Nottingham Arts Mela 2018 Brochure

FOOD | MUSIC | DANCE | FAMILY ACTIVITIES | STALLS | STORYTELLING

HOCKLEY

WED 29 – SAT 1 SEP

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NEW ART EXCHANGE ARBORETUM PARK SAT 1 SEP | 9 – 6.30PM

SUN 2 SEP | 12 – 6.30PM

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ART EXHIBITIONS | FAMILY FUN | FESTIVAL DAYS | TALKS AND FILM | CREATIVE WORKSHOPS | CAFÉBAR

FREE Open Monday to Friday 9am – 6pm & Saturday 10am – 5pm

VISIT NAE.ORG.UK FOR MORE INFORMATION AND EVENT LISTINGS

We also offer room hire! Our spaces are the perfect blank canvas, with in-house Indian, Caribbean and traditional buffet options, technical equipment and support available. Email: bookings@nae.org.uk 39 – 41 Gregory Blvd, NG7 6BE | 0115 924 8630 Opposite The Forest Tram Stop www.nae.org.uk @newartexchange

Nottingham Asian Arts Association (NAAC) develops and advances the education of the public in the appreciation and practice of South Asian arts, arranging and promoting a wide range of performances and workshops.

NAAC Music & Dance Academy and TAAL offer music, vocal and dance classes on a weekly basis and will be re-starting in September. Tutors are high calibre, professional and specialist with years of experience.

To register your interest and membership please contact Bhavesh Jani on 0779 224 7331 or Nina Virdi on 07944 051187 or e-mail: bhavesh.jani@nottinghamcity.gov.uk or nina.virdi@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

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THE SIZZLING AROMA OF MELA IS IN THE AIR! Nottingham Mela is the first UK national Mela and in 2018, 30 years old.

As we fold time backwards to the 20th century, 1988, we enter a time zone of cultural revolution where second generation South Asians took control of their cultural destiny and heritage creating Mela UK. Like chicken tikka masala, it spread across the country and began to feature in every major city.

Apna Arts under the guidance and drive of Parbinder Singh and the seed investment from Nat Puri (Melton Mede’s Group) gave Britain its first ever national outdoor Asian Music & Arts Festival, held on 6th & 7th August 1988.

The theme for Saturday was named Bhangra Heatwave and had the best Bhangra Bands, DCS and Golden Star for example and on Sunday the theme was Sangeet ka Mela and had traditional & classical music featuring Qawwali legend, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

As we (un)fold time forwards to 2018, Nottingham Arts Mela rebrands itself to create a five-day festival across multiple sites featuring the highest quality of intra-cultural expressions representing South Asian arts and culture in the 21st century. For the first time the Mela will feature significantly in Hockley for four days and a preview Mela day at Broadway cinema. The programme starts in Hockley then New Art Exchange culminating in the Arboretum Park bringing back DCS – Shin, featuring the Zoe Rahman Trio, Vidya Patel, Subhash Viman Gorania, a Pop up Library courtesy of Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, Soumik Datta, Sarah Sayeed, Deepa Rasiya, Jasdeep Singh Degun, Aziz & Dal to name a few...

There will be trade markets and yes delicious cuisine with freshly cooked south Asian treats to create the colourful mix that makes Mela so wonderful.

What’s more, the weekend at NAE and Arboretum Park are FREE! Come and join us for this special celebration marking 30 years, and signalling many more to come.

We are grateful to our funders and investors Art Council England Lottery funding, Nottingham City Council and Purico and to all the artists, audiences, volunteers and teams that support and make this all happen.

Happy 30th to Nottingham Arts Mela... we hope to see you all there!

SKINDER HUNDAL AND SOOREE PILLAY Executive Producer and co-Artistic Directors Nottingham Mela Network

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... THERE WILL BE TRADE MARKETS AND YES DELICIOUS CUISINE WITH FRESHLY COOKED SOUTH ASIAN TREATS TO CREATE THE COLOURFUL MIX THAT MAKES MELA SO WONDERFUL. WHAT’S MORE, THE WEEKEND AT NAE AND ARBORETUM PARK ARE FREE!

