Comments for Jatinder's Blog http://www.tara-arts.com/blog Artistic Director of the most culturally open-minded troupe in Britain Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:33:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on About by Rammaza Afreedi http://www.tara-arts.com/blog/?page_id=2&cpage=1#comment-580 Rammaza Afreedi Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:33:56 +0000 http://89.151.121.156/~taraarts/blog/?page_id=2#comment-580 Dear Mr Jatinder, This might seem like an odd way to contact you for the request that I have but I honestly could not see a better way; I hope I don't take too much of your time. I'm actually a university drama student and am currently working on a presentation on the development of British Asian theatre and the discussion about the extent of British Asian theatre being post colonial or transnational. This may seem a bit random but I was hoping to be able to ask you a few rather vague questions about the early development of Tara Arts and with your permission quote them within my work. I hope to hear from you soon, just in case the above format doesn't give you my email address here it is again: rafreedi@hotmail.co.uk Dear Mr Jatinder,

This might seem like an odd way to contact you for the request that I have but I honestly could not see a better way; I hope I don’t take too much of your time. I’m actually a university drama student and am currently working on a presentation on the development of British Asian theatre and the discussion about the extent of British Asian theatre being post colonial or transnational. This may seem a bit random but I was hoping to be able to ask you a few rather vague questions about the early development of Tara Arts and with your permission quote them within my work.

I hope to hear from you soon, just in case the above format doesn’t give you my email address here it is again:

rafreedi@hotmail.co.uk

]]> Comment on Multiculturalism is Dead by jessica nkosi http://www.tara-arts.com/blog/?p=145&cpage=1#comment-566 jessica nkosi Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:28:47 +0000 http://www.tara-arts.com/blog/?p=145#comment-566 need to see the interview on robertb wilson need to see the interview on robertb wilson

]]> Comment on Multiculturalism is Dead by Sabine Frank http://www.tara-arts.com/blog/?p=145&cpage=1#comment-564 Sabine Frank Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:48:23 +0000 http://www.tara-arts.com/blog/?p=145#comment-564 Dear Jatinder, Merkel did not say that attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany had failed. Neither did she herself say that multiculturalism is dead. Merkel did say that “the ‘multikulti’ approach had utterly failed” and by ‘multikulti approach’ she meant the notion that ‘guestworkers’, who would one day return home, and Germans, would live happily side by side. However, she did go on to emphasize that the onus of integration lies on immigrants - while avoiding the question whether German public policies have been conducive to their integration. She can therefore be said to have been courting anti-immigrant opinion, which has grown stronger in Germany in recent years. Nevertheless, Merkel’s statement did surely not exemplify that “Germany (has) learnt nothing from the Holocaust”. I think it does not befit the director of “the most culturally open-minded troupe in Britain” to think ‘Holocaust’ whenever ‘Germany’ is mentioned. Dear Jatinder,
Merkel did not say that attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany had failed. Neither did she herself say that multiculturalism is dead. Merkel did say that “the ‘multikulti’ approach had utterly failed” and by ‘multikulti approach’ she meant the notion that ‘guestworkers’, who would one day return home, and Germans, would live happily side by side. However, she did go on to emphasize that the onus of integration lies on immigrants – while avoiding the question whether German public policies have been conducive to their integration. She can therefore be said to have been courting anti-immigrant opinion, which has grown stronger in Germany in recent years. Nevertheless, Merkel’s statement did surely not exemplify that “Germany (has) learnt nothing from the Holocaust”. I think it does not befit the director of “the most culturally open-minded troupe in Britain” to think ‘Holocaust’ whenever ‘Germany’ is mentioned.

]]> Comment on THE IMPACT OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY ON THE PERFORMING ARTS IN THE UK by Coree http://www.tara-arts.com/blog/?p=74&cpage=1#comment-543 Coree Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:44:13 +0000 http://www.tara-arts.com/blog/?p=74#comment-543 Portrait Of The 1985 Handsworth Riots, UK- Pogus Caesar - BBC1 TV . Inside Out. Broadcast 25 Oct 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey7ijaXv6UQ Birmingham film maker and photographer Pogus Caesar knows Handsworth well. He found himself in the centre of the 1985 riots and spent two days capturing a series of startling images. Caesar kept them hidden for 20 years. Why? And how does he see Handsworth now?. The stark black and white photographs featured in the film provide a rare, valuable and historical record of the raw emotion, heartbreak and violence that unfolded during those dark and fateful days in September 1985. Portrait Of The 1985 Handsworth Riots, UK- Pogus Caesar – BBC1 TV . Inside Out.

