Performers – Alok, Reenu Pal, Sunita Rai, Vikas Garg
Duration – 40 minutes
Language – Non Verbal
Free entry – donations encouraged

– Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th July 2025
– 7.30 PM
– Cripa, Auroville
– (+91) 9085483056 & (+91) 9910023888

Featured Performers: Ananya, Maeva, Dhiman Max, Iam Wui, Simran, Leela, Moeni, Mohini Raquel, Juan Andres, Varun, Anushka

The flute of Krishna is the symbol of love. He mesmerised the people around him with the enchanting music and tunes.

It is sometimes the source of love and joy, sometimes creating jealousy and sometimes used as a weapon too. The flute represents the human heart that is used by the almighty to play his tunes upon.

Namita Bodaji and her students of Samskara Academy of Fine Arts take you on this enchanting journey of Krishna’s magic flute.

Performers: Namita Bodaji, Devashree Vora, Shikha Mehta

for enquiries: LALIT VERMA www.aurodhan.com

33, Francois Martin Street, Kuruchikuppam, Pondicherry 605001 Ph: 0413 2222795/2222449 Email: manager@aurodhan.com

https://www.sangeetnatak.gov.in/artist

A workshop on study as a dialogic and reciprocal process of collective reflection/performance by Sanchayan Ghosh

The ‘Presence as Absence’ workshop is part of a long-term set of engagements by Ghosh, who has been investigating the role of study within contemporary practice and pedagogy. Emerging from the proposition that study can be “a process of critical engagement and working together” the workshop will foreground dialogical and reciprocal engagements between the workshop participants, with each bringing their own personal histories, experiences and memories, to set the context for study. The workshop will focus on two aspects of study – the representation of the body and the use of light.

Part 1 of the workshop will include theatre exercises that will let individual participants explore their cultural and social memory in reference to sound, body and gesture.

Part 2 of the workshop will work with light using the method of shadow casting on silkscreens, which engages with the relationship between urban light, photosensitive pigment, time and space.

This project by Sanchayan Ghosh has been invited by the CPB3 curatorial team as part of the upcoming biennale “Maps of Disquiet”.

Logistics:

• When – Monday, 18 October 2021 – Sunday, 24 October 2021 
• Workshop Part `1 – 10 AM – 5 PM, 18 – 20 October 2021 
• Workshop Part `2 – 11 AM – 8 PM , 21 – 24 October 2021 
• Venue – Goethe-Institut Chennai (Final details to be confirmed)
• Registrations – To apply to participate in this workshop we invite you to share your CV along with a Statement of Interest (max.200 words) on why you want to participate in this workshop.  Application Form here
• Deadline to apply – 5 October 2021. Since this workshop can only be developed with a small group there are a limited number of seats available. 

Requirements:

• Any multidisciplinary artist across India interested in exploring body and form can apply. 
• The workshop is free and open for everyone above 18 years of age by application only. There will be no fee for participation. 
• You will need to present in Chennai on the workshop dates if you are selected. Accommodation, travel and food expenses to be managed by self. 
• Those selected will need to attend all 7 days of the workshop compulsorily.

Please feel free to write to us if you have any questions at priya@chennaiphotobiennale.com 

https://chennaiphotobiennale.com/updates/23/PresenceasAbsence

Important note: All materials for the workshop will be provided by the organisers. Participants will be required to follow masking mandates at the venue during the period of the workshop.

A workshop on study as a dialogic and reciprocal process of collective reflection/performance by Sanchayan Ghosh

The ‘Presence as Absence’ workshop is part of a long-term set of engagements by Ghosh, who has been investigating the role of study within contemporary practice and pedagogy. Emerging from the proposition that study can be “a process of critical engagement and working together” the workshop will foreground dialogical and reciprocal engagements between the workshop participants, with each bringing their own personal histories, experiences and memories, to set the context for study. The workshop will focus on two aspects of study – the representation of the body and the use of light.

Part 1 of the workshop will include theatre exercises that will let individual participants explore their cultural and social memory in reference to sound, body and gesture.

Part 2 of the workshop will work with light using the method of shadow casting on silkscreens, which engages with the relationship between urban light, photosensitive pigment, time and space.

This project by Sanchayan Ghosh has been invited by the CPB3 curatorial team as part of the upcoming biennale “Maps of Disquiet”.

Logistics:

• When – Monday, 18 October 2021 – Sunday, 24 October 2021 
• Workshop Part `1 – 10 AM – 5 PM, 18 – 20 October 2021 
• Workshop Part `2 – 11 AM – 8 PM , 21 – 24 October 2021 
• Venue – Goethe-Institut Chennai (Final details to be confirmed)
• Registrations – To apply to participate in this workshop we invite you to share your CV along with a Statement of Interest (max.200 words) on why you want to participate in this workshop.  Application Form here
• Deadline to apply – 5 October 2021. Since this workshop can only be developed with a small group there are a limited number of seats available. 

Requirements:

• Any multidisciplinary artist across India interested in exploring body and form can apply. 
• The workshop is free and open for everyone above 18 years of age by application only. There will be no fee for participation. 
• You will need to present in Chennai on the workshop dates if you are selected. Accommodation, travel and food expenses to be managed by self. 
• Those selected will need to attend all 7 days of the workshop compulsorily.

Please feel free to write to us if you have any questions at priya@chennaiphotobiennale.com 

https://chennaiphotobiennale.com/updates/23/PresenceasAbsence

Important note: All materials for the workshop will be provided by the organisers. Participants will be required to follow masking mandates at the venue during the period of the workshop.

THE PEACEMAKERS by Karl Jenkins

Auroville Choir, Youth Choir and Instrumental Ensemble presenting a selection of songs extolling Peace

Friday 17th and Saturday 18th of February,

at 8.00 pm at Bharat Nivas Auditorium

For reserving your seat on either the 17th or the 18th of February

please write to bharatnivas@auroville.org.in.

Please come on time and be seated before 8.00 pm so as not to disturb the performers.

Please keep in mind that the number of seats is limited, therefore we beseech you to not make more reservations than you need.

In this series we’ll explore how to embody words, story and imagery through our body. For performers or non-performers, we will draw elements of physical theatre from Grotowski, corporeal mime, clown and others to play, learn and express ourselves. Through this series we will learn and explore ideas and techniques that can be used both to work with pre-existing scripts, or help you in creating your own!

time:
January and February, Tuesdays 2-4 pm

place:
CRIPA

For more info and to sign up, please call or email Kaeridwyn at 7639225831, or dwyndle@gmail.com