Our Longsight Festival is a free three-day community festival celebrating the people and places that make Longsight, Manchester, what it is today. Having collaborated earlier this summer with Longsight Art Space on our As We Are Network Creative Exchange Day, we’re delighted to partner again to offer workshops at the Longsight Festival led by members […]
Nadine Kaadan is an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator from Syria now living in London. She is published in several countries and languages and her mission is to champion empowered and inclusive representation in children’s books so that every child can see themselves in a story. Nadine is leading a six-week online course inviting writers, illustrators, […]
Join the Arab British Centre and Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution for the launch of Detainees & Disappeared, a book which traces the memories of the Syrian revolution through stories and testimonies told through art and culture. Examining themes of detention and enforced disappearances from 2011 until the end of 2020, Detainees & Disappeared […]
Join Saqi Books and the Arab British Centre to welcome celebrated Iraqi poet, novelist, translator and scholar Sinan Antoon. Sinan will be discussing his latest book, Notes From a Lost Country – a breathtaking portrait of lives rebuilt in the shadow of loss. The novel follows two Iraqi men in exile – a retired doctor slipping […]
The Third House is an in-between space between home, homeland, and the imagined future home, where Arab diaspora voices can explore identity, intergenerational memory, cultural landscapes, language, and belonging through creative practice and poetic writing. Devised and run by Amina Atiq, a Yemeni-British poet, teaching artist, and creative practitioner, this participant-led online course engages creative […]
A Tatreez Circle led by Najlaa Jarbou – a space to slow down, reflect and step into the ancestral rituals. All materials provided. Join us this Refugee Week on Monday 15 June for a Tatreez Circle led by Najlaa Jarbou – a space to slow down, reflect and step into the ancestral rituals of our […]
This online course led by interdisciplinary theatre and performance scholar, educator, and artist Dr Nesreen Hussein explores creative practices since the January 2011 Egyptian revolution, and how they have been negotiated by Egyptian artists, cultural practitioners, and activists as forms of resistance, grassroots activism, or political expression. Drawing on examples from the performing arts, media, visual […]
As We Are, Might Have Been, and Could Be is the Arab British Centre’s UK-wide visual arts and talent development programme, curated by Jessica El Mal and supported by the Freelands Foundation. We organised an As We Are Creative Exchange Day in partnership with Manchester’s Longsight Art Space. The day was an opportunity for people with […]
As We Are, Might Have Been, and Could Be is the Arab British Centre’s UK-wide visual arts and talent development programme, curated by Jessica El Mal and supported by the Freelands Foundation. Over the past three years we have commissioned artists of Arab descent in the UK, hosted exhibitions and community activities in museums and […]
Encounter the beauty and profound cultural importance that the art of textiles holds for people around the world. This display, facilitated by Multaka Oxford at the Pitt Rivers Museum, celebrates how communities around the world use textiles and creativity to weave stories of resilience, beauty and cultural identity. Pieces from the following project partners included […]