{"id":2988,"date":"2019-10-23T16:30:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T15:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2019-10-25T17:29:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T16:29:40","slug":"students-and-alumni-on-stage-with-nish-kumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/10\/23\/students-and-alumni-on-stage-with-nish-kumar\/","title":{"rendered":"Students and alumni on stage with Nish Kumar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.platforma.org.uk\/platforma-festival\/\">Platforma 5<\/a> festival, currently running across the Kent and Medway region, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thegulbenkian.co.uk\/\">Gulbenkian<\/a>\u00a0is delighted to be hosting an evening of comedy, <em>No Direction Home<\/em>, featuring a hilarious line-up of comedians from refugee and migrant backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nishkumar.co.uk\/\">Nish Kumar<\/a>, comedian and presenter, who currently hosts <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b08yxh4h\">The Mash Report<\/a><\/em> on BBC2, alongside alumnus Tom Parry, who graduated with a BA (Hons) in Drama and English and American Literature from Kent in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The event will also feature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate\/114\/drama-and-theatre\">BA (Hons) Drama and Theatre<\/a> students and alumni Daria Roland, Victor Pang and Alf White.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a Q&amp;A with Nish Kumar before the main show at 6pm in the cafe.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free; limited spaces are available. For more details, please see the page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thegulbenkian.co.uk\/events\/platforma-no-direction-home-stand-up-comedy\/\">https:\/\/thegulbenkian.co.uk\/events\/platforma-no-direction-home-stand-up-comedy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: A gallery of images from the event can be found here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/unikentarts\/photos\/?tab=album&amp;album_id=2480192372034882\">www.facebook.com\/pg\/unikentarts\/photos\/?tab=album&amp;album_id=2480192372034882<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Platforma 5 festival, currently running across the Kent and Medway region, the Gulbenkian\u00a0is delighted to be hosting an evening of comedy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/10\/23\/students-and-alumni-on-stage-with-nish-kumar\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":2989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,50018,124,26567],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3017,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions\/3017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}