Border Crossings

06/02/2023

12/12/2022

In October, the Border Crossings team held an interactive world café workshop at SOAS using conversation-based prompts and activities in small groups to facilitate reflections for in-depth collective exploration on issues pertaining to the legacies of the partition in the region and the diaspora.

We plan to have another world café in the new year in London. Details will be announced via our social media and website. However, if any schools or community groups are interested in having us run a bespoke world café session either at SOAS or on site, please do get in touch.

To read more about our work with Project Dastaan and the Partition Museum (Amritsar) read our Nov/Dec newsletter- see the link in the profile.
https://bordercrossingsproject.blogspot.com/2022/12/border-crossings-november-december-2022.html

18/10/2022

Project Dastaan - Thursday Late VR session and screening on 20th October 2022

‘Child of Empire’ VR session and screening of ‘Lost Migrations’+ Q&A with Saadia Gardezi - Project Dastaan Co-Founder
20th October 2022
17:30 - 20:30
Q&A starts at 18:30
B104, Brunei Gallery (opposite the main entrance to SOAS)
Admission free, walk in
SOAS University of London

Project Dastaan - Thursday late ‘Child of Empire’ VR session and screening of ‘Lost Migrations’+ Q&A with Saadia Gardezi - Project Dastaan C...

18/10/2022

Border Crossings and Insaan Culture Club in collaboration with SOAS SU present
Shaam-e-Sarhad Paar
Thursday 27th October
Immerse yourself in a night of desi CBorderX and Insaan Culture Club in collaboration with SOAS SU present
Shaam-e-Sarhad Paar

Thursday 27th October

Immerse yourself in a night of desi music, dance and words that cross the borders of South Asia and the diaspora

DJ ShahRukh
+ more tba
7-11:30pm
JCR
Tickets: Free for SOAS and other students/staff with I.D.
£10 for non-students at Eventbrite and the diaspora

DJ ShahRukh
+ more tba
7-11:30pm
JCR
Tickets: Free for SOAS and other students/staff with I.D.
£10 for non-students at Eventbrite -link in profile.

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Immerse yourself in a night of desi music, dance & words that cross the borders of South Asia & the diaspora.

20/09/2022

Multiverse ka Mushaira VOICES FROM THE MULTIVERSE

This Thursday at 7pm, join us!

With performers Babar Luck, Moushumi Bhowmik, DJ Shahrukh, Nabihah Iqbal, Rasika Ajotikar and student contributions, an evening of music, song and spoken word!

Between 5 - 7pm you can experience the ' Child of Empire' VR experience / installation and animated shorts 'Lost Migrations'.

Border Crossings invite you to an evening of VR, music, spoken word and creative reflection.

16/09/2022

Next Thursday 22 Sept, book your tickets!

From 17:00 to 19:00 experience Project Dastaan's VR installation 'Child of Empire' and animated shorts 'Lost Migrations'. In the Brunei Gallery, free, walk in.

Followed by the Multiverse ka !
With performers Babar Luck, Moushumi Bhowmik , DJ Shahrukh, Nabihah Iqbal, Rasika Ajotikar and SOAS student contributions.

See the eventbrite link for details.

It's free, all are welcome!

Border Crossings invite you to an evening of VR, music, spoken word and creative reflection.

08/09/2022

If you'd like to experience the VR or watch the animations our Thursday Lates start today!

Child of Empire by Project Dastaan
Child of Empire is an animated virtual reality (VR) docu-drama experience which immerses viewers in one of the largest forced migrations in human history: the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan. The film is directly inspired by real life accounts of three Partition witnesses from both sides of the border.

Thursday late VR sessions in the Brunei Gallery, room BG01, opposite the main entrance to SOAS.
8 September 17:00 - 21:00
15 September 17:00 - 21:00
22 September 17:00 - 19:00

Screenings by Project Dastaan
Animated shorts ‘Lost migrations - Sultanas Dream, Seabirds and Rest in Paper’
Lost Migrations is a three-part animated anthology which explores the memory, loss and trauma that accompanied the Partition of British India, through the voices of the colonised. Each 6–8-minute episode focuses on a community that has been excluded from South Asian historiography: women, the stateless and the diaspora.

Venue: Room B103, the Brunei Gallery, opposite the main entrance to SOAS.
8 September 17:00 - 21:00
15 September 17:00 - 21:00
22 September 17:00 - 19:00
Directions

Admission free, walk in.

More on our Website

Producer of Child of Empire, Saadia Gardezi talks to us about where the idea for the immersive film came from, the importance of sharing these Partition stories, and what's next.

06/09/2022

Join us!
This event will showcase talent and creativity reflecting continuing connections and resistances which strive to challenge communal discourses on the partition seeking to separate and emphasize difference and discord. It will draw on rich and diverse forms of poetry, music and spoken word from South Asia and the diaspora which are the foundations for alternative visions of the multiverse.

With performers Babar Luck, Moushumi Bhowmick , DJ Shahrukh, Nabihah Iqbal, Rasika Ajotikar and SOAS student contributions!

Border Crossings invite you to an evening of music, spoken word and critical/creative reflection.