Saturday, August 30, 2014
Apocalypse - from Wednesday 3rd @ 18.30
Apocalypse - la première guerre mondiale by Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle, a series of 5 documentaries by Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle (104′) relating the story of the World War I. The first 2 episodes will be screened on Wednesday and the other 3 will be screened on Thursday.
Wednesday 3rd Sept, 6.30 pm
1/ Fury : June-August 1914
2/ Dread : August 1914- May 1915
Thursday 4 Sept, 6.00 pm
3/ Enfer : September 1915-December 1916
4/ Rage : January- November 1917
5/ Délivrance : November 1917- November 1918.
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Swiss Film Week Bangalore - from Saturday 30th @ 18.00
The Swiss Film Week celebrates a century of German teaching in India! Appropriately the medium of film has been chosen to spotlight this milestone. Cinema is itself a universal language and apart from being a great source of entertainment, is an indispensable source of information and classroom tool.Programme : http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/en/bag/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=20417524
Pagdi - Thursday 28th & Friday 29th @ 19.30
'Pagdi' explores the place of history in modern life. How much should and can a modern man acknowledge and value history, and what are the repercussions of ignoring it? Written in the first person, the play recounts the life of a Sikh man who chases the world of opportunities and wealth. It asks: What did he achieve and what did he have to give up on this journey?
The play received the 2013 Toto Funds the Arts award for creative writing in English.
Monday, August 25, 2014
Friday, August 22, 2014
Bangalore International Short Film Festival - Saturday 23rd @ 18.00
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Thursday, August 21, 2014
Bombed - Friday 22nd & Saturday 23rd @ 20.00
Zameer likes to be called Zed. He also likes smoking pot, playing on his PS3, playing cards with his eccentric landlady Fiona (a Catholic widow with a temper) and discussing popular culture with his neighbour Yogi (a struggling actor from Bihar). Life is pretty good for Zed till Inspector Sudarshan Damle lands up at his door, asking questions about long lost relatives and terror attacks. Bombed is a light hearted look at today’s weed loving urban youth, the city we live in, religion, and how our paranoia about terrorism warps our lives and our relationships with neighbours and friends.
A walk in the woods - Friday 22nd @ 19.30
Two diplomats, in the middle of peace talks, take a private walk in the woods to try and achieve a breakthrough in the muddled negotiations between their countries. Will their attempt succeed where official channels have failed? What role do individuals play in the larger game that governments set in motion? What of the longing on both sides of the border to make contact with each other?
All India FingerStyle Guitar Competition - Saturday 24th @ 20.30
Infinite Souls Farm & Artists Retreat has announced the finalists for the first-ever All India FingerStyle Guitar Competition. The response has been overwhelming. It was a difficult decision, but German maestros Peter Finger and Claus Boesser-Ferrari along with Bangalore's own Konarak Reddy whittled the 67 entries from all over the country down to 5 fortunate finalists - Rhythm Shaw (Kolkata), Manan Gupta (Mumbai), Devkinandan Patel (Ahmedabad), Joey Sharma (Nagaland/Bangalore), Taba Chake (Arunachal Pradesh). The winner will be selected by the same distinguished jury after a LIVE performance B Flat on August 24, 2014.
In an exciting last-minute development, the judges decided to honour the Bangalore tradition of guitar playing with a Best of Bangalore award, which the Goethe-Institut is supporting. Playing LIVE on the same evening at B Flat for this award are some of Bangalore's most versatile and gifted guitarists including Arjun Chandran, Ramanan Chandramouli, Ryal Sequeira, Ritwik Bhattacharya, Sidhanth Jain, Imli Imchen, Aren Longchari and Akash Murthy.
In an exciting last-minute development, the judges decided to honour the Bangalore tradition of guitar playing with a Best of Bangalore award, which the Goethe-Institut is supporting. Playing LIVE on the same evening at B Flat for this award are some of Bangalore's most versatile and gifted guitarists including Arjun Chandran, Ramanan Chandramouli, Ryal Sequeira, Ritwik Bhattacharya, Sidhanth Jain, Imli Imchen, Aren Longchari and Akash Murthy.
Private Salon | Nature Morte - Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd
Since its inception in 1997, Nature Morte has been at the forefront of artistic practice in India, and responsible for bringing it to the international platform. The gallery established itself with a generation of artists who has gone on to become widely known within India as well as internationally: Subodh Gupta, Jitish Kallat, Bharti Kher, Anita Dube, Mithu Sen, Thukral & Tagra, Raqs Media Collective, and Pushpamala N., among many others.
This weekend at the Oberoi, the gallery will display a wide variety of art works in various mediums (painting, photography, prints and drawings), from a selection of the artists (both established and emerging) regurlarly exhibiting in Delhi in the past few years.
