MUMBAI: Culture Connects, a collaboration between Delhi-based culture curators Wild City and digital innovators MUTEK.SF from San Francisco, announced a close to their year long run of conversations, performances and workshops with two events to be hosted by the American Center New Delhi this April.

Culture Connects was designed as a series of digital events that pivoted to become an online repository of conversations, workshops and performances exploring themes of music, culture and technology, and creative entrepreneurship, highlighting success stories of individuals and collectives from India and the United States.

April 7

Musicians Sucharita Gupta, Abhinav Agrawal and Aditya Balani explore various folk music forms across northern India with respect to their musical nuances, social and cultural aspects, challenges in the current context and ways to empower folk artists. In a conversation titled, Exploring Folk Music of North India, Global Music Institute co-founder Balani and Anahad Foundation founder Agrawal will discuss the commonalities with other art forms like blues and jazz given their development and overlay of classical and folk/regional styles of music. Shortly after, thumri and dadra singer Sucharita ji along with Lalit Kumar (tabla) and Saurabh Shrivastava (harmonium) will present a short recital. They will be joined by Balani, one of India’s finest jazz musicians, on the guitar.

April 21

Catch packaged coffee brand Sleepy Owl’s co-founder Ajai Thandi in conversation with venture capitalist (VC) Archit Vijoy to break down the basics of the venture capital ecosystem. Get practical tips on raising funds and understand what the process of fund-raising involves: introductions, pitches, negotiations, term sheets, and all the intricacies that go with each stage and every round in a conversation titled Open Floor: The Fundamentals of Funding, and supported by Nexus, American Centre’s startup hub and technology incubator.

You can register for both the events here.