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Shubbak Festival at London

Dates: (6/23/2023 - 9/7/2023 )

Theatre:

London

Shubbak

Gough Square London EC4A 3DE
London,

Phone: 020 3627 2960

Tickets: Free - £20

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London’s largest celebration of Arab Arts returns as Shubbak Festival takes over London and beyond this Summer!

Returning for its 7th edition, Shubbak Festival promises another sensational Summer celebrating Arab arts and cultures with a dynamic and multi-disciplinary programme.

 

Shubbak Festival platforms narratives representing Arab, South West Asian, and North African cultures. This year’s Festival will see popular favourites, emerging artists, and highly anticipated UK debuts and world premieres, with over 200 artists and 80 events across both arts venues and the public realm. A collaborative endeavour between creatives and communities, the Festival will also present commissions and residencies from Shubbak’s creative programme.  Showcasing an ambitious and vibrant line-up of performance, visual art, comedy, dance, film, literature, and talks and workshops, Shubbak Festival will champion artists and their crafts as they confront the urgent environmental and social issues of today.

 

Shubbak Festival is held with support from: Arts Council England; Bagri Foundation; British Council; and A. M. Qattan Foundation.

 

Full Programme of Events

 

Fri 23rd – Wed 19th July 

Totalitarian Props, The Africa Centre, 66 Great Suffolk Street, London, SE1 0BL
 

Fri 23rd – Sun 25th June                            

Take-over Weekend at River Stage Festival, National Theatre, River Stage, Upper Ground, South Bank, London, SE1 9PX

 

Friday 23rd June

Haya Zaatry, Badiaa Bouhrizi: Sonic Frontiers | Night 01, Servant Jazz Quarters, 10A Bradbury

Street, London, N16 8JN

 

Fri 23rd - Sun 25th June        

lisa luxx and Jasmin Kent Rodgman: What the Dog Said to the Harvest, Southbank Centre,

Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX

 

Fri 23rd June – Sat 15th July

Reem Acason: Two Seas, Rochester Art Gallery, 95 High Street, Rochester, ME1 1LX

 

Fri 23rd June – Sun 9th July                        

Soraya Syed/Art of the Pen: Sound & Silence, The Coronet Theatre, 103 Notting Hill Gate,

London, W11 3LB

 

Fri 23rd June – Sun 9th July

Think-Sync-Arabi digital, Online

 

Saturday 24th June                                      

Tamara Al-Mashouk: I’d search forever, I want to remember, Tech Fort, Citadel Road, Dover,

CT17 9DR

 

Sunday 25th June

Bahiyya, Lafayette, 11 Goods Way, London, N1C 4DP

 

Tues 27th – Thurs 29th June                     

Mohamed Toukabri: The Power (of) The Fragile, Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, London, SW11 5TN

  

Wed 28th – Fri 30th June                           

Laila Soliman, Bushra El-Turk, Stacy Hardy, Bissan Al Charif: Woman at Point Zero, Royal Opera

House, Linbury Theatre, 35-36 Bow Street, London, WC2E 9DD

 

Thursday 29th June                                      

Sandy Chamoun and Maya Al Khalidi with Sarouna: Sonic Frontiers | Night 02, IKLECTIK, Old

Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, SE1 7LG

 

Thursday 29th June                                     

Shaima Muhammad Ali: Vital Capacities online exhibition, Online

 

Thursday 29th June

Momtaza Mehri: Bad Diaspora Poems, Grand Junction, Rowington Close, London, W2 5TF

 

Thurs 29th June - Sun 9th July                   

SAFAR Film Festival 2023: A Journey Through Space and Time, Multiple Venues

 

Friday 30th June

Shaden: All Hell Broke Loose, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL

 

Fri 30th June – Sat 1st July                        

Colette Dalal Tchantcho: Dreamer, Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, London, SW11 5TN

 

Saturday 1st July                                       

Love & Revenge: Love & Revenge: Electropop meets cinema, Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green

Road, London, E1 6LA

 

Saturday 1st July

Lama Amine, Aya Haidar & Tatreez Collective: Rest, Play, Feast, Metroland Studios, 91 Kilburn

Vale, North Maida Vale, London, NW6 6PS

 

Sunday 2nd July

Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi: A Friend’s Kitchen - an intimate stroll with Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi and friends,

Queensway Station, Bayswater Road, London, W2 4SS

 

Monday 3rd July 

Hamed Sinno: In Conversation, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB

 

Tuesday 4th July

Mona Kareem: I will not fold these maps, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB

 

Tue 4th – Sat 8th July

Sharihan Hathweh & Manal Awad: Double Bill: No Cheri / Mia Chara, Soho Theatre, 21 Dean

Street, London, W1D 3N

 

Thursday 6th July

Ghalia Benali: Ghalia Benali, Kings Place, York Way, London, N1 9AG

 

Thurs 6th – Fri 7th July

Samaa Wakim & Samar Haddad King: Losing It, The Yard Theatre, Unit 2a Queen's Yard, London, E9 5EN

 

Thurs 6th – Fri 7th July

Hannah Khalil: Trouf: Scenes From 75* Years, Theatro Technis, 26 Crowndale Road, London, NW1 1TT

 

Thurs 6th – Sat 8th July

Elias Matar: Olive Jar, Grand Junction, Rowington Close, London, W2 5TF

 

Friday 7th July

Riwa Saab: When the Night Speaks, The Yard Theatre, Unit 2a Queen's Yard, London, E9 5EN

 

Fri 7th – Sun 9th July

SABAB Theatre/Sulayman Al Bassam: I M E D E A, Stone Nest, 136 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 5EZ 

 

Saturday 8th July 

Hamed Sinno: Poems of Consumption, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS

 

Saturday 8th July

Hardi & Khabat: The Legitimated Body and Navigated Listener, Watermans, 40

High Street, Brentford, TW8 0DS

 

Saturday 8th July

Reem Acason: Flowing Shorelines, Medway Chatham Library, Dock Road, Chatham, ME4 4TX

 

Saturday 8th July

Mohammed Saleh: Dar Jacir x RESOLVE, Mosaic Rooms, 226 Cromwell Road, London, SW5 0SW

 

Sunday 9th July

Hassan Abdulrazzak: Chambers of the Heart 26, Crowndale, London, NW1 1TT

   

Sunday 9th July

Bint Mbareh, Juliette Mourad, Ola El Hassan: When the Land Speaks, Hackney Marshes 

 

Multiple Dates

Aya Haidar: The Art of Borders & Child’s Play, Multiple Venues

 

Multiple Dates

Yasmeen Audisho Ghrawi: From the Daughter of a Dictator, Multiple Venues

 

Multiple Dates
Company Zid/Said Mouhssine: Taroo, Multiple Venues 

 



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