Join us for an extraordinary evening of Indian classical music at The Glasshouse, marking 10 years of Masala Festival. Experience the brilliance of The Mohan Brothers, Sanju Sahai and Jasdeep Singh, as we celebrate heritage, innovation and a decade of unforgettable performances.
As part of GemArts’ Masala Festival this year, Baltic Cinema presents Rezwan Shahriar Sumit’s taut, nuanced film exploring ambition and the tendency of power to corrupt, in a fiction rooted in the reality of contemporary politics.
This new exhibition from North East artist and recent Northumbria University graduate, Nayeema Ahmed, explores the relationship between gender, ethnicity and labour. Catch it from 9th July – 1st August.
BIJLEE is Masala Festival's first ever multidisciplinary club night where Bollywood, Ghazal and Qawwali classics are reimagined through contemporary club edits of Oldskool Hardcore, 90's Jungle, Footwork, Garage, Bassline, Dubstep, Baile Funk and more.
Join us for a special reading and in-conversation event with award-winning writer, educator, editor and activist Nikesh Shukla, as we discuss his groundbreaking work across genres and forms – from writing Spiderman comics to literary fiction – and celebrate the 10th anniversary of his ground-breaking anthology, The Good Immigrant.