WITHIN THIS SELF | YA GHAT BHEETAR by Shruthi Veena Vishwanath

Presented by TIFA Working Studios and Evolving Culture Foundation in collaboration with Goethe Institut, Pune.

Celebrating World Music Day with Fete de la Musique Weekender 2023 - the rhythmic recital brings bhakti to life through a deep musical moment to think about our bodies as a vessel. The performance as a tool to be shapeless, formless, porous yet holding, catalysis the thought - can we begin our discovery to attempt self-realisation?

Lost oral histories of the women of warkari tradition brought back through a contemporary lens with rawness, relevance and resilience.

About the Artist

Shruthi Veena Vishwanath is a singer, song catcher, stirrer of her stories, educator and curator. Trained in classical music for many years, Shruthi later dived deep into the roots of the traditions, traveling and learning from traditional practitioners in rural areas. She has performed at festivals and venues across the world (Kabir Festival Mumbai, Jaipur Literature Festival, NCPA, Habitat Centre, among others) spoken and taught at leading universities on traditional music and mystical traditions of South Asia (UC Berkeley, IIT Bombay, among others) and received multiple grants for research and performance (India Foundation for the Arts, Sandbox Collective, Sahapedia-UNESCO, etc). She has worked with hundreds of children across schools on different lenses of music education- including a focus on self, expression, performance, and for healing. She currently leads an inclusive community for song-learning called Music in the Machan.

About TIFA Working Studios

TIFA is a transdisciplinary platform for Creativity and Culture in India. We’re an inclusive space for local involvement and global exchange, facilitating critical dialogue, cultural engagement and experimental practice relevant to our evolving context. https://tifastudios.in/

About Evolving Culture Foundation

Evolving Culture Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded in 2017 in Pune, focused on building and supporting creative culture in India. ECF is committed to creating a cultural impact by engaging the public through innovative experiences with programming dedicated to cross-disciplinary thinking and cultural endeavours. ECF challenges existing social contexts through art-making, critical dialogue, and new pedagogical formats. 

The Foundation’s ethos of cultural evolution manifests through experimentation and thinking collectively about approaches to visualising a 21st-century India.  

About Goethe Institut

The Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany with a global reach. We promote knowledge of the German language abroad and foster international cultural cooperation. We convey a comprehensive image of Germany by providing information about cultural, social and political life in our nation. Our cultural and educational programmes encourage intercultural dialogue and enable cultural involvement. They strengthen the development of structures in civil society and foster worldwide mobility. With our network of Goethe-Instituts, we have been the first point of contact for many with Germany for almost seventy years. We are partners for all who actively engage with Germany and its culture, working independently and without political ties.

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