Tooting Zine & Artists Books Fair 2012 Saturday 25th February, 12pm - 6pm Construction Gallery, 74-80 Upper Tooting Road, London SW17 7PB, United Kingdom Tube: Tooting Bec (then 2 mins walk)       FREE, all welcome Email:...

A/ffair of Publishing / 23 – 24 July 2011 A weekend affair paying homage to essayistic forms bound through art, this two day event showcases artist books, editions, graphic novels, innovative and experimental publishing and media projects. Saturday 23, 2011 // 20:00 – 24:00 Screening of essay films...

Film Screening I Do Form To Be Deformed (Gothito Hoi Shunne Milai) by Fauzia Khan 9th November 2011, 7pm  Wednesday N.o. where lab   Location: no.w.here First Floor, 316-318 Bethnal Green Road London E2...

This video art and experimental short film programme will be touring International across continents - venues, dates, TBC - touring nations will include China, Bulgraia, Romania, LA and New York USA, Pakistan, Austrailia, New Zealand, and UK London soon... Instigated and co-curated by Hamja...

Thursday, 26th August, 6.30pm - 9pm PAKISTAN FILM NIGHT. FUNDRAISER FOR PAKISTANI FLOODS.   Venue: DEPARTURE. 649 Commercial Road. 7-9pm Nearest Tube: Limehouse (two stops from bank) Event Free, no booking required.   -Hammad Khan's early films from around his hometown 'Peshawar', poetic...

 Artists short films and video arts across Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and English suburbia at The Mews Project Space (behind the Whitechapel Gallery) A programme of short films and video art curated by Hamja Ahsan and Gemma Sharpe, from 6-8pm including works by Fatima Hussain, Priya Sen,...

Bengali Short Film & Documentary  Curated by Hamja Ahsan     FREE, no booking required. Seats on a first come, first served basis. ALL WELCOME. 7pm   Departure Arts Centre 649 Commercial Road Limehouse London UK Nearest tube: Limehouse DLR (2 stops from Bank) Limehouse...

 EVENT IS FREE  NO BOOKING TAKEN VENUE: 649 Commercial Road, Limehouse, London ELW TRAVEL: 1 minute outside Limehouse DLR/ train - (2 stops from Bank) The film will be preceded by a short  I LOVE MY INDIA by Tejal Shah shot in the aftermath of the Gujarat Muslim Genocide Buses:...

 PAKISTANI 1st Zombie film (with a underlying Marxist/ Islamist subtext, of course!!!) SYNOPSIS: After lying to their parents and running off to see a rock concert, five teenagers leave their suburb neighborhood of Islamabad and travel into the wild only to have their van break down and they...

  Short films, Manto performance, Film, Free zine Other Asias Presents.... REDO PAKISTAN PROLOGUE: The Jinnah Papers 6.30pm – Friday, 18th September 2009 FREE - ALL WELCOME. No bookings taken. Programme: - Award-winning Short films on Pakistani immigration by Janis Rafailidou ‘2755...

The River (1951) Directed by Jean Renoir. Duration: 99 minutes   Presented as part of A Cup of Tea Solves Everything Programme of Events   When speaking of Jean Renoir's timeless masterpiece The River, one can easily exhaust their supply of superlatives. Frequently listed among the...

 Other Asias Film Assemblage 1 Curated by Hamja Ahsan (www.hamjaahsan.com) The film programme has been selected to continue the conversations around the Other Asias art project. Our debut group exhibition Other Asias – Current 1: Information took place 21-25 November 2008 at Nolias Gallery....

  Vendranath Vanguard play gig as Friends of Design with Fuad Ali (Core Researcher of Other Asias) at 17th September 2011 - as part of Numi night Venue: Rich Mix, London 7pm. 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA - 020 7613 7490 Tube: Liverpool...

Event report and video documentation to follow -

 Set in Lahore in 1947, Tryst (With Destiny) takes place at night, beneath the arches of a railway bridge, where a runaway woman’s world collides with a former inmate of a lunatic asylum. In their brief meeting, these two tormented souls try to understand the new world order created by the...

  Sunday, 12th September 2010 'Performance/Picnic' Venue: Speakers Corner. 2pm Onwards Nearest Tube: Marble Arch   Avaes Mohammad will be performing 'Poetics of Bhutto Speeches'. Rez Kabir performs a fictional monologue around Jinnah, Nehru and Ghandis promises. Newspapers will be given...

  Saadat Hasan Manto Born in 1912, Manto was a leading Urdu short-story writer, journalist, critic and film writer. He worked for All India Radio during World War II and was a successful screen-writer in Bombay before moving to Pakistan following the 1947 partition of India. During his...

 Courtesy of Isobel Webster & Reuben Cope   Performed at Departure Arts Centre - 2009 as part of "Who Invented the Afternoon Tea?" Film @ Performance evening

   Performed 21st November 2008 for our first solo show. Involved making a cup of tea.   Bound to Blossom is a duet between Lucia Tong and Mikey Kirkpatrick. First perfomed in Nov. 2008 as a part of a OtherAsia’s Group Exhibition in Nolia’s Gallery, London. Beginning with an hour...

  Exhaustion & Exuberance Saturday 10 September, 12–9pm This day long ESP event invites innovative artists and groups from across the UK to Eastside Projects to share knowledge and exchange ideas about notions of success and...

Audio Archived Online here:   Video of this event is available in Stuart Hall library   ----------   Don't forget to book a place everyone! bookings@rivingtonplace.org or call 0207 749 1240 http://www.rivingtonplace.org/events Nearest Tube: Old...

  EVENT IS FREE - no bookings taken. FINAL REDO PAKISTAN 2010: DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST THE PRESENT TIMES EVENT - Free artists newspapers for all LOCATION: 70 Camberwell Church...

ALLAMA IQBAL stands as one of the 20th Century most important political philosophers & poets - pivitol to the formation of Pakistan & India's Partition (2 Nation Theory), theological governance (Iran as Republic of Iqbal?) and contemporary debates on Modernity, Post-colonialism,...

 Day starts with... (no need to attend all events) 1.30pm  READING GROUP on short essay "THE FANTASTIC INDIA PAKISTAN BATTLE: The Future of the Past in South Asia" by Ashis Nandy to recieve a copy of the text pls email (only 6 pages) info@otherasias.com with INDIA-PAKISTAN CRICKET in...

Hamja Ahsan will deliver a presentation and poetry reading of his Brothers work produced in HMP Belmarsh and HMP Long Lartin, discussing on the impact of the freetalha.org case on his family and its significance for British state...

London, UK: Poems from Prison: Free Talha Ahsan - marking 5 years in prison without Trail 19 July, Tues, 7pm IHRC Bookshop, 202 Preston Road, Wembley, HA9 8PA Nearest Tube: Preston Road London launch of poetry book written in HMP Belmarsh and HMP Long Lartin prison, and poems from Damascus, Syria...

 If you are outside of UK you can still listen to the radio play online: PROLOGUE: DECLARATION 15 minute radio play broadcast on Resonance FM and NMUL Listen online: ia360705.us.archive.org/14/items/DeclarationOfWar_801/Show15min.mp3

 Dates TBC   Riffat etc.

Professional Art therapis held an art therapy workshop at Departure Arts Centre for mainly local community groups as a satellite event of A Cup of Tea Solves Everything exhibition

Maraz Ahmed and Hamja Ahsan held an outdoor Alpona workshop at Baishaki Mela (Bengali New Years Festival) for children and families. The workshop was offered free for the duration of a day. A banner was collectively painted by children and familys for the duration of the whole day. An exhibition of...