Launch of Kayd’s 16th Somali Week Festival: Creative Worlds & Environment

Kayd’s launch of the 16th annual Somali Week Festival will showcase this year’s theme, Creative Worlds and the Environment. The Festival will be opened by the honorable H.E. Hibo Moumin Assoweh, the current minister of Youth and Culture of the Republic of Djibouti. This will be followed by a conversation with esteemed scholar Dr Sada Mire on the impact of climate change on heritage. Dr Mire is a Swedish-Somali archaeologist, art historian and presenter who is currently Associate Professor of Heritage Studies at University College London. She is also a public intellectual and heritage activist, and in her 2014TedXEuston talk she argued that cultural heritage is a basic human need. The Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts selected Mire as one of their 30 international thinkers and writers in 2017. She became the Director of Antiquities of Somaliland in 2007.

The evening will be closed with a live music performance by the legendary Dur-Dur band. Dur-Dur band was formed in the 1980s and was one of the most well-known acts on the Mogadishu disco scene at the time.

Language: English/Somali

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, United Kingdom