Asia House Cultural Programme June-August 2013

Asia House

Cultural Programme June-August 2013

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Cover: Untitled, 1987, Lance Ribeiro. © Marsha Ribeiro

Welcome to Asia House!

This summer come and enjoy the vibrant tangled townscapes and flying landscapes of the work of Lance Ribeiro in our new exhibition. Learn more about the artist from his friend and colleague Patrick Boylan and enjoy a celebration of his work as Darjeeling Express hosts two special evenings with a banquet inspired by the paintings.

The popular summer Museum tours are returning, this year we explore Burma with tours of the V&A and take a closer look at the fine Buddhist manuscripts on display at the British Library.

We also present the rare opportunity to see one of the finest classical guitarists Xuefei Yang as she presents a special repertoire, demonstrating the universal language of music.

Untitled, 1975, Lance Ribeiro. © Marsha Ribeiro

Xue Fei Yang: Credit Neil Muir

Restless Ribeiro p 8 – 10

Xuefei Yang p 7

Betel box in the form of a sacred goose Gold, wood, lacquer and metal, set with rubies and emeralds. Burma, mid 19th century. V&A Museum, IS.246-1964

Museum Tours p 13

This programme covers our events focused on arts and culture. For full details of our business and policy programme and corporate membership please see our website.

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Exhibitions Restless Ribeiro: An Indian Artist in Britain Jamil Naqsh: The Painted World

24 May – 29 June 8 – 31 August

Arts and Culture South Asian Storytelling with Seema Anand Arabian Nights Storytelling and Quiz with Wafa Tarnowska Ribeiro: A Journey of Spice Ribeiro: The Man and his Art Art Antiques London Xuefei Yang Performance Ribeiro: Friends Private View Ribeiro: A Journey of Spice Contemporary Arab Fiction The Art of the Book in Southeast Asia at British Library Arabian Nights Storytelling and Quiz with Wafa Tarnowska Burma at the V&A Bollywood Punjeet and Judy-gee Show

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Business and Policy Highlights Signature Conference: Shaping the 21st Century

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The Painted Word 8-31 August 2013 Asia House 63 New Cavendish Street London W1G 7LP www.asiahouse.org Mon-Sat 10-6pm Free admission

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Business and Policy Highlights The Asia House Business and Policy programme presents private briefings, events and public conferences throughout the year. For details of our full programme visit www.asiahouse.org Highlights of our June – August programme include:

Navigating Asian Markets A Quick Guide to 8 Exciting Economies

Navigating Asian Markets A Quick Guide to 8 Exciting Economies

Asia Trade – Shaping the Focus on ASEAN 21st Century Starting in June

Navigating Eight Asian Markets

Tuesday 18 June 09.00 – 12.00

Look out for our upcoming publication on business opportunities and cultural nuances in eight Asian economies, supported by Heathrow.

Signature Conference in partnership with HSBC

Following our visit from Le Luong Minh, Secretary General of ASEAN last December, we will spend the summer focusing on issues relevant to the region.

Corporate Membership We offer our Corporate Members outstanding business intelligence through our exclusive events and private meetings arranged by Asia House.

Contact Vladka.paligova@asiahouse.co.uk for more details.

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Networking Thought leadership

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Summer Family Events The Asia House Festival of Asian Literature presents a summer programme of free family events in London libraries, as part of our outreach programme, supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

South Asian Story Telling with Seema Anand

Arabian Nights Storytelling and Quiz with Wafa Tarnowska

Join Seema for an interactive storytelling session from NE India and Bangladesh, a South Asian version of Cinderella and her Fairy Godmother – featuring a fairy god-snake!

Storyteller Wafa’s The Arabian Nights brings together famous and less famous tales from A Thousand and One Nights, including the story of Shahrazade and Shahiryar.

Thursday 30 May 14.30

Saturday 1 June 14.30

Kenton Library, Kenton Lane, Harrow, London, HA3 8UJ

A Punch and Judy show with a South Asian flavour: Professor Patel has re-worked the classic story of Punch & Judy to reflect the diversity of 21st century Britain. Includes Bollywood music, dancing, and puppet show.

