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.
GemArts Masala Festival: Momentum
Tuesday 19th July 2022
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.
GemArts Masala Festival: Art Diamonds - Fabulous Peacock Prints
Tuesday 19th July 2022
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Be inspired to create your own peacock artwork with artist Michelle Wood of Sea Tern Print.
GemArts Masala Festival: An evening of poetry with Amali Gunasekera and Shazea Quraishi
Wednesday 20th July 2022
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.
GemArts Masala Festival: Saṅgha Night
Wednesday 20th July 2022
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.