Koel  ke Swara:  IIC Summer Festival of Music 2018

 

At 18:00

Sarod Recital

By Prabhat Kumar from Delhi, disciple of  Late Vidushi Pandita Smt Sharan Rani 

 

Followed by

 

At 19:00

Hindustani Vocal Recital

 By Kanakshree Bhatt from Indore, disciple of Vidushi Kalpana Zokarkar

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

 

 

CREEDS OF OUR TIMES

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements (180 min; 2014; dvd; English)

Directors: Stephen Lyons & Muffie Meyer

 

The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements is an exciting series about one of the great adventures in the history of science: the long and continuing quest to understand what the world is made of. Three episodes tell the story of seven of history’s most important scientists as they seek to identify, understand and organize the basic building blocks of matter

 

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

 

The Many Faces of Finland

 

H.E. Ambassador Nina Vaskunlahti will give an illustrative presentation on Finland and its different defining aspects. Finland has consistently ranked high in different international comparisons, be it in the field of education, safety, business environment, or citizen happiness. But what defines Finland? Depending on the point of view, Finland can be described as an open, modern economy, a technology superpower, a leader in digitalization, a startup hub, or a cool Arctic destination

Chair: Ambassador K.P. Fabian

SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA AND BALLET FILMS

This year the festival presents operas, ballets, a ballet biography and choral works

Curated and introduced by Dr. R.P. Jain

 

Claudio Monteverdi: Vespers of the Blessed Virgin 

(90 min; 1990; dvd; English)

Live recording from the Basilico di San Marco, Venice

 

With Ann Monoyios, Marinella Pennichhi (sopranos); Michael Chance (countertenor); Mark Tucker, Nigel Robson, Sandro Naglia (tenors); and Bryn Terfel & Alastair Miles (basses)

 

The English Baroque Soloists

The Monteverdi Choir

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner

 

A towering masterpiece of the early Baroque — at once intimate and grand, prayerful and dramatic, exalted and sensual. Monteverdi’s rarely performed 1610 Vespers of the Blessed Virgin offers up a dizzying array of textures and sonorities in brilliant instrumental writing, opulent choruses, and moving solo arias and duets

 

Arthritis – Myths and Facts

Speaker: Dr. R. Handa, Senior Consultant, Rheumatologist, Apollo Hospital & former Professor, All India Institute of Medical Sciences

 

(Collaboration: KLM  Public Charitable Trust)

Abode of Clouds

An exhibition of paintings by artists who participated at the International Art Residencey held at Artists’ Point, Meghalaya

 

On view are works by Jana Bednárová (Slovakia); Juhidevi Bhanjdeo (India); Dominik Bouma (Czech Republic); Eliška Failová (Czech Republic); Zsofia Hajdu (Hungary); Barbora Chlastáková (Czech Republic); Moinuddin Moni (Bangladesh); Juliana Mrvová (Slovakia); Kate?ina P?kná (Czech Republic); Jan Pražan (Czech Republic); Gabriela Valls  Schorr (Spain); and Michaela Vrbková (Czech Republic)

 

Inauguration on Friday, 8 June 2018 at 18:30 by Shri P. Sampath Kumar, IAS, Commissioner & Secretary to the Chief Minister, Resident Commissioner, Meghalaya House

 

The inauguration will include a brief musical performance by Alakesh Dutta

 

 

(Collaboration: Picasso Pupils, Meghalaya; Department of Art & Culture, Govt. of Meghalaya; and Embassy of the Slovak Republic)

METAMORPHOSES: TALKING TECHNOLOGY

 

Leading Digital Transformation and Innovation

Speaker: Prof. Soumitra Dutta, Professor of Operations, Technology and Information Management, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, New York, founding Dean Professor of Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and Chair, Board of Directors, Global Business School Network (GBSN), Washington DC
 

Chair: Dr. Ambuj Sagar, Vipula and Mahesh Chaturvedi Professor of Policy Studies, IIT Delhi

 

 

Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, Israel, Singapore, the Netherlands and the United States are leading the world when it comes to generating economic impact from investments in information and communications technologies (ICT), according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Information Technology Report 2016. all known for being early and enthusiastic adopters of ICT and their emergence is significant as it demonstrates that adoption of ICTs – coupled with a supportive enabling environment characterized by sound regulation, quality infrastructure and ready skills supply among other factors – can pave the way to wider benefits. 

 

Innovation is broad based capability is societies around us, both in developed and developing markets. The Global Innovation Index 2017 indicates that data can be analysed in various ways, which result in rich insights that are hard to obtain otherwise. Besides numerical, data is fundamental in terms of values

 

(Collaboration: Niti Aayog; and Centre for Policy Research)

SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA AND BALLET FILMS

This year the festival presents operas, ballets, a ballet biography and choral works

Curated and introduced by Dr. R.P. Jain

 

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty

(105 min; 2012; dvd; English)

Conductor: Brett Morris

Directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne

 

With Hannah Vassallo (Aurora), Dominic North (Leo), Christopher Marney (Lilac Fairy), Adam Maskell (Carabosse)

 

Matthew Bourne’s version of the iconic Russian classical ballet masterpiece Sleeping Beauty

 

To Celebrate World Environment Day 2018

 

Awareness Workshop on Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals: Beating Plastic Pollution

 

(Collaboration: The Climate Change Research Institute)