sampad's Annual Review 2010-11

ANNUAL REVIEW 2010/2011

Sampad dancedub Photo: Dee Patel

Chair’s Report Twenty years on, sampad continues to enthral its audiences and enrich their lives with cultural performances, explorations, dialogues and displays of exceptional range and quality. sampad offerings have an intensely personal appeal – as all great art does – but one that goes well beyond specific cultural, and social boundaries. Neither is it bound by geography and nation. In its very concept and practice, sampad exposes a tantalising dialectic between particularity and universality.

The Director’s report provides an insight into the more spectacular events during the past year. One of the recurring themes throughout that period is that of partnership – not only with mac but with large and small organisations both in Birmingham and beyond. Partnerships are, of course, not just a device to extract efficiency gains at a time of great economic austerity, but an essential tool to generate greater cultural creativity by encouraging critical self-appraisal and stretching the imagination.

Such tremendous gains do not just happen. They require dedicated and determined staff whose knowledge, skills and attributes complement each other, and whose understanding of the context is as developed as their familiarity with detail. sampad is indeed fortunate to have a such a high performing team and the Board remains truly grateful to each one of them.

The sampad story is now poised to enter its third decade with fresh ambition, creative energy and inexhaustible talent.

RANJIT SONDHI CBE

Director’s Report 2010 was a year of significant developments and milestones for sampad.

We celebrated our 20 year anniversary and the organisation relocated back to mac as its operational base after 18 months of temporary accommodation during the mac /sampad building project. The building opened to the public with an impressive 30,000 visitors in the first weekend of May. Professional development for artists, young people, and cultural leaders continued with projects like RADIU5, DanceIntense and Creative Leap positioning sampad as an exemplar organisation for South Asian arts with a lead role in introducing digital technology to the sector.

Our international profile increased with the commission of the Indo-UK collaborative production In the Further Soil which opened during the Commonwealth Games and toured three cities in India. Supported generously by the British Council, Birmingham University and Indian Council for Cultural Relations the show received huge appreciation from audiences and media in India before touring to capacity houses in the UK in autumn 2010.

Looking ahead we will continue to consolidate our partnership with mac and organisations regionally to create local and international opportunities for British artists working across art forms and cultural boundaries. We are grateful for funding support from the Arts Council and Birmingham City Council and I acknowledge the tremendous contribution made by the staff team and Board of sampad to ensure the organisation is serving the exciting aspirations of a 21st century world.

PIALI RAY OBE

Artistic Programme In celebration of our 20th anniversary, and our return home to the newly renovated mac, we produced The Sampad Story, a photographic exhibition and accompanying book charting the journey of South Asian arts in Birmingham. It was on display at mac from 1 May – 30 August and had a staggering 54,000 visitors. It has also been displayed in part at the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and at The Southbank Centre during its Alchemy festival. The project was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

We held our first sampad arts mela at mac in July, bringing together the communities of Birmingham to enjoy free South Asian arts performances and workshops from the best local artists. Nearly 7,000 people attended and as part of the London 2012 Open Weekend, visitors took part in a ‘Chance to Dance Challenge’ to learn and perform a Bollywood dance routine.

In The Further Soil, a new international dance and music theatre production with artists from the UK and India toured both countries during the Commonwealth Games as part of People Dancing, part of the West Midlands’ Culture Programme for London 2012. Young people took part in accompanying workshops, including disadvantaged children from the Dharavi slum in Mumbai.

1

2

3

4

5

Mid-day Mantra, a partnership project with Symphony Hall, provided 11 free South Asian music concerts on monthly Saturday afternoons in the Cafe bar. So far, this consistently popular series has been enjoyed by nearly 2000 people, introducing a plethora of diverse musical styles, genres and sounds to a new and appreciative audience.

In March, over 70 dancers descended on The New Art Gallery Walsall for sampad dancedub, a new digital dance project. Choreographed by Kali Chandrasegaram, the participants were filmed dancing around the gallery, to produce a four-anda-half minute film in just one take. The film, part of Arts Nation West Midlands, features local dancers of all ages, dance styles and levels of experience from classical Indian dance to flamenco. Watch it on YouTube – search ‘sampad dancedub’.

