Make your own Ganesha at home this Vinayaka Chaturthi
Itsy Bitsy, a craft shop at Alwarpet, is offering a discount of 20% on ‘Do-it-yourself’ Ganesha kits being sold at its store. A staff member there says, “These eco-friendly Ganeshas …
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Check out this flower making workshop this weekend
Learn to make crepe paper flowers at this workshop organised by Mylapore based Shrishti School of Culinary Arts and Crafts. For adults and children aged 5 years and above. Course …
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This Bharatanatyam dancer integrates fitness training, theatre, yoga and sloka into her dance lessons
As soon as schools closed due to the lockdown during the second week of March, Bharatanatyam dancer Jayanthi Srivatsan, the director of a dance school called ‘Naatya Aradhana’ at Abhiramapuram, …
Read MoreWorkshop on Warli painting: From Aug 1
A five day Warli painting on canvas workshop will be held from today (Aug 1) for five days. Organised by Mylapore based Shrishti School of Culinary Arts and Crafts. For …
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Hamsanadam Music School kickstarts silver jubilee celebrations. Concerts of senior students go ‘live’
Hamsanadam Music School, founded by music guru, Dr. Shubha Ganesan ( seen in the photo) , is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Every year, in the month of September, …
Read MoreTalk on ‘Architectural conservation in India’. On July 23 evening
A discussion on ‘The future of the past-re-evaluating contemporary interpretations’, will be held by Prof. AGK Menon and Prof. Rajeev Bhargava on Thursday(July 23) at 5 p.m. Sushila Ravindranath is …
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Fifth generation veena repair craftsman isn’t down: uses WhatsApp to help clients make minor repairs of instruments
S. Balaji, a fifth-generation veena repair craftsman based in Mylapore has tapped into technology to help his customers during the lockdown. Balaji along with his father Shankar has been managing …
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Mikeless park concerts: rewinding to July kutcheris in 2010 and 2015. See where those youngsters are!
This July 5 Sunday morning, the Nageswara Rao Park should have been abuzz with the monthly mikeless kutcheri organised by Sundaram Finance. However, the extended lockdown has meant the cancellation …
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Recorded dance recitals of theme fest of 2019 to be webcast
With live dance/music programmes being a distant possibility, Natyarangam, the dance wing of Narada Gana Sabha Trust, Alwarpet presents the 2019 recorded recitals of its signature festival “Devi Bharatham” (performed …
Read MoreExcerpts from an Indo Korean concert series to be streamed online by R. A. Puram based InKo Centre
R. A. Puram based InKo Centre, in association with The Korea Foundation, Arts Council of Korea and Royal Opera House, Mumbai initiated an Indo-Korean collaboration that brought together and showcased …
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How a Bharatanatyam teacher tinkered with tech tools to launch online classes
If you are active on social media, you must have come across scores of videos of music and dance recitals, replays of archival records and even contests. Mylapore’s music and …
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This helpline is for dance community. Use it when you feel down.
Here is a helpline for dancers, dance students and anybody associated with classical dance. It is a helpline for those who feel down, dispirited and lonely. Association of Bharatanatyam Artistes …
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