Dance Workshop Starts

A 5-day Kathak Dance Workshop started in Rabindra Tirtha today. The workshop is being directed by Amita Datta of Rabindra Bharati University. It started today and will continue till 29th January 2014. Every day, sessions will start at 2pm and continue till 6pm. About 25 odd participants have enrolled, some coming from Hoogly, Salt Lake, Lake Town, Dum Dum etc. During my interaction on the inaugural day, I requested Ms Amita Datta if a token performance can be staged by the participants for all to see. A photo:

Amita Datta (far left) teaching participants at Rabindra Tirtha today

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I received official confirmation today that Sangeet Mela 2014 will also be held in Rabindra Tirtha on 10-17 February 2014. I'd posted this information earlier in this blog on getting an informal feedback. Here is the official letter:

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On my invitation, Ms Banani Kakkar, Member of East Kolkata Wetland Authority and a well known environmentalist, visited Eco Park today. We discussed how we could get comprehensive photographs of birds in Eco Park (we've already started documentation), how we could organise bird interpretation centre and how to make a natural bird habitat. We inspected few probable sites of "Pakhiraaya", discussed how games could be organised on bird watching contests. I took Ms Kakkar to our Bird Observatory and explained that we'd got a pair of binoculars to facilitate bird watching but that we needed experts / enthusiasts to really take off. We decided to chalk out strategies. A photo:

Ananda Ganguly, CE, me and Banani Kakkar