Kalakshetra Foundation welcomes you to Svanubhava 2015 7th August 2015 | 24 hours Svanubhava 2015 will be an overnight festival lasting 24 hours all through the 7th of August. The Festival will feature a variety of performances including Bhagavatha Mela, Theyyam, Namasankritanam, Nagaswaram Recital, Kathakali, Carnatic Recitals, Bharatanatyam and Kathak productions, presented across the many […]
A month-long festival at Adishakti to celebrate Veenapani Chawla’s birth anniversary on April 5 FEATURING KIRTANA KRISHNA JAZZ CONCERT SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 7 p.m. Original compositions performed by jazz singer Kirtana Krishna. RAJA SUYA YAGAM AND PRAHALATHA CHARITHRAN THERAKOOTHU PERFORMANCES SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 9:30 p.m. Arulmigu Sri Iyyappan Nataka Mandram presents a double […]
Here you find the complete program, a map with all participating venues and an events calendar of the Auroville Festival in Chennai 2015 all in one place… See you in Chennai!
from The Hindu: Through the month of March, members of the international community of Auroville will spend time in Chennai, to help people here understand their culture through the ‘Auroville festival’, which began on Sunday. Inaugurating the event, Governor K. Rosaiah said: “Right from its establishment, it has been striving to build a spiritual society […]
from Bharat Nivas: Namashkar Friends, Happily, the first festival of Rtu Samrit, the season of coming together is here! I hope all of you can visit the 150 artists from North East this year at Bharat Nivas Wed. 25th to Sat. 28th Feb. 10 AM to 9:30 PM bringing their richness of tradition through art […]
The Auroville Festival website is launched! http://festival.auroville.org/ Auroville, the experimental city in the making at the Coromandel coast some 3 hours drive below Chennai, has been quietly building itself for almost 50 years and now looks forward to give Chennaiites some insights into its unique functioning, challenges and achievements. The ‘What is Auroville’ festival, to […]
Well Paper, an Auroville unit and social enterprise which works to empower local village women with skills to build, manage and maintain self-sustaining units, will be showcasing their work and (beautiful) products as part of the Auroville Festival in Chennai. Catch them on March 5-7th at the Ethical Market (at Amethyst) or at the Craft […]
from The Hindu, Feb 15, 2015 Auroville Festival set to unravel its idea of sustainable existence Art and the universal township of Auroville have a link that go beyond its conducive, green and multicultural environment. Sri Aurobindo, whose teachings resonate in the intrinsic fabric of this ‘City of Dawn,’ had said that art is an […]
Alliance Fraçaise presents Pondy Partages 2015
7th Panorama of Contemporary Indian Cinema 13-14-15 February – Sri Aurobindo Auditorium, Bharat Nivas Vanakkom, Namasté, Hello to All, Bonjour à toutes et tous, Aurofilm has the great pleasure to inform you and invite you to its annual 7th Panorama of Contemporary Indian Cinema which will take place at the Sri Aurobindo Auditorium, Bharat Nivas. […]
The INKO Centre gallery show opens on 23rd February, it is a precursor to the Auroville Festival. The show is curated by Jin Kyoung Kim for South Korean artists and Supriya Menon Menghetti for India. This show has 18 artists from India and 9 from S. Korea, among the 18 Indian artists, 5 are from […]
Libertas A dance performance from Korea Directed by Sin Cha Hong Performed by Sin Cha Hong and Young Ah Choi time: Friday, January 23, 2015, 7 p.m. No entry for latecomers. Admission Free – all are welcome! Donations would be appreciated. place: Adishakti, Sir Ratan Tata Koothukovil, Edyanchavadi Road, diagonally opposite to Hope About […]
The video Mutation in Progress made by Christoph will be screened as part of the Dance on Screen series at the IGNITE! Festival for Contemporary Dance 2015. IGNITE! is being held in New Delhi from 11-18 January 2015. The festival is dedicated towards creating avenues for contemporary dance within multiple formats. Within this a space […]
