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The heartache we must endure – Mihir Bose’s tale of a Panama hat, mouldy rice and migration
With Lola Perrin and Y Yadavan
Q&A moderated by Shane Solanki will follow the performance
Time: 8pm, Saturday, 21 May 2011
Tickets: £7 advance / £10 door
Venue: Rich Mix, 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA www.richmix.org.uk
Box office: 020 7613 7498 boxoffice@richmix.org.uk
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COMPETITION: For a chance to win 2 tickets to this one-night-only performance, just read through the information below and then answer the question and submit your details in the boxes provided. No purchase necessary.
Writer and broadcaster Mihir Bose shares a personal tale of migration, accompanied by live music by Lola Perrin with guest vocalist Y Yadavan.
Migration is a much discussed topic with politicians arguing whether this country has too many people from overseas. But we seldom hear about the effects of migration on the individuals who leave their countries and the families they leave behind.
In an innovative combination of words and music, Mihir Bose shares his personal story of leaving India for the West as a young man to satisfy his work aspirations. His intimate tale allows an insight into the effects of separating from the expectations of family and tradition, and the years of anguish and heartache that can follow.
Mihir’s narration is interwoven with specially composed miniature piano pieces by Lola Perrin accompanied by guest musician, Karnatic vocalist Y Yadavan. In the final section of this performance Rich Mix artist-in-residence Shane Solanki will moderate a Q&A with the audience.
The first part of the evening features the showing of four short international films with piano accompaniment from Lola; ‘Der Himmel über Berlin’ by Vincent Buller (The Netherlands), ‘Light Trails’ by John Bryson (Canada), ‘All of the Lights’ (working title) by Eirik Evyen (Norway) and ‘East End I’ by Phil Maxwell (UK) and Hazuan Hashim (Malaysia).
Mihir Bose: writer and narrator. Mihir is an award winning journalist and author. He performed ‘Collection’ with Lola Perrin in 2009/2010. He wrote the first history of Bollywood and was a keen amateur actor and playwright. His current work includes sports columns for the London Evening Standard and the Sunday Times, a book on the power of modern sport and other projects for radio and television covering social and historical issues. Until recently he was the BBC’s first Sports Editor where his job involved investigating and analysing sports stories. Before joining the BBC, he was the chief sports news correspondent for the Daily Telegraph for 12 years where he created an innovative column, Inside Sport. He has written for nearly all the major UK newspapers, presented programmes for radio and television, and written 22 books. He has won several awards and he was consulted by government ministers about the London Olympics and served on the Budd Committee on UK gambling legislation.
Lola Perrin: Compositions and Piano. ‘Lola Perrin’s inspirations seem to lie somewhere between the ecstasies of Keith Jarrett’s early 70s solo improvisations and the delicate proto-minimalism of Cage’s “In a Landscape”: even Philip Glass’ solo piano works come to mind.’ (BBC)
Y Yadavan: Guest Vocalist. Award winning Y Yadavan who performs in the UK, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, India and Canada trained in Sri Lanka from a young age, and later in Chennai, India under the renowned Sangeetha Kalanidhi B Rajam Iyer. Yadavan collaborates and tours with Nina Rajarani Dance Creations.
Filmmakers
John Bryson (Canada): photographer, co-founder of Bicha Gallery and creative director at design consultancy Phoebus Associates in London.
Vincent Buller (The Netherlands): photographer based in Delft.
Eirik Evjen (Norway): Norwegian photographer originally from Oslo, now resident in Lofoten.
Phil Maxwell (UK) & Hazuan Hashim (Malaysia): “Our work is a celebration of the commonality of the human condition from all over the world. Using still images and moving image without dialogue, we wish to create a work that embraces an international cinematic language.”
Book tickets here or enter the competition below :
COMPETITION – Please note this competition is now closed
For a chance to win 2 tickets to this one-night-only performance, simply answer the question below and submit your details in the boxes provided. No purchase necessary. Closing date: Monday 16th May 2011
Competition Question:
What will be the main theme of Mihir’s narration in ‘The heartache we must endure’?
