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Dhamaka Arts Creating unique and colourful performances that celebrate the lives of UK q***r people of colour

17/05/2026

🖖🏽Every beat. Every salute. Every flash of Khandan across the galaxy. 🚀

Khandan (Family) – The Shame Generation is a time-travelling solo show written & performed by Sid Akbar and presented by Dhamaka Arts. A funny, heartfelt and brutally honest journey through family, shame, q***rness, belonging and the people we call home.

From Bradford kitchens to Manchester bedsits, Captain Sid invites you aboard for a voyage through memory, identity and love… with tea, turbulence and a few emotional black holes along the way ☕✨

🎟 Tickets on sale now
📍 Bradford Arts Centre
🔗 Link in bio
⭐ Age 15+

Huge thanks to for the original reel inspiration and letting me boldly go where no poster has gone before 💫

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🚨 BIG NEWS FROM THE DHAMAKA ARTS UNIVERSE 🚨The official poster forKhandan (Family) – The Shame Generation ✨And we are be...
14/05/2026

🚨 BIG NEWS FROM THE DHAMAKA ARTS UNIVERSE 🚨

The official poster for
Khandan (Family) – The Shame Generation ✨

And we are beyond excited to announce that the phenomenal Huxtable will be joining the project as Director alongside creative vision 🚀💫

Amanda is an absolute powerhouse of theatre, storytelling, and artist development, and having her onboard for this next chapter of Khandan feels genuinely thrilling. The ship just got a serious upgrade 🛸✨

Written and performed by Sid Akbar and presented by Dhamaka Arts, Khandan is a bold new solo show travelling through time, memory, q***rness, culture, chaos, and family.

Every cup of tea becomes a portal.
Every timeline holds a secret.
Every generation leaves something behind ☕🌌

Blending sci-fi spectacle with comedy, heart, and brutally honest storytelling, Khandan explores what it means to search for belonging while carrying the weight, love, and expectations of family across galaxies.

This one is personal.
This one is camp.
This one is emotionally intergalactic ❤️🚀

📍
📅 11th–13th June 2026
⏰ 7:30PM

🎟️ Tickets available now via the link in bio

Massive love to the creative dream team helping bring this universe to life ✨


👇🏽 QUESTION 👇🏽
If your family had access to a time machine… what’s the FIRST thing that would go wrong? 👀

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SHE HAS ARRIVED 🚀🌈Seeing the Khandan (Family) – The Shame Generation poster printed at full size at Bradford Arts Centre...
07/05/2026

SHE HAS ARRIVED 🚀🌈

Seeing the Khandan (Family) – The Shame Generation poster printed at full size at Bradford Arts Centre feels a little surreal honestly 😭

This q***r brown sci-fi universe that started as ideas, conversations and chaos is becoming REAL.

Huge love to everyone helping bring this show to life ✨

🗓 June 11th–13th 2026
📍 Bradford Arts Centre
🎟 Link in bio

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Somewhere in Bradford… a q***r brown space opera is being built out of post-it notes, big conversations and beautiful ch...
29/04/2026

Somewhere in Bradford… a q***r brown space opera is being built out of post-it notes, big conversations and beautiful chaos 🚀🌈

The process for Khandan (Family) – The Shame Generation has already been intense, emotional, hilarious and deeply rewarding. Every day the world gets bigger and the story gets more honest.

Very grateful to be building this alongside ✨
Images courtesy of

🗓 June 11th–13th 2026
📍 Bradford Arts Centre
🎟 Link in bio

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I’ve been so deep in the ADHD hyperfocus cave during rehearsals that I completely forgot to document most of the process...
28/04/2026

I’ve been so deep in the ADHD hyperfocus cave during rehearsals that I completely forgot to document most of the process… so instead here’s my wall of colour-coded panic ☕️🚀

Somewhere in this sticky note multiverse is the entirety of Khandan (Family) – The Shame Generation.

At this point every colour represents either:

* a timeline
* a family argument
* generational trauma
* q***r joy
* emotional devastation
* or someone needing a cup of tea

Honestly the process of making theatre as a neurodivergent person is wild because one minute you’re moving a single sticky note and the next thing you know six hours have passed and you’ve accidentally rewritten the emotional structure of the entire show.

Would genuinely love to know if other creatives organise their process like this or if this is specifically “q***r brown sci-fi ADHD brain” behaviour because right now my rehearsal room looks like a detective drama directed by Star Trek aunties.

