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events 2008
past events 2008
Kathak* is a partially narrative classical dance form from North India which is characterized by fast footwork (tatkar), spins (chakkar) and innovative use of (bhav) expressions in abhinaya*. Performers today generally draw their lineage from three major schools of Kathak: the Jaipur gharana*, the Lucknow gharana and the Banaras gharana; born in the courts of the Kachwaha Rajput kings, the Nawab of Oudh, and Varanasi, respectively. Pandit Birju Maharaj is the torchbearer of the famous family, Kalka-Bindadin Gharana of Lucknow. Named Brijmohan Nath Mishra, he is a descendant of the legendary Maharaj family of Kathak dancers, including his two uncles, Shambhu Maharaj and Lacchu Maharaj and his father and guru, Acchan Maharaj. He took Kathak to new heights by composing choreography of new Kathak dance dramas. He has toured extensively across the globe, given thousands of performances and held hundreds of workshops for Kathak students. Even though dancing is his first love, he also has an excellent command over Hindustani classical music and is an accomplished vocalist as well having command over Thumri, Dadra, Bhajan, Abhinaya and Ghazals, which will be a part of this Baithak. *The name Kathak is derived from the Sanskrit word katha meaning story, and katthaka in Sanskrit means s/he who tells a story, or to do with stories. * Abhinaya is a concept in Indian dance and drama derived from Bharata's work of dramatic theory, encompassing dance and music, in classical India. * In Hindustani music, a gharana is a system of social organization linking musicians or dancers by lineage and/or apprenticeship, and by adherence to a particular musical style. Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, a fiction writer and journalist, lives in New York. She is a 2002 graduate of Harvard College. In 2005, she received an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and in 2005-2006, she was the Bennett Fellow and writer-in residence- at Phillips Exeter Academy. In 2007, she graduated from the new MA Program at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she was a Bollinger Fellow specializing in Arts & Culture journalism. She has written and reported for The Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Sepia Mutiny, and The American Prospect, among others. She is the vice president of the South Asian Journalists Association and a member of the graduate board of The Harvard Crimson. This fall, she will be a writer – in residence-at Skidmore College, Random House published her first novel, Love Marriage, in April. ABOUT LOVE MARRIAGE- Debut Novel In this globe-scattered Sri Lankan family, we speak of only two kinds of marriage. The first is the Arranged Marriage. The second is the Love Marriage. In reality, there is a whole spectrum in between but most of us spend years running away from the first towards the second. (p.3) Yalini, the daughter of Sri Lankan immigrants who left their collapsing country and married in America, finds herself caught between the history of her ancestors and her own modern world. But when she is summoned to Toronto to help care for her dying uncle, Kumaran, a former member of the militant Tamil Tigers, she is forced to see that violence is not a relic of the Sri Lankan past, but very much a part of her Western present. While Kumaran’s loved ones gather around him to say goodbye, Yalini traces her family’s roots – and the conflicts facing them as ethnic Tamils-through a series of marriages. Now, as Kumaran’s death and his daughter’s politically motivated nuptials edge closer, in the tradition of her family, Yalini too must decide where she stands. Quotes: “A complex, moving evocation of love and war-two ideas which overlap more often, and more dramatically, than we often care to recognize. Love Marriage is an impressive debut.”- Daniel Alarcon, PEN/Hemingway finalist for War by Candlelight, author of Lost City Radio, one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. “In her clear-eyed first novel, V.V. Ganeshananthan has given us a riveting picture of a Sri Lanka at odds with itself, both at home and abroad, and of the intersections of love and war that shape us all. A debut of incredible passion and wisdom.”