Join us for a screening of short film, ‘A Story Left Behind’ which pieces together the fragmented stories of the first documented Somali woman in Sheffield.
The film will be followed by a tea ceremony rooted in Somali culture and intergenerational discussion (Shaah iyo Sheeko) co-designed with Artist Saada Osman. Mapping together the city’s archives, storytelling traditions (poetry and song), and community memory, to ask an important question: What kind of city do we want to leave behind for our daughters?
Somali language support available. Booking advised.
About the Artist
Asma Kabadeh (she/her) is a Creative Producer and Filmmaker whose work bridges creative storytelling with community spacemaking in service of racial justice, land justice and archival justice. She currently holds the roles of Soma Sessions Co-Curator at Peaks of Colour, supporting survivors of gendered and racialised trauma to heal through somatic and nature allied practices, and is Creative Producer at Brightbox designing community-led makerspaces where people come together to create, explore and learn.
Asma is touring her directorial debut with ‘Sheeko Laga Tagay / A Story Left Behind’, a film which uncovers the fragmented stories of the first documented Somali woman in Sheffield and invites audiences to critically examine archival representations for Somali & wider diasporic communities and challenge the dominance of public records as the sole source of history in a roaming workshop setting’