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Tuesday, April 27, 2004

Posted 6:47 PM by Anurag

Bhoomi Jathre Schedule

May 1st, 2004, 4pm onwards at Fireflies on Kanakpura Road (see earlier post below)

This is to give you a final performance schedule as well as a couple other jathre details*

a.. This year the theme for Bhoomi Jathre is Water. Fireflies will have a stall dealing with issues of water, water sharing, water harvesting, the politics of water etc. If any of you would like to display posters, pamphlets etc, please get in touch with Deepu at 94481- 30756.
b.. Bhoomi Jathre passes are available at all Café Coffee Days and Casa Picolas. They are priced at Rs 200 per pass.
c.. We have two new stalls - a FREE BOOKS STALL & a FLEA MARKET. Contact Anita at 98440-01619 for the FBS and George at 98457-66843 for the
FM. Please don't bring things randomly because we have a major space constraint and need to plan in advance.
d.. Please bring umbrellas, rain-coats, hats, tarps etc in the event of rain. We are assuming that even if it does rain, it will be for 45 mins to an hour, and celebrate water we must! Therefore*.the show will go on.
e.. This year, between performances, Collective Chaos & Pedestrian Pictures are showing a curated package of short documentary films.
f.. Performers and their performances for this year include*
Soliga Troupe - Bhoomi Geethe (Folk songs)
Bhima Sangha - Bhoomi Geethe (Fold songs)
Dalit Mahila Sangha - Protest Songs
Attakalari - Contemporary Dance
River - Fusion Band
Madrigals, Etc - Western classical a capella singing
Tara Kini - Hindustani Vocal performance (including Kabir bhajans)
Tripura Kashyap & Meenal Choudhary - Aranya Kiran, dance-theatre piece
about Rukmini & Krishna
Mallikarjuna - Vachanas
Swaraspandana with Shanti Rao (Veena),
Dr.Sangeetha (Violin), CN Anand (Tabla)
Ramu Natarajan (Veena),
& Mahadevanna (Mridangam) - Carnatic Classical performance
Konarak Reddy & Muthu Kumar - Guitar & Tabla Band (with Paul Santiago &
Priya Kumar)
Oikyotaan - Folk-Rock Band
Thermal & a Quarter - Rock band
Please forward this to others who maybe interested. Thanks.

See you at the jathre!

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