- Rebecca Johns, PEN/Hemingway finalist for Icebergs. Website: http://www.sajaforum.org/2008/03/books-vv-gane-1.html http://www.vasugi.com • Abhinaya is a narrative concept emphasizing on expressions in Indian dance and drama derived from Bharata's work of dramatic theory, encompassing dance and music, in classical India. • Shaivism encompasses the traditions of Hinduism that focus on the deity Shiva. Mr. A.V. Ilango is a Chennai based artist. He earned his B.S and M.S in Mathematics from Central College, Bangalore in 1971 and 1973. Ilango’s career as an artist includes many national and international one man, and group shows. His work has been presented at the Salon International de Printemps, Lyon Fine Arts Society. Other exhibitions include Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi, Kuala Lampur, Singapore, London, and San Francisco. In 2006, Ilango exhibited at the Indian Consulate in New York as the sole participating artist. In 2008, his solo exhibition “Bovine Principle” was featured at the Forum Art Gallery in Chennai. “Bovine Principle” was also depicted a year earlier at the Art Samar Gallery in Trevendrum. For the first time, his exhibition is now being held at the Tamarind Arts in New York. Beginning in 1992, Ilango has been the recipient of many awards. Most recently in 2002, he received the International Gold Medal at the Salon d’Automne, European Academy of Arts, Paris. In 1992, he received the ABS Chennai Chapter & British Council Fellowship during his visit to the UK. He received the State Award at the Golden Jubilee of Independence Exhibition in 1997. On Tuesday 22 April 2008, 6pm At Tamarind Art Council Ram Rahman will place contemporary Indian photography into the context of the 'lost' histories of photography in the post-independence era. He will talk about photographers who have been crucial figures in the last decade of the struggle for independence struggle and the first decades after independence. Much of this material has not been in the public eye for decades and is a visual archive which has barely been studied. Sunil Janah, Margaret Bourke-White, Cecil Beaton, Kishor Parekh, William Gedney are some of the photographers he will focus on. Ram will show rare photos of Mahatma Gandhi, particularly those taken by Sunil Janah. His own pictures of Gandhi in the popular street idiom will also be featured. Tamarind Arts Council Cordially invites you to the Lecture by Prof. Akeel Bilgrami Gandhi: nature, conscience, religion Tuesday, April, 15, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. Prof. Akeel Bilgrami got a first degree in English Literature from Elphinstone College, Bombay University and went as a Rhodes Scholar to Balliol College, Oxford University to study Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He then taught at the I.I.T in Bombay for two years before he went to the University of Chicago for his Ph.D. He is the Johnsonian Chair of Philosophy at Columbia University, as well as a founding member of Columbia's Committee on Social Thought, and is also the Director of the Heyman Centre for the Humanities. His books are entitled "Belief and Meaning" (1992, Blackwell) , "Self-Knowledge and Resentment" (2006, Harvard University Press), "What is a Muslim?" (forthcoming 2009, Princeton University Press) and "Politics and the Moral Psychology of Identity"(forthcoming 2009, Harvard University Press). He has given over a hundred lectures in countries all over the world, and held visiting positions at Oxford University, Yale University, Australian National University, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, and has held the Rajeev Gandhi Fellowship and the Radhakrishnan Chair in India. He has had numerous grants and awards by the NEH, the Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, among others, and next year he will be a fellow in the 'Scholars and Writers' program at the New Public Library, where he will write a book on Gandhi's thought. 2007
