Gemarts Masala Festival 2019 Brochure
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15TH - 21ST JULY 2019 A MIX AND BLEND OF THE FINEST SOUTH ASIAN ARTS AND CULTURE Image: Ustad Wajahat Khan Image: RNS by Karolina Maciagowska WELCOME WELCOME TO GEMARTS AWARD WINNING MASALA FESTIVAL - A MIX AND BLEND OF THE FINEST SOUTH ASIAN ARTS AND CULTURE GemArts is strutting into summer like a Bengal tiger as we bring you another magnificent Masala Festival! Over 7 days, across North East venues, places and spaces we are thrilled to present an incredible line up of classical, traditional and contemporary artists from the UK and Indian sub-continent exploring themes of home, belonging, freedom, resistance, luck and hope. On behalf of everyone at GemArts we would like to say a big THANK YOU to all the artists, producers, participants, volunteers, partners and sponsors. We look forward to you joining us, for what promises to be a truly memorable week! The GemArts Team Vikas, Alexandra and Annalisa MASALA FESTIVAL LAUNCH WAJAHAT KHAN WITH ROYAL NORTHERN SINFONIA GEMARTS IS SUPPORTED BY: SAROD AND STRINGS ENSEMBLE Wajahat, with his distinctive style and Date: Monday 15th July virtuoso technique has made a revolutionary Time: 7.30pm contribution to the art of sarod playing, MASALA FESTIVAL PARTNERS: Venue: Sage Gateshead, becoming one of the most accomplished St Mary’s Square, Indian classical musicians of his generation. Gateshead, NE8 2JR Tickets: £13.10 / Family tickets available Royal Northern Sinfonia, Orchestra of Box office: 0191 443 4661 Sage Gateshead, is the UK’s only full-time sagegateshead.com chamber orchestra. Founded in 1958, RNS has built a worldwide reputation for the GemArts Masala Festival launches with North East through the quality of its an incredible collaboration and a special music-making. evening of music composed and performed by the internationally renowned Sarod The first half of the concert will be a maestro Ustad Wajahat Khan with a String traditional Indian Classical performance Quintet from Royal Northern Sinfonia. with Shahbaz Hussain on tabla. GemArts is part of Gateshead Visible Presented by GemArts and Sage Gateshead. Ethnic Minorities Support Group. Registered Charity No 1008188 Image: Mona Arshi by Svetlana Cernenko Image: Imtiaz Dharker by Ayesha Dharker LUCK & HOPE AN EVENING OF POETRY WITH MONA ARSHI & IMTIAZ DHARKER EATEN BY LIONS Date: Tuesday 16th July Time: 6.30pm Mona Arshi worked as a Human rights Date: Monday 15th July A heart-warming story of half-brothers Omar Venue: Culture Lab, Newcastle lawyer at Liberty before she started writing Time: 7.30pm (Antonio Aakeel) and Pete (Jack Carroll), University, NE1 7RE poetry. In 2015 she won the Forward Venue: Jam Jar Cinema, 18-24 Park Ave, who were raised by their Grandma after their Tickets: FREE to attend but ticketed, Prize for Best First Collection. At the centre Whitley Bay, NE26 1DG parents were tragically killed by lions in a please register in advance of her latest book, Dear Big Gods, is Tickets: £5 bizarre accident. When their beloved Gran Box office: 0191 440 4124 an overarching commitment to hope. Box office: jamjarcinema.com passes away, they embark on a life-changing gemarts.org journey to find Omar’s birth father. What Imtiaz Dharker grew up a Muslim Calvinist Starring: Johnny Vegas, Asim Chaudhry, follows is a funny and touching journey of In partnership with Newcastle Centre for in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was Jack Carroll. Director: Jason Wingard | 2019 | 95mins self-discovery via Blackpool and a hilarious the Literary Arts, GemArts Masala Festival adopted by India and married into Wales. | cert. 12A. snapshot of life in modern Britain. is thrilled to present Mona Arshi and Imtiaz Imtiaz writes about exile, journeying, home Dharker, two of the best poets writing today and displacement. She was awarded the Presented by GemArts and Jam Jar Cinema. ‘The Feel Good Movie whose poetry explores the nuances of luck, Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2014 and grief and hope within our often violent and her latest collection is Luck is the Hook of the Year’ unsettling contemporary world. (Bloodaxe Books, 2018). Curated by Dr John Challis (NCLA) with GemArts. Image: Michelle Wood ZOE RAHMAN & LAURA MACDONALD th Date: Tuesday 16 July Zoe Rahman has firmly established herself Time: 8.30pm on the contemporary jazz scene. A vibrant Venue: The Literary and Philosophical and highly individual pianist and composer, Society, 23 Westgate Road, her style is deeply rooted in jazz yet reflects Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 1SE her classical background, British Bengali CHAI & CHAT Tickets: £12 (£10 concession)* heritage and her very broad musical taste. Box office: Available from Reflex CD Date: Wednesday 17th July Each recipe is individual, involving a unique 0191 260 3246 For Masala Festival, Zoe returns in the - Sat 26th October combination of spices like fennel, cinnamon, seetickets.com company of renowned Scottish saxophonist Time: During Library opening hours ginger, cardamom, cloves amongst others. *Booking