FILM MUSIC A WINDOW ON LITERATURE CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTS PERFORMANCE ARAB CULTURE SHUBBAK.CO.UK 28 JUNE - 14 JULY CONTENTS WELCOME TO SHUBBAK 2019!
Our fifth festival brings exciting, bold, poignant Arab artists are creating dynamic and vital and urgent work by Arab artists to London’s works across a huge diversity of styles, PERFORMANCE 4 stages, concert halls, cinemas, outdoor artforms and approaches to audiences. As chair locations, galleries and museums. of London’s largest festival of contemporary This year’s programme champions artists Arab culture, I am delighted to present our 2019 OUTDOORS & WORKSHOPS 15 who embrace questioning the norm. With programme. Shubbak has become a magnet for sometimes joyful - sometimes sombre; audiences, artists, programmers and media to sometimes mischievous - sometimes discover the vibrant, thoughtful, inspirational, comforting; sometimes loud - sometimes internationally-connected and also often VISUAL ARTS 16 whispering works, these artists comment challenging sector in which Arab artists operate. powerfully on the world we live in. In Shubbak 2019, along with those with a In times when political alliances are shifting, specialist interest in contemporary culture or MUSIC 26 definitions of gender are broadened, divisions politics, Arab artists will reach passers-by in our between generations are interrogated, and free outdoor events, and children and families in hierarchies of power are exposed, the voices our family-friendly shows. We are also proud to LITERATURE 31 of these artists take us to new and unexpected extend out national reach by touring more works realms of possibilities, a realm where empathy to different locations across the UK. and freedom dare to live. On behalf of Shubbak’s Board of Trustees, I Shubbak 2019 features over 150 artists based hope you join me in being inspired and moved FILM 34 in the Arab region, in Europe and in the UK. As by this year’s festival programme. the UK’s relationship to Europe is at a moment MAYSOON PACHACHI, CHAIR of change, we welcome the many participating CALENDAR 38 artists from across Europe, and especially our Paris / London exchange. We are also proud to announce a new partnership with the Gate Theatre this year, with whom we co-present a two-week season of international performance and play readings. And you’ll find that we have broadened our family programme with more family-friendly shows and PRINCIPAL PARTNERS an expanded workshop programme. With gratitude to our principal partners and all our festival partners, Immerse yourself in Shubbak 2019. without whose support the festival would not be possible. THE SHUBBAK TEAM SHUBBAK.CO.UK SHUBBAKFESTIVAL THE UPSIDE DOWN MAN X-ADRA PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE (THE SON OF THE ROAD) RAMZI CHOUKAIR MOHAMED TOUKABRI SAT 29 JUNE | 7.45PM PURCELL ROOM AT SOUTHBANKCENTRE.CO.UK TUE 2 & WED 3 JULY | 7.30PM BATTERSEA ARTS CENTRE BAC.ORG.UK QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL 020 3879 9555 Lavender Hill 020 7223 2223 Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX £15* London SW11 5TN £18 | £12.50 concs
“I am not one story, I am many stories.” UK PREMIERE Ayat, Hend, Ali (formerly Ola), Mariam, Rowaida and Kenda are Syrian UK PREMIERE TUNISIA | BELGIUM activists who have been held in the notorious Adra prison. Their periods SYRIA | FRANCE Mohamed Toukabri’s autobiographical solo delves deeply into the IN ENGLISH of imprisonment range from the 80s to more recent ones since the IN ARABIC WITH experience of a young man finding himself in dance and in Europe. From POST-SHOW TALK revolution in 2011. Using their own words, each person takes us right into ENGLISH SURTITLES discovering street dance as a 12-year old in front of the railway station SHUBBAK ON TOUR the heart of prison life. With simple gestures and quiet intensity they tell POST-SHOW TALK in Tunis to his 10 years of performing with renowned choreographers WED 3 JULY 21 JUNE | JERWOOD DANCE HOUSE of tender moments between women and children, confessional letters like Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Jan Lauwers, DANCE EAST, IPSWICH Presented with additional support from a donor 26 JUNE | PAVILION DANCE to loved-ones and small acts of kindness. who chooses to remain anonymous. his movements and reflections resonate with sharp insight to explore Image: Ahmed-Naji. SOUTH WEST, BOURNEMOUTH They speak of the strengths they drew on to survive and their a personal yet universal migrant experience. Subtle video projections 28 JUNE |THE LOWRY, SALFORD determination to resist. Their personal stories are of violence and pain, from his family home, stories of casual racism and subtly humoured *Transaction fees apply: £3 online, but also of solidarity, hope and an unshakable faith in freedom. observations blend into a richly textured experience of being in-between £3.50 over the phone. No transaction two countries, two cultures, two traditions. With thoughtful reflection as fees for in-person bookings, Southbank With great delicacy and simple direction, director Ramzi Choukair and Centre Members and Supporters Circles. well as a candid irony, he takes us to what he calls ‘the splendour of this dramaturg Wael Kadour allow the women to present their lives and touch Presented with additional support from Qatar mysterious zone‘. Foundation International. us with their deep humanity and dignity. Mohamed Toukabri is a Tunisian artist based in Brussels. He performed in Image: Emilie Jacomet. Singer Hala Omran is the seventh character, uniting the production with Shubbak 2017 in Cie Chatha’s outdoor performances of Sacré Printemps! haunting sounds of traditional Arab song and opera. Ramzi Choukair is an actor and director, based in Marseille. He performed in London in the National Theatre production of Salome in 2017. 4 SHUBBAK.CO.UK SHUBBAK.CO.UK 5 MAY HE RISE AND HALKA PERFORMANCE
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Lebanese choreographer and performer Ali Chahrour brings the final part UK PREMIERE There is a long tradition of acrobats performing on Moroccan beaches “…as simple as it is of his acclaimed trilogy exploring mourning rituals for the first time ot the LEBANON and in village squares, creating spectacles for the public with astounding ingenious...creating magic UK. May he rise… is a dance performance and a ceremony where death SOME ARABIC WITH human pyramids, cartwheels and somersaults, always accompanied by out of nothing but human in all its primitiveness emerges from the depth of the earth to become ENGLISH SURTITLES music and song. wit, daring and imagination” POST-SHOW TALK a rite for life. A mourning woman acts as a priestess, summoning the For the past 10 years the highly skilled acrobats of Groupe Acrobatique JUDITH MACKRELL, FRI 5 JULY THE GUARDIAN (CHOUF OUCHOUF) three men to experience grief and loss with her. Tapping into stories and de Tanger have travelled the world with their contemporary shows. Using Production contains female nudity. legends summoned from deep cultural memory, this piece calls upon our powerful and unique physical skills, they have breathed new life into this MOROCCO Presented in partnership with Sadler’s Wells collective human experience. with additional support from British Council popular practice. SHUBBAK ON TOUR and Drosos Foundation. May he rise… is a collaboration with great talent including the Syrian 6 JULY | THE LOWRY, SALFORD *A transaction fee of £3 applies to phone and online In Halka, the 14 acrobats and musicians create an energetic spectacle 9 JULY | LIGHTHOUSE, POOLE actress Hala Omran (star of the filmBab El Cham by Yousry Nasrallah) bookings – no fee in person. which hums with the sights and sounds of Moroccan street life. Acrobatic and Lebanese musicians Ali Hout and Abed Kobeissy aka Two or The Image: Zyad Ceblany. *Transaction fees apply: £3 online, tricks and stirring music mix the world of old traditions with exuberant £3.50 over the phone. No transaction Dragon, an up-and-coming electro-acoustic duo revisiting traditional parties and modern visual humour to paint a vivid picture of life in the fees for in-person bookings, Southbank instruments. An affecting and daring work that places the living body Maghreb today. By turns the stage is transformed into the middle of the Centre Members and Supporters Circles. centre stage. desert, to a crowded public square, a magical night-time dance and a Presented with additional support from British Council. Image: Richard Haughton. crier calling the faithful to prayer. Halka is an invitation to let yourself be captivated by this vision of communal life captured by the boundless energy and humour of these incredible acrobats. 6 SHUBBAK.CO.UK SHUBBAK.CO.UK 7 SHUBBAK @ GATE PERFORMANCE A TWO WEEK SEASON OF BOLD GATE THEATRE GATETHEATRE.CO.UK ARAB THEATRE, CO-CURATED 11 Pembridge Road, 020 7229 0706 AND PRODUCED WITH THE GATE Notting Hill Gate, W11 3HQ £24 | £16 concs | £12 Under 26 METTE LOULOU VON KOHL CHRONICLES OF MAJNUN LAYLA & DIMA MIKHAYEL MATTA AMER HLEHEL PERFORMS QASSIM HADDAD’S MASTERWORK IN DEVELOPMENT: TWO BOLD WORKS ON QUEERNESS PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BAGRI FOUNDATION
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A classic love story re-told by Amer Hlehel in a contemporary bilingual MON 1 - WED 3 JULY | 7PM NO ONE LIKES AN UGLY REVOLUTIONARY THU 4 JULY | 7PM rendering with live music. METTE LOULOU VON KOHL WORLD PREMIERE LEBANON | PALESTINE With frank honesty Palestinian/Danish/US-based artist Mette Loulou von The actor and writer of five-star Taha (Shubbak 2017, Young Vic) BAHRAIN | PALESTINE USA | DENMARK Kohl delves into her infatuation with Palestinian freedom fighter, hijacker transforms poet Qassim Haddad’s powerful rendering of the classic tale of IN ENGLISH & ARABIC IN ENGLISH Majnun Layla into a live experience. The story of love, passion, eroticism and WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES and icon Leila Khaled. Alternating between reverence and fetish, and POST-SHOW TALK
unfulfilled desire, often described as the Arab Romeo and Juliet, is radically POST-SHOW TALK grappling with her own position on racism, orientalism, sexuality and Presented in partnership with the Gate Theatre. reinterpreted with an original soundscore and accompaniment from Rihab 2 JULY lineage of resistance and activism, No One Likes An Ugly Revolutionary Presented with additional support from Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, British Council, Cockayne Grants for Azar and Kareem Samara on electronic and acoustic oud. Staying true to the SHUBBAK ON TOUR becomes a cauldron of conflicting forces – yet told with disarming the Arts and London Community Foundation. FRI 5 JULY charm and poignant irony. Images L-R: Lippe & Joseph Maalouf. sequence and emotional life of the poems, Hlehel moves between Arabic and BRADFORD LITERATURE FESTIVAL English using Ferial Ghazoul and John Verlenden’s much-lauded translation, SUN 7 JULY LIVERPOOL ARAB ARTS FESTIVAL THIS IS NOT A MEMORIZED SCRIPT, THIS IS A playing with rhythm, intonation and the particularities of both languages to WELL-REHEARSED STORY DIMA MIKHAYEL MATTA bring out the universal qualities of this epic. Produced by Alia Alzougbi. Presented in partnership with the Gate Theatre. “Yesterday, I woke up with the certainty that holding Qassim Haddad is a multi-award winning Bahraini poet. The English Presented with additional support from hands with the woman I love in Beirut is revolutionary.” Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, British Council translation of Chronicles of Majnun Layla was published in 2014. Amer and Drosos Foundation. The body is the city. The city is the body. Dima Mikhayel Matta draws a Hlehel is a Palestinian actor and writer, who has performed at the Royal Image: Saheer Obaid. powerful picture of her queer existence in relation to Beirut. Remembering Shakespeare Company, Royal Court and Young Vic. past and current relationships, childhood memories and confronting prejudice head-on, Matta’s pithy text accuses, moves and reflects in equal measure. Dima Mikhayel Matta is a writer, professor, actor and spoken word artist. In 2014 she founded the popular storytelling initiative Cliffhangers.
