Ibraaz

Ibraaz A brave space for art, culture & ideas from the Global Majority | 📍 93 Mortimer Street, London, W1W 7SS

🎞️ On Sun 30 Aug and as part of Cine Césaire: The Exhibition, The Otolith Library-in-Residence and The June Givanni PanA...
20/08/2026

🎞️ On Sun 30 Aug and as part of Cine Césaire: The Exhibition, The Otolith Library-in-Residence and The June Givanni PanAfrican film archive will present a screening of Euzhan Palcy's trilogy Aimé Césaire, une voix pour l’histoire (Aimé Césaire: A Voice for History) (1994).

🎟️🔗 Book your free place on our website via the link in bio.

Palcy's films combine interviews, dialogues, and testimonial forms which emerge from a longstanding friendship between director and subject to constitute cine-portraits that are simultaneously intimate and expansive.

All three parts of Aimé Césaire, une voix pour l'histoire will be shown on Sunday 30 August in the Minassa, from 1–4pm.

📷 Image credit: still from Aimé Césaire: une voix pour l'histoire (1994), directed by Euzhan Palcy ©️ JMJ International Pictures

🔔 From 26 Aug—6 Sep, our Otolith Library-in-Residence (Otolithians) and the June Givanni PanAfrica Cinema Archive (June ...
20/08/2026

🔔 From 26 Aug—6 Sep, our Otolith Library-in-Residence (Otolithians) and the June Givanni PanAfrica Cinema Archive (June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive) present Ciné Césaire: The Exhibition.

📖🎞️🔗 For more info about the exhibition and film programme taking place across our Iqra and Minassa, visit the webpage via the link in our bio.

Cine Césaire: The Exhibition brings together posters, photographs, publications, and festival ephemera from the June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive and Dr Givanni’s private archive together with poetry, theory, and dramatic texts from the library itself.

In conversation with these materials, Ciné Césaire screens Sarah Maldoror's Éia pour Césaire (2009). Made to mark the centenary of his birth, Maldoror's tribute to Césaire offers an intimate meditation on a thinker whose ideas continue to resonate across generations of artists.

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Ciné Césaire is a collaboration between Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun of The Otolith Collective and Dr June Givanni and Damilola Lemomu of Excavating Legacies.

This exhibition, film programme, and public conversation explores the film work of Sarah Maldoror and Euzhan Palcy dedicated to the life and work of the revolutionary poet, dramatist, essayist and politician Aimé Césaire.

🔉🔔 We are pleased to announce that from 8 October, Earshot (Earshot) will be our next Library-in-Residence, transforming...
19/08/2026

🔉🔔 We are pleased to announce that from 8 October, Earshot (Earshot) will be our next Library-in-Residence, transforming the Iqra into a sonic library exploring sound’s capacity to carry forensic evidence.

📨 To stay updated on our upcoming programme for Autumn 2026 through to 2027, sign up to our newsletter on our website via the link in bio.

As the world’s first non-profit organisation dedicated to the use of sound in the defence of human and environmental rights, Earshot—founded by Lawrence Abu Hamdan (Lawrence Abu Hamdan)—has been developing the field of Sonic Investigations alongside and on behalf of communities affected by corporate, state, and environmental injustice.

A practice that refuses to treat sound as a fixed object, their work demands we attend not only to what a sound is, but also to how it is heard, by whom, through what technologies, and within what social, legal and political conditions. The Earshot Library-in-Residence is both a demonstration and an enactment of that practice.

16/08/2026

🔔🗣️ 'There is no individual creator. There is only one collective identity.'

👀 Listen to Alexander Supartono () speak about the context and history behind our current exhibition, Rakyat Pasti Menang by Taring Padi (), an Indonesian collective of art workers founded in Yogyakarta in 1998 by a group of progressive art students and activists.

📆 Visit for free Wed—Sun, 11am—6pm until 22 Nov 2026.

