For Ages: Starting from 7 years old

Schedule:

• Days: Monday to Friday
• Time: 3:50 PM to 4:50 PM
• The flyer invites new students to “Come and try!”

Venue: Budokan, Dehashakti, Dana Community, Auroville

For More Information and Registration:

• Contact Philippe: +91 83 006 43963
• Contact Michaël: +33 6 220 53932 (via WhatsApp)
• Email: budokan@auroville.org.in

Instrumental Enseble
Pushkar piano- Holger violin – Shanks viola – Lauren flute

Counductor Nuria

Technical staff
Cameraman: Alessandra, Piero, Rajeev, Song Wan Park
Light designer: Melodie
Sound engineer: Stefano
Directed by Marko – Stefano

Produced by AurovilleRadioTv in collaboration with AurovilleLive

Performance held in Cripa, Auroville on the 17th February 2022

Indian Classical Music Concert

by Uday Bhawalkar
accompanist on Pakhwaj : Sri Pratap Awad

Wednesday February 16th, Sri Aurobindo Auditorium, 8.00 pm

and

Saturday February 19th, Aurodhan, Krtashray Aurodhan Gardens, Pdy, 8.00 pm

Time duration – 60 to 90 min

On January 26th, at 4pm, Pondicherry artists Danasegar, Ezhilarasan, and Vengadesan invite you to a very
special event ‘White Night’ in the exhibition spaces at Centre d’Art Citadines, which will host their art works
until February 16th.

The deep friendship that binds these artists goes back to their student years at Bharathiar Palaikoodam
(Pondicherry) and finds its source in a omni-comprehensive vocation for art. ‘White Night’ is the title
chosen by the trio as a password that gives access to their galaxy. It is the common thread that connects
the creative worlds of these seemingly very different artists, the underground river that emerges along
their paths and merges them into an irresistible stream: the absolute joy of creation.
‘White Night’ is this undefinable space between wakefulness and sleep where the mind lowers its guard
and leaves room for vision. This is the moment when the artist, like a shaman, captures all that manifests
through him and embodies the immaterial.

For the three of them it is like a journey. It is a real journey for Ezhilarasan, who found in the Himalayas his
land of choice. There, he could absorb its purity, its glaciers, its primordial colors, which he restores back in
the form of emotional and sensory landscapes. He paints his canvases as if they were walls, on the
degenerated surface of the city life, with spots, graffiti, intersecting color layers, porous fragments of
bodies that live convulsive realities.

For Danasegar, too, the human body is not a separate entity. It is everything, it is everywhere, it is the
matter that surrounds it, the subject and the object. Danasegar travels in his dreams. In this world of the
inexplicable, he is the magician. There he meets his ancestors, people passed away since time immemorial,
to whom he gives voice. He fills his daily life with dreamlike stories, labyrinths of colors torn from the
invisible.

Vengadesan was struck down in Varanasi. He returns there as we return to the origin. He draws his
inspiration from the Hindu pantheon and its bewitching rites. There he found small statues of Kali, or Shiva.
Now he is filling his canvases with formidable mineral-skinned divinities that sit in low relief on their
kingdom of temples, stairways that run down to the Ganges, surrounded by sannyasin and Nandi. His art
links together innumerable coexistences, states of consciousness declined to infinity.
‘White Night’ is the nocturnal creatures of Vengadesan, the black light of creation, according to Ezhilarasan,
the light and the dark, the two apparently irreconcilable aspects of the same reality, according to
Danasegar. It is the blanks left by the artists as a space of the unfinished, where the pictorial and non-
pictorial language stops to give way to the inexpressible.

Dominique, january 2019

Art for Land Exhibition 2019
February 1 st – March 15 th
continuing Auroville’s 50 th Anniversary celebrations
An Invitation to the worldwide Artist Family

Dear Friends,
We will soon be launching the “Art for Land” 2019 exhibition – a beautiful showcase for artistic creativity as well as a solidarity action for Auroville’s still-missing land!

