Events

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Past events

Mar 31, 2021
The South Asian Arts Resiliency Fund is a direct response by the India Center Foundation to offer support to South Asian arts workers impacted by COVID-19. The South Asian Arts Resiliency Fund...
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Jan 11, 2021
The India Center Foundation is thrilled to partner with The Bushwick Starr and Joe’s Pub in presenting In Order to Become, the fourth episode of VICHITRA, an ongoing experiment in...
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Nov 22, 2020
The India Center Foundation is proud to announce that the project we have been producing over a number of seasons, Raga Maqam @ragamaqam , featuring Amir ElSaffar, Hamid...
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Oct 04, 2020
The India Center Foundation is a proud sponsor of the Coalition of South Asian Film Festivals (CoSAFF). CoSAFF is a first of...
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Jun 30, 2020
Join India Center Foundation & Brooklyn Raga Massive on June 30th for a special workshop series exploring the intersections of the ancient musical languages of India and Iraq. Intersections of Raga...
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Jun 25, 2020
Join India Center Foundation & Brooklyn Raga Massive on June 25th for a special workshop series exploring the intersections of the ancient musical languages of India and Iraq. Intersections of Raga...
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Mar 30, 2020
Dear Friends, we are thrilled to be producing a work in progress show of the brilliant Raga Maqam collaboration of new work between Amir ElSaffar and Brooklyn Raga Massive at...
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Mar 23, 2020
The India Center Foundation invites you to the New York book launch of T.M.Krishna’s Sebastian & Sons. Described by Scroll.In as “rich, nuanced discourse on one of the most urgent...
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Feb 13, 2020
India Center Foundation (ICF) and Delhi Art Gallery (DAG) enjoyed an evening of innovative short films and stories by emerging voices from the South Asian diaspora. The filmmakers presented...
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After the success of the 5th annual Dallas-Fort Worth South Asian Film Festival (DFW SAFF), Toyota Motor North America presents its second film festival in the United States, the New York City South Asian...
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Sep 22, 2019
Lakshmi Shankar: A Musical Evolution In One Night. A storytelling music production created and performed by Kavita Das along with the STARR Ensemble. Presented by The India Center Foundation. About Lakshmi Shankar: Lakshmi...
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Sep 19, 2019
Please join The India Center Foundation and Waqas Wajahat, trustee of the South Asia Committee at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for a presentation of new work by artist, Natasha...
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Sep 16, 2019
An intimate evening with Chandrahas Choudhury on his most recent book, Clouds, in conversation with noted journalist and author Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan. “From one of India’s most celebrated young writers, Clouds...
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Jul 19, 2019
The India Center Foundation is proud to co-present with the IFC Center, The Sweet Requiem- a film about Tibetan refugees in Delhi and the hard hitting reality of...
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May 11, 2019
Along with Chris Wink, Founder of Blue Man group, please join us to meet legendary artist, performer and arts educator Geeta Chandran to lead a presentation that demonstrates and deconstructs...
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May 01, 2019
As a recent conference by the India Foundation and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) in Delhi showed, soft power is playing a greater role in India’s...
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Apr 21, 2019
The New York Kathak Festival is a newly formed organization that presents and promotes dancers, scholars, and practitioners of Kathak, a classical dance tracing its origins to India. We produce...
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Apr 14, 2019
 
