The Zohra Segal Festival of the Arts

 

Dances from Films C.I.D. and Nau Do Gyarah

Composed by Zohra Segal

 

At 18:45

Film Ladoo

 

At 19:00

Hindustani Classical Vocal

By Kalapini Komkali

Anne Frank: A History for Today

An exhibition of photographs that recount Anne Frank’s life, conditions in the hideout, the war and her eventual death in a Nazi concentration camp. As part of this exhibition, on a screen, photo montages and video interviews with Anne Frank’s late father, Otto Frank, relatives and historians will run in a loop

 

(Collaboration: The Anne Frank House, Amsterdam; PeaceWorks, an initiative of The Seagull Foundation for the Arts; and Embassy of The Netherlands)

 

MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

 

Ustad Alla Rakha – The story of a hundred years

Illustrated lecture by Rohen Bose, a promising young tabla player who’s research on the tabla and its language, particularly the Benaras Baaz is well-known and widely accepted

 

The presentation will trace Ustad Saab’s journey as a legendary artist with a special focus on his association with Kolkata in the 1950s and his compositions for films

 

ART MATTERS

Talk by Dr. Roma Madan Soni on Amrita Shergil’s “Two Girls”

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

FILMS OF THE SPIRIT

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

Kummatty (The Bogeyman; Malayalam)

(90 min; 1979; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: G. Aravindan

 

Based on a Pied Piper like figure in Malabari folklore about a partly mythic and partly real magician called Kummatty. Kummatty travels from place to place and entertains children with dancing, singing and performing magic. At one such performance at a village, Kummatty starts to mingle with and weave a spell of carefree abandon around the children of the village. He turns a group of children into animals. But one boy, who was changed into a dog, is chased away and misses the moment Kummatty changed the children back to their human form. The dog-boy has to wait a year until Kummatty returns to the village to get back his human form

 

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness The Dalai Lama)

Moments of Being

An exhibition of paintings by Subhash Malik 

Created over several decades since the 1950s, the works capture inspirational moments in different places – London, Baroda, Shimla and Mukteshwar

 

Inauguration by Gogi Saroj Pal, K. Khosa, Virendra Kumar and Shobha Broota on Tuesday, 16th April 2019 at 18:30

 

The Making of the Thar Desert

Speaker: Shri Pranay Lal, environmentalist and author of Indica: A Deep History of the Indian Subcontinent

 

Chair: Dr. Amita Baviskar

 

(Collaboration: RICS School of Built Environment)

The 2nd Lusophone Film Festival 2019: 15 and 29 April 2019

Screening of two films each evening from Angola, Brazil, Mozambique and Portugal

 

Details to be announced later

 

Recognised with international awards at film festivals around the globe, the cinema from the Portuguese-speaking world is still mostly unknown to the general public. This 240 million people linguistic community is a thriving one, promoting over 80 film festivals and cinema awards every year, with movies mostly consumed in the respective countries. The Lusophone Film Fest is a showcase of the diversity of film production in the eight Portuguese-speaking countries spread across 4 continents. The film festival presents multiple works (documentaries, animations, shorts and feature films), in sessions of several films from different countries. The Lusophone Film Fest runs sessions in Nairobi (Kenya), Zanzibar (Tanzania), Bangkok (Thailand), Sydney (Australia), Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Macau (China), Geneva (Switzerland), Cox’s Bazar (Bangladesh) and Delhi (India) 

 

(Collaboration: Portuguese Embassy Cultural Centre)

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Anagha Bhat from Bengaluru, disciple of Smt Geeta Hegde and Pt. Ulhas Kashalkar, Padmashree. Anagha Bhat is the recipient of the Sanskriti-Mani Mann Fellowship 2019

 

(Collaboration: Sanskriti Pratishthan)