Dua Lipa’s curated edition of the Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival will bring her together with Sudanese-Canadian poet, singer, and filmmaker Mustafa for an evening built entirely around verse. The conversation is scheduled for Saturday, October 24, at 8pm at the Royal Festival Hall, as part of the festival’s run from October 21 to November 1, which marks the Southbank Centre’s 75th anniversary year.

The event centers on Nour, Mustafa’s poetry publication exploring faith, ceremony, love, grief, and the quiet weight of everyday ritual. Onstage, Mustafa will trace his lifelong relationship with poetry, and he and Lipa are expected to speak about the poets who have shaped them both, with readings from additional guests woven into the evening.

Mustafa and Lipa’s friendship has played out publicly before this. The two have described their bond warmly in past appearances, and this pairing extends that connection into a literary setting, with Lipa using her festival curation to spotlight artists she considers close to her own creative world.

The Mustafa conversation sits within a wider slate Lipa has assembled for the festival, including sessions with Zadie Smith and Patti Smith, alongside programming from her Service95 Book Club. Tickets are available through the Southbank Centre, with the performance on October 24 offering British Sign Language interpretation and Speech-to-Text transcription.

Details for this event are drawn from the Southbank Centre’s official event listing.