Popular culture, gender, and politics are the focus of filmmaker Paromita Vohra. On November 2 Vohra will screen two short films at Tamarind Art. Her Award winning film Cosmopolis: Two Tales of a City and Where’s Sandra. Cosmopolis: Two Tales of a City looks at divisions of language, class, memory, food and queries the myths of Bombay as a great cosmopolitanism city.Where’s Sandra, is a playful look at the figure “Sandra from Bandra” part covetous fantasy of the racy Christian girl from Bombay who works as a secretary, wears a dress and likes to dance; part condescending stereotype of a dowdy religious girl from a minority community. To attend please RSVP to rsvp@tamarindart.com or call 212-990-9000 ext 105. Tamarind Art, 142 East 39th street, (between Lex. and 3rd Ave) New York, NY 10016. Tamarind Art Presents an evening of music and dance with Sonali Skandan & The Akshara Percussion Ensemble. The program is a double bill featuring accomplished Bharatanatyam dancer Sonali Skandan and the live music of the Akshara Percussion Ensemble led by AR Balaskandan on October 19, 2007 at 7pm at Tamarind Art Gallery. To attend please RSVP to rsvp@tamarindart.com or call 212-990-9000 ext 105. Tamarind Art, 142 East 39th street, (between Lex. and 3rd Ave) New York, NY 10016. Joan M. Cummings the Lisa and Bernard Selz Curator of Asian Art at the Brooklyn Museum will speak on the use of Icons in early Indian art. Thursday September 27 from 6:30 to 8:00pm at Tamarind Art Gallery To attend please RSVP to rsvp@tamarindart.com or call 212-990-9000 ext 105. Tamarind Art, 142 East 39th street, (between Lex. and 3rd Ave) New York, NY 10016. Birju Maharaj is the torchbearer of the famous family, Kalka-Bindadin Gharana of Lucknow. He is a wonderful singer having command over Thumri, Dadra, Bhajan and Ghazals, which will be a part of this baithak.To attend please RSVP to rsvp@tamarindart.com or call 212-990-9000 ext 105. Tamarind Art, 142 East 39th street, (between Lex. and 3rd Ave) New York, NY 10016. Illustrated lecture by the photographer Benoy K. Behl This lecture and exhibition is a part of Incredible India@60 celebrations organized by the Ministry of Tourism & Ministry of Culture, Government of India.To attend please RSVP to rsvp@tamarindart.com or call 212-990-9000 ext 105. Tamarind Art, 142 East 39th street, (between Lex. and 3rd Ave) New York, NY 10016.
Eminent art critic and curator Gayatri Sinha will speak on contemporary Indian art practices particularly since the 1980’s on Wednesday, September 19 from 6:30 to 8:00pm at Tamarind Art Gallery. To attend please RSVP to rsvp@tamarindart.com or call 212-990-9000 ext 105. Tamarind Art, 142 East 39th street, (between Lex. and 3rd Ave) New York, NY 10016. Saira Rao will speak on her new book Chambermaid Wednesday, September 12, at Tamarind Art Gallery 142 East 39th street, (between lex and 3rd Ave) New York, NY 10016. for more information on this event contact Aseem Chhabra at chhabs@aol.com Fifty-two watercolor paintings done by children from Sri Lanka, ages 7 to 18, who survived the Southeast Asia Tsunami of 2004 will be offered for sale at the “AmeriCares Tsunami Art Benefit” at TamarindArt. All proceeds from the sale of these works will go to benefit these children. These art works will be on display from June 27 – 30 at TamarindArt. At TamarindArt, 142 East 39th street, (between Lex. and 3rd Ave) New York, NY. for more information on this event contact Jennifer Martins at jmartins@americares.org or (203) 658-9556. TamarindArt is very proud to announce that one of our artists is having a solo exhibition at P.S.1 MoMA. We take great pride in inviting you to the opening reception of Fuzzy Logic by Prema Murthy at P.S. 1 MoMA on 24 June (Sunday) from noon to 6pm. This exhibition is organized by P.S.1 MoMA Director Alanna Heiss. For More information on P.S.1 you may visit their website at, www.ps1.org. P.S. 1 is located at 22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue. TamarindArt is happy to announce an evening with Kiran Khalap, author of Halfway up the Mountain on 12 June 2007 at 6:30 pm. This talk will focus on the changing metaphors in Indian art and how it has evolved in both paintings and sculptures over a period of time bringing it to the present contemporary Indian art scenario. 7 June 2007, 6.30pm To attend please RSVP: rsvp@tamarindart.com or call 212-990-9000 ext 105 at TamarindArt, 142 East 39th street, (between Lex. and 3rd Ave.) New York, NY 10016. Please come and join us for an evening of pulse-pounding rhythm with master percussionist from Bollywood, Sivamani. 