Shubbak at the British Museum is a day of events, installations and talks exploring responses from artists and institutions to the fragility of and threat to cultural heritage and artistic expression.

Survival of the Artist

All day symposium

Tickets £15, 10am – 5.30pm, includes break for lunch
Divided into three sessions, the symposium reflects on how artists and art spaces survive and continue to work in times of civil and political conflict, and on how they respond to the continuing threat to cultural heritage.
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Inanimate Village

Site-specific installation by Zahrah Al-Ghamdi in the Great Court

Free, open access, all day
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Unearthed

Installation by Issam Kourbaj in the Great Court

Free, open access, all day
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Living Histories

Gallery talk with Venetia Porter and Issam Kourbaj

Free, 13.45 – 14.30pm in Gallery 34
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