Dankuni International Virtual Theatre Festival
Join us on Christmas Eve for BARABBAS by Richard France at the Dankuni International Virtual Theatre Festival! Visist au at : https://www.facebook.com/THEATRE-SHINE-142951079143319/
Category: Online/Elsewhere
‘Who are these Age-Old Female Figures’
Dancer/choreographer Chandralekha’s original essay on the iconography of the female, its deep subconscious power and its potential feminist charge. Why are they called ‘mothers’ instead of women or females, I asked the late Professor H.D. Sankalia – who was then [1981] Director, Institute of Archaeology, Pune – while we were looking at the newfound terracotta […]
Art (is) Life Festival
Welcome to the Art (is) Life Festival – an event by the Museum of Art & Photography to celebrate the launch of its Digital Museum. Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn7HjgCawt93CF2lv6a1eNQ Each day we’ll go on a deep dive into a different section of the MAP collection. Join us today for a journey into the world of Folk & Tribal Art. Click […]
AUROVILLE PHOTO CIRCLE
At Centre D‘Art (Citadines/Town Hall ) Friday 11th of December 5 pm The photocircle brings together Auroville’s photographers. We share our own work or show the work of global photo graphers we admire, discuss the history of photography, and share techniques. Anyone can bring and screen a small selection of images. The Photo Circle meets on […]
A Free Workshop on Managing Data for Movies by Neil Sadwelkar, 12th December, 2020
Managing Data for Movies by Neil Sadwelkar powered by LaCieIndia Film Project & LaCie brings to you a free of cost workshop on how to master the data management and workflow while capturing any kind of videos professionally so that all your hard work counts, its more than just creating backups, there is more nuance […]
Sing a Lullaby – Workshop Series
Sing a Lullaby -A year-long workshop series, every Tuesday at 8 pm, Vedanth & Gurupriya invite mothers, fathers, grandparents, nannies, educators, and anyone else to gather on Zoom to learn lullabies in different languages. So far there’s been Bengali, Rajasthani, English, Tamil and Kannada. Pay as you can. Sign up by writing to singalullabyworkshop@gmail.com
Art (is) Life, a week-long festival: (Dec 5-11)
Art (is) Life, a week-long festival (Dec 5-11) with thoughtfully curated events, including drumming, yakshagana, contemporary dance, jazz fusion music, and theatre. To register, http://www.artislife.events/?mc_cid=3bc56c5f4f&mc_eid=3aa3d68510 The Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) is launching one of the first digital museums in the country. Join us as we celebrate with a week-long festival, Art (is) Life. The festival […]
News from Swaram
Dear Friends of SvaramThe sentence of Sri Aurobindo that “Man is a transitional being; he is not final” strikes presently a deeper chord in-midst the global crises and this challenging transition to a very much needed, more fair and just economic and environmentally sustainable and more healthy life style for humanity as a whole. In SVARAM […]
Ever Slow Green: ALT EFF 2020 Panchgani
50 years ago, a unique afforestation project took root on an eroded desert plateau in Tamil Nadu, South India, when people from diverse countries came together to establish the international experimental township of Auroville. Initially driven by the necessity to make the harsh conditions more liveable, the idealism of some early residents lead them to […]
Indianostrum: Open Theatre School’s six month Mentorship Programme
Indianostrum Théâtre is proud to announce six months mentorship programme as part of our new initiative “Indianostrum Open Theatre School“. To apply please click HEREWe have also shared Tamil, Hindi and Marathi versions of the programme information with this email. Please do share this with anyone who could be benefited by this programme. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate […]
The Tohono O’odham people: Journey across the border
The Tohono O’odham people have lived on both sides of the US-Mexico border since long before either country existed. As an increasingly militarized border threatens their way of life, Ofelia Rivas journeys across the border seeking to revitalize her ancestral village. See the full video >
Colorful Vignettes: Photo Blog
Colorful Vignettes by August Timmermans See the complete photo blog >
Handful of Grain: Poetry by Anuradha Majumdar
the day tradesfor a handful of grains,for a bouquet of flowersgathered by a child,watching the flagrant citiesthat stalk our disquiet…. Read more …
UNREHEARSED FUTURES #17
TopicUNREHEARSED FUTURES #17 An Actor Prepares for? with Kamili Okweni Feelings | Embodied Poetics and Julie Beauvais | Platform BadNewsFromTheStarsDescriptionUNREHEARSED FUTURES #17 Click here to register: https://dramaschoolmumbai.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a234a22bc66a5a17ee77210cd&id=5415562d37&e=eb885c35a7 Response-Ability: Theatre Pedagogy in Changing Times Discussing questions facing drama schools, teachers and students of theatre in the Post-COVID world Unrehearsed Futures is a series of public conversations […]
All Living Things: Environmental Film Festival
ALL LIVING THINGS ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL OFFERS FREE ONLINE EVENTS Panel discussions: A snapshot of sustainable tourism in India; Teeth, tails and tentacles: wildlife filmmaking and photography; Investigative journalism – what does it take; Workshops: Trash talk with bare necessities; What a shame! – the art of storytelling with Monika Naranjo Gonzales; Nature, camera, action […]
Kutty Kahani – Eternal Stories, Young Storytellers !
