• Where: To view the film click on www.inkocentre.org Virtual Connect Cultural Collaborations.html on Friday, 27 January 2023 at 6.00 p.m. IST.

• When: The link to view the film will be accessible until Thursday, 2 February 2023.

In the Land of Punctuation is a dance performance created for children and young adults. The production is inspired by the picture book, In the Land of Punctuation, with poetry by Christian Morgenstern and illustration by Rathna Ramanathan, where unique graphic design meets poetic depiction. Punctuations refer to symbols, such as commas, full stops, or question marks, that one uses in a sentence in order to deliver the meaning of the text accurately; indicating a stop, a pause or an intonation, intention or emotion. In the Land of Punctuation foregrounds punctuations as symbols with meaning presented audio-visually.

India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) is looking for a filmmaker! We would like to commission a film/films that tell the stories of IFA

Application Deadline: August 15, 2022

We invite filmmakers to propose ideas for a film/films that tell the story of IFA and its impact in the world of the arts and culture as a facilitator, catalyst and provocateur. 

We are open to ideas on how the film looks and feels, in terms of exploring various aural and visual forms and aesthetics such as animation, graphic design, stop motion or a mix of these. We invite you to send us proposals that incorporate our requirements and your creativity!

What we are looking for in terms of the film/films:

• Film/films that situate IFA as a facilitator, catalyst and provocateur in the field of arts and culture and society at large. For more details, read: https://indiaifa.org/about-us/about-ifa.html
• The films should evoke and showcase IFA’s ethos, values, commitment to and impact in challenging dominant narratives, highlighting untold/unheard voices and stories, and critiquing existing knowledge and practices.
• The films should serve as institutional communication that captures IFA’s journey and the impact of our work.
• The films are primarily intended to be screened to our various audiences—existing and potential grantees/project coordinators, donors, patrons, Trustees, the larger arts community and the wider public. These will go out on all our social media platforms, including YouTube. 

Duration: Up to 3 minutes each

Budget: Rs 4.5 lakh (All Inclusive)

We expect the completed film/films by February 28, 2023.

Application Guidelines:

• Apply with
  • Your CV and letter of intent
  • Samples of work. Of these, at least one complete work should be less than 3 minutes long. 
  • Concept note/proposal of your vision, timeline and budget breakup for the film/films. 
  • A draft storyboard of the film/films

• Send your proposals by email only to darshana@indiaifa.org by August 15, 2022with the subject line: Proposal for film on IFA
• Incomplete applications will not be accommodated.
• All applications will be acknowledged within a week of receiving them. Only shortlisted candidates will be informed of the next steps.
• Interviews with shortlisted candidates are expected to take place on Zoom.
• The applicant finally selected will need to align their proposals, timelines and budgets to meet the requirements of IFA.

For any queries regarding the proposals, please write to darshana@indiaifa.org

This project is being supported by GROW Fund.

Warm regards,
The IFA Team

Pop Up Creative Room

Pop Up Creative Room, through its workshops on digital techniques, offers a platform to acquire knowledge, facilitate learning and exchange new techniques in digital media and tools.

Graphic Designing – Online Workshop
Create beautiful designs by using drag-and-drop features and layouts to design, share and print business cards, infographics, videos, advertisements and much more.

• When: 3:00 – 4:30 pm, 7-9 October 2021
• Where: Online
• Prerequisite: Age – 16+ years, Laptop/PC, Valid Gmail ID to log into online platform
• Registrations – open to all above 16+ years until 5 pm – Monday, 4 October 2021.Selected candidates will be informed by mail. Limited seats. Apply online here

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn about core design skills and add them to your projects
• Use the intuitive drag-and-drop tool that makes visual learning and communication easy and fun
• Design different fun and engaging projects like websites, infographics, business cards, comic strips, brochures etc.
• Create videos and awesome animations to bring your presentations to life

Upon completion of the workshop, the participants will receive a participation certificate.

