Launch Event: 40th Anniversary Issue – Wasafiri 119: Futurisms

Join us at the launch of our 40th Anniversary Issue, Wasafiri 119: Futurisms, on 28 September at the Museum of Home in London.

This milestone issue brings to the fore writers whose perspectives – on the present and on the future – have historically been sidelined. From fragile and feminist futures, alternative and speculative futures, personal and planetary futures, the issue will showcase a branching network of writing on and around the power of persistence as resistance as we continue to imagine into being futures that defy an increasingly oppressive present.

Contributors Malika Booker, Preti Taneja, and Annie Zaidi will treat the audience to readings from their work in the issue, followed by a short conversation with Wasafiri’s Editor and Publishing Director Sana Goyal.

Copies of Wasafiri 119: Futurisms, alongside a selection of issues from our forty-year archive, will be on sale at the event. You can also purchase a print copy of Wasafiri 119: Futurisms via our website in advance of the launch event, or subscribe to the magazine.

When: Saturday, 28 September, 5-6.30pm 
Where: Museum of the Home, London
Tickets: Full price tickets from £10. A limited number of concession and subsidised tickets are available.  

Purchase your tickets here.

Photo Credit: Created by artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman, this installation on the Museum of the Home's green roof depicts Shiva the Destroyer, one of the most important deities in Hinduism. 'Shiv Ji' is lit up on the Museum's green roof daily, from 9pm to 11pm. Chila Kumari Singh Burman's 'The Smile You Send Returns to You' (2024) graces the cover of our 40th Anniversary Issue, Wasafiri 119: Futurisms.

Credit: Museum of the Home and Chila Kumari Singh Burman