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On March 18th 1979, the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) held the National Black Women’s Conference in Brixton, the first of its kind to address the specific issues faced by Asian, Caribbean and African women living in Britain. As well as talks, performances and workshops, the programme also featured a screening of the Bolivian film Blood Of The Condor, hosted in the Abeng Centre, now known as the Karibu Centre. On March 18th 2025, we organised a screening of the film in the same space, inviting OWAAD co-founder Gail Lewis and curator and filmmaker Rabz Lansiquot to be in conversation. Reflecting on this discussion which attempted to join the dots between Brixton and the Andes, the ‘70s and now, artist and audience member Meera Shakti Osborne revisits the notes they made in real time to reflect on the hauntings, inheritance and transformation of collective organising. Read Meera’s text, ‘Becoming mise-en-abyme as we commune with spirits at the Karibu Centre on Gresham Road’ via the link in our bio 🕊️

ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 Turf Projects is delighted to announce our upcoming exhibition, Tending. Growing roots planted last summer with At the Meadow’s Edge, Tending invites reflections on how we notice, care for and relate to each other and our environment. Artworks awakening the senses are shared alongside spaces for rest and reflection, with work from Lina Ivanova [@linavanova ], Becky Lyon [@elastic_fiction ], Meera Shakti Osborne [@mso_4rt ] and Laura Selby [@laura_selb ]. Taking place between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice, a full public programme of events will run alongside our gallery exhibition. Join us in cultivating deeper sensory awareness as a way of being present and curious in the world. For more information visit turf-projects.com 🌱

👯‍♀️ Sisterhood Sessions with Meera Shakti Osborne (@mso_4rt ) Throughout November and December 2025 artist Meera Shakti Osborne met with Reach Up Youth’s (@reachupyouthcharity ) Sisterhood group at the Verdon Recreation Centre in Burngreave. Meera designed a series of workshops that explored love, sisterhood, home, and connection through different types of art making. The workshops were a space for the young women to be with one another and to creatively connect with themselves in a caring and supportive environment. The activities were about listening to and connecting with our inner voices, finding new ways to be playful and expressing familiar feelings through art. We created zines about our names and our areas, checked in on our internal weather, drew our voices and ourselves, tried somatic breathing exercises, hummed, balanced bamboo canes on our fingertips, played games, and gave sound to words, memories, and colours through exercises inspired by Pauline Oliveros. Here’s one for you to try: Old Sound, New Sound, Borrowed Sound Blue (Pauline Oliveros 1994) OLD SOUND - A sound that you remember from a long time ago NEW SOUND - A sound you never made before BORROWED SOUND - a sound that you borrow from someone else BLUE SOUND - a sound that is blue for you Big thanks to the young women who took part in the project, the young leaders for organising the sessions with us and to Reach Up Youth! Image credit: Arts Catalyst and Lucy Marriott (@night_toad )

From the deep mud, I reach towards you. Mangroves, london, sensing without seeing, ghosts, reaching towards something out of sight - among other things. I wrote a new text and it is now online. Also some v limited copies of a printed zine are available, designed by yours truly, if you would like a copy please lmk, you gotta come Kilburn to get one. Thank you @internetprayer for your support and edits Thank you @turfprojects for the commission Thank you Mayun, Hania and Priya for entering the mangrove thicket together, I am excited about where it will take us.

Meera Shakti Osborne, 2024 The Sun Will Rise Over a Free Palestine, Oil and graphite on linen, 210x100cm SYSTEMA, Palais Carli, Marseille 2025 Photo: Raphael Massart @mso_4rt @systema @feria13000

Earlier this summer we went on a site visit with Meera Shakti Osborne [@mso_4rt ] to find the perfect spot to host Clearing - an invitation to gather in nature. 🏞️ Together we'll build a shelter amongst the pines using natural dyed fabric to share tea and digest Meera's reflections on mangroves, entangled trees that grow at the ecotone of land and sea. Free and open to all, this is the final event of our late summer programme At The Meadow's Edge. Join us Saturday 20th September for communal listening, sharing and dreaming - link via our bio to book. 🔗

Nous sommes très heureux·ses d’annoncer notre participation a SYSTEMA @systema.plus et fier·es de présenter le travail de Meera Shakti Osborne @mso_4rt SYSTEMA 28–31 août 2025 Palais Carli • Marseille Meera Shakti Osborne est un·e artiste et travailleur·se jeunesse basé·e à Londres. Iel travaille à travers plusieurs disciplines, avec un accent sur la guérison collective par l’expression créative de soi. Sa pratique engage des réflexions sur l’accessibilité et le développement de la confiance en soi auprès de personnes marginalisées, tant dans les cadres éducatifs formels que lors de rencontres informelles. 📷 @bernice.mulenga - Very pleased to announce our participation to this years gathering at SYSTEMA @systema.plus and proud to present Meera Shakti Osborne’s work @mso_4rt SYSTEMA 28-31 August 2025 Palais Carli • Marseille Meera Shakti Osborne is an artist and youth worker from London. Working across multiple disciplines with a focus on collective healing through creative self-expression. Their practice engages with accessibility and confidence building with marginalised people in both formal education settings and casual encounters.