8 SHUBBAK.CO.UK SHUBBAK.CO.UK 9 SHUBBAK @ GATE PERFORMANCE A TWO WEEK SEASON OF BOLD GATE THEATRE GATETHEATRE.CO.UK ARAB THEATRE, CO-CURATED 11 Pembridge Road, 020 7229 0706 AND PRODUCED WITH THE GATE Notting Hill Gate, W11 3HQ £24 | £16 concs | £12 Under 26 ĒVOLVŌ + JOGGING ONE DAY & ONE NIGHT BEIRUT HANANE HAJJ ALI YARA BOUSTANY
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A magic visual delight from one of Beirut’s freshest young talents. FRI 5 & SAT 6 JULY Fifty-something Lebanese performer Hanane Hajj Ali jogs every day to “It’s a meditation on Medea, Conjuring up complex and wondrous images and optical illusions, ēvolvō 3PM | 7PM avoid osteoporosis, obesity and depression. Her route takes her through mothers, motherlands, follows a journey from idyllic nature in the mountains of Lebanon, filled her own personal space and the public spaces of Beirut, revisiting roles, UK PREMIERE Middle Eastern politics and with birdsong and the buzz of insects, to the busy street-life of Beirut characters, desires, aspirations and disappointments along the way. The LEBANON pigeon shit – completely with its startling roofscapes and noisy traffic. A strange creature invades OUTDOOR CREATIVE MOVEMENT exercise brings her body a rush of adrenaline and dopamine; alternating absorbing” THE STAGE the city. Is it an ancient monster or an image of the city drowning in WORKSHOP WITH YARA BOUSTANY destructive and constructive effects, mirroring an ever-changing city that plastic pollution? The city is haunted by animal spirits. Like an open- 7 JULY | 2 - 3PM & 8 JULY | 4 - 5PM destroys to build and builds to destroy. Alone on a bare stage, Hanane MON 8 - WED 10 JULY | 7PM ACAVA’S MAXILLA GARDEN ended riddle, ēvolvō can be read in many ways – filled with wonder – woman, wife and mother – compares herself with Medea figures: the Maxilla Studios, 4 Maxilla Walk, W10 6NQ LONDON PREMIERE and visual surprises. FREE BUT TICKETED - ACAVA.ORG.UK mythological and everyday Beirut woman. LEBANON Ages 5+. ēvolvō is performed alongside the shorter work One Day and One Hanane Hajj Ali is an important Beirut-based actor, writer and activist. ARABIC WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES Night Beirut. SHUBBAK ON TOUR Apart from her theatre works she plays an active role in cultural policy THU 11 JULY THEATRE-MAKING WORKSHOP development and cultural planning. Yara Boustany works at the crossroads of visual arts and performance. LIVERPOOL ARAB ARTS FESTIVAL WITH HANANE HAJJ ALI In 2015, she founded Amalgam, a theatre, dance, and circus training SAT 13 JULY Jogging is the result of a collective lab led by Hanane Hajj Ali, with WED 10 JULY | 3PM | £10 THE LOWRY, SALFORD Ages 18+. space in the heart of Beirut. director Eric Deniaud and dramaturge Abdullah El Kafri. Presented in partnership with the Gate Theatre. Presented in partnership with the Gate Theatre. Presented with additional support from Arab Fund Presented with additional support from Arab for Arts and Culture, British Council, Drosos Foundation Fund for Arts and Culture, British Council and and Qatar Foundation International. Drosos Foundation. Image: Ayman Baalbaki. Image: Marwan Tahtah. 10 SHUBBAK.CO.UK SHUBBAK.CO.UK 11 SHUBBAK @ GATE PERFORMANCE A TWO WEEK SEASON OF BOLD GATE THEATRE GATETHEATRE.CO.UK ARAB THEATRE, CO-CURATED 11 Pembridge Road, 020 7229 0706 AND PRODUCED WITH THE GATE Notting Hill Gate, W11 3HQ £24 | £16 concs | £12 Under 26 UNDER A LOW SKY WORKING METHOD WAEL ALI ENKIDU KHALED
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Forty-year-old Syrian cinematographer Jamal is obsessed with the idea MON 8 - WED 10 JULY | 9PM “Enkidu Khaled powerfully transcends the dilemma and THU 11 - SAT 13 JULY | 7PM of losing his past. He has been living in France for a decade, and is now the self-involvement typical of most one-man-shows.” UK PREMIERE LONDON PREMIERE confronted with so many places from his memory being abandoned AL ARTE MAGAZINE (BELGIUM) SHUBBAK CO-COMMISSION IRAQ | BELGIUM or destroyed, and his friends spread all over the world. Jamal decides SYRIA | FRANCE Can art really save the world? Enkidu Khaled fled Baghdad in 2008. His IN ENGLISH to travel to different European cities to connect to the people he once IN FRENCH AND ARABIC award-winning show is a unique form of creative exchange. Based on POST-SHOW knew, and travels into the past in his research covering the period of WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES PANEL DISCUSSION: traumatic events he witnessed years back, he invites the audience to the birth of the Syrian state in the early twentieth century. Gradually he Presented in partnership with the Gate Theatre. WRITING IN EUROPE join him in analysing and simplifying the complex process of making THU 11 JULY weaves fragments and snippets of narratives into a reflection of how he Presented as part of Performances beyond two shores, a project co-funded by the European Commission within theatre from personal experience. In four easy steps he creates a new Arab theatre makers working in can possibly understand the present. Under A Low Sky is a succession the framework of the Creative Europe Programme. Europe discuss their practice. Working with nine partners across Europe, the project performance every night, showing how memory, association and tiny of unusual, unexpected, familiar or impossible meetings, taking us to a aims to support Arab artists in Europe. Presented with fragments of ideas can become a story and how simple decisions can Platform 0090 & Richard Jordan Productions febrile mood of grasping and losing memory and a sense of self. additional support from British Council. in association with Theatre Royal Plymouth, Image: Felix Tchverkin, Unsplash. have devastating effect. The name Enkidu means ‘reason’: his method Big in Belgium, STORMOPKOMST, Wael Ali is a leading Syrian writer, dramaturg and director, based in Lyon de Brakke Gond icw deBuren, C-TAKT and RBC. is trying to make sense. Presented in partnership with the Gate Theatre. whose work has been shown internationally, including at Gorki Theatre in Part lecture, part performance, part workshop, Working Method moves Presented with additional support from British Council. Berlin, Toneelhuis in Antwerp, Journées Théâtrales de Carthage, Tunis. Image: Bas de Brouwer. seamlessly from the lightest of conversation to emotional punch. Engaging and honest, it questions how life and theatre interact. Enkidu Khaled studied theatre in Baghdad, before settling and working in Belgium. 12 SHUBBAK.CO.UK SHUBBAK.CO.UK 13 OUTDOORS & SHUBBAK @ GATE WORKSHOPS A TWO WEEK SEASON OF BOLD GATE THEATRE GATETHEATRE.CO.UK SHUBBAK @ NATIONAL ARAB THEATRE, CO-CURATED 11 Pembridge Road, 020 7229 0706 AND PRODUCED WITH THE GATE Notting Hill Gate, W11 3HQ £7.50 each THEATRE RIVER STAGE PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AMAL (A SAÏD FOUNDATION PROGRAMME)
