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Africa Oyé @africaoye.bsky.social · 4d

🎉 Africa Oyé is BACK 🎉

The people’s festival enters a new era on 20th and 21st June 2026. We hope you’ll come along for the ride…

LIMITED Earlybird tickets now on sale from just £6 for local residents and £11 general entry. Children under 12 are FREE.

BOOK NOW: africaoye.com/tickets

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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social · 9d

Our friends at Milap are preparing for their wonderful Indika festival later this month. Be sure to check out their full line-up of music and arts taking place across Liverpool 🤩

Follow @milappresents.bsky.social for more info

#Liverpool #Culture #Festival

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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social · 13d

Our friends at Milap are preparing for their wonderful Indika festival later this month. Be sure to check out their full line-up of music and arts taking place across Liverpool 🤩

Milap @milappresents.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks to @atthebarrier.bsky.social for featuring our upcoming INDIKA festival.

Read more here:
atthebarrier.com/2025/10/07/i...

Events @liverpoolphil.bsky.social @thetungauditorium.bsky.social @liveveryplay.bsky.social @mellowtoneclub.bsky.social @unitytheatre.bsky.social @futureyard.org & more!

INDIKA returns to Liverpool: News : At The Barrier

Milap have announced the full INDIKA line-up; 15 days of Indian music, dance and culture across the Liverpool City Region, bringing the very best of Indian Arts to an even wider audience.

atthebarrier.com

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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social · Sep 10

🇱🇧 TOMORROW NIGHT 🇱🇧

Tryangle Man starts his tour in Liverpool, bringing a plethora of live piano house, cosmic funk and jazzy synths to the intimate backdrop of The Jacaranda Club!

Tickets only £8: ra.co/events/2229302

#ArabArts #Liverpool #Beirut

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Africa Oyé @africaoye.bsky.social · Sep 10

🇯🇲 Bob Marley Reimagined by The London African Gospel Choir 🇯🇲

Saturday 18 April 2026, 7:30pm
@liverpoolphil.bsky.social

Gospel power meets reggae spirit in a unique, soul-stirring live experience!

Tickets on sale this Friday… don’t miss out, last time the LAGC were in town, the show sold out!

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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social · Sep 2

'Nothing is lost except nothing at all except what is not had'

There's just two weeks left to visit Nour Bishouty's wonderful exhibition as part of Liverpool Biennial at the @walkerartgallery.bsky.social!

More Info: www.biennial.com/artists/nour...

(Photos: Andrew Ab Photography)

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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social · Aug 22

We couldn't do what we do without our funders, sponsors and partners!

✨ Arts Council England, Liverpool City Council, Culture Liverpool, British Council, Al Omar Family, and UNISON North West ✨

And a huge thank you for the private donations made by our supporters 🙏

(Photo: Andrew AB Photography)

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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social · Aug 19

"Thank you to @onefellswoopagency.bsky.social for your dedicated support in managing our festival marketing & event management.

You were key in shining a spotlight on this year's events and ensuring so many of them ran smoothly" - Anne Thwaite, Director, LAAF

📷 @alanblundell.bsky.social

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Africa Oyé @africaoye.bsky.social · Aug 19

📼 Enjoying sorting through some gems in the Oyé cassette archive today 📼

What has pride of place in your own music collection?

PS...OYE MUGS ARE ON SALE: africaoye.bigcartel.com

#ListenToAfrica #Festival #Liverpool #TimeForABrew #Cassette #CassetteTapes

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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social · Aug 18

A special shout out to Heidi and Halah at Salt And Sister for the beautiful concept and design for this years LAAF branding, exploring our theme nostalgia!

More: www.saltandsister.co.uk

(Photo: Andrew AB Photography)

#LAAF2025 #ArabArts #Liverpool #Design #Nostalgia

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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social · Aug 14

A look back at our #LAAF2025 Family Day at the beautiful Palm House Sefton Park 😍

It was the perfect way to close the festival and we want to thank everyone who came down to any of the events this year and helped make this wonderful celebration what it was.

(Photos: Andrew AB Photography)

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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social · Aug 12

The final Saturday night of #LAAF2025 saw the incredible Akram Abdulfattah perform to a packed crowd at the @liverpoolphil.bsky.social 🎻

Many thanks to Andrew AB Photography for capturing these shots on the night!

