive of Dissent specially conceived for the Whitechapel Gallery, is one of the most extensive displays of Peter Kennard’s work to date. It surveys his prolific and influential...

Travel Begins at 40 gives the run down on this year’s WOMAD music festival, which is staying true to its global roots. Every summer in late July musicians, poets, actors, artists, thinkers and even cooks

Armand Van Helden, Doves and The Waterboys are headlining the Lindisfarne Festival 2025 held at Beal Farm, Northumberland from 28 to 30 August. Overlooking the majestic Holy Island, the Northumberland

Ushaw Flower Festival returns this September to a grand 500-acre country estate near historic Durham City. The three-day festival runs from September 6-8 and will fill the halls, chapels and