Kalarippayattu demonstration and workshop

Event details

Date: November 5, 2001
Venue: Dance Building, 218, UCLA
Organizers: Bharatiyam, Sangam
Sponsors: CPC mini-fund -- $300, Department of World Arts and Cultures
Expenses: $50 -- Renting of room 218, $250 -- honorarium to artistes, $16 -- gifts (flowers) to artistes (sponsored by Bharatiyam)
Contact persons: Murali Mani (Bharatiyam) Shefali Khandwala (Sangam)
Overall organizers of the tour (Bringing the artistes from India and arranging the tour in US -- Kerala Dance Theater

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Event description

This was a free event, publicized among Bharatiyam, Sangam, and other South Asian organizations at UCLA. It was also publicized at Department of World Arts and Cultures, Department of Film, Theater and Television, Fowler Museum (limited extent), and Wooden Center and Martial Arts Instructors at Wooden Center (very limited extent -- because of Wooden Center policies -- the Wooden Center officials are not allowed to publicize events which are not directly related to Wooden Center).

The room could hold up to 45 people, and we had based it on pre-registration. There were about 40 people who attended the program -- some who had registered could not attend, some who did not register attended and so on -- but this was +/- 5. This was not any trouble for the organizers (to ponder: how well does pre-registration work especially for other events which involves financial commitments?).

The event started at 6:45 pm (15 minutes later than the scheduled time), with one hour of demonstration, and the workshop exercises went on till about 10:00 pm (because of the interest of the participants).

After this, the artistes came to dinner at the apartment of Ankur, Akash and Murali. We had South Indian food with dosas, curd rice (thairu saatham), and others made in a typical bachelor fashion. The people who came for dinner included Radha Carmen, Krishnadas Menon, Dinesh Menon, Hari Rangaswami, Vinod Panikkath, Deepak Ganesan, Anush Anand Krishnaswami, Rupa Sridharan, Ankur Srivastava, Akash Nanavati, Murali Mani. The next day, Deepak, Vinod and the artistes took a tour of Hollywood and had a good time.

The event was covered by Daily Bruin, also a bunch of UCLA students -- Deepak, Rupa, Vinod, Akash, Murali took up little bit of publicity work for their further programs -- and prepared articles for sulekha, and listed them on these portals.

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