Dance Festival - Sunday 3rd from 17.00

Thalamus | Urs Dietrich - Thursday 7th @ 19.30

"He is a seeker of silence in movement and movement in silence."


The powerful solo will premiere in Bangalore and then travel to ITFoK, the International Theatre Festival of Kerala in Trichur, and other cities.

THALAMUS, a dance-theatre in three parts, was created on the basis of this text by Sogyal Rinpoche and observations – from both the inside and outside.

Gender Wars - Saturday 2nd @ 21.00

Dhaatu International Puppet Festival - Tuesday 29th @ 16.30

Vadra Kiran - Saturday 2nd @ 11.00

Aha Theatre | Story telling - from Saturday 2nd @ 10.00

OCD - Friday 25th @ 20.00 + Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th @ 15.00 & 18.30

OCD is a hilarious comedy about a carefree young man and his cleanliness-obsessed, OCD-suffering servant. A kind of role-reversal where the servant is after a masters life to keep things neat, clean and in order; and how one simple visit by the young masters friends turns the servant into a guest stalker making sure that they dont make a mess.

Soulmate - Thursday 31st @ 21.00

Nitish Bhattacharjee - Friday 18th @ 18.30

Time is a blind guide | Hakon Aase - Friday 18th @21.00

Legends are fake | Patrick Sagnes - Sunday 20th @ 19.00

Alice! - Friday 18th @ 20.00, Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th @ 15.00 & 18.30

Alice!, this year's Jagriti Kids and Youth production, is based on Lewis Carroll's timeless story of 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass'. Performed by a talented cast aged 8 to 14, it is a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the publication of the book. Come and watch your favorite characters come to life alongside Alice: The Caterpillar, The Cheshire Cat, The Mad Hatter, The Duchess, The Queen of Hearts and her entourage, Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and many more.

Freedom Jatha | Githa Hariharan - Saturday 19th @ 18.30

Little Cloud | Story telling

Call for photographers - Apply before 18th | Some in 8 Billion by German photographer Claudius Schulze

How far is Indian society reflected in the teeming millions who travel the world’s largest rail network?

Close on the heels of Yuva Karnataka, the supremely successful photo workshop by Jörg Brüggemann, with 9 Bangalore photographers, here’s another unique opportunity for photo enthusiasts in the City. Renowned
German photographer Claudius Schulze will conduct a Workshop at NID Bangalore and a few - just a few - places are open to privileged participants from outside the institution.

Dates:  January 4 – 15, 2016

Venue: NID Bangalore Campus

No registration fee. Limited places!

If you have a convincing CV and portfolio, send them to arts@bangalore.goethe.org.

Claudius Schulze himself will select the fortunate few.

For further details, please call the Bhavan: 2520 5305/6/7/8 or visit our website: goethe.de/bangalore; facebook.com/goetheinstitut.bangalore.


India has the largest rail network in the world with tracks reaching into the most far-flung corners and more than 8 billion passengers every year. This Workshop sets out to portray the diversity of people travelling by rail. Thereby developing a sensitivity for the people and the circumstances of their travel. The huge multiplicity of Indian society finds its counterpart in the classes of train coaches. The project aims to transcend those classes by documenting travellers from all backgrounds and all ticket  classes. The Workshop will culminate in a showcase/exhibition.

Claudius Schulze
Photographer & Researcher

Having travelled and worked in over fifty countries, his interest is in humanity’s deficits and the global changes of the Anthropocene. His book Socotra is a visual journey to the idea of islands – strange and magical – and the colonialist tradition of travel. It earned him an invitation to become an Associate with the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain and a nomination for the World Press Photo’s master class.

Using large format landscape photography, Claudius is currently working to investigate the picturesque nature of natural catastrophes and the threat of climate change.

Claudius’ work has appeared in numerous international publications including Geo, Stern, Der Spiegel, National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian Magazine, GQ, NEON, and The Independent. His photographs have been
exhibited in London, New York, Istanbul, and Berlin, among others. In 2012, Claudius Schulze was selected as one of Germany’s top 30 journalists under 30.