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HOCKLEY PROGRAMME

WED, 29 AUGUST – SAT, 1 SEPTEMBER

Lace Market Tram Stop

Zoe Rahman

WED, 29 AUGUST | 9.00 – 10.30PM

ZOE RAHMAN TRIO Peggy’s Skylight 3 George Street, Hockley, Nottingham NG1 3BH ( £10 – book in advance) Former MOBO award winner and Mercury Prize nominee, pianist, Zoe Rahman comes to brand new jazz venue, Peggy’s Skylight, on Wednesday 29th. Zoe’s style is deeply rooted in jazz yet it reflects her classical background, British/Bengali heritage and her very broad musical taste. Her powerful technique, wideranging imagination and exuberant performance makes her a highly sought-after musician working with George Mraz, Courtney Pine and Jerry Dammers’ Spatial AKA Orchestra. She will be joined by her trio, featuring Gene Calderazzo on drums and Alec Dankworth on bass.

He also trained in classical Indian dance under acclaimed teachers in the UK and India learning Bharatanatyam from Chitraleka Bolar and Chaaya Kanavate and Kathak from Nilima Devi MBE and Asha Joglaker.

Born in Birmingham, Jyoti began her Bharatanatyam dance training at the tender age of 6 under the guidance of her Guru Smt Chitraleka Bolar. Jyoti completed her Arangetram in 2007 and has since been involved in numerous dance productions with companies such as ‘Chitraleka Dance Company’, ‘Sampad’, ‘Nritarutya’ and ‘Moby Duck’. She continues to develop her dance vocabulary and creativity, enabling her to choreograph new and innovative dance items, appealing to both contemporary and traditional audiences.

THU, 30 AUGUST | 7.00 – 9.00PM

SUBHASH VIMAN GORANIA AND JYOTI KAINTH Nottingham Arts Theatre 12 George Street, Hockley, Nottingham NG1 3BE ( £6 for this show, or £10 for Thursday and Friday dance shows – book in advance) Subhash is a British choreographer and dancer moving to classical dance through hip hop, which gives him a distinct style and unorthodox, quirky edge.

The vocabulary in his choreographic work spans leaps, floor work, spins, humorous gesture and expression.

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Jyoti Kainth

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FOR THE FIRST TIME, NOTTINGHAM ARTS MELA HITS HOCKLEY FOR FOUR DAYS OF EVENTS.

THU, 30 AUGUST | 9.30 – 10.30PM

Vidya Patel and Shammi Pithia

JASMINE RODGERS AND MENDI Jamcafé 12 Heathcoat Street, Hockley, Nottingham NG1 3AA ( Free event ) Alternative folk/alternative rock Jasmine Rodgers is a singer-songwriter from London with a Japanese poet mother and a Middlesborough rock singer dad. Her first foray into music (apart from singing Fleetwood Mac on Capital Radio’s 30 second Wonder segment age 11) was as front woman to rock band Boa. She returns to Nottingham Arts Mela for the third year due to popular demand.

Mendi Mohinder Singh is a classically trained tabla player-composer and musical visionary with an international reputation. His music has been inevitably inspired by the rich and diverse musical styles he has been exposed to and reflects his Birmingham roots, and meaning collaborations with artists as diverse as Pandit Shalil Shankar, Peter Gabriel, Darius Brubeck, Anand Shankar, Dave O’Higgins, Courtney Piy, Akram Khan and Ustade Fateh Ali.

FRI, 31 AUGUST | 7.00 – 8.00PM

CONVERSE: VIDYA PATEL AND SHAMMI PITHIA Nottingham Arts Theatre 12 George Street, Hockley, Nottingham NG1 3BE ( £6 for this show, or £10 for Thursday and Friday dance shows – book in advance) Vidya Patel and Shammi Pithia present an extraordinary conversation between Kathak dance and live contemporary music.

Rising star of dance Vidya Patel found fame as the winner of the South Asian category in BBC Young Dancer of the Year 2015, held at Sadler’s Wells. An alumnus of Yuva Gati at the Centre for Advanced Dance Training led by a partnership between Sampad and DanceXchange, she trains under the guidance of leading Kathak exponent, Sujata Banerjee. Shammi Pithia is continuing to build a solid name for himself as a skilled creative composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist – following the path NAE.ORG.UK/MELA2018 | #NOTTSMELA

of great artists such as Nitin Sawhney, who has praised his work. Shammi’s album ‘COSMIC’ hit no.1 in the iTunes world music chart, as did the debut album ‘ShadowLines’ by his band FLUX.

