On Beautification | Sindhu Thirumalaisamy - Friday 3rd @ 18.30

Electronic Flora - Carnataca | Simon Torsell Lerin - Saturday 14th @ 20.00

David Bressat Quintet - Friday 13th + Saturday 14th @ 21.30

Marché de Noël - Saturday 14th + Sunday 15th

Spain Flamenco - Tuesday 10th @ 19.00

Boy With A Suitcase | Mike Kenny - Thursday 12th & Friday 13th @ 19.30

Towards the Right to Live Defenceless | Jasmeen Patheja - Wednesday 11th @ 18.30

A breath of Life - Wednesday 4th @ 19.00

Dance on my head - Saturday 7th @ 18.30

Art Park | Meet the artists - Sunday 1st @ 17.00

Hindustani Music - Saturday 14th @ 17.45

And words are whispered - Saturday 30th @ 18.30

AshramMommies | Investors Lounge - Tuesday 26th @ 20.00

Magdalena Emmerig and Yana Thönnes, who are part of THE AGENCY and current bangaloREsidents@Sandbox Collective, have spent the past five weeks researching the topic of commercial surrogacy and Western spiritual tourism in India. AshramMommies is the initial outcome of this research.

 RSVP: ashramommies@gmail.com

Thiefs - Tuesday 26th @ 18.30

India's scientific heritage - Friday 22nd @ 18.00

Managing religious legacies - Friday 22nd @ 18.30

I would rather be a lover than a fighter - Friday 22nd @ 18.30

Gatecrash | Macha Gharibian Trio - Friday 22nd + Saturday 23rd @ 21.30

Prabuddha Dasgupta | A Journey - Saturday 16th @ 17.30

Latin and more jazz - Saturday 16th @ 19.00

Varshikotav | Purbayan Chatterji & Jayateerth Mevundi - Saturday 23rd @ 18.00

Between 3 worlds | Annu Matthew - Saturday 16th @ 18.00

The Ethnographic Turn in Indian Contemporary Art | Mathangi Krishnamurthy - Monday 11th @ 18.30

VAST - Wednesday 13th @ 18.30

Bangalore Literature Festival - Saturday 9th + Sunday 10th

Beautiful gardens and parks, the gulmohar in full bloom, the most salubrious weather – Bengaluru has always inspired creative thinkers and authors. The Bangalore Literature Festival celebrates this creative spirit of the city popular as the Garden City of India and commemorates the literary diversity it offers, bringing it in conversation with the best minds in the world of literature within and outside India.

Founded in 2012, as a non-profit trust, the Bangalore Literature Festival has had seven very successful editions to date with over 700 authors and speakers from India and abroad participating through the years. The founders conceptualized the Festival with the guiding principle of making it a flagship annual literature festival rooted in Bengaluru and with global aspirations and to create a compelling space for engaging and thought provoking discussions on literature and life.

The Festival is India’s largest independent and community-funded literary conclave and Bengaluru city’s flagship annual literary and cultural experience focused on rekindling the romance with literature and fostering fine reading and writing, especially amongst the young population of the city.

http://bangaloreliteraturefestival.org/year-2019/schedule/

Prati - Friday 1st @ 18.30

The Festival of Laughter and Forgetting - from Wednesday 6th to Sunday 10th

3,657 unknown prints | Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai - Saturday 19th @ 18.30

Moving Waters Film Festival - Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th

https://www.goethe.de/ins/in/en/sta/ban/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21680659

Shun Owada | Performance - Friday 17th @ 19.00

This and That | Jayasimha Chandrashekar - Friday 25th @ 19.00

Trio Zadig - Tuesday 29th @ 18.30

A Tale of Two Ateliers - from Saturday 12th

Russell Malone Quartet - Friday 18th + Saturday 19th @ 21.30

Japan Food Fest 2019 - Sunday 24th

Bangalore Literature Festival - Saturday 9th + Sunday 10th

Dot Rasa | Vipin Yadav - Saturday 5th @ 18.30

Languages of resistance in Kashmir - Wednesday 2nd @ 18.30

An Anthology of Drape - Sunday 29th @ 16.00

A vocal advocate for India's design and craft communities, Malika is the Founder of Border&Fall - a strategic and creative agency working with India's leading design talent. In 2017, Border&Fall created and produced ‘The Sari Series: An Anthology of Drape’, a cultural digital documentation of India’s regional sari drapes.
 
