The Tagore Center at the East European Development Institute will mark the Independence Day of India on August 15, 2012, the 21st anniversary of Ukraine’s independence, and the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Ukraine and India with the three-week program “Where the Soul Lives without Fear.” The program will be dedicated to the poet, philosopher, novelist, artist, the first non-European Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, and will run from August 9 to September 9, 2012 at the Taras Shevchenko National Museum in Kyiv.
It is a continuation of the exhibit which marked the 150th anniversary of Tagore’s birth and was held in the fall of 2011 at the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko Museum of Art. The main part of the program is an exhibit of paintings by and photos of the famous thinker. Visitors will be able to watch a slideshow about Tagore’s life and work as well as the movies based on his works, to participate in a literary evening with prominent Ukrainian artists, writers, and poets themed Shevchenko’s and Tagore’s Oeuvre, and an open discussion with human rights activists, cultural figures, politicians, scholars, and diplomats called Rabindranath Tagore and the Challenges of Our Time, to take part in meditative painting, mandala and Indian classical dance workshops, and to listen to Valentyn Yonov performing an instrumental music concert Flute Sings. The East European Development Institute welcomes prospective visitors’ proposals and suggestions on what events they would like to see added to the program.
