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The Eighteenth Annual Tagore Festival

Schedule of Events

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Saturday, October 21, 2006

2:00 pm: Reception
2:30 pm: Invocation: Inaugural Dance
Introduction to the Festival
3:00 pm: Welcome from Channing Murray Foundation
Dannel McCollum (Champaign Mayor, 1987-1999)
3:00pm: Cultural Program by Bangladesh Group
4:00pm: Dr. Uma Das Gupta
Keynote speech, “ScientificAgriculture, Rural Reform and the Tagores: Rabindranath and Rathindranath”
5:00 pm: Intermission
5:30 pm: Cultural Program by ECIBA
Tagore Music and Baul Songs
6:00 pm: Dinner
7:30 pm: Cultural Program by Bangladesh Group
8:00 pm: Sunil Gangopadhaya
Special lecture: “Rabindranath”
9:00 pm: Cultural Program by ECIBA
9:30 pm: Closing Song and Remarks
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