Category: News and Events

Event: Tantrotsav 2021 Schedule – 1-10 March

Kalarigram presents Tantrotsav 2021 : Workshops from 1-10 March, Shivarathri Celebrations on March 11, Online Satsang and Daily Performances which is open to all (Performances Schedule given below). Workshop: Mayurbhanj Chhau for Beginners with Carolina Prada When: 3:00 – 4:30pm, 01 – 10 March, 2021

Film Screening: ” Madhukori Mahotsav” by Ekathara kalari

Madhukori Mahotsav is a short film that showcases glimpses of 3 days Annadanam seva that was taken up at Sanatan Siddhashram, Birbhum in January 2021. At Sanatan Siddhasram every year in the month of Magh (January) the annual celebration of offering to the Gurus is celebrated through Annadan. Annadan is offering the sacred prasad to […]

Workshop: Natyashastra – 1-10 March

Tantrotsava 2021 presents Natyashastra Workshop with Sooraj Nambiar and Navtej Singh Johar Connections: Hands, Eyes & Characterisation with Sooraj Nambiar When: 10:30am – 1:30pm, 1 – 5 March 2021 Sooraj Nambiar is a Kutiyattam practitioner, disciple of the legendary Guru Ammannur Madhava Chakyar. He is a well-known performer and trainer.We deeply explore the connection between […]

Classes: Ecstatic Dance – Every Saturday

Ecstatic dance is a form of free form movement in which the music becomes the teacher. You simply allow yourself the pleasure of it. Your body opens up the bolts and lets in such warm and positive energy from the cosmos that fills you up with transformation from within. https://www.iandiconnection.com/bookings-checkout/ecstatic-dance?referral=service_list_widget

Aurofilm Screening: The Quiet American – 5 March

Multi Media Centre Auditorium (MMC, Town Hall) Presents “The Quiet American” Directed by: Phillip Noyce, USA, 2002 With: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Thi Hai Yen Do Synopsis: From the classic novel by Graham Greene comes a murder mystery centered on a love triangle set against the French Indochina War in Vietnam, circa 1952. It’s the […]

Event: Auroville Art Camp 2021 – 20-26 March

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother assign a highest status to an art which serves as revealer and teacher of a quest for the All-Beautiful. The theme of the second edition of Auroville Art Camp, inspired by several passages of Savitri the epic poem of Sri Aurobindo, is the “City of Dawn”. The art camp focusses […]

Auroville Radio Presents

This is the most intense and strong time for our town…enjoy it and stay tuned! Here you can listen to the stream channel (playing 24/7). Here you can see on-air schedules. Last published podcasts: Lunaria – ep.6 “Feminine Archetypes: Inner Alchemical-Animal Woman and Luteal Phase” (Women’s health) The interview: Deepa and Calvin (Sustainable habits) Aarohan – […]

A (Not Quite) New Indian Art I by Dhani Muniz

I’ve heard the phrase “I have no country” quite a bit… In a place like Auroville, it’s an inescapable sentiment. Built right into “Imagine”… I got a shirt with part of the line about dreamers written on it from one of the Visitor Center shops when I was 6, and refused to stop wearing it […]

MULTI MEDIA CENTRE AUDITORIUM Presents

MULTI MEDIA CENTRE AUDITORIUM (MMC, Town Hall) Reminder: FRIDAY 19 FEBRUARY, “Beauty and the Beast”, by Jean Cocteau, France, 1946 FRIDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2021, 8:00 PM “THELMA AND LOUISE” Directed by : Ridley Scott, USA, 1991 With: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald, Stephen Tobolowsky, Brad Pitt Synopsis: Meek housewife Thelma […]

Aurovilian Ceramic Artist Supriya Menon Meneghetti at LOKAME THARAVADU (by Kochi Biennale Foundation)

Aurovilian ceramic artist Supriya Menon Meneghetti to participate in LOKAME THARAVADU, organised by Kochi Biennale Foundation www.supriyamm.com If there are enough people who would like to go for this, please email avartservice.auroville@gmail.com with the subject line “I want visit Lokame Tharavadu”. We will help to organise a group trip. On February 9th, the Hon. Minister […]

Auro-Sandhai: Regular Weekend Market at Mohanam Heritage Centre

During these hard times of the pandemic, we have all faced extreme hardship and suffering. The most hit among these have been the villages and the artisans working on wages. Due to the lock down and the collapse of the local economy we have seen a large number of small businesses shut doors and lose their livelihoods. […]