Samik Bandyopadhyay to deliver lecture on "To Restore Poetry To Theatre" on March 11
Source: IT News
Imphal, March 09 2018:
Eminent critic of Indian art, theatre and film, Samik Bandyopadhyay will deliver lecture on the topic- To Restore Poetry to Theatre on March 11, 2018 at 3 pm at Chorus Repertory Theatre, Shamushang Uku, Imphal in the second Kangjam Padmakumar Memorial Lecture.
The event will be chaired by Longjam Joychandra Singh, Registrar of Manipur University of Culture.
Scholar, editor-publisher, translator, lexicographer, bibliophile, Samik Bandyopadhyay was the Rabindranath Tagore National Fellow at the School for Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, New Delhi (2015-2017) and Member, Publication Committee, Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi (2016�).He was Visiting Professor, SAA, JNU, New Delhi (2005-2012, 2014); Visiting Professor: ICCR Chair at the Department of Theatre Studies; Freie Universit�t, Berlin (April-July 2014); Vice-Chairman, National School of Drama (2006-2010); and Member National School of Drama Society (2005-May 2014) .
He was also Lecturer, Departments of English Literature and Drama, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta, 1966-73 .
Additionally, he was Regional Editor, Oxford University Press, Calcutta, 1973-82, and was Founder-Editor, Seagull Books, 1982-88.More recently he was Founder-Editor, Thema, a small publisher based in Kolkata (estab.
1988) .
His vast experience includes stints as Producer Emeritus, All India Radio and Doordarshan, 1989-92.Research Professor, Asiatic Society, Calcutta, 1995-97; Member, General Council, Sangeet Natak Akademi (2 consecutive terms) and Central Board of Film Certification (1970-80); Member, 14-Member Indian Delegation to the East-West Theatre Seminar organized by the International Theatre Institute, New Delhi 1966; Panelist at seminars on Indian Theatre as part of Festivals of India in USSR (Tashkent 1987) and Germany (Berlin 1992) .
The lecture will follow with the famous Manipuri Ras Leela Dance.