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Check out the NEW website www.saa-uk.org AUTUMN/WINTER 2019-20 Preserving the traditional, facilitating the contemporary CONTENTS Message from C.E.O Help us keep Message from C.E.O and Artistic Director 2 South Asian Help us keep South Asian music and dance thriving 3 Raga@Seven / No Borders by Sheffield Indian Music Ensemble 4/5 and Artistic Director music and SAA-uk on Tour / Darbari Minstels: dance thriving Music from courts of Kings and Saints 6/7 As a registered UK charity Sounds from Kabul: A Musical Journey 8 Dear Friends, (No. 1080292), South Asian We are back with a new females will share the If this is the first time you Leeds International Concert Season – Winter sun 10 Arts-uk (SAA-uk) is thankful for all look to our WEBSITE where stage with the highly have come across our the generous gifts which help us you can book your tickets talented Roopa Panesar. brochure, we encourage Raga@Seven / Resonance 11 preserve and facilitate South Asian and become a regular Our Academies take you to join us for one of Arts. Our work provides access Preview SPRING/SUMMER – LEAP2020 / Women of the arts 12/15 donor to support our students from all ages and our concerts and meet my exciting and innovative walks of life. This is your lovely team and I, who to culturally relevant music and Help us keep South Asian music & dance thriving 16/19 projects. opportunity to learn how provide a warm friendly dance through a various range This festive season is full to play an instrument of welcome to all and before of engaging events, concerts and Introducing: Education programme 20 of luscious experiences for your choice, find your you know it, you are part activities that lastingly celebrate Dates for your diary 21 everybody, from classical voice and connect through of the SAA-uk family! artistic excellence. and new contemporary music. Or pop on your SAA-uk is a charity and Open Days @ SAA-uk Academies 22/23 music of the highest dancing shoes, engage all these opportunities ONLINE quality, to the launch of the whole body and face are made possible by the Carnatic Music Academy 24 At our newly designed website LEAP 2020 in the New to tell stories or simply generosity of individuals, Year – a series of concerts express yourself through partners, great creatives, at www.saa-uk.org you can Hindustani Academy 25 all about women making a movement. Take graded funders and artists. So, ‘BIG now directly donate through leap and leading the way. exams and have fun so THANK YOU’ to everyone our donation page. With a one- Indian Dance Academy 26/27 you can indulge in all that supports the work off card payment or monthly Come along and be part How to enrol in our Academies + Venues 28/29 of new music and dance the festival celebrations that we do. direct debit, you can choose expressions created between September and Happy Festivities your donation and continually How to book a ticket to our concert series + Venues 30/31 the New Year! through the prism of South support us. Asian music and dance – I encourage you to come featuring international along to our OPEN DAYS visiting artists, emerging and just have-a-go! You artists, students. From will be amazed at what BY POST SAA-uk is governed by a strong Equal Opportunities and October to December and you can achieve in a short Keranjeet Kaur Virdee Send a cheque payable to Safeguarding policy in the New Year our young space of time. (C.E.O & Artistic Director) South Asian Arts-uk or All venues are DDA compliant and all performances are relaxed gifted and talented SAA-uk to: Finance Officer, unless otherwise stated. Brochure is available in large font and South Asian Arts, Mill 1, programmes are available in large print. Mabgate Mills, Leeds LS9 7DZ SAA-uk is a Registered Charity EMAIL (No. 1080292) and a Company Ltd. By Guarantee (No. 3391845) [email protected] to organise 2 a lasting gift via standing order. 3 Raga@Seven / No Borders Presented by Sheffield Indian Music Ensemble Featuring: THURSDAY 31 OCTOBER John Ball tabla, santoor TIME 7pm Kate Griffin banjo VENUE Aida Zhakanbekova dhombra, jetigen Seven Arts Leeds, 31A Harrogate Road, Leeds LS7 3PD Ford Collier Irish whistle, percussion TICKETS Antigoni Anastasiadou vocals £12, £6 concessions Joss Mann-Hazell double bass £5 SAA-uk Academy student Manon Mccoy flute, harp BOOK ONLINE & MORE INFO Alex Lyon clarinet www.saa-uk.org or call 0113 244 5523 Special guest: Vijay Venkat bansuri From many corners of the world, China, Ireland, Supported by: An array of instruments is coming upon this stage, Kazakhstan and India, this group of musicians met at the including special guest Vijay Venkat on the bansuri flute. University of Sheffield. Through their combined talents, This family friendly evening is a mixture of different they have connected the music between countries to world styles, showing that cultural differences do not create something innovative from the Hindustani music separate us. Music is a universal language. This is an ideal repertoire. concert for world music lovers, culture vultures and those who love to try new exciting experiences. 