ArtMantram
Karnataka Kalotsava 2024
A Celebration of Music, Dance, Theatre & Art.
February 09th to February 24th, 2024
Come join us as we sing and dance the year 2024 out. It’s a time for family and cheer and coming together. It is the season to celebrate ourselves, and Kalotsava brings you performances that hit high notes and emotions that bind us in our humanity.
Schedule
*All times are in Indian Standard Time (GMT +5:30)
11:00 AM
Sculpture Garden, Ravindra Kalakshetra
Artists- Shan Re, NS Kumbar plus 15 other artists!
05:30 PM
Samsa Bayalu, Ravindra Kalakshetra
Inauguration of the festival.
“Sammilana” Rupesh Arangam Dance Ensemble.
05:30 PM
Samsa Bayalu, Ravindra Kalakshetra
Melodies: Music Performance by Ramachandra Hadpad and team
February 12th, 2024 – Monday
05:30 PM
Nayana Auditorium, Ravindra Kalakshetra
Gulabi Gang Kannada Play.
February 13th, 2024 – Tuesday
10:00 AM
St Joseph’s School Auditorium
A unique blend of world music from Sweden, France, and India.
A journey of melodies & botanical fusion to a deeper understanding of nature’s symphony.
February 19th, 2024 – Monday
06:00 PM
@Level 6 church street above Social
The story of Sita from her birth, through the various episodes in her life, culminates with her embracing her origins again as she gets engulfed into the earth & the arms of her Mother.
February 21th, 2024 – Wednesday
07:00 PM
BIC Auditorium
Premiere of an English play based on a short story by SRIRAM IYER. Adapted and directed by PRAKASH BELAWADI.
February 24th, 2024 – Saturday
05:30 PM
Havyaka Sabhabhavan, Malleswaram.
“DHRUPAD Duet” by Pt. Umakant Gundecha (Padmashree awardee) & Sri. Anant Gundecha.
Sri. Dhananjay Hegde Mumbai – Vocal.
Previous Session Videos
ArtMantram Lifetime Achievement Awards for Women in the Arts and Letters
Mystic Minstrel Kanai Das
& Parvathy Baul (from West Bengal)
Tara Kini
Hindustani Classical Music
Muddukrishna & Troupe
Kannada Dindima
Khanak Joshi
Sufi Music
Aneesh Vidyashankar
Walking Violinist
Sai Vamshi
Taala Tarang – Multi percussion Solo
Ram Nagaraj
Shabnami Shaam
Arun Sivag
Band Swahaa
Sangeetha Ravindranath
Classical and folk Music
Nirupama Menon
Songs for the Season
Dileep R on Mrudangam &
Grammy winner Prakash Sontakke on Hawaiian guitar & troupe
‘Classical Fusion Music’
Dance Ballet by Padmini Ravi & Deepti Sudhindra
God as a Customer
Dancers
Padma Shri Leela Samson, a Bharatnatyam Dancer who has excellent form in nritta and sensitive abhinaya. Blessed with a captivating stage presence and precision in movement. Radhe Jaggi and Bhavajan Kumar are both part of the Spanda Dance Company directed and guided by Leela Samson.
Mukti Shri is one of those versatile artists who on one hand performs pure Kathak repertoire and in the other experiments with contemporary and Jazz music.
Diya Naidu with her troupe brings in an immersive devised movement theatre peice. A work that creates a space for introspection and deep self observation.
Dance Ballet God as a Customer is a performance piece by Padmini Ravi and Deepti Sudhindra rooted in bharatanatyam exploring contemporary thought through the lens of Kshtreyya Padams inspired by the translations of A K Ramanujam and David Schumann.
Swati Bhise the first disciple of “Padma Vibhushan” Sonal Mansingh is a renowned Bharatanatyam dancer, educator, producer, writer, director and promoter of the arts.
Kadamb Center for Dance’s forte is classicism in Kathak and creative imagination in dance choreography and
highly proficient dancers.
