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 – 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 art, 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.
Event Date: Friday 17th July 2026 - Sunday 26th July 2026
Location: Various Locations
Categories: Arts & Culture | Community & Participation | Festivals & Events
