Autumn / Winter 2 019 Welcome to GemArts’ Autumn Winter 20 19 Season! Chai & Chat Weds 17th July – Sat 26 Oct

GemArts is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Middlesbrough Town Hall as Time: During Library opening hours we bring the very best Indian classical, folk and contemporary music to this Venue: Gateshead Central Library magnificent venue. Launching the partnership in September, we have the brilliant (upstairs Gallery), NE8 4LN Anupama Bhagwat on sitar, accompanied by tabla virtuoso Shahbaz Hussain; and in Tickets: FREE – Just drop in! October we welcome Sudeep Banerjee for an evening of wonderful ghazals. Making and drinking tea is still at the heart Our Riverside Ragas concerts series with Sage Gateshead presents a stellar line up of of many family gatherings across the world . Hindustani classical music, beginning with santoor maestro Rahul Sharma; and in GemArts have worked with GVEMSG November, Music from the courts of Kings and Saints, marks the 550th anniversary of Women's Feel Good Group and artist Guru Nanak Dev’s birth. We are delighted to bring back internationally renowned Michelle Wood on a visual arts project, exploring family histories and the tradition Carnatic vocalist Sanjay Subrahmanyan. As always, GemArts’ special Family ticket is of making ‘Chai’ Indian tea, often from Anupama Bhagwat (sitar) available for these concerts, encouraging and inspiring a love of music for all ages recipes handed down through generations. and Shahbaz Hussain (tabla) and backgrounds. Each recipe is individual, involving a unique combination of spices like fennel, cinnamon , Saturday 14th September If you’re looking for something to do with the little ones, then don’t miss Indigo Moon ginger, cardamom, cloves amongst others. Theatre’s wonderful shadow puppet theatre show Aladdin. Our ever popular Diwali Time: 7.30pm This exhibition presents textile artwork celebrations return in November, and do visit the Chai & Chat exhibition at Gateshead Venue: Middlesbrough Town Hall, inspired by each family’s unique chai Albert Rd, TS1 2QJ Central Library, beautiful textile artwork inspired by traditional chai recipes. recipe. Each piece includes a collection of Tickets: Free, but pre-booking essential handmade elements where stitching, The season ends with a Bollywood spectacular as we team up the Bridging Stroke crochet and fabric staining sits alongside Box Office: www.middlesbroughtownhall.co.uk across Newcastle & Gateshead charity to raise valuable funds for this excellent cause family photographs, handwritten recipes – we look forward to your support! and fragments of maps of South East Asia. Anupama Bhagwat, an outstanding sitar player, has carved a niche in Indian Classical Keep checking www.gemarts.org for more exciting events and workshops across the Central to the creation of this artwork are Music with her versatile & eclectic style. North East, and please visit our Support Us page if you are in a position to make a gift. the conversations, the sharing of ideas, Acclaimed world-wide with a repertoire of recipes and memories. On behalf of everyone at GemArts we look forward to seeing you soon. global performances since 1995, her Presented by GemArts and Gateshead Council sensitivity and erudition has taken her to Vikas Kumar, MBE Culture Team the highest echelons of the modern genre. Director She has imbibed the vigor that is a hallmark of her Gharana: scintillating fast taans, mastery of the meditative alaap and brilliant fluency of melody (raag bhava), all the GemArts is an award winning arts organisation based in the North East of England. A nationally recognised leader in the South Asian and diversity arts sector, GemArts creates and programmes high while maintaining her technical virtuosity. quality concerts, events, festivals, workshops and commissions with regional, national and international artists across all art forms. Anupama is accompanied by the dynamic Our Vision: We believe that the arts enrich the lives of individuals and communities through celebrating our Shahbaz Hussain, one of UK’s finest tabla shared cultural diversity – raising aspirations, building stronger communities and breaking down barriers. maestros. Our Mission: To increase equality of opportunity for everyone to engage with culturally diverse arts – as artists, producers, participants and audiences. Presented by GemArts and Middlesbrough Town Hall image: Michelle Wood Riverside Ragas: GemArts Riverside Ragas series returns with Sanjay’s intensive and exhaustive elaboration internationally renowned Indian Carnatic of unconventional ragas, is a unique feature Sanjay Subrahmanyan vocalist Sanjay Subrahmanyan. of his performances. Sanjay Subrahmanyan manages to harmonise the wisdom and Saturday 21st September Sanjay has spent many years refining his stabilizing influences of Carnatic music’s vocal talent. His music mixes the high past with his own artistic and intellectual Time: 7.45pm authority and purity of tradition, with the creativity, presenting music that is charged Venue: Sage Gateshead, creativity of an exceptionally gifted artist, with passion and emotion. Northern Rock Foundation Hall, and Sanjay’s concerts delight audiences with NE8 2JR the unpredictability and newness of each Accompanying musicians, S. Varadarajan on Tickets*: £13.10 / Family ticket available performance. Violin and Neyveli Venkatesh on Mridangam. Box Office: 0191 443 4661 www.sagegateshead.com Presented by GemArts and Sage Gateshead

