Sitar Recital
By Debojyoti Gupta from Mumbai, disciple of Shri Buddhadev Dasgupta

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Followed by

Bharatanatyam Recital
By Swati Biswas from Delhi, disciple of Guru Smt. Jayalakshmi Eshwar

Video recording of two recitals for IIC online programmes

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Screening of NHK documentary films on Japan’s history, literature, art, culture and heritage. Organised with the support of NHK World and Embassy of Japan, New Delhi

Geisha: A Sunset Trade?
(28 minutes; 2020; English and with subtitles)
Geisha have existed for hundreds of years, but in modern Japan they are declining in number. It is a story that is repeated across many forms of traditional Japanese culture. The documentary focusses on the world of geisha, and the challenges ahead. Watanabe Kazuko and Mayumi, run a geisha association, and have decades of experience in the industry. They explain the challenges they face, and offer insights into how hard it can be to maintain tradition.

 https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/2032214/
   

(87 min; 2001; English)
Director: Perry Miller Adato

A PBS American Masters series documentary on Alfred Stieglitz, the father of modern photography. Stieglitz helped raise the status of photography to the level of art. As a photographer, publisher and gallery owner, he was a key figure in the birth of American modernism. With never before seen footage of Georgia O’Keeffe speaking about Alfred Stieglitz who offered her her own show in his popular and avant garde Studio 291 and who she later married in 1916. The documentary also includes interviews with leading Stieglitz scholars and museum curators

 https://vimeo.com/68481281
   

SPEAKERS: Shri Kumar Ketkar, veteran journalist and writer, MP Rajya Sabha; Prof. Tarunabh Khaitan, Professor of Law and Legal Theory, Wadham College, University of Oxford and Vice Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford; and Shri K. V. Prasad, Senior Associate Editor, The Tribune

Moderator: Shri Suhas Borker

(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

Release of the Winter 2019 & Spring 2020 Special issue of the IIC Quarterly,  The Crisis of Climate Change
Edited by Ravi Agarwal and Omita Goyal

Introduction: Dr. Karan Singh, Chairman, IIC Editorial Board

Followed by a panel discussion
SPEAKERS: Nagraj Adve who works and writes on the science, impacts and politics of global warming. His booklet, Global Warming in the Indian Context: An Introductory Overview (2019) has been translated into Hindi, Kannada, and Tamil; and Ruchira Talukdar, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 

Moderator: Ravi Agarwal, Founder-Director, Toxics Link and established artist, writer, and curator

This collection seeks to not only outline the specific conditions and responses to  climate change in India, but also takes an unusual ground-up approach of including voices of those who are researching landscapes and observing changes in them, across disciplines and practices.

Click here to Register

Dutch Children’s Film Festival 2020
A weekly screening of four award winning children’s films organized in collaboration with Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Delhi to celebrate National Children’s Day. Screenings will be held every Saturday and Sunday in November 2020. A link to the film is given below; the film can be accessed for a period of 36 hours from Saturday 9 am to Sunday 11:55 pm. The password for each film will be communicated by email to all members

Saturday 14th to Sunday 15th November 2020
Dummie the Mummie (Dummie de Mummie)
(80 min; 2014; Dutch with English subtitles)
Director: Pim van Hoeve

Recipient of the Golden Film Award, Golden and Platin Film, Netherlands 2014

The magic of friendship can break even the strongest curse…

Shy eleven-year-old Gus's life is changed irrevocably when he finds an Egyptian mummy in his bed. An actual mummy of an actual young Egyptian prince, brought to life by a lightning bolt that struck his enchanted golden scarab, just as he was being transported to a nearby museum. Darwishi Uratum Msamaki Minkab Ishaq Eboni, or Dummie for short, is almost the exact opposite of Gus: an unrestrained daredevil who knows no fear or pain and is up for anything. An unlikely friendship is born.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1334885020176289

Adil Writer, ceramic artist, painter and architect in conversation with Shernaz Cama

Organised in collaboration with Parzor Foundation and Jiyo Parsi

A Journey through Shehr-i-Kashmir, the historic city of Srinagar 
(47 min)
Illustrated lecture by Shri M. Saleem Beg, Convenor, INTACH, Jammu & Kashmir

Saleem Beg presents a comprehensive lecture, illustrated with maps and photographs on the history and architecture of Srinagar. With 500 years of living tradition, Srinagar is a riverine city with the Jhelum and other waterways and canals bisecting it. The talk traces the historicity of the city through its architecture

Video recording of a talk for IIC online programmes