Name: Bangla Week Opening Night
Uploaded: 2024-09-28T19:25:04Z
Description: Bangla Week 2024 is an exciting arts and cultural festival that shines a spotlight on the creativity and diversity of Bangla heritage.

Bangla Week Opening Night

Legacy WM is a registered charity that has its roots in celebrating the heritage of post-war migrant communities in Birmingham. Our work highlights their relationship to the industrial, architectural, and cultural heritage of the city. Early projects included tracing migrant journeys through food, and developing a local heritage trail.In the past five years we have developed and extended our work to involve the second and third generations, to recognise and support their contribution to our city.We have adopted four new priorities:HeritageWellbeingThe ArtsCommuntity CohesionThese priorities enable Legacy WM to develop and deliver culturally diverse, creative, and interactive projects for many different audiences, in response to a range of needs.

Legacy WM

Bangla Week 2024 is an exciting arts and cultural festival that shines a spotlight on the creativity and diversity of Bangla heritage.

Birmingham Hippodrome

Bangla Week kicks off with Wish Wash Time Machine, a theatre production casting 18 young people from Northeast Birmingham. Wish Wash Time Machine is a devised theatre piece, directed by Fateha Begum exploring connections between Birmingham’s diaspora communities from the global south through sharing of past and present migration stories.Catch the sneak preview of Anil Kaka, a mime show directed and performed by Rezwan Razan, followed by an enchanting kathak performance by dancer and choreographer Atreyee Bhattacharyya and listen to the vocals of Torit Das singing Nesha Tor, an Adhunik Bangla gaan.Bangla Week takes place between 16th-23rd November 2024. For more information and a copy of the programme please visit: <a href="https://www.legacy-wm.org/arts/bada" title="https://www.legacy-wm.org/arts/bada" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.legacy-wm.org/arts/bada</a>

Agenda

Anil Kaka Mime Performance

Kathak Performance by Atreyee Bhattacharya

Wish Wash Time Machine Theatre Performance

Musician Torit Das

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