An evening of South Asian writers across Film, Entertainment, and Arts & Culture

May the Winds be Ever in your Favor

ANCESTRAL FUTURES
Exploring indigenous and ancestral design knowledge as solutions to contemporary challenges. Showcase of Middle Eastern design with weekend-long programming.

Size-inclusive Japanese atilier. Contact DIVKA ATLIER to book a private fitting

Collection Release Party. Color Coded Crime's collection "Threads of Abundance" revives the legacy of Ustad Mansur, a forgotten master of the Mughal court and one of history’s first naturalists.

Opening reception with Iraqi artist Halim Al Karim.

"ON HOPE: Inanna's Revolution" explores the fierce power of mythic beauty across time and culture — a force of sensual and spiritual nourishment that gives birth to hope. This is not gentle softness, but the electric vibrancy of untamed beauty that tears at our flesh, pierces our gaze, and stands in defiance of injustice with proud hands on hips. Through beauty, we feast on hope.

Halim Al-Karim’s large-scale photography honors the Sumerian mythology of Inanna, who suffered in the depths of darkness, only to return to the fullness of her power with a glint of garnet in her eyes.

Pakistani-American Photographer Simrah Farrukh presents a collection of portraits exploring the softness of power, the duality of masculine and feminine, and the strength of sisterhood. Known for her work elevating the South Asian spirit in high fashion photography, Simrah brings gentle warmth to images of feminine resilience.

LOTA and Friday Gallery join together for evening celebrating the intersection of art, fashion, and poetry - where tradition meets modernity.

RE/Orient draws its inspiration from the dated concept of “orientalism”, which traditionally exoticed Eastern cultures through Western eyes. In this cultural salon, we reclaim and reimagine that narrative, defying expectations of what wearing your culture “should” look like to explore the beauty in the spaces in-between. RE/Orient is an exploration of existing in a space where identity is in a constant state of becoming.

Opening reception of "On Emptiness," a solo exhibition from Pakistani artist Muzzumil Ruheel.

Ruheel’s latest work is a meditation on the beauty of emptiness, reinterpreting calligraphy into experimental forms that speak beyond words. In his hands, the shapes of language are transformed from a method of communication into a medium of raw primal emotion ­— to say what cannot be said, beyond the place where words fail. Blurring the repetition of form into a river of formlessness, he creates a liquid conversation between creation and destruction, presence and impermanence. From emptiness, everything emerges.

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