Riverside Ragas: Sit back and enjoy the sublime, meditative sounds of santoor played by the virtuoso Rahul Sharma (santoor) and talent of Rahul Sharma, son of the legendary Shahbaz Hussain (tabla) Pandit Shivkumar Sharma. Thursday 10th October Rahul, who has performed worldwide was first signed on by Peter Gabriel in England for his hugely successful album ‘Music of the Time: 8.00pm Himalayas’. He continues to appear at Venue: Sage Gateshead, Sage 2, leading festivals including Womad, celebrating NE8 2JR the classical and folk music of India. Tickets*: £13.10 / Family ticket available Box Office: 0191 443 4661 He is accompanied by the dynamic Shahbaz www.sagegateshead.com Hussain, one of UK’s finest tabla maestros. Presented by GemArts, Sage Gateshead and Darbar An Evening of Ghazals with Sudeep Banerjee Saturday 26th October

Time: 7.30pm Venue: Middlesbrough Town Hall, Albert Rd, TS1 2QJ Tickets: Free, but pre-booking essential Box Office: www.middlesbroughtownhall.co.uk

Sudeep Banerjee has a worldwide reputation This very special concert will take audiences on as one of the leading ghazal singers from a journey through classical and contemporary India. He brings to the stage a thorough Urdu poetry as Sudeep presents well-known understanding of Urdu and its literary and well-loved ghazals and of course, some idioms, specializing in traditional style of requests on the night too! singing along with modern elements. Accompanying Sudeep is a stellar line up of Sudeep is one of the few vocalists who has musicians: Siddharth Singh on guitar, Sunil performed with legends like Mehdi Hassan, Jadhav on keyboard and Hanif Khan on Jagjit Singh, Pankaj Udhas, Anup Jalota and tabla. Rekha Bhardwaj. Presented by GemArts and Middlesbrough Town Hall

ALADDIN This colourful tale from the Arabian Nights is worldwide and marks the start of new set in the Middle East: a place of mystery, Diwali Celebrations beginnings, the triumph of good over evil by Indigo Moon Theatre enchantment and strange, mythical creatures. Saturday 2nd November and light over darkness. Join us at this year’s Thursday 24th October Large scale contemporary Shadow Puppet festivities and enjoy delicious Indian food, theatre tells of a poor street boy who falls Time: 7pm until 11pm entertainment from regional performers, Time: 11:30am and 2:00pm hopelessly in love with a Royal Princess. What Venue: Bewicks, Gateshead Civic Centre, DJ’s spinning the very best Bhangra and magic would he need just to see her again? Bollywood tunes and space to show off your Venue: Caedmon Hall, NE8 1HH best moves on the dance floor. Gateshead Central Library, Follow his wild and dangerous adventures as (entrance from car park side of building) NE8 4LN he gets caught up in excitement way beyond Tickets*: £5 p p/£15 Group (up to 4 people) Tickets*: £6 adult / £4 children his control. Box Office: 0191 440 4124 Box Office: 0191 440 4124 www.gemarts.org Find out more about this inspirational and www.gemarts.org accessible art form after the show. Gateshead Visible Ethnic Minorities Support Shadow Theatre for families / ages 4+ Group and GemArts bring you another Duration 55 minutes fantastic evening of family fun at the annual Diwali Celebrations. Popularly known as the Presented by GemArts and Gateshead Council Culture Team "festival of lights", Diwali is celebrated Riverside Ragas: In the first half immerse yourself in the ancient melodies, moods and rhythms of Bollywood Dhamaka! Music from courts the Rabab, a 2500-year-old instrument from Sunday 1st December of Kings and Saints Afghanistan, by award-winning musician and composer Qais Essar. Joining Qais on Time: 4.30pm Friday 8th November stage to explore these sounds will be Sunny Venue: Sage Gateshead, Channa, a rising star on tabla and pakawaj. Sage 2, NE8 2JR Time: 7.45pm Completing the line-up in the second half Tickets*: £20 Venue: Sage Gateshead, will be eminent musician Sri Kirpal Singh on Box Office: 0191 443 4661 Northern Rock Foundation Hall, the Tar shehnai, who will join forces with www.sagegateshead.com NE8 2JR Qais and Sunny to present series of Tickets*: £13.10 / Family ticket available Shabads (Sacred Songs from Sikh Scriptures) A fun and vibrant evening of Bollywood Box Office: 0191 443 4661 synonymous with the great court of Guru music, dance and culture in aid of the www.sagegateshead.com Nanak Dev and his minstrels. Bridging Stroke across Newcastle & Image: Rishabah Sood Gateshead charitable fund, supporting The 550th anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev’s local people affected by Stroke. We invite you to step back in time and birth will be celebrated across the world in Sarathy Korwar experience 15th century sounds from November 2019 (according to the Nanak This thrilling fundraiser will include Afghanistan and Punjab - the land of five Shahi calendar), through Kirtan Darbar's Tuesday 19th November performances by professional musicians as Rivers - in this special double bill. filled with sacred music. well as local dancers and community groups Time: 8pm showcasing their amazing talents. Presented by GemArts and Sage Gateshead Venue: Sage Gateshead, We look forward to you joining us for Sage 2, NE8 2JR what will be a spectacular evening for an Tickets*: £11.45 / £9.30 excellent cause. Box Office: 0191 443 4661 In association with GemArts www.sagegateshead.com *booking fee may apply for concert tickets – see website more details US-born, Indian-raised, London-based drummer, percussionist, composer and bandleader, Sarathy Korwar has established himself as one of the most original and compelling voices in the UK jazz scene. Korwar’s daring debut album, Day To Day, combined East African, Sufi and Indian influences with contemporary jazz and electronics. With this latest release, More Arriving, Korwar blasts out his own vibrant, pluralistic narrative for the world to hear. This is not necessarily a record of unity; it’s an honest reflection of Korwar’s experience of being an Indian in Britain.

