Die Kulturabteilung der Indischen Botschaft Berlin lädt zu folgenden Veranstaltungen herzlich ein:

 

The Culture Department of the Embassy of India, Berlin cordially invites for the following events:

 

 

Tuesday

31 August 2010

18:00 hrs

 

Auditorium

Embassy of India

Tiergartenstr. 17

10785 Berlin

Bus 200 Tiergartenstraße

 

Free admission.

Please show your identity card at the entry point!

It will be highly appreciated, if bags and eatables are not brought inside the premises of the Embassy

 

 

Classical Dance

ODISSI

 

 

Classical Dance

ODISSI

Sandhyadipa Kar

 

Odissi traces its origins to the ritual dances performed in the temples of ancient northern India. The name Odissi refers to the dance style of the state of Orissa in eastern India.

 

Sandhyadipa Kar is from a family of renown artists of Orissa, India. Her grandfather, Pandit Khetramohan Kar was a noted Tabla-maestro of Puri and her father, Shri Prafulla Kar is a well know music director, singer and lyricist. She began her training in Odissi dance in 1982 under the tutelage of Padma Bibhusan Late Guru Shri Kelucharan Mohapatra.

Sandhyadipa has performed both solo and in ballets with well know exponents of Odissi dance like, Padma Shree Late Sanjukta Panigrahi and Padma Bibhusan Late Guru Shri Kelucharan Mohapatra. She was invited by Central Sangeet Natak Academy, India to perform in their Dance Festival in 1996. She has also worked with the renowned Indian Film Director, Shyam Benegal, for his documentary on 50 years of Indian independence.

Sandhyadipa has been teaching Odissi dance for the last 22 years. She has been involved in a number of Odissi workshops with Padmabibhusan Late Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra since 1982. She was a part of Guruji’s dance institute “Srijan”.

Sandhyadipa is currently settled in the United States and in actively involved in performing, promoting and teaching Odissi dance and music.

 

Poster

 

 

Monday

13 September 2010

18:00 hrs

 

Auditorium

Embassy of India

Tiergartenstr. 17

10785 Berlin

Bus 200 Tiergartenstraße

 

Free admission.

Please show your identity card at the entry point!

It will be highly appreciated, if bags and eatables are not brought inside the premises of the Embassy

 

 

Classical Music

Sitar-Vocal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Classical Music

Sitar-Vocal

By the Anubhab Academy Ensemble:

Preetam Banerjee – Sitar

Srikanta Mukherjee – Vocals

Debashish Bhattacharjee – Tabla

Conny RaveTanpura

 

Preetam Banerjee is one of the most promising and talented sitarist amongst the young generation of Indian Classical Music. He has been performing in All India Radio and Television since his age of nine. He achieved first position in many music competitions through out India. He started learning sitar from his Grand Father Late Pandit Amritalal Banerjee as their family tradition at his age of seven. He later took talim from Surasree Kalyani Roy, a successful disciple of Ustad Vilayat Khan. Gradually he took talim from Late Pandit Ajay Sinha Roy and Pandit Buddhadeb Dasgupta. Presently he is under the guidance of sitar maestro Pandit Kushal Das.

Srikanta Mukherjee learnt singing under guidance of Pandit Mukundo Ranjan Ghosh. He got the Master-degree from the Rabindra Bharat University Kolkata and several awards from the Government. He is a regular singer of the Indian Radio and Television, and in 2010 he got the chance to sing in the Bengali movie “Papi”. Srikanta is specialised on classical ragas, but also on Ghazal, Qawali and Bollywood.

 

Preetam Banerjee and Srikanta Mukherjee will be accompanied by Debashish Bhattacharjee on tabla and by Conny Rave on Tanpura.

 

PREETAM BANERJEE spielt klassische Musik auf dem indischen Saiteninstrument SITAR. Preetam war bereits im Alter von 9 Jahren im indischen Radio und Fernsehen zu hören. Schon in jungen Jahren war er weltweit auf Konzerttourneen. Er kreierte einen neuen Stil aus zwei unterschiedlichen Musiktraditionen. Eine indische Zeitung kommentierte: Die Attraktivität seiner Musikvorführungen liegt besonders in der Melodie, Schnelligkeit, Klarheit und im Rhythmus, und sie sind leicht verständlich.

SRIKANTA MUKHERJEE, ein talentierter Sänger der jüngeren Generation in Indien, mit einer schönen und kräftigen Stimme gesegnet, übernimmt den vokalen Teil dieses musikalischen Abends.

DEBASISH BHATTACHARJEE begleitet auf dem bekannten indischen Rhythmusinstrument TABLA. Deabasish, der seinen Tablaunterricht bei dem berühmten Tablaspieler Pandit Swapan Chowdhury begann, hat in Indien und im Ausland namhafte Musiker begleitet und sich mit seiner Präzision in lyrischer Art des Tablaspielens einen Namen gemacht.

