The singer and curator brings to the fore under represented women artistes from rural areas
Since midnight of Christmas 2020, Pune-based musician, educator and composer Shruthi Veena Vishwanath has been going live on her personal Facebook page. In a series called
Our Midnight Song, she brings women artistes to the fore through music, dialogue and discussion. The guests — at least a majority of them — “aren’t mainstream, are from rural areas, with work that remains largely under-represented, and whose main language isn’t English”.
Community, agency, collaboration and curation are the underlying values of this series, which found its genesis following a call to action from the India Foundation for Arts — as part of its campaign