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

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

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

A screening of exceptional short films selected by Sarah Agha for Arab Film Club, followed by a Q&A.

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

A semi-biographical theatre piece by Riwa Saab exploring grief through the lens of intergenerational relationships.

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

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.

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 screening presented as part Fozia Ismail's A Song for the Xeedho: the Knot Makers public programme.

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

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.

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.