Kathak Recital By Arti Shrivastava Gedam from Delhi, disciple of Guru Smt Prerna Shrimali

At 19:00
Odissi Recital

By Sangini Kumar from Delhi, disciple of Guru Smt Kiran Segal

WORKSHOP & PERFORMANCE ■ CONFERENCE ROOM II AND C.D. DESHMUSH AUDITORIUM  11:00 TO 13:00 & 18:30
From 11:00 to 13:00 in Conference Room II

To be conducted by Dr. Shubha Chaudhuri, Associate Director General (Academic), Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies  (AIIS)

The documentation of performing arts and other forms of Intangible Cultural Heritage in India has gained momentum since the 1980s. Today it is not only documentation that we are concerned with, but the digitization of existing documentation, to revisit these is the light of current trends, and can be used to revitalize traditions in addition to providing scholarly access. The symposium will examine these issues in the light of a project carried out between the AIIS Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology and Rupayan Sansthan through which approximately 1000 hours of audio recordings of the 1980s to 2003 were digitized and detailed metadata was created. Based on the collection of the well-known scholar and activist Komal Kothari, the project has involved members of the community and those who were involved in the recordings. The discussion will present a brief description of the recordings, providing an overview of the range of genres.

Speakers will include Kuldeep Kothari, Secretary, Rupayan Sansthan; and Madan Meena, researcher and scholar who was involved in the documentation during this period; and members of the musician community who will share their views about what digitization and renewed access to their recordings means to them

At 18:30 in C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium
The Sacred Secular

An evening of sacred music forms of Western Rajasthan, selected to represent devotional traditions of saint poets, performed by various communities. These include Meera, Kabir, Raidas and other saint poets, also include bhajans sung by Langas, Manganiar, Meghwal and Jogi communities.

The artists include: Multan Khan Manganiar, Sardar Khan Langa, Bhalluram and Ragunath Meghwal, Babunath and Raghunath of the Mewati Jogis.

Accompanied by Kutla Khan on the dholak; and Khete Khan on the khartal. Other instruments include the Sindhi sarangi and Bhapang

(Collaboration: Archives and Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies ; and with the support of the Modern Endangered Archives Program, University of California)

Screening of Abhi to Main Jawan Hoon
Hafeez Jalandhari’s nazm recited by Zohra Segal

At 15:40
On and Off the Records
(57 min; 2014; English)
Director: Pratik Biswas

Recipient of the Tareque Masud Award for Best Debut, Film Southasia, Nepal

At 18:30
Odissi Recital
By Sangini Kumar, leading disciple of Guru Kiran Segal
Accompanists: Prafulla Mangaraj, Prashant Behera, Dhiraj Pandey, Rais Khan and Madhyama Segal

At 19:30
East marries West: Jugalbandhi of Sitar and Cello
By Pt. Shubhendra Rao (sitar) and maestro Saskia Rao de Haas (cello)
Accompanied by Yashwant Vaishnav on the tabla

Screening of Abhi to Main Jawan Hoon
Hafeez Jalandhari’s nazm recited by Zohra Segal

At 15:40
On and Off the Records
(57 min; 2014; English)
Director: Pratik Biswas

Recipient of the Tareque Masud Award for Best Debut, Film Southasia, Nepal

The film focusses on the intimate and integral relationship between the evolution of 20th century Hindustani Classical music and recording technology, even as it celebrates the music and art of some of the best musicians the world has ever known

Collaboration: Public Service Broadcasting Trust

At 16:40
Screening of excerpt from Zohra Segal interviews

At 18:00
Tilism i-Hoshruba (40 min)
Dastangoi performed by Nusrat Ansari and Poonam Girdhani
Adapted and Directed by Mahmood Farooqui

Tilism i-Hoshruba literally meaning ‘the enchantment that takes away the senses’ is a magical realm created by the Emperor of sorcerers Afrasiyab Jadu who represents evil. He rules over Tilism-e-Hoshruba with his empress Malika Herat and fights with the leader of tricksters (Ayyars) Amar Ayyar, who stands for truth

At 19:30
Qawwali
Presented by the Nizami Brothers

Carnatic Vocal Duet
By Delhi Sisters – Madhavi Sitaraman and Vaishnavi Sitaraman from Delhi, disciples of Trichur Brothers

At 19:00
Bharatanatyam Recital
By Veena Kumar from Delhi, disciple of Guru Justin McCarthy

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

At home, walking (Chalo Sakha Us Des Mein/India)
(114 min; 2019; Hindi with English subtitles)
Director: Rajula Shah

Recipient of the Best Long Documentary, the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala 2021

Screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

The film inquires deeply into questions of speed, progress and self-liberation through the act of participating in a centuries-old annual pilgrimage alongside millions of people from different castes, class and genders. It makes a quiet yet powerful statement about slowing down, reassessing our needs over wants, and reconnecting with the originary impulse of being human in a world moving towards total mechanization.

