Afkaaga Hooyo waa Dahab! Your Mother Tongue is Gold!
Rich Mix 35 - 47 Bethnal Green Road, London, United KingdomNumbi Arts Presents Afkaaga Hooyo waa Dahab! Your Mother Tongue is Gold! Numbi Arts is back. Join us for an evening of spoken word, dance, live music, DJs, food and visual art. The early evening is family friendly, stick around til after 10pm for dancing and DJ sets… This event launches the official NUMBI 2020 theme […]
Afkaaga Hooyo waa Dahab! Your Mother Tongue is Gold!
Popular Union 2 Cotall Street, London, United KingdomJoin Numbi Arts for a family friendly live streamed feast that celebrates Somali culture with a stellar lineup of our resident artists and special guests of poets, musicians, DJs and visual artists. We will be celebrating the mother tongue language throughout October as we merge the virtual and physical in true Numbi cafe conversations, tradition, […]
Postcards from the Diaspora – Led by Ubah Cristina Ali Farah
Zoom OnlineJoin us on March 4th @ 6:30pm (GMT) for a free Zoom session hosted by Whitechapel Gallery led by Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, this writing workshop will invite participants to create a portrait representing a woman who has inspired them, using either images or text. We will use an extract from a text written by […]
Numbi Presents: Portrait of Colossus by Samatar Elmi Poetry Pamphlet Launch
Zoom OnlineJoin us on March 5th @ 7pm (GMT) to celebrate the launch of Samatar Elmi’s searingly forthright debut Portrait of Colossus! Elmi’s poetry pamphlet navigates parenting, masculinity, racism and ambiguities of identity. Joined on the night by poets Ubah Cristina Ali Farah and Ahmed Buurmaax, who’ll be blessing us with Italian and Somali translations of […]
NumbiFest: Poly’s Day
Toynbee Hall 28 Commercial Street, London, United KingdomA day-long festival celebrating the life of the iconic Somali Punk pioneer Poly Styrene! In 1976, Marianne Elliot-Said, a young Somali-English woman named herself, ‘Poly Styrene’ and embarking on her musical career posted an advert in the back of NME magazine for band members to join her, later iconic, Punk group, ‘X-Ray Specs’. The title […]