SPICMACAY-Bothell

Great musicians deserve great audiences Our modus operandi will adhere closely to the original SPICMACAY model of free events, open to all comers.

We are a University of Washington Bothell student organization dedicated to the proposition that great musicians deserve great audiences and vice versa. Our events will be first-come-first-seated, sans speeches, lamps, incense and garlanding ceremonies. Just artists and audiences interacting up close and personal. We will invite both master musicians who embody the best the tradition has to offer

as well as performers who are at various stages on their journey to that end. As our capabilities expand we will add other arts to our ouvre. No matter what else we do, our central aim will be to capture the je ne se quoi that pervades traditional music performances in India where living masters of the tradition perform for discerning and demanding audiences who help keep the tradition alive and evolving by paying the kind of rapt and mindful attention that makes the performer “walk the edge of the sword.” In this way, we hope to bring to the UWB community, and more generally to the Eastside and to the Puget Sound area, events that will create an aesthetic portal, as it were, into the contemporary Indian performing arts milieu where a two millennium old tradition is kept alive and evolving as each generation of performers and audiences celebrates, in its own way, the joy of being. The one promise we make to ourselves and to our audience is that we will feature performers who strive to keep the music fresh and real: by this we mean simply that we will not seek to re-enact safe and ossified routines in the name of tradition. The tradition we will seek to propagate is one that recognizes the vital necessity of reinventing itself with every performance. Like evolution, the process sometimes (indeed, often) may fail, but the program of trial and error must go on: In art, as in life, stasis is death. We will build on and contribute to the rich tradition of Indian performing arts sponsorship in the Puget Sound area by pioneering organizations like Ragamala and others too numerous to name individually as well as existing diaspora organizations that promote and nurture the Indian performing arts. We intend to complement their efforts by expanding the audience to include the UWB campus community as well as the broader Bothell and Puget Sound communities outside of the Indian diaspora. To this end we will work with institutions that cater to all ages: local primary and secondary schools and post-secondary institutions, community arts and cultural organizations as well as elder community organizations to include all of these broader, non-traditional audiences in an enriching, life-affirming and, ultimately, uplifting, dialog. Our ethos of organizing free events is motivated by conviction that the very best and most meaningful things in life, like great art, should be available to all. As such we will also be reaching out to the community for resources to enable us to achieve this somewhat utopian but ultimately human and humane vision.

06/03/2025

Evite link for June 27 baithak with Gundecha Bandhu:

evite.me

06/03/2025

Two items from our friends at Kansen Seattle ... https://www.facebook.com/share/1C7GKS45Hf/

03/08/2025

02/28/2025

We are delighted to share information about three upcoming ICM baithaks on the UW Bothell Campus.
Fri, Mar 7, NCEC, 7 pm, https://evite.me/5y2mhC7Rff
Fri, Mar 28, DISC 061, 7 pm, https://evite.me/RHArhsEBtS
Weds, April 30 DISC 061, 7pm, https://evite.me/gquV9AWDRy

12/01/2024

The V.G Jog Foundation have just launched the following call for violin scholarships:
https://vgjogfound.org/scholarships
Please check it out.
Two types of scholarships are on offer. The Sath Sangat Talim award and the Bela Vadan Talim Award.

10/08/2024

KansenSeattle and SPICMACAY-UW invite you to a screening of the film *The Power of Sound: Gundecha Brothers, Masters of Sound* by Andree Martin, on *Sunday Oct 13, 2025 @ 11:00 am in UWBB 230* (UWBB: https://maps.app.goo.gl/UuNhXGysR9NsTfocA).
The screening will be followed by q+a with the Gundechas led by Prof. Ramesh Gangolli.
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A description of the film, google-translated from the French original at https://tinyurl.com/amartin-dhrupad reads as follows:
An artistic and imaginary territory, this documentary turns out to be as much a film as a pretext. A pretext to delve into the oldest form of song in India, to explore its mysteries, and to present its leading figures, the Gundecha Brothers. But above all to bear witness to what, in this artistic journey, this vocal and musical art, makes work and meaning for the one who makes it, as for the one who listens to it.
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THIS EVENT IS FREE OF CHARGE TO ALL

04/06/2024

Looking forward to the following Kansen Seattle baithaks:

10/03/2023

KansenSeattle is looking forward to hearing Mitali Banerjee Bhawmik, Pallab Bandopadhyay, Ravi Albright and Manoj Deshpande @ our season finale double-header Pt. V.G. Jog smarak baithak this Saturday, Oct 7 starting @ 11 am. Mitali will sing first and Pallab will conclude the second half. Weather promises to be good to boot.

Contact [email protected] for invitations.

Purano Sei Diner Kotha | Rabindra Sangeet | Debabrata Biswas | Tagore Songs

09/11/2023

Also looking forward to upcoming events sponsored by our old friends, in alphabetical order,
Pratidhwani Seattle @ https://www.pratidhwani.org/classical/bhaavrang
and
Ragamala Seattle @ https://www.ragamala.org/event

If you haven't already bookmarked both these, please do so now and support them as well.

Purano Sei Diner Kotha | Rabindra Sangeet | Debabrata Biswas | Tagore Songs Presenting Purano Sei Diner Kotha a very popular Rabindrasangeet By Legendary Debabrata Biswas...Track Details***************Song - Purano Sei Diner KothaSin...

09/10/2023

Looking forward to the next KansenSeattle baithak with vocalists Ritesh and Rajnish Mishra, Vijay Ghaskadvi (harmonium) and Tamnay Bichu (tabla) on Sep 17, 2023, starting 2:00 pm. For invitations, email [email protected].

06/14/2023

Forwarding on behalf of our friends at KansenSeattle:

KansenSeattle is a newly founded group dedicated to organizing by-invitation-only baithaks of Indian Classical Music. Floor seating and unamplified music will be the order of the day, albeit with some accommodation for chaired seating for seniors. If you find the intended content and format interesting and would like to attend our events, let us know at [email protected]. Also follow us at https://www.facebook.com/KansenSeattle/

On Sunday June 25, at 10 am, as part of our Sruti - Unplugged series, we are hosting Mitali Bhawmik (vocal) accompanied by Manoj Deshpande (tabla) and Deepashree Joglekar (harmonium).

Artist websites:
Mitali: https://www.mitalibhawmik.com/bio
Manoj: https://www.facebook.com/itsdeshpande
Deepashree: https://swarsamvadini.com/about-us

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Bothell, WA
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