Dear friends,
Here's the exciting new line-up for CoHo!
Details on the art & line up is mentioned in the previous Post
IMPORTANT REMINDER:
CREATIVES FOR POVERTY REPRESENTATIVES WILL BE THERE TO COLLECT SOAPS, TOOTHPASTE, GARMENTS, UMBRELLAS, AND A HOST OF OTHER COMMODITIES
THAT YOU CAN DONATE FOR THE CITY'S POOREST FAMILIES.
COHO WILL ALSO HAVE ITS OWN DONATION BOX, AS WE ARE TRYING TO RAISE FUNDS INTERNALLY TO COVER COSTS OF THE MONTHLY EVENT.
COHO LINE UP, JULY 18, 2009
GALLERY BEYOND
130/132, Great Western Bldg, 1st Floor, SBS Marg, Near Lion Gate
Mumbai. Tel: 022-22837345
3.00 –
WELCOME ADDRESS, TEA, AND OPENING THE SESSION
3.30 to 3. 50 pm
1. Touching upon a very topical subject given the recent legal Indian ruling on Gay Sex, Editorial Director of VERVE magazine, Parmesh Shahani, reads an excerpt from his best selling, first person account, titled Gay Bombay. And shows a documentary that he has made.
4.10 – 4.25 pm
2. Actor, model, author and man about town Gary Richardson and his troupe to present a very sensitive theatre piece, Testing the Guarantee. A jawan loses his leg to a Tiger Hill landmine. Sent to the Pune Artificial Limb Centre, he is fitted with a Jaipur-foot and guaranteed he will be able to move ‘like before’. Fighting suicidal urges, he decides to test the guarantee: He will bet his life. The cast also features Rashmi Pitre and Saurabh Sachdeva
3.50 – 4.00 pm
3. Indie-Brazilian vocalist, salsa and belly dancer Carlyta Mouhini to do a tribute to Michael Jackson with UK-based jazz keyboardist Andrew. Carlyta spells versatility. She has four Bollywood hits to her credit, is multi-lingual and can go from jazz to folk to classical to Latina in a flash. She has recorded a song for the to-be-released starrer Kites and is due to release an album titled No Boundaries in Musicaa, set for release this winter in India and around the world
4.00pm – 4.10pm
4. Sitar exponent Madhusudhan Kumar to perform Miyan ke Malhar, a raag composed by Tansen, featuring all rasas of the monsoon, invoking rain gods, then moving into a combination of other related raags of the season.
4.25 – 4.35
5. Imagine a chiropractor turned into expert Salsa and Mirengue instructor and performer! Dr Nilay Shah is just that, and will present the two forms of Latin dance, to classic Latino tracks like Cuba or New York and Sway
4.35– 5.00 OPEN MIC/ NETWORKING, CLOSURE
Time for questions to be asked of authors, actors, dance instructor… any impromptu poems to be read, songs to be sung…leave gallery at 5.00 for next venue.
5.00 PM
ARTISTS CENTRE
Ador House, 1st Floor, 6 K Dubash Marg, Next to Rhythm House, Off MG Road, Kala Ghoda. Tel: 022 22845939
5.10 – 5.20
Management Consultant at i2m Management Services and a highly talented blogger and now novelist, Jvalant Sampat reads from his debut novel, The Tenth Unknown, set in Pre-partition India, Europe and Asia around WWII. A three-way race between a Nazi soldier, a British soldier and an Indian cricketer
5.20 – 5.35
Five minute reading of Kali chapter from the book, Bollywood on the Bend (Sampark, 2009) by Sangeeta Wadhwani, (Executive Editor of HELLO!) with dance interpretation by classical Bharat Natyam dancer Sonali Ganguly and sitar by Madhusudhan
5.35 – 5.45
Gary Richardson presents an excerpt, The First Mad Horse, from his novel The Mad Horses of Matheran. Because of non-stop construction delays, multi-nationals are going bankrupt on a 100-million dollar takeover of Matheran, India's last roadless hill station. The foreigners try to construct a road. It is stopped by protestors who say: 'As long as there are horses...the cars, trucks and road will never be allowed.' To survive, the foreigners have to kill every Matheran horse. How?
The cast also features Rashmi Pitre, Rohan Kapoor and Saurabh Sachdeva
5.45 – 5.00
Fusion repertoire with Gopal Prasad, a flautist from the Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia Gharana. excels in Hindustani Classical and Indian Folk music. Recently he has been playing the flute in the Latin Folk music genre along with Bondo, a Portuguese percussionist. In this fusion set, he plays with Carlyta Mouhini (vocals), Kumar Madhusudan on Sitar, Andrew on the keyboard.
5.00-5.15
A talk by Professor Aroon Tikekar, former editor of the Loksatta, on his recently released book, Mumbai De-Intellectualised: Rise and Decline of a Culture of Thinking (Bibliophile South Asia 2009). His work reflects what a great many people in Mumbai are feeling, to quote the author: “it is painful to watch helplessly the withering away of intellectual life, particularly within a few decades after gaining political independence.”
5.15-6.00
Open mic for spontaneous presentations, questions and answers for participants, wine, cheese, snacks, tea, etc etc. Essentially party time.
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