8 December 2011
Raking Leaves launches The Incomplete Thombu (2011) by T. Shanaathanan.

1 December 2011
Raking Leaves launches two new book projects, The Incomplete Thombu (2011) by T. Shanaathanan and The Speech Writer (2011) by Bani Abidi at Barefoot Gallery in Colombo. The Launch is accompanied by an exhibition of artworks created by both the artist and a book signing event.

15 November 2011
Bani Abidi discusses her book project in conversation with Grant Watson and Bryony Dixon.

15 November December 2011
Bani Abidi signed copies of her book project The Speech Writer following a panel discussion to accompany the book project’s launch in London.

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.

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.