1. sampad arts mela by Dee Patel 2. Global Folk at Mid-day Mantra by Meg Lavender 3. The Sampad Story by Vanley Burke 4. sampad dancedub by Dee Patel 5. In The Further Soil by Vipul Sangoi

Education and Outreach Out of Many, One brought together 20 schools and youth groups from diverse communities across Birmingham for a performance at Town Hall Birmingham to celebrate sampad’s 20th anniversary. Throughout October and November, professional artists led workshops with nearly 200 children and young people in dance, music, animation and storytelling. The project aimed to improve community cohesion and increase cultural awareness, acceptance and understanding.

RADIU5 offered creative opportunities for 16 – 24 year olds within a five-mile radius of our base at mac. We provided over 100 Cultural Volunteers with 1800 volunteer hours at arts events and activities across Birmingham. The group produced an interactive digital map of cultural activity in the area for an exhibition at mac, lead creative workshops, volunteered at events and developed skills in photography, film-making, writing, performing and event organisation.

1

2

3

4

It supported participants on their way to achieving 8 Gold, 5 Silver and 3 Bronze Arts Awards. RADIU5 was funded by mygames and Vinspired.

A journey through... was a month long project for Gallery 37 with young people who have faced barriers to further training and education. Inspired by The Sampad Story exhibition 7 Apprentice Artists used photography, film and dance to create a site-specific performance and short film which explored the new mac using elements of Parkour and Free Running with contemporary dance. It enabled participants to improve their confidence, fitness, technical skills and supported them to achieve accredited Bronze Arts Awards.

As Arts Champions for Hall Green, CBSO and sampad produced Winter Lights an intergenerational creative project which celebrated winter festivals in all the different faiths. Artists from both companies worked with the Hindu Women’s Network and Year 5 children from St Ambrose Barlow Catholic Primary School for six weeks, leading workshops in music, singing, rangoli and lantern making to produce a joint final performance at St Ambrose Barlow RC Church.

We published Journeys a collection of short stories and poems from our international writing competition at the Birmingham Book Festival in October. The competition attracted over 500 entries from around the world from writers from or connected to the South Asian diaspora – from Birmingham to Kolkata, Australia to Nigeria.

The book launched in India in December with support from The British Council.

1. Journeys collection of short stories and poems 2. Gallery 37 : A journey through...

3. Out of Many, One by Adrian Burrows 4. RADIU5 Cultural Volunteer

Professional Development Creative Leap enabled new and emerging artists to kick-start a career in the creative sector.

It was led by sampad in partnership with The Drum and funded by Birmingham City Council and Birmingham Cultural Partnership via the Working Neighbourhoods Fund to develop a diverse pool of artists living or working in the four priority areas of Erdington, Hodge Hill, Ladywood and Perry Barr. Eleven individual artists and four small arts companies – 28 artists in total - created and showcased 14 new pieces of work including dance, theatre, visual art, and film. The work was shown in 34 venues around Birmingham with audiences of over 21,000 and the artists delivered a programme of 64 workshops involving local communities.

DanceIntense 2010 provided intensive training for 22 emerging South Asian dancers with master teachers from around the world.

The two-week course was held at York University in Toronto and is part of an ongoing partnership between sampad and Canadian company SAMPRADAYA Dance Creations. It provides dancers with professional development training to pursue a career as a dancer or choreographer, increases opportunities for commissioning, performing and producing and develops intercultural and international practice by bringing together teachers and participants from Canada, USA, UK, Europe and India.

We continue to support outstanding young dancers through the UK’s only South Asian Centre for Advanced Training (CAT), run in partnership with DanceXchange (dx). It offers world class training in Kathak and Bharatanatyam dance with the aim of promoting opportunities for exceptionally talented students aged 11 to 18 and helping them to develop a sustainable career within the industry.

1

2

3

12 students successfully completed the 2009/2010 academic year in July, rising to 18 students in September for 2010/2011.

Our ExchangeLab with Medialab Prado in Madrid started in March. MLP is a leader in the field of interdisciplinary work between artists, computer programmers, designers and engineers. We aim to undertake 15 two-week placements in total to research how the South Asian arts sector can better engage with digital technology.

We hosted two insightful Aahoran Cultural Leadership events: Kalakaar, Digital Creatives with Horst Hörtner director of Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz Austria (part of Hello Digital), and Leadership in a Global Context with professor Prabhu Guptara from UBS Bank in Zurich, Switzerland. Themes included technology, global trends, and shifting world economies.

