Gotipua Dances from Bhubaneswar, Orissa

Nana Shader Bangla Gaan

Shyama Sangeet

 

Rabindra Sangeet and Other Melodies of Bengal

By Srikanta Acharya, Kolkata

 

Chief Guest: Shri Shekhar Sen, Chairman, Sangeet Natak Akademi

 

(Collaboration: Impresario India)

 

 

Shrikant was born into a family whose tradition is steeped in music. His father, Pandit D. K. Jangam, was a student of Pandit Vinayakrao Patwardhan who had, in turn, received ta'lim from Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar. Thus, while Shrikant's musical perspective is firmly rooted in the rich tradition of Gwalior gharana, he is also influenced by the gayaki of Ustad Amir Khan and Pandit Bhimsen Joshi. For this special mehfil, Shrikant will present a selection of makhsoos ragas of the Gwalior gharana with an emphasis on an eclectic selection of bandishes featuring those of his father as well

 

(Collaboration: Shri Harshavardhan Neotia, Chairman, Jnana Pravaha: Centre for Cultural Studies and Research & NaadSaagar Archives and Documentation Society for South Asian Music)

 

 

Presented by the National Council of Applied Economic Research

 

(Collaboration: Malcolm and Elizabeth Adiseshiah Trust and NCAER)

 

 

By Helena Basilova, well-known pianist from The Netherlands

 

The artist will present a concert of works by Bach, Chopin, Scriabin and Rachmaninov

 

(Collaboration: ASB for the Arts; and with the support of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines)

 

 

Speaker: Dr. Mala V. Thapar, teacher, consultant and workshop facilitator with the Toronto and Simcoe School Boards.  Her work includes meeting staff and students, teaching curriculum incorporating inclusiveness  and planning workshops for people with cognitive impairments and the gifted
 

The talk covers the urgent need to include people with different cultures, abilities and social strata in the education system aims for equitable distribution of opportunity and addresses the equity issues.  It also aims at doing so in the planning, policy making, execution and assessment stages, by involving strategies that cater to individual and cultural differences

 

(62 min; 2015; HD; English subtitles)
 

Director: Sanju Surendran

 

Recipient of the National Award for Best Documentary (Arts & Culture), 62nd National Film Awards; Special Mention, Visions du Reel, Nyon, Switzerland; John Abraham Award for Best documentary Film, SIGNS 2015

 

The National Award-winning documentary Kapila revives popular interest in an ancient dance form by portraying it through the eyes of one of its most talented exponents in Kerala. Kapila is an actor-performer of Kutiyattam, one of the oldest forms of theatre originating in Kerala. The acting-style is based on hand movement and facial expressions. Sanju Surendran composes a dreamlike and abstract portrait, focussing on the sensorial universe of a hyper-contemporary vestal committed to a thousand-year-old practice

 

 

 

Speaker: Shri A.N.D. Haksar, renowned scholar, author and former Ambassador of India

 

Chair: Amb. Ashok Sajjanhar

 

(Collaboration: India Harmony Foundation)

Release of Aruna Chakravarti’s Daughters of Jorasanko

By Sharmila Tagore

 

Followed by: 

Madhurilata

By the Storytellers

 

Script by Aruna Chakravarti with dramatised readings by Minoti Chatterjee and Averee Chaurey

Music: Jayati Ghosh 

Visual presentation: Sharmila Bakshi 

 

(Collaboration: HarperCollins Publishers)

 

By Mixed Voices, a thirty-four member choir from Gerestried in Bavaria, South Germany 

Conductor: Roland Hammerschmied

 

Formed in 1992, they are renowned in Germany and Italy for their repertoire of pop, gospel, spirituals and classical music

The Capital City Minstrels will join them for some items in the programme

 

(Collaboration: The Capital City Minstrels)