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09/02/2026

It’s back!

27/01/2026

An unforgettable week in Barcelona's giant of an arts festival - La Mercè. Just finished the film! Big thank you to the team at Xtrax. Thank you too to MCRCityofLit for showcasing 3 of my film projects as part of the festival, representing Manchester.

A lasting legacy: Manchester at La Mercè, Barcelona 2025 Celebrating Manchester as the first English city at La Mercè. Connecting Cities, Cr...

05/08/2025

À wonderful occasion!

18/07/2025

what a brilliant ‘Legend of the Looms’ film showing and what a joy to share the Q&A with Ali and Anahid for The Liverpool Arab Arts Festival. Big thx to the Toxteth TV team, the audience and to all that made this evening a success.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5UB9URbP8M

https://www.arabartsfestival.com/events/the-legend-of-the-looms/

09/07/2025

A very special day indeed
we’re showing a short film Ridy and I made with Refugee Tales, The Walker’s Tale, at the Hackney Picturehouse in London.

The most unique 5 days walking arts festival starts in London, bringing together the communities associated with the spectacular Refugee Tales community of walkers, artists, people with lived experience, writers and casually many more groups of people, such as invested politicians.

Refugee Tales celebrates 10 years of groundbreaking epic work. If you’re not joining us today I leave you with a video from the very first project I did with Refugee Tales via Commapress.

https://youtu.be/rpwr6--Zo20?si=1LcNJqEu-6FxyGhR

https://www.refugeetales.org/walk-2024-1

https://observer.co.uk/news/opinion-and-ideas/article/ali-smith-refugee-tales-is-a-small-bright-spot-in-dark-times?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLbLW1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHnGdC4bw081NGCYDi8QyGNbk42rZrmUXAclT9kFzHATE6Gi7R-1VnYcEvZXA_aem_JBOgxl6u0uuIHvkkyfHaLQ

Actor Jeremy Irons reads the Prologue by David Herd to Refugee Tales: Volume I. The UK is the only country in Europe that detains people indefinitely. To cal...

18/06/2025

https://www.cined.com/canon-aligns-eos-vr-system-with-apple-vision-pro/

Canon EOS VR System Vision Pro: firmware update lets RF dual-fisheye lenses export APMP video and Spatial Photos for Vision Pro 3D workflows.

15/04/2025

delighted to collaborate with The Horsfall and 42nd Street for this years’ Symposium!

12/03/2025

29/01/2025

“The Legend of the Looms is a love letter to folk poetry, traditions of both my homes of Bahrain and North West England. I’m constantly struck by the fact I come from a north western village in Bahrain with a tradition of textiles, politics and poetry and live now in Manchester with its tradition of textiles, politics and poetry. The poem, film and installation started as an attempt to draw these disparate threads into one tapestry. I invite audiences to take it as the start of a conversation that includes their own stories of family, art and weaving.”

Ali was first commissioned by the Arab British Centre over a year ago as part of our As We Are, Might Have Been and Could Be visual arts strand, which focuses on developing the practices and careers of Arab-identifying artists in the UK. We’ve loved getting to know Ali and to see his vision take shape in this work.

Join us this Saturday 1 Feb at the Legend of the Looms Open Day at to see him weave poetry and culture, and to meet him in person!

The Legend of the Looms is supported by and

Credits:

Writer and producer
Film directed and produced by with Music by .krol
Curated by
Additional footage by .jassim9
Textile creation by and Bani Jamra Textile Factory

18/12/2023

Watch highlights of the Cities Untold event, part of Manchester Literature Festival and filmed at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation on 17 October 2023.…

07/07/2023

So happy to share our new film, NHS Untold Stories, celebrating the 75 years of the NHS, with Trafford General Hospital being the first ever NHS hospital, whilst honouring the crucial contribution of the Windrush Generation! A pleasure to team up with Prof. Jess Edwards, Kim Moore and Jackie Bailey. Boil the kettle and sit down for a treat!

Film by Ricardo VilelaWhen you clapped on your doorstep to say thanks to NHS workers during the Covid-19 pandemic, who were you thinking of? In the 75th anni...