SUDHA KHANDWANI
MEMORIAL EVENT
Dear Friends,
We the family and friends of Sudha Thakkar Khandwani, who passed away on November 3, 2016 in Mumbai, India, are writing to invite you to a memorial event that will be hosted to CELEBRATE HER LIFE AND ART . The details are as follows:
Date: Sunday, December 18, 2016;
Time :4pm—6pm; Reception afterwards
Venue: Menaka Thakkar Dance Company Studio Theatre
11 Glen Cameron Road; UNIT 1
Thornhill, ON. L3T 4N3
(3rd Traffic light North of Steeles Avenue, east off Yonge Street)
This entire event will be live-streamed over the Internet and will remain there actively available for a period of 48 hours for people to watch on personal devices such as laptops, tablets, and smart phones.
The two hour event will be equally divided between verbal tributes to Sudhaji and tributes offered through dance by some eminent performers from India and Canada.
The speakers will include:
· Dr. Menaka Thakkar (Eminent dancer, choreographer, teacher; Sudhaji's Sister) Toronto
· Dr. Pragna Enros (Specialist in Sanskrit Theatre, Writer; Dancer; Sudhaji's sister), Toronto
· Anne Valois (Past Director, Arts Disciplines Division, Canada Council for Arts),Canada)
· Michael Crabb (Critic for "The Toronto Star, Canada)
· Sadanand Menon (Dance writer and Critic, Chennai and New Delhi, India)
· Dr. Sunil Kothari (Dance Historian and Critic, New Delhi, India)
· R.K. Murthy (Eminent Social and Cultural Leader, Toronto)
· Rinha Singha (Eminent Kathak dancer, choreographer, teacher)
· Lata Pada (Eminent dancer, choreographer, teacher), Mississauga
The performers will include:
· Sujata Mohapatra (eminent Odissi dancer, (Bhubaneshwar,India)
· Bhavajan Kumar (Bharatanatyam dancer, Chennai,India and Toronto, Canada)
· PLUS:
· "A Tale of Two Mosques" documentary film by Sudha and Abdullah Khandwani
The entire event will be live-streamed over the internet and will remain there actively available
for a period of 48 hours for people to watch on personal devices such as Laptops, tablets, and smart phones.
CONTINUING PROGRAM OF SPEAKERS AND PERFORMERS – JANUARY THROUGH MARCH
Sudhaji was a versatile artist and functioned in multiple genres at different points of time in her life—Classical dance (performance, choreography, teaching, presenting),research and documentation of folk and tribal arts for eight years all over India, Theatre acting (for which she was a gold medalist), photography, and film making. Her greatest and most lasting work was done in the last 25 years through her curatorial work with all genres of classical and contemporary dance under the banner of Kalanidhi International Festivals and Symposia of Indian Dance. An enormous number of dancers, choreographers, teachers all over the Indian Diaspora came under her influence and they feel deeply grateful to her for their own accomplishments in life and art. Many of today's eminent dancers have expressed their desire to get involved by paying their tributes not only verbally but also through their dance.
It is clear that the story of Sudhaji's life and art cannot be told in one evening; it has to be a continuing flow over a period of time.
The Memorial event will therefore will be spread over a four month period from December 2016-March 2017. It will finally culminate, coincide and conclude at Kalanidhi's next international festival, "Whirling Streams" planned for March 28 to April 1, 2017 at Harbourfront Centre's, Fleck Dance Theatre Toronto.
During the pre-festival period from December to Mid-March, we shall make our best effort to maintain a fairly steady flow through "LIVE and ENCORE STREAMING over the internet of Dance and Verbal tributes by leading and emerging dancers who are both currently operating and also retrieved from Kalanidhi's archival footage of past festivals, symposia, critical talks, and relevant panel discussions. The dates, times and other details will be announced over Facebook and other social media, and also through growing membership in our own MTDC-KALANIDHI LIVE STREAMING PROJECT.
WE SINCERELY HOPE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO ATTEND THE EVENT ON Sunday December 18, 2016 at 4pm.
- If you are planning on coming in person please RSVP at admin@kalanidhifinearts.org
- If you are planning on watching the event over the internet, please use the following internet address: https://youtu.be/-7-wNiNh1XM
- If you would like to be on our mailing list for news about Kalanidhi Festival contact admin@kalanidhifinearts.org
- For more information about Sudha Khandwani and the Festivals go to: www.kalanidhifinearts.org.
- If you would like be included in a growing membership for live streamed events, send us your name and email at MTDC-KALANIDHI livestream.org
Kindest Regards,
Abdullah Khandwani Husband
Menaka Thakkar Sister
Rasesh Thakkar Brother
Pragna Enros Sister
Rasanidhi Thakkar Brother
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