MAY 8 • SCREENING – We Grow From The Soil with Sarah Elawad and more

Join us for a lovely evening centering Sudanese women, traditions, aghani (songs), and arts.
We’ll have a brief presentation on the pioneering contemporary Sudanese artist Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq by Sarah Elawad, and a screening of the short film Al-Sit directed by Suzannah Mirghani followed by a panel discussion made up of multigenerational Sudanese women.

Timeline
7:30 - 8:00 : presentation about Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq's work
8:00 - 8:30 : screening of Al-Sit
8:30 - 9:30 : panel discussion
9:30 - 10:00 : mingle time, wrap up, fundraising etc.

Al-Sit Synopsis
Al-Sit is a 2021 Sudanese drama short film directed by Suzannah Mirghani and co-produced by the director herself with Eiman Mirghani for Suzannah Mirghani Films.
The film stars Mihad Murtada and Rabeha Mohammed Mahmoud with Mohammed Magdi Hassan, Haram Basher, and Alsir Majoub in supporting roles. The film is about Nafisa, a 15-year-old young woman, who is faced by an arranged marriage in a cotton-farming village in Sudan.
The film qualified to enter the competition category for short films at the Academy Awards (Oscars), after winning the Grand Prix award at the Tampere International Film Festival 2021 in Finland. It has won 23 international awards, including three Academy Award qualifying prizes in 2021.

Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq
Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq (Arabic: كمالا ابراهيم اسحق, born 1939) is a Sudanese painter and art teacher, known as one of the founders of The Crystalist conceptual art group in Khartoum. This group rejected common conventions in Sudanese modern painting of the 1960s and strived to find "an aesthetic and critical language that would emphasise the notions of pleasure and knowledge in order to permanently abolish differences and boundaries". Based on her artistic career spanning more than fifty years, Ishaq has been called one of the most important visual artists in Africa.

Confirmed Panel guests
Al Sarah
Alsarah is Sudanese Singer, Songwriter, Producer and Ethnomusicologist based in Brooklyn NY. She is the bandleader of Alsarah & the Nubatones and the co-founder of Sunduq Al Sudan with a discography spanning 6 full albums, and features on multiple other internationally acclaimed projects. She was the resident Ethnomusicologist on the award winning documentary "Beats of the Antonov" and the creator of the People's Voice, a musical residency project for displaced sudanese musicians in Uganda. For more information on Alsarah, please go to lnk.bio/alsarah

Mai Abusalih
Mai Abusalih is an architectural designer and researcher. Her work explores contemporary and historical social, cultural, and political influences on the built environment. Her research has been published in Modernism in Africa, After Memory: Essays on the Sudanese Archive, the Muse SD Magazine Issue 02, Khartoum Podcast, and Untapped New York. She holds a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, where she received the Honor Award for Excellence in Design, and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Architecture from the University of Khartoum. Mai has previously taught architectural studios at the University of Khartoum. She is the current Chair of the DOCOMOMO Sudan Chapter | Modern Sudan Collective.

Panel moderators:
Dalia Elhassan is a Sudanese-American poet and writer based in NYC. Her work has been featured in the Michigan Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, SUNU Journal and most recently in the New-Generation African Poets Series (Sita) with her chapbook, In Half Light (2019, Akashic Books & African Poetry Book Fund). She is a recipient of the Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh Prize for nonfiction and was shortlisted for the 2018 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. She can be found online @daliaelhassan. 

Ninar Taha is a Sudanese-American visual storyteller, researcher and curator based in Brooklyn, NY. Inspired by her family history, travels, and surrealist theory, Ninar’s work seeks to forge connections between the past and present and deepen understanding of the ties that bind blackness across geographies. Ninar is interested in the role of mythology in the construction of collective memory within the Sudanese diaspora. Her photography, writing and curatorial work have been featured on Archive Africa, Sapelo Square, Savoir Flair Middle East, World Development Journal and in exhibitions in NYC and Washington, DC. She is currently a Third World Newsreel film production fellow.

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THURSDAY MAY 8
7PM
Limited seated capacity
A portion of the proceeds will go to the charity Sunduk Al Sudan