The audience was warmly invited by Ali Zaidi to celebrate
the 45th Wedding Anniversary of his parents Tayyab and Sultana Zaidi.

It is truly a test of love when years come and go, and two people wake each morning as though it were the first...

Together they found a friendship raised a family, and built a beautiful marriage

The Dinner event was held to mark each of the years, 45 dishes prepared with 45 ingredients, all cooked with love
- a legitimate historic excuse to bring together people, socialize and be merry.

Keeping with the sapphire theme, the audience were asked to wear some blue.

The Menu was vegetarian and sea food.

Indian by birth, Pakistani by migration and British by choice, these cultural paradoxes contribute to Ali Zaidi’s creative speculation around issues of identity and representation. Working across diverse art forms, including film, live art, installation and digital technologies, Zaidi creates fresh participatory experiences for new audiences.

Recent projects include Indian Call Centre interviews for Alladeen, screened at The Whitney Museum, New York, as part of ‘The American Effect’; Mix & Match, a live performance presented at Romaeuropa Festival; Fresh Masaala, an installation presented at Warwick Arts Centre, Nottingham and The Lab, San Francisco and touring to South Africa in Autumn 2004. Zaidi is currently working on cutout, a video triptych - developed collaboratively with New York’s dbox - which explores the alleged homogeneity of the 21st Century world and will tour to Singapore, New Zealand, South Africa and India in 2005.

Ali Zaidi together with Keith Khan is an artist director of motiroti, a company which has been exciting imaginations, examining cultural assumptions and precipitating change through the public engagement of artists and audiences since it was founded in 1991.