Thursday, July 19, 2012

To do list


PLAYS

Indo-French Theatre Festival

Saturday 21st July at 15.00 & 19.00
Home Bound & Woman in Red
Duration : approx. 120 min.
Tickets : free
Director . Akshat Arora and Sonalika Dugar & Pragati Siddhanti and Abhishek Jain

Sunday 22nd July at 15.00 & 19.00
Rajdhani
Duration : approx. 60 min.
Tickets : free
Director . Siddhartha Jose and Murtuza Khetty

Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th July at 19.00
A Miner Scam
Duration : approx. 60 min.
Tickets : free
Director . Srividya Srinivas and Abhishek Sundaravadanan

Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th July at 19.00
Moliere Tonight
Duration : approx. 60 min.
Tickets : free
Director . Priya Venkatesh, Padmaja Nagarur and Priya Rao


Alliance Française, 108 Thimmaiah Road, Vasanthnagar. Tel.: 4123 1340. www.afindia.org

Saturday 21st July at 15.30 & 19.30
Anecdotes and Allegories by Gulbadan Begum
Duration : approx. 90 min.
Tickets : Rs 200
Director . Anurupa Roy

This performance uses miniature puppets of three and five inches, paper sets, spy cameras, Mughal miniature paintings and shadow puppets in a unique blend.

Sunday 22nd July at 15.30 & 19.30
Duck, Death and Tulip
Duration : approx. 60 min.
Tickets : Rs 200
Director . Jeorg Lehmann

The production was one of the ten most notable German children's theater productions in Berlin in 2009.


Ranga Shankara, 36/2 23rd Main, 8th Cross, JP Nagar 2nd phase (next to post office). Tel. 2659 2777. www.rangashankara.org

Sunday 22nd July at 19.30
Star Spangled Girl
Duration : approx. 100 min.
Tickets : Rs 100
Director . Syed Inamullah

The story is a love triangle, mixed with politics. Andy and Norman are radicals who barely make a living working on their magazine, Fallout, which is dedicated to fighting "the system" in America. Sophie, a former Olympic swimmer, is an all-American, Southern girl who moves into the apartment next door.


Seva Sadan Auditorium, 14th Cross, West Park Road, Opposite MLA College, Malleswaram. Tel. 23347830.

Friday 27th at 19.30 and Saturday 28th July at 15.30 & 19.30
Piip and Tuut at Concert
Duration : approx. 55 min.
Tickets : Rs 200
Director . NA

Piip and Tuut are clown characters performed by two actors Haide Männamäe and Toomas Tross from Estonia.


Ranga Shankara, 36/2 23rd Main, 8th Cross, JP Nagar 2nd phase (next to post office). Tel. 2659 2777. www.rangashankara.org

Friday 27th and Saturday 28th July
Some times
Duration : approx. 120 min.
Tickets : NA
Director . NA

Paramjit Singh Duggal aka Pammi aka Doggie aka Parmeetay has problems bigger than his pet names. Though he prefers calling them issues. His mother wants grandchildren. His father wants communism. His boss wants way too much and pays too little. His girlfriend wants love, which is a concept he is not too familiar with. And he owes a mysterious man called Joseph some money. But he has his friends...


Jagriti Theatre, Varthur Rd, Whitefield, Tel. 28475373, www.jagrititheatre.com


Sunday 5th August at 16.30 & 18.30
The Forest
Duration : approx. 60 min.
Tickets : Rs 200
Director . Puja Goyal

This is the story of the last remains of a place called, THE FOREST. The people in the Forest, called the Foresters have grown listening to stories of humans. They believe humans are extinct; till they come across a little girl called Mandy who is going to her grandmother's house.


J.S.S. Auditorium, No.3, 38th Cross, 3rd Main, 8th Block, Jayanagar. Tel. 2664 4540.

ART EXHIBITIONS

From Friday 20th July to Wednesday 8th August
The Print Spot Light

A group exhibition of prints


Inauguration : Friday 20th July at 18.00


Gallery Five Forty Five, 545, 6th Main Road, 4th Cross, Indiranagar Stage II. Tel. 98860 50563.