As this, our 4 th edition, will be part of the last months of the 50 th Year celebrations, our aspiration is to make this event very special. Art, Beauty, and Creativity are all intrinsic parts of Auroville. So let’s make this new exhibition really great – a living homage to Auroville’s 50 years, worthy of the Vision & Dream of the Mother. We invite you all to join this venture and to invite all your artist friends!

As before, in an action of flowing generosity, all donations for the works you contribute will go to the “Acres for Auroville” campaign as land donations and will be used exclusively for land purchase for the urgently-needed missing acres of Auroville’s Master Plan area. For our old friends, your artworks remaining from last year’s exhibition could either be showcased again, or be taken back and replaced – or added to – by new works that you have created this year. If you have something to offer for this 4 th edition, we will be delighted! Please let us know
quickly so we can begin planning. Also, please indicate whether you will need transport for delivering it to the Unity Pavilion. More details will be forthcoming very soon.

We thank each one of you for your precious collaboration for our previous exhibitions and in advance for your participation in this one!
With our warm appreciation,

The Art For Land – Unity Pavilion Team of Jaya, Devasmita, & Rema
In association with the “Auroville Arts Service” & the “Acres for Auroville” campaign

Science, Wisdom & Mother Earth

Sunday, November 18^th / 2-6pm

at Unity Pavilion

As a city of dawn, Auroville is a birth place for new humanity. In this event, we welcome a group of international professionals as well as Aurovilian residents to share our vision and ideas about birthing the new humanity

(www.birthingthenewhumanity.com)

Event’s Agenda:

2pm Welcome, introductions by all in attendance

2:30 Presentation #1 Paula Murphy presenting the Morning Star Birth Centre

3:00 Presentation #2 Allison presenting Birthing as a Transformational Journey

3:30 Sharing #3 Ulrike Urvasi: 50 years Auroville, 50 Aurovilian Birth-Stories (preview to exhibition coming up 24.11.-8.12. 2018 at Tibetan Pavilion)

Tea 4:00 to 4:30

4:30 Interview screening#4 Michelle’s Interview with Michel Odent

4:50 Activity #5 Priscilla’s Dance Movements for Labour

5:10 Birth in AV screening #6 Prem Shakti’s Birth Video

5:30 Open Conversation #7 Birthing the New Humanity led by Dr. Julie Gerland & Dr. Francis Gerland

6:30 Dinner (booking required, please contact Allison 7639318959 / ally@auroville.org.in)

Organised and presented by

 Paula and Pricilla (Morning Star Birth Center),

Allison, Michelle, Ulrike and Prem Shakti

On Wednesday 14 November to Friday 16 November the reading of SAVITRI will start at 9am and continue until 12:30noon.

Then there will be a pause and will start again at 2:30pm and will close around 7:00pm.

On Saturday 17 November and Sunday 18 November, the reading will start at 9am, but will continue throughout the day.

Also you are most welcome to join for part or the whole of this SAVITRI Reading or ‘parayan’.

Important for the complete SAVITRI Reading is to keep the concentration and the field of aspiration uninterrupted. For this reason, no one should join or leave the group while a Canto is being read. When a Canto is finished, there will be meditation and concentration and a short pause around 5min. During that time people can join or leave.

Which Book and Canto of SAVITRI are scheduled on what day and approximately on what time is worked out and one can find it in Auronet, the schedule will be at the Savitri Bhavan entrance desk or one can ask for it and write to savitri-reading-parayan@auroville.org.in

Info on participation: https://www2.fundsforngos.org/women-and-gender/submit-applications-for-world-bank-groups-sdgs-her-competition-for-women-entrepreneurs/

RIP – Rest in Peace, enquiring Restlessness in Pieces

What is freedom? How free is a woman? Is she free to live on her own terms, to travel on
her own terms, to be herself, by herself? In RIP a woman seeks her path, within her restricted
life, tied to her husband, by first convincing her husband to take her with him on his work related
travel. Travelling is her dream. Through her travel she grows and frees herself. And, this is her
celebration!

