ARTEAST FESTIVAL 2018: 1 TO 3 FEBRUARY 2018

 

ArtEast is an initiative to raise pertinent questions through a series of engagement on art, livelihood, social justice, climate change, communication, history – past and present, issues that have a far reaching impact on everyday life of people and of the nation. The festival includes talks/discussions, exhibitions, film screenings and performances

Conceptualised by Dr. Monica Banerjee

 

Curated by Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Associate Professor, O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat

 

Organised in collaboration with National Foundation for India; The Sasakawa Peace Foundation; and New Imaginations, Jindal School of Journalism and Communication

 

Exhibitions:

An Ode to Bamboo

A tribute to M.P. Ranjan, design evangelist and one of the world’s leading design thinkers

 

An Unseen Tunnel inside a Displaced Proletarian – Year 2018

A mixed media installation that takes the viewer through a tunnel travelling and experiencing the transitional point of green to grey space

By Sukant Panigrahy and Kaur Chimuk, New Media Artists

 

Photographs, Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations, Poetry and Bamboo Objects of Everyday Use

Artists: Arati Kumar Rao, photographer and writer; Parasher Baruah, cinematographer; Pankhi Saikia, painter; Sumana Roy, poet and writer; Vijay Jodha, writer, photographer and filmmaker; and Siddhartha Das Studio

 

Opening on 1 February 2018 at 17:00

 

On view at the Art Gallery, Kamaladevi Complex, 1 to 7 February 2018, 11:00 to 19:00 daily

 

In the Neighbourhood

Illustrating life and living in the North East by Biscoot & Rain

Visual artists: Sirawon Khathing and Ben Ezra Ning

 

On view at the Quadrangle Garden, 1 to 7 February 2018

 

AT 18:00 IN C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM

Inauguration of ArtEast

Openings remarks by Amitabh Behar, Executive Director, National Foundation for India

 

Up, Down and Sideways (Kho-ki-pa-lü/Nagaland)

(83 min; 2017;dvd; English)

Directed by Anushka Meenakshi & Iswar Srikumar who will introduce the film

 

A musical portrait of a community of rice cultivators and their memories of love and loss in Phek village, Nagaland

 

(Collaboration: The Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies)

 

  

 

                                                       Lights and Shadows of Middle East

Where is the Middle East Going after ISIS and Syria: Strategic Perspective on India – Israeli Relationship

 

 

Speaker: Maj. General (Retd.) Amos Gilad, former Head of Politico & Military Bureau, Israel

 

Chair: Ambassador Arun K. Singh, former Indian Ambassador to US, France and Israel

 

 

 

On Thursday, 18th January 2018 at 10.30 am in the Centre’s Conference Room-II

 

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK

 

The importance of the book lies in the fact that for the first time an attempt has been made to trace the trajectory of intellectual evolution of that great intellectual colossus, Mirza Ghalib, arguably the greatest Urdu poet ever, through a careful selection and interpretation of his chronologically arranged ghazal couplets. It is an attempt to bring to focus the irrational arrangement of Urdu poetry (of any poet) in accordance with the ending alphabet of the couplet, and not in accordance with time, thereby (inadvertently) eliminating the possibility of studying an intellectual in evolution.

ARTEAST FESTIVAL 2018

ArtEast is an initiative to raise pertinent questions through a series of engagement on art, livelihood, social justice, climate change, communication, history-past and present, issues that have a far reaching impact on everyday life of people and of the nation. The festival includes talks/discussions, exhibitions, film screenings and performances

 

Curated by Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Associate Professor, O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat

 

Organised in collaboration with National Foundation for India; The Sasakawa Peace Foundation; and Ourstories

ARTEAST FESTIVAL 2018

 

ArtEast is an initiative to raise pertinent questions through a series of engagement on art, livelihood, social justice, climate change, communication, history-past and present, issues that have a far reaching impact on everyday life of people and of the nation. The festival includes talks/discussions, exhibitions, film screenings and performances

 

Curated by Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Associate Professor, O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat

 

Organised in collaboration with National Foundation for India; The Sasakawa Peace Foundation; and Ourstories

Cultivating Pathways of Creative Research: New Horizons of Transformative Movements, Collaborative Imaginations and Planetary Realizations

 A discussion and launch of  a book by Ananta Kumar Giri,  Madras Institute of Development Studies

 

An Introduction and Invitation to our Trilogy on Creative Research by Professor Ananta Kumar Giri, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai; Reflections on Pathways of Creative Research: Towards a Festival of Dialogues by Professor John Clammer, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat; Reflections on Cultivating Pathways of Creative Research by Professor T.K. Oommen, Professor Emeritus and  JNU; Dr. Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty, Former Vice-Chancellor, NUEPA and Distinguished Professor, Centurion University, Odisha; Reflections on Research as Realization: Science, Spirituality and Harmony by Dr. Devnath Pathak, Dept. of Sociology, South Asian University, New Delhi  and  Professor Subhash Sharma, Director, Indus Business Academy, Bangalore

 

Chair: Professor T.K. Oommen, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

(Collaboration: Primus Books)

Concert – Folk Music from Hungary

Presented by The Muzsikás, Hungarian Folk Music Ensemble – Mihály Sipos (violin, citera); Lászlo Porteleki (violin, koboz, vocal); Péter Éri (viola, mandolin, flute, long flute); and Dánile Hamar (contrabass, gardon, drum, cymbals)

With guest artists: Kacsó Hanga (vocal); and Berecz István

 

Winners of the WOMEX Award 2008 for World Music. After 40 years of their unrivalled career, Muzsikás is the most renowned and popular Hungarian folk music worldwide and in their home country as well. Their music can be characterised as the traditional arrangements of authentic Hungarian folk music featuring a style that is typical of the best of village musicians  

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Hungary; and Hungarian Information & Cultural Centre)

 

Sarod and Slide Guitar Duet Recital

By brothers,  Dipanker Roy  from Delhi, disciple of  Ustad Shujaat Khan and Abhijit Roy from Delhi, disciple of Late Pt Bholanath Bhattacharya

 

Vidhi Dialogues

 

Electoral Finance Reforms in India 

Panellists: Dr S.Y. Quraishi (former Chief Election Commissioner of India); and Prof Rajeev Gowda (Member of Parliament and Academic) 

 

(Collaboration: Vidhi Centre for Legal Studies)

 

Martyrs’ Day

 

Women, Partition and Gandhi

Speaker: Ms Ritu Menon, Women Unlimited 

 

Followed by a performance 

Songs of protest and freedom 

by Prof. Sumangala Damodaran, Ambedkar University

 

(Collaboration: Sarvodaya International Trust)