Brief: Sixth Tagore Festival set for Nov. 18-20

Michael Rabe, South Asianist art historian from Saint Xavier University and
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, will be the keynote speaker of
the Sixth Annual Tagore Festival, set for Nov. 18, 19 and 20 at the
Channing Murray Foundation on the UI campus.

Rabe's talk, "Perilous Revelations: Images of Tapas and Temptation From
India and the West," is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. Nov. 18.

The focus of his slide-illustrated talk will be the motif of "wrestling
with angels," visualizations of spirit encounters that are often reported
in several religious traditions to precede the receipt of revelation.

This year's festival honoring Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore
(1861-1941) will celebrate the spiritual aspects of art, literature, music
and dance, with an emphasis on Asian and South Asian expressions.

Other festival highlights:

oIndian dinner, 7 p.m., Nov. 18, reservations required; 344-1176.
oTour of Buddhist art at Krannert Art Museum, led by Linda Duke, 11 a.m.,
Nov. 19.
oCultural performance, 7 p.m. Nov. 19.
oInterdenominational service on Tagore's art, noon, Nov. 20.

All events will take place at the Channing Murray Foundation, 1209 W.
Oregon St., Urbana, except for the art tour.

Sponsors include the UI Program in South and West Asian Studies, the Indian
Students Association, the Indian Cultural Society, the East Central
Illinois Bengali Association, the Bangladesh Cultural Society and the
Channing Murray Foundation.