The podcast A Sense of Voice is part of the “Music Cultures” series which was recorded online during the Covid19 pandemic. In this podcast, our host Anungla Zoe Longkumer converses with Shillong-based pianist and music educator Pauline Warjri about her journey as a musician and musical mentor. Pauline is also the founding director of the Aroha Choir and Aroha Music School in Meghalaya. This discussion was part of the 2020 programming for Zubaan’s Cultures of Peace: Festival of the Northeast project, run in collaboration with Heinrich Boell Stiftung, Regional Office, New Delhi.
Anungla Zoe Longkumer is an independent artist from Nagaland who is drawn to inspired and intuitive pursuits in music, writing, filmmaking, painting, papermaking, and research in the traditional arts, and is an advocate for a waste-less sustainable way of living.
Pauline Warjri is a freelance musician, composer, and music educator from Shillong, Meghalaya, India. She has written for solo piano, voice, choirs, jazz band and other instruments (Western and Eastern). She has toured Poland, England, Switzerland and Sri Lanka, with the Shillong Boys Choir from Meghalaya and with her late brother, pianist Neil Nongkynrih.
What is Women in Music: Cultures of Northeast India?
Zubaan is delighted to bring to you our podcast series, "Women in Music: Cultures of Northeast India” commissioned during the Cultures of Peace: Festival of the Northeast 2020. The Cultures of Peace project, undertaken by Zubaan since 2011 in collaboration with the Heinrich Boll Foundation, works within and outside the northeastern region of India (the eight states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura, and the contiguous regions of Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong). The festival focuses on diversifying mainstream conversation and knowledge production about the region and creating spaces for dialogue and mutual understanding through culture, literature, discussions and archive building.