Voiced: The Festival for Endangered Languages – Global Poems From Home
The inaugural Voiced: The Festival for Endangered Languages takes over London’s Barbican Centre in October 2025, highlighting endangered global and local languages through a creative festival. The Barbican, London will be filled with an explosion of voices and works highlighting some of the world’s most endangered languages and dialects, with new commissions and work by new voices from around the world.
With some languages close to desolation, Voiced will also be a joyous, celebration showing how they are being saved. Through poetry, music, visual art, performance, talks and live events including workshops and free spaces, the festival brings together living and ancient languages, dialects and scripts with a remarkable line-up of global artists; brilliantly highlighting the vast creative impact art has on language and language has on art.
Global Poems from Home Event – Friday 17th October, 7.15pm-8.15pm
The five newly commissioned poems exploring what home means around the world and how language shapes our relationship with place, performed live in their original endangered languages and an English version with poets Troy Cabida, Hanan Issa, and Hanna Komar, followed by an in conversation.