GemArts have various Cultural Threads artists delivering sessions at Springbank Pavilion in Leazes Park. Come along and join us in exploring collage, print making and textile work.
Using the cyclic phenomenon of South Asian classical dance, where there is no beginning or end, Amina Khayyam's solo performance ONE tells contemporary stories of migrants tarnished by media and politicians for cheap exploitation, spreading fear for those risking their lives to make a better future.
GemArts launch Masala Festival 2024 with Pagrav Dance Company’s Aunusthan, a celebration of Neo-Classical Indian Dance and Music Step into a world of abstracted relationships, Interweaved complex patterns, rigorous choreography, virtuosic performance and riotous rhythms with Aunusthan.
Artful Struggles commemorates the second anniversary of the Aragalaya/Porattam (“Struggle” in Sinhala and Tamil respectively) – Sri Lanka’s 2022 Occupy movement against corruption, immiseration, and impunity, which toppled a president and a prime minister. The exhibition raises greater awareness about Sri Lanka’s crisis and struggles through the work of contemporary a...
Contemplating the built environment, from sprawling urban metropolises to cities of tomorrow, this programme explores representations of architecture, reflecting on future cities and the ‘ideal city’ as well as memories and the past that lie within a city’s urban fabric.