IGNITE! Festival of Contemporary Dance was started in 2010, the 3rd Edition is set to take place in January 2015. It is organised by the GATI Dance Forum, which works to create a vibrant engagement with contemporary dance through interrogation, experimentation, innovation and reflection. This year the biennial is back with a much larger and […]
from MutualArt.com: A City at the Edge of the Horizon: The 2014 Kochi-Muziris Biennale The ancient port city of Muziris, perched at the mouth of the Periyar River near the tip of the Indian subcontinent, offered harbor to merchant fleets of Greece, Rome, Phoenicia, and Egypt in the earliest centuries of global maritime trade. Romans […]
Kalakshetra Foundation takes pleasure in inviting you to the 62nd Annual Art Festival time: December 20th to 31st Inauguration on 20th December, 5.30pm place: Rukmini Arangam, Kalakshetra Foundation, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai by Padma Bhushan Awardee Dr.Padma Subrahmanyam All are Welcome! contact: Kalakshetra Foundation Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai 600041, India +91-44-24520836, +91-44-24521169/70 www.kalakshetra.in
DEEPAM CELEBRATION at Deepam School Friday 5th December at 6 pm On full moon we will light more than a thousand oil-lamps which create a celestial atmosphere. Karthigai Deepam has for centuries been celebrated. It originates from the legend of Lord Shiva who had transformed himself into a divine flame. On this night in Tiruvannamalai […]
Auroville musicians Matt Littlewood, Suresh Bascara and Mishko M’ba perform the opening act at the Goa International Jazz Live Festival 2014. See more photos here.
SEE Literature An evening with Akash Kapur and William Dalrymple. 17th October at AFP Auditorium in Suffren Street, 19.00h Here the full cultural program at Alliance Française Pondicherry for October 2014: The French Volunteer Day and the launch of “EspaceVolontaires” in South India On October 1, we are proud to host the French Volunteer Day […]
A FILM FESTIVAL FROM NEW DELHI October 7 – 10, 2014 Auroville and Pondicherry have the pleasure of hosting the travelling CMS Vatavaran Environment & Wildlife Film Festival and Forum. This festival, based in New Delhi, is organizing film screenings and panel discussions here, in collaboration with Pondicherry University, PondyCAN and Auroville. Screenings in Auroville […]
SING FOR THE CLIMATE: ‘DO IT NOW’ Auroville will “Sing for the Climate” on October 11th during the Singing Festival… where we will try to gather as many people possible (!!! We will need your help for that!!!! ) from Auroville and around to sing together, as an audiovisual petition for the climate! We will […]
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Inviting Video-Dance Works for IGNITE! Festival of Contemporary Dance 2015 13-18 January 2015, New Delhi Deadline for Submissions: 30 September 2014 We are most excited to bring to you the 3rd edition of IGNITE! Festival of Contemporary Dance in New Delhi from 13-18 January 2015. IGNITE! is a biennale which aims to […]
KALA KENDRA BHARAT NIVAS PAVILION OF INDIA as part of Kerala Week at Bharat Nivas Wednesday: 3rd September, 2014 Meet the Artist : 3.00 – 4.30 pm KALA KENDRA Artists gathering to meet Bose Krishnamachari An artist and independent curator, Krishnamachari’s diverse artistic and curatorial practice includes drawing, painting, sculpture, design, installation and architecture. He […]
Bharat Nivas campus invites you for a Kerala Week, to coincide with the Onam Festival that happens at this time of the year. This mini-fest brings together dance, folk theatre, Kalaripayet and drums, as well as films and presentations on its cultural journey and contemporary art spread across different venues. Come, discover another part of […]
Greetings from the ONE ASIA project Team ! We are happy to inform you that “ONE ASIA 2014 in Taipei” is taking place from 25th October to 5th November in Taipei. The dream of “ONE ASIA” is to bring Asia together on one platform through Art and Culture , as a humble offering to Human […]
