Performing the Bengal Borderlands

The South Asian Sound Interventions team is proud to announce a full week of events

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Performing the Bengal Borderlands:
Music, Movement, and Encounter

The University of Chicago’s South Asian Sound Interventions Series (SASI) will host a week of events from February 11-16, 2013 focused on performance across the Bengal Borderlands. Musicians, activists and scholars from South Asia, Europe and the United States will come together to discuss, perform, and imagine situated alliances, encounters, and mobility affordances in the region spanning Bangladesh, the states of Northeast India, West Bengal and beyond. Our events coincide with the opening of a temporary exhibit at the Smart Museum of Art: The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989.

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All events are free and open to the public. No registration is required.

Events:
Monday February 11th •  7:30pm  Concert: “Hindustani Strings at the Borderlands”
Performance Penthouse, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts

Tuesday February 12th • 4:30-6:00pm  Workshop: “Musical Instruments Across the Bengal Borderlands”
Room 205, Goodspeed Hall

Wednesday February 13th •  4:30-6:00pm  Workshop with Amie Maciszewski
Room 703, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts

Thursday February 14th •  9:00am-3:00pm  International Symposium: “Performing the Bengal Borderlands”
The Franke Institute for the Humanities

Friday February 15th • 7:30pm  Mehfil: “Musicians in Movement Across the Borderlands”
Fulton Recital Hall

 

Co-sponsored in part by the Department of Music, Committee on Southern Asian Studies (COSAS), Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago Arts Council, and the Franke Institute for the Humanities.