Mongabay-India, in collaboration with All Living Things Environmental Film Festival, is seeking video story pitches from video journalists and filmmakers. Submit your story ideas under the themes – Urban Biodiversity OR Environment Action before November 6, 2022. Big gaps in green financing could hamper India’s energy transition.India’s green sector is getting only 25% of the […]
An invitation to students from Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry to send in their portfolios and project ideas to exhibit for Kochi Students’ Biennale opening on the 12th of December, 2022 🔹This is an excellent opportunity for the students to reflect on their practices, methods, and processes, and exhibit on an international platform.🔹Applications can be from […]
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 […]
Charles Zanon is a French #sculptor of Venetian origin, born in Burgundy in 1988. Early in his career, he exposes his creations in Paris, in prestigious venues such as the Carousel du Louvre and the Grand Palais. For Charles, #sculpture is the ideal medium to confront, as an #artist , the dimensions of space and […]
An invitation to students from Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry to send in their portfolios and project ideas to exhibit for Kochi Students’ Biennale opening on the 12th of December, 2022 🔹This is an excellent opportunity for the students to reflect on their practices, methods, and processes, and exhibit on an international platform.🔹Applications can be from […]
The 5th edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, titled ‘In Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire’, is curated by Singaporean-Indian artist Shubigi Rao. https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/451122/programmes-and-exhibitions-2022-23/ Programmes and exhibitions 2022–23December 12, 2022–April 10, 2023 Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Fort Kochi, Kochi 682 001, India Hours: Monday–Sunday 10am–6pm Contact: To plan your visit and for any further information please visit kochimuzirisbiennale.org or write to info@kochimuzirisbiennale.org. Instagram / Facebook / Twitter / YouTube The […]
Regenerative forester John Williamson earns his living in the ancient woodlands of the UK’s Teign Valley. As he coppices trees and makes charcoal on lands that have been carefully tended by generations of people for thousands of years, he comes to exist within a deeper understanding of time—one guided by the 400-year cycles of England’s […]
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 […]
Golden Bridge Pottery, an institution that has moulded potters since 1971 | Auroras Eye Adil Writer The Golden Bridge Pottery situated in Pondicherry on the southeast coast of India was founded in 1971 by Deborah Smith and Ray Meeker. The studio produces a flexible line of wood fired, glazed, stoneware pottery. Deborah took charge of […]
Auroville Film Institute announces 5 weeks Hands On – Documentary Film Workshop with Richa Hushing & Rrivu Laha. The workshop will be in Rann of Kutch – in the vast salt marshes of the Great Rann in the Thar desert – one of the largest in the world; spanning the border between India and Pakistan. Alongside […]
Exhibitions Meditations on Savitri The series of 472 paintings created by the Mother with Huta from 1961-67 is now on display in the picture gallery Glimpses of the Mother: Photographs and texts – In the Square Hall Sri Aurobindo: A life sketch in photographs – In the upper corridor Films: Mondays at 4pm We continue the […]
Auroville Film Institute announces 5 weeks Hands On – Documentary Film Workshop with Richa Hushing & Rrivu Laha. The workshop will be in Rann of Kutch – in the vast salt marshes of the Great Rann in the Thar desert – one of the largest in the world; spanning the border between India and Pakistan. Alongside […]
When: 6, 7 and 8 October 2022 Where: Centre d’Art Gallery, Citadines, Auroville Registration Contact: sasi@auroville.org.in centredart@auroville.org.in Fees: Workshop is free for the Aurovilians, Newcomers and SAVI registered Volunteers. All the material for the workshop is provided except the analogue camera. Analogue/Film cameras are available to the participants against a contribution. Program & Timings: 6 October: 02.00 – 05.00pm Brief look at […]
“Our Cashew Story”, Documentary Film on Cashew Crop & Pesticide Uses, Directed by Serena Aurora is awarded the Award of theRector by the Constantine Philosopher University in Nitra at the 38 International Film Festival Agrofilm 2022. Award ceremony will take place on Friday, 7* October 2022 at 10:00 AMat the shopping mall Galéria MLYNY Nitra […]
TOTO FUNDS THE ARTS (TFA) is pleased to announce the introduction of one more category of awards: the TOTO Award for Digital Art (instituted in memory of the late artist Mehlli Gobhai); as well as an additional award in Music from this year (2023) onward. We therefore invite young musicians, writers, photographers, filmmakers and digital […]
Dance on Film is a specially curated series of contemporary dance projects developed by the Korean National Contemporary Dance Company. The series, co-presented by InKo Centre and the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company, will comprise a total of 5 films, varied in theme and technique, to present some of the most exciting choreographers and dancers […]
Hartmunt von lieres is a pianist based in Auroville but originally from Germany. He is also a composer who is writing for theatre and films. His music is influenced by western classical music, jazz, Indian and Spanish styles.
The Auroville Theatre Group has been performing in Auroville for about 25 years now. Many actors have come and gone: several have started their stage careers with the ATG. The theatre scene in Auroville being pretty fluid — actors work with more than one company, move around from show to show. One thing has remained […]
In Conversation with the Museum Rietberg:Annette Bhagwati, Director of the Museum Rietberg in conversation with Kamini Sawhney When: Wednesday, 7th September, 6:30 PM (IST) Register here A visit to the Museum Rietberg, not far from Lake Zurich, takes visitors on a journey around the world: the collection comprises art from Asia, Africa, America, and Oceania. […]
Der Junge muss an die frische Luft (All About Me, 2018), D: Caroline Link Even as a child of the 70s in the Ruhr Valley – a region marked by coal and Carnival – little Hans-Peter makes the people around him laugh; this talent will later make him one of the best-known German comedians. Yet […]
When: AUGUST 27th, 5.00 – 7.30 pm Where: Kalabhoomi (next to CRIPA) If you like to discuss, share and learn more about films and Cinema, we invite you to our Cine-Master-classes! Welcome to this chapter led by Jean-Luc B on actor Jean-Paul Belmondo “Léon Morin prêtre” (Leon Morin, Priest) by Jean-Pierre Melville, France, 1961 Overview: […]
When: AUGUST 26th, 8:00 pm Where: Multi Media Centre Auditorium (Mmc, Town Hall) “SUNDAYS AND CYBELE (original title: Les Dimanches de Ville D’Avray) Directed by: Serge Bourguignon, France, 1961 With: Hardy Krüger, Nicole Courcel, Patricia Gozzi, Daniel Ivernel, André Oumansky Synopsis: Back from a Vietnamese village where he had been a soldier, Pierre suffers from delayed stress and partial amnesia. […]
“Space in Cinema; Time in Architecture” Facilitators Avijit Mukul Kishore and Rohan Shivkumar. When: 1 to 4 September 2022 Where: In Auroville To know more : call/message +91 9969879319 or visit – https://filminstitute.auroville.org/2022/08/02/cinema-and-architecture-2/ The four-day workshop will explore the possible overlaps between the two disciplines of Cinema and Architecture as spatio-temporal art forms. The programme […]
Article by Dinesh Varma published in The Hindu From colloquies on metaphysics to meditation, music and art shows, a series of events led by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville is setting up the finale for the year-long sesquicentennial celebrations of Sri Aurobindo, which coincides with the 75th Independence anniversary on August 15. The Sri […]
Last date for submission of ONLINE applications is 18th August, 2022 and the last date for receipt of the hard copy of the submitted online applicationform along with the requisite documents is 25th August, 2022