On July 2, 2016, we joined forces with acclaimed UK music academy StaveHouse for a multi-arts mid-summer Western Sahara Festival. The event, held at Hundred Years Gallery in Hoxton, highlighted the ongoing plight of the Saharawi refugees in the Algeria Sahara and presented our efforts to bring early music-learning to the area. We also launched Run the Sahara 2017 to raise funds for Desert Voicebox. We showed the English premieres of “Battalion to my Beat” by Eimi Imanashi, and “The Desert of the Deserts” by Samir Abujambra to provide potent contexts to understanding the Saharawi struggle.