Ankur Festival Launch

Shereen Nanjiani, Ankur Chairperson and Journalist & Media Personality, is proud to launch the opening of the first Ankur Festival. The night sees the premier of Arpita Shah’s commissioned short film made in collaboration with pupils from St Roch’s Secondary School, documenting their experiences of dual heritage and growing up mixed race in Glasgow. There will be a short Q and A session with some of the participants and further talks on intercultural practice led by artists Tommy Ga-Ken Wan and Patricia Panther.

Ankur Festival is a free, multi-artform weekend event, where local artists, academics and the general public interrogate the issue of race and ethnicity in contemporary Scotland. Driven by questions “Where are you really from?” and “Do you have to be white to be Scottish?”, as well as examining the subject of growing up mixed race. A compelling range of responses, notions of dual heritage, immigration and clashes of culture will be explored through an eclectic programme of performance, art, music, poetry, film, comedy and discussion.