ANNUALREVIEW

2010/2011

Sampad dancedubPhoto: Dee Patel

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.

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.

Director’s Report

Chair’s Report

PIALI RAYOBE

RANJIT SONDHI CBE

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.

Artistic Programme

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-and-a-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 Patel2. Global Folk at Mid-day Mantra by Meg Lavender3. The Sampad Story by Vanley Burke4. sampad dancedub by Dee Patel5. In The Further Soil by Vipul Sangoi

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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.

Educationand Outreach

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 poems2. Gallery 37 : A journey through...3. Out of Many, One by Adrian Burrows4. RADIU5 Cultural Volunteer

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ProfessionalDevelopment

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 Prado2. Hello Digital3. CAT students by Vipul Sangoi4. Painting by Creative Leap artist Anna Fields

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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.

INCOME 2011 2010

Voluntary incomeArts Council England,West Midlands 260,472 254,899 Birmingham City Council 45,257 45,257

Activities for generating funds – –

Investment income 1,869 904

Incoming resources from charitable activitiesArts Council England, West Midlands 55,042 55,721 Arts Nation 8,300 – Birmingham City Council 130,697 24,303 Bryant Trust 2,000 1,400 British Council 3,995 5,000 ConneXions – 8,704 DanceXchange 2,000 2,000 Ecotec 6,098 – Heritage Lottery Fund 38,354 4,046 Performance Fees 83,337 25,146 V Inspired 49,180 –

Other incoming resources 416 296

TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES 687,017 427,676

EXPENDITURE 2011 2010

Costs of generating voluntary incomeFundraising costs 15,188 12,874

Fundraising trading – –

Cost of goods sold and other costs – –

Investment management costs – –

Charitable activitiesPerformance Programme 121,565 139,785 Education 58,385 67,899 Outreach 123,372 58,616 Training 190,904 94,913 International 143,441 36,658

Governance costsAudit fee 3,423 3,498 Legal and professional fees 30 656 A proportion of Director’s Staff cost 10,766 10,798

Other resources expended – –

TOTAL EXPENDITURE 667,067 425,698

Net movement in funds 19,950 1,978Total funds brought forward 169,981 168,003

Funds carried forward 189,931 169,981

Statement of Financial Activities

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.

sampad Board2010-2011

Directors

Ranjit Sondhi CBE, ChairNasheima Sheikh, Vice-chairMartin Connor, Treasurer & SecretaryAndy HowellElaine BenbowSuman SudAnand ShahJane LutzRoger WoodsJon CoaneAbdul Rashid

Finance, General Purpose& Personnel Sub-committee

Martin ConnorRanjit SondhiJon Coane

Artistic & Education Sub-committee

Nasheima SheikhJane LutzSuman SudElaine BenbowRoger Woods

Observers

Birmingham City Council, Gurminder SehintArts Council of England, Rachael Griffin

sampad staff2010-2011

StaffPiali Ray OBE, Director

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

FreelancersTaz 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

PlacementsIn-Hye Jeong, Warwick UniversityBarbora Urikova, European Training Services

Who we are

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

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Sampad is a registered charity no. 1088995

Printed on paper from a sustainable sourceSampad supports recycling

How wonderful to see the well deserved applause given to the very significant contribution that South Asian culture has made to Birmingham.Visitor comment at The Sampad Story exhibition

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

Creative Leap believed in my idea and gave me the opportunity and support to make it a reality.Marlene McKenzie, actor and theatre practitioner

I experienced a life-changing event!Year 7 pupil, Cheltenham Bournside School

RADIU5 has opened many doors and offered countless opportunities.Anastasia, Cultural Volunteer

