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Diaspora Dumpling Lounge @ BIBTY بيبتي
Pop-Up / Event
23 August 2025

Join us for Diaspora Dumplings x BIBTY–a table of intentions in a soothing lounge space for resting, refueling, and reunion. Enjoy a small plate of dumplings or a share a Together مع بعضنا Platter, made by hand with love. Featuring collaborative tablescaping with handmade ceramics by Sofreh Studio.

Grab a drink at the bar and have a quick snack before returning to the dancefloor . . . or strike up a conversation and stay awhile.
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dd, houston, event, food, social practice


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A femme-centered SWANA/Arab dance party bringing together diaspora sounds in a community-rooted, inclusive space.

Diaspora Dumpling
Recipe Archive

Participatory Artwork
2024-ongoing
A collection of recipe card sets filled out by participants of the DD project.

Each set contains three unique cards  that guide storytelling chefs through the imaginative process of dreaming up their own diaspora dumpling. 


Please ︎ contact the artist to contribute your story-based recipe to the archive!

Diaspora Dumpling
Potluck 001 (Tableau + Artifacts)

Participatory Installation
2025
This installation is the first adaptation of the Diaspora Dumplings project for a gallery setting. Titled Diaspora Dumpling Potluck 001 (Tableau + Artifacts), the work presents the project in two ways: first, it gives a glimpse of the pilot Diaspora Dumpling Potluck + Archiving Party (held in September 2024), and second, invites exhibition visitors to co-author the DD project by contributing their own set of story-based recipes to the archive.

Exhibited in EXperimental at Box13 ArtSpace January - Februrary 2025.

Diaspora Dumpling
Potluck + Archiving Party

Event
2024
At the Diaspora Dumpling Potluck + Archiving Party, eight participants shared the edible results of their exploration of the richness of food as medium.

Each guest chef was challenged to invent, prepare, and share their very own diaspora dumpling, defined as “an inventive, cross-cultural food item made to be eaten in multiples—necessarily composed of a mixed filling that is wrapped in dough before being cooked. An edible medium for sharing who you are and where you come from.”


TASAWAR TRANSCULTURAL TALKS (TTT)
Curatorial
2021

A two-day online conference discussing curatorial positions informed by “cultural disorders.” Panels formed by curators from Tunisia, Mexico, USA, and Turkey discuss artistic and curatorial practices as tools of resistance and crafting a more equitable future.




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