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Peshawar
Available June-August 2025
Transfixing, hyper-folk jams with rich and deep Pushtoon roots.
Cairo
Available September-October 2025
Limitless virtuosity with an unbridled imagination: this oud master musically interprets the boundless world around him.
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
Lahore
Season 1: 2012
Cousins, lifelong friends and longtime musical collaborators, Zeb and Haniya bring a highly listenable, global sensibility to earthy originals and...
Yogyakarta
Season 1: 2012
If there was still any doubt that hip hop is truly a global culture, look no further than Indonesia's Hip Hop Foundation (JHF). Recognized as one...
Casablanca
Season 2: 2014
Crowd-wowing, thought-provoking Morocc'n Roll fresh from the Maghreb This “sharp, vibrant, and very nearly universal” band (Washington Post) is...
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 world.
Padang
Season 1: 2012
Hailing from the island of Sumatra, apart from Indonesia's dominant cultures, Nan Jombang is a family of artists whose work describes a compelling mix...
Islamabad
Season 1: 2012
Sharp eloquence, humanist politics, and mystic poetries are given a global voice by Arieb Azhar and his band from Islamabad, Pakistan. Defying an easy...
Johannesburg
Season 7: 2023
With a voice rich in emotional vulnerability, and nimble power, Nomfusi conquers every stage and every heart.
Pétion-Ville
Season 1: 2012
This company of high-powered dancers and drummers, led by choreographer Jean-René Delsoin, cultivate a nuanced, sophisticated view of Haitian culture...
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.
Lake Sebu
Season 7: 2023
Art is life, art is alive. Helobung (“endless joy”) is a wellspring and tradition bearer dedicated to cultural stewardship and creativity through generational transfer of indigenous knowledge and practices.
Hanoi
Season 2: 2014
Avant sounds of electronica, acoustic instruments, and Vietnamese motifs Sophisticated, versatile and lithe, Tri Minh’s Quartet binds electronica...
Casablanca
Season 2: 2014
Captivating movement traces layers of gender, culture, history, and ancestry Riveting solo movement by choreographer-dancer Hind Benali accompanied by...
Port-au-Prince
Season 1: 2012
Masters of Haiti's twoubadou (troubadour) tradition, Ti-Coca and his band, Wanga-Nègès perform with a straightforward and utterly committed joy. The...
Pasay City
Season 7: 2023
Tanghalang Pilipino shares Filipino art and culture and its place within the global theater community through original works, revivals, and devised works that engage current issues that matter to their country.
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.
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 sound.
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...
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...
Yerevan
Season 6: 2022-2023
A septet of masterful vocalists and instrumentalists gives renewed voice to Armenia’s spiritual lineage in bracing, emotional, and propulsive work rising on the classical scene.
Addis Ababa
Season 7: 2023
Ethiopia’s first and only all-woman classical quartet comes to the U.S. to deepen their creative practice and make professional connections as part of Center Stage’s new Artists in Residence program.
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...
Cairo
Season 8: 2025
Season 4: 2018
Limitless virtuosity with an unbridled imagination: this oud master musically interprets the boundless world around him.
Hyderabad
Season 3: 2016-2017
Vocal warrior Sanam Marvi is the next, great diviner of South Asia's humanist, folk, and Sufi texts With compelling interpretations that draw deeply...
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...
Peshawar
Season 8: 2025
Season 2: 2014
Transfixing, hyper-folk jams with rich and deep Pushtoon roots.
La Plata
Season 6: 2022-2023
With swooping hooks and party grooves the cumbia-grounded sound of this identity-inclusive LGBTQIA+ band buoyantly challenges societal norms, celebrates difference, and reclaims the love song for all.
Giza
Season 4: 2018
A sophisticated and compelling musical innovator of Egyptian heritage and contemporary identity. Dina El Wedidi channels the heritage and contemporary...
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 deeply from the bardic well of Ethiopia’s diverse heritage.
Lahore
Season 2: 2014
Discreetly subversive indie rock exposes the inner life of urban pakistan Poor Rich Boy, Pakistan’s underground indie-art rock phenomenon, conjures...
Bogotá
Season 5: 2022
Charismatic and Incandescent, a 21st century troubadour charts an original path and adds to Colombia’s vallenato legacy.
O'Kiep
Season 7: 2023
Krummelpap is a dance-theater piece created and performed by Garage Dance Ensemble, which makes its home in a former mining area in the Namaqualand region of South Africa, not far from the border with Namibia.
Kyiv
Season 4: 2018
A rambunctious super-charged puppet cabaret from Kyiv Trolls prowl and conflicts rage in online propaganda. External actors force themselves across...
Zanzibar
Season 3: 2016-2017
A renewed taarab reinvigorates Zanzibar's syncretic signature sound Taarab music has defined Zanzibar's aural landscape for over a century, renowned...
Agadir
Season 2: 2014
A big dose of Amazigh funk, powered by a single (ribab) string A feverishly funky sign of a new era, Ribab Fusion celebrates Morocco’s Amazigh (Berber...
Taipei
Season 6: 2022-2023
Hearing Double: Twincussion’s Dynamic, Classically Infused Percussion Spans East and West.
Lima
Season 5: 2022
At play in a Psychedelic Cumbia Sandbox, Hit La Rosa Channels a Fantastic Reflection of Perú’s Full Cultural Spectrum.
Algiers
Season 3: 2016-2017
Tranced-out diwan sounds from Algiers, gathered under a big musical tent. In Algeria, cultures of city dwellers and Arabic speakers, Amazigh villagers...
