India Wales - building relationships through art

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. Find out more

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. Discover more

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. Find out more 

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. Find out more 

In collaboration with Shreyas Karle and Hemali Bhuta, Ranjit Hoskote, Nancy Adajania, Hetain Patel, Dr Jonathan Prior, Amanda Colbourne, Per Törnberg and Paul Goodfield, g39 (Wales), and University of Worcester.

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. Find out more

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. Find out more 

Diary 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. Find out more 

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. Discover more 

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. Find out more

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. Discover more 

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.  Discover more.

Facing

Artes Mundi and the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery have worked with pre-eminent Indian artist NS Harsha to exhibit his largest UK solo exhibition to date in Swansea. Discover more.