SATTRIYA RECITAL at 6 pm
By Krishnakshi Kashyap and Group from Guwahati, disciple of Guru Jatin Goswami and Guru Ramkrishna Talukdar

MOHINIATTAM RECITAL at 7 pm
By Malavika Menon from Kerela, disciple of Smt. Vinitha Nedungadi
Accompanists: Kottakkal Madhu on Vocal; Kallekulangara Unnikrishnan on Mridangam ; Suresh Ambadi on Violin
 

IIC Monsoon Festival of Dance

ODISSI RECITAL at 6 pm
By Lipsa Satpathy from Delhi, disciple of Guru Bichitrananda Swain and Guru Aruna Mohanty

KUCHIPUDI RECITAL at 7 pm 
By Moutushi Majumder, Bobby Chakravorty, Washim Raja from Delhi, disciples of Guru Vanashree Rao

DHRUPAD ARNAV II

Dhrupad Vocal Recital
By Abhijeet Sukhdane

Followed by
Dhrupad Instrumental Recital
By Pushpraj Koshti (surbahar)

DHRUPAD ARNAV II
Dhrupad festival organised in collaboration with The Raza Foundation
Curated by Pt. Nirmalya Dey

Dhrupad Instrumental Recital
By Manoj Solanke (pakhawaj)

Followed by
Dhrupad Vocal Recital
By Madhu Bhatt Tailang 

(73 min; 2022; Hindustani/English with English subtitles)
Director: Aditi Desai

The film will be introduced by Aditi Desai

Screening will be followed by a discussion 

This documentary film is based on Aditi Desai’s 50-year long journey as a major collector of vintage Kashmiri and European shawls. Based on her intensive research, fieldwork and knowlge, the film documents the social and cultural history of Kashmir and its legendary Pashmina and patterned Kani shawls; museum quality Kashmir and European shawls from her collection; and also draws attention to the art and craft of the invisible but highly skilled crafts persons, the Najibabadi rafugars

Speaker: Dr. Arthur L. Frank, Professor and Chair Emeritus, Public Health, Drexel University, School of Public Health, Philadelphia, USA and IIC Distinguished Fellow

Chair: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC
 

“Poems are the Dreams of the Earth”

Readings and talk by Raúl Zurita, one of the most important contemporary poets of Latin America and recipient of numerous awards, including the National Literary Prize of Chile 

Raúl Zurita will be accompanied by translator Anna Deeny Morales who will read in English

Welcome: Ms Omita Goyal, Chief Editor, IIC
Introduction by Dr. Sharmistha Mohanty

 
Raúl Zurita is one of the most extraordinary poets of our times. His is the compassion and hope and faith that come from having confronted despair. Zurita was arrested, when a young man, under the regime of General Pinochet in Chile. All his life his poems have spoken of the extreme injustice and suffering of the Chilean people. The devastation of the Chilean experience made it necessary for him to find new poetic forms, because those forms that already existed were incapable of containing these new brutalities. Although Zurita begins from tragedy, he ends with the beauty and hope of the human condition. He has often said, “The task is not to write books or to paint paintings, it is to make life a work of art and that is the task still at hand.” 

(Collaboration: Almost Island)

Presented by Dr. Uma Sharma and her disciples

Dance Choreography: Dr. Uma Sharma
Music: Pt. Jwala Prasad (late)

(Collaboration: Uma Sharma School of Dance and Music –  Bharatiya Sangeet Sadan)
 

(138 min; 2021; English/Hindi with English subtitles)
Directed by Hemant Chaturvedi who will introduce the film

Screening will be followed by a discussion

The film follows the lives and creative journeys of 14 cinematographers, who worked primarily in the Mumbai film industry. Between these 14 people, they have filmed over 800 movies and over 15,000 commercials, between the early 1960s and until the previous decade. The film captures their early years and the serendipitous events that chart the emotional journeys of professionals; and the inevitability and mortality of their lives
 

Vocal recital by Astha Goswami, disciple of Pt. Arun Bhaduri and Smt Girija Devi
Accompanied by Atual Shankar, Athar Hussain and Kaushik Mitra

Astha has evolved her own unique style of Padavali Gaayan which incorporates the rich intricacies of Khayal gayaki. Her repertoire includes a rich and rare compositions from the Braj region and songs of different seasons

(Collaboration: Guild for Service)