We are happy to announce the latest issue of Vaasal, the magazine in English about Tamil culture, language and society in Auroville. This new birthday issue includes:

– Thirukural, and the Wisdom of the Tamil Vedas
– A Special Birthday greeting from the poetess Avaiyyar
– Interview with Varadharajan, Mother’s outreach worker
– New short story fiction by Yatra Srinivasan
– Language Hacking, part 2 – Using Your Ears
– The potential perils of Please and Thank You
– The calligraphy of Omkaram, the Tamil Om
– Poetry by Shruti Sundaram

We invite all readers to download the latest issue here, and to look out for the printed issues at selected central locations.

How to Get Vaasal: We send out each issue of Vaasal free to subscribers by email list, so joining the list is the best way to read it first. To join, please contact tamil@auroville.org.in

Vaasal Magazine is available at vaasalmagazine.wordpress.com

Help us make Vaasal better!
What are we doing right? What are we doing wrong? Is there any particular subject you would like to read about in Vaasal? Would you or anyone you know like to contribute an article, a drawing, a suggestion? We gratefully request all your thoughts, ideas and feedback to tamil@auroville.org.in.

If you enjoy reading Vaasal, please consider a small regular contribution to support our costs (A/c no. 102360).

We would particularly love to hear from anyone with layout and/or graphic design skills.

Anbudan (with love only)

__________

Read also: Vaasal – a new magazine in Auroville

Preparations for our next film festival in 2017 have begun. We moved the festival dates to December for 2017, so we more likely can enjoy outdoor screenings without rain disturbances. The 5th Auroville Film Festival will take place December 15 – 22, 2017.

Now a logo is needed. Help us in finding our graphic identity for 2017 and send in your logo proposals. Use the base logo from our website (top left, right-click > save image) and design the new logo integrating the two elements “5th” and “2017“.

E-mail your preview layout to
aurovillefilmfestival [at] auroville.org.in
by July 31st, 2016.

The creator of the selected logo layout will be featured on our website and asked to provide a vector graphic version of the logo. There will be a prize in kind and expressive of the spirit of Auroville.

Presents

A Painting Exhibition

ONE
(A SERIES OF SPIRITUAL PAINTINGS)

BY
APARAJITA BARAI
(New Delhi)

From

Thursday 17th December, 2015 till Thursday 7th January, 2016

Inauguration on Thursday the 17th of December, 2015 at 05:30 P.M
(Refreshments will be served)

 photos by Marco Saroldi

Gallery Timings

9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
(Closed on Sundays and Public Holidays)

All are Welcome

Aparajita Barai is a graphic designer and an Artist. She has graduated from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad

and completed her masters with a distinction from University of Westminster, London. She currently resides with symbols and metaphors from Indian mythology and folklores.

This series is named ONE. It is dedicated to the ONE we are all a part of, to the ONE we will emerge into.

The core essence of the series is to show how this entire Universe is just “many” of the same “one”.

The many gods and goddesses that represent the same one, the gods with their representations when found within ourselves become one with us.

warmly,
Sandjivy & Ramesh

co-ordinators
gallery square circle
kala kendra

…………………………………………………

Gallery Square Circle
Kala Kendra
Centre for Arts
Bharat Nivas
Pavilion of India
Auroville 605 101
Tamil Nadu. India

+91 413 2622 488
gallerysquarecircle@auroville.org.in
kalakendra@auroville.org.in
www.gallerysquarecircle.blogspot.com

Deadline Extended to March 31

Are you passionate about the arts? Do you want to learn about, explore and share amazing work being done by artists? Would you like to design communications material that convinces individuals to support the arts?

