In today's news we are featuring Mawite from Auroannam Farm inviting us on Sunday at 4.30pm their participation to Earth Day's celebration. Free market will be going on at Solar Kitchen on Saturday morning, TEDx talks on ecology at Conference Room in Town Hall, pot luck dinner with Earth Healing Ceremony at sunset with live music and dancing at Terra Soul at Windarra Farm from 5pm onward. .....At 7.30pm at Ptianga A Musico - Pictoral Concert with Chapman sticks, reverse painting, tables and saxophone by Jacky, Anaka, Manosh and Matt. Read more

Auroville’s co-existence within a rapidly growing urban-rural continuum emphasizes on an urgent need to reflect upon the development patterns within the larger bio-region. Auroville’s pro-active role in the development in the region appears as the need of the hour to not only secure land use but to also induce sustainable growth patterns within the bio region. TDC initiated a platform for an interactive brainstorming session for Aurovilians actively involved in the region with our guest advisor Prof. K.T Ravindran from Delhi. Read more

The German peace program EachOneTeachOne in collaboration with AIAT and Mohanam Youth Project presented last night another night of exciting breakdance and rap for peace. The whole performance was explosive mixture of children from nearby villages who shared with us some dances, drumming, silambam, and graffiti on the back of the stage, created with Julio Rolle and Kajal Sing during the workshop at AIAT., and of course Bboys - Sun-Ha alias DJSolar/Sola Plexus, Danny and Reza alias K.O.TIXX, Nico alias NicoRoc Masterplancrew Read more

In today's news we feature Nico and Julio Rolle inviting us to this year EACH ONE TEACH ONE and 5 ELEFANTS performance and inauguration of 44flavours exhibition tomorrow at 6pm at Aurodhan Gallery (Secret Garden) in Pondicherry and Visitor Center on Saturday at 8pm. Essence - Multicultural performance , celebrating women through dance will be hold tomorrow at 8pm at Visitor Centre and on Saturday at Aurodhan Gallery in Pondicherry. L'Avenir/TDC will host a workshop on Regional Planning on Saturday morning at Conference Room in Town Hall. Read more

Extract of an interactive session within Steps Ahead, Sri Aurobindo Centre for Studies-India and the World (Bharat Nivas) held yesterday at Unity Pavilion in International Zone. Interesting session where the discussion revolved around the present state of the International Zone and the possible courses of action. Most participants  were active members either of pavilion groups of core group of International Zone. They expressed dissatisfaction with the speed of the development. Read more

Tyler Carson, a volunteer at Village Action Group, has came to Auroville in the group of twelve as their part of intership of the study on integrative energy healing. Their study in Seattle is a three years program design to incorporate teachings from India(Vedic system), China(meridian system) and North American Native tradition in order for students to know how to use the universal energy in order to promote healing in the body. Tyler is working on sound healing by allowing his heart to be open to the Divine while making the music. Read more

In today's news we're featuring short interview with D.Saravanan from Aranya community, 64 acres of forest with indigenous species next to Sadhana Forest, who silently protests by fasting in front of the entrance to Town Hall. Today starts Raaga Tapasaya, festival of sacred indian music at 8pm at Bharat Nivas. Marc Vella is offering tomorrow at 6pm with his traveling piano at Matrimandir Amphitheater Le Portes des Mondes. General meeting on Friday 1st at 4pm at Unity Pavilion to take a decision if AV should apply to be world heritage site. Read more

Over the past 7 years Aurovillians have been having problems with the smoke and fumes coming from the Karuvadikuppam dump site located just 3 km outside Auroville. None of the waste has been segregated which make the management extremely difficult. In order to take up this issue with the local government Renu and Bindu has taken action by asking Igor to send a lab technician to take soil and water samples for testing. The place stinks for miles around making the life in some villages and Auroville's communities unbearable. Read more

Sri Aurobindo Centre for Studies.. India and the World today and tomorrow is hosting Dr. Bahman Shirazi, Professor at California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco who will held workshop on Integral Consciousness at White Hall at Bharat Nivas, Pavilion of Indian Culture in International Zone. For the end of the cycle of recycling events Phoenix project for CCC(Community Cultural Colors) invites us to Kalabhumi on Saturday 29th at 7pm to a Cosmic Fusion. AVCRT is organizing a gathering on Saturday at 10am at Town Hall. Read more

This program was recorded by Daniel exactly one year afte the Tsunami struck the Auroville's beach communities. Sri Ma, Repos, Quiet and other settlements were devastated by the killer wave but luckily no residents of Auroville or guests were injured. In the nearby villages the fate was very different: many villagers lost their life and almost all the villages along the cost lost boats and fishing nets. In this interviews you'll hear the voices of Aurovilians from Israel, US, Argentina, France, UK, The Netherland and India. Read more

The Bla Bla Christmas Fare was a very special occasion for the workers of the Svaram music shop.