1. Jugando con Numeros at Medialab Prado 2. Hello Digital 3. CAT students by Vipul Sangoi 4. Painting by Creative Leap artist Anna Fields

4

Statement of Financial Activities INCOME Voluntary income Arts Council England,West Midlands Birmingham City Council Activities for generating funds Investment income Incoming resources from charitable activities Arts Council England, West Midlands Arts Nation Birmingham City Council Bryant Trust British Council ConneXions DanceXchange Ecotec Heritage Lottery Fund Performance Fees V Inspired Other incoming resources TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES EXPENDITURE Costs of generating voluntary income Fundraising costs

2011 2010 260,472 45,257

254,899 45,257

– – 1,869 904 55,042 55,721 8,300 – 130,697 24,303 2,000 1,400 3,995 5,000 – 8,704 2,000 2,000 6,098 – 38,354 4,046 83,337 25,146 49,180 – 416 296 687,017

427,676

2011 2010 15,188

12,874

Fundraising trading

– –

Cost of goods sold and other costs

– –

Investment management costs – – Charitable activities Performance Programme Education Outreach Training International Governance costs Audit fee Legal and professional fees A proportion of Director’s Staff cost Other resources expended TOTAL EXPENDITURE

121,565 139,785 58,385 67,899 123,372 58,616 190,904 94,913 143,441 36,658 3,423 3,498 30 656 10,766 10,798 – – 667,067

425,698

Net movement in funds Total funds brought forward

19,950 169,981

1,978 168,003

Funds carried forward

189,931 169,981

Auditors: Bissell and Brown. Trustees travel expenses amounting to £252 were paid in the year.

Surplus will be restricted for education and fundraising activities in 2011-2012 taking into account reduced core income.

Who we are sampad Board 2010-2011

sampad staff 2010-2011

Directors

Staff

Ranjit Sondhi CBE, Chair Nasheima Sheikh, Vice-chair Martin Connor, Treasurer & Secretary Andy Howell Elaine Benbow Suman Sud Anand Shah Jane Lutz Roger Woods Jon Coane Abdul Rashid

Piali Ray OBE, Director

Finance, General Purpose & Personnel Sub-committee Martin Connor Ranjit Sondhi Jon Coane Artistic & Education Sub-committee Nasheima Sheikh Jane Lutz Suman Sud Elaine Benbow Roger Woods Observers Birmingham City Council, Gurminder Sehint Arts Council of England, Rachael Griffin

Clayton Shaw, Operations Manager Jan Bessent, Finance & Management Administrator Buzby Bywater, Special Projects & Admin Officer Urmala Jassal, Programme Manager Anne Cockitt, Arts Programme Co-ordinator Sharan Sandhu, Arts Project Co-ordinator (left 18 February 2011) Kavita Walia, Arts Project Co-ordinator (started 12 April 2010) Tiffany Adams, Education & Participatory Arts Co-ordinator Lorna Hirst, Marketing & PR Officer Pat Dawson, Professional Development Project Officer Freelancers Taz Bashir, Youth Culture Co-ordinator Janette Bushell, Project Manager Juliet Raynsford, Youth Culture Co-ordinator Abidh Khan, Youth Culture Co-ordinator Rupi Lal, Marketing Consultant Mary Rahman, PR Consultant Jose Forrest-Tennant, Project Manager Kevin Isaacs, Business Consultant Placements In-Hye Jeong, Warwick University Barbora Urikova, European Training Services

How wonderful to see the well deserved applause given to the very significant contribution that South Asian culture has made to Birmingham.

RADIU5 has opened many doors and offered countless opportunities.

Anastasia, Cultural Volunteer

Visitor comment at The Sampad Story exhibition

[sampad] expect excellence and you wouldn’t expect anything less when you go to see one of their shows.

Visitor comment at sampad arts mela

Creative Leap believed in my idea and gave me the opportunity and support to make it a reality.

Marlene McKenzie, actor and theatre practitioner

The project made the girls believe in themselves, made them confident and increased motivation and desire to do more of the creative activities.

Member of staff from The Naseby Centre, Alum Rock on Out of Many, One

I experienced a life-changing event!

