Samaran

Samaran play Derby Market Place on Sunday 8 November, as part of the Derby Season of Light. It's the sixth year the festival has run, and it stretches from October through to December, billed as an annual celebration of Derby and Derbyshire's diversity and creativity.

Surtal Arts is the organisation behind it — a Derby-based combined arts organisation and registered charity founded in 1994 that specialises in South Asian arts and cross-cultural productions. The festival brings different communities and cultures together around the theme of light, embracing Diwali, Rabi' Al-Awwal, Hanukkah, Bonfire Night, Christmas and the upcoming Chinese New Year. Its flagship event, the Derby Lantern Parade, marches through the city centre with hundreds of community and professional commissioned giant lanterns alongside cultural dance and music performances.

Derby Market Place itself was created to help the city recover from the pandemic lockdown and was completed by 2021, returning to its original use and becoming a hub for city-wide celebrations. Samaran's performance falls within that window, on 8 November, at Derby Market Place, Derby DE1 3AH.