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Regional Arts Lottery Programme

Lottery win, and
14th Asian song contest    

Newtown/ Nicholstown Community Survey

Lottery win for Art Asia     

18 years of Art Asia

Celebrations at the Mayor's Parlour

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11 April – 8 May 2002

Radio Art Asia 87.7 FM

Following the extremely successful broadcast during Autumn last year, Art Asia has teamed up with ABN Productions again to run another 28-day radio station in the city. Radio Art Asia will be broadcasting 24 hours a day from 11 April to 8 May.

Programmes will be broadcast in English, Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi, Gujarati and Bengali. As last time, presenters will include local people, specially trained for the task, as well as practising professionals.

An exciting and varied programme is being drawn up, to ensure that Radio Art Asia will cater for all tastes in South Asian music and culture. Topics will include:

• Extensive coverage of social, cultural and religious events of various communities and a day-to-day events diary
  

• Information on education, training, employment, health, immigration issues etc
  There will also be regular features such as Youth Zone, Kiddies Corner, Fashion, Restaurant reviews and Leisure.

Transmission co-incides with the Sikh festival of Vaisakhi and the Hindu festival of Ram Navmi.

Listeners will be able to ring up to request dedications, and local businesses can advertise directly to the Asian community.

January – March 2002

Radio Art Asia Autumn 2001

A Review

Many of our Southampton-based readers report being glued to the radio for 28 days during November and December 2001, when Radio Art Asia hit the airwaves! The 24 hour station was organised in partnership with broadcasting professionals ABN Productions, whose dedicated team worked round the clock to make Radio Art Asia a resounding success.

With over 40 volunteer presenters from Southampton, Portsmouth and Bournemouth, and huge support from local businesses and community groups, Radio Art Asia really lived up to its aim to be ‘broadcasting for the community, to the community and by the community’.

Many thanks to all those who supported Radio Art Asia – please continue to write in with letters of support…and those of you who couldn’t get the station, we need your views to help us get a licence to cover a wider area next time!

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