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Down Jersey Folklife Center
Festival
of India!
A Multitude of
Cultural Expressions
September 12 & 13, 2008
10am – 2pm
Interactive EDUCATIONAL Programs
Event Center and DJFC
10am
Mehendi (Henna Decorating) with Vaishali Patel
11am
Lecture-Demonstration by the performers of the Yakshagana Folk Theater
12:30pm
Story Time! (Who is Hanuman?) with Lata Patel
1pm
Lecture-Demonstration of Carnatic Classical Music by Bhavani Rao and Prakash Rao (veena, flute and mridangam)
7pm – 9:30pm
Festival Opening performance
Event Center
7pm
Bala Devi Chandrashekar,
Bharatanatyam Classical Dance
8pm
Yakshagana Folk Theater
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SATURDAY, September 13, 2008
10:30am – 7:30pm
MUSIC AND DANCE Main Stage
10:30am Nupur Dance Group
(Kathak Dance, Children)
11am Fashion Show by Children from
“Sanskaar”
11:30 am Payal Dancing School (Folk Dances)
12pm Bhavani Rao and Prakash Rao
(veena, flute, and mridangam)
12:40pm Abhilasha Chawdhari (Kathak Dance)
1:10pm Super Bollywood Dance Group
(Bollywood Dances)
1:40pm Sejal Kukadia and
Loren Oppenheimer (tabla duo)
2:15pm
(Manipuri, Odissi, Folk Dances)
3:10pm Kirit Parmar (harmonium) and
Niranjan Trivedi (tabla)
3:40pm Gidda Pao Batera and
(Punjabi Dances)
4:20pm Kamal Sheth (sitar) and
Niranjan Trivedi (tabla)
5:15pm Nrithyanjali
(Bharatanatyam Dance)
6:10pm Satish Vyas (Santur)
6:45pm
(Folk and Gypsy Dances)
MCs: Deepam (Raju) Patel,
Mayuri AReddy
11am – 6pm
Regional Indian Food Demonstrations
Kitchen Tent
11am North Indian Food Demo
1pm South Indian Food Demo
3pm West Indian Food Demo
5pm East Indian Food Demo
* Indian Chai (Tea) will be offered between demonstrations
11am – 6pm
Wedding Make-up and Costumes Display
Wedding Tent
12pm Bridal Make up Show (
3pm Bridal Make up Show (
11am – 6pm
SARIS WRAP-UP anD dISPLAY
Costumes Tent
2pm Costumes of
11am – 6pm
Traditional Indian Glassblowing
Outside Glass Studio
12pm – 6pm
INDIAN GAMES
Lakeside Field (behind DJFC)
12pm Langori (Sattodi) Family Game,
Khokho Game and Langadi Game
2:30pm Janmashtami Celebration
(Lord Krishna’s Birthday Celebration)
4pm Langori (Sattodi) Family Game,
Khokho, Langadi, and Cricket
11am – 6pm
Individual Artist hands-on DEMONSTRATIONS
ARTISTS TENTS
Mehendi (Henna Decorating)
Mehendi Tent
11am Pravina Vashee
1:30pm Vaishali Patel and Lata Patel
3:30pm Shilpa Mehta and Beena Patel
Rangoli (Floor Painting)
Rangoli Tent
11am Ila Vidwans
2:30pm Hina Desai and Smeetha Mysore
Embroidery
Costume Tent
11am Chaitali Sarkar
1:30pm Sharda Patel
4:30pm Vilas Patel
Beadwork
Costume Tent
3pm Sheila Gohil
Toran Making
Toran Making Tent
11:30am Sheila Gohil
1:30pm Rupal Bhandari
Batik Painting
Batik and Thali Tent
3pm Ritu Pandya
Thali Decorating
Batik and Thali Tent
4pm Chaitali Sarkar
Alpana (Ritualistic Painting)
Alpana Tent
12pm Dhriti Bagchi
(Displays of West Bengali Folk Arts
from 11am to 6pm)
11am – 4:30pm
Workshops During The Festival
11am Yakshagana Folk Theater
Workshop and/or Display-Demo
1pm Folk Dance Workshop with
Pooja Mehta and the dancers from
the
2:15pm Bollywood Dance Workshop with
Mayuri Reddy and Megana Reddy from
the Super Bollywood Dance Group
3:30pm Tabla Workshop with Sejal Kukadia and
Loren Oppenheimer (3 participants at a
time and two teachers)
11am - 6pm
Children’s Activities
Outside Stained Glass Studio
Let’s Make a Mask (Monkey or Cow)
Make a Festival Flower
Paint a Postcard (watercolor)
*Passport To
(Get a stamp in your passport at the different passport stations)
10am – 6pm
Exhibitions
“Living Traditions Portrayed: Indian Folk Arts and Crafts” in the Down Jersey Folklife Center
“Tracing the Cultural Roots” in the Museum of American Glass
“Crafts of
10am – 7pm
INDIAN Food Vendors and Merchants!
2008 Steering Committee
Project Director, Dr. Iveta Pirgova
Committee Members:
Dr. Bhavna Patel
Dr. Ketan Patel
Yogesh Thakur
Nima Sudhindra
Dr. C.E. Pasupati
Nalini Pasupati
Hanasoge S. Aswathanarayana
Dr. Kush Sachdeva
Meenu Sachdeva
Mithya and Venkat Reddy
Dr. Yoash Gohil
Sheila Gohil
Latish Menghani
Ritu Pandya
Bala Devi Chandrashekar
Nancy Grant
David Iams
Festival Sponsors and Donors
Center for Diagnostic Imaging
Colonial Bank
South Jersey Healthcare
Southern Oncology-Hematology Associates
Holly City Pediatrics
Cumberland Nephrology Associates
Cumberland Medical Associates
The Gastroenterology Group of New Jersey
Pedia Place Children’s Health Care Center
Wachspress & Rainear Cardiology Associates
Major project support for the Festival of India has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bank of America Foundation, The Delaware River and Bay Authority, The Center for Diagnostic Imaging, Colonial Bank, South Jersey Healthcare, Southern Oncology Hematology Associates and numerous other generous businesses, corporations and individuals. General funding for the Down Jersey Folklife Center and this project has also been made possible in part from the New Jersey State Council for the Arts, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. WheatonArts has also received grant support from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State and from the New Jersey Division of Travel and Tourism/Department of State.
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