FRI 12 - SUN 14 JULY PLAYREADINGS SAT 13 JULY FRI 6PM - 11PM CO-CURATED WITH PLAYWRIGHTS HANNAH KHALIL AND HASSAN ABDULRAZZAK (MANARA THEATRE) SAT 12PM - 11PM SUN 1PM - 5 PM YOU BURY ME AHLAM NO DEMAND, NO SUPPLY RIVER STAGE 12PM EGYPT | UK SAHAR ASSAF NATIONAL THEATRE Upper Ground, South Bank SE1 9PX 3PM LEBANON You Bury Me is about six young people living in “post- NATIONALTHEATRE.ORG.UK Arab Spring” Cairo. The old police state is propped In April 2016 Lebanese police broke up a sex-trafficking HADI ZEIDAN AMIRA KHEIR FREE up by a new, much harsher, military regime. This is ring after four women successfully escaped from the Every summer, the National Theatre puts on a free outdoor festival right a story about people longing to live how they want Chez Maurice nightclub. They and over 70 other Syrian “Mystic Dance is an assured on the south bank of the Thames. Shubbak takes over the stage for a and love who they choose. This is a story about a women had been lured to Lebanon with promises of mix of traditional influences, weekend of music, performance, workshops and installations. Family generation who fought and who lost. This is a story of employment and safety. They were incarcerated as a contemporary sensibility activities, bands, spoken word and late DJ sets bring the best of London’s Cairo and those desperate to rebuild it. prostitutes and subjected to violent exploitation and and classy production” and international Arab cultural scene to this free and iconic setting. Ahlam is an Egyptian playwright writing in English. degradation on an unprecedented scale. EVENING STANDARD Sahar Assaf’s verbatim play combines accounts We open with a special Paris/London exchange - in collaboration with TWO HEADS AND A HAND Institut des Cultures d’Islam - with Lebanese Paris-based DJ and music EGYPT | LEBANON from four of the women with court records and SUDAN | FRANCE producer Hadi Zeidan and London-based Amira Kheir, whose third album & THE JOKERS ZOUKAK documentary material to brutally expose the Produced in partnership with Arts Canteen. Mystic Dance smoothly blends the nostalgic sounds of North Sudan/ 2PM LEBANON economics, politics and human cost of the sex trade. Presented with additional support from Qatar Southern Egypt Nubian musical traditions. Foundation International. The Jokers visits those marginal characters in society who Sahar Assaf is a Beirut-based actor and director and Images L-R: Mahmoud Baayoun, Emma Marshall. are alienated by their otherness. Using drag and larger than co-founder of Tahweel Ensemble Theatre. She is Visit shubbak.co.uk from 5 June for full line-up and times. life characters, Zoukak provocatively asks what constitutes assistant professor of theatre at American University an outcast. At once vilified, but equally worshipped, these of Beirut and founder of AUB’s Theater Initiative. figures are idols and victims at the same time. They are AICHA EL BELOUI WORKSHOP a foil onto which society projects their dreams and anxieties. CHRONICLES OF A CITY WE WORKSHOPS SAT 29 JUNE | 2.30PM - 4PM Two Heads and a Hand is based on texts by NEVER KNEW WAEL KADOUR FAMILY DAY MUSEUM OF LONDON | FREE 4.15PM SYRIA | FRANCE Age 7+. See page 18. Shakespeare. Can revenge ever be justified? What SAT 6 JULY | 11AM – 5PM is the difference between violence and brutality? Chronicles of a City We Never Knew pitches violence THE MOSAIC ROOMS OUTDOOR CREATIVE Numbed by brutality shown in the media, how far and love against each other by telling a love story 226 Cromwell Road, SW5 0SW can theatre go to portray it on-stage? With bolshy between two young women in Damascus in 2011. MOVEMENT WORKSHOP MOSAICROOMS.ORG WITH YARA BOUSTANY irreverence and slapstick humour, Zoukak digs out key The play charts the transformation of the FREE moments from Shakespeare plays and mashes them revolutionary movement in Syria from peaceful 7 JULY | 2 - 3PM & 8 JULY | 4 - 5PM Join in interactive story telling, make art and take part ACAVA’S MAXILLA GARDEN up into a collage for our current conflicts. to armed conflict. Where does violence reside in in a cooking workshop in this fun packed day. Families FREE BUT TICKETED - ACAVA.ORG.UK Zoukak is Lamia Abi Azar, Omar Abi Azar, Mohamad seemingly peaceful choices, and where does love Ages 5+. See page 10. will try different activities in The Mosaic Rooms Hamdan, Junaid Sarrieddeen and Maya Zbib. As a reside in violent ones? galleries and in the urban garden. You’ll also be able collective they create and tour work and run one of Wael Kadour graduated at Damascus Higher Institute of THEATRE-MAKING WORKSHOP to create your own part of a collective art work. Beirut’s liveliest venues. Dramatic Arts in 2006 and is now based in Paris. Chronicles WITH HANANE HAJJ ALI Visit shubbak.co.uk for more details. Playreadings presented in partnership with the Gate Theatre. of A City is his fifth play and received its premiere at La WED 10 JULY | 3PM Presented with additional support from Arab Fund for Arts and Filature, Scène Nationale in Mulhouse in January 2019. GATE THEATRE | £10 Culture and British Council. Ages 18+. See page 11. 14 SHUBBAK.CO.UK SHUBBAK.CO.UK 15 GEOGRAPHICAL CHILD’S PLAY HICHAM BERRADA VISUAL ARTS
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SATURDAY 29 JUNE Bricklab, the designers of the first Saudi pavilion at Venice Architecture WED 3 JULY - SUN 18 AUGUST Hicham Berrada’s kaleidoscopic sculptures, installations, video and 1PM - 8PM Biennale create a new pop-up sculpture especially for Shubbak. 22 11AM - 7PM performance works offer a heady combination of art and science. To 11am - 9pm Thursdays ART AT THE LAKE brightly coloured units equalling in number the 22 states of the Arab create his often spectacular artworks, Berrada makes use of chemical MILTON KEYNES Closed on Tuesdays Willen Lake MK15 0DS League are arranged in different constellations to offer new viewpoints of processes and natural phenomena, such as ‘heat, cold, magnetism’ and geographies, nations and the power to imagine other realities. No unit can HENI PROJECT SPACE light. For his solo exhibition in Hayward Gallery’s HENI Project space – his HAYWARD GALLERY SUN 30 JUNE | 12PM - 7PM stand on its own, but has to be grafted onto others. Some constellations first in a UK institution – Berrada brings together new and existing works, BRITISH LIBRARY PIAZZA SOUTHBANK CENTRE seem hierarchical, others more egalitarian. Geographical Child’s Play Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX including a series of illuminated tanks that feature delicate and ephemeral 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB conjures up poignant and surprising alignments and dependencies. chemical landscapes, and a large-scale immersive video installation that SOUTHBANKCENTRE.CO.UK SUN 7 JULY | 10AM - 5.30PM Stretching nearly 10m as a line or barely 3m as a circle, Geographical explores morphogenesis, the biological process that causes an organism FREE BRITISH MUSEUM Child’s Play is Bricklab’s most public and engaging sculpture so far. to change shape. Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG The bright colours and low level hint at nursery furniture or playground MOROCCO | FRANCE FREE equipment. It is an invitation to imagine geopolitics through the lens of Image: Augures mathématiques, 2019 (detail), © ADAGP Hicham Berrada. Courtesy the artist play and a deliberately naïve hope. and kamel mennour, Paris/London. SAUDI ARABIA Established in Jeddah in 2015 Bricklab quickly established itself as one Produced by Will Sandy. The commission of Bricklab has been generously of the most dynamic current design practices in Saudi Arabia. Their work supported by the British Council and individual donors Sara Ali Reza and Faisal Tamer. has been shown at 21,39 Saudi Art Week, Alserkal Avenue in Dubai and Image: Abdulrahman & Turki Gazzaz. Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2018 they took part in the British Council and V&A International Designers Workshop. Geographical Child’s Play will travel to different locations across the festival period, visit shubbak.co.uk for details.
