Can the arts provide tools for change? We close our festival with a specially commissioned edition of Sounds Like Home, featuring acclaimed writer, broadcaster, engineer and social justice advocate Yassmin Abdel-Magied.
Sudafest, founders of the Bath Refugee Festival, bring together leading Sudanese and diaspora voices for an evening of conversation, reflection and creative insight.
Through conversation, readings and audience engagement, the speakers will explore themes of home, loss, identity, resistance, joy, and the responsibilities we carry as creatives and community builders. A short live Sudanese musical performance will close the evening,
Guest Speakers:
Yassmin Abdel-Magied — Writer, Broadcaster, Advocate Known globally for her work on social justice, race, gender and Sudanese identity, Yassmin’s voice is one of the most influential in contemporary diaspora conversations. Her recent campaign Creatives4Sudan mobilised international solidarity across the arts sector.
Naomi Pendle — Researcher, University of Bath A leading expert on Sudan and South Sudan with decades of ethnographic research experience. Naomi studies governance during crisis, patterns of violence and the lived realities of conflict.
**Tasnim Abdelmagid **— Writer, Academic & Postdoctoral Researcher Born in Sudan and witness to the early days of the current conflict, Tasnim’s work centres on displacement, identity, post-conflict memory and the politics of storytelling.