 (Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama)

Dr. Prakash Amte – The Real Hero

(137 min; 2014; Marathi with English subtitles)

Director: Samruddhi Porey

With Nana Patekar, Sonali Kulkarni, Mohan Agashe

Young Prakash graduates as a Bachelorette in Medicine. Instead of settling down to a comfortable city life along with his wife Manda, they both moved to a most backward area of Maharashtra. From government apathy to Naxal threats, from US Visa refusal on account of financial issues relating to civilian honour Padmashree…the film is an incredible true story of hope, courage and compassion

(Collaboration: Maharashtra Sanskritik ani Rannaniti Adhyayan Samiti)

Hindustani Violin Recital

By Shubham Sarkar from Delhi, disciple of Dr. Santosh Nahar and Pt. Tarun Bhattacharya

At 19:00
 

Hindustani Vocal Recital 
By Arindam Mukhopadhyay from Delhi, disciple of Pt Madhup Mudgal
 

By Sabina Mumtaz Islam from Kolkata, disciple of Janab Jainul Abedin and later the later Pt. Sunil Bose and recipient of the Sanskriti-Madhobi Chatterji Memorial Fellowship

Accompanists: Pt. Vinod Lele (tabla); and Dr. Vinay Mishra (harmonium)

(Collaboration: Sanskriti Foundation)
 

A curated package of films by women directors from Ukraine organised in collaboration with International Association of Women in Radio and Television, India Chapter and Ukrainian Female Film Industry

FILM FESTIVAL POSTER

FILMS SYNOPSES

Introduction

14:30 to 15:45: Fiction Shorts (I)
Оh! (Olga Zolotareva/Ukrainian /16:37 min)
A family sets out for a visit to the countryside. The children squabble in the back of the car, distracting their parents. Somehow, an old woman ends up riding with them. And then... 

Doors (Natalia Davydenko/Ukrainian /9:31 min)
A young man rides through a vast desert landscape. His bike breaks down. And he is faced with a choice. This short leavens metaphor and philosophy with dark humour and optimism. 

Seed (Ksenia Bugrimova/no dialogue/23:10 min)
A woman buys a special seed which she plants in a barrel and nurtures in secret, in this non-verbal short.  Fantasies mingle with reality... until things take an unexpected turn.

Hermit Crab Master Of Escape (Larissa Gutarevych/Ukrainian/20:29 min) 
Vitalina is 13 years old, at a new school, and her parents are getting divorced. And then her pet crab adds to the confusion, but ensuing events bring solace and insight.

A Hanging Coffee (Oksana Taranenko/Ukrainian/5:50 min)
A stylised fable-like sequence of events set in a coffee shop on a rainy morning. More than coffee hangs in the balance in this hangout space. 

15:45 - 16:15: Virtual interaction with Ukrainian women filmmakers

16:45 - 18:00: Film  
The Earth is Blue as an Orange (Iryna Tsilyk/Ukrainian & Russian/2020/74 min)
Against the background of an ongoing historical conflict, Anna and her children make a film together about their life, to cope with their daily trauma and surreal surroundings. Winner at Sundance for Direction, this documentary has won many more awards – best film, direction, cinematography – at major international film festivals.

18:00 - 18:30: Virtual interaction with Ukrainian women filmmakers

18:30 - 19:30: Fiction Shorts (II)
Solatium (Christina Tynkevych/Ukrainian & Russian /10:43 min)
Anna, an ambulance doctor, responds to a night call which brings back a painful past and challenges her moral compass.

Man (Oksana Artemenko/Ukrainian /6:20 min)
When a father is called to fight for his country, his toddler decides to be a grown-up for mother’s sake. A family vignette with an unexpected visual ending.   

Broken (Solomia Tomaschuk/ /Ukrainian /20:16 min)
Two old acquaintances home from the army meet on a suburban bus. Their unfolding interactions show how you can leave the war, but war leaves its imprint on you. The short expressively conveys their need for support and yet the need to appear strong; their vulnerability is shot through with moments of grace. 

Heartbreaker (Oleksandra Brovchenko/no dialogue/5:14min)
A delicious non-verbal romance plays out in the unlikely setting of supermarket aisles and counters.  

Unwanted People (Loolie Mamontenko/Ukrainian/2021/15:19 min)
This stunningly filmed short with minimal dialogue strikes deep emotional chords, through the two contrasting worlds that Ludmila inhabits (three, if we include her dream and fantasies) – the nightclub where she works, and her home where she is alone yet not alone, both linked by her walks through a hard wintry landscape. 

19:30 - 20:00: Virtual interaction with Ukrainian women filmmakers