Wednesday 1st February 4pm – 5pm | Kala Sangam Arts Centre, Bradford
This Nutkhut/Mela Partnership event asks;
“Does it matter what your parents did when you were 14?”
– An Elephant in the Room session with Nutkhut and The Mela Partnership crew at OAUK Conference 2023!
“The Green Elephant in the Room” – Nutkhut’s successful programme of seminars that holds a mirror up to the sector, focusing on environmental sustainability, now turns it’s attention to social mobility in the arts.
The Elephant is Changing Colour!
Join us for a lively discussion with real world examples, good practice, case studies and new ways of working.
Local events and local audiences are on the increase. Our data and metrics show common themes emerging from Mela Partnership events; local, intergenerational, and often the only cultural event attended by our audiences.
So if you are open to being part of the discussion and open to sharing your experience, please come along to Kala Sangam Arts Centre, Bradford, BD1 4TY on Wednesday 1st February 1600-1700.
It’s coming!!! Nutkhut, Continental Drifts and Bobby Friction have come together with this global premier THIS WEEKEND, 11th and 12th November at Rich Mix, London E1 6LA.
The sound of a new generation, reimagined and reconnected!
This Diaspora has a global footprint, from soldiers to refugees, tech entrepreneurs to students, and sugar cane farmers to factory workers and we’ve packed it all up in a live music, arts, talks, workshop festival.
GOING SOUTH is a new festival that will change the UK’s sonic landscape and the Global space too.
A two-day event this weekend, in the heart of London which will see multiple stages & spaces with some of the most exciting music being made in the UK today as well as a programme of events and talks celebrating the art, culture and creativity of the UK’s British Asian community in all its glory.
It’s the first festival to celebrate not only South Asian Underground and Electronic/Alternative music but to also showcase the growing British Asian Rap/Grime & Drill scene, whilst also celebrating the recent history of South Asian Music in Britain.
Check out the Performances and Artists and get your tickets Here
On Saturday 22nd October it was Nutkhut Takeover Day! A fun family day of making, dancing, creating and food to celebrate this wonderful Festival of Lights.
We created an intergenerational day to rejoice in all things Diwali. Attendees learned to make a sustainable lantern and joined our twilight lantern parade. Others decorated a diya, danced like a Bollywood star and designed a Rangoli.
We sipped on steaming chai before watching the switching on of ‘Light Up The Museum’ – major light installations – Laxmi by Chila Kumari Singh Burman and Winter Melon by Jessica Hung Han Yun in the Museum gardens and on the Museum façade to bring light and brightness to the cold winter months.
‘Til 31 Oct.. The Night before Diwali, a room vignette showing a British South Indian front room amid Diwali preparations – a window into the magical delights of this global festival on the eve of Diwali.
This unique installation will remain at the museum into 2023, where our room changes from a Diwali to Christmas theme.
Learn more and discover more images here – The British Indian Front Room in 1980
Starting off our Month of Diwali Celebrations we presented our award-winning sculptural Lotus in Trafalgar Square as part of Diwali on the Square 2022.
‘What the Tree is to Christmas, the Lotus is to Diwali’ – annually, we’ve placed our Lotus in the heart of London – Trafalgar Square.
This enchanting sculpture evokes the symbolism of the festival of light.