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VSW Salon Salon Spring 2024
\nMarch 28: In Dialogue with Mara Ahmed<\/h3>\n

7-9pm in-person in the microcinema<\/em><\/p>\n

Will also be livestreamed via twitch<\/em><\/p>\n

Mara Ahmed is an interdisciplinary artist and award winning activist filmmaker. Mara\u2019s documentaries center marginalized voices and focus on communities grappling with nuanced experiences around racism, colonization and islamophobia. Mara will present a dialogue between her new film, Return to Sender, and VSW\u2019s video, film and lantern slide archives. Return to Sender interrogates colonial imagery of women, and Mara will use clips from her film and juxtapose them with images and footage from VSW\u2019s archive to make connections to current political power systems of white supremacy, patriarchy and ongoing social justice movements in Rochester. The evening will culminate in a discussion with Mara Ahmed facilitated by Hernease Davis, the Assistant Curator of Education and Public Programs.<\/p>\n

This program features excerpts from tapes found in the Portable Channel Collection at VSW: Police Brutality (1972), Kunstler on Attica (1971), and Outtakes from \u201cB\u2019ism Allah\u201d (1975).<\/p>\n

Best known for her non-linear multimedia work, interdisciplinary artist Mara Ahmed produces documentaries, soundscapes, and artwork that trespass political borders and challenge colonial logics. Mara was born in Lahore and educated in Belgium, Pakistan, and the US. She is presently based on Long Island. Her art practice reflects these displacements and multiplicities. Mara\u2019s most recent film is entitled, Return to Sender: Women of Color in Colonial Postcards & the Politics of Representation, which was awarded a NYSCA grant in 2023. Mara will present a dialogue between Return to Sender, and VSW\u2019s video, film and lantern slide archives. Return to Sender interrogates colonial imagery of women, and Mara will use clips from her film and juxtapose them with images and footage from VSW\u2019s archive to make connections to current political power systems of white supremacy, patriarchy and ongoing social justice movements in Rochester.<\/p>\n

Return to Sender: Women of Color in Colonial Postcards & the Politics of Representation will premiere in Rochester on May 4, 2024 at ROC Cinema.<\/p>\n

This program will also be livestreamed via twitch.tv. More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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