2009-2000

 


Rabindranath Tagore

XXI TAGORE FESTIVAL, 2009
Saturday, October 9
Theme: Tagore and His Politics


PROGRAM

5:30: Reception
6:00: Invocation
6:15: Geeti Alekhya
(Narrative in Songs) based on Tagore’s Music
featuring Madhuri Das and Debashis Das from Bangladesh

6:45: Dinner
8:00: Keynote Speech
“Rebel without an Army: The ‘Individual’ in Tagore’s Politics”
Brian Hatcher, McFee Professor of Religion and Chair,
Department of Religion, Illinois Wesleyan University
9:00: Cultural Program

Rabindrasangeet Performance
Nirmalya Roy (vocal artist) from Kolkata
Subrata Bhattacharya (on the tabla) from Kolkata

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Rabindranath Tagore

XX TAGORE FESTIVAL, 2008
October 24-25
Theme: Ocean of Peace: Tolerance and Sustenance for All


PROGRAM: October 24

6:00: Reception

6:15: Invocation

6:30: Dance performed by children

 

6:45: Dinner

 

8:00: Cultural Program

Madhuri Das, Bangladesh: Tagore Songs
Arnab Chakraborty, Mumbai: Sarod
Subrata Bhattacharya, Kolkata: Tabla

PROGRAM: October 25

1:30: Reception

2:00: Keynote Speech

The Politics of Intolerance in South Asia
Dr. Sumit Ganguly, Tagore Professor,
Indiana University, Bloomington

3:00: Panel Discussion: Interfaith Dialogue

Dr. Rajmohan Gandhi, Dr. Mir Ali, Dr. Robert McKim Dr. Rajeshwari Pandharipande Dr. Rini Bhattacharya Mehta and Rev. Axel Gehrmann

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Rabindranath Tagore

XIX TAGORE FESTIVAL, 2007
October 12-13, 2007
Theme: Tagore in the Global Community


PROGRAM: October 12

6:00: Reception

6:15: Invocation

6:30: “Tasher Desh” – A play performed by children

 

7:00: Dinner

8:15: Keynote Speech

“From the Home to the World: On the Ethics of Attachment in a Global Community”

Prof. Patrick Hogan, Department of English, University of Connecticut, Storrs

9:00: Cultural Program

PROGRAM: October 13

2:00: Bengali film and Discussion

7:30: Musical Performance

Suchismita Das with Subrata Bhattacharya (tabla)
Classical songs and songs by Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam
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Rabindranath Tagore

XVIII TAGORE FESTIVAL, 2006
October 21, 2006
Theme: Tagore and Rural Reconstruction


PROGRAM

2:00: Reception

2:30: Invocation: Inaugural Dance

Introduction to the Festival

3:00: Welcome from Channing-Murray Foundation

Dannel McCollum (Mayor of Champaign, 1987-1999)

4:00: Dr. Uma Das Gupta

Keynote Speech, “Scientific Agriculture, Rural Reform and the Tagores: Rabindranath and Rathindranath”

5:00: Intermission

5:30: Cultural Program by ECIBA

Tagore Music and Baul Songs

6:00: Dinner

7:30: Sunil Gangopadhyay

Special Lecture: “Rabindranath”

9:00: Cultural Program by ECIBA

9:30: Closing Song and Remarks

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Rabindranath Tagore

XVII TAGORE FESTIVAL, 2005
October 15, 2005
Theme: Tagore at Home and Abroad


 

PROGRAM

2:30: Reception

3:00: Invocation – Inaugural Song

A Blueprint for Reinventing Tagorean Performance

Professor Ananda Lal, Jadavpur University

3:30: Musical Performance

Hans Vermeersch and Group, Belgium (link)

Music of Tagore: Confluence of East and West

 

4:30: Intermission

 

4:45: Musical Performance

Urbana-Champaign Group

Desh Bidesher Rabindranath: A Musical Exploration

 

6:00: Talks

  • Professor Fred Gottheil, UIUC

Reading Tagore: A Personal Experience

  • Ananta Ghosh Chicago

Tagore’s Travelogue

 

6:30: Dinner

 

8:00: Musical Performance

Dr. Michael Sczerba, UIUC

A Musical Rendition of Tagore’s Poem “Rain”

8:15: Keynote speech

Dr. Martin Kämpchen, Santiniketan, India (link)

Rabindranath: Read in Bengal and Abroad

9:30: Closing Song and Remarks

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Rabindranath Tagore

XVI TAGORE FESTIVAL, 2004
October 15-16, 2004
Theme: Tagore on Education


 

PROGRAM: October 15

 

7:30: Dance Recital by Amita Dutt

Uday Shankar Professor, Department of Dance, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India

 

PROGRAM: October 16

 

6:00: Reception

6:30: Cultural Program

7:00: Dinner

8:45: Keynote Speech

“Tagore’s Thoughts on Education”

By Prof. Amita Dutt

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Rabindranath Tagore

XV TAGORE FESTIVAL, 2003
October 18, 2003
Theme: Gitanjali


 

PROGRAM

5:00: Reception and Painting Display

 

5:30: Invocation

 

5:45: Keynote Speech:

Gitanjali and the Aesthetics of Rabindranath Tagore

A presentation on the evolution of Professor McGinnis’s project, Gitanjali: 103 Small Paintings, and the artist’s ideas on how Tagore’s sense of aesthetics may be applied to the 21st century.

by Mark W. McGinnis; Professor of Art

Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota

 

6:30: Dinner

Catered Indian dinner provided by Bombay Grill, Champaign, IL

 

8:00: Cultural Program

“Kotha Chilo,” a presentation of Tagore’s compositions through the performing arts, by Unmesh Surodhwani of Greater Chicago

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Rabindranath Tagore

XIV TAGORE FESTIVAL, 2002
September 20-21, 2002
Theme: Tagore for the 21st Century


 

PROGRAM: September 20

7:30 pm: Kabuliwallah (The Man from Kabul),

A one-act play by the Bengali Students Association, UIUC

 

8:00 pm: Sitar Recital by Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee

(co-sponsored by SPICMACAY: Society for the promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture among Youth)

 

PROGRAM: September 21

6:00 pm: Reception
6:30 pm: Dinner: An elegant sit-down Indian dinner of twelve or more items, catered by the Taj Mahal Restaurant, Bloomington, IL
8:00 pm: Keynote speech:
Tagore’s Poetry: A 21st Century Evaluation
by Professor Emeritus Anjishnu Roy,
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh

8:45 pm: Cultural Program

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Rabindranath Tagore

XIII TAGORE FESTIVAL, 2001
To be updated soon 
Theme: Rabindranath Tagore for the 21st century


PROGRAM:

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Rabindranath Tagore

XII TAGORE FESTIVAL, 2000
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Theme: Translating Tagore

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