From radiofreealtair at gmail.com Thu May 10 11:14:46 2007 From: radiofreealtair at gmail.com (Anand Vivek Taneja) Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:14:46 -0400 Subject: [Urban-Media] Today - Rebellion: History, Music, Poetry Message-ID: <8178da990705100814m2144ad0fva219de12e7f026ed@mail.gmail.com> *Rebellion: History, Music, Poetry* featuring musicians Achyut Joshi, Dave Sharma and Samita Sinha; and narratives, poetry and folksongs from 1857 Alwan For the Arts, 16, Beaver Street Thursday, May 10, 7pm Rebellion: History, Music, Poetry 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. 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. **Music - Achyut Joshi, Dave Sharma, Samita Sinha Poetry/Narrative/Images - "The 'Wheat-ish' Log Collective" - Sajid Huq, Prashant Keshavmurthy, Daanish Masood, Haroon Moghul, Anand V Taneja About Achyut Joshi - 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. About Samita Sinha - 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. More at http://www.samitasinha.com/ >From Dave Sharma's Myspace page - 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... In 2004 he started a long-term relationship with AR Rahman's Broadway musical "Bombay Dreams" More at http://www.myspace.com/davesharma The 'Wheat-ish' Log Collective - Came up over chai one rainy New York afternoon as a bunch of impecunious desi 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. May 10, 2007. 7pm Alwan for the Arts, 16 Beaver St, 4th Fl New York, NY 10004 16 Beaver between Broad and New Streets, one block east of Whitehall Street and Bowling Green. *TRAINS:* *4, 5* to Bowling Green *J/M/Z* to Broad St. *R,W* to Whitehall St. *1 *to Rector St. or South Ferry *2, 3* to Wall St. *A, C* line to Broadway-Nassau -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. (with apologies to Dilbert) http://www.synchroni-cities.blogspot.com/ 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. (with apologies to Walter Benjamin) http://www.chapatimystery.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/urban-media/attachments/20070510/f8110d9b/attachment.htm