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Five men in black shirts, lined up, photographed in silhouette
Peshawar
Available June-August 2025
Transfixing, hyper-folk jams with rich and deep Pushtoon roots.
Mohamed Abozekry & Karkadé
Cairo
Available September-October 2025
Limitless virtuosity with an unbridled imagination: this oud master musically interprets the boundless world around him.
Two women performing on stage
Lviv
Available October-November 2025
Kurbasy’s urgent, time bending Songs of the Ukrainian Forest
Three puppeteers move a puppet on a small stage with a yellow light above them
Yogyakarta
Available September 1 - October 13, 2025
Compelling, bold, and aware, Indonesia’s Papermoon Puppet Theatre has transformed puppetry the way graphic novels changed comics.
Past Seasons
JRD photo by Frédéric Thaly
Pétion-Ville
Season 1: 2012
TseSho, A.Mantach
Kyiv
Season 4: 2018
A rambunctious super-charged puppet cabaret from Kyiv This is the context for TseSho?/What’s That?, a super-charged puppet cabaret of real time events...
Five men in black shirts, lined up, photographed in silhouette
Peshawar
Season 8: 2025
Season 2: 2014
Transfixing, hyper-folk jams with rich and deep Pushtoon roots.
ISTIJMAM (Actors photo)
Oran
Season 3: 2016-2017
Gritty, intimate theater confronts the destiny of today's Algeria. Istijmam, a collaborative of theater makers, moves outward from the manifestos of...
Band performing on stage
Bogotá
Season 5: 2022
A 7-piece band rooted in the iconic marimba de chonta and steeped in the Pacific coast’s Afro-Colombian culture, identity, and history. Based in...
Three musicians on a stage playing instruments, illuminated by red light
Yerevan
Season 6: 2022-2023
Opening idiomatic portals, MVF Band harnesses Yerevan’s jazz and contemporary scenes to reimagine Armenia’s Age-old sounds. “We’ve woven together jazz...
Six people standing together with one man sitting in front
Yerevan
Season 6: 2022-2023
Tri Minh's Quartet
Hanoi
Season 2: 2014
Zeb & Haniya
Lahore
Season 1: 2012
arabesque
Ho Chi Minh City
Season 2: 2014
SoK FB photo 1 full band red Ahsan center
Karachi
Season 3: 2016-2017
10-piece super group creates a sonic highway from Ragas to the Blues Like an Indian Ocean blast from the seaport megacity it calls home, Sounds of...
Two women performing on stage
Lviv
Season 8: 2025
Season 4: 2018
Kurbasy’s urgent, time bending Songs of the Ukrainian Forest
Arieb Azhar
Islamabad
Season 1: 2012
A black woman poses for the camera wearing brightly colored clothes.
Johannesburg
Season 7: 2023
“Her voice is bigger than mine, but she’s smaller than my trumpet. The last time we invited her she stole the show from us.” – Hugh Masekela With a...
Three puppeteers move a puppet on a small stage with a yellow light above them
Yogyakarta
Season 8: 2025
Season 1: 2012
Compelling, bold, and aware, Indonesia’s Papermoon Puppet Theatre has transformed puppetry the way graphic novels changed comics.
A man next to a woman who is standing on one leg and leaning on another man in a wheelchair
Pingtung County
Season 6: 2022-2023
In “Ice Age” Resident Island Dance Theatre challenges external forces and shows us the potential of a physically, mentally, and emotionally integrated...
Seven people standing together with various instruments in front of a large white cliff
Arequipa
Season 5: 2022
In artful acoustic performances, Lundú’s originals and arrangements of folk standards respond to their environment, complex Afro-Peruvian and Andean roots, and their historic hometown, Arequipa.
Poor Rich Boy
Lahore
Season 2: 2014
Youssra El Hawary portrait by David Degner
Cairo
Season 4: 2018
A Musical bellwether of everyday life, capturing the stories of Cairo and the charged alchemy of the Mediterranean basin. Youssra El Hawary’s socially...
