Welcome to the SIFAS Festival of Arts 2021
The first season of SIFAS Festival of Arts 2021, will be held from Friday, 19th March – Sunday, 28th March 2021.
Held mainly at the SIFAS Stage, the SIFAS Festival of Arts 2021, presents 15 programmes, organised over 10 days featuring over 40 upcoming and professional graded local artistes. Now in its 18th year, the festival has garnered the reputation of high-quality showcases, making it a coveted platform. Unique to this year, our visual arts exhibition will be launched virtually.
The highlights of the SIFAS Festival of Arts 2021 include 2 original SIFAS productions in collaboration with The Esplanade: ‘Vaadhya Samhita - A Confluence of Strings’, an instrumental Jugalbandi (Hindustani & Carnatic) at the Esplanade Recital Studio on Friday, 26th March 2021 and ‘Prakriti Vikriti – Nature’s Nature Revisited’, a multi-lingual and multi-disciplinary dance musical, at The Esplanade Theatre on Saturday 27th March 2021.
Held mainly at the SIFAS Stage, the SIFAS Festival of Arts 2021, presents 15 programmes, organised over 10 days featuring over 40 upcoming and professional graded local artistes. Now in its 18th year, the festival has garnered the reputation of high-quality showcases, making it a coveted platform. Unique to this year, our visual arts exhibition will be launched virtually.
The highlights of the SIFAS Festival of Arts 2021 include 2 original SIFAS productions in collaboration with The Esplanade: ‘Vaadhya Samhita - A Confluence of Strings’, an instrumental Jugalbandi (Hindustani & Carnatic) at the Esplanade Recital Studio on Friday, 26th March 2021 and ‘Prakriti Vikriti – Nature’s Nature Revisited’, a multi-lingual and multi-disciplinary dance musical, at The Esplanade Theatre on Saturday 27th March 2021.
FESTIVAL CALENDAR
19th March 2021 - 28th March 2021
All programmes are held at the SIFAS STAGE, 2A Starlight Avenue, unless otherwise mentioned.
19th March - Friday
6.30 pm Inauguration of Festival and launch of SIFAS Black Box "Dhwani" 7.00 pm Lighting of Lamp and Welcome address 7.15 pm - 8:15 pm Carnatic Veena Manjula Surendra (Veena) Tripunithura Sreekanth (Mridangam) Mahesh Parameswaran (Ghatam) 20th March - Saturday 9.00 am - 10.15 am Carnatic Violin Kishan Hebbar Srinivasan (Mridangam) Sivakumar Gopalan (Ghatam) 11.00 am - 12.15 pm Carnatic Vocal Sharadh Rajaraman Pavan Sughosh (Violin) Bombay R Subramaniam (Mridangam) 5.00 pm - 6.30 pm Carnatic Vocal Nishanth Thiagarajan Nellai Ravindran (Violin) Muthusubramanian (Mridangam) 7.15 pm - 8.30 pm SIFAS Alumni Dance Ensemble 21st March - Sunday 9.00 am - 9.30 am Tabla Trio Advaith Srinivasan, Anirudha Srinivasan Abhinav Bheema Suresh 9.35 am - 10.10 am Tabla Solo G. Lakshmanan 11.00 am - 12.15 pm Hindustani Vocal Pratima Bellave Debasish Adhikary (Harmonium) Mihir Kundu (Tabla) 5.00 pm - 6.30 pm Carnatic Vocal Vaishnavi Anand Bombay Anand (Violin) Bombay R Subramaniam (Mridangam) Mahesh Parameswaran (Ghatam) 7.15 pm - 8.45 pm Carnatic Vocal Srividya Sriram N N Ganesh Kumar (Violin) Satish Chandra Sista (Mridangam) Muthusubramanian (Kanjira) |
22nd March - Monday
7.00 pm - 8.15 pm Hindustani Vocal Tanuja Sane Debasish Adhikary (Harmonium) Supriyo Banerjee (Tabla) 23rd March - Tuesday 7.00 pm - 8.15 pm Carnatic Vocal Shruthi Raj Ganesh Kumar (Violin) Balasubramanian (Mridangam) 24th March - Wednesday 7.00 pm - 8.30 pm Carnatic Vocal Rasika Viswanath Nellai Ravindran (Violin) Mahesh Parameswaran (Mridangam) 25th March Thursday 7.00 pm - 8.15 pm Carnatic Vocal Sreeranjani Muthusubramanian Srinath Iyer (Violin) Muthusubramanian (Mridangam) 26th March Friday 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm "Vaadhya Samhita - A Confluence of Strings" Instrumental Jugalbandhi @ Esplanade Recital Studio Sanjay Chakrabarty (Sarod) Susanta Chowdhury (Sitar) Nellai Ravindran (Violin) Ganesh Kumar (Violin) Mihir Kundu (Tabla) Tripunithura Sreekanth (Mridangam) 27th March - Saturday 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm "Prakriti Vikriti - Nature's Nature Revisited" Bharathanatyam - Kathak Ensemble @ Esplanade Theatre A SIFAS Production 28th March - Sunday 9.00 am - 11.00 am Mummoorthigal Vizha 6.30 pm - 8.00 pm Abir Gulal An evening celebrating the colours of Holi, with Hindustani Semi-Classical Music and Kathak dances |
Festival Highlights
Vaadhya Samhita - A Confluence of Strings
Date: Friday, 26th March 2021
Time: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Venue: The Esplande Recital Studio - 1 Esplanade Dr, Singapore 038981
Time: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Venue: The Esplande Recital Studio - 1 Esplanade Dr, Singapore 038981
Prakriti Vikriti - Nature's Nature Revisited
Date: Saturday, 27th March 2021
Time: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Venue: The Esplande Theater - 1 Esplanade Dr, Singapore 038981
Time: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Venue: The Esplande Theater - 1 Esplanade Dr, Singapore 038981
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