Ramanjit Kaur is an award-winning Theatre and Film Actor and Director. She is the Founder Director of The Creative Arts and the National Vice-President of Arts Leadership Council, Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (WICCI). Trained under guru Padmashree Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry and in the UK, France and Italy, she has performed at Festivals in India and worldwide. In 2002, she founded The Creative Arts, the prestigious theatre Training Institute and in 2011, she created the All-Women Theatre Group. She was awarded the Gold medal in Masters in Music (Inst.) and has won national and international awards like Sangeet Natak Akademi’s Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar Award, Sanskriti Award, Uttam Kumar Award and Laadli National Award for Gender Sensitization, the French Embassy Scholarship and The Charles Wallace Award. She acted in Deepa Mehta’s ‘Anatomy of Violence’, ‘Heaven on Earth’ and ‘Fire’, Samir Mehanovich’s ‘Mouth of Hell’ and Shalini Raghavayiah’s ‘Watch the stars for me tonight’. She directed the poetry film ‘Silence’, which won the Berlin Flash Film Festival award among others.
Tanmoy Bose is one of the foremost musicians in contemporary world music and percussion. Bose received his early tutelage from the legendary Pt Kanai Dutta. Bose became the Gandabandh Shagird of the Farukkabad gharana Pandit Shankar Ghosh. When in college, he was called to perform with Ustad Amjad Ali Khan. Consequently, Pandit Ravi Shankar invited him to perform with him, worldwide. He is currently a regular accompanying musician of Dr Lakshminarayana Subramaniam and Smt Kavita Krishnamurthy for their world music projects. His music band Taaltantra, has been experimenting with Jazz, Indian Classical Music, Folk and indigenous drumming. His initiative Rhythmania, has incorporated Indian classical with Western and Mediterranean, Jazz folk and Electronic Dance Music. Bose has always been an ardent researcher and composer and created Dhwani, Beyond Borders, Taalyagna, Chaturang and Moksh, based on the nuances of Indian Rhythm. His Drumz Dreamz project and Hridmajhare deals with the concept of community drumming and indigenous music respectively.
Anjum Katyal is an editor, writer, translator, critic and educator. She was the Chief Editor of Seagull Books, Calcutta from 1987 to 2006, and Editor of Seagull Theatre Quarterly (1994–2004), the only national theatre journal of its time. She is the author of several books on theatre and performance, and has translated plays and fiction by the likes of Habib Tanvir and Mahasweta Devi. She conceived and edited the online journal Art and the City, and served as Director, Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival for eight years. She has helped organise exhibitions of contemporary art, and written catalogues for exhibitions by Chittrovanu Mazumdar, K G Subramanyan, Somnath Hore, Manu Parekh, Madhvi Parekh and others. She is currently Curator, NEW festival of arts and ideas, Santiniketan.
S V Raman, popularly known as Raju Raman, retired as Programme Director of the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata. He is presently Programme Consultant at Victoria Memorial Hall, teaches public speaking / communication / soft skills / film / German at various institutions and is a freelance journalist, translator and interpreter. He is actively connected with several social and cultural organisations in various capacities.
Baisali Chatterjee Dutt is a writer, Theatre Practitioner and Teacher. She has been a Senior Facilitator, Director and Playwright at The Creative Arts (TCA) for our children’s plays for many years. She conceptualised and curated ‘Dramebaazi – International Arts Festival for the Young’ for three years from 2018. She is currently a Drama Teacher at Sri Sri Academy (Kolkata).
Her poetry has been published in numerous anthologies and magazines, print and online. She is a former columnist for Mother & Baby magazine and a contributor to Parent & Baby magazine. Her latest novella in verse. ‘Three is a Lonely Number’ was released in 2021. She calls herself a ‘domesticated nomad’ who tries to raise two teen boys.
Shubha Bangur holds a master’s degree in Applied Psychology from the University of Calcutta. She has undergone her advanced training in Dance Movement Psychotherapy in India and has also been a part of the Dance Movement Psychotherapy summer school 2017 at the University of Roehampton. She is a trained Indian classical dancer as well. She started her work in Dance Movement Psychotherapy by launching “Catharsis -emotional release through movement for the body mind and soul” in the year 2015. She is also the Vice Principal of Vasundhara Academy for Performing Arts. She has also been the curator and has launched the very first dance for health festival in India, Inner Rhythm, 2021. Shubha is the Marian Chace Foundation, American Dance Therapy Association, grant winner year 2018 which led her to launch her movie “Through the eyes of dance” a documentary film on the work of dance movement therapy practitioners with the visually impaired and blind residents of Premasree. She has written a paper, “Dance Movement Therapy in Parkinson’s Disease – rehabilitation with environmental enrichment which has been published in the international journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies.
Debashree Bhattacharya is trained in kathak under Padmashree Smt.Rani karnaa. She is the Co Founder of Ranan Performance Collective and the Secretary of her Guru’s Academy Samskritiki Shreyaskar. She has been heading Brindar for twenty year and holds a Sangeet Prabhakar from Prayag Sangeet Samiti. An A grade solo artist for Kolkata Doordarshan, she is registered with Indian Council for Cultural Relations and the Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre. Along with performing in countries all over the world, she has performed for prestigious institutions like the Sangeet Natak Akademi, NCPA and Kathak Kendra and in festivals all over India like the Khajuraho, Konarak and Nishagandhi festivals. She has conducted workshops in different schools and colleges in London, Wales and all over India under Spic Macay, ERCEN and Junoon (Mumbai).
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