Leela Samson
Padmini Ravi & Deepti Sudhindra
Swati Bhise
Diya Naidu
Mukti Shri
Kadamb
Radhe Jaggi
Bhavajan Kumar
Musicians
ANEESH VIDYASHANKAR, famous internationally as the “Walking Violinist”. His infectious music transcends age, genre and even nationality.
TARA KINI, a Hindusthani classical Dhrupad singer is the founder director of Sunaad, a music collective and advisor to the Shankar Mahadevan Academy and many others.
NIRUPAMA MENON RAO, diplomat-vocalist, focuses mainly on Western Music, Jazz, Musical theatre and Folk music in many languages.
KANAI DAS, perhaps the most celebrated Baul singer from interior Bengal, went blind at six months but blessed with a voice that is melodious, sad, and elegiac.
RAM NAGARAJ popular singer of Ghazals and old melodies. Ram’s versatility in music is full of romantic Hindi compositions, featuring elements of Disco, Lounge Music, and even Hard Rock or Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Y.K.MUDDUKRISHNA and troupe presents the musical event of Jazz band with sugama sangeet and folk songs with Kalashree, a Santashishunala Sharief awardee.
ARUN SIVAG a Bangalore-based musician and social entrepreneur, specializing in world percussion while deepening his knowledge of South Indian folk instruments.
SANGEETHA RAVINDRANATH is a singer, song writer and a composer, enchanting people with her melodious voice and pumping their adrenaline with her energetic live performances!
DILEEP R, a Vocalist, Multi Instrumentalist, Composer, Director Filmmaker and Innovator. He is presenting Classical and Fusion music with Prakash Sontakke a Grammy Award winner and exponent of Hawaiian slide guitar.
KHANAK JOSHI, prodigy Sufi singer par excellence and winner of the world wide talent hunt by the Shankar Mahadevan Academy.
SAI VAMSHI, a multi Percussion Soloist, is omni dextrous playing on many instruments and two Talas simultaneously.
Aneesh Vidyashankar
Tara Kini
Nirupama Rao
Kanai Das
Ram Nagaraj
MudduKrishna
Arun Sivag
Sangeetha Ravindranath
Dileep R
Prakash Sontakke
Khanak Joshi
Sai Vamshi
Silent Auction
Online 14th -30th Dec
ArtMantram announces its Annual Auction of artworks by senior well-known artists.
As with our successful last auction, we have on offer a few precious works of art donated by artists including Anjolie Ela Menon, Sujata Bajaj, Sudip Roy and others.
This is an exclusive opportunity for art lovers and art collectors to pick up great works at realistic prices.
Please select the work and place your bid with the registry @Raji Narayan Ph: 98450 87716 @Elina Abraham Ph: 99023 73170. The bid has to be placed at the base price or above. The winning bid will be decided and announced on 30 Dec, 2020.
Don’t miss this opportunity!
Awards
ArtMantram Lifetime Achievements Awards for Women in the Arts & Letters 2020
Sponsors
We are grateful to the Pratithi Trust for their generous contribution towards the Kalotsava
We are grateful to Shri. Aroon Raman for the financial support to Artmantram Trust
We are grateful to Shri M Lakshminarayan for the financial support to the Artmantram Trust
We are grateful to Shri Subir Hari Singh for the financial support to the Artmantram Trust
We are thankful to the Hebbar Trust for allowing us to use a sketch of noted painter Shri. KK Hebbar
We are thankful to Shri C.S. Balasubramaniam who composed the jingle for the signature tune for the Kalotsava.
He has created it by playing on the Sarod, Mandolin and Rabab .
Watch Live in Person
* Programs from 22nd to 25th Dec can be watched live in person at
Bangalore International Centre
7, 4th Main Road,
Domlur II Stage,
Bengaluru 560 071
04:30 PM – 05:30 PM
21 Dec Monday