Book Talks and Screening

From 2-3pm: Jadu’i Book talk with Rami George

Rami George, current artist-in-residence and editor/organizer of Jadu’i Book, will be in conversation with St. Louis based artist Kiki Salem. 

Jadu’i Book is a 2025 risograph publication, featuring commissioned works from seven Palestinian artists — Basma al-Sharif, Lamia Abukhadra, Saj Issa, rana nazzal hamadeh, Qais Assali, Lama Altakruri, and Amanny Asell Ahmad. This book was organized and edited by Rami George over the course of three years, beginning in April 2022. Printed and published in 2025 by Many Folds Press, amidst an ongoing Nakba and genocide of Palestinian people. is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Lenapehoking in what is now called Philadelphia. They have exhibited and screened broadly and remain motivated by political struggles and fractured narratives.

From 3-5pm: Behold, Be Held: Screening + Book Talk with CAO Collective 

Join us for an intimate sharing of film, photography, and conversation with Laura (嘟嘟) and huiyin zhou, co-parents of CAO Collective, during their residency at The Luminary.

The evening will feature a screening of Just Like Your Tenderness (10 min., 2026) — a single, unbroken long take observing a day of caregiving between Laura and their grandmother in hospice care. Tender, unhurried, and resistant to spectacle, the film attends to small gestures and shared breath as a form of communication across language, generation, and distance.

Following the screening, huiyin will share their recent publication NOSTALGIA IS THE GHOST OF CARE 在未来怀念一片云彩 (Homie House Press / kawan pan, 2026) — a mixed-media photo book that holds nostalgia in the future tense, weaving together archival and newly created images in collaboration with BIPOC and queer friends. 

The evening closes with an artist talk and conversation between the two, tracing the threads that connect their practices: diasporic memory, care labor, queer kinship, and the archive as a living thing. Open social time and book signing will follow. Books and merch are available for purchase.

Laura Dudu is an art worker, community weaver, and social practitioner whose work moves through lens-based media, ancestor-guided movement, and memory-charged writing. Their practice attends to embodied experience and the ephemerality of intimacy, diaspora, and healing

huiyin zhou was born and raised in China’s industrial hub of Dongguan, huiyin is a bilingual writer, photographer, community organizer and cultural worker currently based in Durham, NC. They flow through life as a diasporic bird and ordinary alien constantly shape-shifting and re-rooting themselves in relation to land, air, water, and community. Their work explores diasporic memory, family archives, queer kinship, and healing.