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Saturday 17 May 2008 | 7.30pm | £7.50 concs. £5
Bali Unmasked
Balinese Topeng masked drama performance with visiting Balinese topeng masters Ida Bagus Alit Widiyana, Ida Bagus Putu Wirabumi and Ida Bagus Putu Parwita accompanied by Lila Cita.
Where
Dartington College of Arts, Totnes, Devon
See
Dartington College of Arts for directions
Further details
Further
information and tickets the from Lunar Productions website
Friday 16 – Sunday 18 May 2008
Bali Unmasked Workshop Programme
Balinese Topeng masked drama workshops led by visiting Balinese topeng masters Ida Bagus Alit Widiyana, Ida Bagus Putu Wirabumi and Ida Bagus Putu Parwita. Plus background sessions with Margaret Coldiron and Ni Madé Pujawati.
Price
Full price £150
Low income £120
Concessions £90
Where
Dartington College of Arts, Totnes, Devon
See
Dartington College of Arts for directions
Further details
Further
information and tickets the from Lunar Productions website
Wednesday 21 – Friday 23 May 2008
Bali Unmasked Workshop Programme
Balinese Topeng masked drama workshops led by visiting Balinese topeng masters Ida Bagus Alit Widiyana, Ida Bagus Putu Wirabumi and Ida Bagus Putu Parwita.
Price
Full price £150
Where
Sherman Cymru, Cardiff
Further details
Further
information and tickets Sherman Cymru website
Performance
The workshops will be followed by a performance on Saturday 24 May (entrance £3)
Sunday 25 May 2008 | Doors 11.50am | £free
New Music at Kettle's Yard
Robert Campion, Isabelle Carré, Helen Loth and John Pawson will be giving a concert of contemporary music for flutes and Javanese gender. The concert is one of a regular series of new music events held at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK.
The concert programme includes four world premières:
Three Exits for flute, alto flute and Javanese gender - Symon Clarke
Laconisme de L'aile - Kaija Saariaho
Chorales - Richard Causton
Four Studies - Robert Campion
New work for bass flute, two gender panerus and rebab - Robert Campion
Venue
Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQ
Tel 01223 352124
Contact
Email mail@kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk
www.kettlesyard.co.uk/new music
16 May – 14 September 2008 | Admission free
The Ramayana: Love and Valour in India’s Great Epic
The Ramayana, one of the world's greatest and most enduring stories, is considered to be fundamental to the art and culture of India and South East Asia and is still regularly performed in dance, drama and shadow-puppet theatres around the world.
For the first time over 120 paintings from the British Library's lavishly illustrated 17th century manuscripts of the story from the volumes of Rana Jagat Singh of Mewar (1628-1652) will go on public display.
Where
The British Library, Pearson Gallery
96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
Further details
See the British Library website for full details of the exhibition.
Thursday 29 May – Sunday 1 June 2008
Admission free
Wayang kulit performance at the British Library
Matthew Isaac Cohen will be giving an extended wayang kulit performance of the Ramayana with the South Bank Gamelan Players.
29 May 2008 7.00pm
The Birth of Ravana
30 May 2008 7.00pm
Arjuna Sasrabau
31 May 2008 7.00pm
The Abduction of Shinta
1 June 2008 2.00pm
The Fall of Alengka
Where
The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
Saturday 31 May 2008 | 12pm to 5 pm |
Admission £4 Adults / £2 Children / £10 family ticket
Lila Cita at The Colorscape Festival
Lila Cita will process through the town centre of Barnstaple with baleganjur to the Colourscape site, then play angklung during the course of the afternoon.
Where
Colourscape Festival
Castle Green, Barnstaple, Exmoor
Further details
Saturday 31 May 2008 | 7.00pm |
Gamelan Naga Mas
Gamelan Naga Mas will perform a concert of contemporary and traditional Indonesian music, including a number of outstanding original compositions written by the members of the ensemble and a new collaboration for bagpipes and gamelan featuring guest piper Barnaby Brown.
Where
Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, Scotland, UK
Further details
Saturday 7 June 2008 | 7.30pm
Southbank Gamelan Players
The Southbank Gamelan Players, an ensemble in residence at the Southbank Centre, perform traditional Javanese music from the regal to the raucous. Featuring guest dancer Ni Madé Pujawati.
Where
Gala Theatre, Millennium Place, Durham.
Tickets
£12.00 (£8.00), Students £5.00, Under 18s £1.00
Box Office
Tel: 0191 332 4041
Further information
See the Durham University website
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