GLIMPSES: A FESTIVAL OF BRITISH ASIAN CULTURE - 13th to 22nd November 2013

Workshops from 15:00 onwards in Seminar Rooms I to III
Workshop on New Approaches to Playing the Tabla
Led by Kuljit Bhamra, MBE, leading British Asian musician who has pioneered new approaches to playing tabla, including working with tuning and notation, as well as performing with musicians from different musical styles

Please bring your own tabla

Workshop on Performance Photography
Led by Ammy Phull who has worked as a professional photographer for several decades. He has filmed many different kinds of performers and performances, including music, theatre and dance. The workshop will provide the opportunity to learn about techniques for filming performers at work, and to try these out in association with the workshop on playing tabla run by Kuljit Bhamra

Please bring your own digital camera, and also a laptop and connecting cables

At 18:30 in the Auditorium
BRITISH ASIAN FILM AND TELEVISION RETROSPECTIVES

The Body of a Poet: A Tribute to Audre Lorde (29 min; 1995; dvd; English)
Director: Sonali Fernando

Recipient of the Audience Award for Best Documentary Film, Imaginaria Festival, Bologna; Audience Award for Outstanding Short Film, Los Angeles; Jury Experimental Award, Prized Pieces Festival, Berkeley
 
A sublime, elegant and visually striking avant-garde documentary on Audre Lorde, the Caribbean - American writer and civil rights activist based in New York. Fernando's film is an imaginary biography of the lesbian, feminist, professor, mother, visionary and "˜warrior poet' who died of breast cancer in 1992

A Kind of English (75 min; 1986; dvd; English & with subtitles)
Director: Ruhul Amin

Voted as Outstanding Film by the British Film Institute in 1986

A soulful rendering of the plight of a Bengali family in the ghetto of London's East End through the eyes of their nine year old son who is witnessing the helplessness of his parents in the face of financial ruin and unemployment due to racial discrimination in the late 1980s