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South Asian Mela

  • Chicago Women’s Park and Gardens 1801 South Indiana Avenue Chicago, IL, 60616 United States (map)

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Festival For Indian Performing Arts 2023

Join Kalapriya Center for Indian Arts for an all-day family event with live performances, henna artists, arts and craft activities, Indian food, and a Bollywood Dance competition!

FESTIVAL LINEUP

12:00PM Kalakshetra Drummers

12:30PM The Kalapriya Dancers

1:00PM Music and Poetry of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore by Chicago Folklore Ensemble

2:00PM Bollywood Dance Competition and Demonstration!

3:45PM Qawwali Sufi Devotional Music from South Asia by Ustad Ghulam Farid Nizami and son Faraz Nizami and Ensemble

5:30PM Songs by the Baul Poet-Saint-Guru Lalon Fakir by Ochin Pakhi

6:40PM Dance Lesson with the Kalapriya Dancers

7:25PM Romantic Urdu Ghazals performed by Tara & Shastri Swaminathan

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