A special focus on the dying craft traditions of North East India
Curated by Ms Sentila T. Yanger, Tribal Weave

Craftspersons from Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Nagaland and Tripura will give demonstrations and display rare and fading craft forms

Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson, IIC Asia Project will inaugurate the exhibition on 10th October 2012 at 6.30 pm

Media in the Arts
Panelists: Shri Om Thanvi, Editor, Jansatta; Shri Jawhar Sircar, CEO, Prasar Bharati; Shri Vinod Mehta, former Editor, The Outlook magazine

Moderator: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi, Executive Trustee, Raza Foundation

Music of the Manganiyars
Illustrated presentation based on archival recordings as well as live music

Artistes: Chanan Khan and Khete Khan 

Chair: Dr Shubha Chaudhuri, Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies

An encounter between Israeli classics and ethnic instruments from around the world
Presented by Tal Kravitz, musician and singer from Israel who plays the piano, harp, guitar, a variety of bagpipes, the theremin, African percussion instruments and more

The concert will include the traditional Jewish song, "Hava Nagila"; the Ladino song, "Avre tu Puerta Cerrada"; Schubert's "Ave Maria" on the musical saw; the Persian folk song, "Gul e Sangam" on darbuka drums; Bollywood songs, and a performance on the kalaleng, the Filipino nose flute

The Path of Non-Violence with Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela
(78 min; dvd; 2009; English)

A film revisiting Gandhi's struggles against imperialism in South Africa and India, and depicting Mandela's triumph over adversity to greatness. Unique footage of the President and his family at home gives a glimpse of Mandela's love of life and the sparkle which captured the world's heart

Panelists: Prof Krishna Kumar, Central Institute of Education; Shri Shakti Maira, sculptor; Ms Dipti Sharma, art teacher, Shikshantar School, Gurgaon; and Ms Janani Iyer, teacher, Shri Ram School, Gurgaon

Commemorating the birth anniversary of Shri Devi Prasad, whose book, Art, the Basis of Education, saw art education as a revolutionary tool in that it teaches the use of one's acumen, resources and hands so as to foster self-reliance and respect for labour, sharpens observation and planning skills, and helps uncover psychological states

Japanese Art through the Ages - I: The Esoteric Brush of Japanese Painting
Illustrated lecture by Ms Anu Jindal, art historian and artist

With an introduction by Prof Sushama Jain, Professor of Japanese, JNU

The first of two lectures introducing Japanese aesthetics

Speaker: Shri Sankar Sen, IPS (retd.), former Director General, National Human Rights Commission, and former Director, National Police Academy

Chair: Shri G.C. Saxena, former Governor, Jammu & Kashmir