SAT, 1 SEPTEMBER | 7.30 – 10.00PM

AZIZ’S DESI GUITR FEAT: DAL AND THE TABLA ENSEMBLE WITH SARANGI Oscar and Rosie’s Restaurant (upstairs) 8 Stoney Street, Hockley, Nottingham NG1 1LP ( £17.50 for dinner, drink and performance deal – book in advance) We complete our Hockley extravaganza on Saturday 1st September at Oscar and Rosie’s restaurant (upstairs).

Rock guitar virtuoso, Aziz Ibrahim with tabla virtuoso, Dalbir Singh Rattan, and guest, Gurpreet Singh, on sarangi, offer an evening of music and delicious food.

Aziz Ibrahim is known for his work as lead guitarist for several internationally acclaimed bands and artists including The Stone Roses, Simply Red, Ian Brown, Paul Weller, Steven Wilson, Asia & Rebel MC. His current work takes this legacy to new heights as he seamlessly blends rock guitar with classical South Asian instruments.

Dalbir Singh Rattan is one of the UK’s most respected young tabla players, having as his mentor Shri Sukhvinder Singh Namdhari (disciple of Pt.Kishan Maharaj), he has also worked with Richard Ashcroft and Ocean Colour Scene and performs regularly with Aziz Ibrahim (Ian Brown), the former Stone Roses guitarist, as part of the AZIZ band.

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NEW ART EXCHANGE PROGRAMME

SAT, 1 SEPTEMBER | FREE NEW ART EXCHANGE (NAE) 39 — 41 GREGORY BLVD NOTTINGHAM NG7 6BE

PERFORMANCE SPACE ( 2ND FLOOR ) 9.00 – 10.15AM

YOGA AND MUSIC WITH PARMJIT SAGOO AND WAQAS CHOUDHARY ON BANSURI FLUTE Parmjit Sagoo has over 15 years’ experience as a drama, movement and theatre practitioner, passionate about using creativity and yoga to support wellbeing, personal transformation and social change. Saturday morning sees a tranquil and fitting start to the day as Waqas Choudhary joins her with live bansuri flute.

Waqas has worked with a number of top ranking musicians from a diverse musical background, playing classical Indian music in ragas to fusion and improvised Jazz blues. He has been taught by Ustad Iqbal Hussain, Ustad Azhar Barlass and has taken guidance from world renowned flautist Pandit Pravin Godkhindi.

The Forest Tram Stop is fast establishing a name for himself as a rising star of the Indian classical and contemporary music scenes.

Jasdeep acquires a deep insight into the art of Indian Classical music through his teacher, Ustad Dharambir Singh MBE, and continues to develop his skills in performance, composition, and production.

1.00 – 3.00PM

FUN PRINTMAKING WITH OUR RESIDENT DESIGNERS 5.00 – 6.45PM (including interval)

STORY TELLER, PETER CHAND PRESENTS HENNA STORIES – special henna painting before the event Peter Chand has been storytelling since 1999, and has entertained audiences all over Britain and further with his tales from the Indian Subcontinent. His parents migrated to Britain from the Punjab region in the 1950’s, and though he was born in the Midlands, Peter grew up using Punjabi as his first language. He combines these two cultures seamlessly to tell stories full of life, wisdom, and humour. His story, Henna, promises to delight audiences on Saturday afternoon.

GROUND FLOOR & CAFÉBAR 1.00 – 1.20PM & 4.30 – 4.50PM

TABLA: DALBIR RATTAN SINGH WITH THE SCHOOL OF RHYTHM Dalbir Singh Rattan school of tabla is the best of up and coming talent in the Midlands. Dalbir himself has toured the world with great artists (Ian Brown, Richard Ashcroft, Jasdeep Singh Degun

10.45AM – 12.45PM

JASDEEP SINGH DEGUN SITAR RECITAL An active musician and sitar player, Jasdeep Singh Degun has performed internationally in many highprofile productions and prestigious venues. He was awarded the Yuva Sangeet Ratna ‘Musician of the Year’ at the National Indian Arts Awards in 2016, Jasdeep 4 | NEW ART EXCHANGE PROGRAMME

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ON SATURDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER, NAE WILL BE A HUB OF ACTIVITY THROUGHOUT THE DAY, HOSTING YOGA, MUSIC, DANCE, THEATRE AND ACTIVITIES FOR ALL THE FAMILY INCLUDING MEHNDI, FACE PAINTING AND DIVA MAKING. Ocean Colour Scene, Noel Gallagher) but when he’s not doing this, back home in the Black Country, he has dedicated the other half of his career to the education of tabla and drum students in Sandwell. Through Sandwell Music and independent tutelage, he is a highly regarded and popular music teacher.

