Soundscapes & intallations - Saturday 31st @ 19.00

Kaaga Weekends - from Saturday 31st

Michael Kenna - Friday 30th @ 18.30

Hand Block Printing Workshop - from Tuesday 27th to Friday 6th

India is a place well known for its beautiful hand-woven fabrics, rich embroidery designs and colourful patterns. Traditional techniques are still used to create these fabrics, notably the famous textiles of rural Rajasthan and Gujarat that are still printed by hand using wooden blocks. Brands such as Anokhi and Fab India, as well as a number of designers, have revived this technique and created lovely outfits.

Learn to design and create wonderful patterns with the technique of hand block printing on paper and cloth. Students will use wooden blocks and dyes to create designs. For 12 years and older only. Materials will be provided, but at a later stage of the workshop, students will have to bring a white cotton cloth.

Cost: Rs. 2,800.

Write to Pooja Gokul at poojavirgo1@gmail.com to register.

One on one - Sunday 25th @ 15.30 & 19.30

Voices of the Waters | International travelling film festival 2013 - from Thursday 29th to Sunday 1st

Namma ooru - Namma neeru
Voices from the Waters International Traveling Film Festival 2013 - 8th Edition

From 29th August to 1st September 2013

Bangalore Film Society and Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan invite you to the 8th edition of Voices from the Waters International Traveling Film Festival 2013. The Festival will take place simultaneously in Gothenburg, Sweden. And will travel across India through film society circuits as well as media and educational institutions, before moving to locations abroad.

Inauguration: Thursday 29th @ 17.00 - NGMA
Inaugural Film: Damocracy by Todd Southgate

Voices from the Waters will be inaugurated by Rajendra Singh popularly known as 'Jal Purush' or 'Waterman' of Rajasthan and Himanshu Thakkar, water activist, currently coordinator of South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People and editor of "Dams, Rivers & People"

The Festival is open to all and there is no entry fee for any of the events.

For further details, call 9845055034 or visit www.voicesfromthewaters.com; www.goethe.de/bangalore.

The documentary films will be screened at 3 venues:
National Gallery of Modern Art | Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan | Christ University

A forgotten carpentry lesson | Sunoj D - Saturday 31st @ 19.00

Malhar | Bhimsen Joshi Sangeet Mahotsav - Sunday 1st @ 18.00

Sangeet Utsav | Indian classical music - Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th

C Sharp C Blunt - Saturday 17th @ 19.30 & Sunday 18th @ 15.30 & 19.30

She is an App. The Singer App. Attractive, user friendly and very efficient. According to a recent survey she is projected to be the most downloaded App in 2013. Flinntheater will run a Betatest of the App on August 16th and 17th in Rangashankara.

In C sharp C blunt, director Sophia Stepf from Berlin and singer actor MD Pallavi from Bangalore, have invited co-conspirators to create a piece of interrogation into what it means to be a professional woman in the entertainment industry today.

In her first ever solo performance, MD Pallavi takes us through this funny, sarcastic and political rendition of the latest App in the market. Come and exclusively meet the creators of the App - the body, the voice and the programmer.

Bring your smartphones, leave them on and use the App.

Flowers - Saturday 24th @ 15.30 & Sunday 25th @ 19.30

The play is a dramatic monologue about a devoted and pious priest who violates both his ‘dharma’ and his ‘bhakti’ because of his love for a courtesan. Torn between his love for his God and his love for Chandravati, between his duty to the king and his duty to his wife, the priest tells the story of his life after matters have come to a head and all his loves and duties collide on a single night. Girish Karnad takes a folk tale about the human condition and refreshes it with a contemporary sensibility that embraces love, loyalty and honour.

The Illegal Alliens - Saturday 17th @ 20.30

The Open Couple - Saturday 17th @ 19.30 (and Sunday 18th @ 15.00 & 18.30 at Jagriti)

Autumn Muse - Sunday 18th @ 19.00

Tribute to the era of vinyl - Saturday 17th @ 21.00

The Beatles | Mad Orange Fireworks - Saturday 10th @ 21.00

Analog Power - Sunday 18th from 10.00 to 18.00

Blues Conscience - Friday 9th @ 20.30

Tale of Haruk - Saturday 17th @ 19.30

Tale of Haruk deals with a story which could be the same old story — not in the same old ways but in a unique, different way. The beautiful world which Tuida has created will attract adults as well as children.