16 SHUBBAK.CO.UK SHUBBAK.CO.UK 17 VISUAL ARTS 19 SHUBBAK.CO.UK Casablanca-based street artistCasablanca-based street the Mehdi Annassi explores in a public a new mural create neighbourhoods of North to Kensington the Golborne Road has long been at Larache, location. Nicknamed Petit and with residents Together identity in London. of Moroccan the centre the artistcommunity groups, and scenes of its history into will delve which will be painted a short story, He will develop graphic life. everyday on one of the walls in this iconic neighbourhood. directly comics, zines, murals, Mehdi Annassi aka Machima works on large-scale art Jidar Festival, street and Art (Street animation, illustrations Caravane, He is known for his contribution and involvement Sbagha Bagha Festival). thriving comic art scene and is a founding member of Morocco’s to independent comics magazine. He is currently the first Moroccan Skefkef, novel. working on his first graphic 5 June. Visit shubbak.co.uk for dates and location from
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SHUBBAK COMMISSION Aicha El Beloui visits London to research the psychogeography and the psychogeography research Aicha El Beloui visits London to immigration. of Moroccan history the sound interviews, researching through Gathering personal narratives streets, London’s West and walking through in the British Library archives Spain and France between Morocco, the artist the agreements discovered in the city. presence Moroccan as the catalysts to maps. distinctive of her one will create she this material from Drawing richly with filled are black and white, they in simply rendered Seemingly Charting connections. incident and associative betweentextured routes as and aspirations original dreams and London, and recognising Morocco the people, young generation and third of second experiences well as today’s and belonging.artist of citizenship on themes reflect to viewer the invites in paper formats, digitally and as will be available map Aicha El Beloui’s the city. sites across different to an installation, travelling and designer, graphic illustrator, is a Casablanca-based Aicha El Beloui originally for UNESCO she worked as an architect, Trained director. creative discover to works with communities regularly She preservation. in heritage maps and illustrations. observations her a neighbourhood and filters into visit shubbak.co.uk for details. festival, the over locations will be added More
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VISUAL ARTS VISUAL RIMA DJAHNINE, MOUNIR GOURI, SARAH OUADAH, HELA AMMAR FETHI SAHRAOUI & ABDO SHANAN CURATED BY TOUFIK DOUIB
SAT 29 JUNE - SUN 14 JULY SHUBBAK COMMISSION 10AM - 11PM MEZZANINE GALLERY RICH MIX
35-47 Bethnal Green Road, SARAH OUADAH E1 6LA RICHMIX.ORG.UK Five Algerian contemporary artists explore identity and location. Looking FREE at cultural diversity, migration and the challenges of coexistence, Belonging, Sideways features work from different corners of Algeria and dealing with complex histories, geographies and biographies. Mounir Gouri’s stitched plates refer to the trade of illegal migrants in his coastal hometown in the North East of the country. Artist illustrator Sarah Ouadah re-interprets the classic poem of the tragic Bedouin love story ABDO SHANAN Hyzia as a digital fantasy for a new generation of readers. Rima Djahnine’s ALGERIA cartography-inspired installation weaves fragments of maps, film, GPS data and documents into personal narratives of homecoming and memories. PRIVATE VIEW FRI 28 JUNE | 6PM With his iPhone, the photographer Fethi Sahraoui captures a series of CURATOR’S GUIDED TOUR cars as scenes of ordinary life in the Saharawi camps located on the WITH ARTISTS southwestern province of Algeria. Abdo Shanan displays material from his SAT 29 JUNE | 3PM award-winning book Diary: Exile, which reflects on his experiences as an Presented with additional support from the British Council. artist of Algerian and Sudanese origin, who lived for many years in Libya. FRI 28 JUNE - SAT 13 JULY Becoming is a new site-specific installation in Shepherd’s Bush Market. 9AM - 6PM Tunisian artist Hela Ammar spent time with women in London who have Closed on Sundays recently arrived, and carefully balancing the normality of London living SHEPHERD’S BUSH MARKET 10 TO 10 Shepherd’s Bush, W12 8DF with a period of personally unsettled existence. HASSAN AL-MOUSAOY FREE Large-scale portrait photographs are pasted on different surfaces in the market. Voices and stories, sourced through interviews, are audible and FRI 28 JUNE - SUN 14 JULY THE ATTIC, BUSH THEATRE BUSHTHEATRE.CO.UK TUNISIA 7 Uxbridge Road, W12 8LJ blend with the different sounds of the market. 10AM - 6PM FREE Presented with additional support from Qatar Foundation International, British Council, and Paul Visitors are invited to pause and contemplate on questions of Shubbak invites photographer Hassan Al-Mousaoy to work with Hamlyn Foundation, in collaboration with Single Homeless Project and Scheherazade Initiative. displacement, migration, integration, coexistence, belonging and recently arrived young people in West London, charting their daily lives Image: Hela Ammar. becoming in the midst of a bustling market environment, where many in sequences of personal photographs. Participants will select, edit and nationalities and cultures meet. install their work in the intimate setting of the Bush Theatre Attic. The Hela Ammar is a Tunisian visual artist and lawyer. Memory, identity images follow the rhythm of their day. and marginal communities are recurrent themes in her work. She has Based in London for 11 years, Hassan Al-Mousaoy’s unique project exhibited in major international biennales, including regular installations My Life in Pictures brought together images taken by young Iraqis from at Dream City in Tunis. Her works are in the collections of the British IRAQ | UK his first visit back to Iraq with images by young migrants in London. Museum and the Institut du Monde Arabe. Presented with additional support from Paul Hamlyn Foundation, in collaboration with the British Red Cross, Workshops and events will accompany the exhibition, visit shubbak.co.uk Young Roots, and Barnet Refugee Service. for full details. Image: Hassan Al-Mousaoy.
20 SHUBBAK.CO.UK SHUBBAK.CO.UK 21 AMMA BAAD RAW QUEENS VISUAL ARTS
VISUAL ARTS VISUAL NASSER AL SALEM FATIMA MAZMOUZ & MERIEM BENNANI CURATED BY MAYA EL KHALIL CURATED BY YASMINA NAJI
TUE 2 JULY - SAT 10 AUG “Amma baad is presence which occurs in the future, FRI 5 JULY - SAT 14 SEPT Curated by Yasmina Naji, Raw Queens offers a cultural and political re- MON - FRI: 11AM - 6PM it occupies a space in reality through a presence that TUE - SAT: 11AM - 6PM evaluation of the perceptions of women in the Arab world, and especially SAT: 12PM - 6PM precedes it” NASSER AL SALEM THE MOSAIC ROOMS in Morocco. Featuring artists Fatima Mazmouz and Meriem Bennani, the DELFINA FOUNDATION 226 Cromwell Road, SW5 0SW exhibition explores art, feminism and post-colonialism. As an art project 29-31 Catherine Place, SW1E 6DY In his first solo presentation in the UK, Nasser Al Salem presents a project MOSAICROOMS.ORG it seeks to open new spaces for conversation on gender and popular DELFINAFOUNDATION.COM exploring the relationship between language, time and space through FREE culture, constructing a new representation of indigenous figures of power. FREE a series of sculptural and multimedia workings of the phrase ‘there MOROCCO Casablanca-born Fatima Mazmouz lives and works in Casablanca, after’ in its Arabic script. ‘Amma baad’ is an expression used in official SAUDI ARABIA Produced by The Mosaic Rooms, London’s free Morocco. Through her multimedia practice, photography, performance correspondence which follows sentences of salutations and greetings space for contemporary culture from the Arab world PRIVATE VIEW and beyond. and installation she often questions individual and cultural identities. and precedes the act of formulating the story to come. ‘Amma’ acts as MON 1 JULY | 6.30PM Image: Meriem Bennani, Ghariba/Stranger (still), 2017. a substitute to the act and asserts what is to follow, while ‘baad’ is a Film (image courtesy of the artist). Meriem Benanni is based in New York and was born in Rabat in Morocco. Image: Nasser Al Salem, Amma Baad, Aluminium and black paint, 2018. Courtesy of Athr and the artist. dimension in time and space. She works in video, sculpture, multimedia installation, drawing and Instagram. She is known for her playful and humorous use of digital Nasser Al Salem is formally trained in calligraphy and architecture, both technologies such as 3D animation and motion capture. disciplines that have had a strong impact in the development of his practice. He engages with new perspectives towards the written word and Yasmina Naji is the founder of Kulte Center for Contemporary Art and calligraphy. He lives and work in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. During summer Editions in Rabat, Morocco. 2018 Al Salem was an artist-in-residence at Delfina Foundation. ARTIST’S TALK: FATIMA MAZMOUZ MERIEM BENNANI’S YOUTUBE PLAYLIST WED 10 JULY | 7PM | FREE SAT 13 JULY | 7PM | FREE Artist Fatima Mazmouz creates work that explores power Artist Meriem Bennani takes over The Mosaic Rooms for relationships, individual liberties and feminism. Mazmouz a special live DJ set of music and music videos from her will be in conversation with curator Yasmina Naji. archive collection spanning North Africa and South Asia.
