Organised by Aurora Metro Books.

'Encounters with James Baldwin, celebrates the centenary of the African American writer’s birth, over 30 contributors reveal the influence of Baldwin’s thought, speech and writing to their personal journeys and their awareness of the need for social justice in this moving anthology’.

Organised by Bold Tendencies.

An event celebrating James Baldwin’s only book written for children, Little Man, Little Man, which will be read live by Baldwin’s nephew, Tejan Karefa-Smart.

In partnership with the London Review of Books. Writers and artists read from Baldwin’s work, Notes of a Native Son.

An evening of musical performances celebrating Baldwin, and the composers referenced by him.

Event organised by the LSE Webster Review of International History and the Phelan US Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Through the ideas in James Baldwin's seminal text The Devil Finds Work, this series of films and discussions explores Black representation in contemporary cinema.

Taking the book The Devil Finds work by James Baldwin, one of the most influential writers and activists of the 20th century, we present a season of films and conversations discussing Black representation in contemporary cinema. 

Baldwin's 1976 book is a deeply personal, imaginative and theoretically complex exploration of American filmmaking, stardom, racial politics, the powerful effect on the personal and social consciousness that films produce.

This series explores James Baldwin’s approaches to cinema and criticism placing the films in dialogue with literature, popular culture, politics, and society. The full line up of guests for the ScreenTalks announced soon. 

This programme has been curated by Dr. Clive Chijioke Nwonka, an Associate Professor in Film, Culture and Society at UCL, and a Faculty Associate of the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation. Nwonka is the author of the book Black Boys: The Social Aesthetics of British Urban Film (2023).

This project is part of the ‘James Baldwin and Britain’ project (2024-2027), led by Douglas Field, Kennetta Hammond Perry and Rob Waters, with thanks for the generous support by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.