Category: News and Events

Balkrishna Doshi named 2018 Pritzker Prize Laureate

  This year’s Pritzker jury has selected Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi, often known as B.V. Doshi or Doshi, as the 2018 Pritzker Prize Laureate. Doshi has been a practitioner of architecture for over 70 years. Previously, he had studied and worked with both Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn. Doshi’s poetic architecture draws upon Eastern influences to create a body of work that […]

“Art and Artists” by Audrey

When we were all small children we were all able and wanted to express ourselves through speech, dancing, making marks on a surface with a pencil or crayon or paint or anything we could lay our hand on. The body has always wanted to explore itself. And will continue to want to until we leave. […]

“The beautiful world of kamala” by Corinne

As you stand in your truth, you stand in your strength. The Free store and PTDC fashion show this past Saturday (10th March) embodied integrity and the best of Auroville values. Its composition and creativity were beautiful to watch. It was also a celebration of human unity thanks to lots of components, one of them […]

Bharatanatyam performance at Indianostrum Theatre 24th March

Indianostrum Theatre presents a Bharathanatyam evening in our home premise for introducing you Smt.V Chitra and Smt Revathi Padhmanaban.   Bharatanatyam, a pre-eminent Indian classical dance form presumably the oldest classical dance heritage of India is regarded as mother of many other Indian classical dance forms. Conventionally a solo dance performed only by women, it […]

Piano Concert with Leonardo De Donno 21st March

Piano Concert with Leonardo De Donno Wednesday 21st March 2018, 07:30 pm at Pitanga “The great world-rhythms were heart-beats of one Soul, To feel was a flame-discovery of God, All mind was a single harp of many strings, All life a song of many meeting lives; For worlds were many, but the Self was one.” […]

World Water Day Concentration Thursday, 22nd March

May there by an abundance of water for the sustenance and growth of the Planet towards the New World. 5.30 pm concentration under the Banyan Tree to pray for water for Auroville, India and the World. At 6 pm, some of the water collected in the Water Ceremony of 28th February will be silently sprinkled […]

Documentary “‘The Animal Communicator” 1st April

‘The Animal Communicator’, documentary by Craig Foster, followed by a sharing with Aikya about her experiences in South Africa meeting Anna B. and Spirit, the black leopard – featured in the documentary. 1st April, 6.30- 8.30pm For more info contact: spiritandnature@auroville.org.in

“Chudamani” an english play 30th March

Based on the short stories of a celebrated Tamil writer performed by the oldest english theater group in India. Friday, March 30, 2018, 6:30pm at Sri Aurobindo Auditorium, Bharat Nivas ________________ R Chudamani was a celebrated Tamil writer, whose short stories from the late 60’s / early 70’s are brought alive on stage by the […]

“Returning from Auroville to Haridwar” by Tarun Kumar

Returning from Auroville to Haridwar: With newer meanings of life. By Tarun Kumar Last year, I toured south of India for about 3 months – visiting and staying at various ashrams and monasteries. Auroville was not on my itinerary. And yet I landed and stayed at Auroville for a couple of days. I was not […]

Artist around the world: Sarah Cain

Sarah Cain (born February 3, 1979) is an American contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. The paintings and installations of Sarah Cain employ a variety of materials including traditional canvas, stretcher bars, and paint, but also introducing unusual and poetic artifacts: from musical notations to leaves and branches, expanding outside of the […]

French Theater 17th March at Bharat Nivas

The Pavillon de France and Auroville International France presents in collaboration with the French Theater Company “Le PasSage”: AND YET IT IS THE HOUR BEFORE DAWN French Theater Public Rehearsal In French only Interpretation and staging: Jean-Paul Sermendiras and Olivier Ythier Saturday 17th March 2018 at 8pm, Bharat Nivas – International Zone – Auroville duration […]