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)

 

Palmistry of Stroke: Knowing your risk and prevention 

Speaker: Dr. P.K. Sethi, leading Neurologist and an alumnus of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Dr. Sethi helped establish Neurology Departments at the Command Hospital at Lucknow, Kolkata and Delhi. For his contributions in the field of Neurology, he was awarded the Padma Shri in 2002

 

(Collaboration: Sterling Publishers)

 

DARAKHT-E DOOSTI – TREE OF FRIENDSHIP

Celebrating 70 Years of Indo-Iran Friendship

 

Mirza Ghalib (145 min; 1954; dvd; b/w; Hindi/Urdu)

Director: Sohrab Modi

 

With Bharat Bhushan, Suraiya, Nigar Sultana

 

Recipient of the Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction – Black & White, Filmfare Awards 1956; and President’s Gold Medal for Best Feature Film, National Film Awards, India 1955

 

The film will be introduced by Dr. Murali Ranganathan

 

Sohrab Modi’s acclaimed film based on the life of the well-known poet Mirza Ghalib.  The film depicts an episode in the life of Ghalib during the reign of the last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar. It tells the story of Ghalib’s love and admiration for Moti Begum, who he named "Chaudhvin" (moon-faced)

 

(Collaboration with Parzor; and Institute of Indo Persian Studies)

 

The Beautifully Indian Hindu Mind
 

Discussion around the new book by Harsha V. Dehejia (D.K. Printworld, Delhi)

 

Panelists: Smt Sonal Mansingh, MP; Prof. Makarand Paranjape, Director, Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla; Ms Alka Pande, Art Historian; Dr. Bharat Gupt, Trustee, IGNCA; Shri Pavan K. Varma, author and former diplomat; Dr. Shashi Tharoor, MP; and Shri Ashok Vajpeyi, poet, critic and art lover

 

The book explores the Indian aesthetic mind and its concepts of the beautiful

 

Spot Stalk Spy Snoop: Delhi
 

A covert mission of illustrations by Ankur Ahuja from Delhi

 

Preview on Tuesday, 17 March 2020 at 18:30

 

Musical Treasures
 

Concert presented by Tatiana Smantser from Russia (soprano); Larisa Rai from India (mezzo-soprano); and Paolo Devito from Italy (piano)

 

The artists will present a concert of duet and solo pieces by Tchaikovsky, Handel, Pergolesi, Glinka, Varlamov, Verstovsky, Bellini, Rachmaninoff and others