
Ikon Gallery celebrates Balraj Khanna with his first major survey exhibition
Lines of Flight brings together 40 paintings spanning six decades by the British-Indian artist Balraj Khanna, free to visit at Ikon in Brindleyplace until February 2027.
Theatres, galleries, cinemas, bookshops, makers and museums across Birmingham, and what's on in the city's arts scene.

Lines of Flight brings together 40 paintings spanning six decades by the British-Indian artist Balraj Khanna, free to visit at Ikon in Brindleyplace until February 2027.

The Newman Brothers coffin furniture factory, now a much-loved museum, has received an Engineering Heritage Award from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Digbeth's independent community cinema is hosting a screening and panel to celebrate the landmark Black Audio Film Collective documentary, first shown in Birmingham in October 1986.

Opened in 2022 by friends Catherine Gale and Claire Dawes, The Heath Bookshop has become an award-winning hub with author events, book clubs and its own literature and music festival.

From 23 October 2026 to 3 January 2027, an immersive Peter Pan experience fills BMAG's Gas Hall, with £1 from every ticket going to Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity.

Edgbaston's Art Deco gallery and concert hall is being renewed with a new learning wing and better access, and expects to welcome visitors back in the latter part of 2027.

After a spring tour of Don Quixote and a summer at the Royal Opera House, Birmingham Royal Ballet returns to Birmingham Hippodrome with its festive Nutcracker from 20 November.

Midlands Arts Centre in Cannon Hill Park celebrates Birmingham-born Surrealist Emmy Bridgwater and her circle with a free season of exhibitions, trails, courses and talks.

Opened in April 2001 by four founders in a former pen factory, the volunteer-run Pen Museum in the Jewellery Quarter marks its quarter-century with a lively new events programme.

Joe Murphy's first season as artistic director delivered a record-breaking Sweeney Todd, selling 31,283 tickets at Britain's longest-established building-based theatre company.