Another Sky is a new London-based festival celebrating experimental music from the SWANA (South West Asia & North Africa) region and diaspora - 2023 was our first edition; 2024 will be our second. Join us in listening, in watching, in dancing and in connecting for three days and nights. We’l 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 film programme is 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.

2024 event playlists are curated by Discrepant.

Marketing Daryoush Haj-Najafi
Press Emily Moore 
Art direction, poster design, motion design 40MUSTAQEL  
Audio technical director Shaun Crook
Production assistant Leila Collins
Event photography What About the Ash (Ash Sealy, Marc Tunguz)
Catering Yogi’s Sri Lankan Kitchen

2024 board of advisors: Daryoush Haj-Najafi, Taghrid Choucair-Vizoso, Leah Zakss


Another Sky 2024 was made possible through the generous support of Arts Council England, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, The Marchus Trust, the Hinrichsen Foundation, the Vaughan Williams Foundation and the Norwegian Composers’ Fund.



The 2024 edition was created in partnership with Arab British Centre, BEK – Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, Distractfold Ensemble, Ensemble Contrechamps, Explore Ensemble, Maqam Books مقام, The Mosaic Rooms, Royal Northern College of Music, Space21 and SPACE FOR SWANA.




Our 2023 edition was supported by funding and partnerships with Arts Council England, Counterflows Festival, Cyborg Soloists, Distractfold Ensemble, Ensemble Contrechamps, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, the Goethe-Institut, the Hinrichsen Foundation, Irtijal Festival, The Marchus Trust, The Mosaic Rooms, PRS for Music Foundation Open Fund, Royal Northern College of Music, Safar Film Festival and Space21. 2023 board of advisors: Daryoush Haj-Najafi, Christina Hazboun, Sharif Sehnaoui, Leah Zakss

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