DKK 134 million For Art, Culture, Elite research and exchange student programmeS
India Today - Copenhagen Tomorrow is a massive Indian-Danish culture project. The project aims to acquaint Danes with modern India and its incredible dynamics.
India has an immense culture and is a technological tiger with an enormous future potential.
18 August will mark the start of India Today – Copenhagen Tomorrow, at which time some of India’s foremost artists, designers, filmmakers, authors, musicians, businesspeople, thinkers and scientists will descend upon the Danish capital and stay throughout the autumn.
The Indian influence
Every sixth person in the world is Indian. More than 1.3 billion people live in the world’s biggest democracy, and over 300 million Indians have a living standard that corresponds with Denmark’s. India is slated to become the world’s next superpower by virtue of its explosive economic growth and the fact that its population has many young and few old people.
AttorneySteen Lassen, chairman of the Holck-Larsen Foundation, who initated the mega-project India Today – Copenhagen Tomorrow, says:
“India is gaining increasing importance for Denmark and the Danes.”
India as a cultural powerhouse
India Today – Copenhagen Tomorrowwill give Danes an opportunity to get fresh insight into this fascinating country. Starting in August, some of India’s most prominent cultural and business figures will come to Denmark and reveal the current pulses in the fields of art, fashion, film, design, business and research. The event features exhibitions, festivals, concerts, conferences, seminars and workshops – and involves partners like ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, the CPH PIX film festival, the Royal Danish Theatre, the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Business School.
India Today – Copenhagen Tomorrow opens on 18 August with a major exhibition at ARKEN, presenting Indian contemporary art and fashion. The project also includes fellowships and exchange programmes – and will ultimately lead to the the establishment of a Danish cultural institute in India.
Facts
India Today – Copenhagen Tomorrow is a culture and business campaign that aims at strengthening the ties between Denmark and India. It will be the most wide-ranging event about India ever held and will focus on art, fashion, design, film, dance, science and business.
When
18 August 2012 – 13 January 2013.
Who
India Today – Copenhagen Tomorrow is a collective term covering a number of cultural and business initiatives regarding modern India. The events have been initiated by the Holck-Larsen Foundation and developed in cooperation with ARKEN, CPH PIX, CPH DOX, the Royal Theatre, the University of Copenhagen, CopenhagenBusinessSchool, AarhusUniversity, the Confederation of Danish Industry, Asia House and the Danish Cultural Institute.
Read more about the project at
The event is supported by a large number of foundations and organisations. The Holck-Larsen Foundation stands behind the initiative.
Steen LassenClaus Resen Steenstrup
Chairman of the Holck-Larsen FoundationVice Chairman of the Holck-Larsen Foundation
ART
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The sheer number and variety of events are as vast as India itself.The projectwill kick off on 18 August 2012 with ARKEN’s largest exhibition ever to centre on Indian art and fashion.
INDIA: ART NOW showcases Indian contemporary art. The exhibition is accompanied by an impressive publication produced by ARKEN in cooperation with Hatje Cantz.
INDIA: FASHION NOW shows the latest trends and the apex of Indian fashion. The exhibitions are accentuated with a beautiful reading lounge created by the award-winning Indian-Scottish design duo of Doshi Levien.
ARKEN is also hosting a conference with leading Danish and Indian experts on art and aesthetics, “Art on the Move”, on 26 October, as well as conferences on migration and identity, “Migration, Memory and Place”, on 5-7 December, arranged by the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University jointly with ARKEN.
”The Indian art scene is mushrooming, and is today one of the most exciting epicentres of contemporary art. At the same time an unprecedented fashion scene has emerged in India, leaving its distinctive mark on the fashion industry and setting trends the world over. We have handpicked the most interesting artists and designers and present themin the largest special exhibition ever held at ARKEN,” says Christian Gether, director of ARKEN.
