Literature, Poetry & Spoken Word – Shubbak Festival 2023

Hamed Sinno eating a jelly worm on a purple background

Reflecting on Shubbak 2023

Festival Highlights

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In pictures: 2023 Festival

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Shubbak Festival 2023

23 June–9 July Multiple times

London and beyond

Take-over Weekend at River Stage Festival

Multiple artists

Fri 23 June – Sun 25 June 12pm–11pm

River Stage, National Theatre

Dance · Family · Music · Talks & Workshops ·

Taroo

Company Zid / Said Mouhssine

23 & 30 June, 1, 2 & 8 July Multiple shows

Multiple venues

Dance · Family · Theatre ·

الصوت والصمت

Sound & Silence

Soraya Syed - Art of the Pen

Fri 23 June - Sun 9 July 12 noon - 8pm

The Coronet Theatre

Talks & Workshops · Visual Arts ·

Arabic Calligraphy Workshops

Soraya Syed - Art of the Pen

Fri 23 & Sat 24 June 3-5pm

Cromwell Place

Talks & Workshops · Visual Arts ·

تخوم صوتية | الليلة الأولى

Sonic Frontiers Night 01

Haya Zaatry and Badiaa Bouhrizi

Fri 23 June 8:30pm

Servant Jazz Quarters

Music ·

البحرين

Two Seas

Reem Acason

Fri 28 April-Sat 15 July Opening times vary

Rochester Art Gallery

Talks & Workshops · Visual Arts ·

سينك عربي

Think-Sync-Arabi

Various artists

Fri 23 June-Sun 9 July

Online

Online ·

الفن والإعاقة تحت الحصار

Art & Disability Under Siege

Jeries Thaligah, Rawan Barakat, Yara Qwareiq, Diana Saleh, moderated by Dr. Dina Kiwan & Dr. Maha Shuayb

Sat 24 June 3-4:15pm

Online

Online · Talks & Workshops ·

Person standing in a field of corn looking at the sky

ما قاله الكلب للحصاد

what the dog said to the harvest

lisa minerva luxx and jasmin kent rodgman

Sat 24 & Sun 25 June 8pm & 4pm + 7pm

Southbank Centre

Theatre ·

دعائم الاستبداد

Totalitarian Props

Group exhibition

Sat 24 June–Fri 14 July Opening times vary

The Africa Centre

Talks & Workshops · Visual Arts ·

بهية

Bahiyya

Sun 25 June 7pm

OMEARA, London

Music ·

Image of a table with objects such as a newspaper, with a transparent overlay of a bacteria

مسبب أمراض الحرب

Pathogen of War

Yasmin Fedda

27 June-1 July Multiple shows

Battersea Arts Centre

Theatre · Visual Arts ·

Two performers on dark stage. Man is carrying his mother sideways on his shoulders.

ذو باور (أوف) ذو فراجيل

The Power (of) The Fragile

Mohamed Toukabri

27–29 June & 1 July 7.30pm

Battersea Arts Centre and The Lowry

Dance ·

امرأة عند نقطة الصفر

Woman At Point Zero

LOD Muziektheater

Wed 28–Fri 30 June 7:45pm

Royal Opera House

Music · Theatre ·

الصورة النمطية هي القصة: مائدة حوار مفتوح تتبعها جلسة رعاية لاحقة

The Stereotype is the Story – a Long Table followed by aftercare

Hannah Khalil, Bushra El-Turk, Sara Alsaraf

Thu 29 June 12:30-3pm

Clore Studio, Royal Opera House

Talks & Workshops ·

Bad Diaspora Poems

Momtaza Mehri

Thu 29 June 7.30pm

Grand Junction, London

Literature ·

تخوم صوتية | الليلة الثانية

Sonic Frontiers Night 02

Sandy Chamoun and Maya Al Khaldi with Sarouna

Thu 29 June 8:00 to 10pm

Iklectik

Music · Talks & Workshops ·

SAFAR Film Festival: A Journey Through Space and Time

SAFAR Film Festival

Thu 29 June-Sun 9 July Multiple times

Multiple cities

Film · Talks & Workshops ·

Online Exhibition with Vital Capacities

Shaima Ali

Thu 29 June-Sat 9 July 2023 24/7

Online

Online · Visual Arts ·

لقد انتا* الوضع كليا

All Hell Broke Loose

Shaden

Fri 30 June (London) & Sat 1 July (Bradford) 7pm & 9pm

Conway Hall, London & Bradford Literature Festival

Theatre ·

حالمة

Dreamer

Colette Dalal Tchantcho

Fri 30 June–Sat 1 July 7.30pm

Battersea Arts Centre

Theatre ·

Rest, Play, Feast: an urban retreat for families

Lama Amine, Tatreez Collective & friends

Sat 1 July 10:45am-4pm

Metroland Studio

Family · Talks & Workshops · Visual Arts ·

غرام وانتقام: لقاء بين موسيقى الإلكتروبوب والسينما (عرض دي جي سمعي بصري)

Love & Revenge: Electro-pop meets cinema [DJ set with full visuals]

