You are cordially invited to Mind The Art Collective’s first Evening of performances, in partnership with with Rolling Crafts Co.
Produced and curated by Devi Chatterjee
Supported by Kanlungan Filipino Migrant Charity Emporium
Mind The Art Collective, founded by Saba, Thelma, Devi and Deepshika, is a community performance night that brings early career global majority creatives from across London through music, movement and monologue. It's a platform for sharing stories for and by creatives who move to London for the first time and explore art and life in a new country among new people.
Headliner
Solo Monologue Change At Paddington written by Deepshikha Katuri, Performed and Directed by Thelma Osorio Euan, and Production Designed by Saba Ghasemi
The monologue draws from the lived texture of immigrant life in London - the unglamorous arithmetic of survival, and the unexpected liberation of anonymity after a lifetime of being watched. At a time when public discourse on migration is reduced to numbers and policy debates, this piece offers something rarer: the interior emotional reality of what it means to leave, to stay, to be lonely in a city full of people, and to slowly become someone new. With visa precarity, isolation, and the cost of living shaping the daily lives of so many young people right now, this is a story that’s not just timely, it's overdue.
Supporting Acts:
Raagmala by Arya Tekade
Arya is a classical violinist and her music lies in playing Hindustani Classical which is built around Raags. Many ragaas are associated with a specific time of the day and each raag carries its own history, emotion and framework which cannot be altered but it still allows room for improvisation and personal expression. That balance between creative freedom with constraints is what draws her to this art form and continues to inspire her to explore it more deeply.
Arapiente by Gabi Barrios Lumbreras:
Gabi Barrios Lumbreras is a Spanish multimedia artist and DJ. With a sound that could best be described as the feeling of stumbling upon a rave of tiny elves in an oil barrel, it finds its main influences in IDM and post-internet music. The artist uses hardware based instruments to create a live performance full of unexpected noises and layered melodic voices. Arapiente is an active member of London’s experimental electronic music scene, performing at events such as Temporary Autonomous Arts, Electronic Music Open Mic and Chimimora.
Marketing: Hedye Ghasemi and Donya Sharifi
Photographer : Sampada Ladke
Tech: Maia Parascan
Venue Liason: Chi Sandford
FAQs:
- The event will take place on the second floor in the Community room of Pelican House and has step free access throughout.
- We do not have air con but have tap water and a freezer on site and loads of fans to keep us cool.
- You are encouraged to bring your own drinks and snacks, as there is no bar on site.
- The space has a chill out room
- The space also has accessible toilets