"I Wait" Music Video Premiere with Ali Sethi

Premiere Screening of "I Wait" by Ali Sethi followed by a moderated discussion with artist Ali Sethi and director Haya Waseem, moderated by Puja Patel, former Editor in Chief of Pitchfork. Doors open at 6:30pm. Screening begins promptly at 7pm. Kindly note a confirmed RSVP does not guarantee admission. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis, and we encourage guests to arrive early. --- Ali Sethi is a Pakistani-American singer, composer and storyteller whose music advances a syncretic South Asian identity. Fusing classical ragas with contemporary beats, his music feels “stealthily subversive” ( The New Yorker ) and marries the metaphors of Punjabi poetry with camp and queer sensibilities. In 2022, his song Pasoori became the first Pakistani single to top Spotify's Global Viral Chart, and was Google's most 'hum-to-search' song in the world. In 2022, he was named to Time 's '100 Next' list, his music praised for showing that “differences of culture, language, religion and gender do not need to be antagonistic; they can, and always have, enriched us, and given us some…