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Another Sky is a London-based festival and artistic platform celebrating experimental music from the SWANA (South West Asia & North Africa) region and diaspora. 2026 is our third festival edition. Join us in listening, in watching, in dancing and in connecting across multiple days and nights. We present composed, improvised and electronic music; short films and moving-image works; new commissions; workshops and an independent label & publisher fair.

Another Sky is co-directed by Sam Salem أسامة سالم (composer; co-founder Distractfold Ensemble; RNCM) and Emily Moore (Southern Bird artist management & production).

Please do get in touch with Sam and Emily if you would like to share your music. We would love to hear from you.

Our 2023-24 film programmes were curated and led by Saeed Taji Farouky سعيد تاجي الفاروقي, a filmmaker, writer and curator who has been making work on themes of conflict, human rights and colonialism since 2004.

Marketing Daryoush Haj-Najafi
Press Emily Moore 
Art direction & identity Rand Hamdallah
Audio technical director Shaun Crook
Production assistant Leila Collins
2026 playlists curated by Discrepant
Event photography What About the Ash (Ash Sealy, Marc Tunguz)
Catering Yogi’s Sri Lankan Kitchen

2026 board of advisors: Taghrid Choucair-Vizoso, Robert Farhat, Daryoush Haj-Najafi, Leah Zakss


Another Sky Festival 2026 was made possible through the generous support of Arts Council England, the Hinrichsen Foundation, the Vaughan Williams Foundation and the OUTLANDS Network. Sam Salem is supported by PRS Foundation’s Composers’ Fund. 




The 2026 festival edition was created in partnership with Mosaic Rooms, Bristol New Music, Arnolfini, Music to Come, ame and Eroteme.

For previous editions and projects Another Sky has been supported by funding and partnerships with: the Arab British Centre, Arts Council England, BBC Radio 3, BEK – Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, Counterflows Festival, Cyborg Soloists, Distractfold Ensemble, Ensemble Contrechamps, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, Explore Ensemble, the Goethe-Institut, the Hinrichsen Foundation, Irtijal Festival, Maqam Books مقام, The Marchus Trust, Mosaic Rooms, NMC Recordings, the Norwegian Composers’ Fund, PRS for Music Foundation Open Fund, PRS Foundation’s New Music Biennial, Royal Northern College of Music, Safar Film Festival, Southbank Centre, SPACE FOR SWANA, Space21 and the Vaughan Williams Foundation.

Another Sky is a member of the OUTLANDS Network and a proud signatory of the Keychange Pledge.