GemArts Masala Festival: Art Diamonds - Chai & Chat Paper Cup Making
Monday 18th July 2022

Tea cups are a reminder of community places where people meet up and socialise, of home and a warm welcome across the world.
Tea cups are a reminder of community places where people meet up and socialise, of home and a warm welcome across the world.
Contemporary South Asian film shorts about facets of identity: inherent nature, physicality, values and purpose. How we are shaped by what we say, how we look and what we do? Films include ‘The Misfits’ by Varun Chopra, ‘The Lyrics That Took Me Home’ by Jan Rufus and more. Curated by Bobby Tiwana.
Be inspired to create your own peacock artwork with artist Michelle Wood of Sea Tern Print.
Join us to hear new poetry from two Bloodaxe poets. The Sri Lankan-born writer, Amali Gunasekera, will be reading from her second collection, The Golden Thread, which blends the sacred with the everyday in a search for grace; and the Pakistani-born Canadian poet, Shazea Quraishi, previews her forthcoming work, The Glimmer, a meditation on the time-span of life illuminated by many voices.
Saṅgha evening (meditation and Buddhism). This class is suitable for those familiar with our meditation practices, so you would benefit from coming to some introductory classes first.