South Asian Cultures Festival, Fall 2004-Spring 2005    TENTATIVE Schedule

Sept 21, 8 pm   Concert of Traditional and Contemporary Indian Music by the Sandip Burman Trio (Preston Auditorium)

Sept 30, 7 pm   Film: “Jalsaghar” (“The Music Room”) by Satyajit Ray. Esteemed filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s tale of 1930s India showing the last generation of a landowning family consumed by debts while a nouveau rich neighbor prospers. 1958, 95 min.

Oct 7, 7 pm     Film: “Earth” by Deepa Mehta. A melange of people try to cope with the enormous tragedies that accompanied the partition of India into India and Pakistan in 1947. 1998, 95 min.

Oct 8, 9-12 am and 1-5 pm       Demonstration of Alpona (floor paintings) by Halide Salam and students (outside Cook Hall entrance)

Oct 11, 4 pm    Lecture on Chinese Medicine by Ron Davis from Bozeman, Montana (Waldron 225)

Oct 12, 7 pm    Slide Lecture on Tibet Culture by Ron Davis from Bozeman, Montana

Oct 14, 7 pm    Video/Lecture on “The Lotus Temple” by Suzanne Ament

Oct 21, 7 pm    Film: “Phorpa” (“The Cup”) by Khyentse Norbu. Lighthearted look at Tibetan exiles at a Buddhist monastery in India and the quest of the boys there to watch the World Cup. 2001, 97 min.


 

Oct 23, 6 pm    Night in India—games, sports, music, dance, children’s activities, food demonstration and fashion show (Heth Ballroom)

Oct 28, 7 pm    Film: “Mr and Mrs Iyer” by Aparna Sen. A Hindu woman and a Muslim man are brought together when the bus they ride on with a diverse collection of people is engulfed in sectarian strife. 2002, 120 min.

Nov 4, 7 pm     Panel on Living Hindu Beliefs” by Suchitra Samanta and Kay K. Jordan

Nov 7, 3:00 pm  The Charlottesville Gamelan (Indonesian orchestra) and Dancers

Nov 10, 7 pm    Slide Lecture on “Tibetan Refugees in India” by Prahlad Kasturi

Jan 27, 7 pm    Slide Lecture on “Getting an Education: the Realities for Impoverished Muslim Girls in Calcutta” by Suchitra Samanta

Feb 12, 7 pm    Night in South Asia (Bangladesh, Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Tibet, Thailand, etc.)—Peters 112

Feb 17-Apr 1    Art Exhibit: “Recent Paintings of India by Salma Arastu” (Powell Gallery 205)

Feb 24, 7 pm    Film: “Kannathil Muthamittal” (“A Peck on the Cheek”) by Mani Rathnam. With war in Sri Lanka dislocating people and separating families, a nine-year-old girl searches for her biological mother. 2002, 130 min.


 

Mar 3, 7 pm     Film: “Amar Akbar Anthony” by Manmohan Desai. This enormously popular comedy tells the story of three brothers separated at a young age but eventually reunited. 1977, 184 min.


 

Mar 5, 7 pm     Dances from India by Vijji De Datta (Preston Auditorium)

Mar 8-31        McGuffey Display Cases: S. Asian Traditional Dress

Mar 24, 7 pm    Film: “Miss India Georgia” by Daniel Friedman and Sharon Grimberg. This documentary studies four teenage daughters of Indian immigrants in the United States as they prepare for the Miss India Georgia pageant. 1997, 57 min.

Mar 31, 7 pm    Film: “Lagaan” by Ashutosh Gowariker. Nominated for an Academy Award, Lagaan is an epic tale of taxation, attachment to place, and cricket in nineteenth-century India. 2001, 224 min.

April 14, 7 pm          Roundtable on the British-South Asian Encounter by Kurt Gingrich and Students