ABOUT JLF LONDON at the British Library -2025

JLF London at the British Library will be back this year - from 13th - 15th June, 2025, marking its 12th edition, with an exciting line-up of speakers and sessions.

Like each year, it will embody the multi-faceted spirit of the mother festival - the iconic Jaipur Literature Festival, with its unique celebration of books and ideas, inclusiveness and sense of community - and be back at the heart of London with a caravan of writers and thinkers, poets, balladeers and raconteurs. Like all JLF international editions, the London programme too brings alive South Asia’s unique multilingual literary heritage and blends it with local literary highlights.

JLF London at the British Library is a cross-cultural voyage featuring a mix of literary narratives and inspirational speakers from around the world. Over the last decade, the festival has offered over 600 sessions, combining oral and performing arts, books and ideas, conversation and debate, cinema, current affairs and politics & geopolitics. The upcoming edition promises to bring together some of the world's most renowned and relevant voices to speak on essential themes that look at the different dimensions and perspectives of our shared stories.

BRITISH LIBRARY

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world's greatest research libraries. Its collection has developed over 250 years and exceeds 150 million separate items representing every age of written civilisation and includes books, journals, manuscripts, maps, stamps, music, patents, photographs, newspapers and sound recordings in all written and spoken languages.

Meet some of the British Library’s greatest treasures online. Explore some of the greatest writers and their work at Discovering Literature and astonishing collections of Sacred Texts. The Library also looks after South Asian collections of extraordinary range and diversity, and works to share these with the world through importantdigitisation programmes. They include paintings, manuscripts, recordings, photography, books in every language and more, ranging from the Mewar Ramayana to the many stories of Asian people in Britain.

Continuing the Library’s vibrant cultural programme, its current major exhibition is Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music.

Directors & Producer

Sanjoy K. Roy

Managing Director - Teamwork Arts (Producer)

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William Dalrymple

Writer, Historian & Festival Director

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Namita Gokhale

Writer, Publisher & Festival Director

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Teamwork Arts

From Concept to Curation and Design to Production

Teamwork Arts is a highly versatile production company with roots in the performing arts, knowledge-creation, social action and the corporate world. For over 30 years, Teamwork Arts has taken India to the world and brought the world to India, presenting the finest of Indian performers, writers, change-makers and visual artists in the knowledge and arts space in India and abroad. The arts of India are unrivaled in their depth, diversity and mystery and showcasing India to global audiences requires a deep understanding of her culture, an acute sense of relevance in programming, an unflinching attention to detail and above all, love and respect for the artist. Our expertise spans the sphere of entertainment and knowledge, and includes making of documentary and feature films, conceptualizing and developing visual, performing arts and literary festivals around the world which embody both a classical and contemporary India, and nurturing new talent across all art forms.

Every year, we produce over 33 festivals in 42 cities and 17 countries in the fields of performing & visual arts and literature; our venues include Australia, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, the UK and USA as well as many eclectic festivals across India. We produce the world’s largest literary gathering: the annual Jaipur Literature Festival; JLF international now travels to the US, UK, Canada and Australia and the Maldives and Spain!

We produce acclaimed festivals across India such as the Ishara International Puppet Festival, the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META), festivals of magical music -the Mahindra Kabira in Varanasi, the Sacred in Pushkar, the Jazz India Circuit in Goa and the National Capital Region, the Jaipur Music Stage in Jaipur and the monthly Under the Banyan Tree which happens on a “Full Moon” night in Delhi.

Our international festivals include India by the Nile in Egypt, India by the Bay in Hong Kong, Confluence - A Festival of India in Australia, India in the Sunshine City in Zimbabwe , India by the Bosphorus in Turkey, India in the Alps in Switzerland and many more. Our musical extravaganza, Bollywood Love Story - A Musical, continues to tour the world with sold-out shows everywhere it is held.

Even amidst the upheaval and unsettling times of 2020 and through 2021, Teamwork Arts successfully launched the digital series, ‘JLF Brave New World’ and ‘Words Are Bridges’, which were viewed by over 4.8 million people in their first season. Through its digital avatar, the Jaipur Literature Festival reached over 27 million viewers in January 2021 and brought together the world’s leading commentators and writers. Amidst the pandemic, Teamwork Arts also created ‘Art Matters’ - an initiative empowering artistes across India to collaborate across genres by commissioning them to create new works. It has since then raised awareness, actioned change, developed support channels and inspired the community to contribute to the cause in various direct and indirect ways. The digital series ‘Be Inspired’ was launched in 2021 – a series that crystal-gazes into the future with conversations on science, technology, innovation, environment and more.

More information at: www.teamworkarts.com