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

Their over two months long volunteership at the Auroville Radio is about to end. In the conversation we find what triggered them to choose the Radio to contribute to the city. For Maria, an architect and artist, is the good place to connect all the ideas, all the facts, it is the right place to communicate to the entire world, and for the time being the only archive of most of the things that happen with accessibility to all. To Guiseppe, experimental anthropologist, radio is a good point where the wind come and stay together in peace Read more

A slide show of sacred Ladakh shares a pilgrimage into the coreof the Buddhist Spirit. Bring your special dish and your recipe to the market "food contest table" before noon, made from local produce. A basket with AV produce is the prize! The Present Earth Day Celebration will take place this Sunday in Children's Land Sadhana Forest. Arts, workshops, performances and potluck style picnic will be there. Wonderland Art Gallery is searching for somebody to promote and develop art pieces made by Aurovilian Artists. Read more

On Tuesday 27th at Savitri Bhavan opened the exhibition Cyclone Inversions by Gotz Rogge an artist and an experimental photographer from Berlin, Germany. He organized a workshop with Sasi Somu, the teacher of photography and art at the Future School. It involved some students to make large scale Camera Obscura photographic artifacts about the landscape generated by the cyclone. In the interview (in English) Gotz, Sasi and the student Gal explain us about their experience. Their work is shown untill the 3rd of April. - www.heimat.de/halqa Read more

Prior to Prof Samdhong Rinpoche's arrival, interviews were sought with two Tibetan exchange students Namgyal and Tsened, and Jungchup from Auroville. They were waiting at the entrance of the Tibetan Pavillion to see the rare photos of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, and his documented asylum into India and a talk delivered by Rinpoche. Each one spoke very sweetly of their experiences living in Auroville. Firstly, Namgyal covered the topic of the Mahayana discipline of meditation and, how to be a 'better man' for Tibet. Read more

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. Read more