Year 7 pupil, Cheltenham Bournside School

Sampad South Asian Arts c/o mac Cannon Hill Park Birmingham B12 9QH t 0121 446 3260 e info@sampad.org.uk w www.sampad.org.uk Follow us online Sampad is a registered charity no. 1088995 Printed on paper from a sustainable source Sampad supports recycling

2010 – 2011 Sampad’s 20th Anniversary Year Projects

Performances

Quarter 1 Creative Leap Centre for Advanced Training Institute of Asian Businesses Vaisakhi Celebration Springfield Primary School International Day The Lori Project at St Thomas Children’s Centre The Sampad Story: storytelling workshop Intercultural Dialogues National College for Leadership of Schools and Children’s Services Annual Conference

Quarter 2 Creative Leap Centre for Advanced Training DanceIntense Toronto 2010 South Asian Dance project at Cheltenham Bournside School Dance Stories of India Arts Champions: Performance in the Park Cheltenham Festivals’ Midsummer in Montpellier Aarohan Cultural Leadership Book Launch Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children Bollywood workshops Cultural Leadership in a Global Context with Prabhu Guptara Gallery 37: A Journey Through...

Bollywood Summer Club at Hodge Hill School European Early Childhood Association Conference Choreolab: Cotton

Quarter 3 Creative Leap Centre for Advanced Training RADIU5 Arts Champions: Winter Lights Out of Many, One Journeys Book Launch, UK Kalakaar: Digital Creatives with Horst Hörtner Diwali Lantern workshops in Solihull Journeys Book Launch, India

Quarter 4 Creative Leap Centre for Advanced Training RADIU5 Arts Champions: East Meets West at Queensbridge and Moseley School Culture Day at Shenley Academy Biting Back Conference Medialab Prado ExchangeLab Digital Encounters Symposium sampad dancedub

Artistic Programme

Quarter 1 Hardeep Singh Kohli: The Nearly Naked Chef Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma Mid-day Mantra Mother India Weekend Mandolin Medley mac Opening Weekend The Sampad Story International Dance Festival Birmingham 2010: Utopia International Dance Festival Birmingham 2010: The Absent Lover International Dance Festival Birmingham 2010: Abhimanyu and Vidha Lal Anoushka Shankar: Sudakshini The Tale Trail Sabha: Urban Jungli

Quarter 2 The Sampad Story Mushaira Mid-day Mantra sampad arts mela ArtsFest: Kohl ArtsFest: Bollywood and Bhangra dance workshops SP Balasubramanyam in concert with Chitra and Karthik True Sound, True Life concert

Quarter 3 Mid-day Mantra Tara Arts: People’s Romeo In The Further Soil India and UK Tour Diwali: Dancing the Ramayana Seeta Patel: Shringara Diwali Sabha: Gunjan Out of Many, One The Dance Show

2009/2010 2010/2011

197

Number of artists & companies worked with

245 59

Number of performances

129 Number of education & outreach sessions

463 477 163

Number of professional development sessions

331 150

Number of exhibition days

487

No. of audience attendances

No. of education & outreach participants 32,835

40,000 30,000 20,000

12,000

16,958

8,000 4,000

10,000 0

Quarter 4 Mid-day Mantra Chitraleka Dance Company: Maya | Ayam Dancing about Sculpture Sonia Sabri Dance Company: Kathakbox Peter Chand’s Henna Kali Theatre: Gandhi & Coconuts Eastern Electronic Festival RADIU5: The Exhibition Asha Bhosle & Shujaat Khan Creative Leap Sabha

0 2009/2010

2010/2011

2009/2010

No. of professional development participants 1,190

2010/2011

No. of attendances at exhibitions

2,033

3,000 2,000

10,396

9,647

112,345

120,000 80,000

1,000

40,000

0

0 2009/2010

2010/2011

2,000 2009/2010

Income

2010/2011

Expenditure

2% 2%

22% 38% 55%

18%

Fundraising Performances

9%

Education Outreach

Arts Council England Birmingham City Council

7%

Resources from charitable activities

Training

29%

International

18%

Governance

Artistic Export Canada India Spain

Artistic Import Africa, Australia, Austria, Greece, India, Nepal, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Switzerland, USA

Sampad arts mela, 25 July 2011

International Writing Competition Entries Not to scale

Artists and companies we’ve worked with Abe Khan Abhimanyu Lal Abid Hussain Adrian Johnson Airan Berg Al Macsueen Alex Dale Alexa Torlo Ali Khan Brothers Alison Finn Aman Ali Amran Ellahi Anaya Bolar Andrew Nairn Andy Hartwell Anil Banger Anil Sandhu Anita Bhalla Anna Douglas Anna Fields Anoushka Shankar Antonio Ordoñez Bergareche Anusha Subramanyam