22 SHUBBAK.CO.UK SHUBBAK.CO.UK 23 SHUBBAK @ THE BRITISH MUSEUM VISUAL ARTS SUN 7 JULY THE BRITISH MUSEUM BRITISHMUSEUM.ORG Great Russell Street 020 7370 9990 WC1B 3DG
SYRIA AND YEMEN: THE SECOND COPY 2045 MAKING ART TODAY YOUNESS ATBANE SYMPOSIUM Since 2011, Syria and Yemen have witnessed unprecedented destruction and degradation of art and cultural infrastructure, in addition to humanitarian crisis, as a result of the ongoing conflicts in both these countries. In this symposium, artists, curators and scholars investigate the current status and future of art and culture from the point of view of artists working inside these countries as well as those who are presently living outside Syria and Yemen. What are the challenges? How is war affecting artistic expression? What means are there for artists to communicate their practice? How does artistic mobility reflect on art and how do artists cope with migration and exile, forced or voluntary? How 10.30AM – 4.30PM can artists engage individually and collectively, through art and other STEVENSON means of expression with a possible future post-conflict era? LECTURE THEATRE The symposium will be divided into three sessions, one each on Yemen £15 | £10 BM Members & concs and Syria, introduced by overviews of the art scenes prior to the present Produced by British Museum. conflicts. The third session, in the afternoon, will show a series of recent Syria panel supported by the Atassi Foundation. films by Syrian and Yemeni filmmakers. Image: Color the walls of your street, Sana’a, 2012, 11.30AM | 2PM | 4.30PM courtesy of Murad Subay. For full details of speakers and films, visit shubbak.co.uk from 1 May. “It is a cloth, which is becoming a flag, which is becoming art, then an identity, a policy, a film, a Lasts approx. 25 min choreography and finally a history” ROOM 43 GEOGRAPHICAL CHILD’S PLAY AICHA EL BELOUI THE ALBUKHARY We are in 2045, a time when current conflicts have ended. Artists’ archives BRICKLAB - ABDULRAHMAN 10AM - 5.30PM | GREAT COURT FOUNDATION GALLERY OF become a source of knowledge for a new generation. Youness Atbane’s THE ISLAMIC WORLD & TURKI GAZZAZ Gathering personal narratives through interviews, performance features in a future documentary film by a young film maker FREE 10AM - 5.30PM | GREAT COURT researching the sound archives in the British Library about the history of Moroccan art and the role of the artist in the early 21st Limited audience capacity. The designers of the first Saudi pavilion at Venice and walking through West London’s streets, Aicha El century. The fictional film includes footage of the very performance we are MOROCCO Architecture Biennale create a new pop-up sculpture Beloui discovered the agreements between Morocco, watching. With lucid clarity and deadpan humour, The Second Copy takes Image: Youness Atbane. especially for Shubbak: 22 brightly coloured units Spain and France as the catalysts to Moroccan a look at the dynamics of contemporary art, the role of institutions and equalling in number the 22 states of the Arab League presence in the city. Drawing from this material she the telling of history. Atbane makes us rethink the connections between are arranged in different constellations to offer new will create one of her distinctive maps. objects, documentary and fiction in a museum context. viewpoints of geographies, nations and the power See page 18 for full details. Youness Atbane is an artist dividing his time between Casablanca and to imagine other realities. Berlin and working between visual arts and performance. His work has See page 16 for full details. been shown in major biennales and festivals. He won the prestigious ZKB Acknowledgment Prize 2018 at Theater Spektakel, Zürich.
24 SHUBBAK.CO.UK SHUBBAK.CO.UK 25 OPENING PARTY COSMIC ANALOG ENSEMBLE MUSIC MUSIC KAHAREB A CRATE DIGGER’S DREAM BEST OF ARABIC ELECTRONIC & UNDERGROUND MUSIC
FRI 28 JUNE | 8PM - 4AM RICH MIX RICHMIX.ORG.UK FRI 5 JULY | 8PM CAMDEN ASSEMBLY CAMDENASSEMBLY.COM 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA 020 7613 7498 49 Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AN 020 7424 0800 £16 in advance | £18 on the door* £16
SAMA’ SHKOON
NURI GLITTER
Bringing together the finest selection of electronic and underground artists PALESTINE | MOROCCO | SYRIA “Prolific producer Charif Megarbane mixes symphonic FULL BAND from the Middle East and North Africa, Kahareb celebrates the vibrant TUNISIA | FRANCE | GERMANY soul, grainy funk, and old European film scores to offer a EUROPEAN DEBUT scenes of techno, folktronic, global bass, house, trance and more - and the Produced by MARSM. relatively concise glimpse into his wide musical world.” LEBANON Presented with additional support from Cockayne Produced by MARSM. spectacular regional talent that’s making it all happen. Following Shubbak’s Grants for the Arts and London Community Foundation. PITCHFORK Presented with additional support from Cockayne ground-breaking electronic showcase in 2017, Kahareb opens this year’s *Tickets bought online or by phone are subject to a Grants for the Arts and London Community Foundation. £1.50 booking fee - no fee in person. With an unparalleled discography of 80 albums, Cosmic Analog Ensemble festival with an infectious late-night launch party. Image: Dominique Hemalas. is the project of the mastermind Lebanese producer and multi- Sama’ (aka. Skywalker) is a DJ and electronic music producer from instrumentalist Charif Megarbane. Performing live in Europe for the first Palestine playing techno, house, and other deeper sub-genres with a time with a full 5-piece band he will be bringing his discography to life, unique twist of her own. and with it, a mesmerising performance of a new genre. Masterfully refining the distinct sound of Oriental Slow-House, Shkoon Combining styles such as cinematic soul, free jazz and Saharan blues, mixes Arabic scales, melodies and traditional folk songs with classical his music is a hypnotising and powerful force to be reckoned with. harmonic structures. Releasing the critically acclaimed Les Sourdes Oreilles in 2017, A producer and percussionist from Tunisia, Nuri is one of the most Bandcamp described the album as “a crate-digger’s dream, a magnum promising upcoming musicians of African futurism, mixing deep bass, force of infectious grooves and sample-ready melodies”. organic percussion with poly rhythmic grooves. Glitter combines her chaabi roots with her razor-sharp electronic selection, diffusing a sound that takes her North African roots on a ride through techno and cosmic disco.
26 SHUBBAK.CO.UK SHUBBAK.CO.UK 27 LUMINISCENCIA THE TRACE OF THE BUTTERFLY: MUSIC MUSIC AMIR ELSAFFAR ENSEMBLE PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE ABU DHABI FESTIVAL, AND IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE FLAMENCO FESTIVAL LONDON A TRIBUTE TO RIM BANNA TANIA SALEH, FARAJ SULEIMAN, DINA EL WEDIDI, BU KOLTHOUM + MORE SAT 6 JULY | 5.30PM & 8PM LILIAN BAYLIS STUDIO, SADLERSWELLS.COM TUE 9 JULY | 8PM BARBICAN BARBICAN.ORG.UK SADLER’S WELLS 020 7863 8000 Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS 020 7638 8891 Rosebery Avenue, EC1R 4TN £17* £17.50-£25*
The acclaimed Iraqi-American musician Amir ElSaffar is known for “Amir ElSaffar is uniquely A special tribute concert to the late Palestinian singer, songwriter and EGYPT | LEBANON effortlessly fusing the mysticism of the Iraqi maqam tradition with poised to reconcile jazz composer Rim Banna featuring the musicians who knew her best as PALESTINE | SYRIA flamenco and jazz. InLuminiscencia , ElSaffar brings together an and Arabic music without well as close peers in the regional music scene. Produced by the Barbican in association with Marsm. Presented with additional support from ensemble of great exponents of the new vanguard of Flamenco; including doing either harm” Artists include Lebanese singer-songwriter Tania Saleh; Palestinian A. M. Qattan Foundation. vocalist Gema Caballero, a rising star and one of the most distinct THE WIRE composer and pianist Faraj Suleiman; Egyptian singer Dina El Wedidi; *Transaction fee applies, max £4. Image: Barbro Steinde. voices on the scene, Vanesa Aibar, a Flamenco dancer going beyond the and Syrian producer/MC Bu Kolthoum who will be performing newly UK PREMIERE conventions of the form and Flamenco percussionist Pablo Martin Jones, re-orchestrated versions of Rim Banna’s material, accompanied by a IRAQ | SPAIN | USA a regular collaborator to Flamenco artists. The ensemble also includes specially assembled band. A Fondation Royaumont production, supported by mastermind electronics musician Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch, as well as The Abu Dhabi Festival and presented in partnership The Trace of the Butterfly, is the name of one of Banna’s songs as well ElSaffar’s sister Dena ElSaffar, who plays violin and traditional Iraqi fiddle. with Flamenco Festival London and Sadler’s Wells. *A transaction fee of £3 applies to phone and online as a poem by Mahmoud Darwish. A pivotal and influential figure in the bookings – no fee in person. Using elegant, melodic arabesques to connect traditions, this special contemporary Palestinian music scene, Rim Banna’s life was tragically cut Image: Michael Crommett. line-up merges passions for classical forms into a unique evening of short in March 2018 after a ten-year struggle with breast cancer. The artist soulful dance and music. left an eclectic repertoire of twelve albums, including her last project and recording Voice of Resistance – a conceptual album where she transformed her medical files and scans into a sonic and musical backdrop for her poetry. 28 SHUBBAK.CO.UK SHUBBAK.CO.UK 29 MO KHANSA & TONGUE FU LITERATURE MUSIC AMERAH SALEH, CLAUDINE TOUTOUNGI, KABAREH CHEIKHATS FARAH CHAMMA & SAMIRA SALEH GENRE-BENDING PERFORMANCE HOSTED BY CHRIS REDMOND FRI 12 JULY | 8PM RICH MIX RICHMIX.ORG.UK SAT 13 JULY | 8PM RICH MIX RICHMIX.ORG.UK 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA 020 7613 7498 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA 020 7613 7498 £16.50 in advance | £19.50 on the door* £8 (advance) | £10
