Vocalists and instrumentalists from all over Delhi will gather to sing the Pancharatna kritis of Saint Tyagaraja. It is an IGNCA initiative with cooperation from various music groups.

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• Photographs of Workshop
• Photographs of Concert

Kathakar-International Storytellers Festival is being organised at IGNCA in collaboration with Nivesh (NGO). The festival will showcase national and international story tellers from different regions of the world. It will feature stories from histories, epics, social themes, folktales, tales from animal kingdoms and much more.

National story tellers are: Prof. Vettavarayan and his troupe presenting Villupattu from Tamil Nadu; Nayak Baldevbhai D. presenting Baithak ni Bhavai from Gujarat and Padam Shri N. Ibemni Devi presenting Khongjom Parba from Manipur

International Story tellers are: Emily Parish (U.K.) presenting Folk tales from Europe, India and Africa; Sarah Rundle (U.K.) presenting stories from Silk Route; Godfrey Duncan (TUUP, U.K.) presenting African folk tales and Daniel Hall (Hungary) presenting tales from Hungary

Venue: Amphitheatre, C.V. Mess, Janpath, IGNCA
Time : 4 pm to 8 pm

Sessions are also being organised for invited school students in the morning from 9 am to 12:30 pm on 30 and 31 January, 2015.
No morning session will be held on 1 February, 2015

News Updates

• Media Coverage (HT – 18th Jan. 2015)
• Media Coverage (NC – 2nd Feb. 2015)
• Media Coverage (BS – 3rd Feb. 2015)
• Media Coverage (BS – 3rd Feb. 2015)
• The Hindu,
• Livemint
• The Economic Times
• Millennium Post
• Deccan Herald
• The Statesmant

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• Invitation
• Program Schedule
• Poster
• Flyleaf part 1 | Flyleaf Part 2
• View Photographs (30.01.2015 morning)
• View Photographs ( 31.01.2015 morning)
• View Photographs (30.01.2015 evening)
• View Photographs ( 31.01.2015 evening)
• View Photographs (01.02.2015 evening)
• Report
• Video Clip (30.01.2015)
• Video Clip (31.01.2015)
• Video Clip (01.02.2015)

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• 6:30-7.30 PM: Lecture on Karana Sculptures of Tanjore Temples by Dr. Padma Subramanyam.
• 7:30-8.15 PM: Lecture on Architectural Marvel of the Big Temple by Architect Mrs. Sheila Sriprakash.

Ms. Sumedha V. Ojha will talk about her book Urnabhih.

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The Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE) and the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in New Delhi have developed a workshop that focuses on the practice and discussion of risk-based decision making to optimize the management of collections and buildings. The workshop is sponsored by the ‘Mutual Cultural Heritage’ (MCH) program of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture, Government of India

Organizers: The Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE), Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi and Crafts Museum, New Delhi

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Inauguration on 18th January 2015 by N. Gopalaswami, former Chief Election Commissioner of India at 6.30 PM

LECTURES by Southern Regional Centre

7:00-7.50 PM: Lecture by Ms. Chitra Madhavan regarding the Temple and inscriptions.
7:50-8.40 PM: Lecture by Mr. Pradeep Chakravarthy regarding Paintings and Old British Photographs of the Temple.

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Brhadisvara Project

Press update: 

• Deccan Chronicle, 19th Jan. 2015
•  Trinity Mirror, Chennai 20th Jan. 2015