Bishi - Maya: The Birth of a Superhero

6th November 2026

Margate Arts Club

A striking live audiovisual performance featuring her powerful original score for Poulomi Basu and CJ Clarke’s acclaimed animated VR film at Margate Arts Club

Doors at 7pm, show starts promptly 8pm, drinks and DJ after till 11pm

Blending Electric Sitar, Four-Octave Vocals, Hindustani and Western classical traditions with electronic sound and bespoke visuals, MAYA explores identity, transformation and the emergence of personal power.

Set in contemporary London, the story follows Maya, an ordinary teenager whose world quietly shifts with the arrival of her first period. What begins as a private rite of passage unfolds into something far greater. As she navigates the silence, stigma and inherited shame surrounding menstruation within her family and community, Maya begins to uncover a different truth.

Her name, derived from the Sanskrit for magic and illusion, becomes a prophecy. The very experience she has been taught to conceal becomes the source of her strength. This is not a conventional coming-of-age story. It is a reclamation.

Through arresting visuals and a richly layered sonic landscape, Maya: Birth of a Superhero invites audiences into an intimate yet expansive world where myth and modernity collide. The body becomes a site of transformation. Shame dissolves into agency. Vulnerability reveals itself as power.

Created and directed by Poulomi Basu in collaboration with CJ Clarke, the work blends storytelling, activism and innovative technology to challenge long-held taboos and reframe menstruation as a symbol of resilience and creative force.

This project is supported by Arts Council England

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Bishi - Maya: The Birth of a Superhero Margate Arts Club, 276 Northdown Road, Cliftonville
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