Cosmopolitan Carnival

02/02/2023

Chinese New Year celebrations are coming to Derby this weekend Friday - Sunday .news .food .hub_

23/01/2023

23/01/2023

Thank you Mercury News paper ♥️🐰🐲🌟✨🥳🥳🥳https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/leicester-welcomes-chinese-new-year-8060753?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar&fbclid=IwAR2k7Edgb-GAsA930Zx8689XCNjk4Ufa2TSzlmJoUsv74pokYMCqzuloeQI

The sound of drums and performers drew in huge crowds

23/01/2023

https://fb.watch/ie7SosgHTr/

15/01/2023

Check out the article in the Mercury Newspaper to find out more about Chinese New Year celebrations for Leicester and the East Midlands, being delivered by Cosmopolitan Arts

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/chinese-new-year-2023-events-8019790?fbclid=IwAR1YXpvA6VqR0OeUshHsg07PTYyfI7GXTZEggkoOPEHq5teC-nwSZCiwTjk

There will be an immersive exhibition telling the story of Chinese migration to the UK

04/11/2022

Director of Cosmopolitan Arts is on East Midlands Today from 6.30pm today talking about Cosmopolitan Arts achieving National Portfolio Organisation status - tune in to find out more

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04/11/2022

I am very excited and proud to announce that Cosmopolitan Arts has been awarded National Portfolio Organisation status.

I want to say a huge thank you to all the amazing and wonderful artists we have worked with over the years, we couldn’t have done it without you, your all awesome!! Too many to mention here

This means we will be delivering some exciting work over the next few years, watch this space

This one is for Adrian Blissett 💚 he was my right hand man and helped me get to this point. I know he’s smiling down us.

Thank you so much Arts Council of England for believing in us and giving the opportunity!!

Highlights of the work we have done over the past few years, there is a lot more stuff than this, but wanted to show an overview - Festivals, bespoke large-s...

07/10/2022

COSMOPOLITAN ARTS ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE 2022

AMANDA LEANDRO
Artistic producer / director - Quote on face from Amanda: Life is short and precious, it should be enjoyed by all without fear or oppression. Regardless of the colour of your skin, heritage, sexuality or background, we are all unique and this must be celebrated. We have to strive for equality, so we can all appreciate our time and live in harmony.

My vision and concept for this project was to create an immersive combined arts performance that embraces digital technology, to be seen in various ways. I produced and directed this piece, working to make sure we created something spectacular for Leicester. We mapped projected animation onto buildings in Green Dragon Square and used lighting to create an immersive experience, with the musicians, vocalists and dancers. This was recorded with an audience and shown online and on video walls across the city centre as part of the Cosmopolitan Arts Festival. This was then re-edited to create an immersive and interactive digital combined arts experience.

I commissioned Lisa Millett, Jafro and Mr Shay to write lyrics that tackle the issue of racism, through being evocative and entertaining. I also commissioned Richard Everitt and Adrian Blissett to compose music for this performance. David Anderson, Mike Sole and Andrew Price were the backbone of this project, forming the rhythm section, co-composing tunes and composing ‘Mission Vibration’. Hari Trivedi added traditional East meets West style on tabla and co-composed ‘Karmatic’. The brass section included Ryan West, Gareth John and Richard Everitt... this phenomenal musical dream team are known as ‘Cosmopolitan Ensemble’.

Keith Allott filmed and edited the whole performance, Andrew Gurski recored, mixed and mastered the sound and Simeon Rice who created the animation and interactive technology within this piece, all worked relentlessly to help create this magical project. Thank you to the Haymarket Shopping Centre for their help and support with this project, and Leicester City Council for their support and match funding. Arts Council England funded this project, thank you to them for having the belief in my ideas and creativity to make this happen. Watch here:

https://youtu.be/w_WjqFOO9dQ

04/10/2022

So proud of the Cosmopolitan Arts Youth Music Group opening the ‘For the Love of Jazz Festival’ in July. They created new music for this performance 💜 Thank you to the committed young musicians, their parents for supporting them, Leicestershire Music Hub, NYJO and Youth Music for their help and support and to the fantastic and super talented tutors Marcus Joseph David Anderson Niles Boyton Lisa Millett

16/08/2022

Cosmopolitan Arts delivered a 3 year project into racism funded by community Foundation Big Lottery Funding - here is the final outcome, there are 3 more films to share. We worked with 15 different cultural groups and the findings are very insightful - we also created an academic report. Thank you to all the communities we worked with, also to Keith Allott for your awesome filmmaking skills and Momodou Sallah for writing the academic report- all available on our website

08/08/2022

https://fb.watch/eNia6UR-Ve/