NYAF 2025
New York City’s first Arab and Arab American art and culture festival, celebrating the song, dance, fashion, performance, ideas, and cuisine that have made Arab heritage part of American heritage. Join us for our 4th edition this year at venues across New York City, and upstate New York, with satellite programs taking place overseas, April and May 2025.
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Festival Overview
Dedicated to listening and collective learning, this edition of NYAF performs curating through crisis as an exercise in critical endurance. With war and genocide actively inflicted upon Arab nations, our festival has been enmeshed in a polyphony of listening, rituals of mourning, practices of honoring, and of speaking up. NYAF will look at our relations to our lands and habitat and the notion of congestion, to nature, and specifically to animals and animality, to food as a basic right, and histories of underground artists who changed the history of Arab art. The festival will feature several talks and debates, giving time and space to Palestinian artists and thinkers, many of whom are directly impacted by the genocide in Palestine. NYAF will equally continue its unfolding dialogue with Arab, Arab American and allied artists at large. A spectrum of events, from concerts to dance performances, film screenings to exhibitions and talks, as well as the recurring platform “Raseef” shall take place across several boroughs. Artists include Nadia Khayrallah, Carol Gimbel, Khaled Jarrar, H.Sinno, Amanda Ekery, and many others. NYAF will take place in partnership with institutions and venues across New York including Museum of Moving Image, La Mama Theater, National Sawdust, Nublu, Jalopy Theater, and many others throughout April and May 2025, presenting artists from Egypt, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, UAE, among others.
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