As most events and workshops are online due to  COVID-19, Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth (SPIC MACAY) live streamed Anubhav 2020, a week-long programme on YouTube  from 1 – 7 June to help alleviate mental stress caused by the lockdown . S  Jayachandran, Centre for Exact Humanities (CEH) represented IIIT Hyderabad as a Special Guest and spoke on Baul Sangeet, a folk dialect of Bengali music, developed by rural mystic minstrels. Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvyFM2hJSqg

Youtube channel – www.youtube.com/spicmacayofficial

More details at https://spicmacay.org/anubhav20 

SPIC MACAY  is a non-political, nationwide, voluntary movement founded in 1977 by Dr. Kiran Seth, Professor-Emeritus at IIT Delhi who was awarded the ‘Padma Shri’ for his contribution to the arts in 2009.

SPICMACAY’s intention is to enrich the quality of formal education by increasing awareness about different aspects of Indian heritage and inspiring the young mind to imbibe the values embedded in it. It seeks to inspire youth through experiencing the mysticism embodied in the rich and heterogeneous cultural tapestry of Indian and World Heritage, with a hope that the beauty, grace, values and wisdom embodied in these arts will influence their way of life and thinking and inspire one to become a better human being. For this, the most accomplished artistes of the country render programmes of Indian classical music and dance, folk, poetry, theatre, traditional paintings, crafts & yog primarily in schools and colleges. In 2011, SPIC MACAY was awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana award in recognition of its contribution to youth development.