23 May–15 June 2025
Various locations across London and beyond
A Festival of Connection and Transformation
Join us this May and June across London and beyond for Shubbak 2025.
We are thrilled to be able to platform and gather with Arab and SWANA (South West Asian & North African) voices committed to meeting the moment through art and creative expression. Our multi‑artform programme includes dance, music, theatre, family events, and more.
A major highlight of this year’s festival, MILK مِلْك, is now on sale. Shubbak and Southbank Centre are proud to present this powerful visual performance by Bashar Murkus, Khulood Basel, and Khashabi Theatre (Palestine). The largest production from Palestine to come to the UK in at least 25 years, MILK مِلْك sets the tone for the festival—unapologetically centering Palestinian artistry and cultural expression. Catch it on 24 & 25 May at the Southbank Centre—tickets available now.
From vibrant public squares to intimate galleries, from gardens to theatres, and into digital realms, Shubbak Festival 2025 highlights art as a site of connection and transformation. Together we’ll take in brave new visions of our futures, share in the healing properties of radical joy and entwine the common threads of our collective liberation.
In a time of polycrisis, from climate catastrophe to genocide, Shubbak strives to hold together the tensions of struggle and oppression alongside the insistent possibilities of hope and freedom. We believe in holding grief and joy together. We believe in joy as a resourcing practice for our resistance. We work to be in solidarity with our siblings experiencing more acute dangers in the Global South, and we also recognise our struggles as interconnected.
In the spirit of this wholeness, Shubbak is dedicated to centering Arab and SWANA bodies while simultaneously extending a warm invitation to everyone - to gather and connect. Join us for a festival that holds space for ancestral knowledge to meet futuristic imagination, so that together we can grieve, dream, and envision new worlds.
Full programme details coming soon.
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