Bengaluru is flexing its cultural muscle

Bengaluru is flexing its cultural muscle

Bengaluru is a shapeshifter. Over its 400-odd years of modern history, it has been able to thread many stories. Under its founder Kempe Gowda I, it wore the moniker of ‘Gandu Bhoomi’ or ‘Land of Heroes’. Since then, it has been christened as Pensioners’ Paradise, Garden City, Pub City, Science City, India’s Silicon Valley, Beantown, […]

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Chelsea de Souza traverses the Silk Road on a musical quest

Chelsea de Souza traverses the Silk Road on a musical quest

I recently heard two brilliant young teenage pianists in Bengaluru, winners of international awards, enrolled for summer workshops abroad, enthusiastically hopeful that their passion and talent will sustain a future professional music career. Not so different from Chelsea and Chloe de Souza, very talented sisters, who left Mumbai to study music in the U.S. and […]

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Weekend events in Bengaluru: German cinema, children’s storytelling, and Backstreet Boys tribute

Weekend events in Bengaluru: German cinema, children’s storytelling, and Backstreet Boys tribute

A silent film Watch an anthology film, Waxworks (1924), directed by Paul Leni and Leo Birinski. The silent film, in black and white, is a part of Max Mueller Bhavan’s monthly series — German Cinema in Focus — curated by Shivani. It is open to all. On May 28, 4.30pm at Max Mueller Bhavan, Indiranagar. […]

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The Manasi Prasad Ensemble debuts with a classical fusion concert at Bangalore International Centre

The Manasi Prasad Ensemble debuts with a classical fusion concert at Bangalore International Centre

Manasi Prasad, a vocalist and the director of the Indian Music Experience museum in Bengaluru, is launching her band, The Manasi Prasad Ensemble, with a classical fusion concert at the Bangalore International Centre on July 1. Manasi will be performing with Karthik Mani (drummer), Sharan Rao (keys), Shivling Rajapur (flautist), and Muthu (percussionist). Though she […]

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Check out Spanish national award-winning contemporary dance performance ‘La Desnudez’ at BIC

Check out Spanish national award-winning contemporary dance performance ‘La Desnudez’ at BIC

The dance piece by Daniel Abreu and Dácil González is a poetic proposal about knowing how to love oneself The dance piece by Daniel Abreu and Dácil González is a poetic proposal about knowing how to love oneself The Bangalore International Centre, on May 20, will host an award-winning contemporary dance production from Spain that […]

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