For more information about the gallery : http://www.naturemorte.com/
This weekend at the Oberoi, the gallery will display a wide variety of art works in various mediums (painting, photography, prints and drawings), from a selection of the artists (both established and emerging) regurlarly exhibiting in Delhi in the past few years.
For more information about the gallery : http://www.naturemorte.com/
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Friday, August 15, 2014
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
B R Somashekar Jois - Wednesday 13th @ 19.00
B R Somashekar Jois is a konnakkol and mridangam artist, vocalist, music composer and audio engineer. He has been a disciple of Vidwan Sri K N Krishnamurthy, Kalaimamani Sri K V Prasad and Vidwan Sri B C Manjunath, all well-known percussionists.
He specialises in konnakkol (a traditional art form that involves reciting or orally articulating Carnatic percussion syllables). He was the first such artist in Karnataka to secure an 'A Grade' in konnakkol from All India Radio and recipient of Percussive Arts Centre-CMANA Endowment Award. He has performed at over 1,500 concerts and is on a mission to promote konnakkol and popularize it among musicians and music lovers. He has presented several Lecture Demonstrations on the konnakkol at venues like AIR Bangalore, Bangalore Gayana Samaja, Percussive Arts Center, Suswaralaya College of Music, Mysore JSS Sangeetha Sabha, ANANYA and more.
B.R.Somashekar Jois currently works with 92.7 BIG FM as Regional Music Manager – South India.
A New Paradigm for Heritage Preservation | Dakshinachitra - Saturday 23rd @ 17.00
INTACH Bangalore invites you to a talk:
DAKSHINACHITRA: A New Paradigm for Heritage Preservation
by Dr Deborah Thiagarajan, founder, Madras Craft Foundation.
Dr Thiagarajan will speak about how and why she set up DakshinaChitra, a unique museum near Chennai which successfully showcases South India's rich living cultural heritage.
Tea at 5:00 pm.
DAKSHINACHITRA: A New Paradigm for Heritage Preservation
by Dr Deborah Thiagarajan, founder, Madras Craft Foundation.
Dr Thiagarajan will speak about how and why she set up DakshinaChitra, a unique museum near Chennai which successfully showcases South India's rich living cultural heritage.
Tea at 5:00 pm.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014
Folk Festival - from Friday 8th
The first of its kind International Folk Festival is being organized by The Times of India in Bengaluru, a city rich in cultural heritage and a knowledgeable populace hungry for more. It begins on 8th August 2014 at the serene and picturesque lawns of the Jayamahal Palace and takes everyone through a kaleidoscope of folk and cultural extravaganza till the evening of 10thAugust 2014. It will showcase folk art forms from every part of India from Yakshagana, Gombeyaata, Purulia Chau, Satriya dance, Mallakhamb to Waee singers of Kutch, Gujarat and Mooralala Marawada, Sufiana Qawwali, OttanThullal and others; international folk troupes from Indonesia, Norway and Sri Lanka; an eclectic palette of film shows, panel discussions and talks, as well as exhibitions of crafts and wares of rural craftsmen, along with a delectable fare of Indian cuisine. Several eminent artists like Jnanapeetha awardees like Dr. Chandrasekhar Kambara and Dr. Girish Karnad, along with a royal family of Indonesia will participate in this prestigious festival.
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
A Tapestry of Orchestral Music - Saturday 9th @ 19.00
The Chamber Orchestra of the Bangalore School of Music is back on the musical scene to delight music lovers. 24 seasoned performers are in top form after intense rehearsals over several weeks comprising Faculty members, senior artistes & talented students & professionals under the able baton of Maestro Narayanaswamy V., the Orchestra has emerged as one the country can be proud of.
The core Chamber group consists of Faculty Members, senior students and associates of the Music School, while professional long term associates join for major presentations. The youngest members are 9 and 12 years old.
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Damocracy - Tuesday 5th @ 18.45
A documentary that debunks the myth of large-scale dams as clean energy and a solution to climate change. It records the priceless cultural and natural heritage the world would lose in the Amazon and Mesopotamia if two planned large-scale dams are built, Belo Monte dam in Brazil, and Ilisu dam in Turkey.
Seth Tobocman & Orijit Sen - Friday 8th @ 19.00
Seth Tobocman, born in 1958, is a comic book artist with strong political convictions. In 1979 he founded the magazine World War 3 Illustrated with Peter Kuper and he continues to edit that publication today. He is the author of a number of graphic books including: YOU DON’T HAVE TO FUCK PEOPLE OVER TO SURVIVE, WAR IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, PORTRAITS OF ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS, DISASTER AND RESISTANCE and UNDERSTANDING THE CRASH. Most recently he edited WORLD WAR 3 ILLUSTRATED 1979-2014 with Peter Kuper. Seth Tobocman's illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice and many other publications. His prints and originals have been displayed at The Museum of Modern Art, The New Museum Of Contemporary Art, The Museum Of The City Of Ravenna, Exit Art Gallery, Abcnorio and other spaces. His images have been used as posters, banners, murals, patches and tattoos by people’s movements all over the world from The Squatters in New York’s Lower East Side to the African National Congress in South Africa.