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Apr 13, 2019
We are excited for this partnership with IFFLA 2019, the premier showcase of groundbreaking Indian Cinema that runs April 11-14 at the Regal LA Live. In an age of changing distribution models,...
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We are grateful for the support we received on March 8th, whilst also celebrating the brilliant artist Natvar Bhavsar and his debut solo exhibition ‘Beginnings’.
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Jan 26, 2019
The India Center Foundation invites you to a photography exhibition exploring India’s aging single-screen theatres   About the Exhibition: Between 2006 and 2009, Nandita Raman traveled throughout India creating Cinema Play...
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Jan 19, 2019
Join author/actress Sheetal Sheth for a reading of her popular, acclaimed children’s book Always Anjali, the story of a little girl who after getting bullied, wants to change her name. She ends up...
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Dec 01, 2018
The India Center Foundation invites you to a performance project by by Parijat Desai, which brings together dance, living plants, and a foray into phonetics in New York City! 
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Oct 20, 2018
The SLASHIE // SUMMIT — presented by Brown Girl Magazine, Inc., in collaboration with 
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Oct 20, 2018
We are delighted to co-sponsor the screening of the award-winning documentary “LOVESICK” in the Bay Area this Saturday, October 20th, along with our friends at India Currents, the community media...
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Sep 27, 2018
Led by the “fiery alto saxophonist and prolific composer” Aakash Mittal (Minneapolis Star Tribune), the Awaz Trio sculpts sonic landscapes, pointillistic textures, and angular melodies from Indian and American improvised...
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Aug 26, 2018
Join Navatman in New York City and now, San Francisco, as they bring together artists from all over the globe for one of the most ambitious—and lauded—congregations of Indian classical...
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Aug 17, 2018
Please join us to support emerging vocal talent Subhi in her national tour, mixing jazz music and Indian vocals into Hindi Pop Jazz.  Her band consists of members from India,...
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Jul 03, 2018
This Midsummer, let’s bring the swing back! We are pleased support a night of fun and dance at the Lincoln Center, this July. Even if you are new to these energetic...
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May 07, 2018
The last decade has seen a rapid increase in the...
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Apr 21, 2018
For the second year running, ICF is thrilled to co-sponsor the South Asian fusion a cappella national championship, All-American Awaaz, which will take place on Saturday, April 21st, 2018 in Chicago,...
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Apr 14, 2018
Rahul Jain’s debut feature documentary on the Indian textile industry is described as “astonishing” by The Guardian and “unflinching” by the New York Times.  The India Center Foundation co-presents this...
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Apr 13, 2018
For the fourth and final instalment of our Outside (In)dia series, singer, songwriter, educator, and activist Martha Redbone brings her unique blend of Appalachian, Native American, blues, funk, and folk...
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Apr 12, 2018
The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) with support from the India Center Foundation will host a Master Class with THE BIG BANG THEORY star Kunal Nayyar to discuss...
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Apr 10, 2018
Join The India Center Foundation and DAG  for drinks and great conversation in the studio with artist Natvar Bhavsar Natvar Bhavsar occupies a unique...
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Mar 17, 2018
Please join us for a family celebration of South Asian art and music on Saturday, March 17th. We will be exploring the rich sounds and sights of art, photography and...
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Feb 09, 2018
Our Outside (In)dia concert series, in partnership with Lincoln Center and Brooklyn Raga Massive, continues with the very talented Awa Sangho. She is one of the leading voices of West African music....
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Jan 10, 2018
Join ICF and Asia Society for a look at the year ahead for India and how its trajectory and policies will impact the U.S., Asia, and the world. The discussion...
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Nov 15, 2017
The India Center Foundation hosted a studio visit with artist Yamini Nayar, followed by drinks and discussion at a nearby bar. Guests previewed Nayar’s new works for her upcoming exhibition at...
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Nov 12, 2017
After a successful launch in 2016, Museum of the Moving Image and The India Center Foundation present the second annual India Kaleidoscope Film Festival (IKFF), to be held from November...
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Nov 10, 2017
The sacred drumming of Cuba is one of the most evolved and powerful rhythmic traditions in the world. In this concert, Brooklyn Raga Massive will expand upon their Raga Cubana...
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Nov 02, 2017
Law firm Proskauer LLC hosted a Diwali celebration at their New York offices, in partnership with ICF. The event featured musical performances by members of Brooklyn Raga Massive.
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Oct 28, 2017
The India Center Foundation is pleased to host an intimate guided tour of ‘Modernism on the Ganges: Raghubir Singh Photographs’ led by MET Assistant Curator of South Asian Art, Shanay...
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Sep 08, 2017
For centuries, both Indian raga and Iraqi maqam have been the traditional music forms of expression for people from the Middle East to India. The two improvisational forms evolved along...
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Aug 01, 2017
“India’s Identities through Bollywood Cinema”: with Tejaswini Ganti (Associate Professor, NYU), Sri Rao (Screenwriter/producer), and Anisha Jhaveri (Film Critic, Indiewire)—a panel discussion in conjunction with Bollywood Boulevard: A...
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Jun 26, 2017
This is a great opportunity for admirers of Tarik Currimbhoy’s work to spend an informal evening with him, in his studio. For those not familiar, it’s a chance to meet...
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Apr 22, 2017
ICF was thrilled to co-sponsor the FIRST Annual All-American Awaaz National Competition! Featuring the top 7 South Asian A Cappella Teams across the nation, the competition in New York City on April...
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Apr 22, 2017
CULTURE SHOCK: THE HIGH LINE’S SEASON KICK-OFF ICF joined forces with Brooklyn Raga Massive, and The High Line to kick off its exciting 2017 programming season. Audiences experienced an explosive multidisciplinary...
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Mar 21, 2017
For his new book, A Question of Order, Basharat Peer spent a year and a half traveling across India and Turkey to uncover the alarming, illiberal drift these countries have engineered and...
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Jan 19, 2017
The India Center Foundation partnered with the Consulate General of India, New York for a panel discussion on the important and timely issue of diversity in schools. Using the well received novel...
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Dec 11, 2016
Museum of the Moving Image and The India Center Foundation are launching India Kaleidoscope. An exciting new festival that will present film lovers with a chance to immerse themselves in...
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Oct 12, 2016
In an illustrated lecture, presented with the India Center, author Sunil Khilnani talks about Incarnations, a collection of stories from the the BBC Radio 4 series that take us through...
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Aug 01, 2016
One of the world’s greatest percussionists, tabla legend Zakir Hussain joins forces with the young sitar maverick Niladri Kumar for an extraordinary evening of Indian classical music. A masterful improviser and...
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Co-presented by Roxie Theatre, 3rd i South Asian Film Festival, and The San Francisco Silent Film Festival. An astonishing treasure of the silent cinema, Shiraz is one...
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