Artful Struggles commemorates the second anniversary of the Aragalaya/Porattam (“Struggle” in Sinhala and Tamil respectively) – Sri Lanka’s 2022 Occupy movement against corruption, immiseration, and impunity, which toppled a president and a prime minister. The exhibition raises greater awareness about Sri Lanka’s crisis and struggles through the work of contemporary a...
GemArts launch Masala Festival 2024 with Pagrav Dance Company’s Aunusthan, a celebration of Neo-Classical Indian Dance and Music Step into a world of abstracted relationships, Interweaved complex patterns, rigorous choreography, virtuosic performance and riotous rhythms with Aunusthan.
Contemplating the built environment, from sprawling urban metropolises to cities of tomorrow, this programme explores representations of architecture, reflecting on future cities and the ‘ideal city’ as well as memories and the past that lie within a city’s urban fabric.
In a special performance commissioned for Masala Festival, bassist John Pope and violinist John Garner will play alongside poet Nisha Ramayya in an experimental homage to their shared influences. Drawing upon Pope and Garner’s 2022 album Water Music and Ramayya’s forthcoming collection Fantasia, the trio will celebrate luminaries of jazz and poetry including Alice Coltrane, Moten/L&oac...
Contributions from the South Asian communities within the UK have been profound and particularly important in shaping British culture including food, fashion, music, art and wider popular culture Join us for an exciting evening of spoken word poetry, celebrating multi heritage and the vibrant South Asian diaspora communities in the UK.