
Shubbak Festival
Fri 23 Jun
|London
A breath coloured, informed, and inflected by the works of Arab and South West Asian and North African (SWANA) artists, makers and cultural practitioners.


Time & Location
23 Jun 2023, 19:00 – 09 Jul 2023, 19:00
London, London, UK
About the event
Full Festival Programme: https://www.shubbak.co.uk/festival-2023/
A breath coloured, informed, and inflected by the works of Arab and South West Asian and North African (SWANA) artists, makers and cultural practitioners. Those who are positioning their practice as provocation in the midst of environmental and social chaos; who, in encountering the urgent issues of today as well as those that have preoccupied us humans for millennia, refuse to shy away from discomfort. Those who take an intersectional approach and become part of a transnational wave of counterculture by virtue of challenging convention. Those who are choosing a joy, a love, a connection that digs deep when everything around us can feel atomising.
From 23 June to 9 July 2023, and together with this beautiful force that is our artistic family, we will be planting our hearts in the venues we step into, serenading London’s streets with poetry, reverting to our ancestral knowledge of…