"Strengthening cultural
relations & mutual understanding with other countries"
June :
In New Delhi
Friday 25 : Tagore Hall : ICCR : Horizon: Bazm-e-Qawwali : Ifthekhar Ahmad
( Eid-ul-Milad/ Milad-un-Nabi is on 27th*)
Abroad
Bhangra (Paramjit Sidhu) to Germany
Odissi (Rajashree Chintak Behera) to Hungary, Germany & Bulgaria
Percussion (T R Dandapany) to Sweden, Germany, Slovakia & Poland
Flute (R K Srinivasan) to South Africa, Zambia & Botswana
Bharatanatyam -- concluding tour-- (Geeta Chandran) to Ukraine, Romania, Latvia, Morocco
Hindustani vocal -- travel assistance -- (Pt Rajan Mishra & Pt Sajan Mishra) to the USA
July:
In New Delhi
Monday 19 : India Habitat Centre : Retrospectives: Flute : Pt. Pashupati Nath Arya
Tuesday 20 : India Habitat Centre : Retrospectives: Light classical : Rekha Surya
Wednesday 21: India Habitat Centre: Retrospectives: Hindustani vocal: Pt L. K. Pandit
Abroad
Kathak (Nandini Singh) to Sri Lanka
Kathak ( Mukta Mishra) to Tunisia & Egypt
Flute -- concluding tour-- (R K Srinivasan) to South Africa, Zambia & Botswana
Odissi -- concluding tour-- (Rajashree Chintak Behera) to Hungary, Germany & Bulgaria
Odissi -- travel assistance-- (Ileana Citaristi & Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra) to Italy
Hindustani vocal -- travel assistance -- (Uday Bhawalkar) to France
August:
In New Delhi
**Exhibitions :
> 19-26 August : International Photographic Exhibition : Ajanta Gallery, ICCR
Tuesday 10 : Tagore Hall, ICCR : Retrospectives : Odissi : Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra & Ileana Citaristi
Thursday 19 : Tagore Hall, ICCR : Retrospectives: Vichitra veena: Dr. Mustafa Raza
Friday 20 : Tagore Hall, ICCR : Retrospectives: Kathak : Kathak Kendra Group
Friday 27 : Tagore Hall, ICCR : Horizon : Mohiniattam: Priyadarshini Ghose Shome
( The Festival of Onam falls on 25th August )
Saturday 28 : Tagore Hall, ICCR : Cultural troupes from Namibia
Monday 30 : Delhi Public School, R K Puram : Cultural troupes from Namibia
Abroad
**Exhibitions:
>Dolls and Indian dresses in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) : 10-23 August {National Museum}
>Contemporary Graphic Prints in Havana (Cuba) : 8-18 August
Ladakh monastery dances (Tsam dance group from Leh) to Mongolia
Folk dances : from Himachal Pradesh : to Hungary & Egypt
Seraikela Chhau (Ashish Kar) to Germany & Austria
Ramayana (Sri Ram Bharatiya Kala Kendra): Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia
Popular dance & music (Ila Arun) to Bhutan
Contemporary dance ( Amala Shankar group) to Mauritius, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania
Hindustani vocal (Ajay Pohankar) to the UK
Sitar (Kirit Khan) to Switzerland & the UK
Bharatanatyam (Urmila Satyanarayanan) to the UK, Switzerland & Denmark
Carnatic vocal (Anuradha Krishnamurthy) to the UK & Belgium
Hindustani vocal (Pt. Jasraj) to Nepal
Experimental Theatre : "Othello": to Scotland : Edinburgh Fringe festival :
>>>Won the top Award at the Festival<<<
September:
In New Delhi
**Exhibition : > 9th to 23rd: Madhubani paintings: Ajanta Gallery, ICCR
(from the ICCR's Collection)
Tuesday 14 : Tagore Hall, ICCR : Retrospectives: Manipuri Dance : Guru Singhajit Singh & Charu Mathur
Wednesday 15: Tagore Hall, ICCR : Retrospectives : Bhakti sangeet: Pt Rajan Mishra & Pt Sajan Mishra
Friday 17 : Tagore Hall, ICCR : Horizon: Jugalbandi : Saraswati Rajagopalan (Veena) & Sayeed Zafar Khan (Sitar)
Saturday 18 : Tagore Hall, ICCR : Retrospectives: Bharatanatyam: Geeta Chandran
Wednesday 29 : India Habitat Centre: Ensemble Oriol Berlin from Germany (with Max Mueller Bhavan)
Abroad
**Exhibitions:
>Dolls and Indian dresses in Malaysia & Indonesia
>Contemporary Graphic Prints in Trinidad & Tobago
> Photographs: "My Land My People" in Qatar
Contemporary dance (Anand (late) & Tanushree Shankar group) to Mexico and Latin America
Bharatanatyam (Malavika Sarrukai) to Nepal
Instrumental jugalbandi : Sarod (Mukesh Sharma) & Violin ( Anupriya Deotale) to Bahrain, Qatar & the U.A.E.
Experimental Theatre: "Othello" to Egypt
Carnatic vocal: travel assistance--(Aruna Sayeeram) to France
Hindustani vocal -- travel assistance-- (Wasifuddin Dagar) to Japan
Hindustani vocal -- travel assistance-- (Shubha Mudgal) to the USA
Flute -- travel assistance --(Ronu Mazumdar) to the USA
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