Category: News and Events

Call for applications – Residency for Authors, Last Date 20 January

ENE is launching its call for applications to authors for the 2022-2023 program! Residency periods:Spring: April 18 to June 10, 2022Summer: July 4 to August 26, 2022Fall: September 19 to November 11, 2022Winter: January 30 to March 24, 2023 Application form and details  The eight-week residency includes: Residency honorarium of CA$1,560 Access to an individual […]

Event: Queer Film Festival Online, 11 – 12 December

The ninth edition of Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival is being held  online over two weekends – Dec 4-5 and 11-12 of December 2021.  Login at www.tinyurl.com/ciqff2021 The event is free and open to individuals above 18. Reel Desires features films, shorts and documentaries showcasing sexuality and gender diversity issues.  This year’s line-up consists of 16 films […]

Performance: K-Sori – Episode 4 – Remidas & Hansako, 9 December

K-Sori, is an episodic series presented in association with Lotte Foundation, Noreum Machi and Nowpan Korea, to showcase emergent young musicians from Korea who provide a contemporary twist to traditional instrumentation and compositions. The series presents select winners of the annual Chulsapyo competition that began in 2015 in Korea to provide scholarships to high school […]

Event: A South Asian Feminist Film Festival – 3-10 December

BEYOND BORDERS: A FEMINIST FILM FESTIVAL 2021Celebrating South Asian women’s day and marking 16 Days of Activism on Violence against Women The second edition of the online, South Asian Feminist Film Festival initiated under the leadership of Kamla Bhasin last year is now on. This edition of the festival presents 61 films, made in 25 languages including […]

Sessions: ‘WePlay’ Games for Grownups – Every Wednesdays and Saturdays

When: 7:00 am to 8:30 am, Every Wednesday and Saturday starting 24th November 2021 Venue: Aspiration Sports Ground, Auroville For more information and to register, please click the form below: https://forms.gle/GrN3Ve9jYGEQcyXeA 20 registrations per session.   Children not allowed. Kindly honour this request. For any further queries: WePlay (+91) 89511 40598 WePlay is a Varuna Foundation project […]

Festival: Fields Of Vision,20 November to 18 December, 2021

VAICA is a public platform that looks closely at artful and critical engagements in video and moving images by Indian contemporary artists. It brings video practitioners of Indian origin from various backgrounds who have found themselves experimenting with the medium. This edition of the VAICA festival, FIELDS OF VISION, brings together 79 artists with 121 video […]

AV Radio: The Latest Podcasts

A lot of new podcasts last week. Enjoy and stay tuned Here you can listen to the stream channell (playing 24/7). Here you can see on-air schedules. Last published podcasts: Multiversity proposal – Open meeting (City life) Soul Tracks S.03 ep. 3: The UK’s Best loved songs … kind of.(Music) Audible Weed Walk – Ep.66 “Book-Group-Snoop […]

Course: The Psychology And Physiology Of The Individual by Ven. Geshe Dorji Damdul – 1 & 3 December

4-Day Virtual Course on the Core Concepts of True Nature Of The Mind And Emptiness Ontological Reality – And The Effects Of Their Meditation Presenter: Venerable Geshe Dorji Damdul, Director, Tibet House,Cultural Centre of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, New Delhi Welcome Address by Dr. Bindu Kutty, *Professor of Neurophysiology and Officer-in-charge,Centre for Conciousness Studies, […]

Conversation: K-lounge Episode 2, Jjang !

Annyeong Station, is a newly initiated platform in our infotainment section, for conversation, interaction and exchange. With a focus on Korean popular culture, this online space will include three segments: K-factor with K-enthusiasts and guests in conversation; K-lounge with interactions with influencers and industry specialists and K-learn, a platform to connect with Korean culture through […]

Exhibition: Emerging Canvas – VII

Emerging Canvas is an annual exhibition series, presented in India and in Korea respectively, in association with the Indian Art Museum in Seoul, to showcase the work of talented, emerging young artists from both countries. In the seventh edition of this series, we present dynamic and multi-dimensional work by 22 young artists – 11 from […]

Masterclass – “RASHOMON, 4 December

AUROFILM PRESENTS “CINE-MASTER-CLASS” If you like to discuss, share and learn more about films and Cinema, we invite you to our Cine-Master-Classes! Welcome to the 15th chapter led by Philippe M. on “RASHOMON” by Akira Kurosawa (Japan, 1950, 1h28′).  When: 5.00 – 7.30 pm on Saturday 4 December 2021 Where: Aurofilm, Kalabhoomi (next to CRIPA) Overview: Rashomon, a classic and milestone in the history of […]

Exhibition: Art by Crystal

Painting is my meditation. I go inside the silence and find an inner focus and balance. From this place of harmony and contentment flows the inspiration for my work. When: Ongoing from 26 November Where: Janaki, House of Auroville, Puducherry

Aurofilm Screening: ‘Tess’ by Roman Polanski – 3 December

 MULTI MEDIA CENTRE AUDITORIUM (MMC, Town Hall) Friday 3 December 2021, 7:30 Pm “Tess” Directed by Roman POLANSKI, France – UK, 1979 With: Nastassja Kinski Peter Firth Leigh Lawson Synopsis: Tess is an adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 1891 novel “Tess of the d’Urberville”. Wessex County, England during the Victorian era in the Great Depression (1873-1896). A clergyman and local […]

Festival: Poetry/Music 2021 – 9 – 10 December

Pondicherry Poets & The Brown Critique presents Pondicherry/ Auroville Poetry/ Music Festival 2021 18 poets, musicians & others 9 December: 11 am to 1 pm, Pre-festival innovative event with poetry reading and music. Venue: Irumbai, Auroville) 10 December: 4.30 to 8 pm, poetry readings, talk, music and book launches. Venue: Unity Pavilion, Auroville – with […]

Call for Papers : Conference on Indigenous Story Telling Traditions of India

INDICA is pleased to organize a conference on “Indigenous Storytelling Traditions of India”. We invite papers from researchers, performers and cultural connoisseurs. We are eager to receive papers in the following areas. Studies on Storytelling Performing arts Studies on Storytelling Informal event genres like bedtime/ granny’s storytelling events etc. Studies on Narrative techniques in the oral and written folk and […]

Artist Talk: Harsha Durugadda, 3 December

Centre d’Art Gallery, Citadines, Auroville invites you for an Artist talk by Harsha Durugadda When: 4.00pm, Friday 3 December 2021 Where: Centre d’Art multimedia room. Centre d’Art, Citadines Auroville Artist Residency 2021 recipient  Harsha Durugadda is a multidisciplinary artist working on sculpture and performance art. He is the winner of the Rio Tinto Sculpture Award […]

Music: Christmas Truce by Sabaton

Sabaton is a Swedish power metal band that writes songs about military history. Their newest single, Christmas Truce, tells the story of the Christmas truce of 1914. It was a series of unofficial ceasefires all along the western front during the Christmas of 1914, just 5 months after the beginning of WWI. During the truce, […]