Tag: culture

Workshops: 3-Day Intensive weekend permaculture (4-6 and 18-20 February) and Weekly Mini Workshops at Solitude Farm – starting February

3-Day Intensive weekend permaculture workshop An intensive 3 days Permaculture workshop to empower you to explore your relationship with mother nature and take the first steps on your road back to nature. When: Feb 4,5,6 | Feb 18,19,20 | Mar 18,19,20 / Apr 15,16,17 Where: Solitude Farm, Auroville Registration Details:  https://solitude.farm/product/3-day-intensive-permaculture-workshop/ Contact: solitudepermaculture@gmail.com, +919843319260 Weekly […]

Short Film: Fallin’ by Valentina Beatriz

Two dancers are magnetically attracted and repelled to each other, embodying the dynamic of addictive attachment and codependency, commonly categorized in modern culture as the experience of falling in love. View short film here > Script and direction – Valentina Beatriz Choreography and performance – Gopal Dalami and Valentina Beatriz Cinematography – Hemanth Kumar First […]

Performance: Iri Hyangje Julpungnyu (String Ensemble of Iri) – 22 December

The Cultural Heritage Series – Episode 6 The Cultural Heritage Series aims to focus episodically on introducing and celebrating singular aspects of Korea’s cultural traditions. In the sixth episode of this series, we focus on Iri Hyangje Julpungnyu which is a piece of instrumental music handed down in Iksan, Jeollabuk-do, depicting the scene of Shakyamuni preaching the Lotus Sutra, […]

Workshops: Art Heals with Tia Pleiman

Your Mental Health Is Essential… Have you experienced loss, grief, isolation due to cir-cumstances of the past year?Have you been anxious, nervous, worrying excessively?Have you lost interest and pleasure in things you previ-ously enjoyed? Art Heals weaves the healing powers of the Creative Arts Therapies, With the aspects of Mental Health First Aid, which promote […]

AuroFilm Screening: “The Secret Of Kells” – 3 Sep

Multi Media Centre Auditorium (MMC, Town Hall) Presents FRIDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2021, 8:00 PM  “The Secret Of Kells” Directed by Tomm MOORE, Ireland, 2009. Music by: Bruno Coulais Synopsis: The Secret of Kells is an animated film about the making of the Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript. Set in 9th century Ireland, during the age of Viking expansion, […]

Webinar: A series of conversations on Creativity, Culture and Context – 25 August

Strategic Management in the Art of Theatre (SMART)in partnership with India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), supported by Goethe-Institut / Max-Mueller Bhavan New Delhi Presents: In The Round #3: Community, a series of conversations on creativity, culture and context When: 7pm, 25 August 2021 Where: Online. Registration: For Zoom Link, Register Here To watch live on Facebook, visit […]

Culture: On Boyhood, Masculinity and Love

Something interesting we saw on the CPB Prism Newsletter and wanted to share. https://prism.chennaiphotobiennale.com “What a mystery it is to be a boy…so uneducated and therefore so fresh and uncynical. We should end our disparagement of the boy, of our own immaturities, of our tardiness in growing up…We could speak words of encouragement to this […]

Short Film: Villenour

Villenour (French India: Territory of Pondicherry) (1914) Gorgeously dreamlike colour images of (then) French India – present-day Puducherry. These gorgeous stencil-coloured images of French India – present-day Puducherry – have a dreamlike quality. The arrival of a well-to-do European family, dutifully attended to by the locals, gives a semblance of narrative to what is largely […]

Course: Harmony? Bach, Mozart, Beethoven by Holger Jetter – 7 April – 1 May

Holger Jetter is offering an online course through the Bombay Institute For Critical Analysis And Research on Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. Holger will lay the foundations of psychoacoustic perception – the science of sensation that sound produces – before considering musical culture – the links between aesthetics, place, and time. When: 6.30pm-8.30pm, every Wednesday and […]

AuroFilm Screening: ‘ The Past’ – 2 April

Multi Media Centre Auditorium (MMC, Town Hall) Presents “The Past” – Le Passé (original title) Directed by Asghar Farhadi, France, 2013 With: Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa Synopsis: After four years of separation, Ahmad arrives in Paris from Tehran at the request of Marie, his French wife, to proceed with the formalities of their divorce. During his brief stay, Ahmad […]

Exhibition: Auroville Art Camp 2021 – 27 March – 3 April

On March 27th, the Auroville Art Camp will end with an exhibition at Centre d’Art (Citadines) where you will be able to discover the participants’ artwork created during the week.  The theme of this year’s edition is: “The City of Dawn”. When: 3pm, Opening of Exhibition 3pm, 27 March 2021. Exhibition: 3-6pm, 27 March – […]

Course: Harmony? Bach, Mozart, Beethoven by Holger Jetter – 7 April – 1 May

Holger Jetter is offering an online course through the Bombay Institute For Critical Analysis And Research on Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. Holger will lay the foundations of psychoacoustic perception – the science of sensation that sound produces – before considering musical culture – the links between aesthetics, place, and time. When: 6.30pm-8.30pm, every Wednesday and […]

Course: Harmony? Bach, Mozart, Beethoven by Holger Jetter – 7 April – 1 May

Holger Jetter is offering an online course through the Bombay Institute For Critical Analysis And Research on Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. Holger will lay the foundations of psychoacoustic perception – the science of sensation that sound produces – before considering musical culture – the links between aesthetics, place, and time. When: 6.30pm-8.30pm, every Wednesday and […]

AuroFilm Screening: “DEVI” – THE GODDESS – 12 March

Multi Media Centre Auditorium (MMC, Town Hall) Presents “DEVI” – THE GODDESS Directed by Satyajit RAY, India,1960 With: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Chhabi Biswas Music by:  Ustad Ali Akbar Khan Synopsis: Devi “The Goddess” is based on a short story by Provatkumar Mukhopadhyay. In 19th-century rural Bengal, a young woman, Doyamoyee, is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, Kalikinkar, a rich […]

“Temple Tree” – Magical Bark Prints by Birgitta Volz

The Pavilion of Tibetan Culture and the German Pavilion cordially invite you for the Exhibition Project “Temple Tree” – Magical Bark Prints by Birgitta Volz Exhibition Gallery at the Pavilion of Tibetan Culture, International Zone, Auroville, India. Starting 8th February to 2 March 2021 Artist statement:  “Magic is unfolding, as soon as I work with a tree. I work with bark […]

“Temple Tree” – Magical Bark Prints by Birgitta Volz

The Pavilion of Tibetan Culture and the German Pavilion cordially invite you for the Exhibition Project “Temple Tree” – Magical Bark Prints by Birgitta Volz Exhibition Gallery at the Pavilion of Tibetan Culture, International Zone, Auroville, India. Starting 8th February to 2 March 2021 Artist statement:  “Magic is unfolding, as soon as I work with a tree. I work with bark […]