Tentoonstelling, Salon, Performance
12 - 30 November
The Cultural Embassy of Lloyd Hotel has invited the charismatic hostess Laxmi from India to put together her own programme.
She chose to organise a 'Mumbai Direct Salon', and organised a programme which shows several aspects of Indian culture.
During the Amsterdam India Festival Lloyd Hotel will be steeped into India's contemporary urban culture, among which: the booming art world, the outsourcing of callcenter services by the West, and the still in use system of castes.
The Amsterdam India Festival is an initiative of the Concertgebouw, with programmes throughout town in over 30 cultural places.
India Innings
12 - 30 November
open daily from 08.00 - 01.00 hrs
free admission
An exhibition with work by Bose Krishnamachari, top artist and curator, known as the mentor of the 'Bombay Boys'. Also from Bombay, Shai Heredia, director of the Experimenta Film Festival India, will bring a selection of experimental film.
India Innings is composed in cooperation with art expert and gallery-owner Willem Baars Projetcs.
This exhibition comes together with a contribution from
NCDO, the HGIS-Cultuurmiddelen and theAmsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst.
Mumbai Direct Salon
12 - 30 November
daily from 16.00 - 22.00 hrs
free admission
14 - 19 November
Performances of dancegroup with orchestra
20.00 – 22.00 hrs
free admission
The charismatic hostess Laxmi, from Mumbai, invites a host of festival guests in her daily salon. In the evening a dance group will perform, accompanied by an orchestra playing on traditional instruments.
This company will bring a repertoire of semi-classical Hindu music, Bollywood songs and Marathi songs, and folk dance from Maharashtra, Delhi, Harayana, Gujurathi, Rajasthan, Nagaland, Assam, Andrapradesh, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu.
The Mumbai Direct Salon is English spoken.
This production is realised with a contribution from the HGIS-Cultuurmiddelen, theEuropean Cultural Foundation, thePrins Claus Fonds and the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst.
Call Cutta in a Box
12 - 30 November, except 17 and 24 November
Performances start each hour from 13.00 - 20.00 hrs ( start last performance 19.00 hrs)
At check in you will be handed your room-key. As you enter your hotelroom, the phone rings. Pick it up and the performance starts.
Call cutta in a Box is a performance by the Berlin group Rimini Protokoll, important for their influence on the new wave of 'Reality Theater'.
In this international phone theatre, you will have a conversation with an employee of a Calcutta callcenter, which differs totally from the type of service-talk you would normally have when talking to someone like that.
The performances start each hour and are open to two people at a time.
Ticketsales exclusively through the Stadsschouwburg, Monday to Saturday from 12.00 - 18.00 hrs, or via internet.
Ticketsales on the day exclusively via the Lloyd Hotel Ticketpoint.
Tickets are € 10,- ( € 8 Sprinters, CJP’ers and students, booking fee Ticketpoint € 2)
Call Cutta in a Box is in English.
This performance is a coproduction with Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, with a contribution from the HGIS-Cultuurmiddelen, and the European Cultural Foundation.
