Discover rarely-seen and unusual photographs, first edition book covers, original record, cassette and CD sleeves, flyers, posters and scripts.

The digital collection of writer and fabulist Suniti Namjoshi includes extracts of novels, fables and family photographs. Digitised material for three diverse music collections: Kuljit Bhamra, a co-founder of Keda Records and renowned percussionist, a leading British Asian record label Outcaste Records and world renowned tabla player Sarvar Sabri - includes CD and cassette sleeves, press releases, flyers and photographs and musician biographies. The collections are available to view on the SALIDAA digital archive at www.salidaa.org

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SALIDAA has won a prestigious contract to develop a new website for museums in London.

The website will showcase the achievements and programmes of culturally diverse services delivered by museums across London. Spearheaded by the London Museums Hub, this new site will provide a unique window onto events and innovative programmes on offer throughout London as well as airing debates about the issues raised by them.

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SALIDAA has collected, catalogued and digitised over 3130 images in the process of preserving and publishing 21 collections about South Asian diaspora arts.

The New Opportunities Fund (now called the Big Lottery Fund) project brought together material donated by British South Asian record producers, musicians, authors, visual artists, sculptors, theatre companies, cross arts organisations, dancers and dance companies which tells the story of the South Asian arts scene in Britain. View it at www.salidaa.org.uk

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SALIDAA extends a very warm welcome to Rahila Gupta, Bhajan Hunjan, Sukhdev Sandhu and Kamila Zahno

Rahila Gupta is a writer and activist who has worked with Southall Black Sisters. Among her diverse activities, Rahila has published radio dramas, short stories and poetry and has most recently edited a series of political essays

Bhajan Hunjan is a renowned visual artist specialising in public art commissions and art education. Bhajan is the lead artist for the new Belgrave Behano Peepul Centre in Leicester and is currently working on several art education projects with Leicester City Council.

Sukhdev Sandhu is an English lecturer and author of “London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City” (Harper Collins 2003). Kamila Zahno is a consultant specialising in regeneration and economic development throughout the UK. She is also a published poet and was a member of the Asian Women Writers Collective. Kamila was also a member of the Board of Trustees of Kali Theatre

The new trustees join Lakshmi Holmstrom, Ranjana Sidhanta Ash, Richard Bingle, Shehzad Charania, Susheila Nasta and Rozina Visram on SALIDAA’s Board, which is chaired by Rukhsana Ahmad. View Trustees biographies at SALIDAA site

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SALIDAA has an opening for an administrative assistant to provide support across our current projects

The position is one-day a week and based at SALIDAA’s office in London Bridge. Work includes research on copyright for SALIDAA’s digital archive images, web-based research on related websites and some administrative duties. If you have an interest in the arts, administrative experience and are able to work independently, we would like to hear from you. Please email a cover letter and CV clearly marked Admin Assistant to Sara Wajid, Project Director (Development) SALIDAA at sara@salidaa.org.uk

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English National Opera presents Talvin Singh in Concert London ,Context Theatre seeks British Pakistani artists from music, visual art, photography, circus, dance, poetry, theatre, film etc. New BBC documentary series requires participants, Public conversation with Parminder Bhachu - Dangerous Designs

TALVIN SINGH Voxygen Monday 22 * & Tuesday 23 ** November 8.30pm

Featuring Ravi Prasad, Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin, Khan Dagar, Sussan Deyhim, Patricia Rozario* Francesca Cassio** A major new work from Mercury Prize-winner Talvin Singh, who presents his first London concert in more than 3 years. Voxygen, commissioned by ENO, explores the vocal cultures and traditions of India, the Middle East and Europe, creating a dynamic musical landscape through the union of voices and digital sound. Talvin Singh has assembled an outstanding group of vocalists - Ravi Prasad, Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin, Khan Dagar, Sussan Deyhim, Patricia Rozario*, Francesca Cassio** - to join him in the intimate atmosphere of St Martin-in-the-Fields for these world premiere performances. St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London WC2 020 7845 9500 Tickets £10 - £17.50 www.talvinsingh.com or www.eno.org/voice

