Leftovers Exhibition

Leftovers – A Fundraising Exhibition

Leftovers is a one-night fundraising exhibition exploring how cultures endure in the face of loss, change, and displacement. The exhibition reflects on what gets left behind, what is carried forward, and how culture transforms over time. Food, language, and ritual become acts of resistance — preserving memory amid erasure.

Join us for an evening of art, film, music, and food that honours stories across diaspora. This immersive, multi-sensory event brings together artists, musicians, and community to hold space for reflection, celebration, and solidarity. This event is strictly 18+ due to venue licensing. 

Featuring artworks by: 

Baro Lee, Ella Han, Jenny Wong, Jenny Zhou, Jonathan Chalouhi, Juhi Vallabhbhai, Kyati Suharo, Maissa Alameddine, Madlehn Saoud, Maria Thaddea, Marina Yang, Mia Van Dort Gilmore, Millicent Lee, Neil Kumar, Oliver Whitehouse & Parminder Kaur.

Live performances by:

MzRizk (Habibi Hafla) 

Vijay Bhasin performing Qawwali

Farazzled

Jonathan Chalouhi

MO AUNG

Ameer Hamza playing the Rabab

Jiafang Li playing the Pipa and Ruan

Food offerings

Prepared by Gayathiri Manoharan and Athalia Joseph, available for purchase by donation on the night.

Where your donations go

All proceeds will go toward humanitarian relief for families in Gaza, split between two trusted initiatives:

• The Sameer Project — a donations-based mutual aid initiative led by Palestinians in the diaspora, providing emergency shelter and aid to displaced families in Gaza.

• Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) — a frontline humanitarian organization delivering emergency medical care across Palestine. In Gaza, PRCS operates ambulances, trauma units, and field hospitals, offering life-saving care under siege.

Curated by Aleena Rizvi in partnership with Debaser Events, we invite you to witness, share, and support cultural resilience — in a time when memory itself becomes an act of defiance.

Leftovers acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which this exhibition takes place.

We honour their enduring connection to land, culture, and storytelling — and recognise First Nations art as a living archive of resistance, memory, and identity.

We pay our respects to Elders past, present, and emerging.

Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.