Saturday, December 7

4:45 PM onwards

Theme: Tagore in the Age of Extraction

Keynote Lecture by Dr. Lisa Trivedi, Hamilton College

“Rabindranath Tagore and the Age of Extraction”

The lecture will be followed by the performance of a play based on Tagore’s Red Oleanders and The Land of Cards.

PROGRAM FLYER coming soon

The Festival is observed every year in honor of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), poet, dramatist, musician, philosopher, and humanist, who became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. The Annual Tagore Festival commemorates the Nobel Laureate’s visit to the UIUC campus in 1912 when he delivered a series of lectures at the Channing Murray Chapel, the first Unitarian Church of Urbana. Tagore’s creative genius has been celebrated here over the years with novel presentations of music, art, poetry, prose, and his overall philosophy. The Tagore Festival presents a unique, cross-cultural forum within which the Champaign-Urbana community explores Tagore’s legacy in the global context.