Kàlai Kàviri Collegiate Arts

(Registered Charity No: 1109544, Company No: 5448518)
is the Trust administering performances and academic workshops in the UK for Kàlai Kàviri College of Fine Arts, India (please see contacts page).

Patron:  Lord Navnit Dholakia

Trustees:
Barbara Butler
Keith Clark
Ann David
Neil Hughes
Bernard Kilroy
Kandiah Somasundararaj

Registered Office (please see contacts page):
10 Hunts Common, Hartley Wintney, Hook, Hampshire RG27 8NT, UK.

Revd Susai*Alangaram, director of Kàlai Kàviri College of Fine Arts in south India, diocesan priest for 20 years, including as Procurator of his diocese. Active as a Focolare member, he also chairs a project for homeless children in his city. (*Joseph in Tamil)

Barbara Butler, director of Christians Aware, based in Leicester and the Diocese of Southwark, promoting inter-faith understanding through dialogue, including by sponsorship of artistic initiatives.

Keith Clark is MD and International General Counsel of Morgan Stanley, the global financial services firm. Also Chairman of Arc Dance Company, which showcases innovative choreography.

Dr Ann David is an experienced dancer, trained in several styles including some Bharatha Natyam and Kathak, who lectures and writes on dance. Her PhD researched the place of dance in religious worship in UK Hindu communities.

Neil Hughes is a Chartered Accountant and Audit Director with ‘Big 4’ accountancy firm KPMG. Was formerly Reader in the Church of England, having trained in Southwark Diocese, and is incidentally a keen figure skater.

Bernard Kilroy, retired Shelter Trustee and housing director in a London Council, now an Ignatian trained spiritual director who facilitates weekend retreats and researches inter-faith dialogue at a Christian ashram in south India.

Dr Kandiah Somasundararajah FRCS is Founder Treasurer of the Balaji Temple, Oldbury, West Midlands (the largest in the UK after Neasden). Brought up in Sri Lanka, inter-faith attitudes are part of his extended family of Christians and Hindus.