Sangeet Natak Akademi's Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar 2010 for Dastangoi

The Sangeet Natak Akademi, National Academy of Music, Dance, and Drama, the apex body of performing arts in the country has conferred the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for the year 2010 to Mahmood Farooqui & Danish Husain for having outstanding talent and making a mark in their respective field of performing arts, Dastangoi.

For complete press release click here.

Dastangoi at INTACH, Monday 12th Dec, 3.30 pm

As part of the campaign to make Delhi a world heritage city,

Dastangoi

at

INTACH, 71, Lodhi Estate,

on Monday, 12th December,

3.30 pm

Performers-

Manu Sikander Dhingra and Nadeem Shah Suhrawardy

Repeat of the Dastan-e Sedition in Delhi

For those who have missed it so far...

a repeat of the Dastan-e Sedition

For

JNU Forum Against War on People

At


KC OAT (Kamla Complex Open Air Theater) JNU

On

Saturday, 26th November, 2011 at 5.30 pm


Performed this time by

Rana Senger and Rajesh Kumar from Bombay

Reviews of the Lahore shows

by Aisha Sarwari in The Friday Times, Pakistan

http://www.thefridaytimes.com/beta2/tft/article.php?issue=20111125&page=27



Intezar Husain Saheb in DAWN

http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/27/column-the-return-of-the-dastan.html


by Sarwat Ali in JANG

http://jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2011-weekly/nos-27-11-2011/enc.htm#2

And pictures from Aitchison College at

http://www.aitchison.edu.pk/detail.php?i=3233

Ek Shaam Dastangoi aur Zikr-e-Faiz Lahore Mein

As part of the Faiz Centenary Celebrations we're performing Dastangoi and a vignette on Faiz's life and poetry at Ali Auditorium, Ferozpur Road, Lahore at 6pm on Saturday, November 19, 2011.

Entry strictly by invitation only. Invitations available at Faiz Ghar, 126-F, Model Town, Lahore. Tel (042 35835289).

Kindly collect your invitation/s from Faiz Ghar from Saturday 5th November onwards and drop your donations. All donations will go to Faiz Foundation Endowment Fund.

Click here for the facebook event page