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y, 9th December DIAF School Initiative Venue & Content Partners
12 Delhi International Arts Festival
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1st - 10th December 2018
Central Park, Connaught Place, 6:30 pm
JAZZ
House of Waters / Jazz / U.S.A
Amphitheatre, India Habitat Centre,
Lodhi Load, 7 pm
WORLD MUSIC
Flame of the Forest / Fusion Band / SINGAPORE
Máté Palásti / Guitar / HUNGARY
Sarvsetah Ensemble / Musical Ensemble / IRAN
Junior Qutbi Brothers / Qawwali / Delhi / INDIA
Marwah Studios , Film City, Noida, 7pm
Delhi International Arts Festival
INTERNATIONAL DANCE
A1, 1st Floor, Giridhar Apartments, Sacred Places / Quint / Acrobatic Dance
Art Fusion Project / BELGIUM
28 Feroz Shah Road, New Delhi - 110001
Phone:- 91-11 - 47340497
delhiinternationalartsfestival@gmail.com
Saturday, 8th December
office@diaf.in / diafoffice@gmail.com
festivaldirector@diaf.in
www.prathibhaprahlad.net Amphitheatre, India Habitat Centre,
Lodhi Load, 7 pm
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Ahsan Zulkernaeen
Hindustani Vocal / BANGLADESH
Registration Partner
Roman Das - Tabla, Aparajita Chakra - Tanpura
Anindita Neogy / Kathak / USA
www.diaf.in Vera Krishnaraj / Kuchipudi / RUSSIA
Please Note:
Ram Kishna & Suresh Kishna
Programme subject to change ● Seating on first come first serve basis
Dance-Art-Music Project / NETHERLANDS
● Audio / Video recording and flash photography stictly prohibited
● Front rows reserved for special invitees, sponsors and press ●Do not
carry any briefcases, bags and eatables into the venue ● Ensure that Cosmic Creatrix Synthesis of Creativity
your cell phone is on silent mode. Arangart Tanjore Quartet Art House
Embassies & Foreign Ministries
12th Delhi International Arts Festival
1st - 10th December 2018
The Crafts Museum, Pragati Maidan Colloquium, 3 pm 3rd December, Sardar Patel School, Lodhi Estate
Thousand and One Nights / Fantasy, Dance and
POORNA KALASH: KUMBH Metaphysical and Spiritual Perspectives of the Kumbh
Dr. Mohammad Hanif Khan Shastri Comedy Teatrul Coquette / ROMANIA
Handlooms and Handicrafts Dr. Chitra Shankar / Moderator Ruxandra Balasu & Ovidiu Usvat
Exhibitions, 10 am – 6 pm Prof. Madhu Khanna / Chair Director: Ingrid Bonta
Live Demonstrations By Craftspersons
Closing Session: Re-Imagining Kumbh: Faith, 3rd December, Khaitan Public School, Ghaziabad
Movie Screening, 3.30 pm Spirituality Or Life Force, 4 pm – 6 pm Ranranga Dance Academy
A Celestial Journey from Mukhba to Gangotri Revered Acharyas & Spiritual Leaders of Different Faiths Traditional Folk Dance / SRI LANKA
46 Mins / English / INDIA
Director: Sri. B. S. Rawat
Vedic Chants: Bharat Kulam 4th December, NC Jindal Public School, Punjabi Bagh
Buddhist Chants : Grammy Award Winning Monks From
Colloquium, 5 pm Claudia Balla / Songster / SWITZERLAND
Palpung Sherabling Monastery
Kumbh: Experientiality, Regional Practices, Acharya Mahamandaleswar Swami Avdheshanand Giri 4th December, Uttam School for Girls, Ghaziabad
and Art-Historical Perspectives President, Acharya Mahasabha - Keynote Address Larry T. Hill / Live Loop Performance / AUSTRALIA
Dr. Sushma Jatoo / Ms. Anu Radha / Mr. Rishi Suri Param Pujya Swami Paramathmananda India Habitat Centre
Pujya Swami Chidananda Saraswati 5 December, Salwan Public School, Mayur Vihar
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Ms. Reema Gautam / Moderator
Mr. Anant Vijay / Chair
Pujya Swami Srivatsa Goswami
Kali / Thematic Experimental Dance / AUSTRALIA
