CELEBRATING HUMAN UNITY & DIVINE LOVE

By Prof. Sehdev Kumar

Author of The Vision of Kabir & Ocean in a Drop In Original & Trans-creations in several languages

English, French. German. Hebrew. Italian. Chinese. Russian, Afrikaans by lovers of Kabir in Auroville As part of Auroville Kabir Project

And with Deepti Gupta, Kathak Dancer

Venue: Swachu, Bharat Nivas

Friday, January 5, 2024

7 to 8pm

ALL ARE WELCOME

Enquiry contact: Krishna at 97878 80211

Parking available outside the Bharatnivas Main gate.

Residency periods:
Spring: April 18 to June 10, 2022
Summer: July 4 to August 26, 2022
Fall: September 19 to November 11, 2022
Winter: January 30 to March 24, 2023

Application form and details 

The eight-week residency includes:

• Residency honorarium of CA$1,560
• Access to an individual studio-workshop to be used for work and lodging
• Access to specialized equipment (wood, metal, ceramics)
• Access to a documentation centre (books, magazines)
• Access to local resources Technical and logistical support
• Access to a bicycle in season/occasional local transportation in winter

Due to the pandemic, the residents and employees will have to follow a sanitary protocol put in place by ENE

Your application must include:

• A curriculum vitae (maximum two pages, PDF format)
• An artist’s statement (maximum one page, PDF format)
• A text presenting your research, experimentation, or production intentions, including your specific needs in terms of technical resources, if applicable (maximum one page, PDF format)
• Two published texts on contemporary art: review or critique of an exhibition, essay, or a text from a pamphlet, catalogue, or book on art (maximum 10 pages in total in PDF format)
  For any questions, contact the ENE team at info@estnordest.org
   

“I don’t know what the future will be, but I absolutely know that things that give us joy in this world, especially the natural world, are essential for everything.”

Dara McAnulty is a teenage autistic author, naturalist, and conservationist from Northern Ireland. After several years of writing his blog, Naturalist Dara, he published his debut book, Diary of a Young Naturalist, when he was fourteen years old. The book won the 2020 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing and Book of the Year for the Narrative Non-fiction British Book Awards in 2021.

In this interview, Emergence Executive Editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee speaks to Dara—now seventeen years old—about his book and his approach to living a life immersed in and guided by the living world. Wise beyond his years, Dara discusses his identity as an autistic person, the solace and comfort he has always found in nature, the role of the artist in envisioning a different future, and the great necessity of staying rooted in joy.
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Rohan Venkataramakrishnan Sep 11, 2021 · 08:30 am

Would Auroville, the “utopian” town outside Pondicherry that over the years has attracted many foreign and Indian spiritual seekers, be where it was if not for French colonialism? No, argues historian Jessica Namakkal in Unsettling Utopia The Making and Unmaking of French India, and it is important to understand why. 

“Auroville is not a French space per se, but that it came into existence through French colonial institutions. The reason it appears as a postcolonial and not a colonial space is because of the success France has had in depicting French India as a space of positive influence,” Namakkal writes. “In and near Pondicherry, the Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville serve as examples of how liberal discourse rooted in multiculturalism, spirituality, equality, and utopianism has displaced local Tamil populations from both land and history, time and space.” Advertisement

In Unsettling Utopia, Namakkal – who is an assistant professor of the practice in international comparative studies, gender, sexuality, and feminist studies; and history at Duke University – examines the complex nature of Pondicherry (now known as Puducherry) as a “minor” colony, that was often defined in contrast to the much larger space of British India next to it, and what that has meant for its inhabitants. 

I spoke to Namakkal about “minor” histories, the complicated identities of post-colonised subjects, what she calls “settler utopianism” and the need to decolonise history. 

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Managing Data for Movies by Neil Sadwelkar powered by LaCieIndia Film Project & LaCie brings to you a free of cost workshop on how to master the data management and workflow while capturing any kind of videos professionally so that all your hard work counts, its more than just creating backups, there is more nuance to it, there are industry standard workflow and technics that will help you in streamlining your next project.

Date: 12 December 2020
Time: 5:30 PM IST

What will you learn at the workshop?

– Why Backup
– Backup rules and how to never lose data
– Ideal data rate and drive budget for a movies and your personal projects.
– Transfer interfaces speed realities
– How to move data during post
– What are RAIDs and SSDs and how to use them effectively
– Long term backup strategies for movies or any of your projects.
– How to manage your data during production and post production
– How to create workflow for your next shoot

About Neil Sadwelkar:

Neil Sadwelkar is a Technology expert for film and video post-production who also has robust experience in actual hands-on editing and creative work. Neil has helped set up one truly world class facility in Mumbai, India for film and video post-production. It rivals the best anywhere in the world. And its run successfully for seven years now.

His specialities are, Film and video editing systems, Digital motion picture acquisition, Non-film acquisition, Video and audio compression, DVD authoring, Post-production Systems setup, Post-production System design.

As people are stuck at home it may be a good time to read. The idea with the book is that it is for 3 (or so) year olds and up but also interesting for the reader.

Hopefully you find it interesting.

Free PDF version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R5l7_DqORw8llDK-dyevALUDEasCizoL/view?usp=sharing

Amazon Kindle version free for 5 days from April 25 (can’t do more at a time it seems, if the link does not work search with title and author name on the Amazon site for your country): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0822D85QX/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_tmb

You can also buy it if you want to support future work.

Eventually there will also be a softcopy version available.
If you have feedback, please share.

Cheers,

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You can check your book entry at https://artservice.auroville.org/auroville-catalog/

Please email: avartservice.auroville@gmail.com with the subject line ‘book for catalogue’.

5- 6:30 pm

Sve Dame

Prof. Sehdev Kumar Author of THE VISION OF KABIR, Prof. Kumar will present the songs of the great 15th century poet-sage in original and in English translations, with commentary on his Bhakti Yoga. Friday, February 24, 2017 5:00- 6:30 pm Butterfly Barn – Sve-Dame

One Man follows One Thing into a quest for perfection that leads towards the lethal end. A journey shared with an audience and followed by a comic relief. No words, no decor, no mercy. Action only. Human saga by a single object.

Using only one object Vitaly takes the audience to a tour in the unlimited world of imagination to experience the joy, the drama and also the ecstasy of being a human.

About the author: Vitaly Azarin
A clown. His work combines physical theater, martial arts and acrobatics, balance, vocal skills and musical instruments. While working on One Thing Show, Vitaly explores a way to measure depth of human experience by means of raw minimalism. Eventually, his partner on stage becomes a single piece of cord attached to a bicycle found in the garage.

Author Sabarna Roy will read from some of his books at Tasmai, on September 5th at 6 pm.
Tasmai is an art gallery in Kuruchikuppam, Puducherry.

Akash Kapur is a writer who grew up and lives in Auroville. He is the author of one book, India Becoming, and his work has appeared in various publications, including The Atlantic, Auroville Today, The Economist, Granta, The New Yorker, The New York Times and Outlook.

contact and link:
www.akashkapur.com

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