Fee may apply Laura Macdonald, a pairing that first came Venue: Gateshead Central Library see website for details together at the 2015 Glasgow Jazz Festival, (upstairs Gallery), NE8 4LN This exhibition presents textile artwork where it was widely acclaimed as one of the Tickets: FREE – Just drop in! inspired by each family’s unique chai highlights. Laura, who studied at America’s recipe. Each piece includes a collection prestigious Berklee School of Music, became Making and drinking tea is still at the heart of handmade elements where stitching, the first ever winner of the Scottish Young of many family gatherings across the world. crochet and fabric staining sits alongside Jazz Musician of the Year award, and went family photographs, handwritten recipes on to an extended stint as lead alto player GemArts have worked with GVEMSG and fragments of maps of South East Asia. with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. Women’s Feel Good Group and artist Michelle Wood on a visual arts project, Central to the creation of this artwork are the Join us for what promises to be an evening exploring family histories and the tradition conversations, the sharing of ideas, recipes of powerful and exuberant music! of making ‘Chai’ Indian tea, often from and memories. recipes handed down through generations. Presented by GemArts and Jazz North East. Presented by GemArts and Gateshead Culture Team. Image: Tenzin Dolker as Docker in Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam’s The Sweet Requiem Image: Tahmina Begum Image: Prerana Kumar Image: Wajid Hussain STRICTLY SPOKEN AT MASALA FESTIVAL Date: Thursday 18th July Tahmina Begum is a British Bangladeshi Time: 7pm spoken word poet from South Shields. THE SWEET REQUIEM Venue: Arch Sixteen Café, Influenced by politics and social events she Wellington Street, presents her own poetry radio show on Fast Date: Wednesday 17th July At age eight, Dolkar and her father fled their Gateshead NE8 2AJ FM, and is founder of the brilliant Strictly Time: 6.30pm home, escaping Chinese armed forces in an Tickets: FREE to attend but ticketed, Spoken poetry nights. Venue: Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle, arduous journey across the Himalayas. please register in advance NE1 6QG Box office: 0191 440 4124 Prerana Kumar is an Indian spoken word Tickets: £10.75 full price, concessions Now 26, she lives in a Tibetan refugee gemarts.org artist living in Durham. Winner of Say Owt £7.25 - £8.25, under 15 - 24 year colony in Delhi, India, where an unexpected Slam 2018 and named Verve Poet of the olds £4.50 (with a free Young encounter with a man from her past reveals Masala Festival is teaming up with Strictly Slam at Unislam 2019, her poetry revolves Tyneside membership)* long-suppressed memories, propelling Spoken to present a stellar line up of around love, loss and occasionally, a healthy Box office: 0191 227 5500 Dolkar on an obsessive search for the truth. North East spoken word poets exploring dose of nyctophilia. tynesidecinema.co.uk themes of identity, South Asian heritage *Booking Fee may apply and inspiration. Wajid Hussain is a British Pakistani poet from see website for details With stunning cinematography and skilfully Newcastle who draws creative inspiration subdued tension The Sweet Requiem is an from the realism and romanticism of Wilfred Director: Tenzing Sonam/Ritu Sarin | unforgettable reflection on an ongoing but Owen and Alama Iqbal. His work has a English subtitles | India 2018 too often forgotten refugee crisis. strong visual narrative, including word 91 mins | cert. 15 streams and wordsical illustrations. Presented by GemArts, Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival 2019 Curated by Tahmina Begum with GemArts, and Tyneside Cinema. and presented with ARCH 16. Image: War-ia AN INDIAN ABROAD th Date: Saturday 20 July “A shrewd and bitingly Time: 7.45pm Venue: Northern Stage, funny send-up of the Newcastle, NE1 7RH Tickets: From £10 ‘spiritual journey” Box office: 0191 230 5151 northernstage.co.uk ★★★★ Pub Theatres Magazine WOMAN Suitable for Ages 12+ th Date: Friday 19 July Contemporary South Asian film shorts Stifled by life in middle-class India, Krishnan Time: 7pm about freedom, desire and resistance. is desperate to see more of the world, so Venue: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary he visits the exotic island of Great Britain Art, Gateshead, NE8 3BA Films include the critical documentary to learn about life and who he is. What does Tickets: £5 (includes welcome drink) Qandeel about Pakistani model, actress Krishnan’s journey teach him about the Box office: 0191 440 4124 and social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch; world? What might he learn about himself? gemarts.org We Are Fire about Champa Pal’s resistance And what happens when he falls in love Suitable for Ages 14+ with one of the natives? to an entrenched cultural system in Uttar Pradesh by Oscar-winning director Orlando Pariah Khan is a writer, performer and When I see her small face von Einsiedel; and the indomitable spirit professional wrestling manager.