'Singing Resistance: a musical performance with Sumangala Damodaran’, is co-presented with Spring Workshop and is the fourth programme in the Mapping Asia public programmes series. Sumangala Damodaran, along with Pritam Ghosal, Mark Aranha, Neelambari Bhattacharya, Billy from 'mininoise', a grassroots folk band in Hong Kong, and Simon Hui from the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, will perform a concert featuring songs from India's anti-colonial and immediate post-colonial resistance movement. The songs, in six Indian languages, have been archived and interpreted by Damodaran, and belong to the tradition of the Indian People's Theatre Association. The songs cover important historical events like the Second World War and the Bengal Famine, and reflect impulses and influences from various Indian, world musical, and poetry traditions. In addition, the programme will incorporate songs of protest from Hong Kong as we consider the universality of song as an expression of resistance. The concert will also feature an introduction to a new project that Damodaran is involved in, which maps a family of melodies that were sung to express lament, separation, migration, and loss across large parts of Asia, Africa, and Southern Europe from the 7th to the 14th centuries.