CLAUDINE TOUTOUNGI AMERAH SALEH
MO KHANSA KABAREH CHEIKHATS FARAH CHAMMA SAMIRA SALEH
From Beirut comes Mo Khansa: multi-genre musician, performer and “In a feverish atmosphere, Tongue Fu is one of the UK’s leading spoken word and music shows. “Spoken word magicians” aerialist. Contemporary belly-dance, drag, aerial work, middle-eastern Kabareh Cheikhats Poets, comedians, rappers and storytellers re-imagine material live THE GUARDIAN avant-pop electronica all meet in a genre-defying performance exploring summed up the ambiguity with brand new soundtracks and visuals created by some of London’s LEBANON | MOROCCO identity, sexuality and emotional vulnerability. top improvising musicians and VJs. Created and hosted by poet and of Moroccan society PALESTINE | UAE | YEMEN musician, Chris Redmond (BBC Radio 1, 2, 4, XFM, CBBC, SKY Arts), “Since I was a little boy I have been dreaming to be a that evening” LE SOIR NETHERLANDS | UK it’s a riotous experiment in literature, music, film and improvisation. For ENGLISH, WITH SOME cheikha. Not the kind they would show on TV. No, my dream LEBANON | MOROCCO Shubbak, we present an exclusive night with Arab spoken word artists. ARABIC AND TRANSLATION was to be a real cheikha, like Kharbusha” GHASSAN EL HAKIM Produced by MARSM. Produced by Tongue Fu. Presented with support from Bissar Sleiman. Amerah Saleh is a Yemeni artist from Birmingham. Co-Founder of Verve From Casablanca comes the most surprising hit of recent years: Kabareh Presented with additional support from Cockayne Presented with additional support from British Poetry Press and member of Beatfreeks Collective, her book I Am Not Grants for the Arts and London Community Foundation. Council and Cockayne Grants for the Arts and London Cheikhats. Led by theatre director Ghassan El Hakim, 11 actors and *Tickets bought online or by phone are subject to a Community Foundation. From Here explores being British and Yemeni. £1.50 booking fee - no fee in person. musicians pay tribute to Morocco’s most famous female traditional folk *Tickets bought online or by phone are subject to a Images clockwise L-R: Blacklight Photography, £1.50 booking fee - no fee in person. Claudine Toutoungi’s poems have appeared in Poetry Chicago, The singers. Both adored but also stigmatised, the cheikhats had an ambiguous Ahsen Sayeed, Mankica Kranjec, Serge Ligtenberg Mo Khansa image: Alireza Shojaian. Guardian, The Financial Times and The Spectator. Her plays have been on (Winternachten internationaal literatuurfestival Den position in society. With deep reverence yet wild and infectious flair Kabareh Kabareh Cheikhats image: Manon Aubel. Haag 2018). BBC Radio 4 and at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, New York. Cheikhats sing, dance and re-enact these powerful songs once again: songs of love, rebellion and fierce independence. Using traditional costumes, Farah Chamma is a Dubai-born Palestinian performer. She writes and performs make-up and instruments and re-inventing traditions of drag and gender poetry in Arabic, English and French. Her current goal is to create Arabic content ambiguity, Kabareh Cheikhats create a party night like no other: frenzied that mixes Modern Standard Arabic (fus-ha) and colloquial Arabic. anarchy and outrageous fun with a political edge. Samira Saleh is a Dutch-born poet of Moroccan origin and a rising star in the Belgian and Dutch slam world. She hosts regular slam nights and the Mama’s Open Mike nights in Antwerp. 30 SHUBBAK.CO.UK SHUBBAK.CO.UK 31 SHUBBAK @ THE BRITISH LIBRARY SPOTLIGHT: NEW SYRIAN FICTION DIMA WANNOUS LITERATURE SUN 30 JUNE | 12PM - 7PM BL.UK 01937 546546 (Mon – Fri, 9am – 5pm) Damascus-born Dima Wannous is a writer and cultural journalist. She BRITISH LIBRARY KNOWLEDGE CENTRE Day passes: £18 | £16 | £14. Half day passes: £12 | £10 | £8 has written for multiple Arab and international newspapers, managed 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB Half Day: 12.15pm - 3.30pm or 3.45pm - 6.30pm the cultural section of the online magazine Modon, and hosted a cultural TV show from 2008-18. Her second novel, The Frightened Ones, focuses PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION on the notion of fear and how central it is to dictatorship. Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2018, the novel is about to THE ENDLESS WAVE NEW FEMINIST WRITING DIMA WANNOUS be published in Elisabeth Jaquette’s English translation. Dima Wannous What does it mean to be an Arab feminist in 2019? How does the legacy 4PM - 4.30PM reads from and discusses her novel and practice. of previous generations intersect with current creative practice and globalised movements like #MeToo? Three artists using diverse artforms discuss and perform their work. SPOTLIGHT: NEW KURDISH FICTION BAKHTIYAR ALI Bakhtiyar Ali is a prominent Iraqi Kurdish novelist and literary critic, French-Moroccan journalist, commentator and Prix Goncourt-winning essayist and poet, awarded the prestigious Nelly Sachs Prize in 2017. His LEÏLA SLIMANI novelist Leïla Slimani’s recent nonfiction work on Moroccan women’s novel I Stared at the Night of the City was a bestseller in Iraqi Kurdistan sexuality generated much debate. Award-winning Egyptian graphic 12PM - 1.15PM and made history as the first Kurdish novel ever to be published in English novelist and web comic artist Deena Mohamed is the creator of the translation. He is joined by his translator Kareem Abdulrahman, currently veiled female superhero Qahera. Badriah al Beshr is a Saudi journalist, completing the translation of Ali’s next novel The Last Pomegranate, to chatshow host and novelist known for tackling women’s issues. BAKHTIYAR ALI read an exclusive extract and to discuss contemporary Kurdish literature 4.45PM - 5.15PM in the Arab region and beyond. SPOTLIGHT: NEW ARAB WRITING FROM LONDON MALU HALASA “Halasa exhibits some of the verve and complexity of Naguib TELLING THE PAST CONTEMPORARY ARAB HISTORICAL NOVELS Mahfouz’s incomparable Cairo Trilogy” NEW YORK TIMES Many Arab writers create historical novels to recast fraught histories. What are their motivations and methods in approaching history through Malu Halasa has co-edited five anthologies on Middle East culture and the creative lens? Twice shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic politics. Her debut novel, Mother of All Pigs, unveils contemporary life in Fiction, Iraqi writer Inaam Kachachi’s novels focus on contemporary Iraqi Jordan, as one family confronts its secrets over the course of a weekend’s history. Iraqi-Welsh writer Ruqaya Izzidien’s debut novel features Iraqi, MALU HALASA festivities. At times witty and energetic, compassionate and awe-inspiring, Welsh and English characters in WWI Baghdad. Sudanese IPAF-shortlisted 1.30PM - 2PM an Arabic translation is forthcoming in 2020. Malu Halasa reads from and RUQAYA IZZIDIEN author Hammour Ziada’s latest historical novel examines cycles of discusses her novel and practice. 5.30PM - 6.45PM oppression through twentieth-century Sudan. Palestinian novelist Rabai Images: Editions Gallimard, Omid Salehi, Emile Zeeny, Richard Sammour, Khasraw Hama-Karim, al-Madhoun’s IPAF winning Destinies, Concerto of the Holocaust and the BOLD VOICES NEW QUEER WRITING Mosa’ab Elshamy. Nakba is a four-part epic of the Palestinian exodus and right to return. Building on Shubbak’s 2017 inaugural queer panel, Bold Voices brings together a new range of artists at the cutting edge of LGBT+ creative expression. Three artists from this exciting and defiant scene present A NEW DIVAN: TYRANNY IN TRANSLATION their approach ranging from comics to storytelling and activism. MOURID BARGHOUTI & GEORGE SZIRTES From Beirut comes poet, playwright and actress Dima Mikhayel Matta, The 200th anniversary of Johan Wolfgang Goethe’s West-Eastern Divan
JOSEPH KAI the founder of Beirut’s storytelling platform Cliffhangers. British-Iraqi forms the inspiration for A New Divan (Gingko, 2019), a collection of poems nonbinary writer, drag performer and filmmaker Amrou Al-Kadhi releases by twenty-four leading poets in eleven languages, with English translations. 2.15PM - 3.30PM their memoir Unicorn in October 2019. Joseph Kai, whose comics Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti and his translator George Szirtes centre around the unspoken, marginalization and gender, is editor at the MOUID BARGHOUTI read from their poems and discuss translation, the theme of tyranny, and Lebanese collective Samandal. TUE 2 JULY | 6.30PM | FREE reflect on Goethe’s time in the shadows of the Napoleonic wars and its JOHN SANDOE BOOKS relation to today’s violent conflicts. A festival book stall featuring works by all the day’s writers will be provided by Saqi Books. 10 Blacklands Terrace, SW3 2SR Produced by Gingko.
