Please join UIUC RSO Spicmacay for a continuation of their workshop series on Indian classical art forms: Parampara. This series will focus on Bharatnatyam, one of the most popular styles of Indian classical dance!

The Bharatnatyam workshops will begin Jan 19, and will be held every Saturday for 13 weeks, from 9:30AM to 11:30AM. All sessions will be held in the multipurpose room in the Illini Union.

Each session will include 2 workshops focused on Bharatnatyam, which will take place one after the other, every Saturday. The first hour will be dedicated to the basics, and the second part goes deeper into 'abhinaya'.

Workshop fees: Try out the first session for free! After that, it's $40 for UIUC students and $50 for everyone else (to be paid in cash)

Location: Illini Union; Multipurpose classroom.

The Bharatnatyam workshops will be conducted by Maitreyee Sharma, who has been learning dance for over 14 years under the tutelage of Prof. M. R. Krishnamurthy. She has passed the Senior Exam in Dance under the Karnataka Board and has also successfully finished her Arengetram.

Please join UIUC RSO Spicmacay for a continuation of their workshop series on Indian classical art forms: Parampara. This series will focus on Bharatnatyam, one of the most popular styles of Indian classical dance!

The Bharatnatyam workshops will begin Jan 19, and will be held every Saturday for 13 weeks, from 9:30AM to 11:30AM. All sessions will be held in the multipurpose room in the Illini Union.

Each session will include 2 workshops focused on Bharatnatyam, which will take place one after the other, every Saturday. The first hour will be dedicated to the basics, and the second part goes deeper into 'abhinaya'.

Workshop fees: Try out the first session for free! After that, it's $40 for UIUC students and $50 for everyone else (to be paid in cash)

Location: Illini Union; Multipurpose classroom.

The Bharatnatyam workshops will be conducted by Maitreyee Sharma, who has been learning dance for over 14 years under the tutelage of Prof. M. R. Krishnamurthy. She has passed the Senior Exam in Dance under the Karnataka Board and has also successfully finished her Arengetram.

Please join UIUC RSO Spicmacay for a continuation of their workshop series on Indian classical art forms: Parampara. This series will focus on Bharatnatyam, one of the most popular styles of Indian classical dance!

The Bharatnatyam workshops will begin Jan 19, and will be held every Saturday for 13 weeks, from 9:30AM to 11:30AM. All sessions will be held in the multipurpose room in the Illini Union.

Each session will include 2 workshops focused on Bharatnatyam, which will take place one after the other, every Saturday. The first hour will be dedicated to the basics, and the second part goes deeper into 'abhinaya'.

Workshop fees: Try out the first session for free! After that, it's $40 for UIUC students and $50 for everyone else (to be paid in cash)

Location: Illini Union; Multipurpose classroom.

The Bharatnatyam workshops will be conducted by Maitreyee Sharma, who has been learning dance for over 14 years under the tutelage of Prof. M. R. Krishnamurthy. She has passed the Senior Exam in Dance under the Karnataka Board and has also successfully finished her Arengetram.

Please join UIUC RSO Spicmacay for a continuation of their workshop series on Indian classical art forms: Parampara. This series will focus on Bharatnatyam, one of the most popular styles of Indian classical dance!

The Bharatnatyam workshops will begin Jan 19, and will be held every Saturday for 13 weeks, from 9:30AM to 11:30AM. All sessions will be held in the multipurpose room in the Illini Union.

Each session will include 2 workshops focused on Bharatnatyam, which will take place one after the other, every Saturday. The first hour will be dedicated to the basics, and the second part goes deeper into 'abhinaya'.

Workshop fees: Try out the first session for free! After that, it's $40 for UIUC students and $50 for everyone else (to be paid in cash)

Location: Illini Union; Multipurpose classroom.

The Bharatnatyam workshops will be conducted by Maitreyee Sharma, who has been learning dance for over 14 years under the tutelage of Prof. M. R. Krishnamurthy. She has passed the Senior Exam in Dance under the Karnataka Board and has also successfully finished her Arengetram.