Rasan Piya | Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan - Monday 14th @ 19.00

Space without Rockets | Rob La Fresnais - Saturday 19th @ 19.00

Compositions for rest and play | Fahd Burki - Saturday 19th @ 19.00

A Kiss in Time - from Saturday 19th

The Manganiyar Classroom - from Tuesday 15th @ 19.30

Jaaga DNA - Saturday 12th @ 19.00

Shreya K Udupa | Hindustani Classical - Sunday 20th @ 18.00

Processes of Creation in Performing Arts | Leandro Kees - from Monday 14th

Fresh from a multi-city, full-house rave review tour with his production TRASHedy, by Performing Group, Leandro Kees is back in the City with a unique workshop for performers and creative souls!

Organised in association with Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, the workshop, titled Processes of Creation in Performing Arts is a multi-disciplinary one conducted by Leandro Kees. Germany-based Leandro is a choreographer, researcher and also a part of the teaching faculty at Folkwang University in Essen, Germany. He works on inter-disciplinary approaches in association with dancers, actors, music composers and video makers.

Limited places! Registration fee: Rs. 1500

Register at: education@attakkalari.org or goo.gl/Qh9AFZ

For further details, please call the Bhavan: 2520 5305/6/7/8 or visit our website: goethe.de/bangalore; facebook.com/goetheinstitut.bangalore.

This 4-day intensive self-research workshop will explore in depth, different ways of approaching the creation of a new work for the stage, based on the participants' own interests. The workshop will involve both practical and reflective exercises designed to focus on how to recycle the specific discipline one has learnt (dance, spoken theatre, music, visual arts) in order to reshape their knowledge as an artiste. The difference between interpreting someone else's work and creating one's own work from scratch, will be the starting point of this workshop.

Visual artists, theatre practitioners, dancers and others in the creative field are invited to take part in this workshop.

Music Matters | Parvathy Baul - Friday 18th @ 18.00

Art Matters | KS Radhakrishnan - Saturday 19th @ 15.00

Little Naturalist - Saturday 12th @ 11.00

Pallavi Mahidhara | piano recital - Friday 11th @ 19.15

India 50 | Alejandro Gomez de Tuddo - Thursday 10th @ 18.30

Talk and Music Performance | Zack Denfeld | Please Dance to Weird Music - Tuesday 8th @ 19.00

TAJ Residency & SKE Projects Talk and Music Performance — December 2015 Dear Friends, Please join us for a double event on Tuesday 8 December 2015 at 7pm: a talk by artist, design researcher and educator Zack Denfeld followed by a music performance by Please Dance to Weird Music. Zack Denfeld will talk about the activities of the Center for Genomic Gastronomy, an independent research institute engaged in exploring, examining and understanding the genomes and biotechnologies that make up the human food systems of planet earth. The Center is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge at the intersection of food, culture, ecology and technology. Please Dance to Weird Music will present a spectacle and performance with discarded film strips, second hand office stationary and plants. Part sculpture, part visual spectacle PDWM is an alternate approach to chemistry, physics biology and sound. PDWM is organised by The Indian Sonic Research Organization, a sonic collective and co-op of artists that promote ephemeral, experimental performances by sonic artists. ISRO also runs a record label which disseminates works, composers and sound artists from South Asia and South-East Asia. Where: 21 (New Number 53), 2nd Cross*, Wheeler Road Extension Cooke Town, Bangalore 560084 +91 80 69991113 PLEASE NOTE: *Coming from Pottery road up to Wheeler Road Extension there are three roads called 2nd Cross. Take the third one on the right-hand side, just after D'Costa Café. The road is also marked with a blue sign for CCBI. Also note that our building does not have parking. We look forward to seeing you! T.A.J. Residency & SKE Projects is an interdisciplinary meeting place for sharing practice, thinking and research. We accept and review applications on a rolling basis. For more information please go to our website.

