Come along to the first public performance by Saheli – the queer, women-led collective at the heart of Seema Mattu’s project LOCAL SUPERSTAR.
Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay, Mani JNX, Ushara Dilrukshan, Zahrah Hutton and Seema Mattu — five musicians from Birmingham and London – came together in early 2026 following an open call for musically-minded South Asian people interested in creating music that challenges misogyny, casteism, colourism, and queer erasure within South Asian musical expression.
Over the last five months the collective has been meeting regularly at Grosvenor Road Studios in Handsworth, developing a body of work rooted in a DIY, folk-punk ethos.
Everyone is welcome to join them for an evening of work in progress, sonic expression, and collective experimentation set within the exhibition space, c’mon in!
