The Navarati Festival at Wesleyan University has been celebrating Indian music and dance with an annual slate of concerts, lectures, workshops and screenings for nearly four decades now.
Highlights of the 39th Navarati Festival, Oct. 7 through 11, include a 4 p.m. performance on Saturday, Oct. 4, by Sri Rajhesh Vaidya, plucking the veena in Crowell Concert Hall, in the Center for the Arts on the Wesleyan campus, 283 Washington Terrace, Middletown. On Sunday, Oct. 11, at 3 p.m. in the same hall, dancer and choreographer Alarmél Valli will make her first Connecticut appearance.
Tickets to both those performances are $18, $15 for students and seniors. The rest of the week is filled with Hindu ceremonies and feasts, a henna art activity, the screening of a documentary film about Alarmél Valli and concerts by Wesleyan faculty and students. Information: 860-685-3355, wesleyan.edu.
