Nutkhut Partition Education Toolkit Launch

About this event

A young 9-year-old on the border, amongst a field of mustard at the height of the season. The mustard season falls between October and November and our story draws on a child lost in the chaos of partition as the aftermath of the borders settle in.

Nutkhut's Partition Education Toolkit will be launched at SOAS, as part of South Asian History Month, to mark the 75th Anniversary of Partition.

This groundbreaking initiative brings together the company's expertise in amplifying Art, Technology and Heritage to an inter-generational audience. The Toolkit emerged as a result of the company's national touring project " Never Set Eyes on the Land" and provides access to educational materials on Partition, including first-person memories, lesson plans, and classroom resources adaptable for virtual or in-person learning. It has been custom designed for an international audience with best practices and innovative programs, at a time when it continues to be much needed in our schools and communities.

Speakers: Ajay Chhabra & Partition Survivor (TBC)

Following a short introduction explaining the impetus and background to the Toolkit, Ajay Chhabra, co-Artistic Director of Nutkhut, will describe how the project came about and the importance of projects of this nature and scale, through short film clips and images followed by a Q & A.

Ajay Chhabra is a proud son of a partition survivor and the great-grandson of an indentured labourer. Born and raised in London, his curiosity about life and death and everything in between, resulted in the creation of the award-winning outdoor performance company Nutkhut with Simmy Gupta. Nutkhut creates festivals, digital artworks and theatrical moments which bring people together, under single, universal experiences.

Regisration

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Organisers: The Festival is co-directed by Sanjukta Ghosh (SSAI) and Farzana Qureshi (SOAS Library) and supported by the Students Union, SOAS Library, SOAS Research and Enterprise; Gary Hammond, Jeremy Glasgow and Patrick Campbell. The festival is in partnership with South Asian Heritage Month, the well-known month-long celebration in the United Kingdom (similar in spirit to Black History Month and other awareness months). The SOAS SAHM is in collaboration with Jasvir Singh OBE and Dr Binita Kane along with the wider team.

Other Festival Attractions:

Viewers of this free program can join the SOAS SAHM Festival Finale on 16 July when Speeches are in the Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre at 5:50 pm by Prof Andrea Cornwall (Outgoing Pro-Director, Research and Enterprise), Khadir Meer (Chief Operating Officer at SOAS), Oliver Urquhart Irvine (Director of SOAS Library) among others (TBC).

To buy tickets for the 16 July Festival Networking Reception, please click here . The reception ticket also includes refreshments for some select events over two days.

Contact email: ssai@soas.ac.uk