#LAAF #Liverpool #ArabArts

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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social · Aug 7

🇾🇪 LAAF 2025 Flashback 🇾🇪

The Book of Sana’a at VideOdyssey saw a celebration of storytelling, writing, & music from the capital of Yemen, in association w/ @commapress.bsky.social.

Check out the snaps from @alanblundell.bsky.social including some amazing shots of Mohamed Thulaya’s model of Sana’a!

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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social · Aug 5

A look back at the fantastic 'A Grain of Sand' from @goodchancetheatre.bsky.social at #LAAF2025!

At @unitytheatre.bsky.social we took an intimate look at war through the eyes of a child, blending Palestinian folklore with real-life testimonies from children in Gaza.

📷 @alanblundell.bsky.social

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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social · Aug 4

Many thanks to @alanblundell.bsky.social for capturing a wonderful night of film and conversation with poet and filmmaker Ali Al-Jamri at #LAAF2025!

Joining Al-Jamri at Toxteth TV in conversation on 'The Legend of the Looms' were Anahid Kasabian (Host) and Ricardo Vilela (Co-Director & Producer).

Three people sitting on a sofa in conversation at a screening of a film

A shot over the shoulder of someone watching a film on a big screen.

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One Fell Swoop @onefellswoopagency.bsky.social · Aug 1

THE SWOOP

Our monthly newsletter is out now, featuring the best cultural content from Liverpool and Merseyside

mailchi.mp/onefellswoop...

Featuring @milappresents.bsky.social @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social @mellowtonerecords.bsky.social @lumacreations.bsky.social & much more … read it now!

'THE SWOOP' - Issue 130, August 2025

mailchi.mp

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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social · Jul 31

A busy day at #LAAF saw an evening of stories and discussion @thebluecoat.bsky.social, launching @commapress.bsky.social' daring new anthology, Palestine Minus One PLUS Mohamed Gohar spoke on his architectural and heritage experiences for his exhibition 'The Alexandrian' at Yamama Café and Bar.

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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social · Jul 30

We were thrilled to team up Yamama Café and Bar at #LAAF2025 for 'A Taste of Jordan' - a lunch and supper club, where food met memory, and every bite told a story!

Many thanks to Andrew AB Photography for the photos!

#LAAF #ArabArts #Food #Liverpool

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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social · Jul 29

This year at #LAAF2025 we were thrilled to present Archiving Nostalgia, featuring two shorts and a feature length doc at @factliverpool.bsky.social.

The event showcased contemporary Arab films from Lebanon, Tunisia, and Algeria that reflect on nostalgia as both a thematic and aesthetic tool.

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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social · Jul 28

Looking back at some more of this year's #LAAF highlights!

We welcomed a screening of Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo and Dounia - The Great White North, two wonderful stories of Dounia, a young Syrian child, to the fantastic Plaza Community Cinema, in association with At the Library!

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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social · Jul 28

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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social · Jul 24

"One guest turned to me and said, ‘This feels like a wedding—and I love it.’ That simple, powerful comment filled me with pride—not just for what we created, but for what our city stands for." - LAAF Trustee, Taher Qassim

Full @liverpoolecho.co.uk article:

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/wha...

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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social · Jul 26

Two weeks ago at #LAAF we welcomed worldbuilding artist Sarah Al-Sarraj to the World Museum for her performative-lecture Limbs of the Lunar Disc: Break the Clocks, before we headed down to Rough Trade for Arabs Are Not Funny!

Photos 1: Jules Lister

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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social · Jul 25

We kick off our #LAAF2025 retrospective with a look at our launch night at @unitytheatre.bsky.social!

We witnessed the incredible @penguinbyhamzeh.bsky.social and welcomed lots of new and old faces to start what would be an incredible ten days of Arab Arts.

(Photos: Andrew AB Photography)

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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social · Jul 24

"One guest turned to me and said, ‘This feels like a wedding—and I love it.’ That simple, powerful comment filled me with pride—not just for what we created, but for what our city stands for." - LAAF Trustee, Taher Qassim

Full @liverpoolecho.co.uk article:

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/wha...

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One Fell Swoop @onefellswoopagency.bsky.social · Jul 23

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Looking back @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social Family Day

Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social · Jul 21

What a beautiful way to round off #LAAF2025 with our Family Day at the Palm House! Some truly special memories were made.

Special thanks to Arts Council England, Liverpool City Council, Culture Liverpool, British Council, Qatar Foundation International, Al Omar Family, and UNISON 🙏

📷 Andrew Ab

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