Celebrating the Flavours of South Asia We’re back and once again, proud to partner with the GemArts Masala Festival to honour the vibrant culture and cuisine of South Asia. As Newcastle’s original Indian street food pioneers, we’ve crafted a special festival menu inspired by the rich, diverse culinary traditions of South Asia. Fr...
At Masala Festival experience the transformative power of Ashtanga Yoga and embrace a journey of mind-body wellness. Ashtanga Yoga is a dynamic and structured practice that synchronizes breath with a series of progressive postures, promoting physical strength, flexibility, and mental clarity. Join Palak, a vibrant Newcastle-based yoga instructor, for an uplifting session designed to refresh your b...
Set in the small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, Nima, a schoolteacher, faces scandal when an explicit video featuring another woman who looks exactly like her surfaces online. In an effort to clear her name, she travels to the south of the country in order to find her doppelgänger, Meto, only to learn that Meto has disappeared. Locals soon start believing that Nima is in fact Meto’s ghost...
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Award-winning short story writer Gurnaik Johal reads from his debut novel Saraswati, in conversation with Preti Taneja. Brimming with love, lust, violence and loss, Saraswati reveals buried ties between six relatives across the globe. Johal’s magisterial debut explores the passions that bind us to our histories, our lands, and each other.
Baadal Dvaar se Nazar (A Glimpse Through the Cloud Door), is an original experimental work by William Rees Hofmann featuring Benedict Taylor, where sarod meets viola. It explores both tradition and solitude through the dhrupad idiom on the sarod, and openness and experimentation through explorations of consonance, dissonance, harmony, timbre, and resonance on the viola. Inspired by the soundtracks...