Liverpool Arab Arts Festival 2025: Call For Volunteers!

We are looking for committed volunteers to play a key part in realising the UK’s premier annual festival of Arab arts and culture in Liverpool this summer.

Would you like to learn new skills and meet new people? Are you interested in learning about how an international arts festival works, or develop your experience of working with people in a public-facing arts setting?

Liverpool Arab Arts Festival runs 11th – 20th July 2025. We are especially looking for support to deliver these key events during the festival.

Check out the full line-up of events that we need volunteers at here and then please fill out the form at the bottom of this page:

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!

Nour Bishouty standing outside in front of some plants and a brick building.

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.

7:30pm, Friday 11 July

Penguin

Full of humour and beauty, Hamzeh’s extraordinary story transports you to Syria, Gateshead - and his mind.

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.

A hand holding some tatreez (traditional fabric).

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.

An image of the animated characters from the film Dounia.

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.

A crowd of people gathered in the Sefton Park Palm House for LAAF Family Day 2024.

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.

Volunteers will need to be available during the festival period and ideally commit to two shifts. Working with our small but dedicated team will provide volunteers with practical experience of event logistics and audience engagement in a public-facing environment.

Roles can range from: helping set – up for events; welcoming audience members; checking ticketing; supporting artists; assisting stage managers; supporting with the sales of merchandise; distributing surveys; and responding to audience questions…and much more!

Travel expenses will be covered, along with expenses towards lunch, if applicable for the shift.

Volunteers must be based within commuting distance of Liverpool as we are unable to fund long distance travel or accommodation. A full volunteer induction will be held in Liver pool or via Zoom before the festival.

Interested in getting involved? Please complete this online form before midnight on Sunday 29th June. We’ll be in touch shortly afterwards to follow up.

Liverpool Arab Arts Festival 2025 - Volunteers

We're looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help us deliver Liverpool Arab Arts Festival between 11th and 20th July 2025. Volunteers can expect: - A chance to work on an international arts festival. - Watch events for free and work with some of Liverpool's leading cultural and community venues. - Travel costs are reimbursed. Deadline is midnight on Sunday 29th June 2025.

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