The exhibition Resonance by Michel Nicolet is open for other four Sundays at Petite Ferme, Auroville. The sculptor Michel Nicolet is showing us a remarkable set of objects. One could say that his presentation consists of three parts: his words, his drawings and his sculpture. The drawings, being two dimensional, appear to be a study towards a special kind of three dimensionality. In the interview (in French) Michel tells us about his life paths and connections, which draw him to Auroville and, through cymatics, to this exhibition. Read more

Pierre Legrand's very joyful art is an expression of his deep feelings, his happiness, his problems and also his love in every being. He has developed his own mathematical rules and a secret alphabet to transform poetry into paintings. Prayers to the Mother, mantras, inner thoughts and different emotions are turned into colorful strokes and dots and every painting has its own meaning. 'The real work is our transformation.' What does Pierre mean by that? What does he think about painting? And finally: What is art? Read more

On Saturday 3th at Tibetan Pavillon opened the "Glagolitic Traces" Exhibition of Antonia Duende's paintings, open untill the 10th of March as part of the events for invocation of Bulgarian Pavillion. There was also a musical offering by Nikolai , Marina and Aurelio, and a poem in Bulgarian language from Narender Khatri. The paintings incorporate traces from stone inscriptions of the Glagolitic alphabet - the first Slavonic alphabet, created in the middle of the 9th century AD by St. Kostantin-Cyril the Philosopher and his brother Methodius. Read more

On Thursday 23rd at 5 pm in Cinema Paradiso - Town Hall, Anais Woin in collaboration with French Pavilion and CIRHU presented "History of ancient manuscripts". Anais is an historian, researcher at CRNS (Centre National Recerche Scientifique), specialist of the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia during medieval and modern periods. She works with manuscript texts, most of them being consulted in the churches and monasteries of the Ethiopian highlands. Those manuscripts are still part of a living culture and much related to oral traditions. Read more

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 Read more

Renu, team member of the Selection Committee, shares her thoughts and feelings on the work; the team has been meeting over the past several months attempting to follow the process for choosing new members for the next two-year term of the AVC and WC, acceptable to the Residents' Assembly. Thanksgiving, an American holiday to give thanks for the many blessings of life, celebrated as a dinner at Visitors' Centre on Thursday. All are welcome. Chronotype workshop by Giorgio at Arka. 2012 Auroviille Marathon training announced, days and timings. Read more

Pierre Veillat shared with us in Svedam some facts and interesting stories about French archaeological mission of Bubasteïon, Saqqara in Egypt where in 70ies they discovered five exceptional tombs of the new empire. In contemporary papyrus documents the area was known as the Bubasteion, or cult-place of the cat goddess Bastet. But Alain Zivie French archeologist realised that originally these galleries had been made as tombs for the high officials of New Kingdom Memphis. Over the years, his team emptied about 15 of these hypogea which are distributed on two levels in the cliffs. Two of these tombs date to the Old Kingdom, the others range in date from the reign of Hatshepsut to that of Merenptah. Read more

An interview with Joshua of Auroville Papers. We talked about his history with the company and within Auroville, and also explored the many aspects of work in the factory. Auroville Papers is close to Aspiration Community in Kuillapalayam. A beautiful Banyan tree is on the left as you enter, and you feel like you're entering a sanctuary not any sort of factory. Their handmade paper is made only from vegetal fibres. It is free from toxic substances, its manufacture does not require the felling of trees, and no endangered vegetal species are used for its production. Read more

What it started as a workshop for disabled people in merely three years overgrown to a project which tends to connect people from different countries, social and ethical backgrounds to express their creativity on a given unsymmetrical shape. Werner Gabriel, the project holder, and initiator brought this traveling exhibition to Auroville trough connections with Life Education Project and Harini. Girls from Life Education Project made a model of given shape out of cloth, and resembles on Indian woman. All 71 pieces that are on display at Gallery Square Circle at Kala Kendra until 21st of December, are indeed so different each from other, which also shows all the beauty of unity in diversity. Read more

At Saracon at 3pm Blue Light will demonstrate Enterprise Resource management (ERP) software which is widely use all over the world to manage the business activities of enterprises ranging from small and medium size enterprises to large corporations. Tomorrow at the Pavilion of Tibetan Culture in International Zone the exhibition of Hu Hsu paintings will be open. Hu Hsu, the Chinese disciple who lived in Ashram, was by the Mother's words a scholar, and artist, a yogi. At Cinema Paradiso we can see tonight at 8pm and Italian movie OGGI SPOSI, and tomorrow documentary about Neil Yung&Crazy Horse and the music.

