Oxford is a park & ride city  where it encourage the people   to use  bus or bike  Pamela Roberts  Director of IBMF showing this is an excellent mode of transport  especially the one with the 3rd IBMF poster on it.

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2005 marks the debut of The International Black Media Festival in Oxford.
Oxford is unlike any other city in the world. The beauty and architectural  elegance of its  famous colleges is  enlivened by a  youthful buzz of  chic restaurants,  bistros and  traditional pubs.  Oxford also has a  strong black presence dating back to the 17th century; the notable civil right activist Malcolm X, addressed the Oxford Union in 1964.   City highlights are   all within walking  range, so this is an  easy place to   explore and enjoy.  Guided walking  tours and open top  buses give an  excellent overview of Oxford's   development through the ages. 

Must-see attractions for first-time visitors include the University's Bodleian Library, dating from 1427, the ceremonial Sheldonian Theatre designed by Sir Christopher Wren and a choice of six superb museums whose outstanding collections span arts, science and natural and local history. Many colleges also   open their halls, chapels, cloisters and gardens to visitors - mostly in the afternoons.  Much of Oxford is already familiar to devotees of TV's Inspector Morse, or the Harry Potter films, whose locations include Christ Church, New College and the Bodleian Library's Divinity School.

More literary links lead to the Eagle & Child pub, where authors J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis shared "golden sessions" of literary chat and to Christ Church where mathematics don Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) wrote his Alice stories for Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean.  Art in every form is thriving here. Oxford contrasts the Old Masters of the  AshmoLean Museum or the Christ Church Picture Gallery with the latest cutting-edge installations at the highly-acclaimed Modern Art Oxford  Prepare too for some serious shopping in independent special shops, in superb bookshops or in the Covered Market, which sells everything from live lobsters to a handmade hat!