Through the intimate interactions of three generations of the Namgyal family, "The Song Collector" explores the uneasy relationship between culture and development and ultimately offers a new vision, inspired by the Buddhist concept of the ‘middle path’, that seeks to find a lasting coexistence between tradition and modernization. (Directed by Erik Koto. 2016. Ladakh, India. 54 minutes.)

Introduction and post-screening discussion with Stefan P. Fiol
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati.

AsiaLENS is a series of free public film screenings and discussion programs—organized by the Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS)/Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies (CEAPS) in collaboration with the Spurlock Museum and the Robert E. Brown Center for World Music—presenting recent documentary and independent films on issues reflecting contemporary life in Asia. Local and visiting experts introduce the films and lead audiences in post-screening discussions.

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/294547284580197/

"The Silk Road of Pop" sketches a unique portrait of the vibrant pop music scene among the Uyghur Muslims in North-West China. Featuring traditional musicians, hip-hop crews, rock stars and dynamic music fans, this documentary taps into the rhythmical zeitgeist of what it means to be young and Uyghur in China, showing how music becomes a liberating element for a minority trying to assert its identity within a repressive environment. (Directed by Sameer Farooq. Co-directed by Ursula Engel. Produced by Stijn Deklerck. 2013. China. 53 minutes.)

Post-screening discussion with Liwei Zhang
Department of Political Science, Jilin University, China and VASP Scholar, UofI.

AsiaLENS is a series of free public film screenings and discussion programs—organized by the Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS)/Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies (CEAPS) in collaboration with the Spurlock Museum—presenting recent documentary and independent films on issues reflecting contemporary life in Asia. Local and visiting experts introduce the films and lead audiences in post-screening discussions.

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/250765899154818/

The Robert E. Brown Center for World Music and Improvisers Exchange, alongside the UIUC Iranian Cultural Association (ICA-UIUC), and Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (CSAMES), are proud to present a lecture on Improvisation in Persian Music by three-time Grammy nominee and renowned kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor.

Kalhor is an internationally acclaimed artist who has been instrumental in popularizing Persian music in the West through his many collaborations, and is a creative force in today’s music scene.

The lecture will be held in Smith Memorial Hall, Room 25, located in the lower level at 805 S. Mathews Avenue.

Open to the public, admission free.

Kayhan Kalhor will also be performing on campus the following day. Please see this Facebook Event for more details about the concert: https://www.facebook.com/events/436496573558261/

These events are co-sponsored by a number of programs including the Center for Global Studies through support from the US Department of Education's Title VI NRC Program.

The UIUC Iranian Cultural Association (ICA-UIUC) and Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (CSAMES) are proud to present three-time Grammy nominee and renowned kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor in concert at the University of Illinois on Friday, February 15, 2019 from 7-9pm in Gregory Hall (810 S Wright St, Urbana). The Robert E. Brown Center for World Music is one of several co-sponsors of this event, including the Center for Global Studies through support from the US Department of Education's Title VI NRC Program.

Kalhor is an internationally acclaimed artist who has been instrumental in popularizing Persian music in the West through his many collaborations, and is a creative force in today’s music scene. His performances of traditional Persian music have attracted audiences from around the globe. He is known for studying the music of Iran’s many regions, in particular those of Khorason and Kordestan, and has toured the world as a soloist with various ensembles and orchestras including the New York Philharmonic and the Orchestre National de Lyon.

Kalhor is also the co-founder of the renowned ensembles Dastan, Ghazal: Persian & Indian Improvisations, and Masters of Persian Music, and has composed works for Iran’s most renowned vocalists including Mohammad Reza Shajarian and Shahram Nazeri. He has composed music for television and film, and was most recently featured on the soundtrack of Francis Ford Copolla’s Youth Without Youth. Kayhan Kalhor has also collaborated with many other well known composers including Osvaldo Golijov and John Adams, and his compositions appear on several albums by Yo-Yo Ma’s Silkroad Ensemble, of which he is a member.

This concert is free and open to the public, but numbered seats can be secured by reserving a free ticket. Please see the Facebook Event page below for ticketing details.