A free summer festival of music, fashion, visual arts, food, photography and film in and around London’s Covent Garden Piazza. Curated by Yinka Shonibare MBE. For further details please see: Africa Centre Summer Festival
Unsung is a new play based on the short story Punishment, written by Rabindranath Tagore, the most famous Bengali writer. It has been given a modern interpretation set in London, looking at the lives of 2 married brothers, their relationships with their wives and an innocent meeting that has devastating consequences. It examines the themes of love, sacrifice and family. The play is running from August 30th until 8th September 2013
The Korean Cultural Centre UK is now taking applications for our free 10 week painting (Minhwa: Korean Painting Classes) and music ( Introducing the Gayageum) courses. Minhwa refers to the Korean folk painting of mythical and magical figures and other objects in a plain, straightforward and naive style often representing health, happiness and scenes from everyday life. Gayageum (12 string zither) is Korea’s most famous instrument. It will be a good
Wednesday 10 April 2013 – Monday 29 April 2013 at Southbank Centre Alchemy is an annual festival of music, dance, literature, design and debate from India, the UK and South Asia, hosted by Sothbank Centre. There are dazzling music events with splendid artists as well as many free workshops where you can learn the dance step of Bollywood and singing performance. Highlights include:- Hariharan Anoushka Shankar Susheela Raman Film: Reel
Image taken from: http://www.tonguesonfire.com/ Stop press! The programme for the 15th LAFF has been set! 7th to 17th March 2013 Tongues on Fire is proud to present the 15th London Asian Film Festival (LAFF) so make sure you save these dates and clear your diary for 7th to 17th March 2013. They are thrilled to be celebrating the centenary of Indian cinema this year with a focus on
Image provided by http://www.fipa.org.uk/gallery/dancers.htm FIPA, the Foundation for Indian Performing Arts, has been awarded a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund for a project that will explore the history of British South Asian Theatre since the 1970s. This one year oral history project will uncover a treasure of memories from key practitioners in the world of British South Asian Theatre. Through these, we discover how Asian culture has contributed to the
Recently Launched: Med-Mem Online Archive of Mediterranean Video, 4000 Digitized Items Available “Sharing our Mediterranean Audiovisual Heritage (Med-Mem)” – co-funded by the European Union as part of the Euromed Heritage IV programme – offers the general public the largest online video archive library devoted to the historic, cultural and tourism heritage of the Mediterranean, free of charge. The TV and radio archives, set into their historic and cultural context, are
The Newsplayer site gives free access to clips of historic 20th century newsreels from ITN, Reuters, Paramount, Gaumont, British Empire News, Visnews and French Pathe. Browse by collections, broadcasters or decade, or search the website for particular countries, issues etc. CLICK HERE TO GO TO NEWSPLAYER
I caught this play on Saturday in London and it was marvellous, colourful, rich and witty while accompanied with a beautiful lavish set! It stars Meera Syal, Paul Battacharjee and Kulvinder Ghir, alongside a complete line up of other famous South Asian members. Much Ado has been transported to New Delhi, for only 4 more weeks at the Noel Coward Theatre, near Leicester Square. I highly recommend it, if you are looking for a sultry
RAS and SOAS present… Film Africa, the UK’s largest annual festival of African cinema and culture, is back in November 2012 with 10 days of 70 amazing African films, 35 leading filmmakers offering Q&As, free professional workshops, and 8 African music nights. After the huge success of Film Africa 2011, this year’s festival is even bigger and better, with a whole range of new exciting educational, family, and arts events
