<span style="font-weight: bold;">*Rebellion: History, Music, Poetry*</span><br>
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featuring musicians Achyut Joshi, Dave Sharma and Samita Sinha; and narratives, poetry and folksongs from 1857
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Alwan For the Arts, 16, Beaver Street<br>
Thursday, May 10, 7pm<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Rebellion: History, Music, Poetry</span><br>
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May
10th, 2007 will mark the 150th anniversary of the Rebellion of 1857.
As the largest anti-colonial uprising of the 19th century, the
Rebellion marks a watershed moment in history at multiple levels: the
end of the East India Company's rule and beginning of direct British
government rule and the Raj; the completion of the loss of Mughal
sovereignty in India; and a sea change in North Indian life, culture
and politics.
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To
mark the 150th anniversary, we are revisiting 1857 through multiple
narratives of the event - narratives of revenge, lament and lost
possibilities - through history, music, poetry, and images. The
program will integrate live performances of ghazals and various Indian
musical forms, readings of selected poetry and historical prose, and
images of the uprising and its aftermath.
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<font size="2"><strong></strong></font><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Music</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> - Achyut Joshi, Dave Sharma, Samita Sinha</span><br style="font-style: italic;">
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;">
Poetry/Narrative/Images</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> - </span>"The 'Wheat-ish' Log Collective"<span style="font-style: italic;"> - Sajid Huq, Prashant Keshavmurthy, <span id="st" name="st" class="st">
Daanish</span> Masood, Haroon Moghul, Anand V Taneja
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<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">About Achyut Joshi - </span></span></span></span>Achyut
Joshi has trained in Hindustani Classical Music as a student of
Raghunandan Panshikar of the Jaipur Gharana. In 2005 he was awarded a
Fulbright Scholarship to study music in India. He teaches high school
math in New York City. <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><br><br></span>About Samita Sinha</span>
- Though trained primarily in classical Hindustani music, Samita
Sinha's
repertoire spans a range of styles in several different languages. She
experiments in synthesizing elements of Hindustani music with jazz,
electronic music, and theater. In 2002 she was awarded the Fulbright
Scholarship to study in the guru-shishya tradition in India with Dr.
Alka Deo Marulkar. Since returning to New York City her main projects
have included KAASH,
Sunny Jain Collective, and Sekou Sundiata's the 51st(dream)state.
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More at <a href="http://www.samitasinha.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.samitasinha.com/</a><br>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">From Dave Sharma's Myspace page
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- Sharmaji creates a bass-heavy, post-desi sound that is
as consistently powerful as it is diverse in background-- and
completely NYC. As a DJ and percussionist he's brought his riddims to
artists as diverse as Karsh Kale, Ming & FS, Tina Sugandh, JUNGLI,
and Timbaland's hookstress RajeSwari, as well as for NYC's
9-years-strong Basment Bhangra party...
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In 2004 he started a long-term relationship with AR Rahman's Broadway musical "Bombay Dreams" <br>
More at <a href="http://www.myspace.com/davesharma" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.myspace.com/davesharma</a><br>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">
The 'Wheat-ish' Log Collective</span> - Came up over chai one rainy New York afternoon as a bunch of impecunious <span style="font-style: italic;">desi</span>
graduate students and NGO types realized that the state sponsored
'celebrations' of 1857 in India were going to entirely painted in black
and white, and that even if sitting in NYC, we needed to do something
to change the tints of the picture. <br clear="all">
<br clear="all"><font size="2">May 10, 2007. 7pm<br>Alwan for the Arts, </font><font size="2"><br>
16 Beaver St, 4th Fl<br>
New York, NY 10004<br>
</font><font size="2">16
Beaver between Broad and New Streets, one block
east of Whitehall Street and Bowling Green.<br>
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</font><font size="2"><strong>TRAINS:</strong> <br>
<strong>4, 5</strong> to Bowling Green<br>
<strong>J/M/Z</strong> to Broad St.<br>
<strong>R,W</strong> to Whitehall St.<br>
<strong>1 </strong>to Rector St. or South Ferry<br>
<strong>2, 3</strong> to Wall St.<br>
<strong>A, C</strong> line to Broadway-Nassau</font><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.<br>(with apologies to Dilbert)<br><a href="http://www.synchroni-cities.blogspot.com/">
http://www.synchroni-cities.blogspot.com/</a><br><br>Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that without a sense of humour you're basically pretty f***ed anyway.
<br>(with apologies to Walter Benjamin)<br><a href="http://www.chapatimystery.com/">http://www.chapatimystery.com/</a>