As part of the partnership between Arts Council Wales/Wales Arts International and British Council, we launched a joint fund to support new collaborative arts projects between India and Wales.
We are delighted to announce the projects we are supporting; it’s a rich and diverse portfolio of high-profile projects that will bring together leading artists and arts organisations from India and Wales. The programme will feature multiple art forms - theatre, dance, visual arts, literature, music and applied arts and craft.
Many of the projects will feature high-profile public performances and live and digital showcases. Others will work directly with communities through workshops and touring. The projects will take place throughout 2017 and 2018. Here is the full list of projects:
Cardiff Dance Festival (WAL) and Basement 21 (IN)
Interruption
Interruption is a collaborative project by Cardiff Dance Festival and Basement 21 bringing together individual dance artists from India and Wales in a series of public residencies in Cardiff and performances at Cardiff Dance Festival 2017.
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Chapter Arts / Coreo Cymru (WAL), & The Danceworx (IN)
Liminality
Liminality will bring together Wales’ Coreo Cymru and 4pi Productions and Danceworx India to create a new 360° Fulldome dance film. It will involve a cast of over 40 dancers from India and Wales and will be filmed in coastal and urban locations in both countries.
Ffotogallery (WAL) & Nazar Foundation (IN)
Dreamtigers
Dreamtigers is a year long project during which Ffotogallery and the Nazar Foundation/Delhi Photo Festival will collaborate across a series of photographic residencies and curations. New work will be presented on an online platform and will feature in each partner organisation’s respective photography festivals in 2017: Diffusion and Delhi Photography Festival.
Jess Mathews & Melissa Hinkin (WALES) and CONA Foundation (INDIA)
The Rejoinders
‘The Rejoinders’ is a research network between Wales and India, exploring collaborative process, the visual arts and ‘in-between’ spaces. It will bring together artists from many creative practices to develop a series of events and residencies, and to create a digital platform for long distance exchange and dialogue. In collaboration with Shreyas Karle & Hemali Bhuta, Dr Jonathan Prior, Amanda Colbourne, Per Törnberg & Paul Goodfield, CONA Foundation, g39, and University of Worcester.
Khamira (WAL/IN)
Khamira Tour
An ongoing collaboration between Welsh band Burum and three leading Indian musicians, Khamira weaves Jazz, Welsh folk melodies and Indian Classical. Working with India based agency, Gatecrash, the band will undertake an extensive tour in India and Wales.
Literature Across Frontiers (WAL) & various (IN)
Poetry Connections
Addressing the broad theme of independence, Wales based Literature Across Frontiers will work with a range of festivals, writers, publishers and translators across India and Wales to develop a series of collaborative exchange residencies, live performances and workshops with young people.
Living Pictures (WAL) & QTP Entertainment (IN)
Dairy of a Madman
In partnership with QTP Entertainment, Living Pictures will tour their production of Gogol’s Diary of a Madman across India and will develop a new show based on Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens following workshops with Indian and Welsh performers.
National Theatre Wales (WAL) & Junoon Theatre (IN)
Sisters
Sisters will be a brand new, contemporary work, co-created by National Theatre Wales and India’s Junoon Theatre, imagined by a group of artists from Wales and India whose cultural roots and histories are intrinsically linked.
Parthian Books (WAL) and Bee Books (IN)
The Valley, The City, The Village
Publishers Parthian Books and Bee Books will develop The Valley, The City, The Village, a collaborative project between Welsh and Bengali writers. Engaging six writers from both countries in a series of residencies and live performances, the project will result in a trilingual publication of new writing in Bengali, English and Welsh.
Theatre Iolo (WAL) & ThinkArts (IN)
Theatre for Early Years and Babies
Kolkata based ThinkArts and Wales’ Theatr Iolo will partner to present Sarah Argent’s production for babies, Out Of the Blue, across India. They will also develop a new interactive visual exhibition and bring together artists from both countries to share skills and create new work aimed at early years audiences.
Winding Snake Productions (WAL) & various (IN)
Rangoli: the art that binds
Winding Snake Productions will partner with artists in India and Wales to explore the importance of art within our changing social environment. The artform of Rangoli will provide the focus for a project connecting female community and youth groups in both countries and will culminate in an animated film.
Keep in touch as the India Wales programme develops:
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