Category: News and Events

Call for Applications:K3 Residency Programme 2022/2023

K3 | Tanzplan Hamburg provides three paid eight-month residencies per season to choreographers who are currently at the beginning of their career and have produced some choreographic work of their own. The residency begins in August and runs until April of the following year. The residency includes mentoring and dramaturgical, technical, and production related support. It […]

AV Radio: The Latest Podcasts

your favourite radio is going to open again, more programmes this week! Stay tuned! Here you can listen to the stream channell (playing 24/7). Here you can see on-air schedules. Last published podcasts: Soul Tracks – The Mayfly Sessions, ep.7 “Steely Dan, Back & Forth, In & Out!”  (Music) Audible Weed Walk – ep. 46 “Get […]

Short Film: Villenour

Villenour (French India: Territory of Pondicherry) (1914) Gorgeously dreamlike colour images of (then) French India – present-day Puducherry. These gorgeous stencil-coloured images of French India – present-day Puducherry – have a dreamlike quality. The arrival of a well-to-do European family, dutifully attended to by the locals, gives a semblance of narrative to what is largely […]

Class: Acting Drop-in – 24 June

Auroville Film Institute Presents Acting Drop-in Class Meisner Technique When: 5 to 7pm, 24 June, 2021 Where: Terrasoul at Ithak’s terrace To Register: Contact Luca email: l@lucafs.it phone:7339596254 Limited Places The class is focused on returning to one of the most primal humans abilities: to receive and respond to messages from others.The beauty of this […]

Video: A talk by Dr. Vidya Dehijia on Chola Bronzes

Museum of Art and Photography (MAP) Presents: Padma Bhushan awardee Vidya Dehejia explores the material life of Chola bronzes from South India Sacred bronzes, dressed, adorned, and taken in procession through temple and town are a familiar sight throughout Tamil Nadu and its surrounding areas. But did we know that the practice of parading sacred […]

Film Screening: Beuys – 23 June

Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata Presents A film by Andres Veiel107 minutes, 2017, German and English with English Subtitles Beuys, the man with a hat, some felt, and the Fettecke. Thirty years after his death he still seems to be a visionary, way ahead of his time. Back then he was trying to patently […]

Article: David Klammer Shares The Truth About a “Utopian City” in India

Auroville is an experimental city created in 1968. Many believe it’s a real-world utopia. Photographer David Klammer shares the truth. “Confusion, simple confusion,” writes German photographer David Klammer. He’s referring to his first impressions when he arrived in a land like no other. Auroville, located in the Tamil Nadu state of India, is described as […]

Presentation: Art as a Storyteller – 25 June

Museum of Art and Photography (MAP) Presents: An exclusive director-led walkthrough of highlights from the MAP collection Objects tell us stories we may never have imagined. Join MAP Director, Kamini Sawhney, on an exploration of some highlights from the MAP collection, as we together unlock the stories that these objects can tell. When: 6:00 PM (IST), 25 June […]

Classes: Creeva Art

CREEVA has been open to support and educating artists and those whoare curious to explore their potential in drawing and painting.Right now our classes are: Watercolor Landscape by Sathya, Mondays 5-7pmTo Register : Call 09486145072, Leaf Me Alone by Bhavyo, Thursdays 2-4pmTo Register : Call 09626082638 Exploring Color by Audrey, Fridays 9.30-11.30amTo Register: Call 0413 […]

AV Radio: The Latest Podcasts

A few programmes are still active, your favourite radio is alive! Stay tuned! Here you can listen to the stream channell (playing 24/7). Here you can see on-air schedules. Last published podcasts: Suryamayi’s PhD on Auroville – chapt.9 “Conclusion (part 1)”  (Research) Soul Tracks – The Mayfly Sessions, ep. 6 “Pick Up Sticks” (Music) Edible Weed […]

Play: ‘Abhijnana Sakuntalam’ – Available Online – 11-17 June

“View from the 4th Row” – Streaming of Plays from Ranga Shankara’s Archives Natanakairali presents ‘Abhijnana Sakuntalam’ Natanakairali’s presentation of Kalidasa’s Sanskrit epic in the richness of India’s oldest extant theatre form was a super-hit in the 2010 Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival, meeting with rave reviews and quite a few standing ovations! Kerala’s traditional art […]

Talk: Conceptual Frames Of The Two Important Modern Art Practitioners of India

This online interaction between artists A. Ramachandran, V. Viswanadhan, Bose Krishnamachari and moderated by Premjish Achari, explores the conceptual frames of the two important modern art practitioners of India. Both A. Ramachandran and V. Viswanadhan recollects their early days of art learning, their encounter with abstraction, the pedagogic structures in Santiniketan and Madras, and their […]

Request for Proposals: IFA-MoCA Creative Projects, Deadline Approaching – June 15, 2021

India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) in collaboration with Museum of Christian Art (MoCA), Goa invites applications for two IFA-MoCA Creative Projects under its Archives and Museums programme which IFA will implement. Application deadline: June 15, 2021 The Archives and Museums programme of IFA has been initiated with a two-fold objective: to provide arts practitioners and researchers an opportunity to generate new, critical, and creative approaches for public engagement with archive and […]

Films Screening: A Season of Luis Buñuel – 11 – 21 June

DIFF Virtual Viewing Room, a year-round online platform where we regularly screen carefully curated packages of films from around the world, Dharamshala International Film Festival in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain, New Delhi, and The Instituto Cervantes present Enigma & Provocation: The Cinema of Luis Buñuel from 11–21 June 2021. Five films by the Spanish master will be […]

Films: Director Buddhadeb Dasgupta Films

National Award-winning Bengali director Buddhadeb Dasgupta, one of the pioneers of  Offbeat Indian cinema (mostly in Bengali) left his body a few days back. He used magic realism like no one in India and his films has always been real. Below are list of some of his best films which is available for free screening. Laal […]

Article: Interview with Director Christoph Pohl

When most people think of the township of Auroville, they probably think of Sri Aurobindo; Matrimandir, the famous tourist attraction; and the fabulous Auroville bakery. What most people do not know is that a unique afforestation project began in Auroville in 1968 and today, as a result of that, the forest area there is a […]

Film Festival: Contemporary European Cinema – 10 June – 10 July

When: 10 June – 10 July 2021 Where: Online Fee: Free (Sign-up here) Auroville Film Festival is happy to announce our partner’s European Film Festival Catch award-winning contemporary cinema from across Europe, now available for free streaming on Festival Scope. Over 20 films feature in an exciting line-up in genres including drama, comedy, documentaries and shorts. Having […]