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Friday 17 – Sunday 26 July 2026
Various Venues, Liverpool

Liverpool Arab Arts Festival (LAAF), UK’s longest running annual festival of Arab arts and culture 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 – also celebrates Liverpool’s unique identity; a city, with a global community and brimming with artistry, that looks outwards across the world and welcomes and accepts all who arrive within it.

This year’s theme is Home, unfolding across a diverse range of disciplines, including music, theatre and performance, visual arts with an exhibition at ERL Gallery, literature, and film – with the festival programme culminating at the ever-popular LAAF Family Day.

LAAF 2026 will provide a platform for artists and audiences to explore the many meanings of “home”: whether rooted in place and territory, shaped through family and relationships, or carried through memory, movement, environment, and social or geographic experience.

The festival will highlight how Arab artists – from within the region and across the diaspora – engage with the deep and ever-shifting concept of belonging, while also recognising those whose sense of home is less stable or anchored, as is often the case for migrants and displaced communities.

Find out more here.