Anusha Subramanyam Group Aruna Sabharwal Atreyee Dance Company Atri Nandy Azad Kashmir Folk Group Bakari E. Lindsay Barbara Walker Benjamin Pinnock Bohdan Piasecki Bollywood Academy Bollywood Dreams Dance Academy Carl Peberdy CBSO artists CDJ Dance Company Charis McNerlin Charles Small Charlotte Martin Chitraleka Dance Company Chris Cuthbert Chris O’Malley Chris Unitt

Christiana Galanapoulou Clare Edwards Dalit Freedom Network Daniel Belasco Rogers Daniel Isles Danny Juan Vassallo Darryl Georgiou Dave Walsh Creative Dawn Jackson Dee Patel Dibyendu Mukherjee Diedre Figueiredo Devika Rao Divya Sharma DJ Tigerstyle Dominic Adana Dorothy Wilson Dr Kalyan Kundu Dr Saeed A Durrani Dudley Performing Arts Eleanor Hoad Faheem Mazhar

Fateh Ali Felix Andrew Gail Parmel Giddha Sansaar Ginette Hamel Ginnie Wollaston Gonzalo Moreno Borondo Gorg Chand Graham Peet Gunjan Music Group Gurminder Sehint Hannah Manilla Hardeep Singh Kohli Harikrishna Kalyanasundaram Harmage Singh Kalirai Harvi Mahli Hina and Co Hina Chavda Hindu Womens Network Horst Hörtner Ian Parmel Ian Sargeant

Imran Khan Jagdis Kumar James Kennedy James Webb James Yarker Janavak Janette Bushell Janice Connolly Jasmine Cooray Jason Hall Jaymini Chauhan Jesse Bannister Johnny O’Hanlon Joost Hendricks Jose Forrest-Tennant Joy Lorraine Julia Ellis Juliet Raynsford Jyoti Parwana Kali Chandrasegaram Kali Theatre Karmi Bains

Karthik Katie Banks Katy Woods Keisha Grant Keralite Group Kevin Finnan Kiranpal Singh Kumudini Lakhia Lee Griffiths Lee Skinner Les Sparks OBE Lisa Mallet London Beats Mad Flow Majikul Productions Mandeep Mahli Manjeet Singh Rasiya Mark Allen Mark Anderson Mark Ball Mark Dorrel Mark Essen

Marlene McKenzie Mavin Khoo Mc LT Miguel Oyarzun Mithun Gill Mohinder ’Mendi’ Singh Nachda Sansaar Nasheima Sheikh Natalie Parkes Natasha Bakht Navtej Johar Neemita Dabhi Nigel Singh Nina Rajarani Noha Nasser Nova Bhattacharya Padma Rao Padmashree Chitra Padmashree Dr S P Balasubramanyam Pandit Ramesh Mishra Pandit Sugato Bhaduri

Parul Gupta Pete Ashton Peter Chand Peter Jenkinson Phil Wood Pirashanna Thevarajah Poonam Panesar Prabir Mitra Pritpal Singh Priyadarsini Govind Professor Gregory Sporton Professor Prabhu Guptara Pushkala Gopal Qasim Shah Raghu Dixit Band Rair Raju Mali Ranjana Ghatak Ranjit Sondhi Ratul Shankar Ghosh Ravichandra Kulur Reena Tailor-Panchal

Reeva Richard Willacy Rob Hewitt Rohit Ballal Ros Robins Rupinder Panesar Ruth Richardson Saadhagaparavaigal Orchestra Saijal Patel Sam Proctor Sanchita Pal Sandra Hall Sangeeta Datta Sanjukta Ray Sarah-Jane Watkinson Saranjit Birdi Sargam Group Sarriea Di Sarvar Sabri Satveer Pnaisar Seeta Patel

Shahbaz Hussain Shaji K. John Shan Bansil Shankojam Sharmila Tagore Sharon Lea Shelley King Shimmering Tree Shiv Kumar Sharma Shri Hans Raj Hans Simon Bennet Soesen Edan Sohini Alam Sonia Sabri Dance Company Sophia New Soumik Datta Soweto Kinch Spiltmilk Dance Ste Scott Steve McClean Subhash Viman Substrakt Design

Sujata Banerjee Surfaz Aslam Surmeet Singh Tanmoy Bose Tara Arts Tarsem Singh Tasawar Bashir Taz Lovejoy The Destroyers The Drum Thresh Dance Company Tony Spencer Trinjan Trisha Power Ulfah Arts Upneet Singh Dhadyalla Ustad S Tari Khan Vanley Burke Victoria Tilletson Vidha Lal Wanjiku Nyachae

Funders, supporters and partners

design davewalshcreative.co.uk