An interactive solo, RIP is a woman’s personal, and political, narration full of satire and
humor. It takes the audience into a journey, also their own, of emotions, opinions and
questioning, of everyday and taken for granted conventionality of women’s lives, in individual,
social, cultural and political milieus.

11th Nov 2018, 7pm, Department of performing arts, Pondicherry University.

Lively Up Your Earth 2019

On the 12^th January 2019, Solitude Farm will be hosting Lively Up Your Earth 2019, our 6^th eco-music festival. This year the focus is on bringing the value of local foods to our community. To do this we plan to have 13 stalls that demonstrate the value of foods such as banana stem, drumstick spinach, turkey berry, green papaya, etc… Offering interactive sessions with samples, leaflets, information, seeds and plants.

Along with this there will be Capoeira, Qi-gong, permaculture, the healing tree house, a kid’s space, face-painting, basket -weaving, a flea market, you know the whole thing! There will be music throughout the day and a dusk to dawn jam session featuring the Music Ashram from Berlin.

There is a lot of scope for collaboration. We would love people to be involved on different levels, so please get in touch if you see yourself doing something.

As mentioned above though, the core of the festival is to try and find new ways to share the incredible nutritional treasure trove that is native to our bio-region.

From the AUROVILLE ART CAMP team

Finding oneness in diversity and beauty

We did it!

The applications have come in and lots of thoughts come into mind.

It all started with a dream. This adventure was born last March when, during an art camp in Chittorgarh, a few of us contemplated the creation of an art camp in Auroville, the first of its kind. Now it is evolving into a cornucopia of wonders and an abundance of gratitude is emerging from the team.
First we would like to thank the Auroville 50th Anniversary Planning Group and Saiier, without whose unbelievable and spontaneous support, this project could not happen. Further, we want to express our gratitude to the community at large whose enthusiasm keeps us alert, happy and always motivated.

And then …the artists!

The abundance of wonderful Indian artists from all over India who have applied is not only thrilling but touching. They are talented( some of them well known internationally), deep, spirited, with a strong desire to evolve through art and beauty. The quality of their work promises an art camp that will be rich in evolvement and aesthetic, and bountiful in learning and experiences. As for our beautiful Aurovilian artists who have applied, thank you for your support. It reinforces powerfully the statement of one of our applicants: “To work artistically on the theme of ‘A new world is possible’ increases the richness, the creation and the strength of the affirmation that a new world is possible”. So your commitment is extremely meaningful.

And individually, as Aurovilians and members of the Auroville Art Camp team, we are learning humility in diversity. We recognise that every “limb” of the mutual body is indispensable and that every component complements and advances interest of the whole. We hope that this beautiful collective experience, this harmony in diversity, will help build a unified community; diverse and united by a cause greater than, and one that transcends, individual interest. With colours and musical notes, we hope to create beautiful art and symphonies of love.

Thanks to everyone in this community who is giving us their heart-felt support, and, most of all, thank you for helping Auroville to be a light to the world.

Corinne for the Auroville Art Camp team.

Moments in between”
Photography exhibition by Yam Yardeni
Pitanga
October 27th till November 10th
Opening Saturday 27th, 4 pm

“Photography brings to me a sense of enjoying the moment without the need to capture it.” Yam Yardeni

