The Festival is observed every year in honor of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), poet, dramatist, musician, philosopher, and humanist, who became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. The Annual Tagore Festival commemorates the Nobel Laureate’s visit to the UIUC campus in 1912 when he delivered a series of lectures at the Channing Murray Chapel, the first Unitarian Church of Urbana.
XXXIV TAGORE FESTIVAL
November 8, Saturday, 5-7 PM
KEYNOTE:
Professor Michele Louro
“India's Anticolonial Struggle from Swadeshi to Independence"
Performance based on Tagore’s songs by students and community members
(Tea and snacks will be served)