SPIC MACAY Returns to SU Campus
-Emera Bridger Wilson
The South Asia Center is pleased to announce that, after
being a defunct organization on campus for several years, that SPIC MACAY
(Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth)
has now again become an active chapter on SU’s campus thanks to the hard work
of Arun Subramanian and Sid Nadendla, both graduate students in the L.C. Smith
College of Engineering , and under the guidance of Sudha Raj, Associate
Professor of Nutrition, who is the faculty advisor for the group.
The group hopes to bring two or three Indian performers to
campus per year. In their inaugural year, they have done just that! In the
Fall, on September 6, SPIC MACAY brought Pandit Bholanath Mishra, well-known
Indian classical vocalist to campus. He and his accompanists, Kulbhushan
Goswami on the sarangi and Jai Shankar Mishra on tabla, performed for an
audience of close to 300 people in Setnor Auditorium. They were joined by SU
student, Ketan Shah, on harmonium. SPIC MACY will close out the Spring semester
with a Bharatanatyam performance by Vidya Subramanian on April 24.
If you are interested in becoming part of SPIC MACAY or
learning more about them, please visit their Facebook page,
https://www.facebook.com/spicmacay.su, or contact them at their email address,
spic-macay.su@gmail.com.