Jan 19 2025 to Jan 19 2025 6:30 p.m.

Price: Rs 400 Book/Buy

Where

Courtyard Koota

Ground floor, Good Earth Tarana Good Earth Malhar, near Rajarajeswari medical college Kambipura, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560074

Event Description

A solo performance of poems and songs by women in South Asia. Weaving through landscapes of warkari, vachana, sufi, baul, nirguni, and various languages, Shruthi will explore ideas in women's music and poetry, ask questions and perhaps try to find answers.
 
Shruthi Veena Vishwanath
 

Shruthi Veena Vishwanath is a singer, songcatcher, stirrer of herstories, educator and curator. Her practice celebrates mystic music traditions from South Asia and beyond. Her work strives to bring voices that aren't known, especially of women, to the fore, and she has composed and researched extensively on folk, spiritual and mystic songs of west, south-west and central India. Trained in classical music for many years, she later dived deep into the roots of mystic traditions, travelling and learning from traditional practitioners in rural areas, especially in the Malwa region, Bengal and Maharashtra. Shruthi has performed at festivals and venues across the world- including Kabir Festival Mumbai, Jaipur Literature Festivals in Jaipur and USA, Kochi Muziris Biennale, India Habitat Centre, NCPA- spoken at leading universities on music and poetry- including UC Berkeley, IITB, and received multiple grants for research and performance- including India Foundation for the Arts, Sandbox Collective, IAPAR, Art Omi. She currently leads an inclusive online community for song-learning called Music in the Machan, and curates on ground experiences connecting artists and audiences.