content (Arts & Culture) On a beautiful afternoon in the gardens of Mitra Youth Hostel, American singer/songwriter Ariel Eisen decided to treat us to a small and spontaneous performance. She has been in Auroville since January, and essentially came to study carnatic singing, but found in Auroville a place of peace and inspiration.
She plays three original songs, one of which was written in the same garden it is played in now for the first time. She is delighted to give part of herself to Auroville, which has already given her so much.
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Wednesday, 22 February 2012 (Arts & Culture) On Saturday 18th at 4 pm at Audio Visual Room of Kala Kendra, Bharat Nivas Pavillion of India, a collective of artists, Sindhu, Dass, Raghu and Ramesh, presented their movie "Metroxical New York" produced in New York.
This work captured a complex mix of global music using all performing arts, improvised acoustic sets, even hand made instruments, in a place where one can hear music for free: the Subway.
The experience demonstrates how a diverse audience can participate in dialogue without language, using music as universal form of communication.
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Tuesday, 21 February 2012 (Arts & Culture) Around sixty people gathered together on Saturday evening and listened to the contemplative piano music improvised by Hartmut von Lieres. He was born in Germany and has come to Auroville nine years ago. For him Auroville is the best place to express himself through his instrumental music. Nevertheless he also performs in Germany where he is quite famous. During his soulful songs the listeners had their eyes closed and followed the melodies with full concentration.
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Monday, 20 February 2012 (City Life) About 2 years ago magazine with art inclinations evolved from Integral Sustainability Platform, whose aim was to set up a communication pattern between units to form a decision making process. The last seven issues published have brought forward the creative aspect of art, a vision, and a focus. Part of ISP culture was also to expand art in Auroville, and as such evolved into this magazine where everything fell in place. Purpose of MAgzAV is also to main stream art with expressing artist in order to become a central part of the culture
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Friday, 17 February 2012 (Spirituality) Talking about Anu's book 'The God Enchanter' so recently published, as well as other recited excerpts, the question came up while at Bharat Nivas on humanity, hardly to be avoided. According to Sri Aurobindo, transition takes place when every man recognizes his sacred state. Tolerance for one another, deeper recognition of the other as equally sacred should take place in little shifts in our attitude individually. In search for human unity we still tend to look for an external mechanism, where growth in consciousness to take place.
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012 (News) "Passage" - a contemporary dance performance organized by Auroson, we can see on Saturday 11th of Febrauary at Sri Aruobindo Auditorium, Bharat Nivas in International Zone. Auroson stopped at our studio and talked about it. Town is busy with many events, workshops and performances, so tonight we can listen to musical event at Pitanga at 7.30 pm with Jacky Mouvillat playing on Champan Stick, with Anaka, Matt and Manosh Bardhan. At Bharat Nivas we can see Loretta's preimere of a fim "The Teachings of Flowers The Life and Work of The Mother"
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Thursday, 09 February 2012 (Arts & Culture) Just before his departure Marc Vella honored us with his last concert in Auroville, and first concert at CRIPA Hall in Kalabhumi. How strongly Aurovilians grown to fond of him was very much obvious not only by the numbers but also by respectful and loving attitude of the audience. Marc who shares his music and love with gentleness and utmost respect invited for that afternoon some of the performing and other artist to join him on the stage. Before leaving he assured us that his Love Caravan will start next year in Auroville.
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Tuesday, 07 February 2012 (Arts & Culture) With the opening concert by the Auroville Choir, CRIPA - The Center for Research in the Performing Arts, opened its doors. Afsanah shortly introduced the purpose of CRIPA, which is near its completion, with the songs of the Auroville Choir led by Nuria. Sound design of CRIPA was led by Didier, and the sounds of the Auroville Choir quickly proved the quality of Didier's design. Although the Performance Hall in CRIPA is a large space, its capacity couldn't accommodate the great amount of people who wanted to listen to the opening concert.
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Monday, 06 February 2012 (City Life) With the bustling background of Lively Up Your Earth festival at Solitude Farm Marc Vella shared with us some thoughts, and reasons that he spend so much time on the road with his piano. As he says, "problems are everywhere, and it is much easier to start the war than to say to somebody that you love them.." His experiences proved to him that everybody needs LOVE, simple, tender and understanding, and he does share love without expectations but with his utmost respect. Marc Vella's next Love Caravan is planned for India.
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Monday, 06 February 2012 (Arts & Culture) Classical guitar and violin recital by visiting artist Martin Pirktl on classical guitar and Ladislav on violin at Pitanga on Friday was again a special treat for music lovers. Martin started with five lute pieces from the Italian renaissance. Soft tones of renaissance were followed by energetic, and folkloric coloured piece of Atanas Ourkouzounov, contemporary Bulgarian composer. After we passed trough history with music by stops at certain ages with interesting pieces of Isaac Albeniz, Enrique Granado and Astor Piazzola.
