Performing arts permeated into different mediums as theatre groups tried to keep the drama alive during the pandemic… Read the anniversary edition of Indulge below. https://www.indulgexpress.com/culture/theatre/2020/nov/06/a-look-at-how-theatre-groups-are-keeping-the-drama-alive-during-the-pandemic-29410.html
Down, To The Crossroads- Adil Writer’s Hunt for The Good Stuff “If I said anything sacrilegious, please quote me.” This was Adil Writer’s sign-off to me as I took off on foot out of Dana Community in the dusty afternoon light, after an interview that shed more light than I’d ever hoped on the creative […]
NOTES: OF STAFF & CANVAS Note1 – Back, To A Future-Leaning Past: Jazz and the visual arts have become fast friends during the past half-century or so. For a genre that’s been represented, for the greater part of its existence, by stark B&W portraits with lots of cigarette smoke and a bluish tint, the […]
Roger Harris This is to inform the community that our dear and long-term friend and brother Roger Harris (USA) left his body today at the age of 64 in his Prarthana apartment at 4.45am due to advanced lung cancer. Close friends that had been with him the days before, described him as absolutely lucid, lively, […]
https://www.pfaindia.com/ TOI The above article was featured in Times Of India yesterday. We did not want to divert the attention of people from #JantaCurfew and so decided to not post it on Sunday. We are completing three years as a community in April 2020, we never thought of celebrating in such pandemic conditions. We hope that this […]
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/the-good-wife-addresses-the-long-and-short-of-patriarchy/article31076414.ece
Presents a proposal for the distribution of “Our Cashew Story”Lets change this ending together, pesticide free…42 min Documentary by Serena Aurora <https://ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/DlU61Vv4Bo8EEZHaNiY8Bgq9xQKHmu3UcMrBL6WF_IlHW5pyfhzD7sDc-K9Bx-plpMyDfPiP2vlQ2bcHtnjV_BRr3AZaGjpBNHPZ–dp3cZzZC5HpuFNM2D4Syramlw7MhmzdOrKEEnm_462bZco9ebc_L5XwS-K1TQ=s0-d-e1-ft#https://gallery.mailchimp.com/961b12b2ef22c41bc0e726ede/images/f7689390-cda4-4abc-8a51-5d3a3a2342c5.jpg><https://ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/AGIFb8gOocshuCulWwKYx0wJDyFYFZ2MBA9Njuwqgw4Xmp17nTK42Oea9LVhZv3iRdvvJHrnnzKlMAXRolVBJ76Eg5RjF_dKDTbjVljdira4W7PhV1_d339JQC-o0JlUANXSI5zyEHCG2OcSFnAAfhisuL6WEQ=s0-d-e1-ft#https://mcusercontent.com/961b12b2ef22c41bc0e726ede/images/17043914-c2b1-45a1-8ba3-848bbbab6a4d.jpg><https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/tfxfPFSo4eCuBhcS61IWIPry2KdV1Xc1BfVAMIEuHBP_1VH0CUeOX-FMoZ2uuLE8o8aI152BWs3Js0S399H5fMPpQVyVF7m2FltP7pT7K9e65tPS-VWUwjxvReJW1KH9iVc-6czOTKcVDUG-_ktpNkWCeTjFMaV6UfxCiuRThlg=s0-d-e1-ft#https://mcusercontent.com/961b12b2ef22c41bc0e726ede/video_thumbnails_new/fc039d83eb73ffb211862fe98e0efffe.png>“Our Cashew Story” official Trailer 2020 ________________________________ In a world where we are increasingly disconnected from our food, this short film (42 minutes) titled “Our Cashew Story” explores the cashew industry – the growing, […]
A German filmmaker, who has made India his home, pays cinematic tribute to Auroville’s lush forest, the result of a unique 50-year-old afforestation project. https://www.mid-day.com/articles/planning-a-jungle/22492175
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https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/women-artists-showcase-talent-at-art-expo/article30100653.ece
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/auroville-ftii-tie-up-to-take-cinema-to-a-new-level/article29632836.ece Auroville, FTII tie-up to take cinema to a new level Eight-day short course on film appreciation and filmmaking attracts participants from diverse backgrounds.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/tsunami-mascot-stages-a-comeback/article29443048.ece Tsunami mascot stages a comeback M. Dinesh Varma PUDUCHERRY , SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 00:17 IST UPDATED: SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 00:17 IST SHARE ARTICLE PUDUCHERRY, 17/09/2019: Auroville-based Upasana’s gift-doll tsunamika to be mascot in campaign on ocean conservation. Special Arrangement | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Auroville-based Upasana to launch a ‘Tsunamika Save Ocean Campaign’ on September 21 […]
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/cruises/articles/an-artists-message-in-a-wine-bottle/ Wine lovers don’t like to waste a good vintage, but to Italian, Bordeaux-based artist, Aurodeva Guerci, to simply drink it all would be a loss. Guerci has found a novel use for a bottle of red (or white or rosé): creating paintings on canvas of everything from abstract portraits to landscapes featuring local […]
We are so happy and grateful to the media for their support in helping us spread the awareness and important benefits of MeDiClowning, and that this really important work is being taken seriously. We are grateful to be launching this career. Our vision is to train and certify 5000 MeDiClowns across India for a Happy […]
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/auroville-art-camp-explores-a-new-world/article26573154.ece
A new dimension: A meeting of People for Pondicherry Heritage under way at Palais de Mahe in Puducherry. | Photo Credit: Handout_E_Mail PPH initiative to feature architects, planners, conservationists and designers Celebration of built heritage alone is not enough to conserve it. Taking forward the heritage festival of Puducherry, People for Pondicherry Heritage (PPH) has […]
A Czech artist experiments with different techniques to make up for lost time in her painterly pursuits Czech-born Aurovilian Ivana Frousava is holding a solo exhibition at Auroville. Ivana Frousova first took up a brush and palette of water colours when she was in her middle age. But, ever since, she has been painting every […]
We are happy to announce the latest issue of Vaasal, the magazine in English about Tamil culture, language and society in Auroville. This new birthday issue includes: – Thirukural, and the Wisdom of the Tamil Vedas – A Special Birthday greeting from the poetess Avaiyyar – Interview with Varadharajan, Mother’s outreach worker – New short […]
“Energy fields” an exhibition by Pierre Legrand at Kalinka Gallery, until 14 January, Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm and 3:30 pm to 8:00 pm. Read “The Hindu” Article . Kalinka Art Gallery 14, bazar Saint Laurent Pondicherry 605001 www.kalinkagallery.com
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Now that Vivid Sydney, the yearly festival of lights, music and ideas, has drawn to a spectacular close, I am waiting with anticipation on a much more mundane spectacle – the crunching of some numbers. This is exciting as, at around this time last year, Destination NSW confirmed that 700,000 more people came to Vivid […]
Discovered in a Lab, a New Superblue Has Been Unleashed Upon the World as a Crayola Crayon The stunning pigment is set to become part of your child’s next box set. For details: https://news.artnet.com/art-world
What is so interesting about this painting and what does it tell us about India? This painting gives a fascinating insight into the effect of the cross-fertilisation between the Indian and the western cultures. That exchange, which is an early example of globalization, shows the Indian genius for absorbing, for ‘Indianizing’ other cultures, leaving the […]
Inmersion Workshop by Rod Hemsell Eastern Week in Menorca, Spain From April 12th until 16th 2017 The real experiences known by Sri Aurobindo, makes of his mantric poem SAVITRI a legacy and a true map of the diverse levels of consciousness, directed to all those seekers of the occult and the ways of the spirit. […]
