Culture

Tate Modern celebrates 25th Anniversary with birthday weekender

Tate Modern, one of the leading contemporary art museums, is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a four-day Birthday Weekender from Friday 9 to Monday...

Radeya Osman - Tue 06 May 2025

Rudolph Walker’s Birthday Book Launch

Has there been any other Caribbean-born actor who has had such a prominent presence on British TV screens over the past six decades than...

Dunstan Creavalle - Tue 24 Sep 2024

News Theatre

It’s Nomination time for the 2024 Black British Theatre Awards

The UK’s only event celebrating the outstanding achievements and contributions of black artists to the nation’s vibrant and dynamic theatre industry, the Black British...

Dunstan Creavalle - Tue 04 Jun 2024

Big Life provides Big Laughs

If I had to select a theatre production that perfectly epitomises the Soca News mantra of Spreading Our Culture Around, then The Big Life...

Dunstan Creavalle - Wed 28 Feb 2024

Brenda Emmanus – Black British Theatre Awards Patron

Soca News attended the Black British Theatre Awards (BBTAs) on Sunday 29 October 2023, at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton Theatre on the Southbank. Established...

Dunstan Creavalle - Tue 27 Feb 2024

Nubian Fairies: A Secret Paradise

Multi-award-winning entrepreneur Nefateri Asantewa, whose Black greeting card company was established in 2008, added the title, Author, to her bow (including being a mixed...

Dunstan Creavalle - Wed 22 Nov 2023

Books Culture News

Review: Party Lines. Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain

A book about the rave and clubbing scene might seem an odd choice for a review in Soca News, but Ed Gillett’s masterful analysis...

Stephen Spark - Mon 16 Oct 2023

UK audiences have a chance to see Saint Lucian movie...

British audiences will have a chance to see the award-winning Saint Lucian film Shantaye’s World, which will be shown at four London cinemas this...

Fri 13 Oct 2023

Nailah Blackman to debut her first children’s book

Nailah Blackman, soca songstress and granddaughter of the late Ras Shorty I (Garfield Blackman), venerated soca music pioneer, has diversified into children’s books. Set...

Radeya Osman - Wed 11 Oct 2023

Only Human – a photographic exploration of community

Aneesa Dawoojee’s black-and-white portraits of martial arts fighters in south London made a big impression on photo professionals and the public alike last year....

Stephen Spark - Thu 21 Sep 2023

Artist showcases St Lucia’s traditional mas in London

This month, Londoners have a chance to see Saint Lucian artist Alwyn St Omer’s Moon Dancer series of paintings based on traditional mas. As the...

Stephen Spark - Thu 14 Sep 2023

Chris Ofili’s Requiem remembers Grenfell fire at Tate Britain

A new work by Turner Prize-winning artist Chris Ofili that opened on 12 September at Tate Britain recalls the Grenfell Tower fire of six...

Stephen Spark - Wed 13 Sep 2023

Books Health & Fitness News Review

The King of Soca receives maiden international award

Soca and calypso are two of the most iconic and entrenched music genres in Trinidad. For the past 40 years these cultural gems have...

Wed 09 Aug 2023

Red Carpet Film Premier Shines a Light on Black Women’s Menopause...

The premier of Dr Yansie Rolston’s Our Menopause was held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London on 29 May. The short...

Dunstan Creavalle - Sun 09 Jul 2023

Windrush Caribbean Film Festival 2023

Thirty-six films, 40 screenings and talks, 11 venues and five cities. Those impressive statistics add up to one very ambitious film festival – a...

Stephen Spark - Tue 06 Jun 2023

Once on this Island

Rosa Guy's My Love, My Love, or, The Peasant Girl (1985) has embraced its Trinidadian roots to inspire the riveting new Ola Ince directed...

Goss Malone - Wed 10 May 2023

Harry Belafonte, 1 March 1927- 25 April 2023

The singer, actor and activist Harry Belafonte died on 25 April, of congestive heart failure, at his home in New York City, said his...

Dunstan Creavalle - Mon 01 May 2023

Professor Carole to launch her newest book at New Beacon

Award-winning Caribbean-American author Carole Boyce Davies who has specialised in writing about the African Diaspora and black women will be launching the newest addition...

Radeya Osman - Wed 05 Apr 2023

Black History Walks book launch events

There was a full house upstairs at the Prince of Peckham (a Black-owned pub) for the first of a series of launch events for...

Dunstan Creavalle - Thu 10 Nov 2022

Shantaye’s World set to screen in London

Shantaye’s World, a film by Iyanola Pictures, a small Saint Lucian film company will premiere at an invitation-only viewing this Saturday 12 November, with...

Radeya Osman - Mon 07 Nov 2022

Jumbie in Town – searching for the spirits of Trinidad

Have you been bitten by a soucouyant? Did you meet a largahoo while coming home late one night? Does Papa Bois spoil your shot...

Stephen Spark - Wed 19 Oct 2022

Claudia Jones biopic project gets a boost

She didn’t even reach her half-century, yet Claudia Jones achieved enough to fill books, documentaries, plays… and now a film. It’s hard to write about...

Stephen Spark - Wed 31 Aug 2022

Machel Montano launches The King of Soca

Machel Montano has launched his eagerly awaited book, The King of Soca. The tell-all biography takes us inside the life and 40-year musical career of...

Radeya Osman - Sun 14 Aug 2022

Culture News

Karla Cornwall Exhibition closes on 9 July

Karla Cornwall is an abstract expressionistic contemporary artist who specialises in original, collaborative platforms of bespoke artistry by pushing the boundaries of individualism and...

Radeya Osman - Wed 06 Jul 2022

Books News Review

The Frontline – the unheard of Notting Hill in their own...

A new book by Ishmahil Blagrove is always a notable event, and the launch of The Frontline on 24 June 2022 was no exception....

Stephen Spark - Mon 27 Jun 2022

Windrush Caribbean Film Festival 2022 offers a feast of film, in...

Themed From Empire to Commonwealth: Legacies of the Windrush Generation, the Windrush Caribbean Film Festival bounces back into cinemas – online as well –...

Stephen Spark - Thu 16 Jun 2022