Visiting
Arts
India & Pakistan
Anniversary Project
FEBRUARY 1997
- Monday 3
February
PAKISTAN GENERAL ELECTION
0171-235
2044: Pakistan High Commission
- Friday 7
February
INDEPENDENCE
DAY - STORIES OF SADDAT HASAN MANTO
Although little of Manto's work is known outside India
and Pakistan, he remains one of the world's major short story
writers. The stories selected for development here comment on
the bloody period of the partition of the subcontinent as a
result of independence from British rule. At the Watermans Arts
Centre, High Street, Brentford, Middlesex, at 7.30pm. Admission
£6.50.
0181-568
1176 for details.
- Saturday 8
February
- Saturday 15
February
NAHID SIDDIQUI &
COMPANY
A Celebration of Asian Dance. Nahid Siddiqui, the
renowned exponent of Kathak, celebrates the richness and
diversity of Asian dance with a host of groups from Croydon's
Asian dance community. At the Ashcroft
Theatre, Fairfield, Park Lane, Croydon, at
7.30pm.
0181-688
9291: Box Office, Ashcroft Theatre.
HARI PRASAD CHAURASI
CONCERT
One of the most sought after artistes in India today,
Hari Prasad Chaurasi plays the Hindustani flute. With Shib
Shankar Ray on tabla and Balachander on mridangam. At the
Bhavan Centre, West Kensington,
London.
- Tuesday 18
February
EUROPEAN YEAR AGAINST RACISM -
LAUCH FOR LONDON
Launch of the European Year Against Racism in London,
organised by the London Enterprise Agency (LEntA). Business
breakfast 8.00am-10.00am. For details of the year's events,
contact LEntA.
0171-236
3000: Graham Shaw, LEntA.
- Friday 21
February
BAPS - COMMEMORATE PROFESSOR
ABDUS SALAM
The British Association for Pakistan Studies holds a
special meeting to commemorate Professor Abdus Salam, the
Pakistani Nobel Laureate in Physics, at
5.00pm at
The High Commission for Pakistan,
35 Lowndes Square, London SW1. The meeting will be presided
over by HE Mr Moeen Jan Naim, Acting High Commissioner.
Speakers will include: Prof Tom Kibble, Imperial College,
London; Prof Chris Isham, Imperial College; Dr Saeed Durrani,
University of Birmingham; Sir Oliver Forster, President of BAPS
and The Pakistan Society.
0171-323
6123: Dr David Taylor, Vice President, BAPS.
0121-414
4691: Dr Saeed Durrani, Secretary, BAPS.
0171-235
2044: Pakistan High Commission.
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