Nan Jombang Dance Company. Image  Fiona Cullen 0068
Padang
Season 1: 2012
ribab
Agadir
Season 2: 2014
On stage Saada Nassor
Zanzibar
Season 3: 2016-2017
Woman standing in front of a brick wall, with an image of a man projected onto it
Lima
Season 5: 2022
A Peruvian documentary maker starts researching corruption in her country but ends up directly involved in the story. Chaska Mori returns to Perú...
Coke Studio Season 4 Episode 3 Sanam Marvi
Hyderabad
Season 3: 2016-2017
Two women in black, one with dark hair and one with red hair, shake their heads in motion in front of a green landscape.
Buenos Aires
Season 6: 2022-2023
The harmony-soaked vocals and electro-folk charisma of the Trucco sisters propels their new project Lyrically poignant with hip hop and Latin folk...
Ifrikya Spirit
Algiers
Season 3: 2016-2017
Seven people -- four standing, while three crouch down in front -- pose in front of a graffitied wall
La Plata
Season 6: 2022-2023
Five men standing with one woman crouched in front, all looking at the camera surrounded by candles
Lima
Season 5: 2022
At play in a Psychedelic Cumbia Sandbox, Hit La Rosa Channels a Fantastic Reflection of Perú’s Full Cultural Spectrum One of Lima’s leading indie...
Woman holding an accordion in front of green foliage
Bogotá
Season 5: 2022
Charismatic and Incandescent, a 21st century troubadour charts an original path and adds to Colombia’s vallenato legacy.
Democratoz FB in perf photo w flag
Oran
Season 3: 2016-2017
Hard grooving reggae, rai & rock from cosmopolitan Oran Democratoz lays down hard-grooving reggae, rai & rock with all the ecstasy and defiance of...
BelO by Frederic Dupoux
Pétion-Ville
Season 1: 2012
Jogja Hip Hop Foundation
Yogyakarta
Season 1: 2012
Two people standing back to back, wearing traditional Filipino clothing
Lake Sebu
Season 7: 2023
Art is life, art is alive. Preserving Tboli culture in the land of Lake Sebu’s South Cotabato highlands on Mindinao, Helobung (“endless joy”) is a...
Mohamed Abozekry & Karkadé
Cairo
Season 8: 2025
Season 4: 2018
Limitless virtuosity with an unbridled imagination: this oud master musically interprets the boundless world around him.
Fleur d'Orange
Casablanca
Season 2: 2014
hoba square
Casablanca
Season 2: 2014
Very Live
Karachi
Season 1: 2012
Two men facing each other in profile, each holding a drum stick
Taipei
Season 6: 2022-2023
Hearing Double: Twincussion’s Dynamic, Classically Infused Percussion Spans East and West.
A woman stands in front of four other men, posing in front of a large rainbow like structure
Soweto
Season 7: 2023
Music for the people, by the people, with the people. Rebellious, spiritual, and exhilarating, BCUC’s live shows are transcendent rites of explosive...
Jagwa Music 3, Credit Werner Graebner
Dar es Salaam
Season 3: 2016-2017
From the streets of Dar es Salaam, Jagwa Music brings the noise Speed, heat, and swagger. Tanzania's 7-piece Jagwa Music bangs out a hard-won...
Noori
Lahore
Season 1: 2012
Dina Elwedidi 2 Daf photo James Duncan Davidson
Giza
Season 4: 2018
Two musicians performing on stage with traditional instruments
Addis Ababa
Season 7: 2023
Founded in 2009 by the charismatic Melaku Belay, who has made his Fendika Cultural Center in Addis Ababa a global gathering place, Ethiocolor draws...
Two dancers reach outwards towards a white light
O'Kiep
Season 7: 2023
Krummelpap, Scandals Wrapped in Prayer (Krummelpap, Afval en Sunlightseepbaddens) is a dance-theater piece created and performed by Garage Dance...
TI-COCA & WANGA-NÈGÈS
Port-au-Prince
Season 1: 2012