 

There once lived an old couple. There was no one else except them and they were lonely. They prayed for a child. One day, the Spirit of the Tree gave the old couple a child whose name was Haruk. They were very happy and did everything they could for Haruk. But they never gave the boy cooked rice because the Spirit of the Tree had forbidden it. Haruk grew up rapidly. One day, Haruk wanted to eat cooked rice and begged for it. Helplessly, the old couple gave him some. As soon as he ate it, Haruk started to feel extremely hungry. He felt as if he was starving. He began to eat the things in the house. The more he ate, the more terribly hungry he felt. He left home and started to eat everything in the world. But nothing could stop Haruk from feeling hurngy. Tired with hunger and loneliness, Haruk retuned home. He missed the old couple but he could not see them because his body had become too big. Finally, the old couple gave their bodies to Haruk to soothe his hunger. 

In Korean with English sub-titles

The Djinns of Eidgah | Abhishek Majumdar - Friday 16th @ 19.30

There are certain conversations that usually remain unresolved, especially when dealing with the kind of polarities that make up the brutal narrative of latter-day Kashmir. The answers are always obfuscated. There is that imminent choosing of sides that is considered to be in order. This is something that a new play appears to carefully sidestep (at first), dealing instead with the emotional toll of living in a war-zone-where war is waged in the name of peacekeeping-and of what we have all lost in the process, if indeed there can be a 'we', either in terms of a nation, or in kinship of a universal kind. Abhishek Majumdar's play THE DJINNS OF EIDGAH delves into the human condition masterfully, and his powerful writing is beautifully realised on stage by its director, Richard Twyman.

Sic, a w.i.p - Thursday 8th & Friday 9th @ 19.30

The play takes place in the doorways and shared hallway of three neighboring apartments. Theo -the amusement park music composer,Babette - the ever broke writer and Frank - the queer, aspiring auctioneer trudge through the biting emptiness of big city life. They discuss,flirt, argue, share their dreams and plan their future with deep hopefulness and abject despair. A bittersweet comedy of mistakes, regrets & opportunities missed unfolds as three lives collide in one common corridor.

Shifter | Book launch - Friday 9th @ 19.30

BOOK LAUNCH : SHIFTER 20 Issue ' What We Can Knot '

Speakers: Anitha Santhanam, Maria Rosa Sossai, Suresh Jayaram, Valerio Rocco Orlando

Moderated by: Sreshta Rit Premnath

SHIFTER is thrilled to invite you to a book launch, with a series of short presentations celebrating the launch of our twentieth issue titled What We Can Knot. The title of this issue draws from George Bernard Shaw’s quip “He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches.” In this issue artists parse out and challenge what we see to be Shaw’s false distinction between pedagogy and praxis, in order to explore the value of negotiation and collaboration as important elements both in the studio and in the classroom. To this end we have invited several individuals who are both artists and educators, to consider the active relation between art practice and teaching in their life. We have invited them to do this through a conversation or correspondence with either a mentor or a student who continues to play an intimate part in their understanding of the intertwined roles as artist and educator

Creative Journey | Jitish Kallat - Saturday 10th @ 17.00

Ranbyoshi - Wednesday 7th @ 20.00

Ranbyoshi (literal translation: Random Rhythm) is a folk art performance group from Sapporo, Japan. They will perform different types of Japanese folklore arts including Hachijo-jima Daiko (Hachijo Island drum) and Warabe uta (chlidren's songs). Needless to say, children are welcome.

Waterless in Whitefield ? Sunday 11th from 10.00 to 18.00

Duo Concertante - Thursday 8th @ 19.30

Bombay Bassment | Bob Marley - Saturday 3rd @ 21.00

The Last Harvest | Outreach programmes

The Human Cost to India's Race for Development - Saturday 3rd @ 16.00

In Conversation with Ramjee Chandran - Sunday 4th @ 11.00

Ramjee Chandran of Explocity: the man who changed leisure and easy living mores in the city. Yet Ramjee retains a razor sharp, eagle eye on what is happening in Bangalore and explodes with a “lead” story, much to the consternation and chagrin of local politicians, journalists and even editors of our daily newspapers.

Jagriti has been enabling a Close Encounter every alternate Sunday at 11 to an attentive and inquisitive audience. These encounters have been with Ryan Lobo (writer, author and filmmaker), Dr. Rangesh (Himalaya on Ayurveda), Ashok Baweja (former HAL Chairman), Umesh Malhotra (Hippocampus), Dr. Mukund Thattai (NCBS), Siddharth Raja (Freemasons), Dr. Rajeeb Roy (plastics in agriculture) and, most recently, Suresh Menon (author, journalist and Wisden India editor).

A Marriage Proposal - Friday 2nd @ 19.30

The Kitchen - from Thursday 1st to Sunday 4th @ 19.30

Kutle Khan Project - Saturday 3rd @ 21.00

Master of the khartal, singer, songwriter and folk artist, Coke Studio featured Kutle is back with the Kutle Khan Project. Khan you handle the madness?