2025 FESTIVAL LINE UP
12:00am, Friday 11 July
VIEW THE FESTIVAL BROCHURE – LAAF 2025
Download the LAAF brochure here, with the full festival lineup! قم بتنزيل كتيب LAAF هنا، والذي يتضمن البرنامج الكامل للمهرجان!
10:00am, Saturday 7 June
Nour Bishouty – Liverpool Biennial 2025
Nour Bishouty investigates the impulses of tourism and sightseeing, foregrounding questions around permission and the production of fantasy.
10:00am, Friday 11 July
Limbs of the Lunar Disc: Isthmus Ancient River
This new work explores alternative temporalities engaging with ancestry, ecology and the long term impacts of environmental violence.
1:00pm, Saturday 12 July
Limbs of the Lunar Disc: Break the Clocks
A special performative-lecture by worldbuilding artist Sarah Al-Sarraj, imagining that we are in a spaceship hurtling through time.
7:30pm, Saturday 12 July
Arabs Are Not Funny
The funniest Arabs in UK are back on stage, in the flesh, funnier than ever before at The Bluecoat in Liverpool.
12:00pm, Sunday 13 July
Hadi Badi Children’s Workshop
Introducing high-quality Arabic children's books, on themes of nostalgia and memory, whether about home, family, places, or special moments.
12:00am, Sunday 13 July
SOLD OUT – Palestinian Tatreez (Embroidery) Workshop
Join this adult workshop with Tatreez Collective to learn the basics of Tatreez (traditional Palestinian embroidery).
7:00pm, Monday 14 July
Archiving Nostalgia
Contemporary Arab films from Lebanon, Tunisia, and Algeria, reflecting on nostalgia as both a thematic and aesthetic tool.
2:00pm, Sunday 13 July
Dounia Part 1 & 2: Cinema at Crosby Plaza
Dounia (And Princess of Aleppo, 2022) is the story of a little girl Forced to leave their war-destroyed city,
12:00pm, Tuesday 15 July
Jordanian Food & Cultural Experience with Yamama
Yamama are hosting a Cultural Supper Club and Lunch Club, to bring people together through food, art, and memory.
4:00pm, Wednesday 16 July
The Alexandrian
In this free exhibition and artist talk, Mohamed Gohar utilises his artistic visual language alongside architectural and heritage experiences.
7:00pm, Wednesday 16 July
Palestine Minus One
A unique evening of stories and discussion, launching Comma Press's daring new anthology, Palestine Minus One.
7:00pm, Thursday 17 July
The Legend of the Looms
A visitor to an historic weaver's house in Rossendale accidentally summons an irate Lancashire weaver's ghost.
7:30pm, Friday 18 July
A Grain of Sand حبة رمل
A one-woman show looking at war through the eyes of a child, blending Palestinian folklore with real-life testimonies from children.
12:45pm, Saturday 19 July
The Book of Sana’a
Join us for a celebration of storytelling, writing, and music from the capital of Yemen, in association with Comma Press.
8:00pm, Saturday 19 July
Akram Abdulfattah
Akram Abdulfattah is a Palestinian-American violinist who combines jazz with middle eastern and Indian music.
12:00pm, Sunday 20 July
LAAF Family Day 2025
Immerse yourself in a FREE afternoon of authentic Arab art, culture and community during this joyful celebration.
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