 

 

Tuesday

14 September 2010

18:00 hrs

 

Auditorium

Embassy of India

Tiergartenstr. 17

10785 Berlin

Bus 200 Tiergartenstraße

 

Free admission.

Please show your identity card at the entry point!

It will be highly appreciated, if bags and eatables are not brought inside the premises of the Embassy

 

 

 

Classical Dance

Kathak

 

 

Classical Dance

Kathak

Lajja Sambhavnath

 

This dance form traces its origins to the nomadic bards of ancient northern India, known as Kathaks, or story tellers. They performed in villages and temple courtyards, mostly specialized in recounting mythological and moral tales, and embellished their recitals with hand gestures and facial expressions.

 

Lajja Sambhavnath holds a graduate and a post graduate degree in Performing Arts from the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda. She conducted a Fellowship Research entitled “Contemporary Sensibilities vis a vis the heritage of Kathak”, and subsequently conducted another research exploring the therapeutic benefits of the fundamental movements of Kathak.

Lajja worked as a visiting faculty at JG College of Performing Arts, Gujarat University and Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad (MICA). As a Kathak performer, Lajja has taken on the teaching of Kumudini Lakhia. She tries to translate them into her performances as a soloist and as one of the lead dancers with the Kadamb repertory. Lajja also got a rare opportunity to assist Kumudini Lakhia in some of her choreographic productions, which were based on fusing contemporary thoughts with modern presentations yet keeping them deep rooted in traditional techniques.

 

 

Wednesday

15 September 2010

18:00 hrs

 

Auditorium

Embassy of India

Tiergartenstr. 17

10785 Berlin

Bus 200 Tiergartenstraße

 

Free admission.

Please show your identity card at the entry point!

It will be highly appreciated, if bags and eatables are not brought inside the premises of the Embassy

 

 

Classical Music

Santoor tunes

 

 

Classical Music

Santoor tunes

Suddhashil ChatterjeeSantoor

Indranil Mallik – Tabla

 

Suddhashil Chatterjee is one of the most promising santoor artists from India. He started his initial training of vocal music from his mother Minati Chatterjee. His later vocal music talim he received from Pt. SAMRESH CHAUDHURY. Since 1995, Suddhashil is trained in Hindusthani Instrumental music under the tutelage of Pt. Tarun Bhattacharya and Pt. Tezendra Narayan Majumder.

Suddhashil’s style of santoor playing is a combination of Gayaki Anga and Tantrakari Anga in a meditative mood. His mellifluous blending of melody and virtuosity has been well appreciated at prestigious concerts in India and Europe.

 

Indranil Mallick, a promising Tabla Artist of rare skill, has already established himself both as a soloist and accompanist. He received his initial training in tabla when he was only five from his uncle, Sri Montu Mallick. Later he was trained by Prof. Dhabol Bandhapadhaya. From 1985 to the present, he has been under the guidance of Sri Uttam Chakraborty, senior disciple of Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri. Indranil belongs to Luckhnow Gharana style of tabla.

 

 

 

Wednesday

22 September 2010

18:00 hrs

 

Foyer

Embassy of India

Tiergartenstr. 17

10785 Berlin

Bus 200 Tiergartenstraße

 

Free admission.

Please show your identity card at the entry point!

It will be highly appreciated, if bags and eatables are not brought inside the premises of the Embassy

 

 

 

Inauguration

RAINFORESTS

AND THE TIMELESS METAPHORS OF DREAMS,

ON MY EYOT

 

 

 

 

 

Inauguration

RAINFORESTS

AND THE TIMELESS METAPHORS OF DREAMS,

ON MY EYOT

A Public Engagement Project Exhibition on environment consciousness through art, music, poetry, sound and light – in words and in colours

by Manav Gupta, one of the leading contemporary artists of India

 

This art exhibition is sponsored by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi

 

 

A suite of paintings on rainforests and the umbilical cords of earth. A cutting edge MEGA video installation “the rainforests and the timeless metaphors of dreams" "stunning. dramatic. absorbing...Times of India"

A suite of one minute films on climate change and sustainable development some of which were commissioned by the Govt of India.

A first of its kind collaborative eco art project where Manav will create for each visitor/participant a very unique and exciting special involvement with the dynamics of an installation.

 

Manav Gupta is an internationally acclaimed multifaceted painter, poet, performance artist, and environment film maker. Listed by Financial Times as one of the ten contemporary artists of India whose works would fetch good returns, his works have been auctioned and sold successively at Christie’s, Bonham’s, etc, as his handling of light and colour have received rave reviews from critics, media and art lovers alike.

His works are in the permanent collection of the Parliament, the Rashtrapati Bhawan, Birla Academy museum, Chitrakala Parishad museum, museum of the Royal household, Oman, and DRDO museum besides several private and permanent collections.

