Other Events of Interest

City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

26 Apr - 13 July: Mirror, Bead and Thread: A Celebration of Textiles from Gujarat.
Traditional Indian textiles, collected by Kanchan Malde and supplemented by items from the Gallery's own collections, featuring over 150 pieces of embroidery, appliqué, mirror-work and beadwork from Kathiawar and Saurashtra. Exhibits include furnishings, clothing and accoutrements and animal trappings, and will demonstrate the meeting of traditional and modern ways of life and how contemporary Western fashion has been influenced by traditional Indian design.
For talks (10 & 13 May, 12 July) and demonstrations (18 May & 14 June), please book with Rita Youseph on 0117 922 3567.
26 Apr - 13 July: Kingdoms and Cobras - Paintings from India
The exhibition of 80 paintings, from the 16th century Mughal court and from the Rajput kingdoms of the Himalayan foothills, will be divided into five themes: Mythology, Love, Entertainment, Dress and Illustrations from an Islamic manuscript.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

7th January - 20th April 2003, Japanese Works of Art: Acquisitions from the Story Fund, 1985-2002.
22nd January - 25th May 2003, The Four Seasons: An Exhibition of Chinese Painting.
to 20 July: An Englishman's Travels in Egypt, Edward Lane in Cairo 1825- 35
11 June - 19 October 2003, The Reyes Collection of Modern Chinese Painting.
22 July - 5 October 2003, Tibetan Thangka Paintings.
9 October - early January 2004, Legend and Landscape: Japanese Paintings.
5 November - 11 January 2004, Chinese Silk.

Museum of East Asian Art, Bath

The Victoria & Albert Museum

to 8 June: The Adventures of Hamza: Mughal paintings and manuscripts of about 1557.

The British Museum

17 April to 7 September: The Museum of the Mind- Art and Memory in World Cultures
22 July to 5 October: Tibetan Thangkas

The Oriental Ceramic Society

2 to 14 June: at R & G McPherson Antiques, 40 Kensington Church Street.
The World in Blue and White, ceramics from around the world from 1320 to 1820, loaned by members of the Society.

Music

Friday May 9, 8pm, Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on Avon: Cheng Yu, music for Pipa and Guqin. Also Keith Tippett's piano quintet. Box Office: 01225 860100.
May 17-29, the Bath International Music Festival has many concerts of interest:
- Uyghur Muqam Ensemble - Music from the Xinjang Region of China - Saturday 17 May at 12.30pm,
- Traditional Music of Afghanistan - Saturday 17 May at 2.30pm
- Central Asian Dance: workshop - Saturday 17 May at 2.30pm
- Central Asian Violin and Fiddle: workshop - Saturday 17 May at 2.30 pm
- Indian Classical Music - Saturday 17 May at 7pm
- Sufi Music from the Shrines of Afghanistan - Sunday 18 May at 8.00 pm
- Folk Songs of Afghanistan: workshop - Sunday 18 May at 10.30 am
- Indian Classical Music - Saturday 24 May at 8.00 pm
- East meets West - Iraqi Maqam Ensemble - Thursday 29 May at 7.30 pm
For details, click "world" on the Bath Festival page.