If there is one campus you must visit in December, it has to be Kalakshetra, south Chennai.
Queen Mary's College, Chennai is celebrating its centenary this year. It has been a landmark campus catering to women and the department of music has nurtured many a graduate/scholar. Some of them are on stage this December Season.
Bhargavii Mani's dream is coming true as she readies to part the curtain on a show by Art at Edge titled Arpana.
BHARATA ILANGO Foundation for ASIAN CULTURE (BIFAC), Chennai will confer its first award SATABDHI KALAKARAHA (Artiste of the Century) on the 98 year old active performer guru CHEMANCHERI KUNHIRAMAN NAIR.
There is a fascinating exhibition that is on in the Music Academy campus - a show that displays postage stamps, postal covers, coins, special covers and such stuff on musicians, music and the arts. Indian and foreign.
A three-day lec-dem series hosted by Karnatic Music Forum and Sruti was held at Raga Sudha Hall, Luz on the Dec.12 weekend.
For the classical dancers community, then opening evening at Sri Krishna Gana Sabha's December season is theirs in many ways. It is an evening when dancers, the seniors, the gurus and the young are recognized with awards.
At a simple, short launch event Mudhra, a arts body based in T. Nagar in Chennai decorated dance guru Sudharani Ragupathy with a Lifetime Excellence Award and hosted the Akkarai Sisters' violin concert to set the ball rolling on December 6 evening art the Infosys Hall in the Ramakrishna Mission School campus on Habibullah Road in T. Nagar.
Shanti Arts Foundation and Endowments, Chennai is organising its 19th annual music event from Dec 8 to 17 in this city.
Two sabha festival launches and at these, the chief guest is Justice S K Kaul, chief justice of the Madras High Court. And he is not boring. He prepares his speech, has it typed and keeps to a serious theme.