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The Fourteenth Annual Tagore Festival

Friday, September 20 and
Saturday, September 21, 2002
Urbana, Illinois

Tagore for the 21st Century

organized by the Tagore Festival Committee

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore
1861-1941

 

 

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Friday, September 20, 2002

All Friday events at the Music Building Auditorium, University of Illinois campus

Admission to the Friday evening program is free.

The sitar recital is co-sponsored by SPICMACAY (Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture among Youth).
7:30 p.m.: Kabuliwallah, The Man from Kabul
a one-act play by the Bengali Student Association of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
8:00 p.m.: Sitar Recital by Pundit Budhaditya Mukherjee

 

Saturday, September 22, 2001

All Saturday events at the Tagore Center
(Channing-Murray Foundation Hall, 1209 W. Oregon St., Urbana, IL)

Cost for Saturday's program:

  • adults: $15
  • students: $12
  • children: $8
6:00 p.m.: Reception
6:30 p.m.: Dinner
An elegant sit-down Indian dinner of twelve or more items, catered by the Taj Mahal Restaurant, Bloomington, IL
8:00 p.m.: Keynote speech:
Tagore's Poetry: A 21st Century Evaluation
by Professor Emeritus Anjishnu Roy,
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
8:45 p.m.: Cultural Program

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History

A short history of the Tagore Festival

Sponsors

  • A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company
  • Carle Foundation Hospital
  • Channing-Murray Foundation
  • CU Cityview
  • East Central Illinois Bengali Association
  • Indian Cultural Society
  • Indian Students Association
  • Kalarte Gallery
  • Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois
  • School of Music, University of Illinois
  • SPICMACAY
  • WEFT
  • many private donors

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