![]() Booklet produced by the British Library Sound Archive. I think you can request one from the British Library as they have a few. As it happened only the grown ups came that day, but I was glad to attempt to catch the colour in Hinda and Halima’s aleendi (woven scarves.)Īs a thank you to the group and for continuity, the library produced this booklet based on the project, with pictures by me, a new poem by Elmi – many quotations and insights from the participants and a QR link to the music recordings. ‘ it’s like confetti!’ I’d brought coloured pencils along as well as ink, in case there would be kids there who might like to draw too. Their voices animated the air – a spell to mend post-lockdown hearts. There were parts of conversation that were so poetic no pictures were needed.Ī high spot for me was listening to the women sing and ululate live in the room where we gathered. ![]() This is Ubah, from the Camden community group. Over subsequent weeks we listened together to lullabies, house building songs, herding songs and other examples of Somali music. I drew her from a video clip and wrote down some of what she said, as well as what was said about her, by the people gathered for the session. To begin with, we all listened to the magnificent voice and music of iconic Somali singer Maryam Mursal. Chandan Mahal and Emma Brinkhurst from the BL team got in touch to see if I could do some listening with a group of Somali Londoners, together with Mancunian East African poet, Elmi, and a bunch of recordings from the 1980s – collected by ethnomusicologist John Low. Still in London and still with the African diaspora, the people at UK book HQ – ie The British Library, are in the middle of a major project to connect their Sound Archive back with some of the communities the recordings represent. ![]() Violeta’s wonderful mother Building a house on a nurse’s wages: a topical story from Vimbai. I took home a jar of Marie’s green sauce which gives everything a lift. The food and company were delicious, also, bittersweet. I learned about some fantastic spice mixtures and recipes, as well as hearing of many tough situations that the women I met are dealing with, both here and back home. We spent a day in Marie’s kitchen, and as well as doing one to one story drawing, I was invited to cook and eat with the group. Drawing at Marie’s house in BrixtonĮarly in the year I worked with a group of women from across the African diaspora, who are meeting to cook together and share stories with Brixton chef and teacher Marie Mingle, and doctoral researcher Natasha Dyer. Each narrator gets a copy of their story to keep, either on the day if we have a helper and access to an A3 copier, or later, by post. It usually involves me sitting with a person and having a conversation, often on a theme, (like food) which I then draw and write live in front of them, using ink and brush and a distilled selection of their own words. To recap: this process is one I’ve written about before. Fresh ink drawings pegged up under a mulberry tree in Mecklenburgh Square at a story collecting gig this summer at a party for Jewish Renaissance magazine. Datta Endowment Fund.Over 2022 I was back on the live story collecting and drawing road, taking my ink and brushes both round the corner in south London – and all over the UK. Datta Lecture is made possible through the Dr. Datta Lecture brings nationally and internationally recognized experts in the fields of art history and archaeology to discuss new scholarship, museum exhibitions, and archaeological discoveries in Indian art. She has written extensively on premodern Indian art, literature, and philosophy and has translated modern stories from Bengali and Oriya. After teaching at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, for many years, she moved to Yale University, where she was the Lex Hixon Professor of World Religions. Phyllis Granoff received her PhD from Harvard University in the Departments of Fine Arts and Sanskrit and Indian Studies. ![]() Granoff shares her journey for these answers. Who had these manuscripts made and why? How and of what were they made? How were they used and stored? How were they valued, as sacred texts to be worshiped or works of art? To study these manuscripts is a continuing process of asking questions, and in this talk Dr. This lecture explores the stories these manuscripts and others like them tell us about the religious, social, and economic worlds of their origin. The Cleveland Museum of Art has an important collection of Buddhist and Jain manuscripts, some of which are being shown for the first time in the exhibition Text and Image in Southern Asia (August 26, 2022–March 5, 2023). Datta Lecture 2023: Medieval Indian Manuscripts and the Stories They Tell
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