The news today features an interview with Audrey from Creativity speaking about their Life Drawing program which happens every Tuesday night from 7:30 – 10pm. They are looking for models of any race, gender and age, and they may even be able to pay a small sum! Click "play" to hear the interview! Contact Audrey at 2622641 or audrey@auroville.org.in. Also in the news: Savitri Bhavan is hosting multiple exhibitions, on display until October 15, and a description of an Italian film playing tomorrow night at Cinema Paradiso.

Tuesday, 7th of September, and the weather in Auroville is just pleasantly partly cloudy. Tonight we can see an Italian movie Io, loro e lara(Me, them and Lara) at Cinema Paradiso, and tomorrow The Beautiful Truth. On Saturday at Gallery Square Cirlce at Kala Kendra at Bharat Nivas was inaugurated the exhibition of paintings by Shadow Brothers, and at Pitanga was a solo concert of Matthew “shark” Shartsis on piano an guitar. The events scheduled for the weekend promise us lively end of the week.

A Dana, Basile (alias Tutsy Navarathna) et Claudine nous ouvrent les portes de leur studio, où ils distillent avec précision des documentaires et des courts métrages sur Auroville. Installés ici depuis dix ans, ils nous livrent leurs impressions sur les évolutions culturelles et artistiques dont ils ont été témoins. Entre Second Life, le Bhagavad-Gitâ et Rimbaud, nous découvrons avec enthousiasme le travail de recherche et d'expérimentation de ces professionels. Ils posent ainsi les premières pierres d'une scène culturelle de haut niveau à Auroville. Read more

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. Read more

On the 14th of November children will have a great opportunity to express themselves on many different ways – from drawing, to drumming, theater, to mask making, kolams and more. Different ways which serves as tools for their inner expression. The children will find the inspirational surroundings of the Youth Center. This day is national children day, so Mohanam Cultural Center and Youth Center decided to organize Auroville Children's Art Festival. Morning workshops with many materials and other ways of expression will be followed by lunch. In the afternoon an open exhibition of the children's work will be presented to parents and visitors.

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A very special exhibition was inaugurated in Tibetan Pavilion on sunday by three young Aurovillians. Claude, who is the driving force behind it, realized after the talk with his Holiness the Dalai Lama, that this is something he got to do, and he had to do it in a unique way. On 25 panels starting with ancient history of Tibet, which is to most of us unknown, are glimpses of Tibetan history through several millenniums. All the panels are enveloped somehow with two thangka paintings which his Holiness the Dalai Lama presented signed by him for this exhibition. Going trough all the panels and watching the two beautiful thangka paintings one remains speechless... as though all questions where answered. Read more

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Without doubt Ganesh is one of the most popular deities in India, and all over the world. Either for his kindness and qualities of a god who's beneficiary in many cases or because of his interesting and cuddly figure of full belly being with elephant head and four arms... however, Lord Shree Ganesh is a god of knowledge and the remover of obstacles. He is worshiped or at least remembered in the beginning of any auspicious performance for blessings and auspiciousness. He has four hands, elephant's head and a big belly. His vehicle is a tiny mouse. A unique combination of his elephant like head and a quick moving tiny mouse vehicle represents tremendous wisdom, intelligence and presence of mind.

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Valentines Day in Auroville was packed with events and the gallery at the Tibetan Pavilion was not exempt to this on Saturday. Lourdes Malpica, Ka-ti Deslandes, Christian Fette, Hufreesh Dumasia and Audrey Wallace Taylor have been communally creative during a one week period of the Women Artists Camp initiative. Synergy Shakti is the name of the art which resulted from these women unfolding their creative processes together in the same space in the period of a few days. The drive behind the camp was the thirst of these contemporary female artists to empower and inspire each other in one nurturing space.

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Beauty is the presence of the divine in the physical, Mother has said. When Loretta first came to the Ashram in the 1970s, she was touched by the spirit of beauty and the exhibitions there. To share the spiritual power of these experiences with Auroville, Loretta presented several photographic exhibitions of Mother and Sri Aurobindo in the last years. For AurovilleRadio, Loretta describes how the current show “Mother and Flowers” in Savitri Bhavan was brought to life. She appreciates the cooperation with and the dedication of Aurovillians, guests and Ashramites who supported her. The exhibition is open 10.00 am – 5.00 pm daily until 9th of March.

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Jeune artiste plasticien, Rémi Tamburini, venu à Auroville pour visiter ses parents, a profité de l'occasion pour réaliser une exposition à Kala Kendra intitulée: UNITY IN DIVERSITY. A travers une installation multimédia, il nous plonge dans un univers de science fiction ou 50 totems sont exprimés selon différents médiums, comme la sculpture, le son, le graphisme, la lumière, etc. Nous l'avons interviewé alors qu'il préparait son installation dans l'atelier de ses parents. Pour télécharger l'interview cliquez ici.

