Upcoming events.
FUNDRAISER SCREENING: TO A LAND UNKNOWN
💫 EXCLUSIVE SCREENING of TO A LAND UNKNOWN: All proceeds donated to The Sameer Project 💫
The Muslim Social Justice Initiative is thrilled to be bringing Mahdi Fleifel’s To a Land Unknown to Manchester for a special one-night screening.
🎬 A bold, urgent portrait of Palestinian exile, this Cannes-selected feature lays bare the brutality of borders and the cost of survival.
🗣️ Join us for a powerful evening of cinema, community, and solidarity.
🇵🇸 All proceeds going to @thesameerproject, a Palestinian-led mutual aid project providing vital aid to displaced families in Gaza.
📍Manchester Museum
🕰️ 9th July, 18:00
🎟️ Limited tickets - 100% will be donated to The Sameer Project
Memory, Archives, Resistance
💫 Community Social: Tuesday 24th June 💫
We are so excited to be hosting a community event in partnership with @safarfilmfestival ahead of the Manchester screening of ‘Unspoken Silences’, a collection of Palestinian archival footage.
Join us to break bread and share stories of how our communities have resisted erasure.
This space will be a free community event - please message us if cost is a barrier to the screening 🤍
Honouring Resistance Art
How does Palestinian art resist occupation, and speak truth to power?
Join MSJI for an immersive workshop led by the incredible Nasima Bee, using Palestinian comics, poetry, and art as a lens to explore resistance and liberation.
This space will be held at Levenshulme Old Library, which is currently hosting ‘Enter the Mulberry Tree and Fly Free’: the first exhibition of comic art from Palestine to take place outside of the SWANA region.
In conversation with the exhibition, we’ll creatively explore:
🖌️ How Palestinian art resists and reimagines
🔥 The role of art and culture in liberation struggles
🗣️ Holding art with care, clarity, and solidarity
🍽️ Food will be provided
🗓️ Thursday 12th June 2025
⏰ 18:30 - 21:00 (optional - you are welcome to arrive from 18:00 to view the exhibition)
📍Levenshulme Old Library, Manchester, M19 3QE
An evening with Momodou Taal
MSJI are so excited to be welcoming renowned Palestine activist and host of The Malcom Effect podcast Momodou Taal to Manchester at the end of May.
Tickets: https://www.outsavvy.com/event/27462/an-evening-with-momodou-taal
Holding Kashmir
As India escalates its violence towards Pakistan and occupied Kashmir, we’re creating space to be in community together this Sunday.
Join us to grieve, to honour, and to hold each other, as we centre Kashmir and the role anti-Muslim violence plays in global oppression.
This is a space for Muslims, friends and our South Asian siblings to process, mourn, pray, or to just safely be together.
Bring anything you need: snacks, tea, poetry, some words or duas.
Sudani Chosen Family Iftar
MSJI Presents: A Sudanese Iftar – Celebrating Our Chosen Family
This Ramadan, join The Muslim Social Justice Initiative (MSJI) for a warm and intimate Sudanese iftar, celebrating the bonds of our chosen family. Kids welcome!
The event will be a potluck, so please bring your favourite Sudanese dishes, drinks and desserts to share, filling the space with the familiar tastes of home.
This iftar is a safe, welcoming, and inclusive space honouring our Sudanese community in all its diversity. Let's share stories, laughter, and a beautiful meal as we celebrate the family we choose.