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Cosmopolitan Arts presents

COSMOPOLITAN ARTSFESTIVAL

BROADCASTING LIVE on SAT 9th & SUN 10th April 2022
Watch online or on our screens in Leicester City centre

A selection of LIVE PERFORMANCES & WORKSHOPS at The Clock Tower from 12-3pm on 9th/10th April

Also, visit our IMMERSIVE DIGITAL EXHIBITION in the Haymarket Shopping Centre from 15-20 April

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A unique festival for Leicester,
combining live and digital arts

Cosmopolitan Arts Festival has been celebrating the wide cultural mix in Leicester through all art forms for 10 years now.

 

After the success of last year's digital festival, this year's event is once again taking place online, with artists' performances available to watch via Facebook, YouTube and Twitch, as well as on screens in the Haymarket Shopping Centre and at Beta X Gallery on Church Gate.

 

We also have a special audiovisual exhibition within the Haymarket Centre in Leicester City Centre, the festival's natural home.

​We have booked a fantastic line up this year of local, national and international artists, performing music, dance, acrobatics, pyrotechnics and spoken word. There is something for everyone, as the event involves many different art forms, cultures and genres.

The festival will be broadcast from 11am til 7pm on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th April, and both days will end with our dazzling 'Cosmopolitan Spectacular' finale performance, which was filmed recently at Green Dragon Square in Leicester City Centre.


There will also be a selection of live perfomances at The Clock Tower on both days.

Running order

Line-up

See below for details of all performers

Saturday 9th April
11am - 7pm

Hosted by Kevin N’cube (BBC Radio Leicester)

John Berkavitch

Cosmopolitan Arts Young Peoples Project - Feeling Good

Cosmopolitan Arts Young Peoples Project - Four Seasons

Cosmopolitan Unity Project - Punjabi Community

Jesse Wright Band

Lilly Williams

DMU Big Band

Cosmopolitan Unity Project - Irish Community (Jackie Duffy)

Climate Song: Bhavan’s Vidya Mandir Eroor School (India)

Euphoria

Ffion Rebecca

Status Trio

Sushma Vala

Climate Song: Dar Al Marefa Private School (Dubai)

Strings of Fire - Jally Kebba Susso

Helder Delagado

K9

Natalie James

Kallirroi Vratti

Darien Prophecy & The Innerheart Band

Chinese New Year - Cosompolitan Arts and Traditional WUSHU

Radio Riddler

The COSMOPOLITAN ENSEMBLE present 'THE COSMOPOLITAN SPECTACULAR PERFORMANCE'

Sunday 10th April
11am - 7pm

Hosted by Kevin N'cube (BBC Radio Leicester)

Kaviraj Singh

Kallirroi Vratti

Sophia Dady

John Berkavitch

Cosmopolitan Arts Unity Project - Somali Community

Sushma Vala

Flynny O'Flynn

Cosmopolitan Arts Young Peoples Project - We Got Fire

Cosmopolitan Arts Young Peoples Project - I Like The Cold

Sarah Bird Band

Cosmopolitan Arts Unity Project - Malaysian Community

Lilly Williams

Indy Samra

'THE COSMOPOLITAN SPECTACULAR PERFORMANCE'

Spreadbury, D'sa and Hewick

Lilly Williams

King Brasstards

Cosmopolitan Arts Unity Project - Cameroonian Community

Helder Delagado

Jada O'Neill

Dreamscape Trio

Harri Georgio feat. Matt Bury & Charlie Georgio

Grupo X

DJ KMS

All sets will be broadcast on our Facebook, Youtube and Twitch channels and on screens at Beta X Gallery and the Haymarket Shopping Centre
Who's On?

Acts

Compere:


Kevin Ncube (BBC Radio Leicester)

Bands / Solo performers

Dance

Spoken word

COSMOPOLITAN UNITY PROJECT - 5 cultural group performances

Cosmopolitan Arts are delivering a three-year project working with 15 different cultural groups, 5 each year. We are focusing on cultural differences to find out how these communities feel that they are viewed and treated, through creating workshops, documentary and an academic report.

 

We delivered workshops to create performances that display each culture within the Cosmopolitan Arts Festival, to help breakdown barriers and promote better understanding and social harmony. This year we have been working with the Somali, Punjabi, Cameroonian, Malaysian and Irish communities. Throughout the two-day event you will see performance from these communities that have been put together during lockdown via Zoom sessions. A big thank you to the Big Lottery Fund for supporting this project.

COSMOPOLITAN YOUNG PERSONS PROJECT

During lockdown and throughout the summer holidays, we commissioned professional musicians and tutors to work with a group of young people from Highfields on a daily basis.

 

The young people created songs in response to being in lockdown, one is a song with a full ensemble of instruments and vocalists and the other is a rap song with a digital backing track. The participants wrote the lyrics, composed the music and performed.

 

A huge thank you to the funders Mighty Creatives, The Leicestershire Music Hub, and NYJO you have truly made a difference to these young people's lives.

All sets will be broadcast on our Facebook, Youtube and Twitch channels and on screens at Beta X Gallery and the Haymarket Shopping Centre
Grand Finale Performance

The 'Cosmopolitan Spectacular'