Waterfall Of Kites is Manasamitra’s new and exciting project, starting in September 2024 and culminating in an installation at Halifax Minster in Spring 2025. Artistic Director Supriya Nagarajan’s inspiration came from the hundreds of kite festivals that take place across South Asia every spring.
Waterfall Of Kites is a part of Culturedale, Calderdale’s Year of Culture when, working in partnership with Calderdale Council, Manasamitra will deliver a range of participatory activities. Additional sessions will be delivered in partnership with the Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield. Sessions will include kitemaking and music, responding to a shared arts tradition of kite festivals, resulting in kites and sounds that will form part of the bespoke installation.
The Spring installation will be commissioned from a local/regional artist, to represent a visual source of the ‘kite waterfall’ from which all the community kites will flow. The kites will celebrate the history, textile tradition and cultural memories of the multicultural communities based in the region.
The waterfall effect will be completed by a bespoke music and sound backdrop, which will include original work and sounds of water in its many forms.
The installation is planned to be exhibited from February to March 2025; precise dates will be available later in the year.