Our guest speaker: A Filmmaker and Film teacher (LV Prasad Film & TV Institute, and Loyola College, Chennai) Professor Sivakumar Mohanam will offer a presentation on Mikio Naruse‘sclassic “Yearning”, which will be screened and followed by an open discussion. Overview: Mikio Naruse is often overshadowed by more famous Japanese directors, even though his resume is brimful of classic films. Ozu was […]
H. Shanmugam has always taken a fascination to spider webs and cobwebs. Both are a part of nature. It seems like a continuous process no matter what happens. When one wakes up in the morning somewhere somehow a new web is created irrespective of time, irrespective of man’s struggles, and this fascinates him! In the […]
2023/2024 Admission for BFA & MFAChennai & Kumbakonam
A Play in English and other Languages Directed by Rajiv Krishnan Entry Free. Contributions welcome. Credits Cast: Siddhanth Sundar and Harshini Boyalla (Bengaluru), Radhika Prasiddha, Dharanidharan and David Salamon (Pondicherry), Ajithlal Sivalal (Kollam) and Parshathy Nath (Thrissur) Sets: Joseph Bernard Props and Puppets: Vijay Ravikumar Costumes: Kaveri Lalchand Movement: Fawas Ameer Hamsa Music: Anjana Raghavan […]
**Deadline Extended – 31 March 2023!** Last chance to apply for the Shared Tides residency open call! A residency program for anyone working with lens-based mediums, photographers, photojournalists, writers, designers, educators, researchers, mixed media artists from Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. The primary intention is to find parallels and common threads between the shared cultures, […]
Join us for a portfolio review with the CPB Photo Awards jury Saumya Khandelwal, Paroma Mukherjee, Dar Yasin and Chirodeep Chaudhuri. To apply, please upload your portfolio to the google form here! Participation will be on the basis of selection and photographers are expected to pay upon selection. Fee: Rs. 400 for 1 body of […]
Workshop by V. HARIRAAMV.Hariram is naturally an expressionist. An intense experience of the unknown is transplanted within him, an intrigue of a seed of abstraction.When in a state of rest – with eyes closed, he experiences a spectacular vision. And, soon enough wakes up to a sensibility of ‘stellar memories’; the reality of his experience, […]
A Play in English and other Languages Directed by Rajiv Krishnan Entry Free. Contributions welcome. Credits Cast: Siddhanth Sundar and Harshini Boyalla (Bengaluru), Radhika Prasiddha, Dharanidharan and David Salamon (Pondicherry), Ajithlal Sivalal (Kollam) and Parshathy Nath (Thrissur) Sets: Joseph Bernard Props and Puppets: Vijay Ravikumar Costumes: Kaveri Lalchand Movement: Fawas Ameer Hamsa Music: Anjana Raghavan […]
A residency program for lens-based artists and photographers from Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka intending to work with local resources to research and develop cross cultural bodies of work on shared histories, cultures and environments, supported by Goethe-Institut Chennai and Goethe-Institut Sri Lanka. Concept Note Connected by a conflicted past, but also by the continuums […]
CPB extend an invitation to lens-based artists and photographers from Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka for a residency program on the theme “Shared Tides”. Due to multiple requests from various interested photographers, CPB is extending the deadline to 15 Feb 2023. This will be the last extension and hence we request you apply with your […]
Gilles Grimaître plays Avant-garde at CRIPA in AurovilleBy Christoph Kluetsch, for AV Art Service Gilles Grimaître visited Auroville for a few days during his Pro Helvetia artist residency in Bengaluru, Chennai and Puducherry to engage with Carnatic music. The program he chose for the evening of Dec. 17th, 2022, was a passionate, loving introduction to usually not so […]
The 63rd National Exhibition of Art will be held in the month of February – March 2023. The minimum age for applying/participating is 25 years. The entry forms can be obtained from Lalit Kala Akademi Head Quarters at New Delhi and Regional Centres at Bhubaneswar (Phone: 0674-2391884), Kolkata (Phone: 033-24641719), Chennai (Phone: 044-28291692), Lucknow (Phone: […]
March Dance, a Chennai based contemporary dance festival organised by Basement 21 in collaboration with Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Chennai, announces an open call for two practitioners in the early phase of making dance/dance-based work. We offer some support and a sharing of the two works at March Dance 2023. Application deadline: 10 December […]
