Celebrating its seventh year, GemArts launch the award winning Masala Festival with SEVENS, a new triple bill of Bharatanatyam and Kathak dance with live music from one of the UK’s leading choreographers Nina Rajarani MBE.
This exhibition showcases artwork by two North East artists of South Asian heritage.
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.
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.
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'The Forest Dream' highlights the urgency of climatic trauma that is befalling us due to selfish acts of deforestation and rampant industrialization.