Previous Events
Saturday, April 27
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Center Stage Surrey City Hall 13450 104 Ave Surrey, BC
Resonating Metro Vancouver’s cosmopolitan spirit, Vancouver Tagore Society is hosting the 5th Annual Tagore Spring Festival on April 27th. In this multicultural event, artists from different backgrounds would display their traditions and heritages by presenting live music and dance that include violin ensemble, flamenco music and dance, Indian classical dance, and a medley of Bengali songs.
The event is supported by cultural grants from the City of Surrey, BC Arts Council and featured in the ExplorASIAN festival by Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society.
Join this musical celebration of diversity and embrace the beauty of Spring!
For more details, please contact: VancouverTagoreSociety@gmail.com
Shyama A Bharatnatyam Dance Theatre

This dance theatre piece is a tribute to the first non-European Nobel-laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore and his magically visual poetry and music of love. The romantic tragedy of Tagore is based on the story of Shyama, a powerful royal court dancer. Shyama falls in love with a foreign merchant who is falsely imprisoned by the King’s guard. The story slowly unfolds as Shyama travels great lengths to save her love from unjust execution. Dance artist Arno Kamolika has been collaborating with choreographer Jai Govinda, musician Shankhanaad Mallick and with director Rohit Chokhani for over three years on this production, and Diwali in BC will debut their most current version of this poetic, deep philosophical story that will be performed on stage by an all-female cast, Bharatanatyam dancers based in BC - Vidya Kotamraju, GrihaLakshmi Soundarapandian, Malavika Santhosh and Jayalakshmi Ravindra. This production is presented by Raghupriya Arts and Culture Society and co-presented with Vancouver Tagore Society and in community partnership with Mandala Arts and Culture Society with support from BC Arts Council. Picked and featured as a part of the Georgia Straight Fall Arts Preview. Read more here: www.straight.com/arts/1135031/fall-arts-preview-2018-arno-kamolikas-bharata-natyam-journey-takes-her-bangladesh-bc
Saturday, September 8
6:00 pm – 8:15 pm
Light refreshments will be provided.
The event is funded in part by cultural project grants from the City of Richmond and BC Arts Council.
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Saturday, May 19th, 2018
7:00 – 9:30pm
Centre Stage, Surrey City Hall
13450 104 Avenue Surrey, BC, V3T 1V8
13450 104 Avenue Surrey, BC, V3T 1V
Saturday, May 20th, 2017
6:30 – 10:00 pm
West Coast Tagore Festival 2017
Friday, August 11th, 2017
6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Saturday, August 12th, 2017
Stalls and Exhibits: 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm & 7:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Performances: 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Gateway Theatre
6500 Gilbert Road, Richmond, British Columbia V7C3V4 [Google Map]
1855 West Mall, Vancouver
Another Tagore
The Campaigner for Peasant Emancipation in Bengal
4:00 – 6: 00 pm
R0om 120, Institute of Asian Research
C.K. Choi Building, UBC
1855 West Mall, Vancouver
The entire event is free, including light refreshments. The seminar will be followed by a selection of songs by Tagore, presented by the Vancouver Tagore Society.
West Coast Tagore Festival 2016
with support from the City of Surrey.
6:00pm – 8:30pm
Poetry Evening
Saturday, September 10th, 2016
12:00 – 4:00 pm
Cultural performances featuring music, dance, poetry, storytelling, and more!
7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC V6Y 1R9
Tagore Spring Festival 2016
7:30 -10:00 pm
Surrey Councils Chambers, Surrey City Hall
13450 104 Avenue Surrey, BC, V3T 1V8
Multicultural celebration of Spring through dance, music and poetry, inspired by Nobel-laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s idea of Confluence of Cultures and his passion for festive exaltation of different seasons.
With Cultural Project Assistance from the City of Surrey.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1774527369435438/
West Coast Tagore Festival 2015
12:00 – 5:00 pm
Richmond Cultural Centre
7700 Minoru Blvd, Richmond, British Columbia V6Y1Z5
Shyama
Saturday, October 10th, 2015
7:30 -9:45 pm
Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre
181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 2W3
Vancouver Tagore Society, in partnership with Mandala Arts & Culture Society, presents a Bharata-Natyam interpretation of Rabindranath Tagore’s epic dance drama ‘Shyama’. Choreographed by Jai Govinda, the artistic director of Mandala Arts and Culture, and performed by his disciple Arno Kamolika. All the songs of this production are sung by Shankhanaad Mallick and Suranjana Hoque.
Tagore at BC Culture Days
Traditional India Series
6:00 – 8:30 pm
Galleria of Port Moody, Inlet Theatre
100 Newport Drive, Port Moody, BC V3H 5C3
The Tagore Society will participate in the Traditional India Series as part of BC Culture Days. Various other groups will participate alongside us in the series.
Tagore Spring Festival 2015
West Coast Tagore Festival 2014
Saturday, September 6th from 12:00 – 4:30 pm
Richmond Cultural Centre, 7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC V6Y 1R9
Admission is free. Donations are happily and gratefully accepted.
বৈকালিক – An Afternoon of Bengali Poetry – 2014
Rooftop Garden, Richmond Cultural Centre, 7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC V6Y 1R9
Boikalik – This year’s ‘An Afternoon of Bengali Poetry’ presented an anthology of Bengali poetry – themed on the people and environment of Bengal – in a culturally entertaining way, with each poem recitation accompanied by singing, instrumental music, dance or expressive acting. The poems were performed in original Bengali followed by a translation in a different language (non-English).
This event is also our signature collaboration with the Asian Heritage Month Society.
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Tagore and Empowerment of Women
1:00 – 5:00 pm
City of Richmond Council Chambers, Richmond City Hall
6911 No 3 Road, Richmond, BC V6Y 2C1
West Coast Tagore Festival 2013
Saturday, September 14, 2013, 10:30 – 4:30 pm
Richmond Cultural Centre
7700 Minoru Blvd, Richmond, British Columbia V6Y1Z5
Presentation of:
- Poems on Tagore by World Poetry poets
- Tagore’s poems and readings from his works
- Tagore’s poems, music and dance by the child artists from the community.
- Tagore music and songs by Sabuj Mazumder, Shankhanaad Mallick, Amlan Das Gupta, Aparajita Chowdhury, Avik Dey, Avinanda Mukerji, Rafia Mahzabin, Duke Ashrafuzzaman, Monish Chakraborti and others.
- Dances by Shaily Gupta, Soumyee Gupta, Keya Ghosh, Fayeza Islam, Maisha Haque, Anuradha Mitra, Selene Bertelsen and others.
- Much, much more!
West Coast Tagore Festival 2012
Richmond Cultural Centre
7700 Minoru Blvd, Richmond, British Columbia V6Y1Z5
Presentation of:
- Poems on Tagore by World Poetry poets
- Slideshow of Tagore’s paintings
- Tagore’s poems and readings from his works
- Tagore’s poems, music and dance by the child artists from the community.
- Tagore music and songs and dances
- Much, much more!
বৈকালিক – An Afternoon of Bengali Poetry – 2012
Rooftop Garden, Richmond Cultural Centre,
7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, BC V6Y 1R9
Saturday, July 28, 2012, 1:30-4:00PM
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150 Years of Tagore! – West Coast Tagore Festival 2011
Richmond Cultural Centre
7700 Minoru Blvd, Richmond, British Columbia V6Y1Z5