From Natyarambha Episode 1: Krishna – The Cowherd By Bhakti Hiranmayi Kutty Kahani premieres, in Episode 1,with the favourite hero in every child’s story – Krishna! Come listen in to the conversation between a concerned Mother Yasodha and a mischievous Krishna in the popular rendition Maadu Meikkum Kanne, as Bhakti combines her artistic talent of […]
A Bright Spot in the Pandemic Gloom: Jazz Is Everywhere in New York
Musicians are playing al fresco all over the city to earn money and boost morale. By Margot Boyer-Dry Nov. 20, 2020 Every night after her shift this spring, Bridget Queral would leave the hospital where she worked as a nurse to find her husband, Luis, waiting to walk her home. As they ambled through an eerily […]
PARTICIPATE IN RACINE DU CIEL PERFORMANCES
To celebrate the holiday season, Racines du Ciel Performances joins the Madeleine’s parish to offer you a collective experience, combining Christian Advent traditions with artistic creative gesture. This participatory project is open to all, online and free of charge. A remote collective experience The current health situation forces us to find innovative solutions to continue sharing our collective creations with you. This is why […]
‘Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me’: Remembering Miss Liberty in the Donald Trump era
An excerpt from an Indian novel in which a 12-year-old girl sees the statue whose promise seems ironic suddenly. by Anuradha Majumdar It is time to move on. I have stood herald before this city for years, signalling people into the New World and watched history disembark on its harbour like a book. Shiploads arriving […]
Tata Literature Live! 16-22 November, 2020
Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest, the largest virtual celebration of ideas, is just around the corner. Starting Monday, 16th November, the festival over its seven days will host over 80 sessions , featuring a stellar line up of globally acclaimed speakers, which will all be streamed live. We have worked towards presenting the festival […]
Off the stage: Performing Art
Performing arts permeated into different mediums as theatre groups tried to keep the drama alive during the pandemic… Read the anniversary edition of Indulge below. https://www.indulgexpress.com/culture/theatre/2020/nov/06/a-look-at-how-theatre-groups-are-keeping-the-drama-alive-during-the-pandemic-29410.html
A dream: You Tube Live Presentation on Auroville
Auroville with Valentina Garozzo, leads Sonia BoniA chat with Valentina about her life in the community of Auroville, an experimental city and laboratory of human unity located in Tamil Nadu, southern India.The broadcast will be in Italian, live at 9pm (GMT+1), on the YouTube of Centro Stella Academy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19sXiSeMByo&feature=emb_err_woyt
Tube Thambi
Come join us every Sunday at 7 pm for some retro-music karaoke, right now we are burning through the 80’s but will be adding other decades and languages as the weeks go by. Sing from the comfort of your own home and just know that we are singing with you: )https://www.youtube.com/c/tubethambiauroville
MUSEUM OF ART & PHOTOGRAPHY: The Shape of Things
Three Abstract Artists of India Exploring the artistic practices of Faiza Huma, C. Douglas and A. Bala across a range of themes, inspirations and mediums.
Inspired Poems: Change of Guard: Tracking
Bilingual anthology by Anuradha Majumdar Change of Guard: Tracking Vyasa The kingdom falls off the summit of heaven,the flute player warms the wind. Great behemoths shudder teetering off cliffswhere the white-sun plays with a summer solstice eve. Another man killed, another pinnacle falls,dust to dust, this, once the first of sovereigns…. Click here to read […]