We are looking for a Designer (Graphic & Web) who will be the mastermind behind all the creativity that becomes IFA.
India Foundation for the Arts is an independent, national, not-for-profit, professionally managed grant-making organisation based in Bangalore that supports research, practice and education in the arts across the country. Please visit www.indiaifa.org for further information on our mission, objectives and programmes.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conceptualise design and layout for print designs
• Update the website with IFA related current news and events, and work closely with the technical person
• Communicate the work being done by grantees, showcases of projects supported by IFA, and fundraisers and outreach initiatives with the larger field through social media, video and email campaigns
• Conceive and execute campaigns to spread awareness about IFA’s various grant-making programmes
• Conceive and design unique campaigns to help raise funds for the organization
• Liaison with printers and other vendors to supervise the complete process of creating communication materials
• Discuss briefs for new communications material with other IFA staff and work closely with the communications officer to co-produce it
• Demonstrate initiative and ability to work independently and handle multiple tasks
• Be a part of team IFA—contribute through ideas and take responsibilities for additional work as and when required

SKILLS

• Proficiency in design softwares such as Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, CorelDraw, InDesign
• Knowledge of basic HTML/CSS. Additional knowledge of handling CMS systems such as Drupal
• Capacity to document events through photography and video, and create videos for campaigns with basic knowledge of video editing
• Strong written and oral communication capabilities

ELIGIBILITY:

• Excellent knack for rendering information in innovative ways
• An eye for detail with the ability to see the big picture
• The ability to design and develop original concepts
• The ability to work and co-ordinate with various teams
• Experience in producing quality communications material across media
• (print, web, audio-visual etc.)
• An understanding of the arts in India is desirable

LOCATION: Bangalore

REMUNERATION: Between Rs 3.5 to 5.5 lakh per annum depending on the candidate’s skills and relevant years of work experience.

APPLICATION:
Applicants should send a detailed C.V., a cover letter stating their reasons for wanting to work with IFA, and a portfolio of their previous work across media. Please ensure you include in your portfolio, at least some of the following—brochure, poster, emailer, social media material, advertisement/announcement, audio-visual material and website. Preference will be given to people with prior work experience in the non-profit and/or the arts and culture sector.
Send your complete application to contactus@indiaifa.org – any CV received without the above mentioned attachments will not be considered. The deadline for applications is extended to March 31, 2015.
Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed on the telephone and then in person, in Bangalore.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Warmly,

The IFA Team

The title: What is Auroville – Impressions & Expressions. It is an issue entirely made of graphics.

Watch out at the usual places all over Auroville for your free printed copy or read or download right here:

Conquer the concrete – 1st Chennai Street Art Festival

in cooperation with Chennai City Connect

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Deadline:
18.12.2014

Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Chennai & Chennai City Connect with other partners are organizing

CONQUER THE CONCRETE – 1st Chennai Street Art Festival

from 20th January to 7th February 2015 with the participation of 8 outstanding street artists from Germany, USA and India.

We invite artists, students of fine arts, graphic designers, art- colleges, academies, galleries to participate in this project which aims at:
bringing more art and colour to the Chennai urban landscape;
encouraging artists and creative people to participate in the urban development of Chennai;
converting parts of Chennai into attractive public spaces open for everyone;
initiating collaboration between Indian and German urban artists.

Your application should consist of a covering letter with your concrete project plan of Street Art. The location for the project should be in a public space with good visibility. Kindly enclose the following documents along with your application:
a short CV of maximum one page;
photo and address of your selected working space: wall, building façade, foot over bridge, compound wall etc.
written permission from the owners or authorities of your selected working space;
one sample photo of your artistic work, that you are planning e.g. computer simulation, murals or big canvases created before.

Send your application before 18th December 2014 to

info@chennai.goethe.org

or by post to:

The Director, Goethe-Institut Chennai / Max Mueller Bhavan, 4 Rutland Gate 5th Street, Chennai 600 006.
Kindly mention on the cover Call for Application – Street Art Chennai 2015.

A jury of experts will select the best 10 work proposals. For the execution of the selected works Goethe-Institut Chennai / Max Mueller Bhavan and its partners will provide the necessary logistics and working materials like scaffolding, machinery, spray cans, acrylic paints, brushes etc. The selected candidates are welcome to a workshop given by invited artists from Germany and India.