Ticket - Dec 10 - The Padar Has Slipped - Shruthi Veena Vishwanath - 7 PM
About the Event
Shruthi Veena Vishwanath will explore songs of women poets across South Asia and their gentle, loving defiance of norms. How do these poets express in such tender and daring ways? How can it hold a mirror to us to come together as a society?
The show is curated by Avanti Patel, and performed by Shruthi Veena Vishwanath
About the Artist
Shruthi Veena Vishwanath is a singer, songcatcher, stirrer of herstories, educator and curator. Her practice celebrates mystic music traditions from South Asia and beyond. Her work strives to bring voices that aren't known, especially of women, to the fore, and she has composed and researched extensively on folk, spiritual and mystic songs of west, south-west and central India. Trained in classical music for many years, she later dived deep into the roots of mystic traditions, travelling and learning from traditional practitioners in rural areas, especially in the Malwa region, Bengal and Maharashtra. Shruthi has performed at festivals and venues across the world- including Kabir Festival Mumbai, Jaipur Literature Festivals in Jaipur and USA, Kochi Muziris Biennale, India Habitat Centre, NCPA- spoken at leading universities on music and poetry- including UC Berkeley, IITB, and received multiple grants for research and performance- including India Foundation for the Arts, Sandbox Collective, IAPAR, Art Omi. She currently leads an inclusive online community for song-learning called Music in the Machan, and curates on ground experiences connecting artists and audiences.
