A series of three lectures by Sharon Lowen, well-known exponent of Odissi who will provide a panoramic visual overview of 20th century American dance genres through film and video clips encompassing folk to Broadway, ballet to Pilobolos

 

Thursday 31st March

Broadway and Concert Dance

Mid-century transitions in Ballet and Modern

 

Monday 11th April 

Abstract Expressionism

Post Modern, Dance Theatre and Contemporary Dance

 

Speaker; Dr. Alexander Goerlach, founder and publisher of the debate magazine, The European

 

Chair: Shri Ronen Sen, President FIGS

 

(Collaboration: Federation of Indo-German Societies in India; and Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung, New Delhi)

 

CANCELLED

A film by Brent Huffman

Introduction & Discussion: Shobita Punja, Art Historian and independent scholar; and William Dalrymple, Author and Historian

 

Multiple award winner including Grand Prize & Audience Award, Arkhalos Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Film Festival; Best Film, The Archaeological Channel International Film & Video Festival; Best Documentary, International One Hour Film Competition, Cinemambiente Environmental Film Festival, Turin, Italy; IDFA Honorary Award for 2015, IAFOR Documentary Film Award, The International Academic Forum, Kobe, Japan; among others

 

Saving Mes Aynak follows Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temori as he races against time to save a 5,000-year-old archaeological site in Afghanistan from imminent demolition. A Chinese state-owned mining company is closing in on the ancient site, eager to harvest $100 billion dollars worth of copper buried directly beneath the archaeological ruins. The film examines the conflict between cultural preservation and economic opportunity through the lens of the Afghan archaeologists and local villagers who work and live near Mes Aynak

 

 

 

Speaker: Shri Jawhar Sircar, CEO, Prasar Bharati
 
Chair: Prof. Dipankar Gupta

The focus is on how only one of the 5 Divisions of Bengal (the western Rarh tract, i.e., modern West Bengal) became a Hindu majority region, while the 4 other Divisions of Bengal (including Bangladesh) had an overwhelming Muslim domination.  Sircar has been analysing this from the early 1980s and had undertaken field researches for a project of historical anthropology, that was supported by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) which covered the 6 western districts of Bengal.  His conclusions are that there were ‘three distinct phenomena’ that helped the revival and reconstruction of the Hindu identity, in the western part of Bengal, which he will narrate through slides, tables, statistics and maps, based on his monograph.”
 
 

An exhibition of paintings in watercolours 

By Sajal K. Mitra from Delhi

Inauguration by Shri P.K. Pujari, Secretary, Ministry of Power, Govt. of India on Tuesday, 22 March 2016 at 18:30

 

 

 

By Dr. Raul M. Sunico, award-winning Master Pianist and composer from the Philippines who is President of the Cultural Center of the Philippines

 

The artist will present a concert of works by Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Debussy, Gershwin, Abelardo, Liszt and others