Kabir Cultural Centre collection

Poster advertising the India-Pakistan Music and Dance Show, a fundraising concert for South Asian earthquake relief held at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Features ghazals performed by Akram Butt, classical dance performed by Manasi Jain, geet performed by Deepa Mathur & Hita Raghunathan, Catherine Potter on the bansuri, Jagjit Singh Soni on the tabla and Aditya Verma on the sarod.… more

Poster advertising Duniya Project's performance at the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, Montreal, Quebec. Features Catherine Potter on the bansuri, Nicolas Caloia on the double bass, Subir Dev on the Tabla, Thom Gossage on drums and John Gzowski on guitar. Catherine Potter was a Canadian bansuri player. She was born on December 25, 1957 in the city of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. She studied… more

Poster advertising a performance of The Magic of Twilight at Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, Montreal, Quebec. Features Irshad Khan on the sitar and the Surbahar, Subhajyoti Guha on the tabla and Geeta Thakur on the tanpura. Irshad Khan is a sitar and surbahar player and vocalist based in Mississauga, Ontario. Considered a child prodigy, Khan has been performing publicly since the age of 7. He… more

Poster advertising a performance of Soirée de sérénité at Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, Montreal, Quebec. Features vocals by Rajendra Kandalgaonkar, Subir Dev on the tabla, and Rajiv Ulhas Tambe on the harmonium. Rajendra Kandalgaonkar is an Indian classical vocalist. Beginning at the age of 7, he was trained for 18 years by Pandit Vishnu A Ghag, and later became a disciple of Bharatratna… more

Poster advertising a performance of Inspiration at Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, Montreal, Quebec. Features Brij Narayan on the sarod and the Surbahar and Abhijit Banerjee on the tabla. Brij Narayan is an Indian classical musician who plays the sarod. He was born on April 25, 1952. He has been active since 1967. He is the son of Sarangi artist Pandit Ram Narayan and disciple of the sarod… more

Poster advertising Down the Memory Lane, An evening of soulful ghazals and delightful Punjabi songs at the Baha'i Centre, Montreal, Quebec. Features vocals by Gurdial Singh Randhawa and Jagjit Singh Sohni on the tabla. Gurdial Singh Randhawa is a ghazal singer. He is originally from the city of Jalandhar in Punjab, India and currently lives in Montreal. He has collaborated with K.L. Saigal,… more

Poster advertising the screening of Sabiha Sumar's 2003 film Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters) at de Seve Cinema, Montreal, Quebec. Khamosh Pani takes place in 1979 Pakistan and follows Ayesha, a widow who lives with her adored son Saleem in the village of Charkhi. Ayesha's quiet life is thrown into turmoil when Pakistan is placed under martial law and the directionless Saleem finds himself… more

Poster advertising a double feature screening at de Seve Cinema, Montreal, Quebec. The films to be screened are Benares, musique du Gange and Music of Pakistan, both directed by Yves Billon. The films feature beautiful music by Ustad Bismillah Khan, Girija Devi, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and other leading musicians of India and Pakistan. Yves Billon is a documentary filmmaker from France. He was born… more

Poster advertising the screening of Shireen Pasha's 2005 documentary, Hima Remembers at de Seve Cinema, Montreal, Quebec. Hima Remembers covers the story of Hima, a woman from Awadh, Northern India, focusing on her relationship with her father, Mohammad Ali Radulvi, and her experiences during the establishment of Pakistan. Shireen Pasha is a writer and director. She was born on February 14,… more

Poster advertising the screening of two films at de Seve Cinema, Montreal, Quebec in celebration of International Non-Violence Day. The films screened are James Cameron's 1978[?] documentary Gandhi and Orlando Bagwell and Noland Walker's 2004 documentary Citizen King. Gandhi originally aired on June 6 1963[?] as the third episode of the of documentary series Men of Our Time. Directed… more

Poster advertising a performance of North Meets South at Grande Bibliotheque, Montreal, Canada. Features Hindustani vocals by Dr. Vinay Bhide, carnatic vocals by Dr. K.S. Narasiah, Vineet Vyas on the tabla, Dr. Satish Salgar on the harmonium, Anjana Srinivasan on the violin, and Saravanan Sundararajan on the mridangam. Dr. Vinay Bhide is a Hindustani classical vocalist. He was a student of Ustad… more

Poster advertising a performance of Music for Mind & Soul at Grande Bibliotheque, Montreal, Canada. Features vocals by Shirin Sengupta, Ranajit Sengupta on the Sarod, and Sbuhajyoti Guha on the tabla. Shirin Sengupta is a Hindustani Classical Vocalist from Kolkata, India. She has been a student of Sri Subhrojyoti Chakraborty, Pandit A.T. Kanan, Pandit Arun Bhaduri, and Pandit Ulhash Kashalkar… more

Poster advertising a 3-day series of events on the historical poet Kabir held at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. The first is a screening of Shabnam Virmani's 2008 documentary Had Anhad: Journeys with Ram and Kabir followed by a panel with Indian filmmaker Shabnam Virmani held at the Birks Heritage Chapel. The second is a panel discussion on Kabir: Word, Sound, and Image held in the… more

Brochure advertising Abhinava Dance Company's performance of Ojhas at Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Montreal, Quebec. Features choreography by Nirupama and Rajendra, associate choreography by Guru Kumudini Lakhia, and music by Praveen Rao and Pravin Ghodkindi. Features dances in both Kathak and Bharatanatyam styles. Abhinava Dance Company is a dance troupe from Bangalore, South India that was… more

Poster for a performance of Gandharva at St. George's Anglican Church, Montreal, Quebec. Features vocals by Sumitra Guha, Nikhil Tikekar on the tabla, and Asaf Mirza on the harmonium. A Gandharva is one of an order of divine beings in Dharmic Religion. The men of this order play music while the women are dancers. In Hinduism, they are musicians in service to the Devas. Sumitra Guha is an… more