Celebrate the legendary voice of Umm Kulthum in a special tribute evening of Tarab in our spectacular setting Join us for a special evening as Cambridge Takht returns to Grand Junction, with guest artist and rising qanun player Hend Al Zouari, to perform timeless Tarab classics by the late Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum, 51 years […]
An evening of craft workshops, ancient and contemporary Egyptian games, and a selection of cultural publications, books and zines that rarely reach London. Artist and calligrapher Yasmine Khadim will teach Arabic calligraphy, while Elissa Madin will help guests hand-embroider an Ancient Egyptian amulet necklace. Esmat Publishing brings a curated selection of photobooks and zines from […]
HERITAGE REFRAMED A Lavish Concepts presentation, in partnership with Johara Global. Join us for an evening celebrating artists and designers from the GCC, and the wider MENA region, creatives whose work has been shown at the British Museum, the Islamic Arts Biennale, the Banan Festival, and recognised by Forbes 30 Under 30. Their practices draw […]
Home in Aleppo: Memory, Loss and Rebuild Home in Aleppo: Memory, Loss and Rebuild is a moving exploration of displacement, identity, and the fragile process of rebuilding after loss. Drawing on personal experience, Zahed Tajeddin, a Syrian artist and sculptor, reflects on the layered memories of Aleppo, exploring what is carried forward, what is left […]
Celebrating Sudanese Women Artists in Exile: Almas Art Foundation is proud to present Of Roots and Routes. Curated by Frédérique Cifuentes & Makana Art Collective, Of Roots and Routes, is a vibrant exhibition and series of immersive events celebrating the creativity, resilience, and cultural legacy of Sudanese women artists working across the diaspora. Featuring oil […]
Dialectics of Erasure is a participatory lecture-performance by Palestinian-German artist-scholar Mudar Al-Khufash that invites you, the audience, to participate in unraveling the mechanism sustaining the everyday performance of settler colonialism. This is an experiment. The lecture-performance frames settler colonialism not as an event of the past, but an ongoing structure sustained through performative rules, routine, […]
BOOK TICKETS NOW. You’re invited to The Galilee Foundation’s special “Voices From The Nakba” event, featuring a crucial and hopeful conversation between Nakba survivor Antoine Raffoul and Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos. Together, two witnesses to catastrophe can show us that even through the deepest pain, listening, shared humanity, and dialogue can help us gain understanding […]
Art Forward Gallery is opening in Fitzrovia on April 16th with Voices from Exile. The show will run through May 23rd and brings together four Iraqi artists — Koutaiba Al Janabi, Sadiq Kareem Toma, Yamam Nabeel, and Samir Jamal Al Din — whose works span three decades and explore what it means to know home […]
Faster than light, always is a sound and choreography commissioned by Wonder Cabinet bringing together British-Palestinian movement artist Sasha Shadid, Palestinian movement artist Adan Azzam, and Ramallah-based interdisciplinary artist Julmud. It is part of Wonder Cabinet’s ongoing body of work exploring the Cremisan Valley through architectural, sonic, visual, and ecological investigations. The performance speaks to […]
In these open-ended play sessions for under-fives and their grown-ups, we pack the Play Room full of squishy and crunchy materials, tubes, pipes, boxes, crates, dens and more. Join experienced Playworker and Art Facilitator Zareen Islam, who will bring a range of different materials – mainly reclaimed or recycled – to create and facilitate sessions […]