Context Theatre and Sunay'ha Festival - Invitation

Context Theatre are seeking the following: 1. British artists from any background- music, visual art, photography, circus, dance, poetry, theatre, film etc.- to explore ways in which Pakistan has impacted upon their work. Artists are invited to submit proposals for 3- 20 minute exploration of Pakistan on their own work, which preferably deploys the artistic medium in which you work. Favourable entries will be selected for participation in The Sunay'ha Festival, Spring 2005 in London. See www.contextheatre.co.uk for more information 2. A Playwright writing in Panjabi and English for a creative translation of Pakistani writer, Najam Hussain Syed's Sheesh Mehal (Hall of Mirrors). 3. Theatre directors and actors capable of working in Panjabi and English to collaborate with visiting Pakistani theatre practitioners. Sunay'ha (UK) provides a unique invitation to theatre artists and the general public to explore the work of some of Pakistan's most interesting theatre-makers. Theatre makers from Pakistan will bring their work for collaboration with UK artists, the result will be showcased in a 3 day public event of dance, theatre, workshops and discussions exploring the exchange of UK and Pakistani artists. Please send in the first instance a curriculum vitae and expression of interest to sunayha@contextheatre.co.uk. Spring 2005. The Sunay'ha Festival Contributions from Pakistani theatre artists will be produced nationally and internationally throughout 2004-5, stimulating a wider debate about the theatrical medium in Pakistan- in a context of aesthetics, sociology, politics and culture. More information available on www.contextheatre.co.uk

NEW BBC DOCUMENTARY SERIES PAY OFF YOUR MORTGAGE IS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE

Is paying the mortgage stopping you getting what your really want out of life? If you never had to worry about the mortgage again, what would you do? Give up work? Take up a new career? Move abroad? Or spend the money you would have spent on the house on a different lifestyle? The BBC is looking for people who want to try and increase their earnings and find new ways to save money in an attempt to pay back their entire mortgage within 24 months. It will be a tough challenge but do you have the talent and stamina to see it through? What would you be prepared to do in order to get rid of that debt? Do you have hidden talents you've never tapped into financially, and have you always thought you could do better with your money? If you could rise to the challenge, a new BBC series is interested in talking to you. Pay Off Your Mortgage is a new documentary project which will follow eight households over two years as they face up to running their lives like a business and try to stay focused on the two year goal. If contributors manage to clear their mortgages, they will also save tens of thousands of pounds in interest payments. For example, if you have a mortgage of £100,000, and pay an interest rate of 5% over 25 years, you'll end up paying over £75,000 on top of your mortgage - meaning you end up paying back over £175,000! This is not a competition and there are no guarantees, but if you're motivated enough and clearing your mortgage early is something you'd love to do then the BBC would like to hear from you. For more details please contact Meisha Heyworth on: 0121 567 6437 or Rosemary Edwards on: 0121 567 6590 or email: Poymortgage@bbc.co.uk Please can you leave your telephone/mobile details when you contact us.

Invitation. You are cordially invited to a public conversation between Professor Parminder Bhachu about her latest book, Dangerous Designs: Asian Women fashion the diaspora economies and Professor Les Back.

Their exchange will explore the new frontiers of hybrid cultural expressions and innovative commercial economies that are being forged in global markets. At 7pm on Thursday, November 25th 2004, The Nehru Centre 8 South Audley Street London W1K 1HF. Please stay for refreshments after the conversation. Parminder Bhachu is Professor of Sociology at Clark University in Massachusetts, USA. She is a thrice migrant, being a product of East Africa, London and now the US. She is former Henry R. Luce Professor of Cultural Identities and Global Processes and also a Director of the Women Studies programme. She works on emergent cultural and commercial economies in border zones innovated on the margins by multiply-moved global citizens. She is also the author Twice Migrants (Tavistock 1985), and co-editor of Enterprising Women (Routledge1988) and also Immigration and Entrepreneurship (Transaction 1993). E-mail: pbhachu@clarku.edu Les Back is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmith's College, London University. He is the author of several books which include New Ethnicities and Urban Culture (UCL Press 1996); Out of Whiteness (University of Chicago 2001) and The Auditory Culture Reader (Berg 2003). His research focuses on cultures of racism, popular culture and the local politics of race. He is also a journalist specializing in popular music as well as a regular contributor to the Guardian, Times Higher Educational Supplement and he writes a column for the University Teacher's Union magazine Autlook. Chair: Behroze Gandhy, is one of the founders of Hindi Picture, a pioneering production company in the early 90's, producing works of diasporic film makers. She has been the producer of several innovative television programmes and films in the past two decades.

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