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Celebration of South Asian Arts and Languages at the Museum

Leeds City Museum
Sat 21 Feb 13:00 - 16:30
Leeds City Museum
Give What You Can
Sat 21 Feb
13:00 - 16:30
Give What You Can

A celebration of International Mother Language Day with poetry, music and dance hosted by RadhaRaman Society.

This is a unique celebration of South Asian music, story-telling, theatre and poetry from different languages of the globe as part of marking International Mother Language Day at the Brodrick Hall of Leeds City Museum.

The event features a critically acclaimed Kalakar production of Indian classical music, classical dance, story-telling in a haunting theatrical setting UMRAOJAN scripted and directed by a leading interpreter of Indian classical music here Chandra Chakraborty.

The celebration is also bringing an exotic and powerful art form from Bengal JatraPala (Bengali Opera / Village Theatre), a very popular folk ballad called Madhumala Madankumar - a unique way of story-telling ( English Narration) combining dance, Bengali folk music in a stunning theatrical setting, scripted and directed by T M Ahmed Kaysher.

In addition, the event will present a brief session of multilingual poetry with English Translation.

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