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by Andrea
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Saturday, 04 September 2010 |
 Following on from the discussion series facilitated by the Auroville Council and Resident's Assemble Service earlier this year, the Council has invited all community members to a General Meeting to discuss the the benches and pathways beneath the Matrimandir banyan tree and how we make decisions as a community in Auroville. The meeting was held in SAWCHU on the 3rd of September. The discussion was vibrant and in some parts the emotional side came up. Anyway the interaction was conductive and some sort of results came up at the end. Jesse chaired the meeting. Here the 2 hours and 14 minutes recording of the full meeting.
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by Miriam
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Friday, 03 September 2010 |
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 Not many visitors from Iran come to Auroville. We had a chance to met Dr. Bijan Vala, who told us that fate has brought him here, and he would like to get involved and be active mostly on the field of expressive arts such as music and theater. He sees Auroville as an example of good thoughts, which proved that dreams can turn into reality, and yet he's aware that in the process problems do arise. He likes the Love, The Dream, Matrimandir,... For him the beauty of Matrimandir is that there's nothing religious about it, everybody is left to his/her own thoughts. Read more
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by Alex
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 |
 Este es el primer programa de una serie producida por Alex, un muy talentoso visitante y amigo español que estuvo por un tiempo en Auroville y que se dedico a crear este programa con la intensión de compartir con los hispanohablantes su experiencia, sus desafíos y detalles de diferentes tópicos que envuelven la vida de los Aurovilianos, usando entrevistas con hispánicos que se dedican a los mas diversos temas. En este programa Alex nos cuenta en detalle todo lo que es necesario para hacer con que tu tiempo en Auroville sea lo mejor posible! Es un programa imperdible, una gran ayuda en como dar los primeros pasos a todos los que quieren conocer Auroville!
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by Miriam
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 |
 What is actually hip hop? In the conversation with Drupad at Youth Center we talked about that. Many times is wrongly mistaken by gangsta rapping but basically is hip hop defined by five key stylistic elements rapping , DJing andscratching, sampling , beatboxing and dancing. They're saying that Hip hop began in the South Bronx of New York City in the 1970s. And we found out what that got to do with the Youth Center.
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by Tarini
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Thursday, 19 August 2010 |
 SmallSteps is an initiative funded by Upasana design studio, against the use of plastic bags. The core philosophy at Upasana is to design for social development. Through small steps Upasana has given employment opportunity to more than 200 woman from villages in and around Auroville. These woman help in making cloth bags which are a good substitute to plastic. The USP of these bags are that they are compact and portable. By hooking them on to bags, belts, key rings, etc one is constantly reminded to say no to plastic.
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by Arnaud and Andrea
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010 |
 As part of inclusive planning and development exercise, the Green Group, the Forest Group the Farm Group and l'Avenir d'Auroville held a joint meeting to discuss issues relating to water, environment and forest and how that impacts planning and development. The meeting was hosted by Nikolai at the Youth Center. The discussion touched many topics regarding the development of the city. This meeting was first of the kind between the planners of the city and the persons taking care of most of the green. A very positive step.
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by Miriam
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Monday, 16 August 2010 |
 Amongst many celebrations and offerings the one at Deepanam school might have been small in numbers and the size of the school, but big in heart as participated by almost everyone from the school. Children from the youngest to the oldest, as well s the teachers...all took part on Saturday's “Small Offerings” as they named it, for Sri Aurobindo's birthday and India's Independence Day. We heard some excerpts of Sri Aurobindo's life, his personality, a prayer and mantras sung by children and teachers.
Bharat Natyam dancing took place performed by some of the children.
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by Andrea & Miriam
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Friday, 13 August 2010 |
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 Steffi, a volunteer from Germany who joined our team for good ten months just left. In the interview with Andrea we found out how she sees Auroville, its idea, life... As she said, she hasn't evolved so much on the professional level of radio speaker and journalist because that was the line of work she was already doing in Germany, but Auroville brought more clarity in her life. Trough yoga and some other activities she participated in she's not only more clear about her life, and life goals, but she's also more happy, contented with herself, but, as she said, she hasn't explore all of it yet. Here she met many talented and creative people, and was amazed over the quality of cultural life and events. Auroville she sees as a project in process, and positive for its continuation.
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