What could be the “moments in between” for a 16-year-old teenager born and raised in Auroville? How is he able to capture those feelings through photography?
Yam Yardeni’s first encounter with photography was with the family camera in his home. His fascination of how he could capture a moment with a click started at the age of 6 when he told his mother Galit (herself once a photographer’s assistant) that he wanted to be a photographer. The last few years he has been experimenting with film editing and photography and has won the Wisdom Award at the Auroville Film Festival in 2013 and another award in a South African youth film competition in 2017 called “One United Roar” focusing on saving white lions. Learning photography with Ashwin in Last School has helped him bring a completely different dimension to his photographic style and vision.
Yam’s photography is about beauty: beauty of nature and beauty of people. Photographs of his brothers, Himalayan mountains, graffiti in London, rivers in Israel, the Matrimandir gardens – all are the demonstration of his state of mind during his holidays with his family or during quiet moments in Auroville.
Of the 22 photographs exposed in Pitanga, the little girl going down the steps remains my favourite. This picture was taken this last summer during a trip to the Galilee, Israel. The seriousness of her look, the composition of old steps filled with a falling carpet of twigs and leaves, the technique of chiaroscuro as well as of the autumnal colouring gives the picture an overall tone of nobility and makes one dream of ancient kingdoms. The name of the subject is Abigail and the historical overtones (Abigail was one of King David’s wives) adds to the tone of the photograph.

A moment in between:

“I was right on the edge of this river stream in the Galilee and the water was extremely soothing and beautiful. I saw this beautiful leaf which was once green and lively. I thought of how it fell into the river and looked now sad but how once it had a good life. The sun coming through the tree top made it enchanting.”

Yam Yardeni
Thank you Yam for this first exhibition of photographs and may your explorative soul and work be an inspiration to the sprouting young artists of Auroville.

Chana Corinne Devor for AV Art Service

• CELEBRATING 102 YEARS OF

MEN-TSEE-KHANG

A 3-Day Event

at Pavilion of Tibetan Culture

on Friday 2, Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 November, 2018

Friday November 2, at 5.30 pm

at the Pavilion of Tibetan Culture

‘Introduction to Tibetan Medicine and Astro-Sciences’

A Special Lecture delivered by Dr. Tsewang Tamdin,

Visiting Physician to H.H. the Dalai Lama,

Chief Resident Doctor in Dharamsala,

and an Astro-science Practitioner

Saturday November 3 and Sunday November 4

(on appointment only)

Consultation Timings:

By Dr. Tsewang Tamdin

Morning: 9 am. to 5 pm (Lunch break: 1 pm. to 2 pm)

For appointment contact: 0413-2622401

Brief introduction of Men-Tsee-Khang (Sowa-Rigpa):

Men-Tsee-Khang (Tibetan Medical & Astro. Institute of H.H. the Dalai Lama) is a charitable, cultural and educational Institute. The Institute was first established by the Great 13th Dalai Lama

in 1916 in Lhasa (Tibet) and was reestablished by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in 1961 in Dharamsala, India. Men-Tsee-Khang (Sowa-Rigpa) is one of the oldest, largest and most reputable Sowa-Rigpa Institutes in India.

During the 3-day Event in Auroville

• Free Health Consultations
• Exhibition on Tibetan Medicine (Sowa-Rigpa) and Astro-Science
• Sale of Herbal Products and Books
• Friends of Men-Tsee-Khang (FOM) Membership Drive

For details contact:

Pavilion of Tibetan Culture

Phone: 0413-2622401

Call: +91 9486959117.

Every Monday, 5 to 7pm. Creativity Atelier.

Watercolour is more than creating Art

– it is also a meditative practice.

In the first session, we will learn the subtle art of the brush stroke, and appropriate posture and breathing. Later we will look at how to use colours to create various tonalities, create distances and perspectives.

During the session there will be plenty of opportunities to see yourself in various moods and emotions in a very short time span. Some people might feel “I can’t do it! I am too clumsy! I am too this and not enough of that!” This is the same as when you sit and meditate: in one sitting you just sit quietly and in the next a crowd of monkeys jump inside your head. Or the disappointment when you have done something beautiful and then you add one more stroke and mess it all up.

Although an Art, the concept of the exercises is very similar to the martial arts discipline.

The ritual of painting is a path to raise one’s level of consciousness and awaken a power that lies within. Watercolour geometry can be a very powerful tool to centre oneself. When you practice watercolour geometry, it makes you see various aspects of yourself, of your personality and ego structure.

