Liverpool Arab Arts Festival
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Arts and Culture
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival Announce 24th Edition Returning This July
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival (LAAF), the UK’s longest running annual festival of Arab arts and culture, and returns for its 24th year this July. Founded in 1998, LAAF exists to support and champion creatives from across the Arab region and its diaspora, in the belief that art and creativity have the power to express a shared humanity. The festival – recently nominated in the LCR Culture & Creativity Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Culture –…
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Arts and Culture
Preview: ‘A Grain of Sand’ At Unity Theatre
Giving Voice to Gaza: Sarah Agha on Her Powerful One-Woman Show Liverpool Noise’s Steve Kinrade had the privilege of chatting with the incredibly talented actress and writer, Sarah Agha, to discuss her poignant role in the one-woman play, A Grain of Sand, which is due to grace the stage of Liverpool’s Unity Theatre on Saturday 18 July, presented by Good Chance as part of the Liverpool Arab Arts Festival. Sarah, a London-based artist with a…
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Festivals
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival Comes To Liverpool Next Week
LAAF (Liverpool Arab Arts Festival) is the longest running annual festival of Arab arts and culture in the UK. Returning for its 23rd year this July, the festival theme is Nostalgia, which will be explored through a diverse range of disciplines, including music, theatre and performance, visual art, spoken word, literature and film. The full 2025 lineup has now been released with more information about the festival in both English and Arabic here. MUSIC AKRAM…
