Support British Asian Artists to #CutTheBakwaas

Aim

Offering a platform for artists to address the lack of representation of British Asians in Arts & Culture, through a live event & workshop.

CUT THE BAKWAAS is an unapologetic coming together and celebration of our diverse, colourful and extraordinary lives, through art - often misheard or misunderstood in wider British culture.

We will explore our stories through multidisciplinary artworks, performances and a panel discussion with a line up of inspirational British Asian creatives.

The event will be followed by a networking workshop for a select group of British Asian creatives, to help them build confidence and to support structures that come with being part of a community.

We want younger generations to experience a unified and collaborative culture.

The event will highlight issues surrounding our community, and address the lack of representation of South Asians, which still exists in arts and culture today.

#CutTheBakwaas has encouraged us to consider wider issues of diversity and accessibility. This will shape how we curate, promote and host the event, and will inform our future work. Funding will mean that we can ensure that we can make the event accessible to reach a wider, diverse audience.

Your support us will help us raise money for the following.

#CutTheBakwaas Live Event:
 Design, print and marketing costs
 Support our younger artists with material costs and travel
 Event Production costs (inc. DJ, photographer, videographer)
  Making the event accessible using Stagetext: Speech to text captioning
 Resources to build installations
  Artist Catering

#CutTheBakwaas Networking Workshop:
 Venue/Catering
  1 KeyNote Speaker
  Workshop materials

The evening will be hosted by the FABULOUS Desi duo Leyya Sattar and Roshni Goyate,
co-founders of the award winning creative platform The Other Box, celebrating POC and other minorities.

Click Here for more info on The Other Box  

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ARTISTS CONFIRMED:

DJ ON THE NIGHT:
@ReetaLoi http://reetaloi.com/ 

 VISUAL ARTISTS:

Gurjeet Jheeta - Graphic Designer & Illustrator

Kiran Gidda http://www.kirangidda.com/

Manveer Matharu www.mamamanvz.com

Lelani Abeygunawardene @Beechilles

Soofiya Andry @Soofiya

FILM:

Little Elephant -Produced/Directed by Bobby Tiwana & Kate Jessop

 LINE UP:
Performances from:
satchit @satch.it - https://www.satchit.me/ 

Om Shanti F*ck - Written and Directed by Natasha Chandra Namashkar

Tarik Khan @teekay.90 - www.teekaysessions.com

Shareefa Energy http://www.shareefaenergy.com/

BananaSharma- https://bananasharma.com/

Mandeep The MC & Passenger Casanova

 PANELLISTS:

Tommy Nagra (BBC, Project Director) 

An award winning programme maker and creative leader who has worked across the broadcasting sector in a number of senior roles including Head of Television, Religion & Ethics;  Head of Channel Development & Partnerships for BBC Childrens; Head of Business Development at BBC Birmingham ; Channel Executive for BBC Two, and currently a Project Director for BBC Radio & Education. 

He has been voted by the Media Guardian as one of the Top 10 Multicultural Media practitioners in the UK and has made a significant impact in the British Asian community, working as the BBC’s Head of Asian Programmes at the pioneering Asian Programmes Unit where he was responsible for launching a raft of new programmes including Network East and Desi DNA, and developing a significant slate of on and off screen British Asian talent including Sanjeev Bhaskar, Rajesh Mirchandani, Anita Rani and Adil Ray.  

Sharan Dhaliwal (Editor-in-Chief of Burnt Roti Magazine)

Click Here for More info on Burnt Roti Magazine

 CHAAT & MASALA CHAI:
Chit Chaat Chai

If you believe in this cause and hope to #CutTheBakwaas please help us by taking the time to donate and/or share this page on social media.

If you would like to partner for this event/sponsor us, or if you would like to find out some more information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We have been fortunate enough to have won the venue space (including venue hire, staffing and technical support) through the ‘Pitch To The Mix’ prize, which has been funded by Rich Mix and Livity.

In kind support raised from Rich Mix and Livity: £3,925

The positioning of Rich Mix, as an internationally recognised arts centre, means that we will have access to a wide audience, and be able to bring visibility to the artists we work with.

This is an extremely exciting opportunity, and we hope to produce our event at a high quality to champion the diaspora. It is important to us to prove that our community can achieve artistic excellence, setting a blueprint to inspire our audience members and the next generation of young creatives to action change in the arts world.

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This project successfully funded on 13th April 2018