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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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Schedule of events

Friday, October 12, 2007

6:00 pm

Reception
6:15 pm Invocation
6:30 pm "Tasher Desh" — A children's play
7:00 pm Dinner
8:15 pm

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

9:00 pm Local Cultural Program

Saturday, October 13, 2007

2:00 pm

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

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Sponsors

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August 26, 2008

Graphic arts by Manideepa Sengupta