Black History Month events

View what’s happening in our borough this Black History Month.

If you are hosting a Black History Month event, please email details to communitynews@richmond.gov.uk so we can include it in our schedule.

Hear underrepresented voices with RESOLVE Collective

Join RESOLVE Collective for library lates, evenings of conversation, and making and learning at the library. This series of public programme events is happening at three local Richmond Libraries: Whitton, East Sheen and Ham.

The sessions feature site-specific installations that invite attendees to reimagine their relationship with local libraries. As part of this year’s Richmond Arts & Ideas Festival, the events also interrogate how we can nurture ecologies of creative practice by caring for the nodes in these networks.

• Dates: Thursday 2 and Wednesday 8 October
• Time: 6pm
• Location: East Sheen Library (2 October) and Ham Library (8 October)
• Booking: Book your tickets for the RESOLVE Collective events

Get inspired by Richmond Reads talks

Events taking place as part of Richmond Reads 2025.

No safer kinder hatred: A story of survival and spirit

Join Frank Thabani Sayi for an online conversation about his experience growing up in colonial Rhodesia and subsequently his work in the UK.

• Dates: Monday 13 October
• Time: 7pm
• Location: Online
• Booking: Book your tickets for No safer kinder hatred: A story of survival and spirit

Expert Witness Panel: Real jobs. Imaginary crimes. Killer stories.

Hear from crime fiction authors Nicola Williams, Graham Bartlett, and Imran Mahmood as they bring gripping authenticity to their storytelling, shaped by real-life careers in the courtroom, on the beat, and at the bar.

A book signing will follow this event, in partnership with Hewson Books and The Kew Bookshop.

• Dates: Saturday 18 October
• Time: 4pm
• Location: Twickenham Library
• Booking: Book your tickets for Expert Witness Panel: Real jobs. Imaginary crimes. Killer stories