Name: A Saudha Celebration of South Asian Arts at Leeds City Museum
Start: 2026-02-21T13:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-21T16:30:00+00:00
Location: Leeds City Museum

A Saudha Celebration of South Asian Arts at Leeds City Museum

Bringing unique arts of story-telling and Indian classical music through an acclaimed production Umraojaan and a Bengali Opera Madhumala
About this Event

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 brining 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 multi-lingual poetry with English Translation.