Centre d’Art Gallery, Citadines, Auroville invites you to an exhibition “Unseen Realities” by Aparna Ashok When: Exhibition opening on Friday 09 Dec 2022 at 04.30pmExhibition Date 09 Dec – 24 Dec 2022.Gallery hours Monday to Saturday 02.0pm – 05.00pm. Sunday is closed Where: Centre d’Art Gallery, Citadines, Auroville.Please Park at town hall.Free pickup and drop from the visitors Center on Friday and Saturday from […]
March Dance, a Chennai based contemporary dance festival organised by Basement 21 in collaboration with Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Chennai, announces an open call for two practitioners in the early phase of making dance/dance-based work. We offer some support and a sharing of the two works at March Dance 2023. Application deadline: 10 December […]
Centre d’Art Gallery, Citadines, Auroville invites you to an improvise and interact in an inspired Bharatanatyam photo session with the photos and the camera of Kirtan / Frederic Martin Duchamp in Centre d’Art gallery. Date: Friday 21st of October, at 4.00pm K. Sarveshan will improvise and interact in an inspired Bharatanatyam photo session with the […]
When: 7th to 10th November, 2022 APPLY BY: 17th October 2022 For any queries, please write to: support_filminstitute@auroville.org.in or call / message +919969879319. For More Details : https://filminstitute.auroville.org/2022/10/08/residency-with-ustad-mohi-bahauddin-dagar/ In the pristine naturally acoustic environs of Auroville, Ustadji will demonstrate Dhrupad Gayaki and RudraVeena along with two of his accompanists, on Tanpura and Pakhawaj. Ustadji warmly invites […]
When: 7th to 10th November, 2022 APPLY BY: 17th October 2022 For any queries, please write to: support_filminstitute@auroville.org.in or call / message +919969879319. For More Details : https://filminstitute.auroville.org/2022/10/08/residency-with-ustad-mohi-bahauddin-dagar/ In the pristine naturally acoustic environs of Auroville, Ustadji will demonstrate Dhrupad Gayaki and RudraVeena along with two of his accompanists, on Tanpura and Pakhawaj. Ustadji warmly invites […]
In collaboration with Ashvita’s Community Art Centre, we are excited to host an exhibition on World Cyanotype Day. We invite the cyanotype community in India to send their prints on the theme ‘Memory’ by September 16 to our Chennai Office. This opportunity is free of cost and open to everyone across India and we welcome all enthusiasts […]
Savitri Art is a beautiful journey that began a year back in April 2021 and has evolved with an aspiration to offer 150 Savitri paintings for Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birth anniversary. Now the 150 paintings and would like to offer them in the form of an exhibition. We are delighted to invite you all for […]
If you’ve ever been enchanted by Indian classical dance and wished to experience its beauty within your own body, then please join us this weekend for an exploration into the basic elements of Bharatanatyam. How can this beautiful dance form aid us in experiencing the state of Oneness we seek in our spiritual practice? By […]
Savitri Art is a beautiful journey that began a year back in April 2021 and has evolved with an aspiration to offer 150 Savitri paintings for Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birth anniversary. Now the 150 paintings and would like to offer them in the form of an exhibition. We are delighted to invite you all for […]
A series of Bharatanatyam performances by the talented dancing couple, Viraja & Shyamjith Kiran, later this month in Pondicherry and Auroville. 19 August, 7:45pm at Aurodhan Art Gallery, Pondicherry 21 August, 7 pm at Sunlit Path, Near Solar Kitchen 26 August, 7:30 pm at Cripa Auroville 27 & 28 August – Workshop at Sunlit Path, […]
A series of Bharatanatyam performances by the talented dancing couple, Viraja & Shyamjith Kiran, later this month in Pondicherry and Auroville. 19 August, 7:45pm at Aurodhan Art Gallery, Pondicherry 21 August, 7 pm at Sunlit Path, Near Solar Kitchen 26 August, 7:30 pm at Cripa Auroville 27 & 28 August – Workshop at Sunlit Path, […]
Theatrical, Choreographical, Musical Performance Inspired by a Poem By Sri Aurobindo Directed by Philippe Pelen. Wednesday, 6 April at 9pm, Indianostrum Theater, Pondicherry. Saturday, 9 April at 7pm, Alliance Francaise Auditorium, Chennai Duration: 1hr
