Kala Sangam will close to the public on 22 December 2023 and tickets are now on sale for the first events of an 18-month programme of performances at venues across the Bradford district while the company’s Arts Centre undergoes a major redevelopment. Beginning at Keighley Creative with a new play Read more…
We are excited to announce a new commission for work in or incorporating Indian classical performance artforms – The Kala Sangam Commission. To mark 30 years of Kala Sangam supporting Indian classical artists in the UK, we are launching a bi-annual commission, offering artists £10,000 to develop a new piece Read more…
Kala Sangam and Jaivant Patel Company are delighted to announce the first recipients of the Samānatā: South Asian Queer Performance Seed Commissions are Nikhita Devi and Mithun Gill. Nikhita and Mithun will each receive £1250 along with a week of studio time and mentoring support to develop their projects. Nikhita Read more…
Jaivant Patel Company, Wolverhampton and Kala Sangam, Bradford are offering seed commissions to 2 South Asian LGBTQIA+ identifying artists/creatives to support the development of innovative new performance-based work. Samānatā translates as equality. Seed commission applications for this performance-based work will place South Asian Queerness at the forefront of its subject Read more…
Following a competitive tender process, we are delighted to announce that we have appointed The Audience Agency to deliver the evaluation for our Capital and Arts & Heritage Project. Creative Director, Alex Croft said, ‘We are really excited to be working with the Audience Agency to evaluate the impact our Read more…
In May 2022 we announced our intention to find a new name for Kala Sangam. Since their appointment in August 2022, our agency partners Out of Place have been hard at work delivering an engagement programme that has seen hundreds of people feed into this rebranding process. Over several months, Read more…