Presented with additional support from Cockayne Grants for the Arts and London Community Foundation, Drosos Foundation and Qatar Foundation International. 32 SHUBBAK.CO.UK SHUBBAK.CO.UK 33 SHUBBAK FILM @ THE BARBICAN FILM CINEMA 2 & 3, BARBICAN BARBICAN.ORG.UK £13.50 Film + Screentalk* OF SHEEP ARAB-BRITISH Beech Street, London EC2Y 8AE 020 7638 8891 £12 Film / Panel Discussion* 10% off for two or more screenings AND MEN SHORTS UK PREMIERE + SCREENTALK SOFIA PANOPTIC LONDON PREMIERE LONDON PREMIERE + SCREENTALK + SCREENTALK
FRI 5 JULY | 6.30PM SAT 6 JULY | 12.30PM DIR. KARIM SAYYAD STRANGE CITIES ARE FAMILIAR ALGERIA, 2017 (80 MINS) DIR. SAEED TAJI FAROUKY ABDULLAH AND LEILAH DIR. ASHTAR AL KIRSAN “Majestic, mysterious & hypnotic images” RUN(A)WAY ARAB DIR. AMROU AL KADHI CINEUROPA THREE CENTIMETRES DIR. LARA ZEIDAN WED 3 JULY | 6.30PM THU 4 JULY | 8.45PM AVE MARIA DIR. BASIL KHALIL Set in Bab el Oued, Algiers, Of Sheep and Men follows DIR. MERYEM BENM’BAREK-ALOÏSI DIR. RANA EID Identity, notions of nationality and of borders, bring MOROCCO, 2018 (79 MINS) LEBANON, 2018 (71 MIN) young Habib – a sixteen year old who, unable to follow together an eclectic selection of short films by his dreams of becoming a veterinarian, has bought a “This admirably mordant film “An ambitious debut” VARIETY Arab-British directors, looking to explore questions of sheep to train into a fighting champion instead – and deserves to travel widely” VARIETY identity, faith, gender and everything in between. Key Panoptic is a letter from a daughter to her deceased 42-year-old Samir, who simply sees his cattle as a means to these films, and ever-pertinent today, are reflections Sofia’s unexpected pregnancy comes as a surprise father, a former general in the Lebanese army, in to an end, and is looking towards the Eid celebration on on how the decisions and actions of older generations to everyone including Sofia herself. But for a young an attempt to reconcile with her country’s turbulent the horizon to sell his sheep. Reflecting on the codified have impacted on younger generations today: from woman out of wedlock, it also requires urgent action: past. A richly textured personal exploration of Beirut’s rituals of violence that underline the deeply empathetic questions of exile to the notion of belonging; and from a father’s letter is needed to deliver the baby. Sofia underground worlds – from the church groups of relationship these two men have with their animals, acceptance to pride. quietly leads her family to an unmarked blue door Ethiopian maids, to nightclubs pulsating into the early Karim Sayyad’s subtly observed, charming debut feature on the other side of town, where a certain Omar is hours and an opaque night-time Beirut – Rana Eid documentary also brings into play a reflection of Algeria’s indignant, as confused as anyone by the assertion hints at layers of buried histories, unspoken words. history, tainted by sacrifice and violence. that he has to take responsibility for the child. In A sound editor and designer by trade, her debut sharpest focus here is class – dividing responses, documentary is an audio-visual feast, and layered inviting unexpected solidarity, underlining the ever foray into what isn’t seen. ARAB-BRITISH FILM MAKERS sliding scale of women’s rights. Benm’Barek’s PANEL DISCUSSION accomplished first feature debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay Award. SAT 6 JULY | 2.30PM Reflecting this year’s programme focus on identity as explored through different EGYPT | IRAQ | LEBANON generations, a multi-award winning panel of Arab-British directors will discuss how they LIBYA | PALESTINE interpret their hyphenated identities and how it has impacted on the stories they tell and TUNISIA | UK films they make. Panellists include Sally El Hossaini (My Brother The Devil), Naziha Arebi (Freedom Fields), Amrou Al Kadhi (Run(a)way Arab, Anemone), Claire Belhassine (The Man Behind The Microphone), Saeed Taji Farouky (The Runner, Tell Spring Not To Come This Year) and Mustapha Kseibati (Skateboards and Spandex, Painkiller).
34 SHUBBAK.CO.UK SHUBBAK.CO.UK 35 SHUBBAK FILM @ THE BARBICAN + SPECIALLY COMMISSIONED FOYER MUSIC FILM CINEMA 2 & 3, BARBICAN BARBICAN.ORG.UK £13.50 Film + Screentalk* CURATED BY LEBANESE SOUND DESIGNER RANA EID Beech Street, London EC2Y 8AE 020 7638 8891 £12 Film / Panel Discussion* 10% off for two or more screenings Responding to the film season’s themes. Playlist available on shubbak.co.uk throughout the festival. THE MAN THE ERASED… THE REPORTS BEHIND THE BLESSED ASCENT OF ON SARAH MICROPHONE THE INVISIBLE AND SALEEM + SCREENTALK LONDON PREMIERE LONDON PREMIERE
SATURDAY 6 JULY | 4PM | CINEMA 2 SAT 6 JULY | 8.45PM SUN 7 JULY | 4.15PM SUN 7 JULY | 6PM DIR. CLAIRE BELHASSINE DIR. SOFIA DJAMA DIR. GHASSAN HALWANI DIR. MUAYAD ALAYAN TUNISIA, 2017 (86 MINS) ALGERIA, 2017 (102 MINS) LEBANON, 2018 (76 MINS) PALESTINE, 2018 (127 MINS)
“More than a music biopic, as it keeps in “Warm, intimately-hewn drama An image caught Ghassan Halwani’s eye as he Winner of the Audience Award at the Rotterdam Film its purview a complicated family history marked by graceful turns from leads...” walked down the street – that of a man, staring out Festival 2018, Muayan Alayan’s second feature has and the many societal changes taking HOLLYWOOD REPORTER at him from the city walls. He had seen this face been praised for its audacity. When Sarah and Saleem place in Tunisia” VARIETY before – twenty-five years earlier, he had witnessed – a Jewish Israeli woman and a Palestinian man – are Amal and Samir are an alluring bourgeois couple, that man’s kidnapping. Parts of his face are torn seen together in public, their lustful, illicit affair begins Known as the “Frank Sinatra of Tunisia”, Hedi Jouini celebrating twenty years of marriage in an upmarket but his features appear unchanged. So begins a to quickly escalate into a story of political espionage, is the most popular musical star in Tunisian history. restaurant. Former revolutionaries – who had quest, as is documented in Halwani’s powerful threatening to tear apart their respective families – not His songs continue to inspire revolutionaries and participated in the October ‘88 riots that eventually investigation, to make visible those who are absent least because Sarah is the wife of a high-ranking Israeli conservatives alike, striking at the heart of the post- led to the rise of religious conservatism – their – and yet undeniably present. As the director literally military official. Caught up in the occupying machinery colonial, social and political upheaval of Tunisia and anniversary is bittersweet. Amal talks about lost scrapes away at the walls of Beirut’s gentrified and socio-political pressure, Sarah and Saleem find its continuing search for identity in the wake of the illusions and Samir about the necessity to cope with neighbourhoods, he underlines the omnipresence themselves trapped in a web of deceit, which not even Arab Spring. Yet, despite being a peerless popular them – they both want the best for their children. of those disappeared – hidden in the layers of the the truth looks able to stop. Winner of the Special Jury figure, Hedi Jouini kept his fame hidden from his Meanwhile, their son Fahim and his friends wander city, if only you look closely enough. Erased… Ascent Award at the IFFR and Best Picture in Durban. family. Father to a nation yet not to his family, The the heady streets of Algiers, where drugs and alcohol of the Invisible is his first feature documentary, Man Behind The Microphone is a compelling portrait of are a release from boredom, an escape from a post- which debuted at Locarno followed by the Hedi Jouini, the godfather of Tunisian music, directed war state of mind that is never clearly articulated, Toronto Film Festival. by his granddaughter the British Tunisian director yet omnipresent. First premiered at the Venice Film Shubbak film programme produced by Hakawati. Presented with additional support from British Council, Drosos Foundation and Qatar Foundation International. Claire Belhassine. Festival, awards included the Best Actress Award for * Plus booking fee. Lyna Khoudri and the Orizzonti Award.
