“Your hobbies are limited to Arab Idol and cooking lentils and having sex in fields late at night.” The year is 2043, and Reem and her husband Sayeed are here to share a ‘Serious Play about Palestine’. Things are tense. People are on the edge. The Fifth Intifada is right around the corner. But on […]
Sabrina Mahfouz launches her debut non-fiction book, These Bodies of Water: Notes on the British Empire, the Middle East and Where We Meet. In it, Mahfouz investigates the Empire through the Middle Eastern coastlines and waterways that were so vital to its hold. Interwoven with her own personal experiences, she combines history, politics, myth and poetry, […]
The ‘Alternative Museum of The Sudan’ is Amado’s first solo exhibition in London, that traces the findings of his five-year journey and research into the buried histories of the people of the Sudan who were badly affected by colonialism and other interruptive external forces. His multimedia works revive the local stories and reflect upon the […]
TALLI: BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY Dr Reem El Mutwalli, founder of The Zay Initiative, and Paula Quetglas Llop, Creative Director and Cofounder of NIILI discuss a collaborative upcoming exhibition of the same title due to take place at Zaman Awwel, Dubai- Mall of The Emirates, on 9th May – 9th July. Both Exhibition and talk […]
Join Imani Mason Jordan in a poetic reflection on the afterlives of colonialism and transatlantic slavery in the context of Grenfell. Big S, Little S investigates the afterlives of colonialism and transatlantic slavery in the context of the 2017 Grenfell Tower Fire in West London. Imani Mason Jordan’s performance will explore black geographies, abolition and […]
Participate in a workshop led by Shadow Sistxrs Fight Club using self defense and herbalism to explore how we can grow a stronger connection to our first instinct. Try Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu as a tool for self-defence, and community building, and local herbs for gut and embodied healing. Shadow Sistxrs ask: How do our bodies respond […]
AVAH (Afghan Visual Arts and History) Collective curate an evening in response to Hayv Kahraman’s exhibition Gut Feelings. Artist Orna Kazimi will begin the evening with a reading of Catfish (The White Pube, 2021) which will be followed by a conversation with Mohammad Sabir Sabir considering the remembrance of genocide, embodied trauma and artistic practices […]
Members of the Feminist Duration Reading Group deliver an online, out-loud reading group exploring shared themes between artist Hayv Karahman’s exhibition Gut Feelings and Rachel Jones’ new Chisenhale commission say cheeeeese. This online, out-loud reading group focuses on two pieces of writing: Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) by Claudia Rankine and Care and the commons […]
Launching his anticipated novel ‘Come What May’, Palestinian writer and director Ahmed Masoud discusses his latest work with author Selma Debbagh. In this event, Ahmed will read excerpts from the book and talk about contemporary Palestinian writing and art. Both Selma and Ahmed write about Palestine in English and have previously collaborated on various artistic […]
Should the project of modernity be salvaged from the legacy of its European provenance? Decolonising European modernity is predicated on the historical text of that modernity itself— of the allegorical dubious hold of “Europe” as a beleaguered metaphor. Locating that text in the colonial paratext of the globality of its reach reveals the urtext of […]