[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

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Artistic Export

Artistic Import

2010 – 2011 Sampad’s 20th Anniversary Year

Number of artists & companies worked with

2009/2010 2010/2011Artistic Programme

Number of performances

Number of education & outreach sessions

Number of professional development sessions

Number of exhibition days

197

245

129

59

463

163

150

477

331

487

No. of audience attendances

No. of education & outreach participants

16,958

40,000

30,000

20,000

10,000

0

2009/2010 2010/2011

32,835 9,64712,000

8,000

4,000

0

2009/2010 2010/2011

10,396

No. of professional development participants

No. of attendancesat exhibitions

1,190

3,000

2,000

1,000

0

2009/2010 2010/2011

2,033 120,000

80,000

40,000

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2010/20112009/2010

112,345

2,000

ExpenditureIncome

Fundraising

Performances

Education

Outreach

Training

International

Governance

55%

38%

7%

Arts Council England

Birmingham City Council

Resources from charitable activities

2% 2%

18%

9%

18%29%

22%

Abe KhanAbhimanyu LalAbid HussainAdrian JohnsonAiran BergAl MacsueenAlex DaleAlexa TorloAli Khan BrothersAlison FinnAman AliAmran EllahiAnaya BolarAndrew NairnAndy HartwellAnil BangerAnil SandhuAnita BhallaAnna DouglasAnna FieldsAnoushka ShankarAntonio Ordoñez BergarecheAnusha Subramanyam

Artists and companies we’ve worked withAnusha Subramanyam GroupAruna SabharwalAtreyee Dance CompanyAtri NandyAzad Kashmir Folk GroupBakari E. LindsayBarbara WalkerBenjamin PinnockBohdan Piasecki Bollywood AcademyBollywood Dreams Dance AcademyCarl PeberdyCBSO artistsCDJ Dance CompanyCharis McNerlinCharles SmallCharlotte MartinChitraleka Dance CompanyChris CuthbertChris O’MalleyChris Unitt

Christiana GalanapoulouClare EdwardsDalit Freedom NetworkDaniel Belasco RogersDaniel IslesDanny Juan VassalloDarryl GeorgiouDave Walsh CreativeDawn JacksonDee PatelDibyendu MukherjeeDiedre FigueiredoDevika RaoDivya SharmaDJ TigerstyleDominic AdanaDorothy WilsonDr Kalyan KunduDr Saeed A DurraniDudley Performing ArtsEleanor HoadFaheem Mazhar

Fateh AliFelix AndrewGail ParmelGiddha SansaarGinette HamelGinnie WollastonGonzalo Moreno BorondoGorg ChandGraham PeetGunjan Music GroupGurminder SehintHannah ManillaHardeep Singh KohliHarikrishna KalyanasundaramHarmage Singh KaliraiHarvi MahliHina and CoHina ChavdaHindu Womens NetworkHorst HörtnerIan ParmelIan Sargeant

Imran Khan Jagdis KumarJames KennedyJames WebbJames YarkerJanavakJanette BushellJanice ConnollyJasmine CoorayJason HallJaymini ChauhanJesse BannisterJohnny O’HanlonJoost HendricksJose Forrest-TennantJoy LorraineJulia EllisJuliet RaynsfordJyoti ParwanaKali ChandrasegaramKali TheatreKarmi Bains

KarthikKatie BanksKaty WoodsKeisha GrantKeralite GroupKevin FinnanKiranpal SinghKumudini LakhiaLee GriffithsLee SkinnerLes Sparks OBELisa MalletLondon BeatsMad FlowMajikul ProductionsMandeep MahliManjeet Singh RasiyaMark AllenMark AndersonMark BallMark DorrelMark Essen

Marlene McKenzieMavin KhooMc LTMiguel OyarzunMithun GillMohinder ’Mendi’ SinghNachda SansaarNasheima Sheikh Natalie ParkesNatasha BakhtNavtej JoharNeemita DabhiNigel SinghNina RajaraniNoha NasserNova BhattacharyaPadma RaoPadmashree ChitraPadmashree Dr S P BalasubramanyamPandit Ramesh MishraPandit Sugato Bhaduri

Parul GuptaPete AshtonPeter ChandPeter JenkinsonPhil WoodPirashanna ThevarajahPoonam PanesarPrabir MitraPritpal SinghPriyadarsini GovindProfessor Gregory SportonProfessor Prabhu GuptaraPushkala GopalQasim ShahRaghu Dixit BandRairRaju MaliRanjana GhatakRanjit SondhiRatul Shankar GhoshRavichandra KulurReena Tailor-Panchal

