Creative Dialogues Is Bringing Its Regional Creative Community to Beirut This October

If art, design, film, or basically anything creative are your forte, then you need to add this three-day exhibition in Beirut to your October bucket list.

Creative Dialogues, the MENA region’s first multidisciplinary platform for creatives, is hosting a three-day exhibition full of conversations, workshops, and film to the heart of Beirut from October 9th until the 11th. And it’s completely free to attend!

The story behind Creative Dialogues

Launched back in 2023, Creative Dialogues started with pretty simple realization: the Arab world is bursting with creative talent, but so much of it works in isolation, designers who never cross paths with filmmakers, emerging artists who rarely get in the same room as the people they look up to. There were plenty of stages for solo talent, and almost nowhere built for actual exchange. So, powered by YVT Consultancy, the platform set out to build spaces where creatives from every discipline could meet, swap ideas, and make things together.

“We started Creative Dialogues because the region is full of extraordinary creative talent that too often works in isolation,” says Yasmine Vanda Trofast, founder and CEO of Creative Dialogues. “We wanted to build the places where those people could meet, across disciplines, across generations, and see what they make together.”

And in just three years, the platform has brought together 1,500+ creatives, welcomed 10,000+ attendees, pulled off 50+ activations across the region, and reached a global Arab audience of 100 million through media and diaspora networks.

Not just a one-off event

Creative Dialogues goes beyond its city events, with programs running throughout the year that bring creatives together in different ways. That includes its podcast, online community, student programme, collaborative exhibitions, and pop-up experiences, all built around the same idea of getting people from different creative fields talking and working together.

What the expect

Under the theme Culture by Design: Creativity for Impact, the Beirut edition spreads across some of the city’s coolest venues.

A few highlights you might love:

Luminous Threads at Beit Kanz:

An exhibition reviving Tarq embroidery, a near-forgotten Baalbek craft famous for its gold and silver threadwork.

The Path She Chose at Arthaus

A textile and multimedia show by Majal Design School students telling the stories of 24 women who reinvented themselves through art.

A full family-friendly day at EcoHub

Hands-on workshops for kids, teens, and adults, artistic city tours, an ALBA student exhibition, and plenty of music and food.

A closing film night at Salon Beyrouth with Beirut Film Society

Five short films on memory, displacement, and belonging, each followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. Plus roundtables, performances, and morning workshops sprinkled across the three days.

Beyond Beirut

Beirut is just the opening act of a big regional run. Creative Dialogues heads to Cairo (November 22–24), Manama (December 3–5), then Marrakesh in February 2027. Four cities, one ongoing creative conversation.

Event details

🗓️ October 9-11, 2026

📍Across Beirut at LAU Beirut Campus, Beit Kanz, EcoHub, Arthaus, Rebirth Beirut & Salon Beyrouth

🎟️ Free entry

Interested in the full program? Check out the creativedialogues.co website or follow @wearecreativedialogues on Instagram for more! If you’re interested in events happening around Lebanon, check out the #Events section on our website.

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