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The Weirdness of Water: an Evening with Alok Jha

Alok Jha reads from The Water Book and talks about “the unexpected weirdness of water and why it’s because of that weirdness that life exists on Earth”.

Jan Courtney and Juicy Crones – A Festival of Conversations event

Join us for a wonderful, uplifting and funny evening of conversation, laughter and literature. Manasamitra is overjoyed to welcome Jay Courtney, as our second Festival of Conversations event, to read from her new book Juicy Crones and lead a conversation about the joys and challenges of being an older woman.

Life That Has Been

A drop-in event ahead of Dying Matters Awareness Week. You are invited to contribute to the recording of our soundscape with Duncan from Manasamitra. Please bring something you would like to share, an object, poem, photograph or memory.

In Conversation with Dame Evelyn Glennie

Festival of Conversations launches with a unique In Conversation event with Dame Evelyn Glennie, mediated by Supriya Nagarajan, Artistic Director of Manasamitra

Festival of Conversations

Manasamitra is delighted to announce the Launch of the Festival of Conversations 2023, with In Conversation with Dame Evelyn Glennie on 11th May 2023 at Dewsbury Town Hall.

The Festival will continue with a series of talks, seminars and forum events that will form the basis of the Festival of Conversations throughout 2023. We are currently leading conversation sessions with different community groups to see what is interesting, exciting, infuriating or amusing to the local people.

Sounds of Dewsbury

Manasamitra has been commissioned by Beam to deliver Sounds of Dewsbury as a part of the Dewsbury Creative Town Arts programme. Working with local communities and artists we will compile a digital record of the town through memories, stories and sounds, resulting in a series of podcasts. These will act at ‘virtual tour guides’, pointing out places of interest with associated personal stories or local history.

Sonic Threads Launch

Sonic Threads is an exciting and unique new duo that will launch in February 2023. Sonic Threads consists of internationally-renowned classical Indian vocalist Supriya Nagarajan and Lucy Nolan, classically-trained harpist and noted soloist in her own right.

Inspired by Jazz legend Alice Coltrane and her love of Indian philosophy, Sonic Threads creates and performs music that is gentle, contemplative and uplifting, combining the traditions of Indian Carnatic vocals with Western contemporary classical harp music and developing their own new and unique sound.

Meltwater — Evening of extracts and talks

The Dewsbury Minster evening will be an evening of extracts from the full concert, with a talk about the beginnings of the project and the making of the performance.

Meltwater Performance

The MELTWATER performance is the culmination of Manasamitra’s ‘Terrarium’ project.

WORLDWIDEFM: SUPRIYA NAGARAJAN PRESENTS — 08.09.22

It is the end of a scorching summer and a season of festivals across the UK. Now, time to sit… Read More

Tunes & Talk: September 2022 — Matías Reed

After taking a short break, Tunes and Talk is back on 8 September at Dewsbury Minster. Featured artist, guitarist Matīas Reed

Supriya Nagarajan joins MUSIC PATRON

Supriya Nagarajan is part of the first ever cohort of composers on Music Patron, a new game-changing initiative aiming to… Read More

Manasamitra Mentoring Showcase 2022

Manasamitra is delighted to present a showcase of work created by our 2022 cohort of amazing women composers. The Manasamitra… Read More

WORLDWIDEFM: SUPRIYA NAGARAJAN PRESENTS — 11.08.22

Supriya Nagarajan presents: An incredible summer so far with a trip to Australia to work with a Tibetan ensemble, performance… Read More

Posse of Fireflies

Posse of Fireflies is a personal journey that spans decades and explores the interesting impacts of light pollution on insects particularly fireflies.

A Circle of Songs

‘A Circle of Songs’ will celebrate and explore wedding traditions.

Meltwater

MELTWATER is an immersive a 60-minute music and performance event focussing on ‘water’ as an environmental disruptor.

WORLDWIDEFM: SUPRIYA NAGARAJAN PRESENTS — 14.07.22

Join Supriya to take a meditative journey into the world of Indian Ragas as they move through the day. The… Read More

WORLDWIDEFM: SUPRIYA NAGARAJAN PRESENTS — 09.06.22

For her anniversary show, Supriya takes you on a journey into Portugal, playing back her recent concert at the Casa… Read More

Lullaby: Sonic Cradle at WOMAD ’22

Luke Jerram’s touring art work “The Museum of the Moon” to the Secret Forest; a 7m diameter internally lit sphere… Read More

Tunes & Talk: July 2022 — Maddie Morris and Lilian Grace

Maddie Morris, winner of the BBC Radio 2 young folk award 2019 and Lilian Grace Recipient of the 2017 Bernard… Read More

Tunes & Talk: June 2022 — Satnam Galsian and John Hogg

Tunes & Talk with Satnam Galsian and John Hogg

WorldwideFM: Supriya Nagarajan Presents — 12.05.22

Returning from a spiritually refreshing trip to India, Supriya discusses her latest work on the subject of Water and also… Read More

Call-Out For Local Artists – Dewsbury / Kirklees

Are you a storyteller, musician or performance artist based and/or working primarily in Dewsbury / Kirklees? Manasamitra is looking for local artists to take part in our TERRARIUM project and to form a part of our local team for more work as a part of Kirklees 2023.