The South Asian diaspora gets a spotlight at this winter solstice and holiday celebration with Ragini Ensemble, a gathering of artists from Reunion Island, Guyana, and Trinidad.
Held at Fotografiska on Sunday, December 17, the performance from bandleader and tabla player Roshni Samlal, Brooklyn-based artist Natie and ceremonial priestess and vocalizer Pratima Doobay will explore themes of nostalgia, separation, and communal memory through Surinamese baithak ghana chanting, Trinidadian Bhojpuri folk song. The pieces will be set "within the aesthetic framework defined by the 'Coolitude' movement, a term coined by poet and semiologist Khal Torabully, that draws from multiple mythologies and histories that reconcile the complex nature of Indo-Caribbean identity."
General admission, which is set at $40 for the public ($20 for members), includes the price of museum entry.