Events and Festival Services

The Bombay Picture Palace at WOMAD 2006 top of page

The Bombay Picture Palace is a unique and exciting new venue, showcased in 2006 at the WOMAD Festival, Reading, and is set to become a key venue / attraction at the UK’s leading music and arts festivals. Housed in a marquee (or in static venues if required ), The Bombay Picture Palace is a multi-arts venue, a "night club in an art gallery", an open venue featuring film, music, dance and visual art set against a backdrop of stunning giant artworks and sumptuous decoration.

The WOMAD project was a collaboration between Kananda, M. Ishaq, a Mumbai-born hoardings artist now living in the UK, and Spirited Events of Reading.

The artist was trained in Mumbai and came to the UK in the early 1970s, where he continues to practise his art. At WOMAD 2006 he created a specially commissioned film hoarding LIVE at the Bombay Picture Palace. The hoarding was based upon the classic 1961 Indian film, Mughal-e-Azam

During the course of the festival visitors were able to meet the artist and see a vast film hoarding take shape in front of them. On the final day of the festival the hoarding was mounted high on scaffolding outside the Bombay Picture Palace. There was also an exhibition of the Kananda Collection of classic Indian cinema hoardings and printed film posters.

On Saturday night, DJ Nerm from the BBC Asian Network popped in and played a few tunes.

The Bombay Picture Palace is a versatile concept, and can provide a bespoke platform for film screenings and the performing arts. Kananda works on a collaborative basis and is keen to form partnerships with artists and organisations.

Please contact us at info@kananda.com if you are interested in what you have just read.

Festival and Party Decor

Kananda has an array of Indian decor and props. This, combined with our collection of "Bollywood" memorabilia, printed material, "Bollywood" posters and original painted artwork means that we are often busy decorating festivals, events and parties. In October 2006 we took part in the Emerge Festival in Heanor, Nottinghamshire. Organised by the Amber Valley Borough Council and Fleet Arts, the festival was a diverse showcase of global music, dance, crafts and story telling. Kananda provided the decor, and Andy Jupp - AKA Charity Shop DJ - span the tunes.

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Indian Dancer at the Emerge Festival

Kerala music book launch at Nehru Centre

The prestigious Nehru Centre, the cultural wing of the High Commission of India in London, launched Rolf Killius' book, Ritual Music and Hindu Rituals of Kerala, on 21 September 2006. Rolf introduced the evening with video clips from temple festivals in Kerala. The speakers were Dr Janet Topp Fargion (Curator, World and Traditional Music, British Library Sound Archive), Jeya Prakash Panicker (Secretary, Malayalee Community Organisation Sangeetha of the UK), and Dr Keith Howard (Senior Reader in Music, SOAS, London University and Director of AHRC Research Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance).

The 100 visitors were entertained with Kaikottikali (dance by members of the Malayalee organisation Southall), Mohiniyattam performed by Parvati from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (London), and DJ EasyAction from the BOMBAY PICTURE PALACE.

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