Jasmine Rodgers

THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON

SOUNDS OF SOUTH ASIA Interactive activity area for all ages – ancient classical instruments meet contemporary sounds with artists Aziz Ibrahim and Johnny Jay. PLUS: Face painting, mehndi, pop-up performances.

Special Café menus featuring global and Indian cuisine and ice-creams as local business Yumi, join us this afternoon.

LEARNING ROOM ( 2ND FLOOR ) 11.30AM – 5.00PM

HENNA, DIVA-MAKING AND RANGOLI WORKSHOP Vina Ladwa fills the space with activity throughout the

1.30 – 1.45PM & 3.00 – 3.30PM

ADARA, SARAN & AIKAM Young talent from the region showcase music created with the guidance of professional musicians such as Jasmine Rodgers.

2.10 – 2.30PM & 4.55– 5.15PM

VINCE GOULD: SPOKEN WORD AND ACOUSTIC GUITAR Spoken word poet, theatre performer and song writer explores the inner ‘urban junglee’ (wild man of the city) bending time and flipping ideas of equality and inequality that haunt our society.

3.30PM

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afternoon. Make a diva candle holder, create beautiful patterns inspired by south Asia, or have your hand delicately painted with henna.

SPECIAL FEATURE: UNESCO Nottingham City of Literature pop up Library 30 key South Asian literature books over 30 years.

MAIN, MEZZANINE & CENTRAL GALLERIES ALL DAY EXHIBITIONS

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ARBORETUM PROGRAMME

SUN, 2 SEPTEMBER | FREE

High School Tram Stop

ARBORETUM WAVERLEY ST, NOTTINGHAM NG7 4HF

1.40 – 2PM & 3.10 – 3.30PM

ON THE BANDSTAND

MANUSHI DANCE: CLASSICAL KATHAK DANCE

12.30 – 12.45PM

4.30 – 4.45PM

HARJINDER MATHARU AND STUDENTS: DHOL SOUNDS 12.45 – 1.15PM

BIANT SINGH – DRUMMING CIRCLE: PERFORMANCE AND INTERACTIVE WITH AUDIENCE Leena Patel

2.00 – 2.45PM

DEEPA RASIYA: SUFI SOUNDS 3.30 – 4.30PM

SOUMIK DATTA – SOUNDS OF BRASIL AND INDIA 5.15 – 6.15PM

DCS SHIN: 80’S BHANGRA MUSIC IN 2018

1.15 – 1.35PM & 2.45 – 3.05PM

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5.00 – 5.15PM

KIM BORMANN: CLOSING CEREMONY FOR THE DANCE TENT WORKSHOPS & ACTIVITIES Throughout the afternoon you will find food and craft stalls, a children’s fairground, face-painting and mehndi, carom board games, Rangoli workshops and artwork and lots of activities for families and young people.

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DANCE TENT

LEENA PATEL AND TROUPE: CONTEMPORARY BOLLYWOOD

WELL-BEING TENT From lively Bollywood Zumba to yoga, puppetry and storytelling with Mashi Theatre.

POETRY CORNER Kavya Raang and friends recite multi-lingual poetry.

Sarah Sayeed – resident artist of Jaipur Literature Festival 2018 interactive creative writing workshop and performance.

UNESCO Nottingham City of Literature pop up Library 30 key South Asian literature books over 30 years, as well as School of Languages.

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JOIN US FOR THE FREE FAMILY DAY FINALE OF NOTTINGHAM ARTS MELA 2018, WITH DANCE, MUSIC, CREATIVE FAMILY FUN AND MORE. SEE PAGE 8 FOR MORE DETAILS.

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ABOUT THE ARBORETUM PARK DAY We kick off our annual opening ceremony on dhol drum and exhuberant drumming circle with Biant Singh Suwali.

The rest of the day, compèred by Jay Pollitt, is filled with fun, high class music and dance for everyone, and workshops, delicious south Asian food, craft stalls, and beautiful sounds of poetry resounding across this picturesque setting, with readings by Sarah Sayeed and Kavya Raang. Pravin Mistry joins us with a flurry of artists offering Rangoli workshops, a carom board games section and two incredible Rangoli artists, Milan Arvindkumar and Janka Chauhan.

