Lifeline 🎬 A sold-out Kiln Theatre for Ilhan Abdullahi's debut feature and a Q&A with Khadar Ayderus Ahmed. Thank you Almas Art Foundation @almasartfounduk and SAAFI @OrgSaafi @KhadarM @KilnTheatre #SomaliWeek2026 #MakingHome #BlackHistoryMonth #KaydArts

🎤 The Final Beats line-up Closing Somali Week Festival 2026 on one stage: 🎵 Members of Iftin Band 🎵 Sayid Khalifa 🎵 Addey Ali Ahmed (Caddey Cali Axmed) 🎵 Maryan Ruun 🎵 Nimco Yasin 🎵 Nimco Dagan 🎵 Abdirahman Nasri 🔥 Closing act: Isse Abdulaziz Ali (Iskilaaji) 🏆 Lifetime Achievement Award: Professor Said Salah 📅 Sunday 25 October · 🕕 6pm 📍 Queen Mary University of London, Mile End 🎟️ Tickets: link below -- get your tickets before they sell out! eventbrite.co.uk/e/final-bea… #SomaliWeekFestival #SWF2026 #FinalBeats #SomaliMusic

Somali Book Day, tonight 📚✨ From 7:30 PM Oxford House becomes a book fair. Somali-authored books to browse and buy, signings, readings and informal conversations with writers and publishers, hosted by Boodhari Warsame. Writers and publishers: you are welcome to join. Readers: bring a bag. 🎟️ £5 · Tickets online and on the door eventbrite.co.uk/e/somali-bo… #SomaliWeek2026 #MakingHome #BlackHistoryMonth #KaydArts

Poetry headliners, today 🎤📜 Jaylaani (Xiddigaha Geeska), Cabdinasir Bidixo, Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf (The Sea-Migrations, Sunday Times Poetry Book of the Year) and Buurmaax, live on one stage. 📍 Oxford House Theatre, 3:30 PM 🎟️ £5 · Tickets available online and on the door The gabay belongs in a full room. Come fill it ✨ Link in bio. #SomaliWeek2026 #MakingHome #BlackHistoryMonth #KaydArts eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-he…

Tonight is sold out for Comedy & Film Kudaal😂🎬 Naif Mohammed, Khalid Raheem and Prince Abdi on stage, Selam Amare hosting, then the screening of Kudaal by Aar Maanta followed by a Q&A and live oud. Ticket holders: doors 6 PM at Oxford House. Everyone else: tomorrow is our biggest day, tickets for other events in our website: kayd.org/somali-week-festiva… ✨ #SomaliWeek2026 #MakingHome #BlackHistoryMonth #KaydArts

Why do we keep repeating the same patterns? 📚🔑 Tomorrow at 5 PM Somali-Australian author Ali Jama launches The Key to the Human Game, a practical look at how habits form, stick and change, shaped by growing up in Somaliland and the wisdom of his great-grandmother. Hosted by Zahra Ahmed. 📍 Oxford House 🎟️ £5 · Tickets online and on the door eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-laun… #SomaliWeek2026 #MakingHome #BlackHistoryMonth #KaydArts

Today 4 PM 🎶 Arraweelo: a Somali queen on the opera stage. Sneak peek listening + discussion with Rebecca Örtman, Maryam Garad & Hadsan Mohamud. Tickets still available on the door! Oxford House, £10, tickets online and on the door → eventbrite.co.uk/e/199400715… #SomaliWeek2026 #BlackHistoryMonth

Growing up surrounded by unfamiliar names in books inspired a powerful goal: to write stories where Somali readers could recognise themselves and feel represented. 📚 That goal became From A Crooked Rib. Then Maps. Then Sweet and Sour Milk, Links, Knots, Crossbones. Dozens of books, translated across the world, and a Neustadt International Prize for Literature. This is the journey of Nuruddin Farah, and on 22 October we’re celebrating it together. ✨ 📅 Thu 22 Oct · 🕕 6 to 9pm 📍 SOAS University of London 🎟 £10 · link in bio This is your sign to read Nuruddin Farah 📖🧡eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebrati… #SomaliWeekFestival #SWF2026 #MakingHome #NuruddinFarah #SomaliLiterature #BookTok #Kayd

