Day: November 4, 2025

Poetry – Naomi Shihab Nye

With: VismaiDates: November 8 & 10Time: 4 – 5:30 pm This 2-day workshop will dive into the life and work of poet Naomi Shihab Nye. Each session will feature close readings of selected poems, an exploration of poetic craft, and writing prompts inspired by Nye’s work. The workshop is for beginner-level poetry enthusiasts eager to […]

Analogue Photography Darkroom Workshop

Dates: 06th, 07th and 08th November 2025Venue: Centre d’Art Gallery, Citadines, Auroville Program & Timings: Thursday 06th:02.00 – 05.00 pm — Brief History of Photography & Introduction to Film Camera Friday 07th:09.00 am – 02.00 pm — Film Photo shoot (in your own time)02.00 – 05.00 pm — Film Development Saturday 08th:09.00 am – 12.30 […]

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

1 week course – finding peace in a frantic world ⏰ 17 – 22 Nov, 7.15-9.15am daily (Mon-Fri) & 9-3.30pm (Sat) 📍 Auroville (Radiance) – in-person only This evidence-based MBSR course is designed to help you navigate life’s challenges with greater ease & resilience. It blends ancient mindfulness practices with cutting-edge neuroscience, providing you with […]

VoiceScape

This November, step into VoiceScape, a two-day journey to rediscover your voice through breath, balance, and mindful practice. 🗓 15 – 16 Nov 2025 | 11 AM – 5 PM 📍 Bhumika, Bharat Nivas, Auroville From exploring how your voice travels through air and emotion to understanding the art of breath and resonance, this workshop […]

Masters and Masterpieces

Monthly Film Screening Programme – 18 Film: The Seed of the Sacred FigDirector: Mohammad RasoulofYear: 2024Country: IranDuration: 168 minutes Venue: Alliance Française de Pondicherry, 58 Suffren Street, Pondicherry – 605001Date: Sunday, 9th November 2025Time: 6:00 pm sharp The film will be presented by Mr. Sivakumar Mohanan, and the screening will be followed by a discussion. […]

Yatra Film Academy

Screening of Where to Invade Next Following the overwhelming response to the documentary Dalit Subbaiah, YFA has decided to screen important, engaging, and entertaining international documentaries every month at YFA’s open-air screening. Film: Where to Invade NextDirector: Michael MooreDuration: 119 minutesLanguage: With English subtitles Date: Saturday, 8th NovemberTime: 6:30 pm onwardsVenue: Yatra Film Academy, near […]

The Tara Coral 2026–2027 Residency Call

For the schooner’s next expedition, entitled Tara Coral, artists will once again join sailors and scientists for an extraordinary human adventure. On board the Tara schooner, a mission will take place from May 2026 through the end of 2027, aiming to unlock the secrets of the Coral Triangle—located between Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. By […]

Public Speaking Course

A course for those who would like to improve their public speaking confidence and skills. Whether you have a fear of public speaking or you’d like to brush up your existing skills – all are welcome! We will cover 8 key elements of speaking such as breathing, voice, body language, intention etc. Structure will follow […]

Open Space Documentary Arts programme

Join Debkamal Ganguly to explore how the editor, both like a field researcher in the research field and the author shuffling the research notes at the writing desk, engages with the world’s textures and intervals, discerning patterns of relation between human gestures, landscapes, ideas and imaginings of about the life, recoverable from the fragments. November […]

Flow in Clearity

Is there a burning question alive in your heart? The Flow Game is a powerful tool to get transformational insights using higher guidance and collective wisdom with ease and joy. Next Flow Game in Auroville will be on Thursday , Nov 13th, 4-7pm Sign up quickly! Limited seats! 🪷: The overarching topic will be: – […]

Aerial Silk for Fitness & Well-being

Strengthen • Stretch • Soften • Soar 📅 Date & Time: 7 November, 9am – 10:30 am, Friday This workshop is for anyone who wants to feel stronger, more flexible, and more connected to their body, all while suspended in the air. Using the support of aerial silks, we’ll focus on full-body movement that builds […]

Documentary practice and the social sciences

Join us as we explore the evolving relationship between documentary practice and the social sciences, proposing the filmic process itself as a mode of inquiry. 14:30 hrs IST, 5th, 6th & 7th November, 2025 | Online https://filminstitute.auroville.org/2025/11/03/documentary-as-situated-inquiry-research-methodology-towards-audio-visual-art/

Double exhibition at Centre d’art

31 October to 15 November Opening on 31 October at 4.30 pm Tue to Fri 2-5.30 / Sat 10-12.30, 2-5.30 DECOLLAGES by Foulax Graduation day in Transition School is the last day for the 8th grade students before they move on to high school. It is always an emotional moment for Foulax as he greets […]

Somatic Resourcing Movement Ritual

📅 Fridays ⏰ 3:00 – 4: 45 PM 📍 Pitanga, Auroville These drop-in sessions offer a powerful 14-step somatic movement ritual first introduced by movement therapist and pioneer Tripura Kashyap. Designed as a self-practice tool, the ritual supports you in releasing stuck energy, grounding the nervous system, and reconnecting with your body’s wisdom—gently, intuitively, and […]

🌿 Explore the art of creation through nature! 🌸 Join the Exploration Workshop by Shradhanjali & Inside India — a hands-on session where you’ll learn how Auroville’s artisans transform flowers and leaves into beautiful handmade pieces, and create your own to take home. ✨ 📅 8th November 🕙 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM 📍 Shradhanjali, […]

TRAK: Music Without Context

Saturday 15th November, 7.30pm, Cripa Dhani Muniz’s new group is a field for artistic horseplay with some of India’s most exciting musicians, as the leader’s brash, feral guitar playing and skeletal compositions (taken from his 2024 debut album Chimu Fiesta) fuel keyboardist Aman Mahajan’s endlessly imaginative, often disembodied reveries and the percussive octopus that is […]

Listening into Presence

Wednesdays 5–6pmIn Savitri Picture Gallery Description: Through stillness and silence, participants will tune into the Presence, noticing its activity in both physical and subtle bodies.By letting go of mind and ego automatisms, one opens to a deeper automatism beyond doing and thinking.The session encourages receptivity—allowing consciousness to bring balance and harmony by “getting ourselves out […]