Re: Durga Puja 2022

[East Central Illinois Bengali Association]

Hello,

Gentle reminder for Durga Puja 2022 at Champaign - Urbana.

Please register/RSVP   following the link " https://forms.gle/b3cXnFcHv5vTu9NB6"

For more details please see the attached document.

Thanks and Regards,

Tanmay Banerjee

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Thanks and Regards,

East Central Illinois Bengali Association

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 1:32 PM East Central Illinois Bengali Association <eciba.mai...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear ECIBA members,

It is our great pleasure to cordially invite you to Durga Puja 2022, which will take place from Sept 30th to Oct 2nd at the Channing Murray Foundation (1209 W. Oregon St, Urbana, Illinois, 61801). Please find attached the flyer with detailed schedule and charges.

Kindly RSVP and pay the registration fees by Sept 15th to avail the early registration rates.
In order to confirm your RSVP and avail the early registration rates, we advise you:  

To register:

i. Fill out RSVP form at https://forms.gle/b3cXnFcHv5vTu9NB6

ii. Make a payment using one of the following options:
Chase Quickpay or Paypal to eciba.mai...@gmail.com
Check payable to ECIBA mailed to Nani Bhowmik (4405 Trostshire Circle, Champaign, IL 61822)
Please note that your registration would be considered complete only upon receipt of payment.

We are attaching the flyer with more details for your convenience.  

We continue to keep our charges low, and this is only possible because of our dedicated volunteers handling the workload, and our patrons sponsoring various items related to the festival. Please let us know if you want to help us out by volunteering. We are also seeking participants for the cultural events, and patrons for Puja sponsorship.

We are looking forward to your active participation and help in organizing Durga Puja. Kindly spread the word to your friends who might not be in our mailing list.

Please send us an email if you have any concerns/questions.

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Thanks and Regards,

Tanmay Banerjee

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East Central Illinois Bengali Association

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East Central Illinois Bengali Association

You received this email as your email address is listed in the ECIBA mailing list. Kindly let us know if you wish to unsubscribe from the mailing list.

[East Central Illinois Bengali Association]

Gentle reminder for Durga Puja 2022 at Champaign - Urbana.

Please register/RSVP   following the link " https://forms.gle/b3cXnFcHv5vTu9NB6"

For more details please see the attached document.

 If you are interested in taking part in cultural program/cooking volunteer/ puja volunteer/decoration/setup etc please contact to Shibu Kar (shib...@gmail.com) or Nibedita Chakraborty (nibed...@gmail.com) ASAP.

Thanks and Regards,

Tanmay Banerjee

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Thanks and Regards,

East Central Illinois Bengali Association

[East Central Illinois Bengali Association]

Hello,

Please find below mail from Anustup Basu regarding   Nazarbandh Film Screening function on 15th September at 6PM.

Details are attached in the mail.

Thanks and Regards,

Tanmay Banerjee

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East Central Illinois Bengali Association

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From: Basu, Anustup <ba...@illinois.edu>
Date: Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 8:17 AM
Subject: A Film Screening of Nazarbach/Captive (2020) followed by Q&A with director Suman Mukhopadhyay.
To: East Central Illinois Bengali Association <eciba.mai...@gmail.com>

Public Film Screening and Q&A with the Director Suman Mukhopadhyay, moderated by Professor Anustup Basu.  (Free and open to all)

 

Thursday, 15^th September 2022, 6 pm.  

Venue: Room 134 of Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, University of Illinois Campus, 611 Loredo Taft Drive
Champaign, IL 61820 

 

Nazarbandh/Captive (Suman Mukhopadhyay, India, 2020) 1 hr 25 mins. Hindi with English subtitles.  

 

The event is sponsored by English, CWL, CSAMES, Film and Media, Unit for Criticism, and HRI.   

  

Nazarbandh/Captive is a much-lauded film that was Official Selection and World Premiere at the 25^th Busan International Film Festival, 2020. It was screened at the London Indian Film Festival (2021), NYIFF New York, Asian Film Festival Barcelona, 2021, Florence Indian Film Festival 2021 (Winner of the Audience Award for Feature Film) and had a special screening at Kolkata International Film Festival.  It is going to be the opening film at the 2022 Litfilms Festival at Munster, Germany.  

 

About the Director 

Suman Mukhopadhyay has directed several full-length feature films: Nazarband (2020); Posham Pa (2019); Asamapta (2017); Shesher Kobita (2014); Kangal Malsat, (2013); Mahanagar@Kolkata (2009); Chaturanga (2008) and Herbert (2005) which won the National Award for Best Regional Film that year. He has won awards in various national and international film festivals including Montreal, Dubai, Munich, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Zanzibar, Sao Paolo, Detroit, Kerala, Kolkata, Pune, Los Angeles , New York, and Melbourne. Suman has also made a number of documentaries, TV series, short films and cine-plays. He was conferred with a script development award from Motion Picture Association, USA and Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Brisbane in 2017. 

Anustup Basu

Professor of English, Criticism, Cinema and Media Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Author of "Hindutva as Political Monotheism" (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020)

https://www.dukeupress.edu/hindutva-as-political-monotheism

608 South Wright Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801
phone: 217-722-0709
fax: 217-333-4321
email: ba...@illinois.edu
website: http://www.english.illinois.edu/people/basu1

[East Central Illinois Bengali Association]

Hello,

RSVP form for this year's Durga Puja is closed now. Thanks for your support and response. Like previous years we are sure this year's puja will be enjoyable to all.

Please note there are no entry fees to visit Puja or take part in puja.

We strongly recommend wearing masks all the time during your visit to Puja. Your kind cooperation and help is highly appreciated. .

Thanks and Regards,

Tanmay Banerjee

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Thanks and Regards,

East Central Illinois Bengali Association