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June 2010
- Exhibition of British Asian Musicians body of work at the New Arts Exchange in Nottingham from 7th June - 3rd July 2010, as part of the Coming of age exhibition.


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April 2010
- Jaskirt has been selected to do an artist residency at the new mac (Midlands Art Centre) and Sampad building in Birmingham during April. She will be producing new work about Birmingham. More details coming soon.


March 2010
- Interview with the Sikh Channel TV, watch it live on Thursday 4th March at 8pm, Sky channel 840.


February 2010
- Two of Jaskirt's images, Neeta and Niraj Chag (from British Asian Musicians body of work), will be published in a book 'British Asian Style' by the V&A due out in November 2010.


January 2010
- Check out Jaskirt's snowy photograph of Bearwood on the BBC News website: Snow photograph (image 19)

- Filming and documenting Bangladeshi Women's resource centre 'East meets West' project.


December 2009
- Images from And'Art festival in Tangier, Morocco now live, go to: And'Art (Views) gallery

- New video section added to website. Watch videos from Jaskirt's British Asian musicians exhibition, including her talk and live performances, her documentary for Craftspace and a stop motion video.
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- BBC interview on British Asian Musicians exhibition, video made by Jaskirt Dhaliwal, Audio package made by BBC reporter Suki Padda.




November 2009
- British Asian Musicians body of work exhibited at Sandwell College until May 2010. Address: High Street, West Bromwich, West Midlands, B70 8DW.


October 2009
- Photography Artist residency with Terres Sans Frontier as part of And’Art in Tangier, Morocco. For more details go to: Terre Sans Frontiere website


September 2009
- featured in the Autumn issue of Asiana Magazine, out now. However the magazine does say I have a new book out - just to be clear - I don't! I hope in the near future though.

- I am featured in the BirminStrong exhibition. To celebrate Black History month The Drum Arts centre have commissioned Damian Brown to photograph 60 Birmingham artists, the show ends 4th December (address below).

- I have begun my PGCE course to teach photography in further education.


8 July - 28 August 2009
- 'British Asian musicians' body of work exhibited at The Drum Arts Centre, 144 Potters Lane, Aston, Birmingham, B6 4UU.
Funded by the Arts Council England.


July 2009
- Photographing Manchester Mela with BBC Asian Network

- Wed 8 July: Private view at The Drum Arts Centre, for the exhibition of British Asian musicians. Including 6 live performances.


May 2009
- Working with Craftspace, documenting Birmingham's Bangladeshi community learning how to use Pfaff sewing machines, developing their self confidence, English language skills and engaging with people of different cultures and backgrounds to their own.




April 2009
- Received funding from the Arts Council England for her work on British Asian musicians, to be exhibited at The Drum in Birmingham, throughout July & August 2009.

- Group exhibition with Bedroom Genius at Keylight Studios in London. The theme is 'Life in motion' and two of Jaskirt's portraits from her 'Bearwood' body of work were on display.

- Taking photographs of Sikh Vaisakhi event 'Nishan Sahib' for BBC Asian Network's website.