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FILM AICHA EL BELOUI AICHA EL BELOUI AMMA BAAD HICHAM BERRADA METTE LOULOU RAW QUEENS FAMILY DAY LITERATURE 10am - 6pm 12pm - 7pm Private View: 6.30pm 11am - 7pm VON KOHL & 11am - 6pm 11am – 5pm MUSIC Family Workshop: British Library P.18 Delfina Foundation P.22 Hayward Gallery P.17 DIMA MIKHAYEL MATTA The Mosaic Rooms P.23 The Mosaic Rooms P.15 OUTDOOR 2.30pm - 4pm 7pm + Post-show Talk PERFORMANCE Museum of London P.18 GEOGRAPHICAL CHRONICLES OF SOFIA Gate Theatre P. 9 ĒVOLVŌ + ONE DAY ARAB-BRITISH VISUAL ARTS CHILD’S PLAY MAJNUN LAYLA 6.30pm & ONE NIGHT BEIRUT SHORTS GEOGRAPHICAL 12pm - 7pm 7pm Cinema 2, Barbican P.34 MAY HE RISE 3pm | 7pm 12.30pm CHILD’S PLAY British Library Piazza P.16 Gate Theatre P. 8 AND SMELL THE Gate Theatre P10 Cinema 2, Barbican P.35 FRI 28 JUNE 1pm - 8pm CHRONICLES OF FRAGRANCE Art at the Lake THE ENDLESS WAVE: ONGOING MAJNUN LAYLA 8pm OF SHEEP AND MEN ARAB-BRITISH Lilian Baylis Studio BECOMING Milton Keynes P.16 NEW FEMINIST WRITING BECOMING 7pm 6.30pm FILM MAKERS Sadler’s Wells P. 6 9am - 6pm 12pm - 1.15pm 9am - 6pm Gate Theatre P. 8 Cinema 2, Barbican P.35 2.30pm Shepherd’s Bush Market P.21 BELONGING, SIDEWAYS British Library P.32 Shepherd’s Bush Market P.21 Cinema 2, Barbican P.35 10am - 11pm X-ADRA PANOPTIC COSMIC ANALOG 8.45pm 10 TO 10 Guided Tour: 3pm NEW ARAB WRITING: 10 TO 10 7.30pm ENSEMBLE ĒVOLVŌ + ONE DAY Cinema 2, Barbican P.34 10am - 6pm Rich Mix P.20 MALU HALASA 10am - 6pm Battersea Arts Centre P. 5 8pm & ONE NIGHT BEIRUT 1.30pm - 2pm 3pm | 7pm Bush Theatre P.20 Bush Theatre P.20 Camden Assembly P.27 THE UPSIDE DOWN British Library P.32 ONGOING ONGOING Gate Theatre P.10 BECOMING BELONGING, SIDEWAYS MAN (THE SON OF BELONGING, SIDEWAYS BECOMING MAY HE RISE THE ROAD) 9am - 6pm Private View: 6pm BOLD VOICES: 10am - 11pm 9am - 6pm AND SMELL THE THE MAN BEHIND 7.45pm NEW QUEER WRITING Shepherd’s Bush Market P.21 FRAGRANCE THE MICROPHONE Rich Mix P.20 Rich Mix P.20 Shepherd’s Bush Market P.21 Purcell Room 2.15pm - 3.30pm 8pm |+ Post-show Talk 4pm KAHAREB Southbank Centre P. 4 British Library P.32 10 TO 10 10 TO 10 Lilian Baylis Studio Cinema 2, Barbican P.36 10am - 6pm Sadler’s Wells 8pm - 4am TUE 2 JULY 10am - 6pm P. 6 ONGOING NEW SYRIAN FICTION: Bush Theatre P.20 LUMINISCENCIA Rich Mix P.26 Bush Theatre P.20 BECOMING DIMA WANNOUS ONGOING 5.30pm | 8pm A NEW DIVAN: TYRANNY 4pm - 4.30pm BELONGING, SIDEWAYS BECOMING Sadler’s Wells 9am - 6pm IN TRANSLATION BELONGING, SIDEWAYS P.28 Shepherd’s Bush Market British Library P.32 10am - 11pm 9am - 6pm P.21 6.30pm 10am - 11pm Rich Mix P.20 Shepherd’s Bush Market P.21 THE BLESSED John Sandoe Books P.33 Rich Mix P.20 10 TO 10 NEW KURDISH FICTION: 8.45pm BAKHTIYAR ALI 10am - 6pm AMMA BAAD HICHAM BERRADA 10 TO 10 Cinema 2, Barbican P.36 4.45pm - 5.15pm CHRONICLES OF Bush Theatre P.20 MAJNUN LAYLA 11am - 6pm 11am - 9pm 10am - 6pm British Library P.32 ONGOING 7pm + Post-show Talk Delfina Foundation P.22 Hayward Gallery P.17 Bush Theatre P.20 BECOMING Gate Theatre P. 8 TELLING THE PAST: AMMA BAAD BELONGING, SIDEWAYS 9am - 6pm CONTEMPORARY 11am - 6pm 10am - 11pm Shepherd’s Bush Market P.21 ARAB HISTORICAL X-ADRA 7.30pm Delfina Foundation P.22 Rich Mix P.20 NOVELS 10 TO 10 Battersea Arts Centre P. 5 5.30pm - 6.45pm HICHAM BERRADA 10am - 6pm British Library P.32 ONGOING 11am - 7pm Bush Theatre P.20 Hayward Gallery P.17 ONGOING BECOMING BELONGING, SIDEWAYS 9am - 6pm 10 TO 10 AMMA BAAD 10am - 11pm 10am - 6pm Shepherd’s Bush Market P.21 11am - 6pm Rich Mix P.20 Bush Theatre P.20 10 TO 10 Delfina Foundation P.22 HICHAM BERRADA 10am - 6pm BELONGING, SIDEWAYS 11am - 7pm Bush Theatre P.20 10am - 11pm Hayward Gallery P.17 Rich Mix P.20 BELONGING, SIDEWAYS RAW QUEENS 10am - 11pm 11am - 6pm Rich Mix P.20 The Mosaic Rooms P.23
AMMA BAAD AMMA BAAD 11am - 6pm 12pm - 6pm Delfina Foundation P.22 Delfina Foundation P.22
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AICHA EL BELOUI CREATIVE MOVEMENT JOGGING JOGGING WORKING METHOD SHUBBAK @ SHUBBAK @ SHUBBAK @ 10am - 5.30pm WORKSHOP 7pm 7pm 7pm + Post-show Talk NATIONAL THEATRE NATIONAL THEATRE NATIONAL THEATRE The British Museum P.18 4pm - 5pm Gate Theatre P.11 Theatre-making Workshop: 3pm Gate Theatre P.13 RIVER STAGE RIVER STAGE RIVER STAGE ACAVA’s Maxilla Garden P.10 Gate Theatre P.11 6pm - 11pm 12pm - 11pm 1pm - 5pm GEOGRAPHICAL THE TRACE OF THE HALKA National Theatre P.15 National Theatre P.15 National Theatre P.15 CHILD’S PLAY JOGGING BUTTERFLY: A TRIBUTE RAW QUEENS 7.30pm 10am - 5.30pm 7pm TO RIM BANNA 11am - 6pm Queen Elizabeth Hall WORKING METHOD YOU BURY ME ONGOING The British Museum P.24 Gate Theatre P.11 8pm Artist’s Talk Southbank Centre P. 7 7pm 12pm 10 TO 10 Barbican P.29 Fatima Mazmouz: 7pm Gate Theatre P.13 Gate Theatre P.14 10am - 6pm SYRIA AND YEMEN UNDER A LOW SKY The Mosaic Rooms P.23 ONGOING Bush Theatre P.20 MAKING ART TODAY 9pm UNDER A LOW SKY BECOMING MO KHANSA & TWO HEADS AND A SYMPOSIUM Gate Theatre P.12 9pm UNDER A LOW SKY 9am - 6pm KABAREH CHEIKHATS HAND & THE JOKERS BELONGING, SIDEWAYS 10.30am - 4.30pm Gate Theatre P.12 9pm Shepherd’s Bush Market P.21 8pm 2pm 10am - 11pm The British Museum P.24 ONGOING Gate Theatre P.12 Rich Mix P.30 Gate Theatre P.14 Rich Mix P.20 BECOMING ONGOING 10 TO 10 ONGOING THE SECOND 9am - 6pm BECOMING ONGOING 10am - 6pm NO DEMAND, NO SUPPLY HICHAM BERRADA COPY 2045 Shepherd’s Bush Market P.21 9am - 6pm BECOMING Bush Theatre P.20 BECOMING 3pm 11am - 7pm 11.30am | 2pm | 4.30pm Shepherd’s Bush Market P.21 9am - 6pm 9am - 6pm Gate Theatre P.14 Hayward Gallery P.17 The British Museum P.24 10 TO 10 Shepherd’s Bush Market P.21 BELONGING, SIDEWAYS Shepherd’s Bush Market P.21 10am - 6pm 10 TO 10 10am - 11pm CHRONICLES OF A CREATIVE MOVEMENT Bush Theatre P.20 10am - 6pm 10 TO 10 Rich Mix P.20 10 TO 10 CITY WE NEVER KNEW WORKSHOP Bush Theatre P.20 10am - 6pm 10am - 6pm 4.15pm 2pm - 3pm Gate Theatre BELONGING, SIDEWAYS Bush Theatre P.20 HICHAM BERRADA Bush Theatre P.20 P.14 ACAVA’s Maxilla Garden P.10 10am - 11pm BELONGING, SIDEWAYS 11am - 9pm Rich Mix P.20 10am - 11pm BELONGING, SIDEWAYS Hayward Gallery P.17 BELONGING, SIDEWAYS RAW QUEENS ERASED… ASCENT Rich Mix P.20 10am - 11pm 10am - 11pm 11am - 6pm OF THE INVISIBLE Meriem Bennani’s HICHAM BERRADA Rich Mix P.20 RAW QUEENS Rich Mix P.20 4.15pm 11am - 7pm RAW QUEENS 11am - 6pm YouTube Playlist: 7pm Cinema 2, Barbican P.37 The Mosaic Rooms Hayward Gallery P.17 11am - 6pm HICHAM BERRADA The Mosaic Rooms P.23 HICHAM BERRADA P.23 The Mosaic Rooms P.23 11am - 7pm 11am - 7pm THE REPORTS ON Hayward Gallery P.17 WORKING METHOD SARAH AND SALEEM AMMA BAAD Hayward Gallery P.17 AMMA BAAD 11am - 6pm AMMA BAAD 7pm 6pm 11am - 6pm Delfina Foundation P.22 11am - 6pm Delfina Foundation RAW QUEENS Gate Theatre P.13 Cinema 2, Barbican P.37 AMMA BAAD P.22 Delfina Foundation P.22 11am - 6pm 11am - 6pm The Mosaic Rooms P.23 TONGUE FU ONGOING Delfina Foundation P.22 8pm 10 TO 10 AMMA BAAD Rich Mix P.31 10am - 6pm 11am - 6pm Bush Theatre ONGOING P.20 Delfina Foundation P.22 BECOMING BELONGING, SIDEWAYS 9am - 6pm 10am - 11pm Shepherd’s Bush Market P.21 Rich Mix P.20 10 TO 10 HICHAM BERRADA 10am - 6pm 11am - 7pm Bush Theatre P.20 Hayward Gallery P.17 BELONGING, SIDEWAYS 10am - 11pm Rich Mix P.20
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