AAAHA LAUNCH RECEPTION
Saturday 30th April 2016, 6-8 pm
The School of Oriental and African Studies, Khalili Lecture Theatre, University of London, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Presentations
Dr. Parvathi Raman, (Chair) SOAS Centre of Migration and Diaspora – Launch Introduction
Hi Ching (Founder) – Introduction to AAAHA
Mark Hobart, SOAS Emeritus Professor, Centre for Media Studies – Background Overview
Ketna Patel, Britindia Cultural Envoy (Visual Arts) Bhagya Lakshmi Thyagarajan, Britindia Cultural Envoy (performing Arts) – presenting Britindia, the bilateral UK/Indian arts organisation)
Bhagya Lakshmi Thyagarajan, Britindia Cultural Envoy (performing Arts) – presenting Britindia
Dominic Rai (Artistic Director) of Man Mela Theatre Company, and Caroline Goffin (Administrator) – presenting Salt of the Sarkar
Mary-Ann Connolly (Creative Director) – presenting Pinpoint Create, Essex based theatre company
Mike Dodsworth (Artistic Director) – Stone Soup from Pinpoint Create
Simon Ly (Literary Manager) & Clarissa Widya (Artisitic Director) – presenting Papergang, a platform for the work of British East Asian writers
Yang-May Ooi (author and theatre-maker) – presenting TigerSpirit.co.uk
Anna Nguyen (Artistic Director) & Mingyu Lin (Creative Producer) – presenting Trikhon Theatre, British Vietnamese theatre company
David Stanley (Founder) – presenting The Music Man Project
Hwee-San Tan (Coordinator), – presenting calligraphy exhibition and Chan Buddhist music at X-Drifts
Thekla Ek, Belgian / Cambodian artist
Performance poetry by Anna Chen
