Asia House E-News
Highlights:
Arts and Culture:
Film Slackistan 13 January
Performance Bonbibi - a Bengali Folkale 21 January
Workshop Tigers in Miniature painting workshop 22 January
Business:
Economists Briefing with Stephen King 15 December
Chinese New Year at Cambridge University 15th February
Policy:
United Nations Security Coucil and Asia in 2011 24 January
Image: Katsushika Hokusai, Tiger in a Snowstorm
Edo period 1849, Hanging scroll, ink and colour on silk
Season's Greetings from the Asia House Team!
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Celebrate the festive season by visiting our exhbition, The Tiger in Asian Art, which runs until 12 February 2011.
Read the excellent reviews of the Tiger in Asian Art here.
Arts and Culture
Slackistan
Dir: H Khan, 2010, 85mins, cert 15
English/Urdu with subtitles
Thursday 13 January, 18.45
You think you know Pakistan... think again! The new film by the award winning team of Hammad Khan (Emerging International Film-maker award, Karachi/Best Short Film Raindance) and Menhaj Huda (Kidulthood) re-imagines the American slacker-movie genre in a Pakistani setting. Slackistan focuses on a group of privileged college graduates who fritter their days away in the sleepy capital city of Islamabad.
The characters struggle to face up to reality as the country outside their small world begins to fall apart.
Includes post-screening Q&A with director Hammad Khan and Menhaj Huda.
Click here to find out more
Bonbibi:
A Bengali Folktale
Performance presented by Culturepot Global, Directed by Filiz Ozcan
Tuesday 21 January, 18.45
Bonbibi is an innovative retelling of an ancient Bengali folktale through dramatised reading, puppetry and music.
The story unfolds in the Sundarbans, a luscious mangrove forest deep in the heart of Bangladesh currently facing ecological danger. Dokhini Rai, a half-human half-tiger spirit of the forest, transforms into a tiger to devour the humans who are destroying the forest. Bonbibi, a girl child raised by animals, is chosen by God to embark on a spiritual quest to restore mutual respect between man and animal and the environment they share – their habitat and source of livelihood.
This extraordinary performance delivers a powerful message about contemporary issues in a positive and humorous way, to be enjoyed by adults and children alike.
Produced by Culturepot Global in association with Asia House.
Supported by BRAC UK
Sponsored by UBS
Click here to find out more
Tigers in Miniature
Indian Miniature Painting workshop with Samantha Buckley
Saturday 22 January, 11.00-17.00
A one-day intensive class led by artist Samantha Buckley that explores the Tiger as a subject of traditional Indian Miniature painting. The class covers practical skills in paper preparation, paper burnishing and pigment preparation including grinding and mixing with gum arabic. Specialist techniques will be taught including work with squirrel hair brushes, Chinese ink and pigment transfer using traditional red ocres and wasli paper, and prataj shading techniques. No previous experience necessary and all materials provided.
Samantha Buckley is a ceramic artist, printer and painter whose work has been exhibited widely and retailed in stores across the UK including Selfridges, the Highgrove Shop and Aspreys. She has taught miniature painting classes at the Ismaili Centre, London and the V&A, and as part of the Asia House Summer School 2010.
Click here to find out more
Image: Maharajah on a tiger hunt, Jaipur, 1790 © The James Ivory Collection
Business
Asia House Launches CASCA
The Central Asia and South Caucasus Association (CASCA) has been officially launched in the UK. CASCA is a regional Trade Association which exists to develop business interests, trade relations and cultural connections with the important and fast developing region of Central Asia and the South Caucasus. CASCA functions as a permanent UK office at Asia House that focuses entirely on trade and investment, and will work with all bilateral trade organizations. In support of this initiative, Asia House will be offering a programme of CASCA VIP Ambassadorial Lunches, Business Briefings and Country Conferences.
Economists Briefing series with Stephen King
15 December, 9.00 to 11.30
Stephen King is HSBC's group chief economist and the Bank's global head of economics. He is directly responsible for HSBC's global economic coverage and co-ordinates the research of HSBC economists all over the world. Mr King has written on a wide variety of economic topics: recent examples include a report on China's role in the world economy, an analysis of global inflation pressures and a study of external imbalances.
Limited places available, please register early:
E: vladka.paligova@asiahouse.co.uk
T: +44 (0)20 7307 5454.
Tickets:
Free (Asia House Corporate Members)
£25 (Asia House Patrons and Government)
£50.00 (Non-members)
Chinese New Year at Cambridge University
15th February
A Corporate Strategy & Business Intelligence event, to include:
•Ecocities workshop
•Tour of Cambridge Science Park
•Reception to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
Email vladka.paligova@asiahouse.co.uk for more details.
Policy
United Nations Security Coucil and Asia in 2011
24 January 2011, 8.30 to 10.30
Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations, gives the view from his permanent seat on the Security Council on the very real strategic and policy issues facing the UN in Asia in 2011.
Sir Mark Lyall Grant brings thirty years experience as a lawyer and diplomat to his role at the UN. Previously he was Director General Political at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office having served in various senior diplomatic missions, most recently as UK High Commissioner to Pakistan. His senior diplomatic positions have included Director for Africa, head of the European Union department as well as senior diplomatic postings in France and South Africa. He studied Classics and Law at Cambridge and has a Licence en Droit Europeen , ULB , Brussels and took the Inns of Law Bar exams before joining the FCO in 1980.
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Places are limited – please register early:
E: vladka.paligova@asiahouse.co.uk
T: 020 7307 5437.
Tickets:
Free (Asia House Corporate Members)
£35 (Asia House Patrons and Government)
£70.00 (Non-members)
Asia House Recommends
GOLNAZ FATHI: Liminal-Subliminal
October Gallery
11 November 2010 – 22 January 2011
In collaboration with Thirdline and Iran Heritage Foundation
October Gallery presents new paintings by Golnaz Fathi in her second solo exhibition to be held in London. Fathi investigates abstract forms of representation, using modern media to aid these explorations, whilst still basing her work on fundamental calligraphic practices and techniques. The introduction of bold swatches of colour further emphasised her transition from a codified system based on prescriptive rules to an alternative idiom that gave precedence to her own imaginative modes of subjective expression.