Chelsea Library, Chelsea Old Town Hall, King’s Road London, SW3 5EZ

Wednesday 7 August 14.30

Thursday 1 August 14.30

All events are free with no booking required.

Paddington Library, 45 Porchester Road London, W2 5DU

Check online for the date Rayner’s Lane Library, 226 Imperial Drive, Harrow London, HA2 7HJ

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Bollywood Punjeet and Judy-gee Show

Pimlico Library, Lupus Street, London, SW1V 3AT

Events listed are suitable for children aged 5+.

Asia House

Culture Contemporary Arab Fiction

Jana Elhassan and Mohammed Hassan Alwan Thursday 27 June 2013 18.45 – 20.00 Lebanese Jana Elhassan and Saudi Arabian Mohammed Hassan Alwan are both shortlisted for the 2013 ‘Arabic Booker’, prestigious International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF).

Both author’s work explores the complications of family life and themes of migration, memory and destiny. In Elhassan’s Me, She and the Other Women, a woman left frustrated and lonely by her marriage constructs a new identity in her imagination. Hassan Alwan’s The Beaver plots a man’s memories of a fragmented and troubled family history as he embarks on a series of fishing trips in the USA, far from his Saudi Arabian homeland.

Elhassan and Hassan Alwan discuss their work and the contemporary literary scene in the Middle East and wider Arab world.

Part of Shubbak: A Window on Contemporary Arab Culture 22 June – 6 July Tickets £10 Concession £8 I AH Friends £6

Xuefei Yang: Credit Neil Muir

Xuefei Yang Performance East Meets West

Wednesday 19 June 18.45 – 20.00 Xuefei Yang is acclaimed as one of the world’s finest classical guitarists. She has performed as a soloist and in leading orchestras worldwide including the RPO, Hong Kong and Hamburg Symphony Orchestras and in venues including the Royal Albert Hall and Philharmonie Berlin.

In a programme devised for Asia House she plays traditional Chinese music and pieces by both Western and Eastern composers.

The globalisation of classical music is largely thought of as West influencing East, yet Xuefei demonstrates how cultural influence flows in both directions. She pairs Debussy, who was famously inspired by Hokusai and ukiyo-e art with the 20th century Japanese composer Takemitsu.

Tickets £15 AH Friends £10

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Image: Untitled, 1962, Lance Riberio. Š Marsha Ribeiro

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ance Ribeiro (1933-2010) was born in Bombay to a long-established Catholic Goan family. In 1958, he abandoned the path of chartered accountancy, took up painting and, within a few years had become a successful artist. He had two major retrospectives in the 1980s and his last public showing was in Britain just three months before his death in 2010.

Ribeiro photo © Marsha Ribeiro

Ribeiro: The Man and his Art With Patrick Boylan

Ribeiro’s art was highly original and his output was prolific. Although he received early acclaim for his art he began to get exceedingly restless.

He worked at an incredible rate and began to experiment with polyvinyl acetate (PVA) paints, which as the forerunners of acrylics, are now used by artists the world over. Sadly, he was never recognised for his role in one of the most significant advances in artistic technique of the twentieth century.

Asia House is delighted to present the first exhibition of his work for over 25 years to highlight the talent and artistic contribution of Lance Ribeiro.

Private view and group tours of the exhibition are available.

Call 0207307 5454 for further information or email betty.yao@asiahouse.co.uk

Asia House wishes to thank the generous support from

The Ribeiro Family

Wednesday 12 June 18.45 – 19.45 Patrick Boylan had a friendship and association with Ribeiro spanning more than 30 years and witnessed some of the most important stylistic shifts in Ribeiro’s work. He will describe how Ribeiro became a familiar face in museum circles and cultural groups of northwest London in the 1970s.

Professor Emeritus Patrick Boylan of City University London was Director of Arts, Museums and Records for Leicestershire from 1972 to 1990.

Tickets £10 Concession £8 l Asia House Friends £6

A Journey of Spice Saturday 8 June / 22 June 19.00 – 22.30 Gourmet Indian food inspired by the paintings of Lance Ribeiro served in the elegant surroundings of Asia House in our summer supper club. Hosted by Darjeeling Express, experience a tour of the Restless Ribeiro exhibition while you enjoy canapés before sitting down to an Indian banquet and great conversation. Each dish will be introduced as it is served part of this special epicurean experience. A special Saturday night experience.

