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SUMMARY:Carnatic Veena Recital: Saraswathi Ranganathan
DESCRIPTION:Carnatic classical music has been the common thread connecting diverse cultural communities in South India for thousands of years. The veena\, a 24-fretted lute made Veena player Saraswathi Ranganathan has been winning accolades and fans for her mastery of the instrument. Saraswathi will be accompanied by Harsha Mandayam Bharathi on mridangam\, a double-headed\, barrel-shaped drum that is the main percussion instrument of Carnatic music.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/carnatic-veena-recital-saraswathi-ranganathan/
LOCATION:South Asia Institute  1925 South Michigan Avenue Chicago\, IL 60616
CATEGORIES:Music, Film, and Theater
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DESCRIPTION:Join Art Design Chicago exhibiting artists Vida Sačić\, Melissa Leandro\, Indira Freitas Johnson\, and Carlos Barberena for an in-depth conversation about their journeys of immigration and migration\, and ways in which those life experiences have shaped their work. In this panel moderated by Hyde Park Art Center ‘s Mariela Acuña\, the artists discuss how Chicago and its culture have affected them and their art practices.   \nDesigned to trace a connective thread through several Art Design Chicago projects\, Chicago Narratives: Finding a Creative Home\, features artists included in four Art Design Chicago exhibitions\, each of which touches on the ways that artists with origins in other places have contributed to Chicago’s creative ecosystem.  \nFollowing the discussion\, attendees are invited to engage with the artists via a Q&A session and light refreshments.  \nVida Sačić is a multidisciplinary Croatia-born\, Chicago-based artist. Her work in print media explores issues of gender\, immigration\, and labor\, with an emphasis on research\, process\, and community. Her work will be shown in Making an Impression: Immigrant Printing in Chicago at the Newberry Library starting December 12\, 2024.   \nMelissa Leandro is a first-generation US Latinx artist of Costa Rican heritage whose practice lies between the media of drawing\, painting\, and textiles. Her work is currently on view in Agency: Craft in Chicago from the 1970s–80s and Beyond at The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art.   \nIndira Freitas Johnson identifies as a sculptor\, cultural worker\, peace activist and educator from Mumbai\, India. The combination of art and activism has been a major thread of influence that is interwoven into her art and life. Her work is currently on view at Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art’s Agency: Craft in Chicago from the 1970s–80s and Beyond and South Asia Institute’s What is Seen and Unseen: Mapping South Asian American Art in Chicago exhibition.  \nCarlos Barberena is a Nicaraguan born\, Chicago-based contemporary printmaker known for his relief prints and the use of images from pop culture\, as well as from political and cultural tragedies. His work will be shown at Intuit: the Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago as Catalyst: Immigrant Communities Nourish Self-Taught Artists beginning in April 2025.   \nMariela Acuña is an art administrator and curator from San José\, Costa Rica currently based in Chicago. As Exhibitions and Residency Manager at Hyde Park Art Center\, her primary role is to steward the Jackman Goldwasser Residency\, which invites local\, national\, and international artists and curators to hone their practice\, develop research\, and expand their networks in the context of a community-focused contemporary art center. \nPlease RSVP.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/45584/
LOCATION:South Asia Institute  1925 South Michigan Avenue Chicago\, IL 60616
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions and Gallery Events
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SUMMARY:Kiran Ahluwalia  The Sound of Contemporary India
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, May 10 (7:30 p.m.) when we will showcase Kiran Ahluwalia and her band in their debut performance\, live at SAI. Their unique music that transcends genres and cultures\, infuses South Asian music with African desert blues and Western styles. \nEvent Details: \nTICKET PRICES: $25 Advance / $35 At Door \nWHEN: Friday\, May 10 | 7:30 p.m. / 7:00 p.m. Doors \nWHERE: 1925 South Michigan Ave\, Chicago\, Il\, 60616
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/kiran-ahluwalia-the-sound-of-contemporary-india/
LOCATION:South Asia Institute  1925 South Michigan Avenue Chicago\, IL 60616
CATEGORIES:Music, Film, and Theater
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SUMMARY:Art and Madness: A Storytelling Night
DESCRIPTION:Where does art come from? Who is an artist? Does the artist create the art or is it the art that makes the artist? Join us at South Asia Institute on April 13th at 7 pm as 4 of Chicago’s best storytellers answer these questions (or leave you with more!) \nHosted by Jitesh Jaggi\, this special storytelling show will have seasoned performers explore everything about art from various media- from writing foibles to painting mishaps\, from dancers breaking limbs to filmmakers cutting the scene short- there is enough madness to go around for everybody! Enjoy a fun night of funny\, emotional\, sometimes silly and other times life-altering stories surrounded by the beautiful art collection at SAI.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/art-and-madness-a-storytelling-night/
LOCATION:South Asia Institute  1925 South Michigan Avenue Chicago\, IL 60616
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SUMMARY:SAI Screenings: Before You Were My Mother
DESCRIPTION:South Asia Institute Presents\, \nA special screening of the Nepali documentary “Before You Were My Mother” as part of our new “SAI Screenings” series on Saturday\, April 6 (3:30 pm). \nAbout the film\nBorn and brought up in Manipur and currently living in New York\, Ibemhal (59) left her childhood home in Manipur and moved to Nepal after her marriage. Ibemhal’s whole life has been dedicated to raising her two daughters while trying to find her own identity in new places. Who is Ibemhal beyond her identity as a mother and a wife? What was her life like in Manipur? \nPrasuna (30)\, Ibemhal’s eldest daughter longs to understand the person that is her mother. Prasuna’s bond with her mother is shaped by the conflict-ridden socio-political environment in which she was raised\, patriarchal expectations of being a woman in a Nepali society and years of living apart. When Ibemhal returns to Nepal to visit Prasuna in 2020\, both of them take a trip to Manipur to visit Ibemhal’s mother\, Prasuna’s grand mother. \nThis 73 minutes deeply personal observational documentary explores the relationship between mothers and daughters and unearths layers of their childhood\, youth and past traumas. Prasuna tries to come to terms with the differences she has with her mother and seeks a way to define her own life. \nAbout the director \nPrasuna is a documentary filmmaker from Kathmandu. She works as a DocLab Coordinator at kimff and is one of the Filmmaker Mentors for the Camera Sika project run by The British Council Nepal. She was also one of the Filmmaker Fellows of One World Media’s Global Short Doc Forum 2021. Her documentary ‘Dolpa Diary’ (2019) was screened at many film festivals in and outside of Nepal. The documentary was awarded in the category of Best Adventure Film at kimff 2018 and Best Woman Filmmaker at Human Rights International Film Festival (HRIFF) 2019. Prasuna’s work broadly concerns collective memory and an in-depth account of personal experiences.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/sai-screenings-before-you-were-my-mother/
LOCATION:South Asia Institute  1925 South Michigan Avenue Chicago\, IL 60616
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