📅 30 October 2025
🕢 7:30 PM
📍 Howard Assembly Room
⏳ Duration: Approx. 75 minutes (no interval)
A powerful musical journey through migration, memory, and belonging.
What stories do we carry with us when we move across borders—seen or unseen? Travel Light invites you into a soul-stirring sound world where music, poetry, and lived experience meet.
At its core, Travel Light is a bold, genre-crossing production that explores the emotional landscapes of migration & identity.
Drawing on the rich traditions of African, South Asian, and Western musical forms, this immersive performance captures the tension between what we leave behind and what we carry forward on the path to belonging.
The work is led by renowned composer and creative director Christella Litras, with original compositions co-created by Deepa Shakthi and Thandanani Gumede—three visionary artists whose personal and artistic journeys deeply inform the work.
Together, they have crafted a sonic experience that is at once intimate and universal, weaving together live instrumentation, poetic narration, layered harmonies, and cross-cultural rhythms.
Each element of the performance is shaped by artists with lived diasporic experiences, bringing authenticity, emotional depth, and a distinct creative voice to the stage.
From Carnatic vocal lines and Sufi-inspired melodies to African percussion and cinematic strings, Travel Light is both a conversation and a celebration of culture, resilience, and the stories that bind us.
Produced by South Asian Arts-uk (SAA-uk) and guided by the artistic vision of Keranjeet Kaur Virdee MBE, this production is supported by the PRS Foundation's Talent Development programme.
It brings together emerging and established artists in a celebration of collaboration that transcends boundaries—musical, cultural, and generational.
Whether you're drawn to global soundscapes, storytelling, or the raw emotional power of live performance, Travel Light offers an unforgettable evening of connection, reflection, and beauty.
✨ Let the music carry you.
