Nutkhut’s Swyron @ Glastonbury Festival 2023 | Where Science and Spirituality coexist
Nutkhut are presenting a new character exclusively for Glastonbury Festival 2023. Daasata (Hindi for Nemesis) will come to life during the duration of the festival – performance art/live art in partnership with award winning Body painter and artist Victoria Guggenheim. Inspired by Nemesis, the gender-neutral Greek Goddess of Indignation and the Twin Paradox theory.
Co-Artistic Director Ajay Chhabra said “Creating a universal theme, of two sides of the same character, coming together and to present this on the world stage, through the lens of sustainability, community, art and technology has been both an honour and a joy!”
Artistic Director and Choreographer Simmy Gupta “It’s mind-blowing to see our vision come to life as a bird’s eye view. It has been a wonderful experience and so heart-warming to see this dream of bringing to life a story that is over 5000 years old to life to the world’s festival!”
Daasata is part of Swyron’s multiverse – दासता Daasata.
Arguably Nutkhut’s most visually ambitious work to date, Swyron is a spiritual revolutionary, a nomadic warrior, plucked from the battlefields of the Mahabharata and re-imagined with a futuristic twist. Channelling the visionary genius of HG Wells, Nutkhut’s bold reinvention, where Victoriana meets Vedic.
Based on a timeless universal theme of futurism, all with a Glastonbury backdrop, Nutkhut’s creative approach to diversity, representation and the Global majority is a unique process of powerful storytelling and how new work comes alive with the audience as participants.
As if a character bursting from the pages of a graphic novel, Swyron arrives adorned in intricate bejewelled armour, sitting astride a steam-billowing time machine, the distinctive beats of Asian underground thundering from beneath his imposing figure.
Of all Swyron’s mythical powers perhaps the greatest lies in his ability to delight and astound audiences in equal measure. Children and adults alike are left enraptured as they follow Swyron on his intergalactic exploits, ever fluctuating between the comedic and the apocalyptic.
Daasata ( दासता ) will be called into being each day of Glastonbury Festival.
This magical and powerful transformation will happen before the eyes of Glastonbury’s Theatre & Circus’ gathered crowds.
Victoria Guggenheim and Nutkhut will work together to conjure this intergalactic time-traveller.
With intricate paint design, neon lights, fluro colours and junk/cyber/steam/Vedic punk fashion. Daasata becomes a mixture of science and spirituality.
Once their body is drawn and their realm is known, Daasata ( दासता ) adorn themselves in their extraordinary armour and mask.
Swyron and the bold, brash & beautiful folk of Glastonbury …beware!
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
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.