India's Children: Partition
On 15th August 1947 as the clock struck midnight, the legendary Shehnai player Ustad Bismillah Khan played the first notes of a hopeful and moving raag, as one country, at the stroke of a pen, became two.
Inspired by that moment, this multimedia project and performance explores the Partition of India and its impact and legacy 70 years on: the joy of independence from British rule, the displacement of millions in the largest mass migration in human history and the sheer terror of sectarian vio
Times: 7.15pm - 10.00pm
Prices: £12.50
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Howard Assembly Room Opera North, Grand Theatre, New Briggate, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS1 6NU
Fri 22 Sep 2017