Malwa Utsav, March 6-14, 2010

Source: Outlook magazine

With Sant Kabir’s songs so rooted in common life and experience, it feels odd to hear his words echo through chilly five-star hotel ballrooms. This is why filmmaker Shabnam Virmani’s Kabir Project is special. The festival is a series of journeys “in quest of this 15th century mystic poet in our contemporary worlds”. In its 7th year, it travels through rural MP on the Malwa Kabir Yatra. Over nine days, villages will be treated to film shows and concerts featuring Gujarati and Kutchi folk singers, as well as Sufi singer Mukhtiyar Ali. Ali singing Kabir.

For more information, log on to: http://thekabirfest.blogspot.com/

Reminder: Persistence Resistance @ Hyderabad!

A brief reminder :

The Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communications, University of Hyderabad in collaboration with Magic Lantern Foundation is hosting the Persistence Resistance @ Hyderabad, a festival of contemprary political films, as part of the SN School of Arts & Communication’s inaugural cultural festival. The cultural festival is being organised between 13 to 19 March at the SN School premises, while the Persistence Resistance festival is slated for 16 and 17 March. More details on the cultural festival is available on the SN School website. Filmmakers Paromita Vohra, Gargi Sen, Kavita Joshi, and Sourav Sarangi will be attending the festival and interacting with the audience.

Dates: 16 and 17 March 2010
Venue: SN School of Arts & Communications

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