Today at 4 PM 🎶 Arraweelo, the legendary Somali queen, meets opera. A sneak peek listening of a brand new operatic work rooted in Somali oral storytelling, with soprano Sanna Gibbs, Maryam Garad, oud player Abdirahman Farah and more. Then a conversation with Rebecca Örtman, Maryam Garad and Hadsan Mohamud on bringing Somali stories to new stages. 📍 Oxford House, Bethnal Green 🎟️ £10 · Tickets still available online and on the door eventbrite.co.uk/e/arraweelo… #SomaliWeek2026 #MakingHome #BlackHistoryMonth #KaydArts

Tonight we open ✨ Somali Week Festival 2026 launches at the British Library with Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, Sabrina Ali, Ifrah F. Ahmed, Hussein Suleiman and Ilhan Abdullahi. Hosted by Fatima Hagi. See you all there! Sold out, but ten more days ahead → kayd.org #SomaliWeek2026 #BlackHistoryMonth

On Sunday at 6 PM 📖 In conversation with Rashid Sheikh Abdullahi, Rashid Gadwayne. One of the sharpest minds in Somali literary criticism, author of Qaran iyo Qabiil (Nation and Clan), in conversation with veteran broadcaster Abdisalan Hereri. Nation, clan, literature and the questions we keep circling back to. 📍 Oxford House Theatre 🎟️ £5 · Tickets below or on the door #SomaliWeek2026 #MakingHome #BlackHistoryMonth #KaydArts eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conver…

Tonight we open ✨ The 18th Somali Week Festival launches at the British Library with five creatives on the theme Making Home: Art in Motion. Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, Sabrina Ali, Ifrah F. Ahmed, Hussein Suleiman and Ilhan Abdullahi, hosted by Fatima Hagi. We will also present our very first Trailblazer Award to Sabrina Ali 🏆 @3sa3ri3a Sold out. Ten more days of festival ahead. Full programme here: kayd.org/somali-week-festiva… @ucalifarah @ifahmed @huzane @iamilhan @miss_hajji #SomaliWeek2026 #MakingHome #BlackHistoryMonth #KaydArts

Tonight 7:30 PM 📚 Somali Book Day: an evening book fair with readings, signings and conversation, hosted by Boodhari Warsame. Oxford House, £5, tickets on the door → eventbrite.co.uk/e/199978369…

Don't miss SUNDAY 6 PM 📖 Rashid Gadwayne, author of Qaran iyo Qabiil, in conversation with Abdisalan Hereri. Oxford House, £5, tickets on the door → #SomaliWeek2026 #BlackHistoryMonth eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conver…

Check out "Building Futures: Somali Entrepreneurship Across the Diaspora" eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-… @eventbritehelp

80 years of Nuruddin Farah. One night at SOAS. Thu 22 Oct 📚✨ Tap to book 🎟 Check out "Celebrating 80 Years of Nuruddin Farah" eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebrati… @eventbritehelp

We’re looking forward to bringing everyone together for Somali Week Festival 2026 this Friday, with ten days of stories, conversations and creativity across London. Ahead of opening night, explore some of this year’s highlights in Hyphen’s festival feature. 16–25 October · London✨ kayd.org/somali-week-festiva… Read the feature 👇 What’s on at Somali Week Festival 2026 hyphenonline.com/2026/10/13/… via @onlinehyphen

Check out "Arraweelo: “Sneak Peek” Operatic performance and discussion" eventbrite.co.uk/e/arraweelo… @eventbritehelp

A Somali author takes on the biggest question there is: why do we do what we do? The Key to the Human Game by Ali Jama. Launch, conversation and signing, Sunday 18 October, £5. eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-laun…