His Holiness 12th Chamgon Tai Situpa
Imam Umer Iliyasi Fiona Gardner
Performances, 6:30 pm Reverend Vikas Massey
6th December, Ahlcon International School,
SACRED MUSIC & DANCE Mayur Vihar
Sri. O. S. Arun / Carnatic Vocal / Chennai / INDIA
Performances, 6:30 pm
Máté Palásti / Guitar / HUNGARY
Support
Colors of Fire / Kathak / Delhi / INDIA
Smt. Rachna Yadav / Agni / Kathak / Delhi / INDIA Choreography: Guru Geetanjali Lal & Vidha Lal 6th December, American Embassy School,
Sacred Places / Quint / Acrobatic Dance South Gurukul Society/ Panchatattvas / Odissi / Chanakyapuri Indian Council for Cultural Relations
Flame of the Forest / Fusion Band / SINGAPORE Ministry of Culture Hkkjrh; lkaL—frd lEcaËk ifj’kn~
Art Fusion Project / BELGIUM Kolkata / INDIA
Choreography: Guru Sutupa Talukdar
Sunday, 9th December Gundecha Brothers / Dhrupad / Bhopal / INDIA
Vocal: Pt. Umakant Gundecha & Pt. Ramakant
The Crafts Museum, Pragati Maidan Gundecha Tabla: Pt. Akhilesh Gundecha
POORNA KALASH: KUMBH
Handlooms and Handicrafts Monday, 10th December
Exhibitions, 10 am – 6 pm Airline Partner
Sahitya Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan,
Live Demonstrations By Craftspersons
Feroz Shah Road, 5:30 pm
Movie Screening, 12 noon
Maha Kumbh : In Search of Nectar
SEMINAR
Nari Chetna with noted women writers from
48 Mins / English Smt. Prathibha Prahlad
Director: Shri Bappa Ray different Indian languages Founder Festival Director
Saturday, 1st December
Purana Qila, Mathura Road, 6:30 pm
GALA OPENING
FLOW OF BEATS
Percussion Ensemble / Akram Khan / INDIA
RAON ENTERTAINMENT
Echo of South and North Traditional Music &
Dance / SOUTH KOREA
SHANGHAI TRADITIONAL ARTS CENTER
China Drum Opera / CHINA
RANRANGA DANCE ACADEMY
Traditional Folk Dance / SRI LANKA
Alliance Française de Delhi
Lodhi Road, 7pm
INTERNATIONAL THEATRE
Zoom Dada / Dance Theatre / FRANCE
Samuel Deschamps, Stephane Fortin & Iliass Mjouti
Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre,
Lodhi Road, 7pm
FILM FESTIVAL C
Andarkahini [Self-exile] / Bengali / 86 Mins.
Director: Arnab Kumar Middya
Four women. Four variations of relationships. Four women
protagonists from four different stories played by one woman only.
Keeping one actress common for all the four characters symbolises
the very aspect of womanhood as a metaphor to open up the dark,
hidden aspects of relationships and its complexities
Saturday, 1st December Sunday, 2nd December Monday, 3rd December Monday, 3rd December Tuesday, 4th December Tuesday, 4th December Wednesday, 5th December Thursday, 6th December Friday, 7th December
India Islamic Centre, Lodhi Load, 6.30 pm Alliance Française de Delhi, Central Park, Connaught Place, 6:30 pm Marwah Studios , Film City, Noida, 7pm Alliance Française de Delhi, Marwah Studios, Film City, Noida, 7 pm Central Park, Connaught Place, 6:30 pm The Crafts Museum, Pragati Maidan The Crafts Museum, Pragati Maidan
Lodhi Road, 7pm Lodhi Road, 7 pm
KAVI SAMMELAN
WOMAN: TRADITION, IINTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCES INTERNATIONAL THEATRE WOMAN: TRADITION, POORNA KALASH: KUMBH POORNA KALASH: KUMBH
ALL INDIA KAVI SAMMELAN & MUSHAIRA INDIAN THEATRE CONTINUITY AND MODERNITY INTERNATIONAL THEATRE Thousand and One Nights / Fantasy, Dance and CONTINUITY AND MODERNITY
Shanghai Traditional Arts Center Handlooms and Handicrafts Handlooms and Handicrafts
Brij Kala Kendra Like Mother, Like Daughter / Delhi / INDIA Sumeet Anand Pandey / Dhrupad / Delhi / INDIA Qui-es-tu / Lang: Italian / ITALY Comedy Teatrul Coquette / ROMANIA
