Eilidh Firth

The idea of A New Conversation was conceived as a platform to kick-start a dialogue between young storytellers from India and the UK. In collaboration with the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburg, in February this year, two artists from Scotland and two from India were selected to collaborate on a new performance. This has evolved as an art residency in Mumbai at G5A cultural centre, wherein theatre director Sheena Khalid, and Kashmiri poet-singer Mohammad Muneem Nazir are exchanging ideas with Glasgow-based fiddle player Eilidh Firth and Scottish writer and storyteller Daniel Allison. The key objective of the exercise is to help artists from both countries get their stories across to audiences who do not speak their language.