Fixed contribution for guests, reduction for Volunteers, Aurovilians and Newcomers are welcome to donate.

Call Gino on 9047097812 or email to creeva@auroville.org.in for more information.

Curiously as aurovilians, in Baroda, we experienced Auroville community spirit in a deeper way on the tracks of Sri Aurobindo. It was wonderful for us to meet students, teachers, audience and to share our creative process inspired by Sri Aurobindo and Mother. We really had a great time with you, thank you for the organization of such an event and your commitment, kindness, caring and support.

Thank you also to the Dean Prof. Ajay Ashtaputre and to Trilok Singh Mera, head of Drama department and to the teachers of Dance dept. especially Dhowani Ashutosh Mhaskar. All of them were very welcoming, open, positive, helpful, and happy of this sharing with Auroville.

This bridge between Auroville and Baroda is very important for Baroda and also for Auroville community.

We arrived in Baroda on the 24^th of September; on the 25^th we visited already the Performing arts dept. and the Playbox theatre.

VAST work In progress performance

We were very happy to perform our work in progress VAST on the 26^th September.

It was very nice to share our creative process inspired by Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Mother. The final version of the show will be ready next year beginning 2019.

Philippe did a short introduction of this work. Then the performance was a great success in front of a full venue. Ashwin for the light and Suresh for the sound did a great work in collaboration with the technicians of the theatre which is a magical venue, old and full of good spirit. We felt the support of Auroville and many aurovilians were there in the audience. Serena and Venkatesh shooted the show.

VAST tells the story of a young Nepalese man who was forced to leave his Himalayan Mountains. He is now alone, like a foreigner stifling in his small room in the big slum of the Indian city.

Beyond confinement and misery, he tries day after day, in his routine, to find in his body a door that opens onto the Vast, a path to his Himalayas.

An encounter with a strange character will help him on his journey.

This show is performed by 2 actors dancers on stage: Thierry Moucazambo, Gopal Dalami and directed by Philippe Pelen Baldini. Inspired by Sri Aurobindo and Mother we work about body memories and are looking for this vastness in the body in the matter beyond confinement. This universal story touched all the audience in the theatre and we had standing ovation at the end of the show and a lot of very good feedbacks. We even got a good article in the local newspaper Divya bhaskar .

Media:

“It creates a magical moment. At the end peace can achieve when your soul meet to Almighty”.

                                                                                                         Gujrat newspaper Divya bhaskar .

Two days’ workshop: 27^th & 28^th September

We were very happy direct a dance theatre workshop for the dance dept. and theatre dept. students.    The title of the workshop was: E.MOTION, energy in motion.

We offered an approach to find the performer’s creativity through body experience. How to find one’s own physical and theatrical language. This process is inspired by Sri Aurobindo and Mother.

It was an amazing and deep experience for everyone. Around 50 students attended the worshop here are some feedbacks:

“You all are just amazing, you all teach very well, I feel relaxed, I gained many beautiful things, positive energy from you all. Thank you very much, keep in touch”. Dhowani Ashutosh Mhaskar professor dept of dance faculty of perf.Art(Bharata Natyam)

 “This workshop is extraordinary, I get some unique energy my feeling is beyond the word. Thank you”. Maitraye

“It was really a great experience. We got a lot to learn from the workshop and the play then by you. Thank you”. Maneesha

“It was a wonderful workshop, we felt free to express our feelings with each other through eyes and were free to explore, thank you”. Maitrayee

Bhu performance

We were very happy to perform BHU/Earth for the closing of the festival at CC Mehta auditorium. The collaboration with technicians was very good and finally we had time to set light and sound in a good way and also to rehearse the day before in a very beautiful yoga dance studio. The stage in the auditorium was perfect for Bhu.

Bhu is inspired by the oldest martial art of the world, Kalaripayattu that gave birth to many art forms in South India. In the spirit of Integral yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Mother, we develop this ancient form in a contemporary way. Bhu tells the story of a man who reconnect with himself and Nature.

