Nel giardino zen del Tai Chi Hall, siamo andati ad incontrare Marco, che, da più di vent'anni, invita giovani (e meno giovani) a sognare e riflettere al “Cinema Paradiso”. Tra i western e l'Auroville Film Festival, tra il cinema iraniano e il Matrimandir, tra Wong Kar-Wai e l'unità umana, Marco ha condiviso il suo rapporto particolare con il cinema ed il ruolo importante di quest'arte nell'esperienza di Auroville. Accompagnato dalla melodia melancolica e sensuale di “In the mood for love”, Marco ci offre le ultime novità sull'Auroville Film Festival del 2011. Nel silenzio meditativo di una sala di proiezione, gli essere umani sembrano più vicini.

For the music, especially jazz lovers, was a special treat on Tuesday 20th of July at Sri Aurobindo Auditorium in Bharat Nivas to hear a concert of excellent musicians from all over the world. Although it was all “tune” to jazz we could heard one of a kind fusion of different continents, cultures... from Israel, India, Europe to America... and the blend was truly unique, fresh. Local musician Matthew Littlewood's (piano, saxophone) two songs in that set of musician caused thrill at the audience, and the same way public also react on Mishko M'Ba's expressions on bass. Manosh Bardhan on tabla and Debi Prasad Gosh playing sarod are coming from India, and on drums was Sangoma Everett originated from United States. Read more

Conocéis a la historia del camello y de Dios? Hoy os cuento una muy interesante fabula que nos hace reflejar acerca de nuestro papel en la creación de las cosas. En el mismo tono tenemos la entrevista de Javier Angulo, Director del Festival Internacional de Valladolid, uno de los mayores de Europa, que estuvo en Auroville con el Festival de Cine y que también estuvo en Delhi para dar una charla acerca de los Nuevos aires del Cine Español. Javier nos habla de Cine,Utopia, Realidad y claro. Auroville.

Desde un caluroso y calmo verano, las ultimas noticias de mayo traen recuerdos de un muy intenso abril. Siguiendo la sesión de entrevista que hemos echo con participantes del Festival de Cine Español que estuvieron en Auroville, os traigo hoy a Eulalia Ramón, famosa actriz española, que nos habla de su percepción de Auroville, su visión del mundo y la conexión de todo eso con su trabajo. Esta fue su primer visita a India, pero por lo que parece en su entrevista, seguramente no va a ser la ultima.

Eager to laugh at our home-made problems, inconsistencies and foibles, Aurovilians attended the 2nd performance of the newly revived, and technically advanced Genius Inc. performance on 17 April 2010. In which Leon finds that his Teashop happens to be on the ring road, His search for neo urban clowns in various departments and how to eliminate flies and mosquitoes the modern way, as well as his continued attempts at finding a crowd catching jingle for his café. MC King is busy in his new flat writing rap songs and entertains his friends to a game of Auromonopoly. Meanwhile Rick continues to receive orders to produce videos, this time a documentary on Aurovilians eating habits, one in praise of the Potters Guild and another on Conflict Resolution. Along with guest appearances by Oceana and Anadi.

On 24th of April at Alliance Française in Pondicherry jazz lovers could have listened to some jazz standards as Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis... Auroville musicians Matthew Littlewood on saxophone, Mishko M'Ba on bass, Suresh Bascara on drums, with the special guest Dondieu Divin on piano, have expressed again all the technical skills, which allows them to go further. With pieces of blues, post bop, flirting with jazz funk, melodic and accessible from influential jazz musicians audience was drifted away...