Broadcast 25 Oct 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey7ijaXv6UQ

Birmingham film maker and photographer Pogus Caesar knows Handsworth well. He found himself in the centre of the 1985 riots and spent two days capturing a series of startling images. Caesar kept them hidden for 20 years. Why? And how does he see Handsworth now?.

The stark black and white photographs featured in the film provide a rare, valuable and historical record of the raw emotion, heartbreak and violence that unfolded during those dark and fateful days in September 1985.

]]> Comment on Multiculturalism is Dead by Robert Wilson http://www.tara-arts.com/blog/?p=145&cpage=1#comment-512 Robert Wilson Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:10:15 +0000 http://www.tara-arts.com/blog/?p=145#comment-512 thanks for the post thanks for the post

]]> Comment on MIRANDA in Edinburgh by Tweets that mention MIRANDA in Edinburgh « Jatinder's Blog -- Topsy.com http://www.tara-arts.com/blog/?p=138&cpage=1#comment-501 Tweets that mention MIRANDA in Edinburgh « Jatinder's Blog -- Topsy.com Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:04:21 +0000 http://www.tara-arts.com/blog/?p=138#comment-501 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by JonathanKennedy, TARA Arts. TARA Arts said: Blogging from #EdFringe Asians, sex and rope tricks http://www.tara-arts.com/blog/?p=138 #MirandainEdinburgh @AssemblyRooms [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by JonathanKennedy, TARA Arts. TARA Arts said: Blogging from #EdFringe Asians, sex and rope tricks http://www.tara-arts.com/blog/?p=138 #MirandainEdinburgh @AssemblyRooms [...]

]]> Comment on The Manganiyar Seduction by Jatinder http://www.tara-arts.com/blog/?p=87&cpage=1#comment-496 Jatinder Sun, 30 May 2010 08:31:11 +0000 http://www.tara-arts.com/blog/?p=87#comment-496 Many thanks, Suters. Let's hope they can reproduce the experience with their next production. All best, Jatinder. Many thanks, Suters. Let’s hope they can reproduce the experience with their next production. All best, Jatinder.

]]> Comment on The Manganiyar Seduction by Suters http://www.tara-arts.com/blog/?p=87&cpage=1#comment-494 Suters Sat, 29 May 2010 14:03:43 +0000 http://www.tara-arts.com/blog/?p=87#comment-494 Hello Jatinder I was also at the roysten production and agree totally with your sentiments- I was completely captured ,mesmerised and melted by the singers and musicians dexterity.Tremendous evening. Good write up. Suters Hello Jatinder
I was also at the roysten production and agree totally with your sentiments-
I was completely captured ,mesmerised and melted by the singers and musicians dexterity.Tremendous evening.
Good write up.
Suters

]]> Comment on QUEEN’S SPEECH by Jatinder http://www.tara-arts.com/blog/?p=109&cpage=1#comment-493 Jatinder Sat, 29 May 2010 07:56:06 +0000 http://www.tara-arts.com/blog/?p=109#comment-493 Many thanks for the response, Helen. Let's hope the 'Little Englanders' will not triumph after all! Many thanks for the response, Helen. Let’s hope the ‘Little Englanders’ will not triumph after all!

]]> Comment on QUEEN’S SPEECH by Helen Cadbury http://www.tara-arts.com/blog/?p=109&cpage=1#comment-491 Helen Cadbury Thu, 27 May 2010 08:51:45 +0000 http://www.tara-arts.com/blog/?p=109#comment-491 Thank you for this post. You have spoken what I had been thinking. The media seems to have been strangely silent, other than a BBC segment on the shortage of Doctors in Bangor. The elephant in the room is racism, not particularly well veiled in the 'everyone's worried about immigration' truism that every party has trotted out. I am worried about immigration, about our attitudes to it and about the fortress mentality that will turn this country in on itself. Thank you for this post. You have spoken what I had been thinking. The media seems to have been strangely silent, other than a BBC segment on the shortage of Doctors in Bangor. The elephant in the room is racism, not particularly well veiled in the ‘everyone’s worried about immigration’ truism that every party has trotted out. I am worried about immigration, about our attitudes to it and about the fortress mentality that will turn this country in on itself.

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