About this Event
GemArts Masala Festival:
New Ways of Moving in the Counterworlds
Date: Wed 17th July 2024
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Cluny 2, 34 Lime Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ
Tickets: £12 advance and £15 on the door
Box Office: GemArts Eventbrite / 0191 4404124
In a special performance commissioned for Masala Festival, bassist John Pope and violinist John Garner will play alongside poet Nisha Ramayya in an experimental homage to their shared influences. Drawing upon Pope and Garner’s 2022 album Water Music and Ramayya’s forthcoming collection Fantasia, the trio will celebrate luminaries of jazz and poetry including Alice Coltrane, Moten/López/Cleaver, and Nathanial Mackey and The Creaking Breeze Ensemble. The work of these great artists extends art into the realms of spiritual community, collective study, and political action, and Pope, Garner, and Ramayya perform with an attunement to the changes that become possible when we come together to play. The event will include a discussion chaired by Preti Taneja (Director of NCLA) before the music/poetry performance.
Presented by GemArts, Jazz North East and Newcastle Centre for Literary Arts
GemArts award winning Masala Festival is back from 15 – 21 July 2024 celebrating a mix and blend of the finest South Asian Arts and Culture, packed full of performances, exhibitions, events, workshops, talks, pop ups and delicious Indian food in venues, places and spaces across the North East. For full Masala Festival 2024 programme visit www.gemarts.org
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Cluny, 36 Lime Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
GBP 12.00
