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Spirit Level
Wednesday 11 April 2012 - Sunday 22 April 2012
Curated by Reedah El-Saie, Director of Mica Gallery, The Brit Pak presents work by a number of emerging British Pakistani artists.
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Royal Festival Hall
Thursday 12 April 2012
Asian Dub Foundation have always been at the forefront of musical resistance and politicisation and this unique event packs a potent agit-prop punch.
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Purcell Room
Thursday 12 April 2012
Franz Osten's lavish 1928 silent film Shiraz is accompanied by a live score by internationally renowned tabla player and composer Sarvar Sabri and the Sabri Ensemble.
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Southbank Centre
Thursday 12 April 2012 - Saturday 21 April 2012
Join us for a refreshing, easy yoga session and enrich your physical, emotional and spiritual well being.
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Spirit Level
Thursday 12 April 2012 - Sunday 22 April 2012
Looking for Kool is a journey of one woman's life and the heavy price of war through the secret labyrinth of one of Southbank Centre's underground spaces.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Dr. L. Subramaniam, Kavita Krishnamoorthy & Ambi Subramaniam
Thursday 12 April 2012
This is a rare opportunity to see a family of acclaimed Indian musicians, including an award-winning singer and a renowned composer, perform together.
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Blue Room, Spirit Level
Hetain Patel & Shane Solanki: Work in Progress
Thursday 12 April 2012
An artist and a poet with Gujarati heritage use speech, film, music, physical theatre and comedy to explore communication and language.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Professor Amartya Sen and Lord Nicholas Stern in conversation, chaired by Rajeev Sethi
Friday 13 April 2012
An international provocation, this debate will set the tone for Southbank Centre's Alchemy festival, bringing together three outstanding figures from the worlds of economics, philosophy, design and entrepreneurialism
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Purcell Room
Saturday 14 April 2012
Humble The Poet is a Toronto-bred MC and spoken word artist whose work embodies the changing nature and resilience of one of the world's most diverse cities.
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The Front Room at QEH
Saturday 14 April 2012
Art of Living Foundation invites you to join a yoga jam with live music, DJs, dance and mediation.
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Festival Terrace
Saturday 14 April 2012 - Sunday 15 April 2012
Historical and nostalgic music pioneers Charity Shop DJ invite you to come and play with them at Southbank Centre on both weekends during Alchemy festival.
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The Front Room at QEH
DJ Nihal Presents The Burban Mela
Saturday 14 April 2012
A mixed-bill show curated by BBC Radio 1's Nihal, featuring the best of the emerging Burban scene in the UK - black music with a distinctly Asian vibe.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Confluence with SAMYO, the National South Asian Youth Orchestra
Saturday 14 April 2012
Confluence brings together some of the country's most inspirational young musicians for a showcase of incredible talent across a range of musical genres.
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The Clore Ballroom
Sunday 15 April 2012 - Sunday 15 April 2012
Be part of Southbank Centre's newly commissioned Bollywood film. Learn a Bollywood dance routine at these workshops and become a dancer in the film.
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Purcell Room
Sunday 15 April 2012
A film screening of a freewheeling adaptation of the King Lear fable, a gripping emotional drama of generational conflict set in contemporary London.
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Purcell Room
Sunday 15 April 2012
Following a sold-out tour in India, sarod player Soumik Datta, 'one of the biggest new music talents in Britain' (Vogue), returns with prolific tabla maestro Arif Khan (grandson of the doyen Ustad Karamatullah Khan) to premiere this audio-visual concert.
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Blue Room, Spirit Level
Lui Zhenyun and Neel Mukherjee
Sunday 15 April 2012
Liu Zhenyun and Neel Mukherjee discuss the role of the writer in China and India respectively, as the two countries emerge as the new global superpowers for the 21st century.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Pete Lockett Rajasthan Collaboration
Sunday 15 April 2012
Alchemy presents a boundary breaking collaboration between internationally acclaimed percussionist Pete Lockett and 16 traditional musicians from the Shekawati and Marwar regions of Rajasthan.
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Level 5 Function Room
Nikesh Shukla - The Ethnic Writer - How to Avoid Labels
Monday 16 April 2012
Nikesh Shukla, whom the media call an ethnic writer, presents a motivational speech on how to be a writer and not an ethnic writer, unless there's a lucrative reason to be.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Susheela Raman and Pakistan Quawaalis
Monday 16 April 2012
Susheela Raman, one of the highlights of last year's Alchemy festival, is joined by Pakistani Quawaali singers for a one-off concert.
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