LitFest: Daaira: The Healing Will Come, Polyglot Magazine Launch

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Events Literary arts Edmonton

DEADLINE: October 19, 2025 - 12:20 am

An evening of literature, art, and music hosted by The Polyglot and Daaira House

LitFest, October 18, 2025, 5:00pm to 7:00pm, The Green Room (Unit 2-786, 10545 - 108 Street), Edmonton
This event is free to attend.

For the past nine years, The Polyglot—an award-winning local multilingual magazine—has offered a vibrant platform for artists, writers, and translators to experiment with language and art.

At LitFest, we are honoured to launch our fifteenth issue, Daaira—a collaboration with Daaira House, guest edited by Aaima Azhar and Zainab Azhar.

As the editors write: “This issue has been curated to capture what is well and unwell within us all and the rituals that play witness. The healing will come. Let us first call it what it is. Let us make for it a little space. Let us draw around it a circle, a دائرہ.”

Daaira (circle) moves between ritual (Rasm-e-Dil, Ritual of the Heart) and remembrance (Yaad-e-Dil, Re-membrance of the Heart), creating a space where wellness is not individual but communal. For this reason, we’re thrilled to be hosted by the Green Room.

✨Join us for an evening of multilingual readings, music, and visual art
✨Participate in a guided writing session led by Aaima Azhar
✨Share light refreshments in community
✨Witness performances that embody healing and creativity

Hosts: Aaima Azhar & Zainab Azhar
Authors: Illyana Cardinal, Muhammad Azhar, Luciana Erregue-Sacchi, Leilei Chen, Tamara Aschenbrenner
Musicians: The Calamansi Club
Artists: April Angeles, Maryam Lary, Niabi Kapoor

Come sit in the circle with us. All are welcome. ✨

More information: https://litfestalberta.org/event-1/showcase-daaira-the-healing-will-come-polyglot-magazine-launch/