• REVOLTING YOUTH

    Revolting Youth! Numbi workshop – Sunday 21st April 2013

    Revolting Youth! Numbi workshop Sunday 21st April 2013 – from 11am -3pm Inspired by revolutionary poets past and present, craft your own word-sound-power that speaks to the time we live in. Facilitated by poets Sai Murray and Elmi Ali. Participants will also get a chance to perform their freshly created music/poetry fusions at the most [...]

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    A Night of Afro-Punk! – Saturday 9th February

    On Saturday 9th February we are Afropunk and giving you a chance to truly rock out and express yourself on the dance floor. We’ve got the sultry sounds of chanteuse, Miryam Solomon. We’ve got the vibrant, shake-your-tail feather rhythms of Bronzehead, the band that puts the funk in punk! We’ve got the linguistic sexiness of [...]

  • Funkateers at Rich Mix

    A night of funk, fun and thought provokes!

    The 25th of February was our first NUMBI of 2012 at the well renown cultural centre Rich Mix in London. Jammed from start to finish with introductions, spoken word, live music and generally a sound amongst the diverse crowd. Indeed the first of many, a flash from the night…

The Gist

NUMBI is a kind of dance that happens in Somalia where one lets go of one’s inhibitions and gets free. It is that ethos, with the emphasis on freedom, that inspired NUMBI founder, Kinsi Abdulleh, to set up the organisation in 1998.

We’re about celebrating the international and local voices that don’t have the materials or platform to express their voices. We’re about art, we’re about beauty and we’re about fostering a sense of community and solidarity amongst artists, arts-lovers, creatives and dreamers of all stripes.

Events

Numbi-PUNK-poster-final

A Night of Afro-Punk! – Saturday 9th February

On Saturday 9th February we are Afropunk and giving you a chance to truly rock out and express yourself on the dance floor. We’ve got the sultry sounds of chanteuse, Miryam Solomon. We’ve got the vibrant, shake-your-tail feather rhythms of Bronzehead, the band that puts the funk in punk! We’ve got the linguistic sexiness of [...]