Shubbak Festival

Shubbak (meaning ‘window’ in Arabic) supports and celebrates the diversity of Arab artists' creativity and innovation through its professional and engagement programmes, national touring and biennial multi-artform festival. Working nationally and internationally, Shubbak commissions, initiates and develops projects that encourage a wide range of creative approaches in an artist-led process.

Shubbak Festival is the UK's largest biennial festival of contemporary Arab culture, bringing new and unexpected voices alongside established artists to London every two years. The festival returns this summer with an ambitious programme that connects audiences and communities with the best of contemporary Arab visual arts, film, music, theatre, dance, literature and debate.

The Goethe-Institut London has supported Shubbak Festival with a Syrian artist trio from Berlin.