This non-profit project includes over 80 how-to drape films and 3 independent art films. Launched in the fall of 2017, this free digital resource documents the various regional sari drapes of India through a short film. Since its release, it has been viewed over 1 million times online, and across exhibitions including 'Items: Is Fashion Modern?' (Museum of Modern Art 2018) and is online at Google Arts and Culture. Malika will take the audience through the creation of the project, focused on future cultural narratives of the sari and its drape.  
 
Created with the lead patronage of Good Earth and additional support from Verve, Raw Mango and Kickstarter, the creative team for this project includes the visions of its Producer/Creative Director, Malika Verma Kashyap; Sari Advisor, Rta Kapur Chishti & team; Filmmakers Bon Duke, Pooja Kaul and Q; Associate Creative Directors Rashmi Varma and Deep Kailey, along with the advisory of Sunitha Kumar Emmart and Sanjay Garg.

About Abha Dalmia: Abha Dalmia has been a pioneer in the revival of woven textiles in the region of Varanasi. Her traditional Benarsi sarees bespeak cultural heritage.  Her main forte is interesting blends of fabrics in the form of brocades, tanchois , silk organzas and georgettes. She has also revived the multi layered ghagras (lehenga) in the form of kalis In the numerous looms that she owns , her only concentration is experimenting with the ancient patterns and fusing it with a modern blend so that they can be accepted today. Her colour palette is a blend of all the colours of nature with its vibrant hues.

Malika Verma Kashyap

Founder of Border & Fall

A vocal advocate for India’s design and craft communities, Malika is the Founder of Border&Fall – a strategic and creative agency working with India’s leading design talent. In 2017, she created and produced ‘The Sari Series: An Anthology of Drape’, a cultural digital documentation of India’s regional sari drapes.

Malika moved to India from Canada a decade ago with extensive experience across fashion brand management, sales and retail operations. Previous work experiences include National Retail Operations Manager for Tommy Hilfiger India, and Brand Manager at Filippa K. A contributing writer for publications including Vogue India, Architectural Digest and Freund von Freunden, she has spoken at The Jaipur Literature Festival and Bhutan Mountain Echoes Literary Festival. She is an Advisory Board member of Lucknow’s Kalhath Institute and was on the 2017 MoMA Advisory Council for ‘Items: Is Fashion Modern?’.

Fabula | Dharti Patodia - Wednesday 4th @ 19.00

A Muslim in the midst - 28th August @ 19.30

On September 14, 2001, three days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York, a drama unfolds on the streets of Bangalore. A poor Muslim couple Haneef and Shabana have just arrived in the city from a distant village. Desperate to reach a relative’s home in a distant suburb, they are struggling to find a ride late in the night. Watching them closely is a Hindu couple, both executives of American companies. The liberal and westernized executive couple offer to take the traditional and rural Muslim couple along. The conversation quickly takes an unexpected turn as the two worlds collide. Fueled by a pro and anti-Islamic rhetoric, and warnings about potential terror threats intermittently playing on the radio, the characters fight within their self-imposed confines of prejudice and fear, in their attempts to look beyond the obvious ideological differences, and unravel a common fellowship based on humanity.

