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16-17/10/2026 Events: “HIM Haile Selassie and Scotland”
18:00-20:00, Friday, 16 / 10:00-12:00, Saturday, 17 October 2026 Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, free tickets via Eventbrite Join for a two-day celebration of the legacy of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie’s visit to Glasgow and Wemyss Bay in June 1936. The…
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9/10/2026 Event: “Unveiling of Statue of Nelson Mandela”
16:00, Friday, 9 October 2026 Nelson Mandela Place, Glasgow A bronze statue of Nelson Mandela will be unveiled in Nelson Mandela Place, Glasgow, commissioned and funded through the charity, The Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation, and created by sculptor Alan…
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29/10/2026 Event: “A Women’s Oral History of West Africa with Sylvia Arthur”
18:00-19:30, Thursday, 29 October 2026 Online event, free tickets via website A Women’s Oral History Of West Africa: In Excess of Expectation – what does it mean to survive in excess of expectation? According to the United Nations, women in West…
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16/10/2026 Event: “Maud Sulter: Annual Lecture with Joy Gregory”
17:00-18:30, Thursday, 22 October 2026 Reid Building, Glasgow School of Art, tickets via website Every year in partnership with Glasgow School of Art, Many Studios and Street Level we celebrate the legacy of Maud Sulter, her roots in Scotland and…
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14/10/2026 Event: “Twilight Tour – Yoruba Healing Traditions”
17:15-18:00, Wednesday, 14 October 2026 Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, tickets via Eventbrite Go behind-the-scenes in our curator led Twilight Tours at Kelvin Hall, to explore objects and artworks from The Hunterian collection. Join Dr Ayodele Ige, an historian of medicine and…
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6/10/2026 Event: “Black History Month: African Women, Myth and Material Memory”
14:30, Tuesday, 6 October 2026 Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, Glasgow African myth and folklore play a central role in shaping cultural identity, belief systems and collective memory. Moving between historic wooden artefacts and contemporary works, this tour explores how African…
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27/10/2026 Screening: “Woodlands Anti-Racist Film Club – Dreamers (2025)”
17:30-21:00, 27 October 2026 Flourish House, 23-25 Ashley Street, Glasgow, tickets via Eventbrite After living illegally in the UK for two years, Nigerian migrant Isio is caught and sent to Hatchworth Removal Centre, where she hopes her plea for asylum…
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28/10/2026 Event: “Anti-Apartheid Solidarity in Glasgow: A Legacy of Political Posters”
19:00-20:00, Wednesday, 28 October 2026 Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, free tickets via Eventbrite A behind the scenes tour at Kelvin Hall stores, looking at Glasgow Museums’ collection objects associated with Anti-Apartheid organising. 50 years on from the Soweto Uprising, we look…
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23/10/2026 Event: “A Van, a Festival and a Story of Cultural Exchange”
14:00-14:20, Friday, 26 October 2026 Riverside Museum, Glasgow, free tickets via Eventbrite Discover the story of Glasgow’s Salaam Festival truck art van, created by Afshan Abid with students and now on display at Riverside. In this illustrated talk, Senior Curator…