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Grammy-nominated sitarist and musician Gaurav Mazumdar
Lockdown or no lockdown, there is never a dull moment for the creatively-inclined. With all music concerts, art shows and design exhibitions cancelled or postponed for the better part of 2020 in view of the pandemic and the social distancing norms it demands audiences follow, a few artistes decided to take a new route to fulfil their creative urges.
Artist-turned-author Bruce Garrabrandt says that creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment and fashions its own perfect moment out of ordinary ones. Something similar happened during a conversation between Grammy-nominated sitarist and musician Gaurav Mazumdar and Shruti Chatur Lal Sharma, artistic director of the Pandit Chatur Lal Festival and curator at Euphonic Yoga.
Amid profound heartache, Marc Papaj is looking to his roots for solace.
A member of the Seneca Nation s Heron Clan, Papaj and his family have long drawn pride from the graceful bird. Since his mother, grandmother and aunt died of COVID-19 in late May and mid-June, he s been drawing strength from images of herons. Friends and family have been sending drawings of three herons together, says Papaj, while recently cleaning out his mother s house in Salamanca, New York, on the Allegany Reservation. Our tribe is matrilineal, so to lose three prominent members who were mothers is such a blow.
Papaj s grandmother, Norma Kennedy, and his mother, Diane Kennedy, both had long careers with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, taking on various roles that ranged from distributing funds to native communities to being a peacemaker judge on a tribal court. Papaj s aunt, Cindy Mohr, was a long-time elementary school teacher.