F A C E B O O K E V E N T

Log on for our Epik Kuch Kuch ONLINE #SocialDistance Dancing Every Saturday in April!

Every SATURDAY 8pm online PLUS
EASTER Saturday 11th Eggstra Sat. MORNING Starter Dance Workshop 10AM

#SocialDistance Dancing during #Lockdown in your own Home!
Clear some space in your Lounge, get your fave Pyjamas on, Pillow ready and add a Chair on Sat 11th April 8pm!
Emiko Ishii of Epika Dance Troupe will show you Fun Bollywood dance moves with your own Pillow, Spoons & More! Suitable for all levels.

#Lockdown is necessary, but affects our physical/mental well-being. So we hope this online event will support everyone.
#StayHomeSaveLives

What you need:
Yourself in your best PJ's, Pillow & a Chair for 8pm Dance Party!
#SocialDistance space to dance!
Water/Your choice of refreshment - it's a Fun Dance Workout!
Good internet connection on your tablet, laptop, or mobile.

How to Join us.
Get your ticket/s here. £5 per class
or £20 for 5 consecutive classes April/May.
We will send you a link 30 mins prior to the Dance Party starting.

Recorded Infoline: +44 (0)7956 801224
Email: info@kuchkuchnights.com
Website: kuchkuchnights.com

MUSICIANS OF SOAS
A SOAS Music Showcase featuring The Sages & Aga Ujma!

THE SAGES: It is said that music is the language of the soul, and nothing could be truer for this world music fusion band. The Sages (竹林七贤), a London-based world band of promising young musicians, draws inspirations from different music elements throughout time and history. Composed by by Yijia Tu, Peadar Connolly-Davey and Gregor Bauer, this group of inspirational musicians from across the globe have earned their reputation as a talented and trendy band to look out for.
As a diverse cosmopolitan generation growing up under an age of globalization and other social changes, the band aims to explore to break through concepts such as “East” and “West,” cultural identity, and musical “genres” through both original composition and adaption of traditional folk music. Indeed the “The Sages 竹林七贤” is a reference to a group of seven literati, artists and scholars in ancient China who chose to escape mundane and hypocritical secular life and status to live in the remote natural countryside with the companionship of music, poetry, art (and wine) in search of a higher spiritual fulfilment.
https://thesagesmusiclondo.wixsite.com

AGA UJMA: Aga Ujma is a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter living between London, Central Java and Poland. She mixes her classical upbringing and folk influences from Poland with music studies at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts in Surakarta, Indonesia.
Her solo performances focus on exploring and connecting Indonesian and Polish folk music with personal stories and the accompaniment of unique Indonesian instruments. Her favourite instruments are the East Indonesian bamboo zither Sasando, Central Javanese zither Siter, and metallophone gendér.
Aga has collaborated with numerous experimental composers from Indonesia, Mexico and Los Angeles, plus London's Southbank Gamelan Players group. She has performed at Lanjong Art Festival 2017 in South Borneo, British Academy Awards 2017, Tate Modern Exchange 2018, International Gamelan Festival 2018 in Surakarta (Central Java), Indonesia Kontemporer London 2018, and we can’t wait to see her in the SOAS Concert Series!
https://www.threewheeldrive.co.uk/aga
£4 online booking required to guarantee seat allocation. Tickets are on Eventbrite and non-refundable.

Beyond Mode (Greece/Italy/UK)
Music Intertwining Women from Past to Present and from Asia to Europe - A Concert of Memory and Hope.

Multi-instrumentalist and composer Rachel Beckles Willson brings her quartet Beyond Mode to London, animating a unique soundworld of voice, oud, bowed tanbur and double-bass interwoven with Indian tabla. The programme combines music by a female musician at the Ottoman court in 18th-century Istanbul, Dilhayat Kalfa, and newly-written instrumental pieces, songs and extemporisations for this unique quartet.
At the heart of the programme is Beckles Willson's Sing no Sad Songs for Me, the composition that launched the ensemble, exploring the poetry of Christina Rossetti, child of Italian exiles in 19th-century London. Sing no Sad Songs for Me expresses the mysteriousness and poignancy of parting in death, while bringing together in music the spaces of Europe and Asia all too often held apart.

Beyond Mode emerged from musical encounters at Labyrinth Musical Workshops, Crete. Rachel Beckles Willson is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and researcher, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London. Her work is dedicated to seeking out and amplifying unheard voices - often those of women, often those of people on-the-move.
Evgenios Voulgaris is one of Europe’s leading multi-instrumentalists in traditional repertoires of the Mediterranean, and a leading exponent of the yayli tanbur, the bowed long-necked lute of Turkey. Ciro Montanari has emerged as one of the most significant European tabla players and is currently based in Barcelona, while Kostas Tsaroukis is increasingly in demand as oud-player and double-bassist in Greece and internationally, while working mainly Athens.
https://www.rachelbeckleswillson.com/Beyond-Mode/

£4 online booking required to guarantee seat allocation. Tickets are non-refundable. We do not accept cash or cards on the door.