UPCOMING EVENTS
Modern Mehfil
The Friday Gallery Session, HOSTED BY WORDS IN URDU AND KASHMIRI TEA HOUSE
Join the Modern Mehfil at Friday Gallery where we recreate a late night oasis for the diaspora. Enjoy majlis lounging in the heart of Los Angeles at The Row for a late night hang with Kashmiri chai & Poetry.
Friday Gallery, The Row DTLA - 767 S Alameda St, Los Angeles
August 21st from 7- 10pm
🍵 Bottomless Kashmiri Pink Chai & Rose Kahwa served with snacks
In our busy lives, we rarely have spaces that give us access to the soulful rituals tying us to the arts, languages, and traditions we come from; this popup is about changing that. Wind down the day with Kashmiri Tea House & Words in Urdu while immersed in the 'Ancestral Futures' exhibit at Friday Gallery. Reconnect with friends while we sip Kashmiri Nun Chai, Kahwa and listen to the words of poets past and present wash over you.
Created by Japanese Zen priest and live-looping vocal artist Yogetsu Akasaka, Zen Voice in Motion is a deeply immersive workshop that blends breathwork, vocal awakening, and intuitive movement. Guided by Yogetsu’s signature live-looped soundscapes layered with 432Hz handpan, overtone chanting, and organic rhythms, this journey invites you to awaken the body, liberate the voice, and realign with presence.
Yogetsu will host two experiences at Friday Gallery, limited to 15 people each session, on Friday Aug 1 and Saturday August 2. Eye masks, Headphones, and Yoga Mat provided.
SUMMER 25 SEASON OPENING
ANCESTRAL FUTURES
𝘈𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 Ancestral Futrures explores how materiality, memory, and ritual are infusing contemporary Arabic design practices, weaving ideas across worlds and time.
Shaped with Emirati curator Fatma Al Mahmoud, the exhibition brings together leading voices in Middle Eastern art and design from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the UAE. Featuring work by Sara Aahli, Abdulla Buhijji, Tamara Barrage, Sultan Bin Fahad, Wafa Al Falahi, Omar Al Gurg, Areen Hassan, Talin Hazbar, Layth Mahdi, Maktoum Al Maktoum, Pots & Pines, Kawther Al Saffar, Neda Salamanpour, and Nuhayr Zein.
ON VIEW JULY - SEPT
JUNE 26-29
LA DESIGN FESTIVAL
When envisioning the future, design is inherently a part of our collective imagination: a tool for reimagining how we connect, create, and challenge existing narratives. The 2025 LA Design Festival extends beyond the exploration of technological spectacle. Design Futurism is a solution-oriented exploration of human potential.
MAY 8TH
NATIONAL YOUTH POET LAURATE PROGRAM
Friday Gallery warmly welcomes Pakistan’s Youth Poets Laureates to Los Angeles. An evening of poetry, chai, and community to honor the next generation of creative voices, and raise funds for the first international laureate program in the world.
JUNE 7-10
A SPACE BETWEEN POPUP
Size-inclusive Japanese atilier. Contact to book a private fitting
APRIL 11, 6:30-10pm
LA MAHJONG LEAGUE NIGHT
May the Winds be Ever in your Favor
MARCH 28, 6-9pm
KAYA PRESS
An evening of South Asian writers across Film, Entertainment, and Arts & Culture
MARCH 14 2025, 6-9pm
COLOR CODED CRIME
Collection Release Party. Color Coded Crime's collection "Threads of Abundance" revives the legacy of Ustad Mansur, a forgotten master of the Mughal court and one of history’s first naturalists.
FEB 14 2025, 6-9pm
HALIM AL KARIM
Opening reception with Iraqi artist Halim Al Karim.
"ON HOPE: Inanna's Revolution" explores the fierce power of mythic beauty across time and culture — a force of sensual and spiritual nourishment that gives birth to hope. This is not gentle softness, but the electric vibrancy of untamed beauty that tears at our flesh, pierces our gaze, and stands in defiance of injustice with proud hands on hips. Through beauty, we feast on hope.
Halim Al-Karim’s large-scale photography honors the Sumerian mythology of Inanna, who suffered in the depths of darkness, only to return to the fullness of her power with a glint of garnet in her eyes.
Nov 22, 2024
SIMRAH FARUK
Pakistani-American Photographer Simrah Farrukh presents a collection of portraits exploring the softness of power, the duality of masculine and feminine, and the strength of sisterhood. Known for her work elevating the South Asian spirit in high fashion photography, Simrah brings gentle warmth to images of feminine resilience.
OCT 18, 2024
RE/ORIENT
LOTA and Friday Gallery join together for evening celebrating the intersection of art, fashion, and poetry - where tradition meets modernity.
RE/Orient draws its inspiration from the dated concept of “orientalism”, which traditionally exoticed Eastern cultures through Western eyes. In this cultural salon, we reclaim and reimagine that narrative, defying expectations of what wearing your culture “should” look like to explore the beauty in the spaces in-between. RE/Orient is an exploration of existing in a space where identity is in a constant state of becoming.
SEPT 13, 2024
MUZZUMIL RUHEEL
Opening reception of "On Emptiness," a solo exhibition from Pakistani artist Muzzumil Ruheel.
Ruheel’s latest work is a meditation on the beauty of emptiness, reinterpreting calligraphy into experimental forms that speak beyond words. In his hands, the shapes of language are transformed from a method of communication into a medium of raw primal emotion — to say what cannot be said, beyond the place where words fail. Blurring the repetition of form into a river of formlessness, he creates a liquid conversation between creation and destruction, presence and impermanence. From emptiness, everything emerges.
OUR LOCATION
ROWDTLA