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SOIREE SERIES # 3 ART: WITH NATVAR BHAVSAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO SPRING 2013.

SOIREE SERIES # 4 THEATRE: with PLAYWRIGHT-COMPOSER SAMRAT CHAKRABARTI & CO-WRITER SANJIV JHAVERI: BUMBUG THE MUSICAL Beautiful home, delicious dinner paired with exquisite wine, conversation and theatre! An exclusive performance of Bumbug The Musical - an electrifying musical reinvention of "A Christmas Carol", told thru the looking glass of NYC Immigrants and Hyphenated America.   7-10 pm. Wednesday October 24, 2012 Anita Trehan's home in the Wall Street area.   Playwright-Composer Samrat Chakrabarti and Co-writer Sanjiv Jhaveri whirl you through a delightful performance of this hysterical, feel good, high energy rock musical that combines the angst and humor of shows like Rent &, Avenue Q with a dash of urbanite global flair. A New Sound for a New Era.The first Indian-American full length Musical: written, composed & performed by the Diaspora.   Limited reservations for this exclusive soiree. Maximum 30 people. RSVP's to events.iaac@gmail.com must be accompanied by payment: $250 per person ($225 tax-deductible). IAAC Members $225 ($200 tax-deductible). Please write a cheque to Indo-American Arts Council, 517 E 87th Street, Suite 1B, New York, NY 10128.  Or  pay via Paypal (using any credit card), (your contribution includes an open bar, hors d'oeuvres, featured guest, dinner, tax deduction).   Your host's address will be emailed to you with an acknowledgement of your reservation.   Samrat Chakrabarti and Sanjiv Jhaveri Samrat Chakrabarti (Composer-Playwright) holds a MFA in Acting from the A.R.T/ Moscow Art Theatre School Program at Harvard University. He has done dozens of Guest Stars and Recurring Roles on American TV shows including: 30 Rock (NBC), In Treatment (HBO), Damages (FX), Zero Hour (ABC), A Gifted Man (CBS), Bored To Death (HBO), Law and Order (NBC), The Sopranos (HBO) and All My Children (ABC). He has also been consistently working in films, both Hollywood a nd Independent, ranging from Spike Lee's She Hate Me to Amyn Kaderali's Kissing Cousins to Bruce Leddy's The Wedding Weekend to Joseph Castelo's The War Within. His international Projects include Deepa Mehta's film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Manish Acharya's Loins of Punjab Presents (with legendary actress Shabana Azmi), Kamal Hassan’s Vishwaroopam, Joseph Matthew's Bombay Summer and Italo Spinelli's Gangor (produced by RAI Cinema). Critics named Samrat Chakrabarti as one of the top six fresh faces to emerge from Toronto International Film Festival 2009, for his breakout performance as Krishna in Claire McCarthy's The Waiting City (with Hollywood actress Radha Mitchell).  Samrat is also an established Award Winning International musician, including: a U.S. CARA for Best Original Pop/Rock Song, for his composition, What's It all About. For more info on his works, visit http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1589782/.     Sanjiv Jhaveri (Co-Writer) is a veteran actor of TV, Film, and the Theatre. His film credits include: LOINS OF PUNJAB PRESENTS, where he played fashion designer Chris G, with scenes opposite the legendary Shabana Azmi; a leading role in WALKAWAY, Shailja Gupta's debut film. On television, he has played an array of memorable co-star roles LAW & ORDER, LAW & ORDER: Special Victims Unit, LAW & ORDER: Criminal Intent, CONVICTION, RESCUE ME, and 3 Pilots, "Drift", "Hate", and the Tim Robbins directed "Possible Side Effects". In the theatre, Sanjiv has worked at famed Regional Theatres such as Yale Rep, Washington D.C.'s award-winning Studio Theatre, and Missouri Rep. In New York City, he has worked in product ions with The Play Company (Sakharam Binder), the Lark Theatre, Lincoln Center Directors' Lab, the Cherry Lane Theatre, and the Hypothetical Theatre Company. He directed the popular Desipina Production of "7-11", seven 11-minute plays set in a convenience store, in 2007. He has Co-Written 3 musicals for A Very Desi Christmas, Soonderella, and Who Killed Mr. Naidu First? A Very Desi Christmas grew into a full-length musical, BAKWAS BUMBUG, workshopped at the Wild Space in 2011. An accent/dialect coach, Sanjiv, has worked with Audible.com and Brilliance Audio. Some of the books that he has narrated are: CONFESSIONS OF A THUG, ALIF THE UNSEEN, THE TRUTH ABOUT ME, and Amitav Ghosh's RIVER OF SMOKE. For more info on his works, please visit http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1021678/.   