12 May 2007- Performance will begin at 6pm by RSVP only. To attend please RSVP to rsvp@tamarindart.com or call 212-990-9000 ext 105 At TamarindArt, 142 East 39th street, (between lex and 3rd Ave) New York, NY 10016. 212-990-9000 This performance is produced by the World Music Institute and sponsored by TamarindArt. Performance begins at 8pm for tickets call 212 545 7536 or visit the World Music Institute website at www.heartheworld.org At Town Hall 123 West 43rd St. New York, NY 10036 or call Town Hall at 212-997-1929 May 3 TamarindArt hosts Diana and Michael Preston two award winning authors who will speak about their recent book, Taj Mahal Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire. This book is about this history of this great landmark and the people who built it. Cocktails at 6pm book talk starts at 7pm. A limited number of the book will be available for purchase. To attend please RSVP to rsvp@tamarindart.com or call 212-990-9000 ext 105 At TamarindArt, 142 East 39th street, (between lex and 3rd Ave) New York, NY 10016. 212-990-9000 On May 2 TamarindArt will host Swarnamalya who will perform Traditional Bharathanatyam dance at TamarindArt. Swarnamlya is a well known dancer who is proficient in many different styles of dance. Doors open at 6pm performance will begin at 7pm. Be sure to arrive early for a good seat. To attend please rsvp to rsvp@tamarindart.com or call 212-990-9900 ext 105 At TamarindArt, 142 East 39th street, (between lex and 3rd Ave) New York, NY 10016. 212-990-9000 India is one of the world's fastest growing nations, with a film industry to match. Over a thousand features are produced each year, from Bollywood blockbusters to intimate Malayalam, Bengali, and Tamil "art films." An Indian film festival organized by the Department of Film (MoMA) in association with IAAC and sponsored by Marguerite and Kent Charugundla. For more information please visit www.moma.org South Asian Journalists Association and the Zoroastrian Association of Greater New York present the paperback launch of Thrity Umrigar's "The Space Between Us"Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 6.30 pm at TamarindArt, 142 East 39th street, (between lex and 3rd Ave) New York, NY 10016. 212-990-9000 On Monday, March 19th, over 150 established and accomplished professionals from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut gathered at Tamarind Art Gallery for a picture perfect evening of cocktails and progressive Indian art. The goal of the private art viewing was to support Pratham, a grass-roots non-profit organization that helps educate over 200,000 illiterate, under-privileged children daily and reaches over 4 million children nationwide annually. TamarindArt will host Mira Kamdar who will read from, and speak about her new book Planet India How the Fastest Growing Democracy is Transforming America and the World. At TamarindArt, 142 East 39th street, (between lex and 3rd Ave) New York, NY 10016. 212-990-9000 A talk by Shohini Ghosh, Associate Professor, Video and Television Production at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, (Central University) New Delhi. The presentation will discuss this topic through recent media controversies around the use of `hidden cameras' and argues that the right to privacy is as important to uphold as the right to free speech and expression.At TamarindArt, 142 East 39th street, (between lex and 3rd Ave) New York, NY 10016, more information on this event contact SAJA. Join TiE for an evening with Arun Sinha, Chief Marketing Officer of Pitney Bowes, who will discuss his newly published book, Sweet Spot.At TamarindArt, 142 East 39th street, (between lex and 3rd Ave) New York, NY for more information on this event contact Suresh Ramakrishnan (973) 652-1619 suresh_ramakrishnan@yahoo.com Join us for an exciting evening with Ebenezer Sunder Singh, a visiting artist from Delhi. Singh will give a talk and slide presentation on his recent works and share his experience as an artist in the midst of the art boom era. At TamarindArt 142 East 39th Street between Lexington and 3rd Avenue York, NY 10016, Phone: 212.868.1368 2006
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