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SUMMARY:!Voices of Wandsworth!
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nSindh Arts & Kibo Productions present\nVoices of Wandsworth\nSouth Asian Poetry & Song\n\n\n\n\nDate\nSaturday 25 July 2026\n\nTime\n1:30pm – 4:30pm\n\nVenue\nArches Lane Theatre, Battersea Power Station\n\nTickets\n£10\n\n\n\nReserve your seat — £10\nIncludes a £5 Renard Press book voucher. Seats are limited.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhy it’s worth every penny\nNine acclaimed voices, one afternoon, ten pounds\nThis is a rare chance to hear a whole generation of South Asian literary and musical talent share one stage, for less than the price of a cinema ticket.\n\n\n\n\n\n9\nA stacked line-up\nNine poets, writers and musicians, from a Forward Prize-commended poet to the first Asian ever invited to deliver the Derek Walcott Lecture.\n\n\n£5\nVoucher included\nEvery ticket comes with a £5 Renard Press book voucher redeemable against the Third Space anthologies, half your ticket price, back in your hands.\n\n\n3hrs\nA full journey\nFrom sung Sindhi folktales through the ghazal to contemporary prose and poetry, a living art form across centuries and continents.\n\n\n1\nIconic setting\nStaged inside Arches Lane Theatre at Battersea Power Station, a landmark venue, minutes from the tube.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe afternoon\nWhat’s on the bill\nProduced by Sindh Arts with Kibo Productions, and promoted as part of\nthe South Asian Heritage Month.\n\n\n\n\n01\n\nSouth Asian community mapping\nCharting Wandsworth’s shared history and the local geographies that shaped it.\n\n\n\n02\n\nThe living art form\nSouth Asian poetry across traditions, including the ghazal, explored as a form still very much alive today.\n\n\n\n03\n\nPoetry & song\nReadings and live music bridging folklore and the modern day, from Sindh to South London.\n\n\n\n04\n\nCurated open mic\nAdd your voice. Spaces are limited, apply via sindhartsuk@gmail.com ( mailto:sindhartsuk@gmail.com ).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe line-up\nWho you’ll hear\nTap through to each bio to see the full body of work behind the afternoon.\n\n\n\n\n\nRD\nRishi Dastidar\nPoet & editor\nChair of Wasafiri magazine and a Guardian poetry reviewer. His fourth collection, Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak, followed Neptune’s Projects, longlisted for the Laurel Prize.\nRead full bio →\n\nGR\nGita Ralleigh\nPoet, doctor & author\nNHS doctor turned poet and children’s novelist, with two poetry collections and Bloomsbury-published fantasy novels drawing on her family’s journeys to India.\nRead full bio →\n\nRG\nRenu Gidoomal\nSinger, songwriter & producer\nA devotional and folk vocalist across eight solo albums in English, Hindi, Sindhi, Sanskrit and Punjabi, with performances from the House of Lords to Diwali in Trafalgar Square.\n\nRead full bio →\n\n\n\nSS\nSudeep Sen — Special Guest\nPoet, translator & editor\nHolder of the Government of India’s senior fellowship for outstanding contribution to culture, and the first Asian poet invited to deliver the Derek Walcott Lecture at the Nobel Laureate Festival.\nRead full bio →\n\nSG\nSuman Gujral\nMultidisciplinary artist & poet\nPrint, textile and poetry artist and founder of Third Space, a platform and anthology series for South Asian poets, rooted in her family’s experience of Partition.\nRead full bio →\n\nAP\nAnita Pati\nPoet\nHer debut pamphlet Dodo Provocateur won the Rialto Open Pamphlet Competition; her first collection Hiding to Nothing was shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize.\nRead full bio →\n\n\n\nGK\nGurmeet Kaur\nWriter & educator\nLondon-raised writer whose poetry, essays and criticism on language and identity appear in Cordite, Sydney Review of Books and Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal.\nRead full bio →\n\nKB\nKoushik Banerjea\nNovelist\nAuthor of Another Kind of Concrete and Category Unknown, both written while caring for his late mother, with poetry featured in Renard Press anthologies.\nRead full bio →\n\nRW\nRishika Williams\nPoet\nWrites long-form narrative poetry on gender-based violence, Partition and Sindh, drawing on her family’s displacement from Hyderabad. Shortlisted for the Malorie Blackman Scholarship.\nRead full bio →\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome and share the magic\nAn afternoon that moves from sung Sindhi folktales through the ghazal to contemporary poetry and prose — with a £5 book voucher in your pocket and a landmark venue as the backdrop. Seats are limited.\nBook your £10 ticket\nArches Lane Theatre · Battersea Power Station · Arches Lane, Nine Elms, London SW11 8AB\nNearest tube: Battersea Power Station\n\nVoices of Wandsworth — produced by Sindh Arts in association with Kibo Productions.\nPart of the South Asian Heritage Month celebrations.\n\n
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CATEGORIES:Community,Identity,Language,Literature,Music,Performances,Poetry,South Asian Heritage Month
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