Pune Poetry Slam and Gyaan Adab presents Open Mic Fridays @ Gyaan Adab! Open Mic Fridays are a wonderful platform for people to come together to share their poetry, stories, comedy skits and anything else that they feel like sharing. They will continue to happen every second Friday of the month in the evenings at Gyaan Adab. It promises to be a great […]
"I was really charmed by the new attempt made by storytellers to narrate traditional tales from another part of the world. This is an intangible heritage which the world has lost - inevitably." - Latika Padgaonkar, film editor and writer GYAAN ADAB presents […]
Gyaan Adab & Kalinga Kala Kendra (Institute of Music, Dance and Art) present SARITA MISHRA An Odissi dance performance A graded artist of Doordarshan, Sarita Mishra started learning Odissi dance formally at the age of four. In addition to being a dancer, she is actively involved in teaching dance and conducting various workshops & lecture […]
Gyaan Adab celebrates the Spirit of Mumbai (our sister city) with art and poetry. Featuring the painter-poet Anjali Purohit with her exhibition: FROM THE CITY OF THE EARTHMOVERS - Some Retrievals, Some Remainders, Some Reminders. The present show, From the City of the Earthmovers - Some Retrievals, Some Remainders, Some Reminders tries to record […]
Gyaan Adab celebrates the Spirit of Mumbai (our sister city) with art and poetry. Featuring the painter-poet Anjali Purohit and poets Menka Shivdasani, Pervin Saket and Smita Sahay! Exhibition: FROM THE CITY OF THE EARTHMOVERS - Some Retrievals, Some Remainders, Some Reminders. (Inauguration at 6 pm. The exhibition will be on from 17th October-23rd October, […]
Gyaan Adab in association with Tamaasha Theatre presents BLANK PAGE An interpretation of contemporary Indian poetry through theatre, music & movement Directed by Sunil Shanbag Conceived by Sapan Saran and Sunil Shanbag, Blank Page is a celebration of the spoken word through 55 minutes of theatre, music, and movement. Poems written in English, Hindi, Marathi, […]
With the flavours of Benaras and Rajasthani folk Gyaan Adab brings you an evening of classical & semi-classical music by Gowri Sundaresan & Pushpita Rath- alive with the flavours of Benaras and Rajasthani folk. The programme will start with Gauri Sundaresan singing the popular evening Raga Yaman. This will be followed by a tarana in a fast-paced tempo […]
A play in Hindi presented by Team Kshitij Written and directed by Sanjay Bhardwaj She was a young beggar who would sit at the busiest square of the crowded city, bare chested, begging. One day her nude body was discovered, causing a sensation and gossip spread. In a matter of hours, she became the talk […]
‘Good music doesn't have an expiration date.’ (Anonymous) After discussing the magic of Swing Era last month, the Pune Jazz & Blues Club has scheduled two episodes from the excellent documentary film on Jazz produced by Ken Burns. The Washington Post described it as “a sweeping exuberant panorama of Jazz history”. Spread across 10 […]
Gyaan Adab romances the charm of Urdu through an evening of ghazals with the captivating voice of Jawad Askari. Though today, people barely listen to the ghazals of Meer, Jigar or Iqbal, the ghazal as a form is still well loved. Thanks to the late Jagjit Singh who insisted that poets wrote simplified ghazals so […]