China Drum Opera / CHINA
Ayana Mukherjee / Kuchipudi / Delhi / INDIA Exhibitions, 10 am – 6 pm Exhibitions, 10 am – 6 pm
Sohaila Kapur, Arti Nayar & Sonali Sharma Devashish Pathak – Pakhawaj / Lalit Sisodia – Sarangi Divano Occidentale Orientale Ruxandra Balasu & Ovidiu Usvat
Larry T. Hill / Live Loop Performance / AUSTRALIA Mayurakshi Mitra / Odissi / Delhi / INDIA Live Demonstrations By Craftspersons Live Demonstrations By Craftspersons
Written & Directed By : Sonali Sharma Alberto Martinez Guinaldo & Lide Martinez Abaigar Director: Ingrid Bonta
Sunday, 2nd December Deepti Navratna / Sacred Music / Bengaluru / INDIA Yash Kapoor / Hip - Hop Performance / CANADA Director : Giuseppe L. Bonifati Sangeeta Chatterji / Kathak / Delhi / INDIA
Movie Screening, 3.30 pm Movie Screening, 3.30 pm
Malini Awasthi / Folk Music / Lucknow / INDIA Vaishali Kala Kendra / Dasamahavidya / Odissi /
Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, “Kumbh: Eternal Journey of Indian Civilisation” Divine Celebrations on The Ghats of Varanasi
Amaltas, Indian Habitat Centre,
Central Park, Connaught Place, 7pm Lodhi Road, 7pm
Alliance Française de Delhi, Lodhi Road , 7pm
Central Park, Connaught Place, 6:30 pm Wednesday, 5 December th Noida / INDIA
69 Mins. / English / INDIA 53 Mins / English / INDIA
Choreography: Guru Durga Charan Ranbir
INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE FILM FESTIVAL C Ms. Aruna Vasudev Lodhi Road, 7 pm WOMAN: TRADITION, Director: Sri Harshit Jain Director: Sri. V. N. Raina
FILM FESTIVAL C
urated by
urated by Ms. Aruna Vasudev
CONTINUITY AND MODERNITY The Stein Auditorium, Lodhi Colony, 7pm Colloquium, 5 pm Colloquium, 5 pm
Raon Entertainment The Frozen Fire / Sri Lanka / 160 mins. INTERNATIONAL THEATRE Purgatory / China / 2017 / 131 mins. / Mandarin
Sahitya Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan,
Echo of South and North Traditional Music & Dance Director: Anuruddha Jayasinghe Thousand and One Nights / Fantasy, Dance and Nrithya Pillai INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC Feroz Shah Road, 5:30 pm Historicity and Textuality of The Kumbh Celestial And Social Contexts of The Kumbh
Director: Tao Han
SOUTH KOREA The first Sri Lankan entry in the mainstream ‘best picture’ Comedy Teatrul Coquette / ROMANIA In 1924, Stalin took power and launched the Great Purge. A large
Bharatnatyam / Chennai / INDIA
Tsugaru Shamisen / HAYATE /JAPAN SEMINAR Dr. Ved Brat Tiwari / Dr. Sudhir Lall / Dr. Achal Pandya Mr. Guru Prakash / Dr. Hare Ram Mishra / Dr. Bihari
category of Oscars 2019. Ruxandra Balasu & Ovidiu Usvat Swarnamalya Ganesh Mr. Saeed Ansari / Moderator Lal Sharma / Mr. Aman Gopal Surekha / Moderator
Shanghai Traditional Arts Centre number of intellectuals were forced to flee to the Chinese border. Tribal Poets meet with the poets from different
China Drum Opera / CHINA
A group of prisoners are released in November 1977 after six years Director: Ingrid Bonta During World War II, a large number of Soviet young men were Bharatnatyam / Chennai / INDIA DANCE tribal languages of India
Dr. Radha Madhav Bhardwaj / Chair Mr. Sampson David / Chair
of incarceration. They were among the leaders arrested, put on trial killed in battles. Thus, many girls had to marry Chinese men at the
Sudeep Ghosh Krithika Subrahmanian
Claudia Balla / Songster / SWITZERLAND and condemned to life imprisonment for their role in the failed Chinese border.
