Bigger than Africa (90 min; 2018; dvd; English)

Director: Toyin Ibrahim Adekeye

 

This documentary tells the story of how the Yoruba culture of West Africa survived suppression during the transatlantic slave trade and helped shape the New World

 

(Collaboration: UN Information Centre for India and Bhutan)

 

To Mark International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

 

Us and Them: From Prejudice to Racism

An exhibition by Musée de l’Homme, Paris in cooperation with UNESCO

 

To Mark International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

 

Us and Them: From Prejudice to Racism

An exhibition by Musée de l’Homme, Paris in cooperation with UNESCO

 

ENGINEER AND THE SOCIETY

 

How to Enhance Road Safety
 

Panelists: Shri Arun Mohan, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India; and Shri K.K. Kapila, President Emeritus, IRF and Chairman & Managing Director, ICT Pvt. Ltd

 

Chair: Shri Vijay Chhibber, former Secretary (RT & H)

 

(Collaboration:Consulting Engineers Association  of India; and international Road Federation)

 

Launch of the new IIC Website

 

Walkthrough of the website by Shri Oroon Das, web designer

 

Followed by

IIC BAITHAKI

 

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Samrat Pandit from Kolkata, son and  disciple of  Late Pt. Jagdish Prasad

 

Alternative Spaces for Arts and Public Sensibilities
 

Panelists: Smt Shovana Narayan; Guru Raja Reddy; Prof. Bishnupriya Paul; Ms Virkein Dhar and Atishi, MLA (AAP)

 

Moderator: Ambassador Suresh Goel

 

(Collaboration: Shanta Serbjeet Singh Memorial Art Appreciation series with Legends of India)

FILMS ON WILDLIFE AND ENVIRONMENT

 

Dil ki Basti Mein (52 min; 2011; dvd; Hindi/Urdu/English)

Director: Anwar Jamal

Music Direction: Ustad Iqbal Ahmed Khan

 

The walled city of Old Delhi is a cultural universe unto itself – a sprawling, chaotic, but infectiously spirited neighbourhood where life assumes many fascinating forms in a constant struggle for survival. The film captures a vibrant city caught between the past and the present, decay and renewal, hope and despair

 

(Collaboration: World Wide Fund for Nature-India)

 

What to do with Difference
 

Art and artists as a bridge

A group exhibition of artists of Art for Change led by Shalem Kallimel, Joshua Koodathinal John, Stefan Prakash Eicher and Isaac Gergan

 

Works by 12 international artists and 9 Indian artists will be on view -  Dan Cooper (USA); Elizabeth Kwant (UK);  Sedrick Huckaby (USA); K.W. Bell (USA); Moriah Miller (USA); Heather Harper (USA); Stephanie McDairmant (USA); Jennie Kimbrough (USA); Marianne Lettieri (USA); Liz Braid (Australia); Shamira Wilson (USA); Navya Sah (India); Sanjeev Mirajkar (India); Sakshi Yadav (India); Mohd. Intiyaz (India); Bernard Cargay (India); Sangeeta Pathak (India); Ravi Chaurasiya  (India); Isaac Gergan  (India);  Mohd. Sultan Alam (India); and Khandakar Ohida (India)

 

Preview on Friday, 20 March 2020 at 18:30

 

MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

 

A Half-Century after Woodstock

Presentation by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

 

What made a music festival in a farm in upstate New York that was held on 15 August 1969 unique in the world and why does it still resonate among many fifty years later? The answer lies in the manner in which it fused and mixed music and politics.

 

Chair:  Prithviswar Sen, an amateur guitarist   

 

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta is a journalist, author, educator, documentary filmmaker and publisher with over 40 years of work experience 

 

Gandhi Matters

 

Gandhi and Women

Speakers: Poorva Bharadwaj and Alka Ranjan

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)