In this workshop at SLG during refugee week we explored questions what community means. We created a collective sculpture, air roots connecting each child's reflections. A question I asked was, what word makes you feel safe? One child's response was the word food. My heart breaks open with love, grief and anger. Thank you Leah Morris @lipiddroplets for your generous energy, support and for these beautiful photos. Thank you Oliver Goldsmiths year 3s and 4s you guys gonna run the world!

DAYTIMERS x WHITECHAPEL LATE Takeover - Thursday evening 6:00PM - 9:30PM - FREE entry We’re honoured to have been invited to work with Whitechapel Gallery to curate a response to the late artist Hamad Butt: Apprehensions exhibition. Alongside a late opening of the show, we’ve curated a maximalist line-up of artists, connecting local to global to tell the story of migration, the diaspora experience, the intersection of faith, culture and queerness alongside themes of anti-racism, health inequality, resistance and joy. Our curation aims to celebrate the multiplicity of Hamad Butt’s and our collective, varied and yet similar diasporic experiences. In Gallery 2, discover an evening of immersive audio-visual DJ sets celebrating South Asian musical traditions. This is followed by Raheel Khan & Amrit Randhawa's video essay, which uses archive footage and b-side audio to respond to Hamad Butt’s practice. THEMPRESS will take you on an audio-visual journey, weaving together original poetry, visuals, and diverse sounds from South Asia exploring themes of queer futurisms, ancestral memory, and more. All the way from Dhaka, our special guest Dameer will bring the Bangla to town, paired with sci-fi south asian futuristic visuals by Thiruda (elsewhere in India), We’re having free chai by Dishoom and conversations around queer south Asian identity in the 80s with Churnjeet Mahn and DJ Ritu as well as a line up of late night poetry by east London based poetry collective Off The Chest Explore a unique pop-up art market curated by Dhaga, indulge yourself in prints, henna and more or watch an independent, grassroots film made by collectives from the subcontinent curated by Meera Shakti Osbourne. In the Foyer organisers from the local community tackling issues from resisting nearby gentrification to global injustice. Take part in workshops around access to sexual health in our community, discover and engage with the Bengali Photo Archive or come and get creative with Islamic geometry. Quiet and interfaith prayer space are available in Gallery 3 (ask staff for directions). 🎟️Tickets are free via Whitechapel gallery website. Book now.

Another World's FINAL screening for 2025 7th June 3pm @_atlas_cinema The films we are screening think about racial tensions in the UK, Caribbean communities experiences of coming here along reflections of back home and 'experiments in sounding out depressive modes, atmospheres and desires' (Taylor) how we understand histories and maybe ourselves too. I am lucky enough to call all these film makers my friends and I can't wait to share their incredible work together under the railway arch. One! Last! Time! See you there <3  Practice Makes Perfect (2021) by Rosa Johan Uddoh and Louis Brown @rosa_johan @yellsheh Soon Come (2022) by Matthew Arthur Williams @matthewarthurwilliams And a double bill by Camara Taylor @ray___camara suspiration! (2021) nobody's word (2025)   More info about the films and to buy a ticket find link in bio 🫶🏼 Profits from the event will be donated to United Friends and Family Campaign @uffcampaign

We're back for a new season of Another World film club @_atlas_cinema Sunday 4th of May 4pm May's instalment is a double bill: "A Joyful Noise" b2b "Zimmers Of Southall 2" Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise - a 1980 film by Robert Mugge documenting performances by Sun Ra and his Arkestra in Philadelphia, Washington D.C., and Baltimore, also including interviews and rehearsal footage. 1hour Zimmers of Southall 2 by @hark1karan - meet the young Punjabi women driving classic BMW cars around West London. 9mins Sun Ra risograph fan zine made by Another World included in your ticket! Ticket link in bio All profits donated to Khalsa Aid

Sharing excerpts from a text I wrote titled Parsing Passages. It's about living through gentrifications in London across a few locations I have called home. Sometimes this city can feel so hostile and hard to live in. Writing this text situated me here on my own terms. I can't control what happens here, but I can deep it and this feels like some kind of balm. Thank you @internetprayer for patiently listening and reading the text as it developed. The piece was commissioned by @counterflowsfest thank you so much it was a dream to work with you guys, big shout out to Joel White for reaching out to me and editing the work with such care. Available in print as part of the festival zine and the full text will also be available on Counterflows website soon! Last pic is outside Glasgow Zine Library during counterflows weekend taken by the 1 and only @ray___camara