
The home of projection artwork and microgallery by INTERFERENCE, a temporary stay by maqam books and a programme of talks and workshops.
Shubbak Corner is both a window and a threshold: a site for reflecting on the present, imagining new futures, and celebrating the messy brilliance of community-led cultural life.
Rooted in the spirit of Arab hospitality, for 3 weeks only Shubbak Corner is Edgware Road’s own living room, offering a platform for experimentation and conversation — a space where hyperlocal realities meet diasporic currents, and where ideas are tested, shared, and reshaped. Whether through informal gatherings or structured sessions, we invite artists, researchers, organisers, and neighbours to inhabit the space and engage in collective meaning-making.
The programme features Arab Futures: Preserving Memories, Imagining Possibilities, a creative, participatory workshop by Dr Sara Alsaraf and Young Shubbak, inviting attendees to navigate personal and collective memory through somatic practices, collage, and discussion. Meanwhile, community storytelling collective Hekayyatna hosts How Do Streets Carry Our Stories?, a gathering to reflect on the past, present, and shifting future of Edgware Road itself.
These events mark the beginning of a living programme that centres Arab voices, questions dominant narratives, and holds space for imagination, grief, joy, and resistance.
Find full programme listings and reserve your spot, on the Eventbrite page.
قر لفن عرض ضوئي من إنترفيرنس وبرنامج من الحوارات والورش
زاوية شباك هي شباك وباب في نفس الوقت – مكان نتأمل فيه في الحاضر، ونتخيل فيه مستقبل جديد، ونحتفل فيه بجمال وعشوائية الحياة الثقافية التي تقودها مجتمعاتنا.
بروح الكرم والضيافة العربية، زاوية شباك توفر مساحة للتعمق والاستكشاف الإبداعي – مكان تتقابل فيه الحكايات المحلية مع حركات الجاليات في المهجر، وأفكار تتجرب وتتشارك.
سواء في جلسات بسيطة أو منظمة، نرحب بالفنانين، والباحثين، والمنظمين، والجيران، فهم جزء من هذه المساحة يخلقوا مع بعض معاني جديدة
Projection artwork + micro gallery by INTERFERENCE
Tech + install by Kunstraum Productions
Bookshop by Maqam
Materials in circulation by RESOLVE Collective
Interiors by Latifah Almohiza & Zineb Denia
Shubbak Corner is sponsored by The Portman Estate
Details
Fri 23 May - Sun 15 June 2025
Various
Schedule
Mon - Fri
12pm - 7pm
Mon 26 May
2–5pm
Arab Futures: Preserving Memories, Imagining Possibilities
Sun 1 June
5–8pm
Arabic Calligraphy: Music for the Eye
Wed 4 June
7–10pm
From The Lips to the Moon in conversation
Sun 8 June
2–5pm
Arabic Calligraphy: Music for the Eye
Wed 11 June
7–10pm
How Do Streets Carry Our Stories?
Thurs 12 June
6:30pm–9:30pm
Edgware Road: A Street of Recipes and Resistance
Sun 15 June
4.30pm
A Window on Interference presentation
Shubbak Corner
22-23 Nutford Place,
London, W2 2DZ
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