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