In September - The Tagore Centre UK and the Nehru Centre combined to present the Tagore-Yeats Memorial Lecture, delivered by Peter Cox at the Nehru Centre entitled The Tagore and Elmhurst Legacy.

In July, visiting lecturer Leonard A Gordon, Professor of History, City University, New York, gave a lecture in the life and death of prominent Indian political activist Subhas Chandra Bose at the centre.

June and July saw celebrations of Tagore take place on two occasions at the North West Community School – Tagore Night, part of the 1999 Arts Worldwide Bangladesh Festival, where members of the Youth Forum performed Tagore's dance drama Shyama and his song Touch My Heart with the Touchstone of Fire. 

Tagore's 138th birth anniversary was celebrated there too in June, where local artists gave performances of Tagore's drama and music. The second half featured prominent singer Alak Roy-Chowdhury with a fantastic performance of Rabindrasangeet. An exhibition on Tagore's life and works was exhibited to coincide with the performance

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2010 - Our 25th anniversary - SCOOP party!

2009 - Soumitra Chatterjee performing in London

2008 – An evening of many Rabindranaths

2006 – Sacrifice by the Tagore Centre Youth Forum and working with the British Museum

2005 - Our 20th anniversary – Tanusree Shankar Dance Company, UK tour 

2004 - Chetana, Contemporary Theatre Company from Kolkata

2003 – Camellia by the Tagore Centre Youth Forum and working with Royal Commonwealth Society

2002 – Tagore Festival of Peace

2001 – our branch in Glasgow

2000 - Rabindranath Tagore: A Creative Unity, October

1999 - Tagore Night, part of the 1999 Arts Worldwide Bangladesh Festival