#753
May 2022
PATRONAGE
a symposium on support for cultural labour
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Next Month : Inside Pakistan
Posed
by
Gitanjali
Kolanad,
writer
and
independent
researcher, Toronto
Romila Thapar, Professor Emerita of History (Ancient India),
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
Brahma Prakash, Assistant Professor, School of Arts and
Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
Sohini, writer and film critic, Kolkata
Olga Kanzaki Sooudi, Associate Professor of
Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
Lata Singh, Centre for Women's Studies, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, Delhi
Tejas Ewing, smartphone filmmaker and educator, Singapore
Annie Zaidi, writer and researcher, Mumbai
Supriya Nayak, dancer, teacher and researcher, Delhi
Kombai S. Anwar, documentary filmmaker, Chennai
Gitanjali Kolanad, writer and independent researcher, Chennai; and
G
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P.
Sundar,
ethnographic
researcher/
amateur
anthropologist, Leuven
Ekta M., Co-Founder, Maraa, a media and arts collective;
researcher and independent filmmaker, Bengaluru
Brandy Leary, dancer, choreographer and artistic director,
Anandam Dancetheatre, Toronto
Anand, Publisher, Navayana, poet and student of raga music, Delhi
symposium participants
•   THE PROBLEM
•   PATRONAGE AND COMMUNITY
•   DIALOGUE WITH A DANCER
•   THE COURTESAN AND THE SPORTSPERSON
•   COLLECTORS AS PATRONS
•   LAVANI: CASTE, GENDER AND CULTURAL POLITICS
•   NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING
•   SOME THOUGHTS ON PRIZES, SPONSORSHIP AND ART
•   HOW PATRONAGE SHAPED ODISSI
•   THE SIEGE WITHIN
•   WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR?
•   BECOMING MANJAMMA
•   THE PATRONAGE OF PRACTICE
•   IN WHAT IS STOLEN AND IN WHAT IS FOUND
•   BOOKS
Reviewed
by
Pradeep
Shinde
and
Behula
Chowdhury