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May- 2019 -6 May
I’ll say it again – women take centre stage in theatre festival…
Second year highlights unusual and very different female voices… DESCRIBED as “fierce and unapologetic” is Tara Arts’ season of showcasing…
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4 May
‘Mrs Kapoor’s Daughter’s Wedding’ – got your invitation? Creator Archana Kumar and lead actor Parle Patel on their family theatre extravaganza…
New show has proved a hit… NOW who’s up for a big fat Asian wedding – trimmings and all this…
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1 May
ACV presenter Momtaz Begum-Hossain wins award, hosts wedding show and interviews Bollywood star Bipashu Basu…
It’s been busy time for the ACV contributor…to put it midly…and it’s about to get even more hectic… IF YOU…
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Apr- 2019 -29 April
Lubaina Himid – ‘Invisible Narratives’, Turner Art Prize winner 2017, talks to acv about her latest exhibition at Newlyn Art Gallery… (story and video link)
As well as curating two other artists – Magda Stawarska-Beavan and Rebecca Chesney – whose work is also on display,…
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27 April
‘The Curry House Kid’ – Akram Khan combines journalism and dance in Channel 4 documentary with a difference (review)
Award-winning globally renowned dancer looks into the story he was part of…the rise of the Indian style restaurant in the…
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23 April
‘Pah-La’ and ‘The Djinns of Eidgah’ – playwright Abhishek Majumdar on ideals that cannot be defeated by violence…
Tibet and Kashmir have a better future, says scribe who writes fearlessly… HE IS A WRITER drawn to conflict, struggle…
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16 April
‘Equus’ – Religion, relationships, mothers – and horses, actor Syreeta Kumar on the ‘naked play’
Regarded as a complex classic, one of the leads talks to acv about its particular challenges… By Suman Bhuchar SYREETA…
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14 April
Subversion and dissent – the need to highlight hypocrisy and combat discrimination in its many guises (‘My Beautiful Laundrette’ and ‘Brick Lane’)
UK Asian Film Festival and Southall Black Sisters screen films and host debate which warns of creeping acceptance of backward…
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12 April
‘The Massacre that shook the Empire’ – Sathnam Sanghera says the country should apologise for Jallianwala Bagh killings and examine Empire more…
British journalist of Sikh Punjabi heritage goes to Amritsar for TV documentary… BRITAIN has never really confronted its Imperial past…
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10 April
UK Asian Film Festival 2019: Pictures, gallery from Closing Gala
Our pictures from the closing gala event at the British Academy of Film & Television Academy (BAFTA, Piccadilly) Put cursor…
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