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For the english magazine of today, a talk about Aurovilles present and future with Tixon. A young Indian, born in Auroville, who tells us how he found his way to Auroville and what made him come back after finishing his school in England. He talks about both: the positive influences of western culture, as well as the positive influences of the surounding villages, giving their piece to the diversity of Auroville. To listen to the whole Interview, you can click here.

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Come molti qui, Julie, prima di posarsi sul ramo chiamato Auroville, e' volata intorno al mondo... Editrice, disegnatrice ed anche all'occasione scrittrice di libri per bambini ha continuato ad Aurovillea pubblicare per la sua casa di edizioni Little by Little, che non vuol dire solo poco a poco, ma anche... Après l'interview en italien, Julie nous lit en français quelques poèmes que lui avait confié Aruna avant son fatal accident. Potete ascoltare l'intervista cliccando sul logo play o scaricare l'intervista cliccando qui.

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Marie-Claire, artiste aurovillienne, vient d'avoir la proposition d'exposer à la biennale d'Avignon. l'esprit d'Auroville étant présent dans son travail, c'est donc naturellement qu'elle décide de partager cette exposition avec les "créatifs" Aurovilliens. Le concept: donner une tête à chacun des participants, à eux de s'occuper du corps! L'exposition s'appelle "Résonances: l'Unité dans la Diversité". Tous les participants se sont retrouvés à Radiance pour exposer leur œuvres avant le grand départ pour la France. Cliquez sur READ MORE pour voir les photos du vernissages et des artistes avec leurs œuvres. Vous pouvez écouter l'intégralité du programme en consultant la grille des programmes ici. Cliquez sur le logo play pour écouter l'extrait du programme.Read more

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In the second program of the series 'Experience Tamil Culture' one can know more about an ancient Indian meditation. The Kolam is a drawing done every day in the space in front of the house. Much more than simple beautiful patterns, kolam is a prayer to welcome the sun god, the good spirits and also the friends. Only women are allowed to do this early morning ritual, the knowledge of which passed from mother to daughter for generations. One can create a lot of different designs, but the tradition requires it to be done bending all the body (as in yoga asanas) and to use white rice powder (a symbolic way to provide food to the ants and insects). Read more

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Giorgio in pochi anni e' diventato a Auroville sinonimo di fotografia. Sempre disponibile questo giovanotto che ha passato la settantina ha realizzato calendari e servizi per molte unita' di Auroville e anche il nostro sito della radio ha pubblicato e pubblica molti suoi scatti. Giorgio ci racconta come e perche' e' arrivato ad Auroville. Clicca qui Per ascoltare la sua intervista clicca sul logo play.

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This week's Tamil program features an interview with Tamil  Aurovilian Rajan, who was brought to Auroville by his German stepmother. Rajan stopped his schooling to go to work in order to help his grandmother, his only family member. He speaks simply,  with an innocence,  yet a depth of the  meaning of life in relation to his world can be heard. Rajan works in the Graphic Section at Town Hall.

What really is 'his world...'

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Charudutta Desai, simply known as 'Charu' came to Auroville in 1998. Presently he is part of Auroville's Entry Service besides being a prolific painter. This month he is exhibiting forty of his caricatures of Aurovilians captured in a lighter vein  at Kala Kendra, Bharat Nivas at the Pavilion of India. Done in black and white, his caricatures have been very well received by the 'victims' as well as the general public. To view the caricatures, click here

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During the pioneering days of Auroville the accent was on planting trees, growing food and simply surviving.  Interest in and time to create art was a luxury not yet existant in Auroville. Today art finds its place in the consideration of  Aurovilians. Collective work in an individual expression of creation? Agnus, Anna Maria, Henk, Hufreesh and Nele will exhibit their work in Bombay (Mumbai) at Cymrosa Art Gallery from the 19th to the 29th of September. In the interview they can be heard along with two journalists: Daniel of AurovilleRadio and Priya of Auroville Today.

In this week’s Tamil news there is an interview with Guna from Graphic Section of Auroville’s Future where he explains how he began his ‘unending education in Auroville’. He speaks about his life in Auroville and the beginning of Graphic Section and the progress of both himself and graphic section hand in hand, his natural fraternity towards fellow Aurovilians and how he views his life in Auroville. Welcome to share the life and experience of a young man, who began his life - learning in Auroville and never stopped learning. Also we have a compilation of the past weeks happenings and announcements of several cultural events and musicals.

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Letters and colours, mantra and spiral. Two artists, two paths.  Monique concentrates on writing a mantra on different sheets of paper.  Leonard has a younger approach as he lets the art come.  He believes that the spiral is the cycle of human life and expresses it photographically.  Monique writes with a plume, Leonard wields the computer.

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