[Peace] Re: Tagore Festival at Channing Murray

[Jan & Durl Kruse]

> TAGORE FESTIVAL, OCTOBER 24-25
>
> DAY 1
> * * * * *
>
> Title: The Twentieth Annual Tagore Festival 2008 Cultural Events
> Friday, Oct 24, 6-10
> Location/address of event: Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W.  
> Oregon St., Urbana
>
> Description of event:
> The twentieth annual Tagore Festival honors the Nobel prizewinning  
> Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore with a series of cultural events  
> on Friday evening, Oct. 24. The events will be held at the Channing- 
> Murray Foundation, 1209 W. Oregon St., Urbana. The events begin at  
> 6:00 pm with a reception and continue with an invocation at 6:15, a  
> children's dance at 6:30, a dinner at 6:45, and a cultural program  
> at 8:00. The cultural program includes Madhuri Das singing Tagore  
> songs, Arnab Chakrabarty on sarod, and Subrata Bhattacharya on  
> tabla. The musicians are supported in part by the Governor's  
> International Exchange Program of the Illinois Arts Council. All  
> events are free of charge EXCEPT the dinner, which costs $12 for  
> adults and $10 for children. Reservations must be made in advance.  
> Contact Sidd Purkayastha (siddp1 at yahoo.com, 217-398-6742) or Nani  
> Bhowmik (nbhowmik1 at comcast.net, 217-355-1508). For more details,  
> see the Tagore Festival Web site at http://tagore.business.uiuc.edu.
>
> * * * * *
> DAY 2
> * * * * *
>
> Title: The Twentieth Annual Tagore Festival 2008 Interfaith Dialogue
> Saturday, October 25, 1:30-4
> Location/address of event: Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W.  
> Oregon St., Urbana
>
> Description of event:
> The twentieth annual Tagore Festival honors the Nobel prizewinning  
> Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore with a keynote speech and panel  
> discussion on the afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 25. These events will  
> be held at the Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W. Oregon St.,  
> Urbana. The events begin at 1:30 pm with a reception, and continue  
> with a keynote speech, "The Politics of Intolerance in South Asia"  
> by Dr. Sumit Ganguly, Tagore Professor at Indiana University at  
> 2:00. His talk will try and trace the origins of religious  
> intolerance and ethnic hatred and attempt to provide some possible  
> means for containing these disturging trends. The events conclude  
> with an interfaith dialogue panel discussion at 3:00. Panelists are  
> Dr. Rajmohan Gandhi, Dr. Robert McKim, Dr. Mir Ali, Dr. Rajeshwari  
> Pandharipande, Dr. Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, and Rev. Axel Gehrman  
> These events are free of charge. For more details, see the Tagore  
> Festival Web site at http://tagore.business.uiuc.edu.
> <Tagore_Festival_20086.doc>

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