Talawa put Black actors on Britain’s biggest stages. Now it’s throwing itself a 40th at Hackney Empire
Black On The Square returns to Trafalgar Square, free, for 60 years of carnival and 30 years of the MOBOs
The Black British Book Festival has sold out five years running. This year it brings Corinne Bailey Rae and Wretch 32 to the Barbican
The Gabriel’s Wharf Arts Festival is back for two free days of swing dancing and New Orleans jazz this September
The BFI Mediatheque, the free archive room where you can watch anything from Hitchcock to 1970s children’s TV, no booking required
Renoir’s most famous painting has never been shown in the UK. That changes this October, when Renoir and Love opens at the National Gallery
Five programmes, one week: London Sculpture Week turns the whole city into an open-air gallery this September
Curtis Holder, Robert Montgomery and 63 more: the new artist-first fair with no booth fees launches at One Marylebone this October
Jean Toussaint, Tony Kofi and a musical portrait of Muhammad Ali: World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens’ EFG Jazz Festival programme is its biggest yet
Rory Sutherland, The Guilty Feminist and a backgammon tournament: King’s Cross’s new three-day festival collides culture, science and ideas this September
Carnival 60: Ian Watts’ six decades of Notting Hill Carnival photography take over Outernet’s giant screens
Cezanne, Picasso and Magritte join the Courtauld Gallery’s collection in a major new partnership with the Reuben Foundation
Free outdoor cinema is back on the Thames, with Jaws and Hamlet joining the Summer by the River line-up
A Crookes tube, a rocket nose cone and a jar of moles: UCL marks 200 years with a free campus-wide exhibition
A striding woman in lapis lazuli blue: Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth gets a new resident this September
