Category: News and Events

Last Week in AV #040

Last Week in AV #040 a weekly photo journal by Marco Saroldi Now also available as online magazine and in our sidebar. November 14 – November 20, 2016

Paola at the ‘Inner Space’ Centre, Rome

Having presented her new book ‘Savitri – La scoperta dell’Anima e la vittoria sulla Morte’ (‘Savitri – The finding of the Soul and the victory over Death’) in various cities throughout Italy, Aurovilian author and speaker Paola de Paolis now returns to Rome to there introduce the book at the  much frequented cultural centre ‘Spazio […]

Corrine on ” The joy of life”

“Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ~ Pablo Picasso If I had to sum up the new Art exhibit “The joy of life” by Helgart Zurmuehi opening up in le Centre d’Art, Citadine, this Saturday November 19th  this is the sentence I would choose. If an alien or a new born mind […]

Last Week in AV #039

Last Week in AV #039 a weekly photo journal by Marco Saroldi Now also available as online magazine and in our sidebar. November 7 – November 31, 2016

Discover your Goddess for Women and Men

”It is the Goddesses that collect all the sublime material of the feminine. Weaving tapestries of qualities needed to nurture and assist the becoming of an Earthling.’                                                                           ‘ Their footprints gather and melt with those of the Goddesses. Theirs is the blueprint that manifests into the shapes of Goddesses!’ 23rd November 14th or 28th […]

Kolam Yoga

KOLAM YOGA Learn all about Kolam Yoga: A practice that is fueled with the sacred geometry of Kolam dance and drawing.  A syllabus composed of imagery, patterns and designs, mirroring all life forms. A sacred ephemeral art that has been passed on through generations of Tamil women as guardian keepers of long forgotten formulas of […]

Kino Auroville has kicked off

Last Saturday, November 5th, Cinema Paradiso hosted the very first screening of the newly formed Kino Auroville cell. Kino is a global movement created as a means of providing both amateur and professional filmmakers with a place to create and screen their short-films. Kino Auroville screening #001 featured 13 short-films with a total duration of 55 minutes. […]

LUMIÈRE

THE FRENCH PAVILION &  CIRHU Presents A documentary by P.A Starubinger « LUMIÈRE » Saturday, 12th November 2016, – 5.00 pm CINEMA PARADISO (Town Hall) Can we survive without taking food or water for weeks, years, decades? The director interviewed doctors, researchers and scientists all over the world but also people who experienced long fasts. […]

Last Week in AV #38

Last Week in AV #038 a weekly photo journal by Marco Saroldi Now also available as online magazine and in our sidebar. October 31 – November 6, 2016  

The older brothers of Sierra Nevada

The indigenous people of the Sierra Nevada protect their sacred mountain home; they believe they keep the entire planet in balance through their rituals and living tradition. Descendants of an ancient South American civilization called the Tayrona and numbering more than 30,000 today, the Kogi, Arhuaco, and Wiwa people fled death and pestilence four centuries […]

Academic Genius Brothers

Performed at unpredictable intervals in the amphitheatre of Auroville’s Visitor’s Centre, the Academic Genius Brothers’ performances may question taste, but packs the house. Like a review of Aurovilian events and foibles, AGBs allows a sometimes over-serious community to laugh at itself. The fact that the show often generates anger and outrage means it must be […]

The Unicorn Collective

The Unicorn Collective is based in Auroville, south India. We are an interdisciplinary collective, striving towards collaborative work of high artistic excellence that ignites the imagination of ourselves and our audience. Transformation of the ordinary to the extraordinary. Our members come from the worlds of physical theatre, music, puppetry, dance, and journalism. The collective is […]

Bharatnivas Cultural Events Calendar November 2016

Calender of Bharatnivas Events for November 2016: Bhavishyate: Wednesday, 2nd November 2017, Time: 5 pm, “Rendez-vous with Vidyanagar”,Presentation/Talk by Auroville and Pondicherry Artists Camp in Karnataka. Kalakendra Art Gallery: Friday, 4-26th November – Art Exhibition by Marco. Sri Aurobindo Auditorium: Friday, 4th Nov., Time 7.45 pm: Film Bhavishyate: Thursday, 10th Nov. :Indian Film at 7.45 […]

Making Nets of Peace Through Images

Requirements: Students of Secondary Schools Age : 15 to 18 years old Subject : The Cultural Heritage, material and no material. The natural environment where you live. Send  :minimum 5 photos- maximum 10 . CRITERIA  for SELECTION : Quality, creativity, name of the photo and epigraph   Last day for submission : December the 10th. […]

Growing In Power

Did you see a Kali on the road, Under protective hands of Durga, Not letting her go free, To rampage around in town, Sword in hand, All in black? Will you be the same again, The sleeping beauty, For centuries, Waiting for a kiss from the prince, To fulfil your dream? Will you be the […]

Poetry Meeting of Indigenous Peoples

First World Poetry Meeting of Indigenous Peoples Poetry is, for the indigenous cultures of the world, the word that enlightens and inspires towards the encounter with beauty, towards the understanding between human beings, towards the harmony with Mother Earth. Facing the failure of the rationalist project, facing the absence of the gods who have been […]

Medculture – Call for applications

Please follow the links below for available grants in various fields: Arte Laguna Prize Climate Change Award 2016 – 2017 New Technological Art Award Anna Lindh Foundation Arts Bioarctica Residency Call World Cultures Connect Streamers 2016 Prize for Works in Progress 31st International Choreographer Competition Hanover