CINEMA

Toronto International Film Festival

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There are many film festivals around the world, Cannes, Venice and of course Sundance in the States, to name just a few, and yet there are none as important to a film’s commercial future as the Toronto International Film Festival.

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AFRICA / LONDON

African Fashion

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V&A – London | The curators have gone to great lengths to make sure the show spans the entire continent with pieces displayed from Morocco to Ghana to South Africa, making it a truly pan African showcase.

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CINEMA

Tribeca 2022

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Tribeca, with film star Robert De Niro as its co-founder and its focus on urban, grittier stories, is very much the face of America’s urban East Coast.

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ART

In the Black Fantastic

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Hayward Gallery: in the Black Fantastic | How as an artist do you make sense of a world in which at times you are made to feel invisible? That has been an ongoing challenge for black artists throughout the African diaspora.

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CINEMA / INDIA

London’s Indian Film Festival

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The festival included acclaimed documentaries, shorts, features as well as screenings of some of the country’s recent classics. This year’s festival also included a live interview with the legendary Aparna Sen.

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THEATRE / USA

Oklahoma

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Oklahoma became the home for the largest number of African American frontier towns post the country’s Civil War. Those towns included Tulsa, which saw the expansion of one of the country’s most prosperous African American communities post World War I.

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CHINA / CINEMA

Odyssey: a Chinese Cinema Season

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The second edition of the Odyssey film festival in London is a real treat. It is festival devoted exclusively to screening Chinese films. Here is Beverly Andrews’s selection.

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THEATRE

The Age of Rage

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“This house thrives only in anger that leaves no time for repentance. Those who have been banished for their crimes return to commit a new one.”

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