As the leading art critic Keshav Malik puts it, "technically he is highly professional. Moreover he has a precise understanding of colour as the language with which nature tries to communicate meanings and values. Here then is a silent discourse on the music of colors"

Some of the major special commissioned projects that he has executed include many first of its kind innovations that the artist has conceptualized and created.

Manav has many celebrated solo and group exhibitions to his credit having had the honour of being the first Indian artist to be invited to display at the ICCR's new gallery at their headquarters in New Delhi, in December 2009.

His oeuvre that raises consciousness on climate change and sustainable development through a very thought provoking brilliantly put together travelling trilogy of paintings, films and installation with performance art is travelling to USA and Europe this year.

 

Manav's tryst with Public and collaborative art began in 2002, when he pioneered his Performance art "jugalbandi" with leading musicians like Dr. L. Subramanium, Anup Jalota, Shubha Mudgal or Rahul Sharma on stage, translating their music on the canvas live. He then got luminaries to come and paint with him in his public collaborative art to raise consciousness on environment. Since 2003 he raised the bar once again, in the contemporary art space, several notches up by painting 5000 sq ft wall space live involving 3500 employees.

Awarded the Sanatan Puraskar for Fine Arts by the former French Ambassador, Manav has been invited as an Art and Culture expert on different Government and private organisations including the Expert committee of Republic day celebrations.

Manav’s quality isn’t just about a genius. It’s about how he feels and the shades of blue he seeks in the sky through his eyes. It’s about the grit and struggle of a man from humble circumstances. It’s about a man who hasn’t grown up breathing tinned air. It’s as easy as the flow of a deep river that meanders through a landscape and runs off to an unknown destination where it meets the horizon. Manav is a product of nature. Hence, his love for the trees. Manav is about perception. Hence, his fetish for eyes.

 

Inauguration

22nd September 2010, 18:00 hrs

with a live performance by the artist against the dramatic backdrop of his video installation

 

Exhibition

24th September to 14th October 2010

Mo-Fr from 14:00 to 17:00 hrs

 

 

Monday

27 September 2010

18:00 hrs

 

Auditorium

Embassy of India

Tiergartenstr. 17

10785 Berlin

Bus 200 Tiergartenstraße

 

Free admission.

Please show your identity card at the entry point!

It will be highly appreciated, if bags and eatables are not brought inside the premises of the Embassy

 

 

Lecture

Timeless

ayurveda

in our modern world

 

 

Lecture

Timeless ayurveda in our modern world

Dr. Balaji Tambe

 

Although Ayurveda is ancient, it is a science of nature. Although there have been many changes in the gross matter and in the environment In the modern world, nature and human tendencies remain the same. The therapies and recipes suggested by Ayurveda are timeless and useful even in today's world. Ayurveda can help mankind in solving both physical and psychological problems.

 

Dr. Shri Balaji Tambe is a world renowned Spiritual Master and an Ayurvedic legend who has dedicated his life to promoting a holistic lifestyle and spreading Ayurvedic knowledge across the world. With the combination of the ancient art of healing and modern lifestyle concepts, Dr. Tambe has offered health, happiness and peace to many across the globe.

He established ‘Atmasantulana Village’ - a centre for holistic health and Ayurvedic panchakarma in Karla, based on the concept of Vedic gurukul philosophy. The centre has successfully treated thousands of patients from all over the world with different types of diseases for the past forty years with the unique combination of Ayurvedic medicines, therapies and diet along with Santulan Kriya Yoga, Santulan Aum Meditation and Healing Music. Patients with cardiac ailments, diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney disorders, cancer, AIDS, arthritis have taken the benefit of the Ayurvedic healing. With more than fifty people living and working there, it was named the best model in Vedic community living at the Expo 2000 Hannover, Germany. Since founding Atmasantulana, Dr Tambe has established more centres in Pune and Mumbai as well as in Europe, in Munich, Frankfurt, Westerwald and Gleichen.

For the past 27 years Dr. Tambe has conducted seminars on subjects related to Ayurveda, Yoga, Astrology, Vedanta, Indian philosophy and Spirituality. He brings the message of Indian science and philosophy to the West and has been honored with many prestigious awards for his exceptional work in the field of Health and Healing.

Dr. Tambe gives a daily discourse on Indian philosophy, telecast by Saam TV based on ‘Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta’ with the aim that people can use the abundant knowledge for getting answers to their day to day life problems. Health guidance & Ayurvedic tips are offered every weekend in the show ‘Family Doctor’.

Dr Tambe is both a writer and senior advisory editor for Family Doctor a weekly health magazine by Sakal papers with a circulation of more than 1.7 million copies. He is also the editor of The Echo- a monthly magazine, published by Atmasantulana Village.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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