On 8th of April at Cultural Center in Pitanga we had a great opportunity to hear for the first time on this continent an original and old instrument csakan, originated from Hungary. Natalie Houtman and Raphael Collignon searched trough old partitures to find the pieces composed for it. Most of the compositions are form the first half of the 19th century, and we heard Kraehmer, Gebauer, Schubert, Strauss, Farbach and Mozart. Two compositions were accompanied by Puducherry Flute Quartet. Technical perfection at playing instruments and choice of musical pieces were able to carry us back in time. Read more

Tandis qu'en cet été indien le soleil semble scotché en permanence au zénith, la fête de la Terre culminera elle ce jeudi avec une grande soirée festive et musicale au Centre des Visiteurs. Pour cette 40ème Journée Internationale de la Terre, Auroville offre une semaine riche en évènements: marches silencieuses en forêt, Festival du Film Ecologique pour petits et grands, conférences, ateliers de recyclage, marché bio à la cuisine solaire etc. A Auroville c'est tous les jours la journée de la Terre!

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The Sunday night on 18th of April at Pitanga music lovers could listen, and enjoy in the sweet sounds of smooth jazz. It all started by dreamy songs – some form standards, some original and compositions by Matthew, but as the night was going along energy, and temperature were raising. Local musicians – Matthew Littlewood, Mishko M'Ba and Suresh expressed again undoubted knowledge and unconditional love for the music, especially for jazz forms.

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The interview with tea master So-en reveals his life path, which leaded him from Denmark to India, and later to Japan, where he found his love, home...tea ceremonies. His are different because he managed to carry with him the formless from India, and applied it in them. Amongst many students he got, he witnesses mental transformation derived out of discipline and precision of tea ceremony.

He appreciates the understanding of the Aurovillians. But he also shares the problems he had noticed in Auroville during his short stay.

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In the month of Asian cultural events we had a chance to see many things, and amongst other tea masters from Japan, Taiwan, Korea and China shared their skills in the art of making tea ceremony. As Jyoti told us tea ceremonies are part of the daily life, and they hold profound meaning, with many layers, which all lead beyond the act of drinking tea, communication to the deep spiritual aspect of it. Read more

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El arte es uno de los mas antiguos modos de expresión encontrados por el hombre. Juntando cine, teatro y música, las noticias de esta semana nos ensenan la diversidad de actividades de este tema que se pasan en Auroville. Primer, una entrevista con Kira Miro, reconocida actriz española, que estuvo aquí presentando su película en el Festival de Cine Español en la India. La música y el teatro es por cuenta de los artistas aurovilianos, que nos traen muy buenas presentaciones, de música, en Pitanga, y la tan esperada “ Black Comedy”, en el Sri Aurobindo Auditoriun.

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On Saturday 27th March, CIC Group of Bharat Nivas had invited some 50 people from Auroville to commemorate at a simple function the Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo’s arrival at Pondicherry in 1910. The participants were requested to share their feelings in this regard. The atmosphere was filled with the presence of Sri Aurobindo and Mother, and was very sublime and deep. The gathering took place under the Peepal tree in the Bhatar Nivas compound.

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From the International Theater Festival in the province of Pathumthani in Thailand Jill came full of excitement and enthusiasm. Moradokmai theater group, which visited Auroville recently, mission is to bring theater back to Thailand. On festival were groups from France, Germany, India, Romania, Estonia... fifty Thailand school groups. As Jill Told us with sparkles in her eyes that was the time to share work, have fun, enjoy the work of others, ...in the spirit of contentedness.

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Esta semana hacemos un experimento: el programa ha sido grabado como si fuera en directo. Nuestra querida amiga Anandi estuvo con nosotros y nos contó un poco de su proyecto en Auroville y también del evento de América Latina que esta ocurriendo este momento, en el Visitor Center además de la conexión con la zona internacional. Seguimos con la noticia del domingo y su explosión de hispanidad. Para finalizar, Anandi nos regala una linda lectura de sus preciosos poemas.

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Today's news features a lot of musical program in and around Auroville this week. Listen to some entertaining and amazing excerpts from the wonderful event held last Friday in Visitor's Center by the Auroville Performing Arts, in order to support performing artists from Auroville. Also in the news: tomorrow's concert by Emergence in Bharat Nivas, the cultural event of the African Night on Friday at Visitor's Center, the Music Festival 2010 in Pondicherry and the performances by the Auroville Choir on Saturday and Sunday. So, keep your ears open this week!

