Tue 06 July 7.00 pm
World City Music Village: The Teak Project 
Europe’s longest-running festival of world cultures, Music Village, celebrates London's global pre-eminence as a hub for diversity. The 24th festival forms the centerpiece of Cultural Co-operation’s new 5-year project, World City. The 12-day event at venues across the capital presents over 300 performers. The Teak Project represents a collaboration between three of Britain’s finest young improvisers - Jonathan Mayer (sitar), Justin Quinn (guitar) and Neil Craig (tabla) – who have come together to make their own music, unfettered by the strictures of defined categories like ‘jazz’ or ‘Hindustani classical.’
Son of composer and co-founder of Indo-Jazz Fusions, John Mayer, found the instrument that would be his life at age of 16. He began learning from Clem Alford (the first European sitar player) and later from Subroto Roy Chowdhury of Senia Gharana and Wajahat Khan. He has released a classic CD, Astonishingly Virtuosic.
Justin Quinn grew up under the influence of both his parents’ past musical encounters: from his mother's work with John McLaughlin, to his father's playing in jazz, commercial, and Indian musical settings. His debut album with his own group Bakehouse was named 1 Jazz Album of 2005 by MOJO magazine.
A classically trained percussionist, Neil Craig has performed in orchestral, avant-garde and traditional Hindustani music. Trained in Latin percussion, Neil went on to study tabla under Pt Sharda Sahai. Neil can be heard on The Christian Garrick Quartet's album FLY 3 and recently toured with the augmented version of this band, the Firewire Ensemble.

more upcoming nri events in uk
Sat 03 July 6.30 pm
Book Launch/Discussion: Kaifi and I : Shaukat Kaifi 
Shabana Azmi and Nasreen Rehman in Conversation with Dr Faisal Devji

05 July 6.30 pm 
Illustrated Talk: West meets East 
Jane Ridley 
. In association with the Lutyens Trust (www.lutyenstrust.org.uk)

Tue 06 July 6.15 pm 
Exhibition of Paintings: India Revisited 
Irma Kennaway

Tue 06 July 7.00 pm 
World City Music Village: The Teak Project 
Wed 07 July 6.30 pm 
Book Launch: The Moonstone Legacy 

Thu 08 July 6.30 pm 
Talk: Chup Sadhana The Missing Link 
Mansoor 
For further information, please contact Clarissa on 07979694776 at yoga@chup-sadhana.com

Fri 09 July 6.30 pm 
Music: Sham-e-Ghazal 
Rashmi Agarwal 

Mon 12 July 6.30 pm 
Dance: A Friend for Life : (Ogo dukho shukher o sathi) 
Bisakha Sarker 
In association with Chaturangan and Mokhsha (www.chaturangan.co.uk)

Tue 13 July 6.15 pm
Exhibition of Photographs: Asian Dance Theatre: Performance through the Lens 
In association with Akademi, London (www.akademi.co.uk, www.southasiandance.org.uk)

Wedv13 July 6.45 pm 
Exhibition of Photographs: Mudras 
Carola Syz Sarzi-Amadé. Carola is also a portrait photographer, her repertoire comprising formal and informal photographs of a wide variety of subjects. (www.carolasyz.com,) Open until 16 July during office hours 
Tue 13 July 7.00 pm 
Dance: NaAsat 
Birmingham a collaborative initiative with sampad and DanceXchange. In association with Beeja (www.beeja.com)

Wed 14 July 6.30 pm
Dance: Colours of Kathak 
Nilima Devi 
In association with Centre for Indian Classical Dance (www.cicd.org.uk)

Thu 15 July 6.30 pm
Dance: MALA 
In association with Sampad, Birmingham (www.sampad.org.uk)

Fri 16 July 6.30 pm 
Dance: Odissi: New Directions 

In association with Kadam (www.kadam.org.uk)

Sun 18 July 10.30 am
Celebrating 20 years of UK Hindi Samiti & 7 Years of Vatayan 
Hindi Seminar Series: Kahani 
In association with UK Hindi Samiti and Vatayan: Poetry on South Bank

Tue 20 July 6.15 pm
Exhibition of Paintings: The Great Indian Desert 
Kiran Soni Gupta 
Open until 30 July during office hours

Tue 20 July 7.30 pm
Music: Sitar 
Dr Amie Maciszewski. This is made possible by the work of a small Indian charity called 'Guria'.
Accompanists: Paul Klemperer (sax) and Yousuf Ali Khan (tabla) In association with Sangeet Millennium in collaboration with Guria (www.guria-uk.org)

Wed 21 July 6.30 pm
Book Launch/Readings: Britain Mein Urdu Qalam 
Councillor Zakia Zubairi and Tejendra Sharma 
Published by Rachna Samay of Bhopal, the book has an informative introduction by Dr Achala Sharma, former Head of BBC World Service Radio, who would be speaking on the book. Compere : Tejendra Sharma, writer and General Secretary of Katha UK.

Thu 22 July 6.30 pm
Book Launch/Discussion: Diversity and Change in Modern India: Economics, Social and Political Approaches 
Anthony F Heath & Roger Jeffery (eds)
Speakers : Anthony F Heath, F.B.A., Professor of Sociology, University of Oxford, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, the British Academy (elected 1992) and the European Academy of Sociology and Lord Bhiku Parekh (tbc) In association with OUP/British Academy

Fri 23 July 6.30 pm
Film: Haat the Weekly Bazaar (2009, 105 min)

Tue 27 July 6.30 pm 
Music/CD Launch: Thumri 2Day 
Pandit Vishwa Prakash and Sarita 
Pt. Vishwa Prakash. Accompanists: Sahibji (Guitar) and Mital Purohit (tabla)

Wed 28 July 6.30 pm
Readings: Indian Essentials 
Sanjay Suri 
Special Guests: Lord Meghnad Desai and Valerie Vaz, MP, should be among the first to take the 'test'. In collaboration with Penguin-India