Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards & a festival of music, dance & theatre at Various Venues > 9th-16th October 2012

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Venues : 

9th, 10th, 11th, 13th, 15th & 16th October : Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), Federation House, 1, Tansen Marg, New Delhi - 110001

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10th to 16th October : Meghdoot Theatre, Rabindra Bhavan, Copernicus Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi-110001

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15th and 16th October : Shri Ram Center for Performing Arts (SRCPA), 4, Safdar Hashmi Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi-110001
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15th October : Kamani Auditorium, Copernicus Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi-110001

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Event Details : The President of India, SHRI PRANAB  MUKHERJEE will confer the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships and Akademi Awards for 2011 at a special ceremony on 9 October 2012 at 1200 hours at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi. This year eleven eminent personalities will be conferred with Akademi Fellowships and thirty six artists will receive the Akademi Awards.  
The Akademi Fellowship (Akademi Ratna) and Akademi Award (Akademi Puraskar) are recognized as the highest  national honours conferred on performing artists, gurus and scholars of the performing arts and have come to stay as the most coveted honour which the artistes aspire to. These honours are decided by Akademi’s General Council, the apex body consisting of eminent artistes, scholars and nominees of Government of India and of different 
States and Union Territories of the country.   
The highest honour of Akademi Fellowship (Akademi Ratna) will be conferred on Shri Mukund Lath, Shri Hariprasad Chaurasia, Shri Shivkumar Sharma, Shri Amjad Ali Khan, Shri Umayalpuram Kasiviswanatha Sivaraman, Shri Mohan Chandrasekaran, Shri Rajkumar Singhajit Singh, Shri Kalamandalam Gopi, Smt  Padma Subrahmanyam, Shri Chandrasekhar Basavanneppa Kambara and Shri Heisnam Kanhailal.  They will receive purse money of Rupees three lakhs, besides an angavastram and a tamrapatra. The Fellowship of the Akademi 
is the most rare honour, which is restricted to a limited number at a given time.  Presently there are only 40 living Fellows of the Sangeet Natak Akademi.
Schedule : 
9th October : 
FlCCI Auditorium, 6.00 p.m,
Inauguration
AMJAD ALI KHAN: Sarod
SHIVKUMAR SHARMA: Santoor
UMAYALPURAM KSIVARAMAN: Mridangam
10th October : 
FlCCI Auditorium, 6.00 p.m,
MOHAN CHANDRASEKARAN: Carnatic Violin
SHRUTI SADOLIKAR KATKAR: Hindustani Vocal
GOPAL CHANDRA PANDA: Odissi Music
RAMLI IBRAHIM: Odissi Dance
MeghdootTheatre-III, 6.30 p.m.
SESHAMPATTI T. SIVALINGAM: Nagaswaram
KALAMANDALAM GOPI: Kathakali
11th October : 
FlCCI Auditorium, 6.00 p.m,
TOTA RAM SHARMA: Pakhawaj
MARATHE VENKATESHKUMAR: Hindustani Vocal
PUSHPRAJ RAMLAL KOSHTI: Surbahar
MeghdootTheatre-III, 6.30 p.m.
Memoirs ofAfrica, play in Manipuri, Direction:
HEISNAM KANHAILAL, featuring Sabitri Heisnam,
Presentation: Kalakshetra, Manipur
12th October : 
MeghdootTheatre-III, 6.30 p.rn,
AYVAGARI SYAMASUNDARAM: Veena
V.K. HYMAVATHY: Mohiniattam
MANJUSREE CHATIERJEE: Kathak Dance
THONNAKKAL PEETHAMBARAN: Kathakali with
International Centre for Kathakali, New Delhi
13th October : 
MeghdootTheatre-II, 11.30 a.m.
GOPAL CHANDRA DAS: Putul Nach, Traditional String
Puppetry, Tripura
FlCCI Auditorium, 6.00 p.m,
J. VENKATRAMAN: Carnatic Vocal
with E.M. SUBRAMANIAM: Ghatam
NARTHAKI NATARAJ: Bharatanatyam
MeghdootTheatre-III, 6.30 p.m,
Mukti, play in Punjabi, featuring NEENA TIWANA,
Presentation: Harpal Tiwana Foundation, Patiala
14th October : 
MeghdootTheatre-III
3.00 p.m, BELAGALLU VEERANNA: Togalu
Gombeyatta, Traditional Shadow Puppetry, Karnataka
HEMANT RAJABHAI CHAUHAN: Folk Music, Gujarat
6.30 p.m. Chanda Bedni, playin Hindi, Direction:
ALAKHNANDAN, Presentation: Nata Bundele, Bhopal
15th October : 
MeghdootTheatre-III, 5.00 p.m,
Nangsa Otbum, play in Ladakhi,
Direction: MIPHAM OTSAL, Presentation: Ladakh
Theatre Organization, Ladakh
FlCCI Auditorium, 6.00 p.m,
PRITI PATEL: Manipuri Dance
ALEKHYA PUNJALA: Kuchipudi Dance
PADMA SUBRAHMANYAM: Bharatanatyam
with KARAIKUDI R. KRISHNAMURTHY: Mridangam
Shri Ram Centre, 6.30 p.m,
Subarnalata, play in Hindi, Direction: KIRTI JAIN,
Presentation: Kshitij, Delhi
Kamani Auditorium, 7.30 p.m.
Maya Bazar, play in Telugu, Direction:
R. NAGESWARA RAO (Babji), Presentation: Surabhi, Hyderabad
16th October : 
FlCCI Auditorium, 6.00 p.m,
Nayika Mala, Choreography: R.K. SINGHAJIT SINGH,
Presentation: Manipuri Nrityashram, Delhi
The Child, Choreography: TANUSREE SHANKAR,
Presentation: Tanusree Shankar Dance Company,
Kolkata
MeghdootTheatre-III, 6.30 p.m.
Wapasi Ke Baad Ayodhya Babu, play in Hindi
featuring AMITABH SRIVASTAVA,
Direction: D.R. Ankur, Presentation: Sambhav, Delhi
Shri Ram Centre, 6.30 p.m,
Karimayi, play in Kannada, written by
CHANDRASEKHAR B. KAMBARA,
Direction: B. Jayashree, Presentation: Spandana,
Bengaluru

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