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The Twenty-Fourth Annual Tagore Festival

November 10, 2012
Urbana, Illinois

Meeting of Minds:
Tagore and the Unitarians in Urbana, 1912

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore
1861-1941

 

 

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Twenty-Fourth Annual Tagore Festival

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Location: Channing Murray Foundation, 1209 W. Oregon Street, Urbana

All events are open to the public and free of charge except for the dinner.

4:30 pm:

Reception
Opening Song by Aditi Das

5:00 pm:

Performance of Tagore's Songs
by Unitarian Choir Group

5:15 pm: Stage Reading of Tagore's Red Oleanders (Raktakarabi)
by MITHYA
5:45 pm: Rituranga: Splendor of the Seasons
(Performance based on Tagore's Songs celebrating the seasons of Bengal),
by members of the Champaign-Urbana community
6:30 pm:

Catered Dinner
$15 for adults; $12 for students; $10 for children (6-12 years)
Contacts for dinner reservations.
Please make reservations with payment by November 3. Make checks payable to ‘Tagore Festival.’ The dinner is a Tagore Festival highlight and is often sold out. It will be a professionally catered dinner with appetizer, rice and bread, five courses, and dessert.
8:00 pm Keynote Speech.
Tagore and the Unitarians
Rebecca Manring, Professor of Religious Studies,
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
9:15 pm

Screening: Rabindranath Tagore (1961)
Documentary by Satyajit Ray

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Contacts

Tagore Festival Poster

Tagore Festival poster 2012

Visit previous Tagore Festivals

History

A short history of the Tagore Festival

Directions

Directions to the Channing-Murray Foundation

Sponsors

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Graphic arts by Manideepa Sengupta