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Sunday, 05 February 2012 (News) We feature interview with Gunasekaran, member of the new Auroville Council talking on housing issues. On Sunday at 5pm The Centre for Research in the Performing Arts (CRIPA) invites us all to an Opening Concert by the Auroville Choir, At Cripa Hall in Kalabhumi . CRIPA hall is nearing completion and it is meant to be a theatre, music and dance space for the exploration and development of these art forms. And on Monday 6th of February at 5pm Marc Vella will held his last concert in Auroville at CRIPA with Joy on Silence.
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Thursday, 02 February 2012 (Arts & Culture) Aurodhan Gallery at Pondicherry will present on Friday 3th of February an interesting "Pondicherry" exhibition of selection of fine art photographic images exclusively selected from the book launched at the same time. Sebastian shared with us some insights on the process of making the book, which is collaboration of photographic artistic view of life heritage of Pondicherry with written word of Pascal Bruckner, Akash Kapur and Amin Jaffer, all experts on their fields of exploration. "Pondicherry" is published in French and English.
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Monday, 30 January 2012 (News) On Friday 3rd of February Aurodhan Gallery will present Sebastian Cortes's Pondicherry exhibition of fine art photographic images excluseively selected from the book launched at the same time. In today's news we feature an excerpt of interview with Sebastian, and an excerpt of last night violin and piano concert at Pitanga by two visiting Bulgarian guest artists Yoana Strateva and Ivelina Ivancheva. Tonight at at 5pm at Arka main Hall we can join Nakada and Gopika at Vedic chants, and at 8pm at harp meditation.
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Monday, 30 January 2012 (Arts & Culture) Last Sunday in a pool outside of Auroville, AV's reputation for encouraging synchronicity succeeded in facilitating an artistic reunion of 3 accomplished performers. After catching up, all three musicians quickly realized they were available to perform on the same day as India's Republic Day, at 7.30pm for an hour at Arka. Mystical Meetings' concert began with Iraqi Oud virtuoso and singer, Anwar Abudragh, who quickly created a soothing ambience of subtle melodies transferring a packed audience to the Middle East and gently bringing us back.
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Friday, 27 January 2012 (News) The Pavilion of Tibetan Culture invites us to an exhibition of rare historic photos
Walking into Exile - The Dalai Lama arrives in Tawang (March 31 to April 18, 1959) tomorrow 28th of January at 5pm. The exhibition will be inaugurated by Prof Samdhong Rinpoche, former Kalon Tripa and will be followed by a talk by Samdhong Rinpoche on My Vision of Future Tibet .In today's news we feature short phone interview about it with Namgyal. Weekend it will be nicely busy, as it is usual for this time of the year, with lots of good music, presentations...
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Friday, 27 January 2012 (News) Happy Republic Day India! This morning was inaugurated a volunteer housing project named Rohini & Yuva. One of our volunteers, Kimbo, attended bhumi puja onsite near Luminosity and talked with Uma directly. On Saturday at 4 PM, at Kala Kendra Audiovisual Room, we're invited to a presentation called 'MISSION AUROVILLE' which is about six Polish artists who are currently residing in Auroville. On Sunday at 7.30 pm at the Pitanga Bulgarian Pavilion presents a Violin and Piano Recital with guest artists Yoana Strateva and Ivelina Ivancheva
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 (Spirituality) Saturday 21th of January at Bharas Nivas, Jyoti Khare inaugurated the exhibition PRESENCE; a collection of paintings and collages developed during the past 10 years using The Mother's clothes and sarees.
In this interview Jyoti shares about the creative process, her sources of inspiration, and how a person without training can produce a piece of professional art.
The exhibition will be open until the middle of February 2012.
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 (News) On Sunday 22nd of January at 6pm at Pitanga The French Pavilion and CIRHU
present An exceptional concert of Marc Vella who is a pianist, composer, writer and poet, and has been elected «Peace Artist» by UNESCO and obtained the 1st price for composition in Rome in 1999. Also on Saturday at 4.30 pm at Savitri Bhavan Jyoti Khare will inaugurate PRESENCE - an exhibition (paintings and collages) using pieces of dresses used by the Mother. The same day at 5.30 pm Udavi School invites us to a ODISSI DANCE Festival
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012 (Arts & Culture) Visting artist Carrie Dashow shared her work with the Auroville community on the 6th of January at MMC. Dashow, a performance and video artist, lives and works in New York City. Dashow uses music, performance, video and subject participation to examine questions of citizenship, subjectivity, and community. For her most recent piece, Yesiree Public Notary, Dashow served as a Public Notary at the Occupy Wall Street movement notarizing the testimonials of those partaking in the protests.
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Tuesday, 10 January 2012 (News) Cyclone Thane swirled around Auroville at the end of 2011 changing the landscape; people reuniting, working together, small differences forgotten, cleaning and clearing the roads, the land. Interviewed is Alok, organizer of clean-up work teams, meeting daily 9 a.m. Town Hall parking. Auroville Electrical Service asks for assistance both financially and physically to help their team to hasten the return of power. Carrie Dashow NYC-based interdisciplinary artist shares her work at Paradiso.