Rakyat Pasti Menang, Bahasa Indonesia for ‘the people united will never be defeated’, brings together major works and archival material from the collective’s nearly thirty-year history.

The exhibition takes its title from the protest chants heard during the sociopolitical upheaval that accompanied Indonesia’s Reformasi movement in the late 1990s. Rooted in the historical moment from which Taring Padi emerged, the phrase continues to resonate today, demonstrating how the collective has carried its spirit of solidarity and resistance into new political and cultural contexts.

The show will unfold over a series of changing displays featuring Taring Padi’s large-scale banners. Alongside these presentations, workshops centred on the collective’s practices of puppetry and printmaking, together with a public programme of talks and activations, will explore their approach to art as a tool for political education, collective authorship, and mobilisation.

Rakyat Pasti Menang reflects a shared commitment to culture as a site of collective imagination and social transformation.

🔗🎞️ View the full video, produced by Jon Lowe (), on our Youtube channel via the link in bio.

🎞️ A Summer in La Goulette (dir. Férid Boughedir), the second film in our Tides of Tenderness programme, screens Sun 23 ...
12/08/2026

🎞️ A Summer in La Goulette (dir. Férid Boughedir), the second film in our Tides of Tenderness programme, screens Sun 23 Aug from 3pm in our Minassa.

🎟️🔗 Tickets available on our website via the link in bio.

Meriem, Gigi, and Tina are the main protagonists in this sun-drenched coming-of-age film, set amid the sea air of La Goulette. The three friends make a pact that this summer will mark the start of their journey into sensuality, challenging familial and communal order. On the Mediterranean shore, Boughedir delivers a multigenerational comedy about solidarity and friendship among the Muslim, Jewish, and Sicilian Catholic communities of this port city.

🌊🌞 A Summer in La Goulette is preceded by All We Imagine as Light (dir. Payal Kapadia) which screens this Sun 16 Aug at 3pm.

🎞️💡 Next Sun 16 Aug, catch the first of two films in our Tides of Tenderness screenings — All We Imagine as Light (dir. ...
09/08/2026

🎞️💡 Next Sun 16 Aug, catch the first of two films in our Tides of Tenderness screenings — All We Imagine as Light (dir. Payal Kapadia, 2024).

🎟️🔗 Free tickets available via our link in bio.

Payal Kapadia's (Payal Kapadia) fiction feature debut is a sweeping and luminous portrait of female friendship against the heady atmosphere of modern Mumbai.

Nurse Prabha’s routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Meanwhile, her younger roommate, Anu, pursues a secret relationship that defies her family's expectations. Away from the bustle of the metropolis, whilst on a trip to a beach town, Kapadia captures the radiance of young love. Prabha, Anu, and their coworker Parvaty confront heartache and hope, revealing the richness of sisterhood.

🎞️🌞 Cool off from the summer heat by joining us on Sun 16 and Sun 23 Aug for Tides of Tenderness — two specially selecte...
07/08/2026

🎞️🌞 Cool off from the summer heat by joining us on Sun 16 and Sun 23 Aug for Tides of Tenderness — two specially selected films screening in our Minassa space.

🎟️ Free tickets on our website via the link in bio.

🌊 Tides of Tenderness pairs Payal Kapadia’s (Payal Kapadia) acclaimed fiction feature debut, All We Imagine as Light (All We Imagine as Light), with Férid Boughedir’s sun-drenched coming-of-age comedy A Summer in La Goulette. Set respectively in Mumbai and the Tunisian seaside town of La Goulette, both films explore female friendship and the pursuits of desire and freedom against the backdrop of coastal life.

Sun 16 Aug, All We Imagine as Light (dir. Payal Kapadia, 2024). Payal Kapadia's fiction feature debut is a sweeping and luminous portrait of female friendship against the heady atmosphere of modern Mumbai.

