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OTHER INTERESTS:

  • Dr. Atre immersed herself in the drama, VidyaharanDrama 

    • (a) `A' Grade - All India Radio Drama Artist (Marathi and Hindi). Participated in special radio plays.

    • (b) Main female role in Professional Musical Dramas.

  • Dance - Formal training in Kathak style, participated in School, College cultural activities.

 

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES:

  • Training to talented students in the traditional `guru-shishya paramparaa' system since 1970, by providing food and shelter. (Mumbai's living conditions today do not allow gurukul system for want of space and time).

  • Concerts and lecture-demonstrations in schools and colleges all over India for the Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture among Youth - SPIC MACAY since 1980. This activity has helped in propagating and popularising Indian Classical Music among student community and the focus has been `national integration'.

  • Working for `Sanskar Bharati' - an all India organisation propagating, preserving and promoting Indian culture among the society.

  • Working as a committee member for several social, educational, cultural institutions --- have been trying to bring these institutions together and establish rapport between themselves for better understanding and better results.

  • Organising a yearly music festival as one of the activities to commemorate the invaluable contribution made by the guru-s Shri. Sureshbabu Mane and Padmabhushan Smt. Hirabai Badodekar to the cause of music. Senior top artists and accomplished artists of the next generation are participating in this festival and keeping the classical tradition alive and going. Three to four thousand music lovers attend this festival which has become the major festival in Mumbai.

  • `Stree Guru Vandana' - a festival organised for the first time to honour well known senior female musicians for their contribution as `guru-s' (Aug. '96) - a historical event in the field of music. 

  • Organising a yearly classical music festival, `Gana Prabha' featuring young, talented artists and creating a much needed platform as an endeavour to fulfil her socio-cultural commitments.

  • Chairman and Vice president of RPE Society - an educational institution, Pune.

  • President `Gaan Vardhan' - a well known music organisation, Pune.

  • Has been giving charity programmes in aid of good cause.

  • Regular visits to ashrams and temples for exposing masses to the Indian classical music through devotional songs.

  • Has established `Dr. Prabha Atre Foundation' which aims at preserving, promoting, propagating and popularising the Indian classical music and other performing arts.

 

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