15 November 2011
The artist Bani Abidi, Bryony Dixon, curator Silent Film, British Film Institute and Grant Watson, Senior Curator and Research Associate discuss The Speech Writer, in relation to silent cinema, the artist’s practise and the characterisation of the citizen and the individual within the wider cultural debates surrounding nationhood.

15 November 2011
Raking launches The Speech Writer by Bani Abidi at London’s Free Word Centre. The Speech Writer is a fictional documentary presented in the form of 10 flip books that follow a day-in-the life of a retired speech writer. The artist will be in London for this book signing event.

12 September 2011
Aisha Khalid wins The People’s Choice at the Jameel Prize 2011. Kashmiri Shawl and Name, Class, Subject by Aisha Khalid along with the other works from the prize are currently on display in the Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art, Room 18a, V&A Museum.

23–25 September 2011
Join Raking Leaves at the London Art Book Fair 2011 at the Whitechapel Gallery, London.

July 2011
A short film about ‘Name, Class and Subject’ by Aisha Khalid is produced in collaboration with Second Cousins, London. Music by Jordan Hunt.

10 May 2011
Brown Book, an independent magazine for the Middle East’s urban lifestyle guide, profiles Raking Leaves in its May issue, ‘Paints, Prints and Leaves’.
http://www.brownbook.ae/201105/paints-prints-and-leaves/

21 July–25 September 2011
Aisha Khalid is shortlisted for the Jameel Prize 2011. As a part of the exhibition, her two works: Kashmiri Shawl (2011) and Name, Class, Subject (2010) are on a show at V&A from 21 July to 25 September. The winner will be announced on 12 September.

1 March- 12 March 2011
Contemporary Art from Sri Lanka 2011 presents One Year Drawing Project with artists’ original drawings, held at Aisa House in London.

14 October 2010
Director and founder of Raking Leaves Sharmini Pereira speaks about commissioning artists’ book projects to collectors and curators gathered at a frieze special event held at the Raking Leaves studio.

29 September 2010
Faculty of the Fine Arts Department at the University of Jaffna in continued discussion following Raking Leaves lecture by Sharmini Pereira.