WHAT'S ON - Spring 2020

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Jan - April 2020

The Bhavan 4a Castletown Road West Kensington London W14 9HE 020 7381 3086 / 4608 www.bhavan.net Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Ltd Registered Charity no. 312879 Company Reg. Number 1090630

With 23 subjects covering the gamut of Indian Classical Arts and Culture, look no further to immerse yourself in its training and performance.

Our classes are designed to suit all ages and abilities.

Learn from the most inspiring of teachers, enrich your knowledge by engaging with over 100 performances, workshops and exhibitions throughout the year, and be a part of the dynamic and stimulating network of International performers, teachers, and artists all under one roof.

We look forward to welcoming you into our family. www.bhavan.net 020 7381 3086

Events Calendar

Jan - Apr 2020

Time

Event

Music & Dance

Jan 25, 26

3:00 pm

THE BHAVAN’S FOUNDER’S DAY 1 and 2

Cultural

Sun Feb 16

6:30 pm

THE BHAVAN’S REPUBLIC DAY CELEBRATIONS

Cultural

Fri Feb 21

7:00 pm

THE BHAVAN CELEBRATES SHIVARATRI

Cultural

Sat Feb 22

5.30 pm

FAGUN FEST 2020

Dance

Sat Feb 29

6:00 pm

ekatA – BHARATANATYAM CONCERT BY NINA

Feb

Date

Jan

Genre

RAJARANI MBE* Fri Mar 13

7:00 pm

GAYAKI - THE SINGING SITAR: A TRIBUTE TO USTAD VILAYAT KHAN

Dance

Sat Mar 21

6:30 pm

NARRATIVES OF 0s AND 1s

Dance Drama

Sun Mar 22

7:30 pm

‘KRISHNAA – FIRE TO FROST’ (at SouthBank Centre)

Dance

Sun Mar 22

4.30 pm, 6 pm

ANJALI ODISSI FESTIVAL

Music

Sat Mar 28

6:00 pm

SITAR CONCERT BY KUSHAL DAS (Pt Ravi

Mar

Music

Shankar Fest)* Music

Sun Mar 29

6:00 pm

CARNATIC VIOLIN – VEENA DUET SRI. BALU RAGURAMAN AND SMT. SUBATHRA RAGURAMAN (Pt Ravi Shankar Fest)*

Fri Apr 3

7:00 pm

SANJOG – ‘An Evening of Sublime Music’

Music & Dance

Sat Apr 18

6:00 pm

BENGALI NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS

Tickets online at www.bhavan.net, unless specified *Bhavan Member’s discount applies for this event

Apr

Music & Dance

THE BHAVAN’S REPUBLIC DAY CELEBRATIONS Sun 16 Feb | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Free Entry The Chairman and Executive Committee of the Bhavan UK request the pleasure of your company at this year’s celebration of the Republic Day of India. Chief Guest - Mr Charanjeet Singh (Deputy High Commissioner of India, London).

6:30 – 7:00 pm – Light refreshments 7.00 pm: Speeches followed by a short cultural programme of patriotic songs and dances

THE BHAVAN’S FOUNDER’S DAY Sat Jan 25, Sun Jan 26| 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm | £10 online (£12 at venue) Every January, The Bhavan hosts Founder’s Day celebrations where all students, teachers and art forms are celebrated. It is an extravagant weekend event where each department showcases their respective art styles. Join us as we applaud and appreciate the efforts and the talents of The Bhavan London in this visual and artistic treat.

SHIVARATRI Fri 21 Feb | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Free Entry, all welcome The Bhavan welcomes you to the Shivaratri Puja Celebration. It is celebrated by remembering Lord Shiva with Vedic Pooja, chanting, music and dance performances by Bhavan students. Prasad will be served in the form of dinner. Sponsored by Smt. Pratibha Sharma and family.

Nina Rajarani MBE

FAGUN FEST 2020 Sat 22 Feb | 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm |£20, £15, £10

ekatA - Bharatanatyam Concert

by Nina Rajarani MBE Sat 29 Feb | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | £15

Bengal heritage foundation in association with London Sharad Utsav and British Council presents Fagun Fest 2020, a folk festival with UK and International artists.

