Celebrating

Rabindranath Tagore
Tagore Utsav
(1861-1941)

Monday
November 24
7:00 p.m.
Alice MacKay Room
Lower Level
Central Library
350 West Georgia St.

Admission is free

Seating is limited

Sponsored by:
India Club of Vancouver - President Om Gaind
and President-elect Mahendra Kwatra
The magazine ‘O Canada’, Mr. Yo-Sang Song - The publisher,
The magazine ‘Korean’, Mr. D.I. Lee – The publisher
Kin’s Pottery – Mr. Jung-Hong Kim – The potter and the founder of Kim’s
Pottery
Ashok Bhargava Bong Ja Ahn
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 Performer Biographies

Korean Kayagum Play

Grace Jong Eun Lee is the founder, composer and director of Canada Cen-
tre for Kayagum Performing Arts. The kayagum is the best known traditional
Korean musical instrument with twelve silk strings and movable bridges.
Canada Centre for Kayagum Performing Arts was founded in Jan. 2008, and
is bring their elegant style of play to world wide audiences with their wide
repertoire. "One of Canada's leading Kayagum Virtuosos" - The Georgia
Straight, 2007. "Her sonic world is one of gentle, meditative space and tran-
quility." - Vancouver Sun, 2003.

Korean Traditional Mask Dance:

Alejandro Mujica-Olea Areadne Sawyer Chang Hyun Han is the founder and teacher of the Korean Traditional
Arts Society. The Society was founded in 2000. It is dedicated to promoting
diverse Korean traditional culture and arts in Canada. Korean Traditional
Mask Dance is developed as an amalgam of shamanic rituals, farmers'
Gardener 85 songs, court dances. It is evolved in the Koryo Dynasty period, and village
shamans performed mask dances during the harvest, burials and exorcisms.
Who are you, reader,
reading my poems an hundred years hence? Kalpana Prasad
I cannot send you one single flower Kalpana has been studying Indian Classical Music for the last several years
with Shri Rattan Sharma and Shri Hemang Mehta. She has also trained under
from this wealth of the spring, the legendary Maestro Pandit Jasraj ji at the Pandit Jasraj School of Music,
one single streak of gold from yonder clouds. Vancouver. Kalpana has, to her credit, her debut album “Samarpan” (audio
Open your doors and look abroad. clips available on www.kalpanaprasad.net) and several performances with
CBC Radio, Asian Television Network, the Shakti Dance Group, Vancouver
From your blossoming garden and Mandala Arts and Culture, Vancouver.
gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers
of an hundred years before.
In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy
that sang one spring morning,
sending its glad voice across an hundred years.
Rabindranath Tagore

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 Dancers And Music Performers Chief Guests
Korean Mask Dance

Consul General of South Korea, Consul General of India,

Mr. Tong-Mo Suh Mr. Ashok Das
Indian Classical Dance, Crystal Sharma

The Lamp of the East

Korean Kayagum player, Ms. Lee
In the golden age of Asia
Korea was one of its lamp-bearers
And that lamp is waiting
to be lighted once again
For the illumination in the East.

일찌기 아시아의 황금 시기에

빛나던 등불의 하나 코리아
그 등불 다시 켜지는 날에
너는 동방의 밝은 빛이 될지니

R. Tagore (written 1929. 4. 2)

Indian Singer, Ms. Kalpana Prasad

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 CELEBRATING TAGORE
TAGORE UTSAV PROGRAM
6:30 - 7:00 Meeting & socializing
7:00 – 8:00 Greetings by Librarian, introductions of
WPRS Founders, Alejandro and Ariadne
Welcome words: By Ariadne & Alejandro
Opening Poem: By Ariadne Sawyer
Poem: The Gardener #85 by R.Tagore
Ariadne Sawyer introduces Ashok Bhargava &
Bong Ja Ahn
Korean Kayagum play:
By Grace Jong-Eun Lee (Canadian Centre of
Kayagum Performing Arts)
Indian Classical Music:
By Kalpana Prasad
Diego Bastianutti introduces:
Rabindranath Tagore
Mr. Tong-Mo Suh the Consul General of Korea,
Mr. A. Das the Consul General of India
Few words from Consul General of India
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8:00 - 8:50 Poem reading:
By Mr Tong-Mo Suh the consul General of the
R. O. Korea, Ashok Bhargava, Bong Ja Ahn
Poem: The Lamp of the East
Korean Traditional Mask Dance:
By Chang-Hyun Han, Jonadan Choi, Sung Rai Kim
(Korean Traditional Arts Society)
R. Tagore’s Poem Reading by:
Addena Sumter-Freitag - Light
Shirley Sue Kwan - When the Lotus Bloomed
Bernice Lever - The song I came to sing
Indian Classical Dance:
By Crystal Sharma
R. Tagore’s Poem reading:
By Bong Ja Ahn and Ashok Bhargava
Poem: the Cage Bird & the Free Bird
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