Monthly creative workshops for children and parents, focused on making and playing together, facilitated by Sam Krankpod.

Creative Community is a monthly creative workshop group for Muslim women of all ages, initiated and led by Khawlah/Eliza Gharbaran. The group aims to provide mums with some me-time alongside peers, while Sam from Krankpod Workshopsoffers tailored children’s sessions in a separate space at the same time. Women without children/with older children are more than welcome to join!

Join us for an evening of poetry, film and community gathering, curated by Ort Gallery in collaboration with Falasteen on Film at The Edge, B12 0QH

Join us for a Living Room Poetry Parlour with steaming chai, soul food from the Change Kitchen and a blend of British Asian Poetry talent.

Join us for this family workshop, as we make a selection of small and lightweight art pieces, using polymer clay, organic embellishments and decorative tools.

Join us for this Krankpod children’s workshop as we create a selection of tabletop art pieces exploring symmetry, starting with drawing design ideas on card.

Join Dr Farah Nazir for this talk on Multilingualism in the British Azad Kashmiri diaspora.

Explore the significance of choor-making & history of block printing in Kashmir whilst crafting your own choor with artist Haseebah Ali

Join us for this artist talk, where Haseebah Ali will discuss her exhibition, People of the Garáṇ, with Dr. Neelam Hussain.

Join us for a hands-on workshop to paint Kashmiri papier-mâché pen pots using traditional techniques and designs.

Join us for this lino carving and block printing workshop with artist Haseebah Ali

To mark the opening of People of the Garáṇ, join us for a soulful evening of inspired poetry, conversation and food.

Saturday 12 July, 4.30 - 6 pm

We warmly welcome you to the opening of ‘People of the Garáṇ,’ a solo exhibition featuring a new body of work by Birmingham-based artist Haseebah Ali, showcasing objects from the MIAH Foundation’s Kashmir Collection.

Create a selection of unique tiles using air dry clay and decorative techniques inspired by Kashmiri motifs. You’ll have a range of mark-making tools to choose from, including wooden stamps to create a relief design.

Explore Kashmiri arts in this hands-on workshop through the Numda technique (felted rugs) and the story behind the paisley motifs.

Join Ort Gallery at the Khalifa’tul Ard Festival for an exclusive Hayati Open Mic event featuring headliner performances from musicians Ali Shair and Abian, hosted by poet and performer Nafeesa

Join Resting Up Collective and Ort Gallery for the final event in the programme Crip Resistance: Holding Space, Building Community for a one-off remote performance of Braidings.

Dolly Sen wants you to join them in a zine workshop like no other, where Crip Resistance takes centre stage in all its unruly glory. With their trademark wit, radical tenderness, and punk spirit, Dolly will guide participants through the art of zine-making as a tool of rebellion, survival, defiance, and joy with just one A3 sheet of paper to start off with.

Join resting up members Char and Jen to write and reflect on disability justice manifestos as tools for organising and creativity. Through a series of short readings and writing/art prompts, this session aims to inspire participants to demand and dream alternative futures through a crip lens. 

We are pleased to announce that Olivia Spring will be facilitating a second Crip Writing workshop following high demand.

Join us for a relaxed writing workshop on themes of resistance through the lens of chronic illness and disability.

Limited spaces available.

Join Olivia Spring for a relaxed writing workshop on themes of resistance through the lens of chronic illness and disability.

Join artist Phoebe Kaniewska for this metal charm making workshop, inspired by the theme of expressing sick and disabled identities.

This event is part of the Crip Resistance: Holding Space, Building Community Programme as curated by Resting Up Collective.

More details to follow.

Birmingham Resistance Library is back on Saturday 12th April from 1 - 5 pm. Browse, Borrow and Return books from RUC x BRL curated collection which you can view in full here

This event is part of the Crip Resistance: Holding Space, Building Community Programme as curated by Resting Up Collective.

More details to follow.

We'd like to invite you to usher in the holy month of Ramadan with us via this Hayati Open Mic event which will feature a very special headliner performance from Sukina Noor centring divine praise.

Join us for this event where Fitz & Vinter will explore their art making practices in relation to film as informed by crip love, time, care & rest. This event is part of the Crip Resistance: Holding Space, Building Community programme - an interdisciplinary collaboration between Resting Up Collective and Ort Gallery

Join us for the launch of the RUC x BRL curated book collection (1 - 4:30 pm) + Read and Reflect Circle (4:30 - 5.30 pm) where we will be discussing Care Work: Dream/ing Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samara

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