The I’m Migrant Film Festival is returning for its third edition at Genesis Cinema from 12 – 26 March 2027. The I’m Migrant Film Festival is a film festival celebrating independent and emerging voices from around the world, bringing together filmmakers and audiences through screenings, talks and exhibitions. The Open Call is now open for […]
Presented in collaboration with Shubbak Festival, the Syrian Academics and Researchers’ Network (SARN), The Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies, and the University of Cambridge. Curated by Aymen Gharbi. Sound by Bint Mbareh. This work is an artistic intervention at the University of Cambridge in commissioned by Shubbak Festival presented in collaboration with SARN network, […]
An evening at Leighton House with artist and calligrapher Soraya Syed, celebrating the publication of ‘Soraya Syed: The Living Script’, which draws together leading voices from the field of Islamic art, art history and calligraphy. The evening includes a book signing and paid bar, with time to explore the historic house and Soraya Syed’s ‘From […]
Another Sky is a London-based festival and artistic platform celebrating experimental music from the SWANA (South West Asia & North Africa) region and diaspora. We present composed, improvised and electronic music; short films and moving-image works; new commissions; workshops and an independent label & publisher fair. We are delighted to host NO HAY BANDA – […]
Rabih Alameddine won the 2025 US National Book Award for fiction for his buoyant and camp seventh novel The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother). Told by a 63-year-old gay philosophy teacher and drag entertainer living in Beirut, it is set against the backdrop of the modern history of Lebanon from […]
Arabesque Arabic Craft Club offers fun, hands-on language and craft classes for Arab children aged 4–10 in South West London. Running every Sunday in Chiswick, our interactive weekly sessions bring the Arabic language to life through creative arts, foundational language learning, and practical conversation.
Soul City Arts invites you to attend Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, a one-day photography symposium led by Mohammed Ali Aerosol with the support of Dr. James Hodkinson and curated by Mohamed Somji. Why the symposium: Muslims in the West are perpetually summoned to appear: to be counted, included, diversified, made legible. This symposium begins by […]
Iraqi Scribes Exhibition: Celebrating Iraqi Art, Heritage and Community The Iraqi Scribes Exhibition brings together a collection of contemporary artworks celebrating Iraqi heritage, culture, identity and creativity from the Iraqi Scribes collective, a community of artists and creatives who use art and storytelling to explore and celebrate Iraqi culture and heritage. Originally presented as a […]
Following its UK premiere at Shubbakfestival 2025, 63 Days of Sit-In returns to London at Theatro Technis on 4 & 5 September. Created by Palestinian theatre collective @basta.theatre , 63 Days of Sit-In is based on the true story of the 63-day sit-in led by Palestinian disability rights activists inside the Palestinian Legislative Council during […]
What is the relationship between extractivism and visuality? What can reflecting on this relationship tell us about the politics of extractivism especially in colonial contexts whose coloniality has remained underrecognised? Join us for a special launch event as we explore these questions in light of geographer Eray Çaylı’s new book Earthmoving: Extractivism, War, and Visuality […]