The Qalanjo Project presents What We Pass Between Us

The Cedar Presents

The Qalanjo Project Presents
What We Pass Between Us: On Mothers, Daughters, and Becoming

Friday, May 29, 2026 / Doors: 6:00 PM / Show: 7:00 PM

All Ages

Seated

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ABOUT THIS SHOW:
The Qalanjo Project is a Somali cultural organization and creative arts studio based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This special program brings together a curated selection of short films that center on the intimate and complex relationships between mothers and daughters across African, Caribbean, and diasporic communities. The program begins within Somali life and expands outward into a broader conversation on inheritance, memory, and becoming.

“Hooyo la’aantu waa hoy la’aan.” / Without a mother, there is no home. — Somali Proverb
We will be joined in person by director Mawahib Ismail for a conversation following the screening. She will also lead a two-day workshop hosted by The Qalanjo Project at Mixed Blood Theatre that weekend.
The estimated runtime for the films is approximately 90 minutes, followed by a brief intermission and a moderated conversation. The total program time is approximately 2.5 hours.--What We Pass Between UsWhat We Pass Between Us: On Mothers, Daughters, and Becoming is a curated evening of short films that centers the intimate, complex, and often unspoken relationships between mothers and daughters across African, Caribbean, and diasporic communities.
Anchored in the Somali short film Hooyo Macaan, the program begins from within Somali life, specifically the relationships between Somali women, Somali mothers and daughters, and expands outward into a broader conversation on womanhood and becoming.
The program asks what is carried between generations of women. What passes between mothers and daughters that cannot always be named? What is inherited through the body, through expectation, and what must be reinterpreted or remade?
Bringing together films from across geographies and lived experiences, the program moves between domestic, communal, and interior landscapes. These works trace how daughters come to understand their mothers, while also revealing how mothers come to understand their children, and themselves, through motherhood.What We Pass Between Us invites you to witness how ways of being move between mothers and daughters, shaping both our past and what we carry forward.
This program activity is funded, in part, by the African Studies Initiative at the University of Minnesota.

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