Love & Revenge

Sat 1 July 8pm

Rich Mix, London

Music ·

مطبخ الصديقة – نزهة حميمة مع الشاعر والأصدقاء

A Friend’s Kitchen – an intimate stroll with the poet and friends

Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi

Sun 2 July 2pm & 4pm

Queensway, London

Literature ·

حوار مع حامد سنّو

Hamed Sinno: In Conversation

Hamed Sinno

Mon 3 July 7pm

British Library, London

Talks & Workshops ·

من ابنة ديكتاتور

From the Daughter of a Dictator

Yasmeen Audisho Ghrawi

Mon 3-Tue 4 July 7.30pm

Theatro Technis, London

Theatre ·

لن أطوي هذه الخرائط

I Will Not Fold These Maps

Mona Kareem

Tue 4 July 7.15pm

British Library, London

Literature ·

جرّة الزيتون

Olive Jar

Elias Matar and members of the community

Thu 6–Sat 8 July Thu, Fri 8:30pm, Sat 4:30pm & 8:30pm

Grand Junction at St Mary Magdalene’s

Theatre ·

طروف: مشاهد من 75* عاماً

Trouf: Scenes From 75* Years

Hannah Khalil, Ghazi Zaghbani, Chris White

Thu 6–Fri 7 July 7.30pm

Theatro Technis @ 26 Crowndale

Theatre ·

تبًّا

Losing It

Samaa Wakim & Samar Haddad King

Thu 6 & Fri 7 July 8pm

The Yard

Dance ·

غالية بن علي

Ghalia Benali

Thu 6 July 8pm

Kings Place, London

Music ·

صوت الليل

When the Night Speaks

LUMA, Basma, Aisha Mirza, Hiba

Fri 7 July 9pm

Party at The Yard, London

Music ·

Flowing Shorelines

Reem Acason & Friends

Sat 8 July 10am–4pm

Chatham Library

Talks & Workshops · Visual Arts ·

Dar Jacir – Tools for Solidarity with RESOLVE Collective: A Workshop for Families

Mohammed Saleh

Sat 8 July 2–4pm

The Mosaic Rooms

Family · Talks & Workshops ·

الجسد الشرعي والمستمع المُبحر

The Legitimated Body and Navigated Listener

Hardi & Khabat

Sat 8 July 5pm London, 7pm Slemani

Watermans Arts Centre

Music · Visual Arts ·

حامد سنّو

Hamed Sinno

Poems of Consumption

Sat 8 July 8pm

Barbican

Music ·

حُجرات القلب

Chambers of the Heart

Hassan Abdulrazzak, Laila Alj, Sepy Baghaei

Sun 9 July 2pm

Theatro Technis @ 26 Crowndale

Theatre ·

Foraging Workshop-c Kin-Hands by Julliet Mourad

صوت الأرض

When the Land Speaks – صوت الأرض

Bint Mbareh, Juliette Mourad, Ola Elhassan

Sun 9 Jul 3:30pm

Hackney Marshes

Literature · Talks & Workshops ·

سأبحث للأبد لأتذكر

I’d search forever, I want to remember

Tamara Al-Mashouk

Fri 21 & Sat 22 July 10am - 6pm

Frieze: No 9 Cork Street

Talks & Workshops · Visual Arts ·

Image of woman standing in darkness on stage with her arms out wide with an orange in each hand. Many oranges strewn across the floor.

آي ميديا

I M E D E A

SABAB Theatre / Sulayman Al Bassam and Stone Nest

29 Sep - 1 Oct 2023 2pm, 6pm and 7:30pm

Stone Nest

Theatre ·

Welcome!

Shubbak Festival 2023

23 June–9 July

London and beyond

Reflecting on Shubbak 2023

Festival Highlights

Watch and read

Online

In pictures: 2023 Festival

Festival Highlights

View images

Online

Download the Festival Programme

Shubbak Festival 2023

23 June–9 July Multiple times

London and beyond

Take-over Weekend at River Stage Festival

Multiple artists

Fri 23 June – Sun 25 June 12pm–11pm

River Stage, National Theatre

Taroo

Company Zid / Said Mouhssine

23 & 30 June, 1, 2 & 8 July Multiple shows

Multiple venues

Sound & Silence

Soraya Syed - Art of the Pen

Fri 23 June - Sun 9 July 12 noon - 8pm

The Coronet Theatre

Arabic Calligraphy Workshops

Soraya Syed - Art of the Pen

Fri 23 & Sat 24 June 3-5pm

Cromwell Place

Sonic Frontiers Night 01

Haya Zaatry and Badiaa Bouhrizi

Fri 23 June 8:30pm

Servant Jazz Quarters

Two Seas

Reem Acason

Fri 28 April-Sat 15 July Opening times vary

Rochester Art Gallery

Think-Sync-Arabi

Various artists

Fri 23 June-Sun 9 July

Online

Art & Disability Under Siege

Jeries Thaligah, Rawan Barakat, Yara Qwareiq, Diana Saleh, moderated by Dr. Dina Kiwan & Dr. Maha Shuayb

Sat 24 June 3-4:15pm

Online

what the dog said to the harvest

lisa minerva luxx and jasmin kent rodgman

Sat 24 & Sun 25 June 8pm & 4pm + 7pm

Southbank Centre

Totalitarian Props

Group exhibition

Sat 24 June–Fri 14 July Opening times vary

The Africa Centre

Bahiyya

Bahiyya

Sun 25 June 7pm

OMEARA, London

Pathogen of War

Yasmin Fedda

27 June-1 July Multiple shows

Battersea Arts Centre

The Power (of) The Fragile

Mohamed Toukabri

27–29 June & 1 July 7.30pm

Battersea Arts Centre and The Lowry

Woman At Point Zero

LOD Muziektheater

Wed 28–Fri 30 June 7:45pm

Royal Opera House

The Stereotype is the Story – a Long Table followed by aftercare

Hannah Khalil, Bushra El-Turk, Sara Alsaraf

Thu 29 June 12:30-3pm

Clore Studio, Royal Opera House

Bad Diaspora Poems

Momtaza Mehri

Thu 29 June 7.30pm

Grand Junction, London