Chandrabali / Manipuri / Kolkata / INDIA Performances, 6:30 pm Performances, 6:30 pm
Triveni Kala Sangam, Mandi House, 7 pm Brihat - An Artistic renaissance of history,
Larry T. Hill / Live Loop Performance / AUSTRALIA
insurrection in April 1971. The rebels decide to enter mainstream
During the Cultural Revolution started by Mao Zedong, they were
Thursday, 6th December DANCE & MUSIC SACRED MUSIC & DANCE
politics which becomes a dangerous and bloody game
accused as spies and were tortured for confession in an inhuman music & Bharatnatyam / Chennai / INDIA
WESTERN CLASSICAL MUSIC way. Many died in a tragic way. Gulmohar Hall, Indian Habitat Centre, Kuchipudi Dance Academy Smt. Rupa Tiwary
Triveni Kala Sangam, Mandi House, 7 pm Amaltas, Indian Habitat Centre, Túlio Mourão / PIANO / BRAZIL Lodhi Road, 7pm Alliance Française de Delhi, Central Park, Connaught Place, 6:30 pm Kuchipudi / Delhi / INDIA Hindustani Classical Devotional / Lucknow / INDIA
Lodhi Road , 7pm Instituto Cervantes, Hanuman Road Lodhi Road, 7 pm Choreography: Guru Jayarama Rao
Smt. P. Ramaa
CLASSICAL DANCE Claudia Balla / PIANO / SWITZERLAND
Connaught Place, 4.30 pm FILM FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCES
FILM FESTIVAL C Abhinayaa Group Carnatic Classical Devotional / Bengaluru / INDIA
Ragini Chandershekar
urated by Ms. Aruna Vasudev
No. 1 Chung Ying Express / Hong Kong / 118 mins.
INTERNATIONAL
Bharatanatyam / Delhi / INDIA The Modern Love / Japan / 115 mins. Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, INTERNATIONAL THEATRE DANCE THEATRE
Beauty Melody / Sichuan Symphony Orchestra / CHINA Akhanda Laya/ Bharatnatyam / Delhi / INDIA
Ganesa Natyalaya
Choreography : Guru Jayalakshmi Eashwar
urated by Ms. Aruna Vasudev Lodhi Road, 7pm Maiden / Divano Occidentale Orientale
Director: Derek Chiu Sung-Kee Flame of the Forest / Fusion Band / SINGAPORE Bharatnatyam / Delhi / INDIA
Revanta Sarabhai Director: Takuya Fukushima
Awards: Grand Prix at the Osaka Asian Film Festival
KALI / Thematic Experimental Dance / AUSTRALIA Nizami Brothers / Qawwali / Delhi / INDIA Choreography : Guru Saroja Vaidyanathan
FILM FESTIVAL C Lang: Spanish Fiona Gardner
Máté Palásti / Guitar / HUNGARY
Bharatanatyam / Ahmedabad / INDIA NASA announces the discovery of a new planet in the solar system, urated by Ms. Aruna Vasudev
Set up as a mirror, with the same actors playing different characters
Emanon, where life might exist. Working part-time at a travel Alberto Martinez Guinaldo & Lide Martinez Abaigar Sarvsetah Ensemble / Musical Ensemble / IRAN
Ranranga Dance Academy Thorati / India / 127 mins. / Tamil in the 1967 Hong Kong Leftist Riots when they confronted the
agency, Mika is doing her Master’s degree in theoretical physics.
Director : Giuseppe L. Bonifati Marwah Studios , Film City, Noida, 7pm Sahitya Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan,
Traditional Folk Dance / SRI LANKA Director: Marimuthu
British administration, and 2014 after they face similar challenges in Marwah Studios , Film City, Noida, 7pm
She hasn’t been able to get over her boyfriend who disappeared Feroz Shah Road, 5:30 pm
five years ago. One day, Mika suddenly experiences déjà vu and International awards & honours: Prague International Film Festival,
the “umbrella movement” to protest against China’s erosion of their
The Stein Auditorium, Lodhi Colony, 7pm INTERNATIONAL
meets a version of herself. Emanon might have caused the parallel Sahitya Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan,
political freedoms.
INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE SEMINAR
world to intertwine.
Bioscope Global Film Festival.
Feroz Shah Road, 5:30 pm DANCE THEATRE DANCE THEATRE
Based on a real-life incident of 1980s, Thorati depicts an Beauty Melody Yuva Sahiti with the young writers from
unbelievable tradition and a superstitious belief of a shepherding
SEMINAR Sichuan Symphony Orchestra / CHINA KALI / Thematic Experimental Dance / AUSTRALIA
community. Drought and famine force Nallaya, the nomadic Kathakali-King Lear Fiona Gardner
different Indian languages
shephered, his wife and his son Mayan to take refuge in his relative Purvottari with noted writers from North Flame of the Forest / Fusion Band / SINGAPORE The Annette Leday / Keli / Cie / FRANCE
Maruthappan’s village. A malicious group enters this simple
people’s lives to create chaos.
Eastern languages