World Music Day Weekender Day - 1 (Within This Self | Ya Ghat Bheetar - Shruthi Veena Vishwanath)

WITHIN THIS SELF - YA GHAT BHEETAR by Shruthi Veena Vishwanath The rhythmic recital brings bhakti to life through a deep musical moment to think about our bodies as a vessel. The performance as a tool to be shapeless, formless, porous yet holding, catalysis the thought - can we begin our discovery to attempt self-realisation? Lost oral histories of the women of warkari tradition brought back through a contemporary lens with rawness, relevance and resilience. Accompanying Artists - Shruteendra Katagade & Hitesh Dhutia. About the Artist: Shruthi Veena Vishwanath is a singer, song catcher, stirrer of her stories, educator and curator. Trained in classical music for many years, Shruthi later dived deep into the roots of the traditions, traveling and learning from traditional practitioners in rural areas. She has performed at festivals and venues across the world (Kabir Festival Mumbai, Jaipur Literature Festival, NCPA, Habitat Centre, among others) spoken and taught at leading universities on traditional music and mystical traditions of South Asia (UC Berkeley, IIT Bombay, among others) and received multiple grants for research and performance (India Foundation for the Arts, Sandbox Collective, Sahapedia-UNESCO, etc). She has worked with hundreds of children across schools on different lenses of music education- including a focus on self, expression, performance, and for healing. She currently leads an inclusive community for song-learning called Music in the Machan.