Svaram co-workers have been receiving training in playing music, and music theory ever since the beginning of the project from a succession of teachers, local and international. Many performances have been given in Auroville, India and even a few abroad.

 

The group's performance at the Fare, accompanied by a flute player, was a success, with catchy drum rhythms and the crowd dancing in front of the stage. Read more

12.12.12.Events at the Unity Pavilion by Unity Pavilion and Cirhu for three days, starting tomorrow at unity Pavilion. Three days of exploration through body, art and deep dialogue on how to live and manifest the 12 Qualities at individual, collective and universal level. Sharing of work experiences on the 12 fields of Auroville's applied Research in the light of the 12 Qualities. Quiet meditation at Matrimandir at 5pm and the Rainbow Dancer at 8pm at Sri Aurobindo Auditorium. Hartmunt's "At Coromandel Coast" piano recital at Cripa in Kalabhumi Read more

Today's news featuring interview with Sathya on the Chennai Green Tribunal Court hearing from last Thursday where the Pondy Municipal Commissioner got severely reprimanded by the court for not doing his job properly. On December 7, 8 and 9th at 7.30pm Sri Aurobindo Auditorium, Bharat Nivas THE AUROVILLE THEATRE GROUP Presents TWELFTH NIGHT or What You Will by William Shakespeare ,Directed by Haimanot Alemu At Pitanga, on December 8th at 4pm the opening of "UP Cycling collection" by OK Jeong Le with an Eco musical Performance by Butterfly Read more

Welcome to the Sixth Edition of the Auroville Marathon! Auroville proudly presents you the Sixth edition of the Auroville Marathon on Sunday, February 10, 2013. Started in 2008, it has soon become one of the popular running events in India. In today's program, we speak to four people who help us in making the event special. Chandresh Patel, founder and Race Director of Auroville Marathon; Ram Viswanathan, who ran all full marathon in all 5 editions of the event; Rajesh Vetcha, founder, Hyderabad Runners and Santhosh, Coach, Runners High. Read more

In today's news we feature interview with Marc on anniversary exhibition Cyclone Thane, and in the next one Jagran talks on affordable housing meeting on Monday at 10am at Arka. Tomorrow at 5pm at MMC Auroville Swim Team presentation and sharing of Kolkota National Life Saving Competition, where 16 children from Auroville participated. Tomorrow at 3pm at Unity Pavilion Annette invites us for the action for Peaceful People – First short meeting for those who are interested in empowering to energies of peace in our community. Read more

For almost a decade, but surely with acceleration in last year or two, Auroville beach community Repos has been "eaten" away by the severe beach erosion. Bhaga shares with us some thoughts on it... Until recently no speciific action was taken from the official Auroville regarding the problem. Cyclone Relief Team instructed by Working Committee has started to help the community with clean up. This morning along with Satprem and volunteers they have continued with reinforcing the foundations of the house. Read more

Gijs invited the community on Wednesday at 4.30pm at La Terrace to a Presentation on NEW community based Social Security by social innovator, Pradeep Ghosh of OASiS which may be relevant for Auroville. Action!Peaceful City invites us for A visit showing interest and solidarity with sea erosion-hit Repos tomorrow at 7.30pm. ONE ASIA 2012 is happening in the heart of Delhi at India International Center 15th to 20th December. There will be some participants from Auroville Grace, Savitri, Sasikanth, Jean L, Dharmesh, Tapas B and the project team. Read more

Invitation to act tomorrow at 4.30pm at Unity Pavilion - The Collective & Priorities & Values Action Meeting. Tomorrow at 6pm Yatra Arts Foundation in Kuilappalayam invites us to the 7th anniversary celebrations with cultural program. On Sunday 28th of October between 4 to 5pm At Savitri Bhavan in International Zone Amal Kiran (K.D. Sethna) will release his Writings on Savitri , Part Two: Collected Comments; Part One: Essays was published in 2010. 4th of November one day workshop on alcohol dependency awareness organized by LEC and CONCERN. Read more

Jan, long time Aurovillian decided last week to embark on a hunger strike to speak out against intra-community bullying. Jan says that the recent events at Svaram have instigated him to do some action of protest, and his action of choice is abstaining against food. Please listen to what he has to say, detailing the events of last week's Svaram rampage and Jan's perspective and reaction. He says this is a bigger issue in Auroville, which could be solved if a monitoring committee were to be formed. Read more

