Tag: live

Special Evening on Saturday the 21/1

Well Café is happy to invite you all for a Special Evening on Saturday the 21/1 7.00 pm: Dinner 8.00 pm – 10 pm: Lefteris and friends – live music. Lefteris Grigoriou is a Greek Musician visiting Auroville with his family. After studying music around the globe, especially in Africa, he runs his djembe and […]

Upcoming Events at Solitude Farm

Open Mic Calling all closet, amateur and professional musicians, singers, writers, poets, dancers, and performers! Our stage and hearts are open, please come together for an evening of delightful sharing On Tuesday December 27, 7 pm onwards at Solitude Farm Cafe. If you’d like to participate, please call Shachi: 98200 92126. Dinner and desserts available […]

Making Nets of Peace Through Images

Requirements: Students of Secondary Schools Age : 15 to 18 years old Subject : The Cultural Heritage, material and no material. The natural environment where you live. Send  :minimum 5 photos- maximum 10 . CRITERIA  for SELECTION : Quality, creativity, name of the photo and epigraph   Last day for submission : December the 10th. […]

“Art as a Mirror” TEDx Talk Livestream with Krupa

  Dear all, Some great news that my talk in the TEDx Wilmington Women event this coming Thursday, October 27th will be live-streamed around the world from the link below. Please tune in between 8-9 am EST (I am the second speaker in this first session) to hear/see my talk, and if not, it will […]

An Evening of Documentary Films

Aurodhan Galleries Pondicherry Presents at 8.15 pm on 21st October on 33 rue Francois martin An Evening of Documentary Films by award winning British Filmmaker Ruhi Hamid Ruhi Hamid, a graduate of the Royal College of Art, London directs with visual flair and sensitivity to make beautiful, intimate and insightful award winning films. Ruhi’s interest […]

Postcard Homage to Mani-da

from TASMAI: Postcard Homage to Mani-da (K.G.Subramayan) Among Mani-da’s many adorable habits was to respond to every letter he received with a handwritten letter – often with a little sketch or doodle. Every New Year he sent hand-drawn postcards to his friends and students. I am not sure how many of us reciprocated his wonderful […]

two poems by Rod Hemsell

I sat within the lotus today, its petals were perfectly pink and white, its pillars stood in their fathomless glow supporting the hemisphere of heaven; one could see the form of the Idea engendering the body of Time, swirling into birth from the silence, filling our lives with grace and beauty sublime.   Rod Hemsell […]

Rainbow III – exhibition by Nurten Sozeri

Kala Kendra – Center for Arts in Bharat Nivas – The Pavilion of India presents RAINBOW III (an exhibition of paintings) by Nurten Sozeri, Turkey NEITHER GOOD, NOR BAD HAVE EVER TASTED. THEREFORE WARS, THEREFORE PAIN, THEREFORE DUALITY HAVE EVER BEEN EXPERIENCED. FOR A WORLD WHERE ONLY LOVE & FREEDOM EXIST….. About the Artist Nurten […]

Andes by Jacky

Photos by Jacky for Deva Image Aurelec Cafeteria & Art gallery open from 8 am to 5 pm In the fall of 2014, photographer and educator Jacky, led a group of students on a three-month expedition through Bolivia and Peru. Trekking through diverse and rich landscapes, they visited sacred sites and lived with indigenous tribes […]

Mountain of Light – Arunachala

KALA KENDRA – Centre for Arts, BHARAT NIVAS – The Pavilion of India Presents Mountain of Light – Arunachala A photographic homage to the sacred hill and its devotees in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu by DEV GOGOI Dev Gogoi is the author of “Arunachala Mountain of Light”, a monograph of photographs that received an Honorable Mention […]

My Autopsy

MY AUTOPSY A riveting dark poetic comedy, with original music A compelling search for the truth of life and death Written and Performed by Hamish Boyd* Directed by Fif Fernandes* Saturday, January 9 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm Adishakti Theatre Edayanchavadi Road Free admission My Autopsy, is an autobiographical self-evisceration, merging eastern and western philosophy, […]

Kiritan Flux & Chloé Sanchez

brainfever media productions proudly presents Kiritan Flux & Chloé Sanchez performing live together! FRIDAY, 18.12.2015 @ 8 p.m. in MMC / CINEMA PARADISO (see video & photos of the performance below) flux [flûks], n. Lat. fluxus, fluo, fluxi. 1. The act of flowing; the motion or passing of a fluid. 2. The moving or passing […]

Calligraphy is meditation, not just decorative writing

from an article in PuneMirror: In town for a special workshop on Japanese calligraphy, accomplished artist Jyoti Naoki Eri speaks about the transformative powers of the art and how it can depict deep emotions aesthetically Calligraphy, the evocative art of decorative writing, is something we all know as a craft of the past. But, for […]

Market Interactions at Tasmai Gallery

MARKET INTERACTIONS a solo show by Efrat Attias (artist in residence from Israel) A display of works done in Pondicherry during the one month residency at Tasmai and a tête-à-tête with the artist on the 5th April, 2015, Sunday from 4 p.m onwards Efrat Attias’ work is a series of portrait paintings, representing Pondicherry’s fruit […]

Auroville Festival website launched

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 […]

Deepam celebration

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 […]

Henk sends news from Poland

Aurovilian sculptor Henk van Putten is sending news from Poland: REDUCTIVE EXHIBITION curated by Roland de Jong Orlando. The Indian transporter managed it to deliver my works with a delay of exactly three months: My sculptures arrived at the tenth of August due to incorrect documents. The Polish customs are severe as everywhere. But now […]

Chloe Sanchez

Chloe travels between Auroville and France where she composes sounds for performing art, radio and documentary. Producer and director for Radio France (French National Radio), she has also created the Hand Made Radio Art (Collective Labo-radiophonic live performance). In September 2013 she joined the composition class of electroacoustic music at the Experimental Music Conservatory of […]

Shakti Balu

I live in a place of unending education. Therefore there could be no particular description or name of our activities. Everything we Aurovilians do is for getting experience, and to grow towards the ideal. What is my ideal? In few words to become someone worth of subtle and radiant expressions of the divine light, someone […]