Sun 23 Aug, A Summer in La Goulette (dir. Férid Boughedir)
Meriem, Gigi, and Tina are the central figures in this sun-drenched coming-of-age film, set amid the sea air of La Goulette. The three friends make a pact that this summer will mark the start of their journey into desire and sensuality, challenging familial and communal order.

🎞️ Sugar Island (dir. Johanné Gómez Terrero Johanné Gómez Terrero, 2024) screens this Sun 9 Aug in our Minassa from 3pm,...
07/08/2026

🎞️ Sugar Island (dir. Johanné Gómez Terrero Johanné Gómez Terrero, 2024) screens this Sun 9 Aug in our Minassa from 3pm, closing the Afterlives of Sugar programme curated with Cinelogue (CINELOGUE).

🎟️🔗 Reserve your free ticket on our website via the link in bio.

Set in a Dominican-Haitian batey community surrounded by sugarcane fields, Sugar Island (2024) follows Makenya, a teenager whose unwanted pregnancy forces a sudden confrontation with adulthood. As mechanisation threatens the livelihoods of sugar workers and her family faces displacement, Makenya travels to a parallel dimension where she is faced with evidence of Hispaniola’s colonial and revolutionary history. Blending social realism with Afrofuturist gestures, the film envisions ancestral memory as a foundation for collective resistance.

Sugar Island is part of Cinelogue's program Material Fabulations: Afro-Indigenous Film Directors from Latin America, curated by Will Furtado, Editor-in-Chief of C& América Latina (C& América Latina).

🎨 On Fri 21 Aug from 1pm, join illuminator and illustrator Ayesha Gamiet (Ayesha Gamiet) for a workshop for aspiring you...
05/08/2026

🎨 On Fri 21 Aug from 1pm, join illuminator and illustrator Ayesha Gamiet (Ayesha Gamiet) for a workshop for aspiring young artists ages 10 and up. Using her knowledge of traditional Islamic illumination, she will introduce children to the fantastical flowers that adorn the pages of these rich and vivid manuscripts.

🌸🎟️ IMPORTANT: To take part, send an email to [email protected] with the names of everyone interested and two or three sentences on why you’d like to join. Bookings will be open until 11th August or until the workshop is full. We will confirm your space by 14th August.

This event is free and open to all skill levels, but spaces are limited. Children participating in this workshop must be 10+ and accompanied by an adult, with no more than two young people per accompanying adult.

Telling Stories is a programme of events by Ibraaz and Burley Fisher Books (Burley Fisher Books) which focuses on storytelling in all its forms.

📷 — Ayesha Gamiet

📖💫 The Burley Fisher (Burley Fisher Books) x PalFest (Palestine Festival of Literature) Maktaba book of the month for Au...
04/08/2026

📖💫 The Burley Fisher (Burley Fisher Books) x PalFest (Palestine Festival of Literature) Maktaba book of the month for August is In The Back of My Throat, edited by Tatevik Sargysan and Norman Erikson Pasaribu | Anamot Press (Anamot Press), £13.99.

💡Get your copy from our Maktaba, open Wed—Sun, 11am—6pm.

Bringing together ‘queer lives in Southeast Asia and the diaspora’, with a particular attention to Indonesia, In the Back of My Throat captures intimate nuances and shared experiences from celebrated writers such as Khairani Barokka, Pear Nuallak and ko ko thett alongside new voices. Describing their experience of being genderfluid, contributor Pychita Julinanda also perfectly describes this book of (im)possibilities, of desires, alliances, expansiveness and hard encounters with political and social borders: ‘To inhabit the borderlines of gender is to be filled with (im)possibilities: to flow, to seep, and to break free.’

Founded and edited by Tatevik Sargsyan, Anamot Press is a fiercely independent small publisher based in London with an emphasis on anthologies that collectively voice intersecting experiences of gender, sexuality, race, migration, class, belonging and loss – with no shame, as Anamot [Անամոթ] means shameless in Armenian.

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