IS Auroville an Eco-Village? This question is not a new one, but twice a year a group of students from North America come to Auroville to study on the university program Living Routes. They come each time fresh and curious, wanting to see what Auroville has to offer and struggle to understand the complexities alive on the ground here in Tamilnadu. Listen in with their lecture/discussion with Bindu and B, who were invited to discuss the topic with the students. Listen in for some critically-supportive academic discussion.

in today's news we feature an excerpt of interview with Jan from Svaram talking on his reasons for hunger strike since last Friday incidents. One would expect that power cuts translate into lower electricity consumption bills but this not always the case. The culprit is the backup inverter with battery storage. About 30- 45% of energy that passes through an inverter system is lost. Tamil Heritage Centre Team invites us to celebrate Dasara Festival of Evolution at ILAIGNARKAL EDUCATION CENTRE every day 4pm to 6.30pm from tomorrow until 24th. Read more

How can we overcome inherited anthropocentrism in our relationship with nature as we develop "the city the earth needs"? This week's meeting with B and Luigi brought Rishi into the studio. Rishi, from the Youth Center, shared with us his concerns about the direction in which Auroville is heading and its relationship with the natural area which has grown over the past 40 years. We resolved the discussion acknowledging the climate of understanding which we had birthed and setting intention for dialogue to continue on this and other topics. Read more

B and Luigi are at it again, with more synergy than ever. This week we've invited Mita from Centre Field to come and talk about her community's reservations to the extension of the crown road. A very productive meeting, in which we were able to see beyond past traumas and stay in the collective energy to bridge polarities. Mita brought forth the concern that we need to take a deeper approach in looking at the Galaxy model and revive powerful ideas which have diffused, namely the Dreamcatchers proposal, to be revisited in forum later this month. Read more

In today's news featured Marlenka on her Brushstrokes Exhibition at Pitanga, extended until 25th of Ocotober. Collective Priorities & Values Meeting Postponed due to the intense demands of preparations for Miraculous Productions' upcoming play: High Heels in the Old Town Tonight, starring the kids of Auroville shown at 8pm, Saturday October 6 in the Visitors' Centre; and next Collective P & V Meeting has been postponed until further notice. Weekly meditation for Healing and Peace starting on 4th at the Unity Pavilion in International Zone Read more

After a long selection process by the Selection Committee, names of the new L'Avenir d'Auroville Town Development Council were announced to the community. At the General Meeting at Unity Pavilion in the International Zone residents had the chance to meet most of the new members. The introduction was set up to allow each of the residents to interact with the team, by asking questions to set precedence on certain issues. It was clear that residents request most of all clear communication and interaction from the new team. Read more

In this late night phone recording we are featuring Suryagandhi's impressions on the Auroville Festival - City for Transformation at India International Centre in New Dehli. As she has pointed out we still got lot to learn, and share. Since she is actively involved in the project of Integral Health, she will be talking on it tomorrow along with Dr.Sumeet Kumar and Dr.Jacques Verre. Suryagandhi, while working at the reception desk for the festival, also noticed that audience is very much interested in interaction on many levels. Read more

The women's circle met Wednesday evening to discuss the always-pressing issue of women's safety on the roads in Auroville. One male represented, and new ideas were brought forth. The general sentiment was to release the fear, as we attract what we focus on, as well as to find a way to empower the men who are abusers. An evening group meditation under the banyan tree for protection and more safety checks were proposed. The group struggled to branch the gap between the physical and the metaphysical solutions. Contact Anandi to get involved.

Here Aromar Revi, talks about the future of renewable energy and highlights the fact that our civilization lives in the ignorance of permanence. He refers to the rise and fall of various civilizations that inhabited the Indian sub-continent and sees this as a natural cycle which will also overcome our current civilization. To download the presentation, click here. Director, Indian Institute of Human Settlement: www.iihs.co.in/about/promoters-group/aromar-revi/ Read more

Herbert Girardet explores if large, modern cities can be viable and resilient homes for humanity. He describes the historical urban transformation from agropolis (an economic system that draws most of its resources from immediate bioregions) to petropolis (eco-predator which relies on petrol-based fuel and highly wasteful resource management). He shares that the future lies in ecopolis and regenerative cities. To download the presentation click here. Co-Founder, World Future Council - www.agp.aurovilleconsulting.com/speakers Read more

A collective Priorities and Values Meeting no.3 is going on this afternoon at 4.30pm at Unity Pavilion in International Zone. This one will include presentation from LRD on Outlying Lands. On Friday 10th of August and Sri Aurobindo Ashram Exhibiton Hall in Pondicherry they will open a nine days long Photo Exhibition. Girogio is amongst the artist and in the connects of the exhibition will be displayed a selection of 23 chronotypes realized last year with the participation of Aurovilians during the workshop – Our Many Selves. Read more