Responding to the Refugee Week 2026 theme of ‘courage’, and the Choose Love and Creative Visions themes ‘unique and united’ artist Malak Mattar has created a new installation in collaboration with young people from Ukraine and Greece.
An audio-visual installation and community project by artist Kadir Karababa that explores how music carries memory, identity and a sense of home across borders.
For a limited time, you can now buy or rent the feature documentary Palestine Comedy Club and stream it at home.
Scheduled to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the Festival of Britain, this one-day symposium will explore an important but still widely overlooked aspect of the Festival and its legacy: namely, the disproportionately large creative input of those from (mostly) Jewish immigrant families and of former refugees from Nazism.
One Song is an audio-visual installation and community archive by artist Kadir Karababa. The exhibition explores how music carries memory, identity and a sense of home across borders.
A gathering for artists, dancers, funders and culture workers - an evening where titles take a back seat and people meet as people first.
A participatory workshop for artists, activists and culture workers about how movement can support wellbeing.
Can joy change the way we lead? Join us in this session blending movement, storytelling and collective imagination.
Past Events
Join artist Fozia Ismail and Orsod Malik, Executive Director of the Stuart Hall Foundation, for a conversation marking the final event in the A Song for the Xeedho public programme.
Layla Mahmood, East Africa Correspondent for The Observer, joins Mohammed Elnaiem from The Decolonial Centre for a conversation on climate, censorship and environmental change in East Africa.
Discover the sounds and stories that have shaped A Song for the Xeedho in this listening session and conversation with researcher Ibrahim Hirsi.
A screening presented as part Fozia Ismail's A Song for the Xeedho: the Knot Makers public programme.
Join a conversation exploring what we inherit through sound as part of To Re-Cite, a newly commissioned project by artist Aliaskar Abarkas exploring sound, music, and listening through faith and collective experience.
A one-day symposium where artists, researchers, technologists and organisers making and thinking with plants will come together to explore questions about nature, memory, and human connection through the senses.
A special guided tour for invited artists and producers to view the Whitechapel Backyard Biennial.
A semi-biographical theatre piece by Riwa Saab exploring grief through the lens of intergenerational relationships.
Join artist Fozia Ismail for the opening conversation of A Song for the Xeedho – the Knot Makers, her new commission for Backyard Biennial: East.
