Eternal Taal with Lantern Parade at Compton Verney

Come and see the lantern parade at Compton Verney. Taking inspiration from different cultural mythologies around light over darkness, come and join us for a multicultural contemporary wassail hosted by Eternal Taal, an all-female Bhangra company.

Enjoy a DJ Bhangra dance party hosted by Gatis Gardener’s lantern parade and Eternal Taal, an all female Bhangra company, explore the exhibition, give your story to the Blue Ladies, weave a dream from upcycled Sari’s and end your evening parading through the landscape, letting go and honouring the trees.

About the dancers:

The Black and Blue Collective

The Black and Blue Collective was established in 2016, as a group of artists, academics, people with lived experience of the mental health system, and supporters. Their main aim is to challenge the stigma of mental health spreading kindness and having gentle conversations. The Blue Faced Ladies, take their inspiration from Trechikoff’s paintings of the 1950s.

The Black and Blue Collective are kind, gentle and are here to listen popping up at arts festivals, events, cafes-anywhere where people need a gentle ear to listen and a bit of a boost, leaving our friends with a little gift, an affirmation to ponder on.

Gatis Community Space

Gaits Community Space provide a safe and inclusive centre that puts community at the heart of its diverse projects, they empowering people by putting sustainability at the heart of their program through regular activity such as weekly seed swops, leftover food markets and mental health focused wellbeing programs in their community allotment.

Lead by Creative Director and Lead Artist, Adam Billington, they run a yearly lantern parade that has the aims of bringing together their diverse community in celebration, welcoming back the sun and spring, helping to banish the cold harsh winter. They run community workshops where smaller lanterns can be made by members of the public to be carried during the parade, complimenting the large feature willow lanterns made by Adam and his creative team. All of their lanterns are handmade using recycled materials and reflect the diversity of their community members.

ETERNAL TAAL

Eternal Taal is the UK’s first female bhangra entertainment collective.

Founded and managed by UK’s first female Dhol player and award winner Parv Kaur, Eternal Taal has not only set standards in the UK Bhangra industry, but has also broken through the non-Asian industry, performing to wider audiences and educating people about Bhangra music. Her love for music turned into her passion and her passion into reality, Parv Kaur’s musical journey has wowed audiences around the globe with her unique female only Bhangra Entertainments Team.

About Parv Kaur
– UK’s FIRST FEMALE DHOL PLAYER to have established her own Dhol group in 1999
– UK’s ONLY FEMALE DHOL PLAYER whose team has performed in three mainstream Bollywood films alongside her
– UK’s FIRST and ONLY FEMALE DHOL PLAYER to have performed at Glastonbury Festival

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