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Back in Manchester. Cup of tea in hand. Exhausted… and full. 🫖✨Week one of rehearsals for Khandan (Family) – The Shame G...
25/04/2026

Back in Manchester. Cup of tea in hand. Exhausted… and full. 🫖✨

Week one of rehearsals for Khandan (Family) – The Shame Generation is done.

We dived deep—mining memory, identity, and lived experience. Messy, honest, and alive.

Back in q***r space, held by my people, telling a story that doesn’t shrink. There’s been tears, laughter, and real q***r joy.

What we’ve built already feels huge—and it’s only the beginning.

Read more about the process 👇
https://dhamakaarts.com/2026/04/24/brewing-q***r-magic-phase-one-of-khandan-ignites/

🎟 Tickets on sale via Bradford Arts Centre
(Link in bio)

Phase one: complete.
We’re just getting started. 🔥

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🚨 IT’S HERE 🚨The official poster forKhandan (family) – The Shame Generation ✨Written and performed by Sid Akbar, present...
24/04/2026

🚨 IT’S HERE 🚨

The official poster for
Khandan (family) – The Shame Generation ✨

Written and performed by Sid Akbar, presented by Dhamaka Arts — this new solo show travels through time, memory, and belonging, exploring what family really means when you’re caught between cultures, expectations, and your own truth.

Every sip of tea, every moment, every version of yourself… it all lives here.

Told through a bold, sci-fi lens (yes… we’re going intergalactic 🚀), this is a journey through family, q***rness, identity, and the stories we carry across generations.

This one is personal.
This one is chaotic.
This one is full of heart ❤️

📍 Bradford Arts Centre
📅 11th–13th June 2026
⏰ 7:30PM

🎟️ Book your tickets now – link in bio

👇🏽 QUESTION 👇🏽
If you could travel through time with your family… where would you go?

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I was asked to step away from my acting class because I wasn’t “in the right headspace.”What that really meant was my AD...
17/04/2026

I was asked to step away from my acting class because I wasn’t “in the right headspace.”

What that really meant was my ADHD.

It brought up a lot — overwhelm, RSD, that feeling of being “too much” again.

So I wrote about it. Not just what happened, but what it says about training spaces, the industry, and how we need to do better.

And how I’m choosing to do things differently with Dhamaka Arts.

Link in bio.

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It’s 12:43 a.m. and everything feels quiet… but not still.Three years after Besharam, I’m back in that in-between space....
16/04/2026

It’s 12:43 a.m. and everything feels quiet… but not still.

Three years after Besharam, I’m back in that in-between space. Not breaking through this time, but shaping what comes after.

Khandan: Family — The Shame Generation is about belonging. The families we’re born into. The ones we choose. And the question that never really leaves us… can you be fully yourself and still belong?

This blog is a little window into where I’m at right now. The thoughts before rehearsals. The quiet before the jump.

Read the full Captain’s Log.
Link in bio 🚀

Q***rTheatre QTIPOC SouthAsianArtists BrownArtists NeurodivergentCreatives ADHDCreatives Storytelling LiveTheatre TheatreLife ActorLife CreativeProcess RepresentationMatters Q***rStories ChosenFamily Belonging

25/07/2025

🚨 TOMORROW! 🚨

My new show The Wrath of Khandān is hitting Happy Valley Pride – and you can be there!

It’s heartfelt, funny, a little bit sci-fi, and very me — exploring family, films, and q***rness in a way I’ve never shared before.

🗓️ Saturday 26th July
📍 Hebden Bridge
🎟️ Tickets just £5 on the door!
Or grab them online: [link in bio]

This is a work-in-progress, which means you’ll be the first to see it as it takes shape — raw, honest, and full of heart.

Come through, bring a mate, and let’s fill the room with q***r joy 🚀✨

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We want to celebrate drag artists performer producer rapper/singer dancer a triple threat that is the sensational I am ...
12/11/2023

We want to celebrate drag artists performer producer rapper/singer dancer a triple threat that is the sensational I am so happy to get to know this beautiful unicorn talent who loves free from shame and inspires so many others from the community! I have witness how they take up space, be authentically themselves and a ocean of Q***r Joy!

As I develop Dhamaka Arts I have my eye on amazing talent who I want to shine a spot light, build relationships and curate authentic q***r brave work!

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