Contact: Marie-Louise Dunker/ARKEN
FILM
Films from India will be shown at the film festivals CPH PIX on 19 August – 16 September during the festival INDIAN INDIES – BOLLYWOOD & BEYOND, and at CPH:DOX on 1- 11 November as part of the series INDIA UNREAL. Audiences will be treated to experimental films and documentaries from a country that produces far more than simply Bollywood movies.
Contact: Jacob Neiiendam/CPH PIX
d Tine Fischer/CPH DOX
MUSIC AND DANCE
As part of India Today – Copenhagen Tomorrow, four collaborative projects between Danish and Indian musicians, dancers, performers, composers and choreographers will run in the course of the autumn. On 6 and 7 September the Tivoli Gardens Concert Hall will form the backdrop for a dance and music collaboration “Footprint – a dance performance”.
On 21 September ShashankSubramanyamwill perform with BlueLotusMarilyn Mazur at Jazzhouse. The concert will be repeated at ARKEN on 21 October, although without Marilyn Mazur.On 22 November Jazzhouse will hold a musical performance/concert duel with Thomas Sandberg and Sivamani, and on 27 November the Figura Ensemble will perform with Indian musicians in the Queen’s Hall at the Royal LIbrary.
Contact: Birgitte Øigaard/Cumulus Teatret d Sidsel Lee Wintrop/BESTSELLER FONDEN
INDIAN DANCE
The Royal Danish Theatre, in cooperation with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), will host a guest performance by the Rhythmosaic Dance Company. The Indian dance company will be visiting the Royal Danish Playhouse on 20 and 21 October with a new, modern interpretation of the classical Russian ballet “Swan Lake”, in this production transformed into an Indian-French dance performance that combines jazz, Kathak dance, tap dancing and flamenco. “Swan Lake Revisited”is still a love story in which the evil Von Rothbart has turned Princess Odette into a swan by day, and Prince Siegfried falls in love with her one night – while she is her human self.The storyline of “Swan Lake Revisited” remainsfaithful to the original ballet, but has been adapted to the present time. The banquet hall has become a cafeteria; the wood is now a busy street; and the ballet steps have been replaced by modern dance. The music is still Tchaikovsky’s, but Indian notes add new layers to the familiar sound.
Contact: Camilla Høy-Jensen
LITERATURE
Indian literature will be presented at “INDIA: LITERATURE NOW”, where authors Mridula Garg, Githa Hariharan and Manu Joseph will visit Denmark in the autumn and appear at open events held at the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University and the Gyldendal publishing house. Moreover, we will be sending Danish authors Carsten Jensen, Astrid Saalbach and Kirsten Thorup to the Jaipur literature festival, thus opening a new page of Danish literature in India.
Contact: Peter Andersen/University of d
Marie Yoshida/University of
CONFERENCES
At the international workshop “Spectacle of Globality” on 29 – 30 August, leading experts on India – anthropologists, poltical scientists and historians – will cast light on the socio-political processes that contribute to making India a global power.
A conference on Danish-Indian cooperation, “India Today – Copenhagen Tomorrow” will be held over a two-day period. On 13 September the theme “Peace and Sustainabilitywill be addressed, and on 14 September the theme will be “Co-creating sustainable business between India and Denmark”.
A conference on migraton and identity, “Migration, Memory and Place”, will be held 5 – 7 December.
The conferences will be held by the Danish Cultural Institute, the Holck-Larsen Foundation, CopenhagenBusinessSchool, the Confederation of Danish Industry, Asia House, ARKEN, the University of Copenhagen and AarhusUniversity.
Contact: Ravinder Kaur/University of ,
Olaf Gerlach-Hansen/the Danish Cultural d
Finn Andersen/The Danish Cultural
BASIC RESEARCH
The Danish National Research Foundation will be spending up to DKK 50 million over a number of years on a large-scale collaboration between elite research environments in Denmark and India. Indian institutions will deploy the same magnitude of resources, thus bringing the total resources expended for the joint Danish-Indian elite research projects to approx DKK 100 million.