From Saturday 21st July to Sunday 5th August
Before. After ?

An exhibition of cartoons to put a smile on every animal's face.


Inauguration : Saturday 21st July at 11.30


Indian Cartoon Gallery, no 1 Milford House, Milford Garden, off MG Road, Near Big Kid's Kemp, Trinity Circle. Tel. 4175 8540


MUSIC

Friday 20th July at 20.30
The Family Cheeze
Duration : NA
Tickets : NA

Bluesy progressive jazz rock


B-Flat, 776, 100 feet road, Indiranagar (above ING Bank). Tel. 25278361

DANCE

Thursday 2nd August at 19.30

Rhythm of Life
Duration : Approx. 90 min.
Tickets : free (pick up your invite from the Alliance Française)

By the Brigham Young University Contemporary Dance Theatre


Chowdiah Memorial Hall, Gayathri Devi Park Extension, 16th Cross, Malleswaram.

MOVIES

Sunday 22nd July at 11.30
Bullit
Duration : approx. 90 min.
Tickets : Free

The first cop thriller with a seminal car chase scene that has now been copied and done to death.


Jagriti Theatre, Varthur Rd, Whitefield, Tel. 28475373, www.jagrititheatre.com


Saturday 28nd July at 11.30
Chitty chitty bang bang
Duration : approx. 90 min.
Tickets : Free

Based on an Ian Fleming novel and scripted by Roald Dahl - need we say more?


Jagriti Theatre, Varthur Rd, Whitefield, Tel. 28475373, www.jagrititheatre.com


Sunday 29th July at 18.00
Intouchables
Duration : approx. 113 min.
Tickets : From Rs 175

The most comic and touching tale of friendship between the two most improbable people. Based on a true story, this movie is about a rich quadriplegic, living in a mansion in Paris, requires a live-in carer. A young offender turns up for an interview, but he is not really looking to get the job. However, to his surprise, he is hired.


Alliance Française, 108 Thimmaiah Road, Vasanthnagar. Tel.: 4123 1340. www.afindia.org

OTHERS

Friday 20th July at 19.00
Perception. Relation. Action.

By Vera Maeder, Jaaga Artist in Residence. A sharing of Hello!Earth work and approach with video traces and experiences of past projects in Brazil, Copenhagen and Jerusalem and recent experiments  in Bangalore.


Jaaga, No 68, KH Double Road, Opp. Coporation Bank, Next to the K H Road Bus Stand, www.jaaga.com


Saturday 21st July at 16.30
Ram Kinkar Baij and the Beginning of Modern Sculpture in India

A talk by Annapurna Garimella at the occasion of the Ram Kinkar Baij's exhibition.


National Gallery of Modern Art, Manikyavelu Mansion, 49, Palace Road, Tel. 2234 2338. http://www.ngmaindia.gov.in

Sunday 29th July from 10.00 to 17.30
Writing for the Arts

A day seminar with journalists and critics


National Gallery of Modern Art, Manikyavelu Mansion, 49, Palace Road, Tel. 2234 2338. http://www.ngmaindia.gov.in

Saturday 28th July at 17.00
Talks by South Asian Artists :

Sanctuary and Defiance : contemporary art from Pakistan by Salima Hashmi
My Journey as a Witness : An insight into the evolution of contemporary photography by Shahidul Alam (Bangladesh)


National Gallery of Modern Art, Manikyavelu Mansion, 49, Palace Road, Tel. 2234 2338. http://www.ngmaindia.gov.in

FOR THE TRAVELLERS …

Till Sunday 16th September

dOCUMENTA (13)

A city transformed into an art scene !



Kassel (Germany)

STILL TIME TO SEE …

Till Saturday 4th August

Wishes
A solo exhibition of Water color paintings by Samir Mondal.

Gallery Sumukha, 24/10 BTS Depot Road, Wilson Garden. Tel. 2229 2230. www.sumukha.com


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