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The Twenty-First Annual Tagore Festival

October 9, 2009
Urbana, Illinois

Tagore and His Politics

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore
1861-1941

 

 

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Friday evening, October 9

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

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

5:30 pm

Reception
6:00 pm Invocation
6:15 pm Geeti Alekhya
(Narrative in Songs) based on Tagore’s Music
featuring Madhuri Das and Debashis Das from Bangladesh
6:45 pm

Catered Dinner
$14 for adults; $10 for students; $8 for children (6-12 years). Reservations required.

See reservation contact list below. (Please make reservations with payment by September 30. 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
Rebel without an Army: The ‘Individual’ in Tagore’s Politics
Brian Hatcher, McFee Professor of Religion and Chair,
Department of Religion, Illinois Wesleyan University
9:00 pm

Cultural Program
Rabindrasangeet Performance
Nirmalya Roy (vocal artist) from Kolkata
Subrata Bhattacharya (on the tabla) from Kolkata

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Contacts

Tagore Festival Poster

Tagore Festival poster 2009

Visit previous Tagore Festivals

History

A short history of the Tagore Festival

Directions

Directions to the Channing-Murray Foundation

Sponsors

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September 8, 2009

Graphic arts by Manideepa Sengupta