Society of Poetry and Indian Music
News & Events (Upcoming & Current)
Baul & Vaishnav Music Festival 2024
Curated by poet Ahmed Kaysher, the festival offers a series of ecstatic performances of Bengali Baul & Vaishnav music by number of Baul and Vaishnav music and dance, recitation from the ancient texts by leading spoken-word artists, brief discussion on these two major philosophical movement of Indian sub-continent that evolved from Hindu and Muslim (Sufi) faith and had hugely influenced the music, literature, arts of the whole sub-continent.
Baul & Vaishnav Music Festival | Victoria Park
Sunday 09 June 2024 at 2pm
Victoria Park Bandstand, Grove Road, E9 5DU
The session features hanunting music performances by Sufi Amir Muhammed, Juber Akhtar Suhel, Lalon singer Eltut Jannat, Beauty Shil with Yamin Chowdhury on Tabla and poetry-eading by Amy Neilson Smith, John Farndon, Sarwar E Alam and Shmim Shahan along with dance performance by Monirul Islam Mukul and Sewli Bhattacharyya.
Baul & Vaishnav Music Festival | Keats House
Saturday 20 July at 6pm
10 Keats Grove,London,NW3 2RR
The session at Keats House will feature hypnotic recital of spiritual Vaishnav music merging with spiritually inclined poetry and the idea of spirituality of a major English poet John Keats.
Free Registration Link:
Baul & Vaishnav Music Festival | Keats House Tickets, Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
Baul & Baishnav Music Festival | Canary Wharf Rooftop Garden
Sunday 21 July at 4pm
Rooftop Garden, Canary Wharf, Crossrail Place, London E14 5AB
Free registration:
Baul & Vaishnav Music Festival - The Space
Venue: From Jun 9, 2024 to Jul 21, 2024 in Victoria Park London, Keats House, Canary Wharf Rooftop Garden London
Saudha International Literature Festival 2024
The festival preaches the art and beauty of imagination, languages from different cultural heritages through talks, reading, performances. Saudha is also observing Franz Kafka's 100th death anniversary this year through re-treading / re-interpreting his works.
Saudha (www.saudha.org) is bringing new literature from different languages and different cultural heritages through this unique festival happening all around the UK.
SAUDHA INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE FESTIVAL | SUFI/MYSTIC/METAPHYSICAL POETRY & MUSIC
Sunday 7 July 2024 at 4pm
Rooftop Garden, Canary Wharf, Crossrail Place, London E14 5AB
Curated by poet Ahmed Kaysher, this session is featuring the splendour of Sufi / mystic and Metaphysical poetry as part of celebrating 7th birth century of great Persian poet Hafez through spoken-word and music performances.
The session also features performances of some powerful voices of contemporary literature from different cultural traditions.
Free registration Link:
The Poetics of Self-Destruction | Saudha International Literature Festival | University of Leeds
Sunday 14 July 2024 at 12 Noon
Lecture Theatre 1, School of Music, University of Leeds LS2 9JT
As part of Saudha International Literature Festival, poet Ahmed Kaysher is bringing this extra-ordinary session that will re-read, re-interpret Cesare Pavese, Florbela Esblanca, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Fernando Pessoa, Alejandra Pizarnik, Anne Sexton, Virginia Woolf , Ernest Hemingway, Yukio Mishima , Karin Boye , John Berryman, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Sylvia Plath, Charles Baudelaire, Jean Cocteau and others to explore as well as dig into the depth of self destruction or self-destructive arts.
The event is happening at the Lecture Theatre 1 of the Music School at the University of Leeds.
Free Registration link:
Saudha International Literature Festival | Queen Mary University of London
Thursday 1 August at 3pm
the David Sizer Lecture Theatre (Bancroft Building, Mile End) in Queen Mary University in London E1 4NS
Curated by poet Ahmed Kaysher, this session, in collaboration with Department of Film at Queen Mary University, London is featuring a book launch for 1971: A global History in the creation of Bangladesh written by Srinath Raghavan and translated by Kazi Zawad at the David Sizer Lecture Theatre (Bancroft Building, Mile End) in Queen Mary University in London. (Please call 07828190551 for direction).
Free Registration:
SAUDHA INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE FESTIVAL | Pt CHIRANJEEB CHAKRABORTY & OTHERS | CANARY WHARF ROOFTOP
Sunday 4 August 2024 at 4pm
Rooftop Garden, Canary Wharf, Crossrail Place, London E14 5AB
Curated by poet Ahmed Kaysher, this session is featuring both literary and musical works of one of the finest Indian classical vocalists in the UK Pt Chiranjeeb Chakraborty (https://chiranjeebmusic.com/bio/) through performances and interactive talks. Two very talented performance-poets Shree Ganguly and Tanjina Nur-i Siddique will be performing there, too.
Free registration:
Saudha International Literature Festival - The Space
Saudha International Literature Festival | The Aesthetics of Silence | MAC, Birmingham
Saturday 10 August at 6pm
Midlands Arts Centre Birmingham B12 9QH
Curated by poet Ahmed Kaysher, co-hosted by Sampad Arts, this session is featuring the aesthetics and the inner architecture of silence in arts through poetry and music performances with dance and painting as visual interpretation from different cultural traditions, reading, brief poetry theatres and interviews with experimental writers.
The session also focuses on celebrating the 200th birth centenary of Bengali major poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt as well as the 100th anniversary of Tagore's tour to explore China through talks and relevant reading.
Ticket link:
Celebration of Blue Moon in Park |Saudha International Literature Festival | Roundhay Park
Monday 19 August at 7pm
Roundhay Car Park (By the Lakeside Cafe / Carpark) Roundhay LS8 2JL
Curated by poet Ahmed Kaysher, this session is featuring sensual poetry performances and meditative music in the lap of the nature (Second tall bandstand by the Lakeside Carpark or Lakeside cafe) sorrounded by woods and beautiful lake. (please ring 07828190551 for direction)
Free Registration:
Franz Kafka | Saudha International Literature Festival | Poplar Union, London
Saturday 7 September 6pm
Poplar Union, 2 Cotall Street London E14 6TL
Curated by poet Ahmed Kaysher, this session is celebrating 100th death anniversary of Franz Kafka - the most influential literary genius of the last century through performances, playlets, talks that re-read as well as reinterpret his works with a new shade of light.
Ticket link:
In Search Of the Soul of Sylvia Plath |Saudha International Literature Festival | Rich Mix, London
Saturday 9 November at 6pm
Rich Mix, London, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, E1 6LA
As part of Saudha International Literature Festival, poet Ahmed Kaysher is bringing hypnotic theatrical production of visceral spoken-words and haunting music that re-interprets the heart-piercing poetry and the tragic life of a major modern poet of English literature Sylvia Plath.
Ticket link:
Venue: From Jul 7, 2024 to Jul 31, 2024 in Keats House, London, Canary Wharf Rooftop Garden, Midlands Arts Centre, Rich Mix London, Roundhay park Leeds and other venues