(Bhavan Member’s discount applies for this event)

International artists - Tanmoy Das aka Kangal Khyapa, Pranes Som, and Dotara player Arpan Thakur Chakraborty UK Artists - Tanusree Guha, Gouri Chowdhury, Arunava Bardhan, and Amith Dey. Bengal Handicraft display and sale by Afroja Khatun - 3:30 pm - 8:30 pm.

Further details contact - Bhaskar Bhattacharya - 07922846600 / bhflondon@ gmail.com

Award-winning choreographer and dancer Nina Rajarani MBE will present a solo Bharatanatyam recital of dance pieces she has choreographed to the music compositions of her husband Y Yadavan who will accompany on vocals.

The performance will also feature a curtain raiser to be performed by emerging young dancers who have taken part in a masterclass with Nina, as well as a dynamic finale by Nina’s youth group.

This performance is part of a tour funded

by Arts Council England and supported in kind by Harrow Arts Centre, the Bhavan and New Dimensions.

NARRATIVES OF 0s AND 1s Sat 21 Mar | 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm | £10 (Online) / £12 (At venue)

An iconic musician and prolific personality, Ustad Vilayat Khan breathed new life into the tradition of the Sitar by singing through its strings and created a style now known as the ‘gayaki ang’. Join this unique evening reflecting on his legacy and celebrating his many beautiful compositions.

Curated by the Sitar Music Society in collaboration with the London Sitar Academy, the evening will feature Khan Sahib’s senior disciple, Ustad Dharambir Singh MBE along with talented artists Harmeet Singh Virdee (Sitar), Roopa Panesar (Sitar), Jasdeep Singh Degun (Sitar), Kaviraj Singh (Vocal) and Upneet Singh (Tabla).

The sonification of data along with a live musical ensemble provide the database or the background score to create these dialogues aka codes in real-time!

Concept, Choreography and DirectionMathangi Keshavan. Producer- Linda Saunders, Dancers - Supritha Aithal, Kirsten Newell, Divya Ravi, Akshara Mohan, Swarup Menon, Musicians - Divyanand Caird (Veena), Mithushan S (Percussion) and Mathangi Keshavan (Cymbals). Data Sonification: Adrian Lewis Mathangi Keshavan

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GAYAKI - THE SINGING SITAR: A tribute to Ustad Vilayat Khan Fri 13 Mar| 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm | £20, £15, £10

Narratives of 0s and 1s is a visualization of the world of data through movement and oral vocabulary of bharatanatyam. This creative dance piece seeks to decode the impact of binary representations of data in society. Using body as a data warehouse and music as a streaming process, performers attempt to extract narratives about data, transform them into the language of Bharatanatyam and load them into a forty-minute production to integrate with the audience.

The Bhavan presents ‘KRISHNAA - Fire to Frost’ at South Bank Centre Sun March 22 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | £22 (Concessions available) please book in advance

ANJALI ODISSI FESTIVAL Sun 22 Mar | 4.30 pm - 5:30 pm | 6:30 pm - 8.30 pm | £12 An inclusive and intergenerational festival celebrating the diversity of Odissi in the UK, through performances by established, emerging and young artists. Experience the beauty and depth of this dance form, be part of its growing community of practitioners, partake of the transformational power of the dancing body and, with your generous presence, endorse the path of art as a divine offering. Presented by Bhumi Odissi Dance Academy with the support of The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and all participating Odissi artists.

Meet tragic heroine Draupadi, also known as ‘Krishnaa’, from the Hindu epic, the Mahabharata, in a fantastical dance production. Said to be born of fire, Draupadi led a life full of incident and drama. The production depicts key moments in her story from the perspective of the divinity Krishna.

Abhinava Dance Company are one of India’s most popular and cutting-edge production houses, performing for over 25 years to more than seven million people across five continents. The company was founded by couple Nirupama and Rajendra, who are involved as dancers, choreographers, artistic directors and producers, and showcases a variety of Indian dance forms.

