CULTURE AND HERITAGE

 

The future of the Taj depends on the future of Agra: Finding a way forward   

Speakers: Dr. Manu Mahajan, School of Planning and Architecture; Ms Amita Baig, World Monuments Fund; and Ms Renu Khosla, Centre for Urban and Regional Excellence (tentative)

                        

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran

 

The first in the series, Culture and Heritage, coordinated by Ms Amita Baig 

To Commemorate the Commencement Year of the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi

 

Celebrating Gandhi

Welcome Address by Dr. Jyoti Bose, Managing Trustee SIT

Choral Music presented by students of Springdales School, Dhaula Kuan

 

My Father Do Not Rest

An affirmation of love and faith in the Mahatma through prose, poetry and letters by students of Springdales School, Dhaula Kuan

 

Songs of Jubilation by Dr. Radhika Chopra, eminent vocalist and Trustee SIT

 

(Collaboration: Sarvodaya  International Trust, New Delhi Chapter)

To Mark World Heart Day 2018

Details  will be announced later 

 

(Collaboration: All India Heart Foundation)

 

 

 

To Mark the Centenary of Naina Devi

Pran Nevile pays homage to  Naina Devi

 

Followed by 

Concert 

By Poonam Chauhan

 

(Collaboration: K.L. Saigal Memorial Circle)

CANCELLED

A Song of Andalucia

Illustrated talk by Dr. Geeti Sen on her recent adventure in Spain 

 

Geeti Sen is a well-known cultural historian, writer and intrepid traveller; she is beginning to document her journeys. She is former Chief Editor at the IIC Quarterly and Director, The Indian Cultural Centre, Nepal

 

Living Climate: A Tale of Three Cities

An exhibition of photographs by Andre Lutzen from Germany

 

Preview on Tuesday 25 September 2018 at 18:30 

 

The exhibition focuses on three cities with very different weather conditions: Kochi in Southern India, Arkhangelsk in North-West Russia and Khartoum in Sudan. The photographer approaches the question of how climate influences people and their ways of living. Documenting how climate circumstances define living situations and effect a very diverse interplay between private and public. Photographs taken between 2014 and 2017

 

(Collaboration: Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan)

MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

 

Beyond the Sound of Silence 

Reliving the profound poetry, haunting harmonies and memorable melodies of Simon and Garfunkel with Punita Singh   

    

Punita Singh is a musicologist, linguist, editor, educator and devoted S&G fan

Aaj Kavita

 

Vijay Kumar (Mumbai), Anuradha Singh (Mumbai), Bakhshish Singh (Ajmer) and Avinash Mishra (Delhi) will recite their poems 

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

FILM FESTIVAL FOR GENERATIONS: 24 TO 26 SEPTEMBER 2018