Funtoons | Vladimir Kazanevski - from Saturday 12th

Kaavad Katha - Friday 4th & Saturday 5th @ 20.00 + Sunday 6th @ 15.00 & 18:30

Alex Stuart Quintet - Friday 4th @ 21.00

Bangalore Literature Festival - Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th

Panel Discussion at BLF:
A World Undone: 100 years of World War 1
With Steffen Kopetzky, Elke Falat, Julia Tieke,
Vedica Kant M: Sunil Sethi
December 6, 2.00 p.m. - 2.55 p.m.

Panel Discussion at BLF:
Whom does the Writer write for?
With Steffen Kopetzky
Jaishree Misra, Joao Tordo, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, M: Sunil Sethi
December 6, 2015, 5.00 p.m. - 5.55 p.m.

Multimedia Exhibition at BLF:
"digging deep, crossing far - first encounter: Bangalore"
Curated by Elke Falat  & Julia Tieke
December 5 & 6, 10.00 a.m. to 8.30 p.m.

Film Screening at GI / MMB:
The Halfmoon Files by Philip Scheffner
Documentary, col., 97 min., 2007, German with English subtitles
Followed by Gilles Aubry talking on his sound installation “From A to OM”
December 5, 2015, 1.00 p.m.

Trashedy - Wednesday 2nd @19.30

Varshikotsav - Sunday 29th @ 17.30

Revisiting the city - Saturday 21st @ 18.30

Mapping with figures | KS Radhakrishnan - Saturday 21st @ 18.00

SAM all stars - Saturday 14th @ 21.00

Water colours, drawings in ink and conté | Golak Khandual - Friday 13th @ 18.00

(in)verto | Siddharth Sadashiv - Friday 13th @ 20.00

A far afternoon | Krishen Khanna - Sunday 15th @ 16.00

Yuva Karnataka | Workshop by Jörg Brüggemann - till Wednesday 18th

In 2020 India will be all set to be the youngest country in the world. By then the average age of Indian citizens will drop to 29 years. “Yuva Karnataka”, our Kannada Rajyotsava gift to the City,  is the stunning outcome of a photo workshop conducted by internationally reputed German OSTKREUZ photographer Jörg Brüggemann. Nine young Bangalore photographers trained their lens on this generation. What are their hopes and dreams, what do they fear?



Source : http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/en/bag/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=20634475

Dhrupad on the Veena | S. Balachander & Sukhad Munde - Thursday 5th @ 20.00

Dhrupad is the most ancient tradition of Indian Classical Music surviving today, which traces its origins to vedic chants. It is meditative in nature and is considered as ‘aradhana sangeet’ rather than for entertainment alone. Dhrupad has been traditionally performed using the vocal medium as also by ancient string instruments such as Veena, Sursringar, etc. A typical Dhrupad recital consists of an Alaap portion, which is a free exploration of a Raga without rhythmic accompaniment followed by a composition with rhythmic accompaniment, usually provided by the Pakhawaj.

Email to reserve and get detailed directions, Whitefield, Bangalore

Lotus Eaters | Krishnaraj Chonat - Saturday 7th @ 19.00

M93 - from Saturday 7th to Wednesday 11th

Theatre Festival | ancillaries - from Friday 30th

Still and still moving - Saturday 31st @ 15.30 & 19.30

STILL AND STILL MOVING is set in North Delhi and Gurgaon. It is the story of Partho, a reclusive writer in his forties, and Adil, a young college student. Their fractured love affair plays out across two poles of a changing metropolis. The play also features intimate observations on the interactions of men on the Delhi Metro. 

This play has no specific roots. I wanted to write the love story of two men, and to set it at two ends of the NCR – North Delhi, where I studied, and Gurgaon, where I lived at that time. This also brought into play the world of the Delhi Metro, the distance between as it were. Every day as I travelled to rehearsal, I would observe the transient and often intimate interactions of men on the Metro – friends, strangers, rivals for a moment. My affinity for understatement - not always useful in a love story - resulted in earlier versions of this play being too muted. Iʼve been fortunate to have tussled with the criticism of this play by friends, mentors and actors. All of it has pressed me to plumb deeper, to expose the wound. Finally, the quiet architecture remains, though within it I hope there is some clamour.

---Neel Chaudhuri

The great Bengalooru Art Festival - Sunday 1st @ 15.00