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Video | Everyone deserves to play music – BBC & #IAmMySong

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-56734767

A Cookstown teenager has teamed up with the Afghan Women’s Orchestra to star in a music video aimed at peace-building and supporting women’s rights.
Cara Monaghan will perform on the song Gham Be Haya with Afghanistan’s first women’s orchestra – also known as Ensemble Zohra – as part of a partnership with local charity Beyond Skin, funded by the Community Relations Council.
Since recording the song, the Ministry of Education in Afghanistan has banned girls older than 12 from singing in public arenas.
The campaign #IAmMySong has been launched to reverse this decision.

Source: BBC News 13 April 2021
URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-56734767
Date visited: 29 April 2021

In true music there is no place for communal differences and hostility. True music is created only when life is attuned to a single tune and a single time beat. Music is born only where the strings of the heart are not out of tune.

Mahatma Gandhi – A unique musician” by Namrata Mishra >>
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A Theatre for All: Sittrarangam (The small theatre Madras) – Free Download

A Theatre for All Sittrarangam—the small theatre Madras by Ludwig Pesch with a Foreword by Himanshu Burte

Download the epub-version for offline reading, printing or getting read out on the Archive.org website >>

eka.grata publications © Amsterdam 2002 (print version), 2016 (ebook versions)

Digital edition © Ludwig Pesch 2016 based on the 2nd revised edition 2002This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.

Beautifully and very imaginatively conceived. India needs theatres of this kind in every village.

Goverdhan Panchal, Emeritus Instructor of Scene Design at the National School of Drama and author of books and articles on traditional Indian theatre

Project website
https://www.natyasala.mimemo.net/Natyasala/Small_theatre.html

Description >>

Sittrarangam is discussed in the chapter on Indian theatre architecture together with Kalakshetra and Kerala Kalamandalam in:
The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre edited by Ananda Lal (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 18-19
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/470139309

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New CD – Classical instrumental and vocal music from North and South India

The CD consist of two live concerts, one is vichitra veena from Dr Mustafa RASA, and my live concert in Carnatic music at the Vilnius University Theatre performed 2018 featuring Raga Abohi. The CD is also available in digital form in this link.

INDIA IN MUSIC. Dr. Mustafa Raza + / Manickam Yogeswaran +
KUKŪ Records SMF 6-005, 2020
Unique CD recorded and realized in Lithuania with mega stars of India – Dr. Mustafa Raza + from North India playing vichitra veena and owner of golden voice of South carnatic – Manickam Yogeswaran +
12 pages comprehensive booklet in English included.

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“We have a natural ability to both learn and teach”: Interview with Sanjay Sarma – cbc.ca

Human beings are very unique in the sense that we are learning animals. We have a natural ability to both learn and teach, and that is called parenting. And being a child, the system of education is relatively recent, where you sit people down in classrooms and, you know, systematically teach them. But what’s happened is that in doing that, we’ve lost the thread a little bit because in fact, the human mind works on curiosity, works on building a model of the world. It needs a lot of love and attention. And parents know how to do that, but we sort of ignored it.

Listen to Quirks and Quarks or read the interview here:

An online learning expert explains how the COVID crisis might help change education for the better >>

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Slideshow | India Inspiration – Tropenmuseum Amsterdam

  • India Inspiration – Tropenmuseum Amsterdam

For ten years this exhibition celebrated the sources of inspiration shared by Indian and Western artists; and at the same time, it traced the role of migrants from India via Suriname through songs, memorabilia, and documentary film footage.

Concept and research: Ludwig Pesch (www.aiume.org) in collaboration with museum staff and Architectenbureau Jowa (www.jowa.nl). On display until 2017.

Photographs © Ludwig Pesch

This exhibition was one of the five themes in the exhibition “Round and About India”: Wanderings

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Storytellers and actors brought their stories to every corner of India. Today their narrative boxes, scrolls and performances are increasingly being replaced by modern mediums, but they have not yet disappeared.

India is a country of stories and storytellers. Opportunities abound in the exhibition Round and About India to watch and listen to narratives about people, ideas and objects. Every item has a tale, every person has something to tell. Whether it is festivals and processions, commerce and history, gods and heroes, pilgrimages and wanderings.

In this exhibition these stories are the central features of performances in dance, theatre and music.