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Untitled, 1964 , Lance Ribeiro. © Marsha Ribeiro

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Thursday 20 June 18.00 – 21.00

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Join us for a special reception and private evening viewing of ‘Restless Ribeiro’ with the exhibition curators. Immerse yourself in the South Asian atmosphere, accompanied

by Indian music.

Discounts and special offers at other cultural events in London and around the UK

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Discounts at a range of exciting Asian restaurants

Friends Private View

Free to Friends of Asia House and their guests but advance booking is essential.

RSVP to www.ribeirofriends.eventbrite.com

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To find out more, visit our website or contact Sidney.wang@asiahouse.co.uk Untitled, 1964 , Lance Ribeiro. © Marsha Ribeiro

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Georgian rooms and Contemporary spaces All with an Asian twist Find out more about our fabulous venue for hire venuehire@asiahouse.co.uk Weddings Conferences Exhibitions Private Dining

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Art Antiques London Saturday 15 June 11.00

Join us for an exclusive morning tour at Art Antiques London and meet the exhibitors who will be offering exquisite pieces from and inspired by Asia. Art Antiques London brings together leading international dealers and discerning visitors, at this strictly-vetted, sumptuous summer showcase for the arts.

Exhibitors include: Susan Ollemans Fine Art, D and M Freedman Oriental Art, Adrian Sassoon, Laura Bordignon, Heirloom & Howard, Roell Fine Art and Mary Deeming.

The tour will commence with light refreshments. Each member will be given a pass to the Fair that admits two people and is valid for the entire run allowing return visits.

Albert Memorial West Lawn Kensington Gardens Patrons and Young Leaders Complimentary Asia House Friends £20

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CONTACT Mia Gulati mia.gulati@asiahouse.co.uk

Support our work and enjoy exclusive events focused on leadership, culture and business. Our monthly Young Leader evenings in the atmospheric Sir Peter Wakefield room offer informal fireside conversations with business and cultural leaders from the Asia House network.

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Museum Tours Burma at the V&A With Dr John Clarke

Friday 2 August 18.30 – 20.00 This exclusive guided tour will explore the art history of Burma through the highlights of the V&A’s important collection which are currently on display. These include an early gold headdress of the 15th century, a gilded, gem-set box in the form of a sacred goose, which was once part of the royal regalia and the spectacular gilded and lacquered Buddha shrine from the palace at Mandalay.

Dr John Clarke was the Lead Curator for the V&A Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Buddhist Sculpture Gallery and is currently Curator for the Himalayan and South East Asian collections.

Tickets £15 AH Friends £10

Standing Buddha. Teak, gilded lacquer, semi-precious stones and mirror-work.

Myanmar, Circa 1800-1870 V&A Museum, IM.39-1912

Betel box in the form of a sacred goose Gold, wood, lacquer and metal, set with rubies and emeralds. Burma, mid 19th century. V&A Museum, IS.246-1964

The Art of the Book in Southeast Asia at British Library With Annabel Gallop, San San May and Jana Iguma Friday 12 July 14.00 – 15.30

British Library curators will discuss the fine Buddhist manuscripts from Burma and Thailand currently on display, as well as showing rarely-seen treasures from the Library’s important collections from Southeast Asia. Highlights will include sumptuously illustrated Thai and Burmese folding books and lacquered palm leaf manuscripts, Javanese manuscripts illustrated in the style of the shadow puppet theatre, and illuminated royal Malay letters from the Muslim courts of the archipelago.

Annabel Gallop, San San May and Jana Igunma are curators in the Southeast Asia section at the British Library.

Tickets £15 AH Friends £10

Serat Damar Wulan, Javanese manuscript, late 18th century.

MSS.Jav.89, f.192v. Courtesy of the British Library Board.

Serat Selarasa, Javanese manuscript, 1804.

MSS.Jav.28, f.14r.

Courtesy of the British Library Board.

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