@ Ranga Shankara

Old Man and the sea - Sunday 8th @ 15.30 + 19.30

Sound As Ornament | Daliah Ziper - Friday 16th @ 18.30

The Magic Making | KG Subramanyam - Friday 16th @ 17.00

Kathak Duet Performance - Saturday 17th @ 17.00

Treshold - Thursday 15th @ 18.00

Gender Bender 2019 - from Wednesday 21st to Saturday 24th

Gender Bender is a joint project of the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and Sandbox Collective. The project is conceived, conceptualised, and curated by Sandbox Collective.

Gender Bender is an arts festival that showcases diverse kinds of art around gender, sexuality and identity. These range from installations, music, and documentaries to interactive art experiences. Every year, artists all over the world are invited to apply for a trigger grant with new ideas for  projects on gender. 10 applicants to whom the grant is awarded showcase their work, or a segment of it, at the festival.  In addition to showcasing the work of grantees, this year’s festival includes an exciting range of curated displays, performances, and talks. There are photography exhibits, lecture-demonstrations, a stand-up show, Feminist and Queer pop up libraries, a talk on women in comics, a workshop on zine making and much, much more. Gender Bender 2019 promises to be a colourful, exciting and celebratory exploration of gender and art. Schedule: 21 Aug | 7:30m | Inaugural Act: Gender Bender | Who You Callin’ A Lady? | An evening with stand-up comedian Vasu Primlani 22 Aug | 12:00 onwards | Opening of Grantee Showcase   22 Aug | 6:00pm-7:00pm | Women in Comics: A Talk by Kadak Collective  22 Aug | 7:30pm | In Search of Umrao: Exploring Desires and Destinies  23 Aug | 11:00am-5:00pm | Zine Workshop with Kadak Collective  23 Aug | 6:00pm | Talk on Feminist Literature 23 Aug | 6:30pm | Shuddh Digital Romance 23 Aug | 9:00pm | Raqs-e-Bender: An Evening of Fluid Movement with Eshan Hilal 24 Aug | 6:00pm | Talk on Queer Literature 24 Aug | 7:30pm | Movie Screening: Body Electric More : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s1n_ACMPSVWhcCZZptkst684M6WHtmVz/view

The Ethics of Engineering in Amīr Khusrow’s “The Alexandrine Mirror” - Wednesday 14th @ 18.30

It is a remarkable fact about Amir Khusrow (d.1325) – India’s best-known Persian-language poet, courtier to successive Delhi Sultans and the most famous devotee of the Sufi saint Nizamuddin Awliya – that his Persian poetry is as little known in South Asia today as the Hindavi verse attributed to him is well-known thanks to qawwali singing and oral legends linking him to the origins of Hindustani music. This talk will introduce listeners to Khusrow’s life and works before leading them into an exploration of one of his long Persian poems, The Alexandrine Mirror, where he re-tells the life of Alexander of Macedon. With illustrations of the poem from later Mughal manuscripts as well as verse translations of passages from the poem and some of his ghazals, we will ask why and how Khusrow told the life of Alexander as a lesson in the ethics of technology; and why he adapted for this purpose a tale from the Yoga-Vāsiṣṭha, the key Advaitic text in his milieu. http://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/the-ethics-of-engineering-in-amir-khusrows-the-alexandrine-mirror/

A Night at the Opera - Saturday 10th @ 18.00

The Bangalore Men, in collaboration with pianists and soloists, present “A Night at the Opera” – a concert of arias, duets, trios and choruses from some of the most beloved operas, such as Carmen, The Magic Flute, Tosca and The Flying Dutchman. Come join us on a journey into the world of enchanted woods, magic flutes, love, hate and death; all vital ingredients to create the world of opera! For ninety minutes, we will together explore this art form, which has been a pillar of Western classical music for centuries.

Accompanying us on this journey, we have guest artists Payal John (soprano), Anisha Chandy (soprano) and Tanisha Herbert Rozario (mezzo-soprano); and at the grand piano two of the country’s most eminent pianists- Ms Rebecca Thomas Colaco and Mr Shantanu Patel.

http://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/a-night-at-the-opera/