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Conference Schedule

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Thursday 10 April 2008 Drama Department, Roborough Studios, Prince of Wales Road
16.30	Registration and Reception kindly supported by the Migrations Research Network
17.30	Welcome
17.45	Keynote: Naseem Khan, author of The Arts Britain Ignores. ‘Asian Theatre - Paradise Lost or Paradise Regained?’
18.30 - 19.15	Interview: Harbhajan Virdi (tbc), director, and Jamila Massey, actor, in conversation with Dominic Rai, Artistic Director, Mán Méla Theatre
19.30 - 21.00	Musical evening with local South West artists Tim Jones, Jon Sterkx, and Ricky Romain (formerly of ‘Dhani’), Pooja Angra (Torquay), Najam Javed and Shahbaz Hussain (British Asian artists from Bradford, organised in collaboration with Oriental Arts, Bradford).
Friday 11 April 2008 Drama Department, Alexander Building, Thornlea, New North Road
08.30 - 09.00	Registration
	Running throughout the conference (10 - 13 April) Independence Stories Exhibition, SR1, Alexander Building
09.00 - 10.30	Panel 1a: Dance Chair: Reginald Massey, scholar of Indian music and dance
	Jade Yeow	Choreography, British Asian identity and Post-colonialism
	Ann David	Performing for the gods? Dance and embodied ritual in British Hindu temples.
	Lorna Sanders	Akram Khan: physical theatre, heritage and hybrid practice in the present
	Panel 1b: Playing the Asian Chair: Sarah Dadswell, University of Exeter
	Shreeyash Palshikar	Fake Fakirs: Playing Asian for fun and profit
	Claire Pamment	Police of Pig and Sheep: Representations of the White Sahib and the Psyche of Theatre Censorship.
	Sreenath Nair	Restoration of Breath: Neutrality and Actor’s Consciousness
10.30 - 10.45	Tea and Coffee
10.45 - 11.30	Keynote: Girish Karnad, playwright, India. The inter-relationship between British and Indian Theatre, an historical perspective
11.30 - 13.00	Panel 2a: Development, Touring, Production Chair: Jaswinder Singh, Director, Asian Arts Agency
	Bobby Tiwana	The role of host theatres and venues in the development of British Asian theatre
	Aziz Zeria	Director, Culturelinks
	Champak Kumar Limbachia	Director, Oriental Arts
	Hardial Rai	Zeroculture
	Panel 2b: Live Art Chair: Stephen Hodge, University of Exeter
	Rajni Shah	Internal Geographies: negotiating space in performance installation
	Qasim Riza Shaheen	'Khusra: Stains & Stencils'
	Sarah Sayeed	The Identities of Performance and Production – Live Theatre and Digital Mediums
13.00 - 14.15	Lunch Performance of Asian Magic by Shreeyash Palshikar
14.15 - 15.45	Panel 3a: Approaches to Scripting Chair: Graham Ley, University of Exeter
	Pravesh Kumar (tbc)	Artistic Director, Rifco Arts
	Rani Moorthy	Artistic Director, Rasa Theatre Approaches to scripting... interrogating the personal and global
	Parv Bancil	Playwright
	Panel 3b: Regional Perspectives 1 Chair: Hardish Virk
	Claire Cochrane	British Asian communities in Birmingham and the experience of theatre
	Alan Tweedie	The Scottish arts scene: a culturally diverse landscape?
	Faroque Khan	Movement Director; Director, Theatre Insaan Insaan-the challenges of cultural diversity
15.45 - 17.15	Panel 4a: North American Asian Theatres Chair: Girish Karnad, playwright, India
	Rahul Varma	Artistic Director, Teesri Duniya, Canada
	Neilesh Bose	Sharuk and Shylock in South Asian America: Shishir Kurup’s Merchant of Venice
	Chemp S. Biju	Teesri Duniya Theatre Montreal and the transmission of the intercultural: cultural economy of South Asian diaspora in Canada
	Panel 4b: Regional Perspectives 2 Chair: Claire Cochrane, Worcester University
	Tajinder Singh Hayer	Dance Without Movement and Peshkar Productions
	Kully Thiarai	Freelance Theatre Director and Director of Theatre Writing Partnership
	Madani Younis	Artistic Director, Freedom Studios
17.15 - 17.30	Tea and Coffee
17.30 - 18.45	Roundtable discussion: Diversity and Opportunities? British Asian Theatre in the 1980s Chairs: Graham Ley and Sarah Dadswell, University of Exeter Jatinder Verma, Artistic Director, Tara Arts Harmage Singh Kalirai, Zeroculture Hardial Rai, Zeroculture Poulomi Desai, performance and visual artist Parminder Vir, Non Executive Director, DCMS Shelley King, Jamila Massey, actors Parv Bancil, playwright
20.00	Performance, Exeter Phoenix: Kuljit Bhamra and Shamshad Khan, Am I in Tune?
Saturday 12 April 2008 Drama Department, Alexander Building, Thornlea, New North Road
