HYDERABAD

HYDERABAD

CADALFEST AT LAaMAKAN IN Hyderabad

27th November 2022

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On the evening of the 27th November, CADALFEST takes place at Laamakan, a cultural space in Road no 1, Banjara Hills.

Madhoo with his theater group Meet Kudali will perform:  https://www.facebook.com/Meetkudali.

The music composer and pianist Nirvan will perform a song, conceptualised and co-created with the singers from Shaheen.

The Telugu poet Joopaka Subhadra and Jameela Nishat will read their poetry (with translations into English).

The event will be begin with a video introduction of CADALFEST by Nicole Thiara and Judith Misrahi-Barak.

The song “Hamein Chahieye Ulfath” is composed by Nirvan Athreya and conceptualised and co-created with the singers from Shaheen Women Resource and Welfare Association. Nirvan Athreya is a pianist and composer from Hyderabad, India. He collaborates with singers and artists from across India and around the world. He also works as an educator and film composer. In 2016 he was awarded a scholarship to study at Berkeley College of Music where he graduated in Contemporary Writing and Production.

The Telugu poet Joopaka Subhadra is a powerful Dalit poet and writer and has written poems and short stories which bring out the lives and conditions of the Dalits, and more specifically Dalit women. Many of her stories are drawn from her own experiences. This is what makes her stories so compelling, convincing and disturbing. She will present her poems with translations. Joopaka Subhadra is a rural based Telugu poet who worked as Additional Secretary to Government Telangana State and has a good service record. She published poetry and short stories and worked as a column writer, editor of Chandrasree Yadilo (2013) and as Co-Editor of stories on Nalla Regadi Saallu (Madiga sub-caste women 2006). She also translated the work of other writers into Telugu, and published articles in newspapers. Subhadra submitted research papers and was Guest speaker at many events such as All India Dalit Fest, Kolar (2016). Her honours consist of 31 awards including the Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Award from Dalit Open University (2017) and the Kaloji Award (2018).

Adivasi women will present their songs. The Jai Jangubai Adivasi Mahila Sangham from Komram Bhim Asifabad, Telangana, will present a Gond song on their lives and struggles as Adivasi women.

Jameela Nishat will read her  poetry  and Uma Damodar will read the translations into English. A feminist Urdu poet and an activist, Jameela Nishat is the founder and the executive director of Shaheen Women’s Resource & Welfare Association located in the Old City of Hyderabad. Shaheen was founded in the year 2002 with the aim of bringing in communal harmony and questioning the patriarchal mindset in the Old city of Hyderabad. Shaheen’s mission is to create a gender-just society by encouraging and facilitating economic independence and social empowerment of women. Shaheen conducts awareness programmes for women on women’s rights.

Yakshi Resource and Creative Centre will present a play directed by Madhusudhan Nadempalli. “IddiInthena ?” (‘Is that it ?’) is a collaborative Forum theatre production by Yakshi and the Kudali Learning Centre, Telangana. It emerged from a ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ workshop facilitated by Madhu, with Dalit, Bahujan and Muslim youth and elders from the Satya Shodhaka Yuvajan Sangham in Sangareddy district, Telangana, and deals with the lived realities of caste and patriarchal oppression.