Tag: poetry

Webinar: Discovering Sri Aurobindo – 6 November

In Search of Musical and Artistic Expression for Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry Presentation by Shakti Balu, Varun Rao, Antoine Colombani, Jyoti Khare Composing musical and artistic visual impressions on the spiritual Poetry of Sri Aurobindo is a creative and illuminating experience.In this session we shall share them with the audience. When: 7:30-8:30pm IST, 10:00-11:00am EST, 6 […]

Online Screening: Apausalypse

Apausalypse, Directed by Anni Ólafsdóttir and Andri Snær Magnason. Set in an unprecedented moment of global stillness, Apausalypse follows artists and thinkers in Iceland as they interpret a world gripped by the pandemic. Through dance, poetry, music, and visual art, they reflect on the possibilities for transformation that are held within this great pause. This […]

Webinar: Discovering Sri Aurobindo – 6 November

In Search of Musical and Artistic Expression for Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry Presentation by Shakti Balu, Varun Rao, Antoine Colombani, Jyoti Khare Composing musical and artistic visual impressions on the spiritual Poetry of Sri Aurobindo is a creative and illuminating experience.In this session we shall share them with the audience. When: 7:30-8:30pm IST, 10:00-11:00am EST, 6 […]

Video: The India They Saw – Four Poets in Four Languages

This Independence Day, we bring to you glimpses of an India as envisioned by four of our greatest poets – Mahakavi Subramania Bharathi, Dr Shivmangal Singh ‘Suman’, Dr Sa. Shi. Marulayya and Mahakavi Vallathol Narayana Menon. The poetry, in four languages – Tamil, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam – is laid on a rhythmic konnakol base, […]

Documentary Films: Four Films and Online Premiere

Emergence Magazine brings you this week: Four Films from the Emergence archives International Online Premiere by Emergence of the new feature documentary film Apausalypse, directed by Anni Ólafsdóttir and Andri Snær Magnason. Utuqaq by Iva Radivojević is an extended meditation on the sentience of the land, told from the perspective of the deep and boundless silence of Arctic ice. Watch […]

Performance: ‘Shakti’, 31 March

Bharat Nivas Presents Feminine Energy – 4 aspects of the Divine Mother ‘Celebrating the Feminine’ Closing Ceremony of Women’s Arts Expression When: 8pm, 31 March 2021 Where: Swachu, Bharat Nivas

Performance: ‘Shakti’, 31 March

Bharat Nivas Presents Feminine Energy – 4 aspects of the Divine Mother ‘Celebrating the Feminine’ Closing Ceremony of Women’s Arts Expression When: 8pm, 31 March 2021 Where: Swachu, Bharat Nivas

AuroFilm Screening: “DEVI” – THE GODDESS – 12 March

Multi Media Centre Auditorium (MMC, Town Hall) Presents “DEVI” – THE GODDESS Directed by Satyajit RAY, India,1960 With: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Chhabi Biswas Music by:  Ustad Ali Akbar Khan Synopsis: Devi “The Goddess” is based on a short story by Provatkumar Mukhopadhyay. In 19th-century rural Bengal, a young woman, Doyamoyee, is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, Kalikinkar, a rich […]

Workshop: Natyashastra – 1-10 March

Tantrotsava 2021 presents Natyashastra Workshop with Sooraj Nambiar and Navtej Singh Johar Connections: Hands, Eyes & Characterisation with Sooraj Nambiar When: 10:30am – 1:30pm, 1 – 5 March 2021 Sooraj Nambiar is a Kutiyattam practitioner, disciple of the legendary Guru Ammannur Madhava Chakyar. He is a well-known performer and trainer.We deeply explore the connection between […]

LIMINAL SPACE – ART FOR LAND 2021, Upcoming Events

ACRES FOR AUROVILLE, UNITY PAVILION & AV ARTS invite you to this week’s                 « LIMINAL SPACE » – ART FOR LAND 2021                  exhibition & fundraiser for Auroville’s landART FOR LAND 2021 continues on with its 4th great week of the “Liminal Space” Art Exhibition with 8 don’t-miss fundraising events (see all our posters at […]

Feather: Poetry by Anu Majumdar

day begins from the rim of night breaking free from its darkness, straying far from the bulge of catastrophe where only words without desire are warm when spoken. yet a day must have its silence even as the waterfront clamours for attention. but when hours begin looping on butterfly wings magicians fly first class. today […]

Remembering Astad: By Tapas

While working at the Indian Embassy, in Paris, Tapas Bhatt met Astad Deboo at an International Dance Competition and invited him to Auroville to perform at the Sri Aurobindo Auditorium. Astad became a regular visiting guest in Auroville and we were fortunate to see his magnificent whirling piece set to Tagore’s poem, a slow, swirling […]

Beyond the Night: Poetry by Anu Majumdar

we will follow the evidence of the sun through the last dark crevice, in voices that rise beyond fire till no lies haunt the night. we will reach that distance where the smallest deceit will ache with no more thresholds to stand on… Read full >