T01120599353elebrate the exchange of ideas and cultural connections between South Asia and the UK with a packed bank holiday weekend of dance, comedy, music and literature. Alchemy is a place for artists and audiences to come together. This year the festival turns nine and with a focus on homegrown talent, brings together emerging and legendary performers from across the UK. Party to electronic bhangra beats with Birmingham club night Shaanti, discover new contemporary dance from the country's leading producer of South Asian dance, Akademi, and fill up at KERB's street-food market. | |
| 4 May 18 to 7 May 18 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L0191520866 |
T02090816577Alchemy, Southbank Centre's exploration of the cultural connections between the UK and the Indian subcontinent, returns for its sixth year (15 -25 May) celebrating and exploring the region's art, artists and society as a whole. Alchemy presents exciting collaborations and new work from both emerging and legendary artists, across art forms ? dance, music, theatre, design, comedy and literature ? as well as a stimulating programme of workshops, book clubs, talks and debates. | |
| 15 May 15 to 25 May 15 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01098399882 |
Anoushka Shankar performs in Alchemy - T01908283968 | |
| 15 May 14 to 26 May 14 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L1852185189 |
T01623490650Alchemy, Southbank Centre's festival of South Asian culture, returns for the fourth year with the most potent mix of music, dance, literature, film, fashion and design celebrating the rich diversity of art and culture inspired by the Indian-subcontinent in a contemporary UK context. With Alchemy's formula of contemporary and traditional music and dance; hard-hitting topical discussions; displays of traditional crafts and modern fashion; and a wide range of free events, this year's festival will take the next step in exploring the confluences and juxtapositions of this exciting and fast-changing cultural context. | |
| 10 Apr 13 to 21 Apr 13 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L0789601703 |
Celebrating South Asian Culutre - T01639662714Southbank Centre’s Alchemy festival returns for a second year with a wide-ranging, 11-day programme of contemporary and traditional music and dance, debate, literature, film, craft and fashion. Building on relationships forged in 2010 between Southbank Centre and leading artists and cultural organisations, this festival looks at India’s changing economic and cultural landscape, exploring its relationship with and influence on the UK and vice versa. Exploring the tensions between classical and folk traditions, science and religion and urban and rural, that in-part characterise Indian culture as it emerges as a major economic superpower, provides some of the central themes and focuses. Mirroring the diversity and complexity of the country itself, festival-goers can expect cutting-edge music and popular entertainment alongside traditional dance and drumming, ancient crafts alongside the latest fashion and hard-hitting debate. | |
| 15 Apr 11 to 25 Apr 11 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01074521671 |
T01407483747Indian contemporary art and culture and its relationship to the UK today will be explored in a new five-day festival of dance, music, literature and debates bringing together classical traditions and contemporary work by seminal South Asian and British Asian artists. This project is an exciting partnership with several individuals and organisations, all of whom are key exponents of Indian culture in Britain. These include Southbank Centre Resident Artist choreographer Gauri Sharma Tripathi, Nihal Arthanayake (Radio/TV presenter, DJ), musician/producer Kuljit Bhamra MBE and the following organisations: Akademi, Darbar, Sampad, the Nehru Centre London, Swaraj Music and The British Council. | |
| 7 Apr 10 to 11 Apr 10 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L1290226839 |
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| 19 May 17 to 29 May 17 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L0315660523 |