FELLOWSHIPS
Exchange programmes initiated by public and private research operators will promote relations between India and Denmark in a wide range of areas. This includes fellowships for Danish and Indian music students as well as 200 fellowships for Indian and Danish student engineers in the life science field, coordinated between the Technical University of Denmark and the equivalent Indian institutions. Whether in the fields of culture, science or business - India Today – Copenhagen Tomorrow will aim to ensure that the ties between India and Denmark grow stronger in future.
“We in Denmark would be grateful to be part of India Today and India Tomorrow, so important for global matters,”says Dr. Haldor Topsøe, chairman of the board of Haldor Topsøe A/S.”
Contact: Claus Resen Steenstrup
IT
In cooperation with the Danish Confederation of Industryand the innovation network InfinIT, researchers will hold a GSD conference at the IT University of Copenhagenon 10 September. At the conference a number of international experts and business people will discuss strategic outsourcing between India and Europe as well as challenges and opportunities within global software development.
Contact: Pernille
COURSES, LECTURES, SOCIAL PLATFORMS ON THE INTERNET AND A COMPETITION
The University of Copenhagen and the University Extramural Department will be hosting regular courses and lectures on Indian culture and religion, and the Danish Cultural Institute will set up a digital platform, “Co-Create Now”, to facilitate contact between Indian and Danish institutions – all having a professional or personal interest in initiating a Danish-Indian exchange.A competition will be held for Danish and Indian students of business, technology, design, art and culture to come up with the best new ideas for “co-creating sustainable solutions for the future”.
“Denmark and India can learn a great deal from each other, and Danish-Indian collaboration will benefit both nations.By cooperating and pooling intellectual resources, we can benefit from each other’s knowledge and thus achieve even better results,”says Dr. Pachauri, Director General of the Indian Energy and Resources Institute (TERI),chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Nobel Prize winner.
“’Co-Create Now’ will generate contacts and inspiration between Denmark and India – between individuals and at a personal level.'Co-Create Now' focuses on stories and experiences that people have a genuine interest in sharing with one another,” says Michael Christiansen, chairman of the board of the Danish Cultural Institute.
Contact: Olaf Gerlach Hansen/The Danish Cultural Institute
and Finn Andersen/The Danish Cultural
More events
Further, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation will air programmes about India, and Asia House will hold various activities for the Danish-Indian business community.
The events connected with India Today – Copenhagen Tomorrowwill be regularly updated at the website includes a general overview and contact information.
THE HOLCK-LARSEN FOUNDATION
India Today – Copenhagen Tomorrow is a Danish-Indian project initiated by the Holck-LarsenFoundation, which was established by Henning Holck-Larsen, one of the two Danish founders of the Indian company Larsen & Toubro.
SPONSORS
The activities are sponsored by the Holck-Larsen Foundation, Larsen & Toubro, Nordea-fonden, Danske Bank, Ramboll, Sportgoodsfonden, Novozymes, ICCR, Haldor Topsøe, BESTSELLER Fonden, M Fonden, Asia House, DSV, ARKEN, Konsul Georg Jorcks og Hustru Emma Jorcks Fond, Augustinus Fonden, Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond and Knud Højgårds Fond. The chairman and managing director of Larsen & Toubro, Mr. Naik, is the honorary chairman of the project.
FACTS ABOUT INDIA
The world’s largest democracy.
Seventh-largest country. Second-largest population. Inhabitants: 1.3 billion people – with 40,000 Indians being born each day.
Demographically, there are more young people in India than in China, which has more old people. Consequently, India’s population is growing at a faster rate.
The population density is higher than in Japan.
Financially, India is among the world’s fastest-growing economies. Globally,India ranks no. 11, and come third in Asia after China and Japan. Within a few years India is expected to surpass China in terms of economic growth.
Today, there are more than 125 registered Danish businesses in India, and they have created more than 200,000 jobs. India is playing an increasing part in Danish business growth.Similarly, Indian companies have invested in Denmark, and more than 20 Indian businesses, primarily in the IT sector, have set up operations in Denmark.
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