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Monday, 02 January 2012 (News) In today's news we feature interview with Sarasija talking on the Korea-India Artist International Cultural Festival 2011. On Thursday at Pavilion of Tibetan Culture in International Zone between 6.30 to 8.30pm , and On Friday At Sri Aurobindo Auditorium, Bharat Nivas, Pavilion of Indian Culture at 7.30 pm performance Cultural Union of Korea and India with music and dance.
Sri Aurobindo Centre for Studies. India and the World presents on Friday 30th in White Hall at 6pm Debashish Banerji , who will talk on Contemporary Reality and Superman
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Tuesday, 27 December 2011 (Arts & Culture) In the lyrical drama based on the story from Mahabharata, visiting Morodokami theater troupe from Thailand perfomed with a contemporary approach Thai traditional and many of today's images. With this play they want to honor Tagore's work that his message is timeless as his work is always worthwhile, in this almost hopelessly selfish world of materialism, giving a lesson to todays official leaders of the world that, unofficially, the mission of building mankind has been a task of the poet since the beginning and still is.
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Tuesday, 27 December 2011 (Arts & Culture) In front of our eyes we could see vivid image of 79 years old Harold Clurman, co-founder of the famed Group Theatre of the 1930's in America. Harold Clurman was known as a "True Man of the Theater" who brought a world of new knowledge.
Harold Clurman was brought to us on Christmas evening by incomparable Ronald Rand, who truly transformed himself trough two hours long preparation into the elder statesman of the American theater. Interesting, humorous Clurman's conversations with his students enlightened certain moment of history of theater
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Sunday, 25 December 2011 (News) On today's news we're featuring three short interviews. Andrea is talking with Ribhu on last meeting with Pudhucherry Municipal Services on waste management. Ronald Rand is talking about his play "Let It Be Art" which we can see on Saturday 24th of December at Sri Aurobindo Auditorium, Bharat Nivas, pavilion of Indian Culture, and about his workshop on 26th and 27th of December. University of Human Unity organized International Seminar on Integral Paradigm, and Vladimir talks about it. Later different approaches to knowledge will be discussed.
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Thursday, 22 December 2011 (Arts & Culture) Bahauddin Mohiuddin Dagar, who hails from the renowned Dagar family, represents the 20th Generation of the Dagar parampara of the Dagarbani school of Music. He performed at the Bharat Nivas auditorium in Auroville on December, 17th to an enthralled audience. The concert was much sought after as Dagar is a master of a rare musical instrument Rudra Veena. This style of music is part of an ancient tradition of India. Read more Thursday, 22 December 2011 (Arts & Culture) Bahauddin Mohiuddin Dagar is a 40 year old renowned Rudra Veena player and son of famous north Indian musician Zia Mohiuddin Dagar. He plays with the Dagarbani style and his lineage can be traced to to eight generations, to Baba Gopal Das, who converted to Islam, and became Baba Imam Baksh in the 18th century. At the age of 12 he started training under his father. and uncle Zia Fareeduddin. He started performing at the young age of 20. More information here: swaratala.blogspot.com/2007/04/bahauddin-dagar-in-beginning-your-ustad.html Read more Thursday, 22 December 2011 (City Life) Saturday afternoon could be called almost perfect. The weather was sweet, children of all ages and big kids in a festive mood, music playing with energetic announcements by Anand, enticing smells of food. It's hard to imagine the beginning of Christmas and New Year holidays in Auroville without the traditional fair at the Youth Center. Stalls in the event area offered many interesting items and games. Suryan rocked us with his great voice, TLC children made us laugh with their play...but..but...from some local young men who were drunk br...
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Monday, 19 December 2011 (News) Lola speaks about the Hibiscus Art Village project, which finally has a site location; it plans to be a place for arts and crafts to flourish, a place to work and to learn. Announcements: a Rudra Veena concert Saturday 17 December, 7:30 pm at Bharat Nivas; a monthly mime workshop at Life Education Centre; a 5-day course in Organic Food Growing at Buddha Garden and free interactive seminars offered by Insight Seminars at Auroshilpam. See the photo of the total lunar eclipse during last Saturday's full moon taken by Lalit (read more section).
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Monday, 12 December 2011 (Arts & Culture) Sukhino is one of our musicians here in Auroville and his music an interesting mix of Blues, Ambiance, Mediterranean Style and Spanish guitar. He is composing and producing all the songs himself in his little sound studio. Here you will hear some of his songs and get some insights into his life and work. His CDs are available in the Auroville boutiques, can be ordered through internet at www.la-boutique-bio.com or from himself email: sukhinosergio@gmail.com. You can also listen to more songs at www.myspace.com/sukhino.
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Friday, 02 December 2011 (News) Resident Assembly Service invites us all for for a collective gathering on Thursday 24th November 2011 at 5 pm to 6 pm at Banyan Tree. Let's meet a community at the center of Auroville. Let's aspire to call the force of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and focus on Unity in Diversity. A prayer to manifest One Body of the Mother. From Friday 25 November to 12 December (9 am to 5 pm) Hibiscus Art Village Project prepared at gallery Kala Kendra Square-Circle - (Bharat Nivas COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION NEW GENERATION . Opening on Friday 25th at 6pm.
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