Presented by GemArts and Sage Gateshead GET CREATIVE BE INSPIRED GemArts believe the arts enrich the lives of rely on raising funds from donations and ENJOY individuals and communities through sponsorship, so thousands more people EXPERIENCE celebrating our shared cultural diversity – from all backgrounds can take part every year. Raising aspirations, building stronger LEARN communities and breaking down barriers. Help us make a difference and support our Our work aims to increase equality of work creating life enhancing projects, opportunity for everyone to engage with presenting exceptional events and bringing PARTICIPATE! Photo: Anna Miller culturally diverse arts - as artists, producers, valuable support and opportunities to participants and audiences. As a charity we disadvantaged communities. GemArts delivers high quality arts sessions and projects for people of all ages and backgrounds, offering experience of Music, Dance, Drama and Visual Arts from around the world, enabling participants to develop new skills and interests whilst working alongside professional artists.

For Schools and For Artists Community Groups To be added to GemArts freelance artist database, please send your up to date CV, Workshops from 1 hour tasters to longer term covering letter and examples of your work projects, offering a range of arts activity, to [email protected] . including Bollywood Dance, African Drumming, Chinese and Indian Visual Arts, Lyric Writing, GemArts also share information and Textiles, Aerosol Art, Photography and much opportunities online through the website, more. GemArts also deliver projects to raise Facebook and Twitter. Photo: Anna Miller awareness, celebrate British values, and tackle important issues. Individual Giving Business Giving Projects are tailored to a group’s interests, Donations of all sizes make a difference; GemArts work with businesses of all sizes, needs, timescale and budget, providing • £5 buys art materials enabling a young offering exciting sponsorship opportunities educational, creative and enjoyable learning person to learn new creative skills and share around our performance and participatory experiences whilst promoting a greater this with friends and family. programmes. We can help local businesses understanding of world arts and cultures. • £20 helps subsidise our annual Diwali event, bring customers fun holiday activities, Costs depend on activity, group size and making it accessible, enabling communities showcase spaces and venues, raise awareness materials required. to come together, share and celebrate. of local issues, offer staff, client and • £50 provides space so a community group To book a GemArts artist, or discuss a project stakeholder hospitality opportunities and can get creative, build friendships and please contact Alexandra Marsden Gordon much more. strengthen support networks. on 0191 440 4125 To discuss how you or your business can • £80 pays for dance classes, getting older or [email protected] people active, helping tackle isolation, and support our charitable work contact Vikas Kumar GemArts helps young people achieve Arts improving health and wellbeing. on 0191 440 4125 or [email protected]. Award, a nationally recognised qualification, • £250 enables young people living in and also assist schools to achieve and challenging circumstances to take part in a Photo: maintain Arts Mark. Anna Miller music project that builds their confidence, helping them achieve new skills, leading to GemArts is part of Gateshead Visible Ethnic Visit www.gemarts.org or contact GemArts on 0191 440 4124 a better future. Minorities Support Group (GVEMSG) registered charity no. 1008100 supporting BME, asylum or email [email protected] for information. Donate online at www.gemarts.org/support-us seeker and refugee communities. Design: Tommy Anderson / www.baselineshift.co.uk w 0 w ( S S S A ( F £ N N S R 7 S _ A M A 7 S _ G C D – W ( N F u T S . . 1 _ _ r

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