4 SAA-UK | visit our new website www.saa-uk.org | 5 FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER TIME 7.45pm VENUE SAGE, St Mary’s Square, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead NE8 2JR TICKETS £13 £10 family tickets available BOOK ONLINE & MORE INFO Music from courts of Kings and Saints: www.gemarts.org or By Darbari Minstrels: call 0191 443 4661 Lose yourself in the sounds of Punjab, the land of five rivers, and join us as we celebrate the 550th anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s birthday, one of the greatest patrons of Darbari Minstrels: 13th Century early music, Music from courts of Kings and Saints and his minstrels. Featuring: SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER TUESDAY 12 NOVEMBER Qais Essar rabab TIME 7pm TIME 7.30pm Kirpal Singh Panesar esraj VENUE VENUE Surdarshan Singh Channa tabla, pakawaj Seven Arts Leeds, National Centre for Early Music, 31A Harrogate Road, Leeds LS7 3PD St Margarets Church, Percy’s Lane, From Afghanistan to Punjab, explore new sounds from TICKETS York YO1 9TL these historic lands. Let the music take you back in time to £12 TICKETS the 15th century. £6 concessions £16 regular, £14 concession £5 SAA-uk Academy student £6 for under 35s Escape dreary November and be immersed in the rabab, BOOK ONLINE & MORE INFO BOOK ONLINE & MORE INFO a 2500-year-old stringed instrument from Afghanistan, www.saa-uk.org or www.ncem.co.uk or performed by award-winning musician Qais Essar. call 0113 244 5523 call 01904 658338 Accompanying him is Surdarshan Singh Channa, a rising Supported by: Supported by: star in the tabla and pakawaj, two percussion instruments Darbari Minstrels: of nobility. Music from courts of Kings and Saints Joining them will be renowned musician Kirpal Singh Panesar, to perform a series of Shabads (sacred songs from Sikh scriptures) synonymous with the great court of Guru Nanak and his minstrels. 6 SAA-UK | visit our new website www.saa-uk.org | 7 Sounds from Kabul: A Musical Journey Featuring: SATURDAY 16 NOVEMBER TIME 7pm Qais Essar rabab VENUE Surdarshan Singh Channa tabla Attenborough Arts Centre, University of Leicester, Kabul – the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, Lancaster Road, Leicester LE1 7HA found high in the narrow valley between the Hindu Kush TICKETS mountains. Full of lush gardens, vivid flowers, spiralling £10/£8 vibrant bazaars and mosaic lined palaces, this 3,500-year- BOOK ONLINE & MORE INFO old city is a jewel in the foothills. Bringing the music www2.le.ac.uk/hosted/ attenborougharts or of this wonderous city is Qais Essar, a contemporary call 0116 252 2455 composer, instrumentalist and producer. He has toured extensively around the world sharing his new genre of music, and now he has breached the shores of this island Supported by: with the rabab – a soothing, soul touching thousands- year-old instrument, bringing its rich history and sounds. LEAP 2020 Accompanied by Surdarshan Singh Channa an amazing Witness women’s tabla player. These two musicians have a friendship with empowerment their music and each other, their rhythms like two gliding in the arts – More information birds swooping around the other. on page 12 8 SAA-UK | visit our new website www.saa-uk.org | 9 Leeds International Concert Season Raga@Seven / Resonance Winter sun Featuring: WEDNESDAY 4 DECEMBER Featuring: SATURDAY 21 MARCH 2020 Ford Collier flute TIME 1.05pm Olivia Moore violin TIME 7pm Manon McCoy flute VENUE Mehboob Nadeem sitar VENUE John Ball tabla Leeds College of Music, Gurdain Rayatt tabla Seven Arts Leeds, 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7PD 31A Harrogate Road, Leeds LS7 3PD Ford Collier and Manon McCoy on flutes, and John Ball Giuliano Modarelli guitar TICKETS TICKETS on tabla are bringing the warmth of Indian classical music FREE Bring back four corners of music and you make a new £12 £6 concessions to the cool icy streets of Leeds city centre. When the air BOOKING No booking required! stage. Familiar artists and friends of SAA-uk have returned £5 SAA-uk Academy student is heavy with darkness, it’s easy to look up at the sky and MORE INFO as a quartet to serenade their fusion of Western harmonies BOOK ONLINE & MORE INFO www.leedsconcertseason.co.uk or mistake the sun for the moon. A cold burning sphere, too with Indian ragas. With three string instruments and www.saa-uk.org or call 0113 376 0318 far away for you to feel warm.