• Fozia Ismail In Conversation

    Whitechapel Gallery 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London, United Kingdom

    Join artist Fozia Ismail for the opening conversation of A Song for the Xeedho – the Knot Makers, her new commission for Backyard Biennial: East.

    free
  • Backyard Biennial: East — Guided Tour

    Whitechapel Gallery 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London, United Kingdom

    A special guided tour for invited artists and producers to view the Whitechapel Backyard Biennial.

  • Sijelo Collective in Leeds – Arts of Noticing

    Meanwood Valley Urban FarmMeanwood, England Sugar Well Rd, Meanwood, Leeds

    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.

  • To Re-Cite: What Do We Inherit Through Sound?

    Whitechapel Gallery 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London, United Kingdom

    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. 

    free
  • Listening to the Xeedho Archive

    Whitechapel Gallery 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London, United Kingdom

    Discover the sounds and stories that have shaped A Song for the Xeedho in this listening session and conversation with researcher Ibrahim Hirsi.

    free
  • A Song for the Xeedho: Climate, Censorship and East African Futures

    Whitechapel Gallery 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London, United Kingdom

    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.

    free
  • A Song for the Xeedho: LATE

    Whitechapel Gallery 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London, United Kingdom

    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.

  • A Tonic to the Nation

    St John’s Church 73 Waterloo Road, London, london, United Kingdom

    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.

  • Our Work in Mental Health

    Yorkton Workshops 1-3 Yorkton St, London, London, United Kingdom

    A day of impact sharing and the launch of our Mental Health Framework

    Free