08.45	Registration
09.00 - 10.30	Panel 5a: Performance Analysis 1 Chair: Neilesh Bose, Tufts University
	Alda Terracciano	The re-interpretation of European classics by Tara Arts
	Christiane Schlote	From Illyria to the Punjab: the art of dramatic adaptation in British Asian theatre
	Royona Mitra	Cultural performativity: rewriting British Asian theatre in Weaving Paths (Through Time...)
	Panel 5b: Performance Analysis 2 Chair: Dominic Hingorani, University of East London/Associate Director, Conspirators’ Kitchen
	Victoria Sams	Patriarchy and its discontents: the kitchen-sink drama of Tamasha
	Shanu Sadhwani	Culture hybridity and performance: crossing borders with Tara Arts
	Giovanna Buonanno	Between Page and Stage: Meera Syal and/in British Asian Culture
10.30	*Rajni Shah, Mr Quiver* durational performance 4 hours, TS3**
10.30 - 10.45	Tea and Coffee
10.45 - 11.30	Keynote: Anuradha Kapur, Professor of Acting and Direction, and Director, National School of Drama, Delhi. Intra-cultural performance training and British Asian Collaborations
11.30 - 13.00	Panel 6a: (Actor) Training and Multiculturalism Chair: Anuradha Kapur, Director, National School of Drama
	Dominic Hingorani	An Asian actor prepares: ethnicity and performer training
	Shelley King	Actor
	Jatinder Verma	Artistic Director, Tara Arts
	Kristine Landon-Smith	Artistic Director, Tamasha Theatre
	Panel 6b: New Writing Initiatives Chair: Susan Croft, freelance theatre historian
	Kully Thiarai	Freelance Theatre Director and Director of Theatre Writing Partnership
	Janet Steel	Artistic Director, Kali Theatre
	Harbhajan Virdi (tbc)	Director
13.00 - 14.15	Lunch
14.15 - 16.00	Panel 7a: Mixing with the Mainstream Chair: Victoria Sams, Dickinson, US
	Jerri Daboo	British Asian Theatre and the Mainstream: identity, place, culture
	Suman Bhuchar	Marketing of Bombay Dreams (2002)
	Kuljit Bhamra	Playing for theatre
	Steven Barfield	The Empire writes sidewards: limit events of British South Asian theatre
	Panel 7b: International Perspectives on Multi-Culturalism and Theatre Development Chair: tbc
	Lia Liang	Assembling multi-cultural facets in Yellow Earth Theatre’s King Lear (2006)
	Vayu Naidu	Vayu Naidu Theatre
	Lucia King	At Play, a video installation
	Sudipto Chatterjee	Man of the Heart: Performing between Language, Music & Ethnography
16.00 - 17.30	Panel 8a: The Look of British Asian Theatre Chair: Graham Ley, University of Exeter
	Claudia Mayer	Designer
	Sue Mayes	Designer
	Chandrika Patel	A Fine Balance? Exploring the relationship between the stage-picture and social characterisation
	Panel 8b: Working with the Community Chair: Claire Cochrane, Worcester University
	Dominic Rai	Artistic Director, Mán Méla Theatre
	Arti Prashar	Disabled, gifted and Asian
	Parminder Vir	Non Executive Director, DCMS
17.30 - 17.45	Tea and Coffee
17.45	Roundtable Discussion: Production Values: the Roles of Language and Music Chairs: Reginald Massey, scholar of Indian music and dance, and Sarah Dadswell, University of Exeter Jatinder Verma, Artistic Director, Tara Arts Janet Steel, Artistic Director, Kali Theatre Kristine Landon-Smith, Artistic Director, Tamasha Theatre Kully Thiarai, Freelance Theatre Director and Director of Theatre Writing Partnership Dominic Rai, Artistic Director, Mán Méla Theatre Hardial Rai, Zeroculture
19.30	Conference Dinner, Thistle Hotel, Exeter
Sunday 13 April 2008 Drama Department, Alexander Building, Thornlea, New North Road
09.00 - 11.00	WORKSHOP A	Kuljit Bhamra, Music in Theatre Further information
	WORKSHOP B	Shamshad Khan, Writing for Performance Further information
	WORKSHOP C	Arti Prashar, Community Theatre: Working with disadvantaged groups Further information
11.00 - 11.15	Tea and Coffee
11.15 - 12.00	PLENARY SESSION: Feedback from observer participants Chairs: Sarah Dadswell and Graham Ley, University of Exeter Anuradha Kapur, Director, National School of Drama, Delhi Girish Karnad, playwright, India Naseem Khan, author of The Arts Britain Ignores Arti Prashar, Artistic Director, Spare Tyre Company Hardial Rai, Zeroculture Victoria Sams, Dickinson, US Jatinder Verma, Artistic Director, Tara Arts

Documentation
A record of the conference proceedings will be documented by Peter Hulton and archived for internal use in the Exeter Digital Archives. Anyone not wishing to be included in this record should contact Peter in advance P.R.Hulton@exeter.ac.uk

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