A Cutting: Songs of the Water, Kaajal Modi (2024) (EMPIRE LINES Live at the Eden Project, Cornwall, If Trees Could Talk 2026)

Find out more about Kaajal Modi’s collaborative work with audio, oral storytelling, and cultural preservation, through ⁠⁠Arts of Noticing⁠⁠, an independent symposium in Leeds, as part of If Trees Could Talk International Art Biennale 2026.

The event, including Bo Olawoye, Joanne Armitage, Kaajal Modi, Helen Thornham, Kim Chin, and Tasnim Siddiqa Amin, is supported by the Critical Digital Practice Lab (CDPL), based at the University of Leeds. It is co-organised by Sijelo, a UK-based art collective of women and non-binary people organising, producing, and making at the intersection of climate justice, land rights, migration, and displacement: iftreescouldtalk.art/conversations/sijelo

For more information and to participate in the event on 23 July 2026, visit (Eventbrite online): eventbrite.com/e/sijelo-collective-in-leeds-arts-of-noticing-tickets-1993920698484

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This cutting comes from the EMPIRE LINES episode, House of Weaving Songs, Dhaqan Collective (2024), recorded live as part of Interweaving Threads of Migration and Climate Justice at the Eden Project in Cornwall, supported by Counterpoints Arts and Art Reach, in September 2024.

Listen to the full episode, on the EMPIRE LINES podcast: pod.link/1533637675/episode/MDhjZTY3MDQtNTkwYS00YTI0LWI1Y2YtZDdhODk1Y2QwZGZi

And find all the links in the first Instagram post: instagram.com/p/DA8ZfEeI6VX/?hl=en&img_index=1

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