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Date and Times 1 November 2023 | Event starts at 6pm
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Financial Times journalist Ajesh Patalay hosts a panel discussion with Creative Director, Sachini Imbuldeniya, Curator/Writer Priya Khanchandani. and DJ/Producer, Zar from Daytimers, featured in Pioneers: A Renaissance in South Asian Creativity.

The panel will explore their experiences of breaking boundaries and forging new paths. What does it mean to move away from (some might say "escape") medicine, law or engineering - those stereotypical South Asian professions so often urged on us by our parents - to pursue a career in the creative industries?

What does it mean to be a South Asian creative (often a minority voice) in the current creative landscape?

And how does South Asian representation and community across creative spheres help to shift expectations and forge new possibilities for the future?

Join Ajesh and the panel at the National Maritime Museum to learn more.

A headshot photo of Ajesh Patalay, who looks directly at the camera. He wears a blue shirt and navy jacket and has short black hair with a full moustache and beard with grey speckles.
© Ajesh Patalay
Portrait photograph of a woman sitting on a stone bench. She has a long orange and blue cape on, with a matching headscarf holding up her hair.

Sachini Imbuldeniya

Photographer: Mathushaa Sagthidas

Portrait photograph of a pregnant woman wearing a white sari with light speckled pattern. She is standing right in the centre of a series of colonnades, perfectly framed by the white pillars on either side

Priya Khanchandani

Photographer: Alia Romagnoli

Group of three young Asian men sitting relaxed on steps outside a grand pillared building

Zar, Daytimers

Photographer: Alia Romagnoli

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This event is part of a series of events coinciding with Pioneers: A Renaissance in South Asian Creativity, a new photography display at the National Maritime Museum profiling South Asian creative individuals in the UK today.

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