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On the 10 of March a shortly announced Music Open House was performed. Kids from the 1st till the 8th grade gatherd on the Transition's school small amphiteater in the early afternoon. Parents and friends claps and enjoied the performance. The choir was conducted by Nuria and accompanied by Matt on piano and Saga on guitar. Listen and enjoy the voices of the Auroville's kids and the passionate participation of the audience.

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Du Cinéma cette semaine à Auroville avec un panorama du cinéma contemporain indien les 5, 6 et 7 mars à l’Auditorium Sri Aurobindo, organisé par Aurofilm et en collaboration avec le Directorat des Festivals de Film de l’Inde (DFFI, Delhi). Une interview de Gérard l'un des organisateurs qui nous présente la sélection des films qu'il a été dénicher lors du dernier Festival International du Cinéma de Goa. Pour plus de détails sur la programmation du festival cliquez sur Read More. Aussi dans ces nouvelles en français un petit message de la part du Pavillon de France. Pour télécharger les nouvelles en français cliquez ici. Read more

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Warm Wednesday night with the crescent moon over amphitheater at Mantirmandir, audience waiting patiently in expectation of Small steps. Out of darkness and silence it started. Some flickering lights and soft children whispering in echo, and with music it seemed as ethereal beings would be passing on the rhythm... appearing and disappearing, changing shapes and moves, almost not touching grounds. One song, one story faded into another, one followed by the other, until angels arrived... to sing in a dance, a delicate and beautiful song with young colorful spirits... one could think that whole performance is just a beautiful dream, nurturing our sense with images, settings, choreography, costumes... and... sound, oh, what an excellent soundtrack!Read more

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On Thursday the 17th of February at SAWCHU we had a chance to see a part of folk art from 120 youth who came from all over of India to participate on  National Integration Program held in Pondicherry. In about an hour long program we saw a group from the north of India with some songs and dancing, two groups from the south with dances and drumming, and boys group dancing on recorded music, and with colorful costumes.

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On the 1st of February 2010 at the Sri Aurobindo Auditorium in Bharat Nivas, Gordon Korstange presented a Carnatic flute recital accompanied by Umayalpuram Mali (mridangam) and Sri Balasundaram (violin)."I think about the 25 years I've been learning Carnatic music. I've had to become a musician without any background in western music; have constantly felt ignorant of things Indian musicians take for granted; have constantly wondered whether my music is authentic; and have spent most of my time hidden away in my practice room with a tanpora and photos of famous singer-saints on the walls alongside those of Sri Aurobindo and Mother. Does it sound a little like doing Their Yoga in the USA? Yes, a similar sense, often, of dislocation, of gap between inner and outer lives, of manifold insecurities in the face of a materialistic culture--a culture which is us. My quavering aspiration sends flute sounds floating out on Lake Winnepasakee, but who's really listening?" - Gordon KorstangeAn excerpt from  'Collaboration - Journal of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Summer 1995, Vol. 21, No. 1.

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Edmund from germany on trumpet and Aurovilans Misko on piano and Holger on violin and double bass made a memorable jazz concert on wednesday night the third of February  in Pitanga. The hall was full of people and the ambience of the hall added to created a special experience. The audience got to listen to some old jazz classic compositions by artists like Charles Mingus and Morgan Lewis. The band also played some new songs like the jazz version, of the famous song Exit Music by the pop band Radiohead, by Brad Mehldau, the song had its roots in the western classical music and appealed to all music lovers of all ages and interests.

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Gregorian chants were echoing at Pitanga on Sunday the 14th of February. Anandamayi, Andrea, Ane, Elsa, Irene, Carl and Denis with their beautiful voices prepared an unique evening of cappella singing. Director Eugeen Liven d'Abelardo told us few things about the history of Gregorian chants, which is a functional music for liturgical use. For centuries it was passed by oral tradition, and after they start to use scriptorium to record it, but no notation, as we know today. Gregorian chant was until 1968 the official chant of the Roman church. The selection of monastic chants for that evening was mostly from 8th and 9th centuries.Click here to download the program.

