A sold-out premiere of The Injured Body at the Little Theatre, in Rochester, with an introduction by Almeta Whitis and a post-screening discussion with Jackie McGriff. The event was co-sponsored by APAA (Asian/ Pacific Islander/ American Association of Greater Rochester) and Monroe County DEI.
A wonderful screening of The Injured Body: A Film about Racism in America at Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, a unique community art space based on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation in Southampton, New York.
An excellent presentation and screening of Return to Sender at Lahore’s FCC University. I connected my film to work on reforms for women prisoners in colonial India.
In this new edition of Reel Asia (NYU Tisch School of the Arts), we gather to watch and discuss works by 3 women filmmakers based in the NY metropolitan area. With roots in Tibet, Pakistan, and India-and creative journeys that span oceans and worlds-Tenzin Sedon, Mara Ahmed, and Jesal Kapadia craft moving images that challenge the boundaries between fiction and documentary, and between film and other media. With great sensitivity and insight, they untangle and re-assemble images, stories, emotions and ideas about colonialism, ethnicity, race, gender, migration, memory, and the environment.
The Injured Body: A Film about Racism in America – World Premiere on Friday, November 14th 7:00 PM
@ Cinema Arts in Huntington, NY
Featuring a post-film panel discussion with director Mara Ahmed, artist & curator Brianna L. Hernández, and world-renowned writer Uzma Aslam Khan
A powerful screening of the beautiful Palestinian film, From Ground Zero: Stories from Gaza, on Long Island, a collab between Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock and the Muslim Community of Nassau County.
Online poetry readings & Gaza fundraiser featuring Palestinian poets Mosab Abu Toha, George Abraham, and Sara Abou Rashed. This fundraiser will support journalist Salem Ahmed’s initiative, on the ground in Gaza, which provides food to families. Please join us. Registration is needed.
This artist retreat at the Hewitt Lake Club was transformative. Not only the idea of creating art and art alone in a remote and absolutely stunning environment, but also the richness of being surrounded by artists working in multiple media/ disciplines/ contexts and witnessing their praxis up close.
Three screenings of Return to Sender along with artist talks/PowerPoint presentations in three different community spaces in Islamabad and Lahore
Excited that RMSC has created a map documenting their historic exhibition, Changemakers: Rochester Women Who Changed the World (in which I had the honor of being featured). This interactive map is now available as a digital interactive at RMSC on the second floor, Patricia Hale Gallery, but you can also access it online.
This is now a strange scene; to be at a funeral and see a shroud, inside which is a whole body with two hands, ten fingers, two feet, and a head. Nowadays, we Gazans are lucky if we even get to have a funeral, to bury an intact body, or to have our family and friends there to say goodbye and cry over us.
The Gaza Municipality provides water, sanitation and sewage management, waste collection, the removal of debris and reopening of key thoroughfares to facilitate movement, and aid to personnel doing heroic emergency work. They have started a fundraiser and are trying to raise a million dollars. They still have a long way to go. Let’s support them.
