Staff (part-time) and Volunteers
Andy Buchanan
Andy Buchanan has over 40 years experience and expertise promoting South Asian Dance, amongst other art forms. He has programmed leading South Asian dancers and musicians from all over the UK, India, Pakistan, and the US in the UK. He has promoted all kinds of South Asian Dance companies and dancers, eg Bharatanatyan, Kathak, Bollywood, Odissi, Kuchipudi, Kathakali, and bhangra by their leading exponents in the UK. This includes performances by UK based dancers from Shobana Jeyasingh’s company, Akram Khan, Nahid Sadiqui, Nina Rajarani, Vidya Patel, and many more.
He has many years experience promoting South Asian music, from classical concerts by internationally celebrated artists from India and Pakistan, to British Asian artists such as Nitin Sawhney, to radical hip hop crew ‘Fun-Da-Mental, whose strong political stance has led to the group earning the label "the Asian Public Enemy." He has also promoted Urdu poets reading in Urdu and exhibitions of work by South Asian visual artists. He works part-time behind the scenes on Kala's Marketing & Development.
Rajeev Singh
Rajeev Singh is an IT architect and Senior Consultant currently working with IBM UK. He has more than two decades of IT experience working with top consulting organisations within the IT sector. He has worked with most of the high street UK Banking organisations as design authority, architect, technical manager within Finance, Retail Banking, UK Government and Insurance domains. Rajeev has worked with UK Government departments like DWP on critical programs like Universal Credit transforming the UK benefit system.
Rajeev works closely within Kala to support IT and digital day to day activities. He has been instrumental in advising on managing digital media lifecycle and how to adopt best practices within the organisation to help capitalise benefits. He has been helping with social media adoption and supports orchestrating day to events across the geographies as and when required.
He believes that any Artform should be part of social fabric and could help in building social harmony. Kala has a role to play and it could help bring closer different communities using digital and social tools.
Rajeev Singh is an IT architect and Senior Consultant currently working with IBM UK. He has more than two decades of IT experience working with top consulting organisations within the IT sector. He has worked with most of the high street UK Banking organisations as design authority, architect, technical manager within Finance, Retail Banking, UK Government and Insurance domains. Rajeev has worked with UK Government departments like DWP on critical programs like Universal Credit transforming the UK benefit system.
Rajeev works closely within Kala to support IT and digital day to day activities. He has been instrumental in advising on managing digital media lifecycle and how to adopt best practices within the organisation to help capitalise benefits. He has been helping with social media adoption and supports orchestrating day to events across the geographies as and when required.
He believes that any Artform should be part of social fabric and could help in building social harmony. Kala has a role to play and it could help bring closer different communities using digital and social tools.
Helen Pritchard (video creator)
“I have a passion for creating videos and thoroughly enjoy working within the arts. Working with Kala has been very enjoyable and I love how we can create pieces that will help tell a story to an audience. My passion for video started when I was very young and I have worked both within television and online web content for many years during my career. My company Orchid Digital was set up in 2012 and I now have the chance to further continue my love of filming and editing. I hope to continue developing my skills to create new artistic videos that will highlight and educate people.” Looking for camera confidence? Check out our latest video https://youtu.be/m4H1k-zzYXY
“I have a passion for creating videos and thoroughly enjoy working within the arts. Working with Kala has been very enjoyable and I love how we can create pieces that will help tell a story to an audience. My passion for video started when I was very young and I have worked both within television and online web content for many years during my career. My company Orchid Digital was set up in 2012 and I now have the chance to further continue my love of filming and editing. I hope to continue developing my skills to create new artistic videos that will highlight and educate people.” Looking for camera confidence? Check out our latest video https://youtu.be/m4H1k-zzYXY
Katherine George