The Festival of Muslim Cultures
The Festival of Muslim Cultures began in January 2006 and continues into July
2007. We have been working with arts and educational institutions across the UK
to promote the mainstreaming of Muslim cultures within UK everyday life. The
Festival was created out of the need to encourage a better understanding
between Muslims and non Muslims (as a two-way process), to promote respect for
Muslim cultures and to demonstrate how culture creates the pathways that
connect us all together.
Our Patron is HRH the Prince of Wales.
The events that are being programmed into the Festival year are chosen
because they are the best of the arts from the Muslim world, both contemporary
and historical. Also because they portray diversity and plurality, giving
Muslims living in Britain greater pride in their cultures and a true sense of
belonging to Britain. These events range from exhibitions, film, literature and
the performing arts to seminars on contemporary issues and youth projects
around fashion, music, film and food. This is an exploration of culture in
the widest sense.
At the end of the Festival we want to establish a trust that will support our
long-term commitment to promoting Muslim cultures through arts collaborations
and build on the extensive network of local, national and international
partners that Festival has created.
Future events being created by the Festivals programme partners range from
drama from the Middle East; a colourful contribution to the Edinburgh
Festivals; a conference on Faith and Identity in Contemporary Culture in
Manchester; a gathering of poets in Bradford and Leeds; contemporary British
Muslim artists in Birmingham; a Pakistani film festival in Glasgow as well as a
Sufi Festival; Muslim writers at the Hay Literary Festival; Quranic recitation
in Leicester; an arts programme across Wales; and early music in York.
The Festivals organisation
The organisation running the Festival is a charity and is non-political,
non-sectarian and non-ideological. Its aims are to create spaces for
creativity, build cultural bridges and promote expression through the arts by
Muslims from all over the world for people all over the UK. It is intended that
this work will continue beyond the end of the Festival in July 2007.
The Chair of the Trustees is Raficq Abdulla MBE (lawyer, interpreter of Rumi
and Attar, broadcaster and writer)
The Festival Director is Isabel Carlisle (former Deputy Head of Exhibitions
at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and a former art critic for The Times).
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