Bhu is performed by 6 Kalari warriors, musicians, dancers, actors and directed by Philippe Pelen Baldini.

It was not a full venue like the opening but a very good audience. Lot of emotion and standing ovation it was really a magical closing ceremony.

Here are some feedbacks:

“The performance of Auroville was amazing; it was a true retreat and memorable experience. Thank you so much and commendable”. Dr Ambika Patel MSU

“You aurovilians are in our heart, excellent program”. Sonal Joshi

“Very wonderful and accomplished performance. One of the rare ever viewed. Thanks to all artists and the director. Many congratulations and best wishes from Sri Aurobindo society of Baroda”. Kailash Joshi, Sri Aurobindo society of Baroda

“Many congratulations and accolades to the entire team for bringing this ancient and rich art form with an exquisite message to the barodian audience as a part of enriching legacy of Sri Aurobindo in Baroda. We would love to be notified of such activities and performances in the future and hope to visit Auroville soon”. Nayana Trivedi

Report written by Philippe, Thierry, Barbara and Gopal.

Bhu Ritam activity under Auroville arts service.

“Heal-Arity” is a fun filled week-long immersion in the universe of the Clown, especially created by MeDi Clown Academy, to introduce the participants into the art and profession of medical clowning.

The two main goals of this workshop are to guide the participants into a self-journey discovering their unique clown-personality; and the application of this work in healthcare, education and corporate environments.

To this end, we have designed an intensive integrated 110 hour programme incorporating physical, mental and creative activities and exercises.

We will explore ritual, ceremony and theatre techniques, building day by day upon them through improvisation, imagination, puppetry, magic, music, movement, non-verbal storytelling, play, embodying dreams and different dimensions. We will also share case studies to show how we have applied all of these tools and techniques in real life situations. And, as part of the training, we will facilitate a 14 hours Certified Laughter Yoga Leader Training.

To compliment this process of self-expression, we will guide the participants in exercises to embody their dreams and encourage and support each participant to manifest their vision.

Heal-arity takes place in Adishakti Laboratory, a beautiful and special place in South India, dedicated to Arts and research. The campus, surrounded by nature, offers the best conditions and facilities for this residential workshop.

This introductory immersion training is open to everyone: artists, educators, healthcare professionals and those interested in health and wellbeing. This workshop is a prerequisite for the Professional MeDi Clown Certificate Training Program.

What we will do?

Experiential sessions are filled laughter, fun and play as well as very profound and poignant moments. Sessions will include short discussion, relevant case studies, applied research, applications of techniques learned and reflective practice. Participants will also journal.

-Pranayam and Laughter Yoga
-Freeing the Voice; Moving the Body
-Opening the Universe Within
-Clowning and Theatre Skills
-Journey to the Center of Your Clown
-Behind the Nose, Puppets, and Mask
-Embodying, Dream Building
-Aqu-Activities
-A Night Cap of Clown Films, Learning Magic, Bedtime Stories and Yoga Nidra
-Bring a pillow, wind down and relax as we gently integrate the day.
-Clown Cabaret

More informations: outcome, description of activities, fee, aplicattion, program, schedule day by day, and much more, please   

Included in the retrospective are short films by Raam Reddy (Ika), Anoop Sathyan (A Dream Called America), Priyanka Chhabra (A Summer Flu), Tanumoy Bose (Sagar Manav), Natesh Hegde (Kurli) and Archana Chandrashekhar (Dive), to name a few.  All these films have been showcased at national and international festivals.

We take great pleasure in inviting you for the screenings.

Entry Free!

Saturday 20 October 4.30 to 7.00 pm at Unity Pavilion

Garba is a traditional dance form of the Indian state of Gujarat, usually performed during Navratri, the nine-day festival celebrated all over India worshipping Goddess Durga. This colourful and elegant dance performed in a group expresses spontaneous joy of the victory of good over evil.

All Are Welcome

Join this workshop and celebrate the joy of Navratri!