• Counterpoints Lecture with Elif Shafak

    Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre

    Global bestselling writer and renowned activist Elif Shafak explores whether creativity can help heal our divided world.

  • Our HeartBeats: Courage in Creativity

    Riverside Terrace, Southbank Centre SE1 8XX , United Kingdom

    Join a celebration of global club sounds and community at the Southbank Centre with Our Heartbeats DJ Crew for Refugee Week

    FREE
  • 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.