Events

AFI supports the artists we work with in creative, collaborative ways. We partner with galleries, museums, performance spaces, curators, collectors, arts and human rights groups to present events that showcase our artists’ work and champion artistic freedom. Join us for our upcoming events!

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Upcoming Events

Past Events

Disruption: Contemporary Shorts by Iranian Women Filmmakers

October 1

, 2024

Firas Zreik at Joe's Pub!

September 19

- 19

, 2024

Concert

Yalda Moaiery Photography Exhibit: Standing in the Dust

July 10

- 28

, 2024

Woman Artists: Human Rights Defenders

July 3

, 2024

Rhythms of Resistance

June 23

, 2024

Beautiful Forms: Short Film Night

November 29

, 2023

Lama El Homaïssi's "Not Harem Material"

October 14

, 2023

Bia Ferreira Live in Concert

October 13

, 2023

Beautiful Forms: Queer Art Unbound

October 13

- 29

, 2023

Art as a Tool of Power: Censorship and Suppression of Culture in Hungary and Poland

November 10

, 2022

Iranian Folk Music with Mehrnam Rastegari

November 9

, 2022

Concert

Niloufar Nourbakhsh's ‘We, The Innumerable’

October 21

, 2022

Criminal Queerness Festival 2022

June 21

- 24

, 2022

Habibi Festival 2022

October 11

- 15

, 2022

Habibi Festival 2021

November 2

- 5

, 2021

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