The evolving coronavirus pandemic has exposed the weaknesses of each society. Our obsession with productivity, efficiency, and economic growth have not only failed us, but limited us in creating creative, empathetic and equal societies.
In this conversation, trilingual academician Prof. Chinmoy Guha and theatre practitioner T.Sasitharan will discuss how we can look to the arts (literature, history, philosophy and theatre) for solutions or methods in approaching the crisis, and how mankind can learn to reconnect and find new ways of collective art-making.
Prof. Guha will be referencing multiple literary works and his work—Bridging East and West: Rabindranath Tagore and Romain Rolland Correspondence 1919–1941, which shares how two Nobel Laureate from different backgrounds and corners of the world share their views. T.Sasitharan will comment on how education has failed to help us understand the 'other' and how theatre can create zones of discomfort to meet the 'other'.
This session is moderated by Alfonse Chiu, and will be hosted LIVE on our Facebook. There will be a 45min conversation, followed by a Q&A.
