How can fiction immortalise stories of migration that might otherwise go untold? How do decay and dystopia illustrate settler colonialism and displacement? What is the role of gender, womanhood and motherhood in depicting intergenerational trauma and domestic violence across continents How can writing transport us to different countries, continents, hellscapes, and paradises? How do we write pain? Love? Loss of community? Identity?

Join Tina Makereti (THE MIRES, Footnote Press, 2025), and Saraid de Silva (AMMA, Weatherglass Books, 2024), in conversation with Tagore's Salon to cover these questions, drawing from the themes of the authors award-winning works.

Footnote Press is an award-winning publisher of marginalised stories and perspectives.

Tagore’s Salon is a London-based organisation curating and producing events on translated and underrepresented writing.

MULTI STORY is a multi-use space in the heart of Peckham Levels, hosting supporting, and celebrating a wide range of events, projects, and people.

General admission £8

Unwaged/low income £5

If you’d like to come but can’t afford a ticket, please email bookings@tagoressalon.co.uk

من الآخر
Screening: Anyab / انياب (1981 dir Mohamed Shebl) 

It’s time for the next Cinema F’el Salon, and this one is a DOOZY.

We’re taking this event for our community of homebodies that hang, and relocating it to MULTI STORY at Peckham Levels. More room to نأنتخ tbh.

Our second event takes a pretty iconic pivot, out from the 50s eleganza and straight into the disco fever dream of 1981. We’re, of course, talking about Fangs/Anyab/انياب

The Film: Anyab/انياب dir. Mohamed Shebl (1981) - Starring: Ahmed Adawiyya, Mona Gabr, Ali El Haggar

A young couple, who dream of living in an apartment with a television, are on their way to a NYE party when they suffer car troubles. Somethingsomething foreboding castle for shelter, somethingsomething Dracula somethingsomething insane musical numbers, it’s all very familiar. And yet…

So it’s billed as ‘Egypt’s answer to the Rocky Horror Show’ but it’s so much more than that. Liberties are pushed to the max (looking at the Pink Panther interlude that accompanies the world’s most extended metaphor of Egypt’s socio-economic climate). Sexual politics? Actors that aren’t your usual whitewashed cast? A whole load of fabulous murder and disco and fire? Say less, blease.

*Content warning - this film contains footage of a chicken being killed.

Everybody is welcome.

Cinema f’el Salon is brought to you by NAFS Space x Salt and Sister Studio

Cinema f’el Salon is a soft landing of a film night. A safe, non-judgemental, non-shaming space to be authentic. If, like us, your experience of the salon growing up was that it was stiff and off-limits, you can rejoice in reclaiming that very space in the name of comfort and connection.

We’ll gather around a film from the golden era of Cairo cinema, watching and noticing what was always there: queerness in the margins, in the looks and gestures, in the subtext. Y3ni مش جديد علينا,  it’s part of the archive, part of the language. We azz-azz on lib and za3tar popcorn, and gag on the timeless gorgeousness of our friends Faten, Shadia, So3ad, Omar and Hind, to name a few. 

Post-screening, we farfesh, with space to discuss the film - and anything else. كلّه ماشي.

Your ticket includes the screening and a snack (if you want to be very 3ammo about it and bring more treats with you in your jacket lining, feel free). Drinks will be available at the bar, and all you need to do is turn up in your comfiest galabiyya, we won’t judge .