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During the LFA (litter-free Auroville) campaign, AurovilleRadio was invited to participate in the exhibition room called stArt of Certitude's dome. We took this opportunity to produce a sound in order toawaken people's awareness of noise pollution. The manner in which people began to listen was quite imaginative. With the participation of Newcomer Marc, organiser of the exhibition and a designer, we imagined a box where everybody could enter, listen to the sound and be totally cut off from outside, in  order to be fully focused on sounds. The result: a strange sort of soundproof cardboard box called “Sound Space”, a mysterious and darkened sound experience with a long waiting line attended mostly by kids..Read more

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A Western Classical Music Recital with guest artists from Switzerland: Anna Adamik, piano and Martin Merker, cello. Compositions by Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Nadia Boulanger and César Franck About the artists: Anna Adamik is a native of Budapest, Hungary. She studied at the famed Franz Liszt Conservatory under Annámaria Krause and Tamás Fulep. She continued her studies at the Musikuniversität in Vienna/Austria under Paul Badura Skoda and at the Musikhochschule Freiburg/Germany with Ramón Walter. Martin Merker was born in 1965 in Stuttgart/Germany. He studied Cello with Russian cellist Karine Georgian at the Musikhochschule Detmold in Germany, Reinhard Latzko and Ivan Monighetti at the Musikakademie Basel, Switzerland and with Lluís Claret in Barcelona. He is a prizewinner of several international chamber music competitions.

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On 29 January was the Litter Free Auroville Campaign a very bold and passionate venture to make a less polluted and and more environment aware Auroville. On this day more than one thousand school children and adults collected litter from the roads of Auroville brought them all to Certitude for further processing. Along with this were so many activities for making people aware of the better world on the other side of all the pollution and many more fun activities. In a conversation with Anita and Mirra two of the many active facilitators they shared their views about the campaign, and many ideas to make a cleaner Earth.

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Claudio Menandro, one specialists of Brazilian music was here in Auroville. He did an well attend concert at Sri Aurobindo Auditorium in Bharath Nivas. The concert included many Brazilian Music styles including Bassa Nova, Samba and Choro. He also covered the classic Beatles song 'Yesterday' form the album 'Help!'. In read more the part 2 and 3. Read more

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One of the highlights from last Friday´s Litter Free Auroville was the amazing Trashionshow. The numerous talented designers attended a workshop one week before, where they got input, material and ideas how to create fashion out of trash. The result was simply outstanding: They transformed vinyl records, juice boxes, cassette tapes, bubblewrap, rice sacks, used fashion magazines and plastic bags into creations just designed for the catwalk. The audience felt like being in Paris, Milan or New York. Here are some impressions from the Trashionshow, featuring excerpts from the show itself, pictures and reactions from the audience. Click read more to see more pictures of the show.Read more

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For the final day and last part of the Auro Olympics was the Run for the Heart on 13th of January. All the children were excited about that race for over a month, because it was postponed due to the monsoon rain from December, and that is the race nobody wants to miss it. Some children were preparing themselves for long time for it. And the final day came! Hot sunny day, but that didn't stop the ehtusiasm of maybe small by the size, but big on their will, runners. Parents and friends came to cheer them up, and the feeling of excitment was contagious. We recorded some soundscapes of the race itself and some short interviews with children and their parents..

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The 29^th of January was indeed a different Friday for Auroville. It started early in the morning with meditation, and after school the children and many adult Aurovilians collected litter along the roads... which all lead to Certitude where  the main action took place throughout the day. In a conversation with Chandra, Ribhu and Mira who were three of the many active facilitators for this day's events, some interesting facts were uncovered: the target is to create a team for a platform to create a change. It is ongoing, ideas and work, to reduce waste. Each of us can participate: the way we choose to acquire our food, and how we handle our waste, becoming aware that we can't just 'throw it away' as there is no 'away.' .

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