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Show Tht Salt Lake Tribune E7 Sunday, April 28, 1965 Nationwide Festival of India will involve 90 U.S. cities By Frederick M. Wlnshlp United Press International NEW YORK An Festival of India, a celebration of Indian culture In 90 U.S. cities In 37 states, gets under way In May as an attempt to promote greater American understanding of India. The festival's Inaugural event will be a display of ancient Hindu and Buddhist sculpture at the National Gallery In Washington, opening May 5. Hundreds of exhibitions and performances will take place before the closing exhibition of Indian views by British artists at the Los Angeles County Art Museum In October 1988. Unprecedented Although the unprecedented festival will be weighted on the side of art shows, there also will be music and dance performances, scientific and historical exhibitions, film festivals, craft exhibitions, recreations of village fairs, and educational programs planned at a cost of more than $12 million. Bloomlngdales In New York will transform itself into an Indian bazaar next spring. Cincinnati will get a comprehensive exhibit of Indian Mughal era art, while Austin, Texas, New Orleans, and Worcester, Mass., will get exhibits of Mughal miniature painting. Ohio, and Iowa City, Iowa, will have displays of Islamic Indian calligraphy. Indian textiles will be exhibited in Pueblo, Colo. Seattle and Cleveland will see Kushan sculpture, and San Diego will get contemporary Indian prints. State Visit The late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi suggested the idea to President Reagan during her state visit to Washington in 1982 as the result of the success of an Indian festival in Britain that year. Reagan agreed to set up an India-U.program of cultural exchange with a nationwide festival in the United States scheduled for and 1988. Rajiv Gandhi, who succeeded his mother as prime minister of the worlds largest democracy last October, will officially open the festival on June 13 at a concert at Kennedy Center and a visit to the National Gallery. The stone and bronze sculptures being shown there date from 3000 B.C. to 1300 A.D. and like many of the 1,330 artifacts India is sending to museums all over the country, most have never been exhibited before outside India. Not Just Artifacts But India isnt Just sending artifacts. Several hundred artists, craftsmen, dancers, musicians, poets, film makers, scientists and technologists will also be coming to the United States to perform and to take part in symposiums and conferences. Washington will mount an Indian fair in a area of the National Mall June 1983 26-Ju- 7. Mrs. Pupul Jayakar, Indian chairman of the festival and adviser on cultural affairs to the prime minister, likes to emphasize the human element in the festival, while acknowledging its historical aspects. We're sending young people to the United States to show how alive our traditions are, she said. "We Want to show that the technological revolution does not mean the end of the whole past, of universals like literature, art, music and peace. Spiritual Roots The next few years will be traumatic for us as we make the transition into the modern world. I know of no country that has as deep spiritual and cultural roots, but the question is whether or not we can make the transition without losing our values. Mrs. Jayakar noted that India is investing some $4 million in the festival, partly in the hope of changing the American view that India hasnt entered the 20th century, let alone ready to enter the 21st. Changing the American image of India would be reward enough from this festival," she said. "We hope it will give a much broader picture of our country and culture, resulting in a better understanding between our two countries. If India must discover America, so America must discover Sethi has put Indian craftsmen to- gether with Western designers such as Mary McFadden, Jack Lenor Larsen, Ivan Chermayeff and Milton Glaser to create new objects for tomorrows world, which will be exhibited under the title "The Golden Eye. Feed Vliiagei The other shows are borrowing existing objects but we are showing things that haven't existed before," said Lisa Taylor, director of the "We hope to come up with designs that will have a market in the West, so we can help feed the villages of craftsmen in India. It gives these craftsmen a chance to translate their techniques into products that meet current needs. Other exhibits featuring Indian art today include a show of 40 paintings and sculptures that will open at the Phillips Gallery in Washington next April and then tour the country and "New Tantra Art," an exhibit of 80 paintings by Indian artists at the University of California, Los Angeles, opening Nov. 24. The Missoula, Mont., museum is hosting a show of Indian women artists. India. Appetites Whetted Discovering India is something that many Americans have done recently through film and television. The Oscar Award-winnin- g "Gandhi" whetted the appetite of millions for more information about India and its struggle for freedom from the British. That appetite was piqued more recently by the film, A Passage to India," and the TV series, "The Jewel in the Crown. As a result, organizers of the festival expect attendance to be high, es- pecially at large exhibitions like "InA Festival of Science," which dia will cover the history of Indias achievements from the golden age of astronomy to the conquest of the atom. This will open at Chicago's Museum of Science and Technology in June and travel to other American science centers coast to coast. Pailace Collections New Yorks Metropolitan Museum will take up the story of Indian art where the National Gallery leaves off. Its "India! exhibition opening Sept. 9 will feature 400 secular and religious works of art from Indian museums, temples and private collections, including the palace collections of the maharajas of Jaipur and Jodhpur. The Met follows this in December with an exhibit of "Indian Court Costumes selected in part by Jacqueline Onassis. The Smithsonian Institutions Museum of Deslgil in New York will mount the most offbeat festival event. Indian designer Rajeev Philip Glass' opera, "Satyagraha," based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi in September 1986. Photographs and Films Photographic exhibits depicting Gandhi's World" and the career of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Indian prime minister, will tour the country, along with Rosalind Solomon's photos of the festivals of India, photos of Indian wildlife by Stanley and Belinda Kq-po- : fall. Colleges and Universities will ho$t a majority of the traveling events Es- pecially Indian dance performance being coordinated by the Amerlcap Institute of Indian Studies. ! (classes begin in MAY) AVAILABLE CLASSES Crealm IOOL: PRE-SC- I PRE-BALLE- Directress PrincipalTeacher B.F.A. Miiioia Cum Laude, bn lk t i. 3-- 5 5-- 8 2 Gill now to register or 485-233- 7 466-463- 3 See us in CONCERT: MAY BALLET WEST 11, 7:00 pm KINGSBURY HALL: admission free 1597 S. More than 40 traditional craftsmen ranging from toymakers to stone inlayers and performing artists including magicians, puppeteers, jugglers and acrobats will come from India to take part in the Aditi exhibition opening June 26 at the National Museum of Natural History ir. Washington. Aditi is a celebration of the life cycle in India and will be shown in a rural setting. Indian-bor- n Zubin Mehta, music director of the New York Philharmonic, will devote the first week of the orchestras 1985-8- 6 season in September to a Salute to India. Sitarist Ravi Shankar will be a soloist and world premieres of contemporary compositions by Naresh Sohal and L. Subramaniam will be performed. The New York City Opera will produce ages ages NEW BEGINNER: ages Upper levels, & Pointe Middle Eastern Dance MIKALCASALINO and 1760 South on 1100 East JIT ms&msm SALT LAKE... HERE COMES AMERICA'S BEST!! Season Tickets Sale 1985-8- 6 Breeden, and Pepita Nobles phokjs of Hindu rituals and ceremonies. Nfew York's Museum of Modern Art will mount a festival of films by Ra Ritwik Ghatak, and others next SUMMER BALLET; (School Many People itt N Savings, Convenience, and the Best Seats! 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