In June 2026, Amal opened the Tollwood summer festival in Munich, nearly five years after her first walk through Germany. The 2026 theme was the reclaiming of empathy, and festival-goers welcomed her at Olympiapark with hand-painted signs and messages.

Folkestone saw Amal’s first UK steps in October 2021, and Manchester became her adopted home. Since then she has come back to Britain many times, from Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage with Elbow in 2022 to Migration Yorkshire’s Integration Festival in 2024.

Fundación Internacional Teatro a Mil opened its festival in Santiago with Amal in January 2025, her first visit to South America. Over three weeks she travelled roughly 2,600 miles, reaching Punta Arenas before returning to Santiago for the finale.

Belfast 2024 invited Amal to Northern Ireland where she walked beside the Peace Wall before west to Giant’s Causeway and Derry/Londonderry. She later turned south to Dublin, where local producers Cackle MGMT led her to the Famine Memorial beside the Liffey.

Amal reached Australia in March 2024 for the closing weekend of the Adelaide Festival. A smoking ceremony welcomed her to Country when she arrived by boat at Elder Park, and footballers in Port Adelaide taught her the rules of AFL.

Amal returned to Poland in September 2024, two years after her first visit, as a guest of Malta Festival Poznań. She chased Artsadmin’s Domino installation through the city centre, and the next day danced with students from Projekt Elimu beneath the famous goats of the town hall clock tower.

In November 2023 Mexico became the first Latin American and Spanish-speaking country to welcome Amal. Producer Romain Greco and his team built 42 events from Tijuana to Tapachula, including Monte Albán, drawing almost half a million people over three weeks.

In autumn 2023 Amal journeyed 6,000 miles from Boston to San Diego, her longest ever journey. THE OFFICE performing arts + film and a host of cultural and community partners created more than 120 events to welcome Amal, culminating in visits on both sides of the US/Mexico border wall.

Olavsfest hosted Amal in Trondheim in summer 2023, her first time in Scandinavia, under a festival theme of trust. Marja Mortensson woke her with a joik, and schoolchildren lined the River Nidelven holding over a thousand handmade creatures and flowers.

Luminato Festival invited Amal to Canada for their renowned annual festival. Indigenous leaders offered her a poem and a round dance at Nathan Phillips Square, and on her final day a boat carried her across Lake Ontario.

St. Ann’s Warehouse brought Amal to New York in September 2022 for her first trip beyond Europe. Fifty events took her across all five boroughs. She was welcomed into JFK but the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and later crossed Brooklyn Bridge with thousands of New Yorkers.

In May 2022 Amal carried aid for young children to Lviv, where displaced families walked with her through Stryjskyj Park and Mayor Andriy Sadovyi greeted her on the Opera House steps. In Poland, newly arrived Ukrainian families welcomed her in Kraków. Produced with Anna Sologub and Martyna Lach.

Amare made Amal the special guest of its Open Festival in The Hague in November 2021. Madurodam showed her the Netherlands in miniature, and Nederlands Dans Theater sent her off with the Amare Shuffle.

Amal opened Gender Day at COP26 in November 2021, highlighting how women, girls, and marginalized communities are disproportionately affected by climate change. Citizens Theatre brought Glasgow and Perthshire pupils to join her along the Clyde.

Brussels welcomed Amal with a choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui outside La Monnaie in October 2021. Later in Antwerp, the local giant family De Reuzen hosted her for a street parade and a party.

In October 2021 Amal spent four days in Germany. Sommerblut gathered Cologne’s grandparents around her, and the Ruhrfestspiele filled a Recklinghausen park with painted welcome pebbles.

Amal spent two days in Switzerland during her first long journey in 2021. She asked for help at the UN in Geneva and spent the night at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, which held a concert for her. She finished with a visit to the world famous CERN.

In the summer of 2021, Amal crossed into France for four weeks on a journey produced with Claire Béjanin’s Au Contraire Productions. In Paris, author Michael Morpurgo read to her, and at Bray-Dunes mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato sang while she looked out across the Channel.

Amal reached Italy in September 2021, travelling from Bari to Sanremo. Ludovica Tinghi and Roberto Roberto created a route for her, including stops in Naples where drummers greeted her and the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square where she was welcomed by Pope Francis.

Amal sailed across the sea to Chios in August 2021 and took her first steps in Europe. Yolanda Markopoulou of Polyplanity Productions guided her through Ioannina and Athens for four weeks. Children, musicians and a flock of puppet birds saw her off from Piraeus towards Italy.

Every journey needs a first step, and Amal took hers in Gaziantep near the Syrian border in July 2021. Over two weeks she crossed the length of Turkey, all the way to Mersin, where she saw the sea for the first time. Co-produced with Good Chance Theatre with Recep Tuna and İKSV.