Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti in conversation with Ilhana Katoch, as part of STORIES OF THE INDIAN DIASPORA series. Curated under TMYS Review June, 2021 View the full Video Interview Excerpt from TMYS website – Tell me your Story (TMYS) works towards popularising stories from academic research and social significance in collaboration with global thought leaders. We operate through story projects, collaborative research and storytelling workshops for individuals/corporate. Link to TMYS page.
Affordable Education Grant 2020
Recipient of the Affordable Education Grant 2020. View the AIM Faculty Experience Interview. The Affordable Learning community at San Francisco State University is a collaborative effort between the Center for Equity & Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CEETL), Disability Programs Resource Center (DPRC), J. Paul Leonard Library and the SF State Bookstore; it aims to create a more equitable and inclusive classroom. View details.
Imagining Home Exhibit
Faculty Curator and Organizer April 16, 2021 SF State Creative Arts Affinity Group with support from the LCA Extraordinary Ideas Grant presents Imagining Home. (Home Page)… San Francisco State University Hosts Interdisciplinary Student Arts Exhibit Imagining Home SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 16, 2021 — On April 16, 2021, San Francisco State University launched the interdisciplinary student arts exhibit Imagining Home—a showcase of thoughtful and timely undergraduate and graduate student stories of home. The Creative Arts Affinity Group, a team of six SF State faculty members across five different university departments, first…
Marcus Early Career Research Award
Recipient of the Marcus Early Career Research Award, 2021 February 15, 2021 In its second year, the College of Liberal & Creative Arts’ Marcus Early Career Research Award will help five faculty members complete their book and film projects that explore social-justice issues in the U.S. and abroad. The award, supported by the George and Judy Marcus Funds for Excellence in the Liberal Arts, provides a one-semester leave in 2021 – 2022. It funds projects in research, scholarship and creative activities. Probationary tenure-track faculty in their third, fourth or fifth…
No Make-Up
October 10 and 11, 2020. Online Zoom Performance The show has been produced by Cloud Playhouse Script – Sukanya Chakrabarti Direction – Ranjita Chakravarty Video Recording of No Makeup on YouTube SoundCloud Audio Recording of No Makeup Every poison has an antidote. What about domestic abuse? From the Event page (link)… Watch our play “No Make-up” on Saturday, Oct 10 or Sunday, Oct 11 at 7pm PT to find out more.
Dealing Dreams
October 3, 2020. Online Zoom Performance The show has been produced by EnActe Arts Stage Play Reading Direction- Sukanya Chakrabarti Play – Jeffrey Lo Two millennials must make moral compromises to succeed in the Silicon Valley grind. From the Event page (link)… Intelligent go-getters Zoe and Trey are striving to keep their heads afloat in today’s economy. They’ve graduated from elite schools only to face unemployment and chances at low-paying “McJobs”. They’re underqualified for jobs they want, overqualified for jobs they don’t want. Then Trey comes up with a striking…
Association for Asian Performance 2020
Invited to participate in the AAP conference July 28, 2020, Online Conference Presented the paper: The Choreography of Poetic Dissent: Exploring Space and its Political Aesthetics in Indian Street Theatre. From the Event page (link)…
Raabta
September 15-16, 2018. Castro Valley Center for the Arts (CFA), Castro Valley, CA The show has been produced by Bay Area Creative Dance Academy Script – Sukanya Chakrabarti Play Direction – Ranjita Chakravarty Video Production – Archita Mandal Fallini Dance choreographers – Dalia Chatterjee Sen, Debbani Khatua, Puspita Moitra, Aparna DG, Shirni Kanth , Sanjib Bhattacharya Music – Overall Direction & Arrangement- Subhen Khatua Lights – Snehungsu Guha Sound – Jay Roy Vision and Direction – Dalia Chatterjee Sen From the Event page (link)… Event photographs taken by Bibek Ghosh…
The Forgotten Empress
February 27-28, 2020 in San Jose Performance Center, San Jose, CA. April 20-21, 2018 in Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, TX. Sukanya Chakrabarti, Narration Performed by Kathak artist Farah Yasmeen Shaikh. Written and directed by award-winning playwright Matthew Spangler. Original live score by Musical Director Salar Nader. From the Facebook Event page (link)… All Event photographs taken by Lynn Lane Combining South Asian classical dance, live music, multimedia, and theater, The Forgotten Empress is a dynamic dance drama based on the life of Empress Noor Jahan. The performance will explore…
Gauhar
February 2-3, 2018 in 3400 Main St, Houston TX February 10, 2018 in Mexican Heritage Plaza, San Jose. February 11, 2018 in Cubberley Theater, Palo Alto Sukanya Chakrabarti, Actor Written by: Mahesh Dattani. Directed by: Lillette Dubey. From the Facebook Event page (link)… GAUHAR traces the story of one of India’s first mass media superstars at the turn of the last century! An Armenian Christian who later converted to Islam, Gauhar Jaan was a naturally gifted musician with a wide repertoire. One of the earliest women artists who seized the…