Carinlangs presents " Celebrating Tagore's Gitanjali"

Students of the Caribbean institute of Language Studies will join with AlphaMax Academy, The Suriname Indian Cultural Center and the Indian Embassy in Suriname to present a program on Saturday May 10 at the Alphamax Educational complex to honor  India's most famous writer and artist--Rabindranath Tagore.

The program -"Celebrating Tagore's Gitanjali- an evening of poetry , music and dance " will feature musical items by ICC's musical teacher Devesh Chaturvedi and his students as well as ICC's dance teacher Raddhika Shah and her students.

Marylyn Westerveld -Carinlangs Presenter

The signature item on the program is a uniquely created script by Ivan Khayiat of selected poems from "Gitanjali" which will be dramatically performed by students from AlphaMax Academy and Carinlangs.

This section of the program will also feature live and recorded music and dance intricately linked to the themes and mood of the poetry. Both the Carinlangs and AlphaMax dance items are choreographed by Mrs. Kavita Thani.

The curriculum at AlphaMax Academy is strongly influenced by the ideals of India's celebrated poet and artist Rabindranath Tagore.

On June 4th 2011 Suriname’s First Lady Ingrid Bouterse Waldring unveiled the Tagore monument, a sculpted bronze figure of Tagore.This monument, a gift from India to Suriname, is one of several worldwide.

In 1918, Tagore founded Visva Bharati University – an international center of Culture and Humanistic Studies.

Tagore considered the lack of education to be the main obstacle in the way of national progress and at the root of all its problems. He thought that the basic objectives of any worthwhile national education system were to promote, creativity, freedom, joy, and an awareness of a country’s cultural heritage.

Monique Brown, Dr. Morroy, Ambassador Subrshini & Sean Taylor at opening of Carinlangs.

Therefore he worked assiduously towards developing an appropriate system of national education. He felt that each nation was different and this fact should be reflected in its system of education.

Two of his significant thoughts on this matter are:
“Let the students gather knowledge and materials from different regions of the country, from direct sources and from their own independent efforts.”

“We must try to understand how [our native] genius express[es] itself… Unless we try to put these together and discover the integrating factors behind these diverse streams of thought and make them a subject of study at our universities, we would only be borrowing knowledge from abroad. The natural habitat for knowledge is where it is produced. The main task of universities is to produce knowledge, its dissemination is its secondary function. We must invite those intellectuals and scholars to our universities who are engaged in research, invention or creative activity.”

To help foster and enrich the holistic formation of its young scholars, from its inception, the Academy has devoted four of its five school days to left-brain academic and ratiocinative development and activities, and one full school day to right-brain creative endeavors.