🍉 Join us and our friends @falasteenonfilm at @prayer.room.gallery for a soulful evening of inspired Palestinian film, poetry, folk songs, conversation, and food ✨

This event will be hosted by Falasteen on Film’s Rida Suleri-Johnson and will feature a film screening of And Yet My Mask is Powerful - a short film by Basel Abbas @basel.abb and Ruanne Abou-Rahme @ruanne.ar , which takes Adrienne Rich’s poem ‘Diving into the wreck’ as the beginnings of a script, and asks what happens to people/ place/ things/ materials when a living fabric is destroyed. This event will also include headliner performances from some of Birmingham’s finest Palestinian poets and musicians 🎶🎙️

If you would like an open mic slot, please DM @hayatiopenmic or arrive early as there will be limited spots on the door! 🎤

🎟️ Tickets available on Eventbrite for £7.50 (plus eventbrite fee) which includes a warm meal (plant based and gluten free). Please bring your own non-alcoholic drinks. This event is for those aged 13 and over.

Doors open at 6pm, event starts at 6:30pm. ⏰

📍Prayer Room Gallery, 1 Andover Street, Digbeth, Birmingham B5 5RD

🌙✨ About Hayati

Hayati is a bimonthly, halal open mic event curated by Ort Gallery with an emphasis on engaging the brain, inspiring the heart, and feeding the soul 💚

🔻🎞️ About Falasteen on Film

Falasteen on Film are a community cinema that showcase a wide breadth and depth of the best of Palestinian cinema, both in Birmingham, UK, and in Madrid, Spain. Their work understands film screenings as a form of resistance against the genocidal, apartheid imperial violence that Palestinians face; whilst also aiming to provide a safe space for community, culture and conversation.

🙏🏽🖼️ About Prayer Room

Prayer Room is an artist-led gallery in Digbeth, Birmingham co-founded by @dinosaurkilby @ishmaildeniro and @leahrhickey

We look forward to seeing you all there! 🥰🙏🏽♥️🔻🎞️