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The Nineteenth Annual Tagore Festival

October 12-13, 2007
Urbana, Illinois

Tagore in the Global Community

sponsored by the Bengali Students Association and SPICMACAY

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore
1861-1941

 

 

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Friday evening, October 12, 2007

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

6:00 pm

Reception
6:15 pm Invocation
6:30 pm "Tasher Desh" — A children's play
7:00 pm Dinner
Adults: $12 / Students: $10
Reservations required by Oct. 9; see reservation instructions or contact one of the Tagore Festival committee members below.
8:15 pm

Keynote Speech:
"From the Home to the World: On the Ethics of Attachment in a Global Community"
Prof. Patrick Hogan
Department of English, University of Connecticut, Storrs

9:00 pm Local Cultural Program
Songs, recitation, and dance by local performers

Saturday afternoon, October 13, 2007

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

2:00 pm

Bengali film and discussion
(approximately 2 - 2 1/2 hours)

Saturday evening, October 13, 2007

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

7:30 pm Suchismita Das
with Subrata Bhattacharya, tabla
Classical songs and songs by Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul

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Related Events

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Location: Cosmopolitan Club House, 307 E. John St., Champaign

Coffee Hour
7:30 - 9:30 pm

As part of the series of international coffee hours sponsored by the Cosmopolitan Club, tonight's coffee hour will feature:

  • a slide presentation on rural West Bengal, including Shantiniketan, a university founded by Rabindranath Tagore north of Calcutta; and
  • a sample of delicious foods from West Bengal and elsewhere in India.

(This event is free of charge.)

Sunday, October 7, 2007

Location: Live on the air! — WEFT radio, 90.1 FM

Music of Tagore
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm

As part of WEFT's weekly program, Shruti: The Music of India, this week's show will present music of Rabindranath Tagore and information about the poet's life and work.

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Contacts

Tagore Festival Poster

2007 poster (PDF)

Visit previous Tagore Festivals

History

A short history of the Tagore Festival

Directions

Directions to the Channing-Murray Foundation

Sponsors

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February 2, 2008

Graphic arts by Manideepa Sengupta