Spring Family Day at the Palo Alto Art Center

Posted on February 24th, 2017 by SACHI

Palo Alto Art Center Foundation and SACHI present  Children’s Activities on Spring Family Day Explore the beauty of spring at the Palo Alto Art Center! Join us for storytelling, hands-on artmaking projects, and a dance performance. Activities are appropriate for ages 5 through adult.   SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:  * 1:30 pm Listen to a dramatic and humorous […]

Walls and the Tiger: Film Screening and Conversation

Posted on February 5th, 2017 by SACHI

Makers of Documentary Film Walls and the Tiger  in collaboration with SACHI present A Film Screening followed by Conversation and Q & A with: Sushma Kallam, Director Liam O’Connor, Producer Daibashish Ganguly, Music Director The event is Free and Open to the Public For RSVP and inquiries, please contact daibash@gmail.com or confirm registration  here For more information, please […]

DIving Into The Lake: On the Joys and Challenges of Translating the Ramcaritmanas

Posted on November 20th, 2016 by SACHI

Dr. Paramesh Gopi & Mrs. Priya Krishnan Parameswaran are pleased to invite you to a celebration with SACHI, Society for Art & Cultural Heritage of India, in presenting distinguished scholar Philip Lutgendorf  (Prof. of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies, University of Iowa, and Translator of seven dual-language volumes of the Ramcaritmanas for the Murty Classical Library […]

The Rama Epic : Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe

Posted on November 14th, 2016 by SACHI

SACHI proudly co-sponsors the Asian Art Museum 50th anniversary publication for the ongoing exhibition on the Ramayana. Please visit the exhibition from Oct. 21, 2016 to Jan. 15, 2017. Further details here.

Kathakali Ramayana

Posted on October 6th, 2016 by SACHI

Three evenings of delightful Kathakali performances, presented by Kaladharan Vishwanath with special guest artists. Makeup & costumes by Kalamandalam Sukumaran. Introduced by Kaladharan Viswanath. Presented by Graeme & Eve Vanderstoel, and  co-sponsored with SACHI. Monday October 17 Ravana reminisces about his childhood. Kalamandalam Manoj as Ravana A fascinating “monologue” by the powerful and demonic King […]

Sachi Annual Event 2016: Mapping the Kumbh Mela

Posted on September 22nd, 2016 by SACHI

Society for Art & Cultural Heritage of India and Asian Art Museum, San Francisco in collaboration with South Asia Institute, Harvard University proudly present Mapping the Kumbh Mela The World’s Largest Gathering of Humanity. Kumbh Mela represents the world’s largest gathering of humanity at a religious festival that occurs every twelve years, lasts 55 days, […]

Devdutt Pattanaik in a Discussion of the Ramayana

Posted on September 13th, 2016 by SACHI

INK Talks and SACHI, Society for Art & Cultural Heritage of India, present Indian author and mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik in A Discussion of the Ramayana. Bringing his creative lens, Devdutt explores the beauty and timelessness of the ancient Ramayana epic through new and fresh perspectives. With his unique, contemporary take on myth, which he defines […]

Depicting the Beloved: Exploring Text and Image in Sixteenth-Century Persian Painting

Posted on July 21st, 2016 by SACHI

SACHI, Society for Art & Cultural Heritage of India and American Friends of SOAS, School of Oriental and African Studies (London), in collaboration with Palo Alto Art Center are pleased to present visiting Scholar Naciem Nikkhah, Ph.D.candidate at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the relationship between text and image in sixteenth and seventeenth century Persian painting. She is particularly interested in understanding the selection […]

Subterranean Ghosts: India’s Vanishing Stepwells by Victoria Lautman

Posted on July 21st, 2016 by SACHI

SACHI, Society for Art & Cultural Heritage of India, in collaboration with Palo Alto Art Center is honored to present Chicago journalist and arts and culture specialist ,Victoria Lautman, in a discussion on her passionately researched theme  Subterranean Ghosts: India’s Vanishing Stepwells. While Indian palaces, forts and temples receive much-deserved attention, one of the most significant architectural wonders, […]

Indian Classical Music-The Next Generation in a Sarode, Sitar, and Tabla Recital

Posted on July 9th, 2016 by SACHI

SACHI (Society for Art & Cultural Heritage of India) in collaboration with Palo Alto Art Center and SOHARA brings on stage a new generation of excellent young musicians from the UK: Arnab Chakrabarty | Sarode Roopa Panesar | Sitar Sanju Sahai | Tabla Join us for an afternoon of instrumental music.