Voices of Bengal
A season of events at the British Museum focusing on the rich cultural heritage of Bengal.
Tagore study day
Saturday 14 October, 09.30–17.00
Speakers include Dr Ketaki Kushari Dyson,William Radice and Naresh Sohal.
Includes a screening of Ray’s documentary on Tagore and a music and
dance performance. £18, concessions £12
Bengal Food Evening with Fay Maschler and guests
Thursday 19 October, 18.30
An evening celebrating Bengali cuisine with restaurant critic Fay Maschler
and guests including Simon Parkes (The Food Programme), Rudrangshu Mukherjee
(The Telegraph, Calcutta) and restaurateur Udit Sarkhel.
The literature of the Bengal renaissance
Thursday 26 October, 18.30
Dr Gulam Murshid discusses Michael Madhusudan Dutt and Krishna Dutta examines
the influence that European literature and thought had on Bengali literature.
Daggers, daring and devotion: the literary imagination of Old Bengal
Thursday 2 November, 18.00
Tony Stewart discusses how the literature of pre-colonial Bengal illuminates the
cosmopolitan nature of traditional society.
This is not fusion: a musical journey
Thursday 2 November, 20.00
Amit Chaudhuri presents a new urban musical idiom combining blues, rock, and
jazz with Indian classical music, featuring guitar, keyboard, bass and tabla.
A Tagore music evening
Friday 3 November, 18.30
The Medici Quartet, soprano Sally Silver and tabla player
Sanju Sahai perform works including Tagore settings by
Naresh Sohal, a virtuoso tabla performance, and Ravel’s
String Quartet. £7, concessions £5.
Funded by the Tabor Foundation
Modernism and the East
Thursday 9 November, 18.30
A panel of writers and critics including Amit Chaudhuri and Parkaj Mishra discuss
the influence of ideas of Easterness in the Western Modernist canon.
In partnership with London Review of Books
South Asian Music Youth Orchestra
Sunday 12 November, 18.30
Including works inspired by Rabindranath Tagore.
Funded by the Tabor Foundation
Bengal’s treasures: songs of Tagore and Nazrul
Saturday 18 November, 15.00
A 60-minute performance by the group Dhwani of Bengali
songs by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and the
national poet of Bangladesh, Kazi Nazrul Islam. Followed
by a screening of the documentary Kazi Nazrul Islam.
For the full programme including films and performances visit www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/bengal
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