SOIREE SERIES #5 DANCE: with DANCER-CHOREOGRAPHER PREETI VASUDEVAN Join us at Sanyu & Sudhir's beautiful Manhattan loft for an evening of dance from the classical temples of South India to the contemporary expressions of Urban America. Preeti and her collaborators will share their artistic journey from classical to contemporary Indian dance-theater. Enjoy an evening of creative conversations with the artists, serendipitous cocktails & scrumptious supperalong with that tax-deduction at the special IAAC November Soiree.   7-10 pm. Wednesday November 7, 2012 Sanyu & Sudhir Desai's home in Union Square.   Limited reservations for this exclusive soiree. Maximum 30 people. RSVP's to events.iaac@gmail.com must be accompanied by payment: $250 per person ($225 tax-deductible). IAAC Members $225 ($200 tax-deductible). Please write a cheque to Indo-American Arts Council, 517 E 87th Street, Suite 1B, New York, NY 10128.  Or  pay via Paypal (using any credit card), (your contribution includes an open bar, hors d'oeuvres, featured guest, dinner, tax deduction).   Your host's address will be emailed to you with an acknowledgement of your reservation.   Preeti Vasudevan Award-winning Indian choreographer and artistic ambassador, Preeti Vasudevan bridges cultures, continents and centuries as easily as other dancers might execute a plie. Preeti is a leading exponent of classical Indian dance-theater Bharatanatyam creating new provocative contemporary works from the tradition. Original works performed by her New York City-based dance troupe, Thresh, have earned international acclaim for their fresh juxtaposition of traditi onal dance forms from her native India with modern theories of movement and expression. She was delegate to the first American Dance Festival in India (’90) and was awarded a one-year cultural scholarship for cultural studies in Japan (’94). In 2003 she was selected as one of the emerging choreographers by the Joyce Foundation, NY and invited to the International Choreographer's Residency, American Dance Festival (ADF); Summer faculty at the International Theater program at Butler University, IN; faculty at the 2004 American Dance Festival; first Indian choreographer commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to create Drumming a Dream; Advance theater program with director Anne Bogart and the SITI company (NY). As a classical soloist, Ms. Vasudevan has been the recipient of prestigious awards for her outstanding contribution in the classical arts of India and in her contemporary works, was awared Best Choreography for The Absent Lover at the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards 2009, New Delhi India. Preeti's ground-breaking educational website, Dancing for the Gods (www.dancingforthegods.org) has been developed to help teachers in the US build a cultural bridge through creative Indian dance. Preeti has a Bachelor's in Psychology and a Master's in Dance Studies from Laban Centre London specializing in choreography and movement analysis. [www.threshdance.org]     Support IAAC & Shop the IAAC online store Follow IAAC on Facebook Follow IAAC on Twitter Check IAAC events on YouTube Become a member of IAAC Check IAAC Google Calendar Make a TAX DEDUCTIBLE donation to the IAAC !    The Indo-American Arts Council is a 501 ©3 not-for-profit secular arts organization passionately dedicated to promoting, showcasing and building an awareness of artists of Indian origin in the performing arts, visual arts, literary arts and folk arts. For information please visit www.iaac.us Indo-American Arts Council Inc. 517 East 87th St, Suite 1B, New York, NY 10128. Phone: 212 594 3685 Email: admin@iaac.us. Web: www.iaac.us

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