Look out for Mashi Theatre (dir. Trina Haldar) who offer fun theatre and storytelling with a collective of artists.

THE MUSICIANS

THE DANCERS

Harjinder Matharu has been supporting the Mela in Nottingham for a number of years. He is a eminent tabla artist, also sharing his skills as he teaches both tabla and dhol drum at Nottingham Asian Arts Council School of music on a weekly basis. Percussionist and local artist, Biant Singh Suwali, has spent over three decades developing a facilitative approach “Rhythm 4 Life” where social justice, music, performance and the wellbeing of people intermingle. A singer and songwriter, Deepa Nair Rasiya’s South Indian heritage took her, initially, to orthodox Carnatic traditions of Indian vocals. She was drawn to the Hindustani (North Indian) classical tradition, making her style a unique blend of the Northern and Southern technique.

Bhangra Tots is led by Performing Artist, Dancer, Actor and Entertainer, Sohan Kailey. Sohan has performed and provided numerous Bhangra Tots LIVE shows and sessions within schools, community and family festivals which include Geronimo Festival with the stars of CBeebies (BBC Childrens TV Channel). The Manushi Dance Organisation based in Nottingham promotes South Asian Dance and in particular the Indian kathak dance. The director of the company, Vina Ladwa also performed at the first Mela here in Nottingham, then with Nilima Devi’s dance company, back in 1988.

Soumik Datta is a British Indian composer and virtuoso player of the sarod. Trained by the sarod legend, Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta, he works within Indian classical and contemporary music working with Beyonce, Jay-Z, Akram Khan, Nitin Sawhney, Anoushka Shankar, Bernhard Schimpelsberger, Talvin Singh, Joss Stone, Shankar Mahadevan to name a few. Shin Parwana is one of the most prominent Bhangra vocalists in UK and lead singer of Bhangra band, DCS. A respected band in the industry, in 2005 DCS won “Best Group” at the UK Asian Music Awards, in 2008 Shin returning to the awards to gain “Outstanding Achievement” for his work with DCS. The band performed at Nottingham’s first Mela in 1988, and we are delighted to welcome them back for this 30th anniversary.

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Dance sensation Leena Patel is one of the UK’s most accomplished and leading Asian performing artists.

Her work in the Bollywood industry in India includes choreographing and performing with top celebrities.

Her vision and unique adaptation of Bollywood choreography makes her one of the most sought-after British Bollywood Dance Choreographers.

Kim Bormann is a professional dancer, choreographer and performer from Germany studying physical theatre with Jasmin Vardimon Company. In 2017, she created and performed ‘Layer Three’, a full-length dance piece, at the Nottingham Contemporary.

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HISTORY / 30 YEARS OF MEL A INVENTING MELA – ‘A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME’

BY SKINDER HUNDAL

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AMAZING DANCERS SPIN, WITH AERIAL PERFORMERS SUSPENDED ABOVE; THE SCENT FROM FRESHLY PIPED JALEBIES WAFTS PAST AND IN THE DISTANCE, THERE IS A SOUND OF QAWWALI.

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On the weekend of 6 & 7 August 1988 the Mela festival in the UK was born. It started here in Nottingham.

Day 1 was called Bhangra Heatwave attracting younger audience with the best of British Bhangra and Day 2 Sangeet ka Mela representing classical traditions and heritage. Nottingham kick started a whole suite of Melas across the UK, Bradford following three weeks later.

Melas were different as they were not based on faith, unlike many other South Asian festivals, but instead Mela was based on the Asian community taking ownership and creating dialogues with other communities and across the myriad South Asian cultures and identities.

Nottingham Mela was established by Apna Arts, one of the founding organisations that formed New Art Exchange. It was driven by Parbinder Singh, initially as a part-time unpaid venture, which involved young people as volunteers. The volunteers came up with the idea to hold a National Festival of Asian Arts and Music in Nottingham. The Nottingham Mela was supported by millionaire business man Nat Puri from Melton Medes Group for a three year period to give it a strong start.

The whole romantic dream of the Mela was to have a kambal (blanket) out on the grass, the paranthas, the achar (pickle), the raita, and share in the festival environment, with street performers or performers on stage. It was that notion of what happened in South Asia being brought over here, because that was a gap in people’s experiences. It was connecting with their memories of back home, recreating an element of that and then redefining it with a new generation here.

