Across the world, social unrest, environmental degradation, systemic erasure and alienation imperil multiple ways of life. In search of effective responses to these global challenges, March Meeting 2026 (MM 2026) invites artists, writers, researchers and community organisers to come together to recognise, reveal and reflect. 

Through panels, keynotes, conversations and performances, participants will examine how historical entanglements of language, geography, economy and social organisation shape our present.

How can kinship, memory and humour sustain connection even as shared stories fracture or fade? What forms of transmission—oral, visual, sonic, literary and archival—can trace the movement of knowledge and experience between people and places? 

Convening in Al Qasimiyah School, a repurposed building from the 1950s, MM 2026 offers a space for deliberation and exchange, highlighting the fragile bonds that hold us together and invoking the creative possibilities that can emerge from them.