A two-day-long festival (14th & 15th of September 2013) of World Poetry and Indian Classical Music Festival (second one after Nehru Centre this year) featuring
brief talks on the crises in connectivity of Indian Classical Music, contemporary poetry sessions by Bengali, Persian, Urdu, Hindi (with translation) and English contemporary poets as well as Saudha's world-class concerts which are designed to deconstruct and deluge the mood and meaning of classical music both vocal and solo-instrumental through seamless amalgamation with traditional world poetry. The door will open at 5.30pm and the event will start at 6.00pm each day.

Artist Profile:
Leading interpreters of Indian Classical Music Chandra Chakraborty (Vocal www.chandrachakraborty.info)), Shahbaz Hussain (Tabla www.shahbazhussin.co.uk), Kamalbir Nandra (Violin), Sumana Basu (Ghazal), Dipanjan Guha (Sitar), and young cello player Gemma Irving as well as actor and impassioned reciters Erik Schelander and Leesa Gazi and many poets from multi-racial background will take you to a celistial universe.

Ticket: £5 (Adult) and £3 (Child) each day.
Please contact Amal Amalendu Shekhar Podder on 07718662890 or email info@saudha.org or visit www.saudha.org or www.sevenleeds.co.uk

or visit Saudha's festival page:

http://worldpoetryandindianclassicalmusicfestival.com/

Event Content:

14/9/13 Saturday
18.00 Talks by academicians, musicologists, poets and cultural personalities from multi-racial background
18.30 Contemporary Poetry session (English, Bengali, Urdu, Persian and Somali)

Poet Liz Cashdan (www.lizcashdan.co.uk), Young Somalian Poet Hassan Abdullahi, Contemporary young English Poet Rob Smith, poet Amina Dorothy Weston, Urdu poet Mehzabin Ghajala and Bengali Poet T M Ahmed Kaysher and more
19.00 Solo Sitar
19.40 Break for 10 minutes
19.50 Kheyal Thumri, Toppa, Dadra etc
21.00 End for first day

15/9/13 Sunday
18.00 Talks by renowned musicologists, performers
18.20 Contemporary Poetry session (English, Bengali, Urdu, Persian and Somali)

Popular performing poet of the North Siobhan Macmahon (www.siobhanmacmahon.co.uk), poet Scott Farquharson (www.scottfarquharson.co.uk), Urdu Poet Ishtiaque Mir, Bengali poet Delower Hussain Monju and more
18.40 Ghazal
19.10 Break for 10 minutes
19.20 Solo violin
19.45 Solo Tabla
20.00 Kheyal, Thumri
21.00 End of the festival