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Melas held in 1988 were ground breaking because they provided one of the first opportunities for a celebration in a public sphere which encouraged participation from different communities, promoting their arts and culture and making sure there was something there for them to enjoy and be proud of.

The late policy advisor Naseem Khan aptly phrased this new wave of cultural ownership and confidence: ‘The Mela actually perhaps had a hand in showing the community back to itself, reflecting a sense of numerical power and creative vibrancy. To actually see something which was writ large across the face of society made you feel good. It was a sense of this being normality opposed to being marginality’ The festival has become stronger than ever, thriving and reinventing itself. Since 2008 it has been developed by Nottingham Mela Network, a collaboration between New Art Exchange and Nottingham Asian Arts Council. In 2018 Mela’s theme of (un)folding time draws from Einstein’s theory on time, defying Newton’s laws of physics, in that it is an illusion to assume time is linear, that past, present and future all happen simultaneously. So as we think back and into the future, into the cosmos, we are already here and there, entering spaces with ideas faster than the speed of light. Going forwards, Nottingham Arts Mela will think and think again, to invent new realities of time and space, bringing society together where the imagination and creativity is at the root.

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ASSOCIATED PROGRAMME THIS IS THE SECOND YEAR NOTTINGHAM ARTS MELA TEAMS UP WITH THE NOTTINGHAM SOUTH ASIAN HERITAGE MONTH... ASSOCIATED PROGRAMME INCLUDES: SUN, 26 AUGUST | 1.00PM

SHIRAZ (U) FILM SCREENING

Broadway Cinema

14 – 18 Broad St, Nottingham NG1 3AL Tickets £9 (concessions available) Based on the romance between 17th-century Mughal ruler Shah Jahan and his queen, this epic silent film is the ravishing, romantic tale behind the creation of one of the world’s most iconic structures: the Taj Mahal.

Shot entirely on location in India, it features lavish costumes and gorgeous settings – all the more impressive in this restoration by the BFI National Archive which features a specially commissioned score by the Grammy Award-winning Anoushka Shankar.

Director Franz Osten Preceded by: RETRACING KAMPALA – research documentation (8 min) Said Adrus returns to Kampala, the city of his childhood, for the first time in 40 years.

Courtesy of New Art Exchange

SUN, 2 SEPTEMBER | 12.30PM

LAUNCH OF SOUTH ASIAN HERITAGE MONTH AT NOTTINGHAM ARTS MELA

Arboretum Park Waverley St, Nottingham NG7 4HF Introduced by Councillor Khan

SAT, 29 SEPTEMBER | 12.00 – 5.00PM

CELEBRATING THE MONTH OF SOUTH ASIAN HERITAGE FESTIVAL

Trinity Square North Church Street, Nottingham NG1 4BR Performances, craft and food stalls.

Free, all are welcome.

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TUE, 20 NOVEMBER | 7.30PM

AAKASH ODEDRA COMPANY: #JESUIS Djanogly Theatre, Nottingham Lakeside Arts University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD

Tickets £18 ( £16 concessions) Aakash Odedra’s new production #JeSuis sees him stepping outside his performance role to create a stunning dance production for 7 international dancers.

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Named in response to the solidarity movement which followed horrific murders at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris, #JeSuis is an edgy and thought-provoking work.

Odedra explores the strangulation of freedom of speech, the rise of xenophobic attitudes and the displacement of people through conflict.

With a growing international reputation, Aakash Odedra creates original dance using movement inspired by South Asian classical dance, contemporary dance and collaboration. “#JeSuis isn’t just a stunning piece of contemporary dance... it’s a galling political movement” Edinburgh49  Presented in partnership with Dance4 Ages 14+ 30 TEXTS – POP UP LIBRARY: Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature have selected 30 key texts that represent the highest quality of South Asian creative writing over the past thirty years. Authors include: A.A Dhand, Abir Mukerjee, Ayisha Malik, Bali Rai, Hanif Kureshi, Kamila Shamsie, Meera Syal, Monica Ali, Nikesh Shukla, Salman Rushdie, Tahmima Anam to name a few.

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REAL CREATIVE FUTURES & THE BIG HOUSE AT MELA! SUNDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER 2018 Join us for a day of exciting workshops and creativity, in the Real Creative Futures and Big House dome at this year's Mela!

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