Orijit Sen will present his work with visual narratives.
Saturday, August 2, 2014
Hamlet The Clown Prince - from Saturday 2nd to Friday 8th
A bunch of clowns are putting on a show of Hamlet. They sometimes misinterpret the text, sometimes find new meanings in it, sometimes try and understand it and very often make a mess of it.
They chose to use some phrases from the play and mixed them with gibberish. They even edited the text, threw out some important scenes and made a mess of the order of things as if the pages got mixed up. But through all of this, they were simply looking for the essence of Hamlet and trying to find a context in our own times.
Art Park Bangalore - Sunday 3rd from 11.00
The first event in the series took place on 30 March 2014 involving 30 selected, eminent local artists who spent the whole day working at the venue so that interested members of the public could see, appreciate and understand artists’ varied methods of work and the artistic outcomes of their work. The day-long event will enable artists and the public to engage in critical conversations that can help lay people to develop a deeper understanding of art and artists across time, location and culture. In the process members of the public will be able to develop an awareness and appreciation of visual art, which can lead to a recognition of the power of creativity in constructing, defining and shaping knowledge.
The activities of Art Park Bangalore are meant to introduce the local public as well as tourists and other visitors to the city to the many art activities that regularly take place in Bangalore. An important purpose of the Art Park Bangalore initiative is to bridge the gap between visual art and the general public by providing a stimulating environment that provides the necessary exposure to contemporary visual art, fosters the creative spirit that exists in every individual, and challenges people to question themselves and find answers for themselves in contemporary art.
Art Park Bangalore has been conceived and designed as a cultural activity for the public, involving a range of artists in the city, including senior and well-known ones. This initiative is promoted by Samyojita Trust (®) with financial support from the Department of Kannada and Culture, Government of Karnataka.
Vir Das &the Alien Chutney - Saturday 23rd @ 21:00
Vir Das’ Alien Chutney is a comedy rock band from Mumbai, formed sometime around 2006. Fronted by comedian Vir Das (vocals), the band comprises Pozy Dhar (Tough on Tobacco) on guitar, Sidd Coutto (Helga’s Fun Castle, Zero, Tough on Tobacco) on drums, Kaizad Gherda (keyboards) , Gaurav Gupta (Tough on Tobacco, Ankur & The Ghalat Family) on guitar and Johan Pais (Tough on Tobacco, Ankur & The Ghalat Family) on bass. The group has performed sold-out shows across several venues in the country including Mumbai’s Blue Frog, Delhi’s Lodhi Gardens, India Habitat Center and on Star World’s New Year Special R.I.P.ping the Decade with Vir Das. Alien Chutney is currently working on recording their second album slated to release later this year. It is intended to be a high energy, comedy experience with strong musical chops.
Alien Chutney was a by-product of one of Vir Das’s comedy shows, ‘Walking on Broken Das’. Receiving favorable reviews for his attempt to combine and present comedy and music in his show, he decided to turn this into a full-fledged project. Today Alien Chutney regularly performs numerous shows around the country. Musically, the band creates and presents songs with bold lyrics in a variety of genres such as blues, punk, metal, pop and rock. They also indulge in improvisations, both in music and conversations among themselves and the audience. Their lyrical content takes a swing at a diverse range of topics, some of them controversial, but all in good spirit, of course.
Dead Man's Cell Phone | Sarah Ruhl - Saturday 2nd @ 20.00 & Sunday 3rd @ 15.00 & 18.30
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet cafe. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man's Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur ''Genius'' Grant recipient and Pultizer Prize finalist, Sarah Ruhl, author of the The Clean House and Eurydice. Do we memorialise the dead and how does that remembering change us? Here is a woman forced to confront her assumptions about morality, redemption and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
Keys to India | Anil Srinivasan & Sharik Hasan - Thursday 7th @ 20.00
In a first of its kind, two top pianists of India who play different genres of music are coming together for a concert. Classical pianist Anil Srinivasan from Chennai collaborates with Bangalore’s own Sharik Hasan, the young jazz pianist.
“The unique idea of two pianos coming together bridging different musical traditions is a first of its kind anywhere in the country,” says Anil Srinivasan. “We will bring together our highly individualistic styles as a gesture towards cultural unity, towards bringing people, communities, religions and ideologies, closer.”
Anil Srinivasan is well known for having charted a path to bring the piano into Indian classical traditions and has collaborated and toured widely. Sharik Hasan is one of India’s top jazz pianists and at a young age, has already made a name for himself on the international stage.
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