MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

 

Western Classical Music in the Mirror of Time

Illustrated lecture by Tomasz Pajak who will introduce and elaborate on the distinctive style characterization of each musical era, interspersed with musical recordings 

 

Tomasz Pajak has studied MA and MM in violin performance and is a violin teacher at the Delhi School of Music and at the Neemrana Music Foundation

 

GANDHI MATTERS

 

In Conversation

Atul Dodiya, Riyas Komu and Gulam Mohd. Sheikh in conversation

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

Decoding Risks and Challenges in the Real Estate Sector

Indian real estate has evolved over the last decade with the opening of FDI in 2005. During the period 2005-08, this resulted in a large flow of institutional money. But we were not ready for this large influx of capital, resulting in the creation of large projects for which execution infrastructure was not in place. With REITs and other regulatory intervention (like RERA, GST, Benami Act) there is renewed interest from large investors like Blackstone, Brookfield, CPPIB, APG, Ascendas, QIA, etc. But is it very important for investors and developers to understand the key risk factors in the Indian built environment sector and their mitigation strategies. In the last decade, we have seen many unfinished projects and conflicts between investors, lenders, and developers, which have a trickle-down impact on the home buyers and end users. The key questions are, do investors, lenders and developers understand these risks? And what is the best practices to mitigate them

 

The panelists will include Private equity investor, lender (bank of NBFC), a developer and lawyer

 

(Collaboration: RICS School of Built Environment, Amity University)

 

 

FRONTIERS OF HISTORY

 

Cultural Labour: Conceptualising the ‘Folk Performance’ in India

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Brahma Prakash, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University and author of Cultural Labour (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019)

 

Chair: Dr. Shubha Chaudhuri, Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies

 

In Cultural Labour, Prof. Prakash studies bhuiyan puja (landworship), bidesia (theatre of migrant labourers), Reshma-Chuharmal (Dalit ballads), dugola (singing duels) from Bihar, and the songs and performances of Gaddar, who was associated with Jana Natya Mandali, Telangana. He examines various ways in which meanings and behaviours are engendered in communities through rituals, theatre, and enactments. Focusing on various motifs of landscape, materiality, and performance, Prof. Prakash looks at the relationship between culture and labour in its immediate contexts

 

ART MATTERS

 

Celebrating Literature

With Namita Gokhale and Urvashi Butalia

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

ART MATTERS

 

Celebrating Literature

With Namita Gokhale and Urvashi Butalia

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

 

A Mediated Magic – The Indian Presence in Modernism: 1880-1930

Edited by Naman P. Ahuja and Louise Belfrage (Mumbai: Marg, 2019)

 

Launch of the book followed by presentations by contributors to the volume: Dr. Naman P. Ahuja, Professor of Art History, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr. Peter Marx, Chair of Theatre and Media Studies, University of Cologne; Dr. Kalpan Sahni; and Ms Kristine Michael, artist and arts educator 

 

The exchanges with ideas Indian and with Indians themselves, had a decisive impact that contributed to the eruption of Modernism in the West. In turn, they lead us to think about how these ideas fed back to shape India’s self-perception. The latest book by Marg provides an intriguing history of how India was typecast in artistic, scientific, cultural and spiritual circles – as mediated for the stage by the Ballet Russes – Anna Pavlova, Léon Bakst, Gustav Holst, Stanislavsky and Tairov; in the arena of spiritual and cultural discourse by C.G. Jung, Helena Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Rabindranath Tagore, and Ananda Coomaraswamy; and in art, by Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and Natalia Goncharova, to name only a few. The four contributors to the book will present these greats of European art in astonishing new light

 

(Collaboration: Marg)

 

CARNATIC MUSIC FESTIVAL: 13 & 14 SEPTEMBER 2019

Flute Recital

By Kalailmamani Smt Sikkil Mala Chandrasekhar from Chennai

Accompanists: G. Raghavendra Prasath (violin); Kumbakonam N Padmanaban  (mridangam); & P. Adhitya Narayan (kanjira)