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Please join us for a concert by the Buffalo Gamelan Club with Sari Raras Irama on Tuesday, March 12, from  5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Ciminelli Recital Hall. This event is part of the eighth annual Southeast Asia Week celebration March 11–14 and is free and open to the public.

This exciting evening concert will feature music performed by the Buffalo Gamelan Club and a shadow puppet show featuring Wayang puppet master Darsono Hadiraharjo and drummer Heri Purwanto. The Buffalo Gamelan Club plays traditional music from the island of Java in Indonesia, an inspiring and evocative music that fills audiences with wonder. Wayang is a form of puppet theater art found in Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia. The show features puppets, vocal narration, characteristic movement demonstration, and scenes to give the audience a unique experience. Puppet master Hadiraharjo is a visiting scholar and guest director of the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble at Cornell University. Support for Mr. Hadiraharjo and Mr. Purwanto is made possible by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant.

Sponsors and partners include the Grant Allocation Committee, Equity and Campus Diversity Office, Geography and Planning Department, Music Department, Theater Department, Political Science Department, Cornell University, Arts Services Initiative of WNY, Indonesia Consulate, and Buffalo Gamelan Club.