ReevaRichard WillacyRob HewittRohit BallalRos RobinsRupinder PanesarRuth RichardsonSaadhagaparavaigal OrchestraSaijal Patel Sam ProctorSanchita PalSandra HallSangeeta Datta Sanjukta RaySarah-Jane WatkinsonSaranjit BirdiSargam GroupSarriea DiSarvar SabriSatveer PnaisarSeeta Patel

Shahbaz HussainShaji K. JohnShan BansilShankojamSharmila TagoreSharon LeaShelley KingShimmering TreeShiv Kumar SharmaShri Hans Raj HansSimon BennetSoesen EdanSohini AlamSonia Sabri Dance CompanySophia New Soumik DattaSoweto KinchSpiltmilk DanceSte ScottSteve McClean Subhash VimanSubstrakt Design

Sujata BanerjeeSurfaz AslamSurmeet SinghTanmoy BoseTara ArtsTarsem SinghTasawar BashirTaz LovejoyThe DestroyersThe DrumThresh Dance CompanyTony SpencerTrinjanTrisha PowerUlfah ArtsUpneet Singh DhadyallaUstad S Tari KhanVanley BurkeVictoria TilletsonVidha LalWanjiku Nyachae

Projects Performances

Quarter 1Creative Leap Centre for Advanced TrainingInstitute of Asian Businesses Vaisakhi CelebrationSpringfield Primary School International DayThe Lori Project at St Thomas Children’s CentreThe Sampad Story: storytelling workshopIntercultural DialoguesNational College for Leadership of Schools and Children’s Services Annual Conference

Quarter 1Hardeep Singh Kohli: The Nearly Naked ChefPandit Shiv Kumar SharmaMid-day Mantra Mother India WeekendMandolin Medleymac Opening WeekendThe Sampad StoryInternational Dance Festival Birmingham 2010: UtopiaInternational Dance Festival Birmingham 2010: The Absent Lover International Dance Festival Birmingham 2010: Abhimanyu and Vidha LalAnoushka Shankar: SudakshiniThe Tale TrailSabha: Urban JungliQuarter 2

Creative Leap Centre for Advanced TrainingDanceIntense Toronto 2010South Asian Dance project at Cheltenham Bournside School Dance Stories of IndiaArts Champions: Performance in the ParkCheltenham Festivals’ Midsummer in Montpellier Aarohan Cultural Leadership Book Launch Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children Bollywood workshopsCultural Leadership in a Global Context with Prabhu GuptaraGallery 37: A Journey Through... Bollywood Summer Club at Hodge Hill SchoolEuropean Early Childhood Association ConferenceChoreolab: Cotton

Quarter 2The Sampad Story MushairaMid-day Mantrasampad arts mela ArtsFest: KohlArtsFest: Bollywood and Bhangra dance workshops SP Balasubramanyam in concert with Chitra and KarthikTrue Sound, True Life concert

Quarter 3Creative Leap Centre for Advanced TrainingRADIU5 Arts Champions: Winter LightsOut of Many, One Journeys Book Launch, UKKalakaar: Digital Creatives with Horst HörtnerDiwali Lantern workshops in Solihull Journeys Book Launch, India

Quarter 3Mid-day MantraTara Arts: People’s RomeoIn The Further Soil India and UK Tour Diwali: Dancing the RamayanaSeeta Patel: ShringaraDiwali Sabha: GunjanOut of Many, One The Dance Show

Quarter 4Creative Leap Centre for Advanced TrainingRADIU5 Arts Champions: East Meets West at Queensbridge and Moseley SchoolCulture Day at Shenley AcademyBiting Back ConferenceMedialab Prado ExchangeLabDigital Encounters Symposiumsampad dancedub

Quarter 4Mid-day MantraChitraleka Dance Company: Maya | AyamDancing about Sculpture Sonia Sabri Dance Company: KathakboxPeter Chand’s HennaKali Theatre: Gandhi & CoconutsEastern Electronic FestivalRADIU5: The Exhibition Asha Bhosle & Shujaat Khan Creative Leap Sabha

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Sampad arts mela, 25 July 2011

Funders, supporters and partners

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

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International Writing Competition Entries