Alliance Française du Bengale Official French Centre in India

Synopsis Deben Bhattacharya (1921–2001) was a field recordist, poet, filmmaker, musicologist and amateur ethnomusicologist, based in Calcutta and Paris. Highly influential, it would not be too bold a stretch to say that his work shaped how we listen to the world: he produced a vast number of LPs, CDs, videos and radio shows of traditional music from India, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe from 1953 until his death in 2001. Never before published, Paris to Calcutta: Men and Music on the Desert Road features over 4 hours of Read More...Book Launch | PARIS to CALCUTTA : Men and Music on The Desert Road - A Book by Deben Bhattacahrya

The Alliance Française du Bengale (http://bengale.afindia.org) with the support of InstitutFrançaise in India and the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata (www.goethe.de/kolkata) , in collaboration with the Kolkata based art gallery CIMA(http://www.cimaartindia.com/) and Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal (www.visvabharati.ac.in) are organizing the second interdisciplinary Indo – European Residency Project Kolkata. The seven week long residency takes place in Kolkata and in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. For the Indo-European Residency Project Kolkata, three artists practicing different art forms (one from France , Germany and India) will work and explore the cities together, Read More...INDO-EUROPEAN RESIDENCY PROJECT KOLKATA-THE FINAL PRESENTATION