Pt. Rajkumar Misra

Pandit Kushal Das

PANDIT RAVI SHANKAR CENTENARY MUSIC FESTIVAL

The Bhavan presents Sitar concert by PT KUSHAL DAS AND PT RAJKUMAR MISRA Sat March 28 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm £20 / £15 / £10 (Bhavan Member’s discount applies for this event)

The Bhavan invites you to a much-awaited Sitar concert by Pandit Kushal Das with Pt. Rajkumar Misra on Tabla.

Pt Kushal Das, an internationally acclaimed ‘Sitar and Surbahar’ player, was born in a highly enriched musical family of Kolkata. Kushal started his training from the age of five under the guidance of his uncle and father.

Later he received rigorous training in advanced sitar techniques and the art of creating music, under the affectionate guidance of Pt. Sanjoy Banerjee.

He is a “top-grade” musician of All India Radio and Television. Kushal has participated in most of the major concert festivals in India and abroad and has several CDs released from across the Globe.

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The Bhavan presents Carnatic Violin - Veena duet SRI. BALU RAGURAMAN AND SMT. SUBATHRA RAGURAMAN Sun March 29 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | £15 / £12.50

The Bhavan proudly presents an evening of scintillating Karnatic violin - veena duet by popular gurus Smt Subathra Raguraman and Sri Balu Raguraman.

Accompanying Artistes: Sri Mannargudi Easwaran Mridangam, Sri R N Prakash – Ghatam

Sri R N Prakash

(Bhavan Member’s discount applies for this event)

Sanjog

SANJOG - ‘An Evening of Sublime Music’ Fri 3 Apr | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | £12, £10

A Fundraiser to support animals rescued from the Australian Bushfires Kalakar UK presents a hypnotic, world class Indian Classical music concert – an extraordinary blend of Indo-Western Classical music with Kathak dance.

The first half of the event will feature Srimati Chandra Chakraborty. She will be accompanied by internationally acclaimed Pandit Sanju Sahai on Tabla and the very talented Rekesh Chauhan on Harmonium.

The second half of the event will mesmerize the audience with an experimental journey of Indo-Western Classical Music with Kathak dance. Chandra Chakraborty will be joined by the sensational Kathak performer Indrani Dutta and the critically acclaimed London based band iyatra Quartet.

BENGALI NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS Sat 18 Apr | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | £10 (including snacks) Join us for an event celebrating the Bengali new year traditions with Music and dance.

Artists - Koyel Bhattacharya, Subhasish Banerjee, Pt Sanju Sahai (Tabla) among others Dancer and Musician from India – TBC

SAVE THE DATE: MAY

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NARITVA - A Bharatanatyam production

by Mrs. Parimala Hansoge and Mrs.Sankari Mridha

Sat 2 May| 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm | £5, £8, £10 JUNE The Bhavan presents -

Hindustani Vocal concert by Sri SANJEEV ABHYANKAR Sat Jun 6 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm £20, £15, £10 INTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY Sun Jun 21. (timings TBC) SWARA NRITYA SAMARPAN - An evening of Classical Music and Dance celebrating Pujya Guruji Swami Tejomayananda’s 70th birthday.

Sun 28 June | 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm | £20 Tickets for all events are available online at www.bhavan.net

THE BHAVAN’S SPECIAL COURSES BEGINNER’S INTENSIVE COURSES REGISTER BY FEB 23, 2020 We are delighted to announce our Special Beginner’s Course in all 4 of our featured subjects of this year – Sitar, Tabla, Violin, and Mridangam.

These new intensive courses are open to anyone wanting to learn Indian instrumental music.

Enrol to get a head start on the basics over the course of six weeks. At the end of the course you may be eligible to join the summer term of our 2019/20 foundation training course from April 2020.

SITAR and TABLA DURATION – 6 weeks (Weekly 1 hour 15 minutes) DATES - Tue 25 Feb -Tue 31 Mar 7:00 pm -8:15 pm Fee £60 (Instruments will be provided initially) VIOLIN and MRIDANGAM DURATION – 6 weeks (Weekly 1 hour 15 minutes) DATES - Wed 26 Feb – Wed Apr1 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm Fee £60 (Instruments will be provided initially) Registration Email: parvati@bhavan.net or nanda@bhavan.net

WORLD SUNDAY DANCE 26 APR DAY 2020 Tickets at www.bhavan.net

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