RAS reminds us that It is time to select a new L’avenir / Town Development Council team. They are asking all of us to read the draft and take this opportunity to give our constructive feedback. We have two weeks (till 31st May 2012) to submit feedback by email to raservice@auroville.org.in with a copy to studygroup@auroville.org.in. Mr. Doshi is coming to visit Auroville from 28th to 30th of May, and he expressed his desire to meet the community of Auroville at large in order to discuss how to proceed with the planning work in Auroville. Read more

In today's news we feature interview with B on aura, which is just a little step in transition from capitalistic economy to spiritually based one. It should help us to understand more about shared gift economy, and it should take a step beyond the logical mind, start heading toward intuitive mind. Auroville cyclone releif team informs us that they will no longer take any new requests for fencing nor any bills for clearing work that was organized by individuals. The AVCRT clearing teams will continue to work until the end of June. Read more

"Mutation in Progress" got nominated at the 14th backup festival at the Bauhaus University in Weimar! »Mutation in Progress« was an artistic collaboration between 5 Auroville artists: Marie-Claire Barsotti (Sculptures), Chloé Sanchez (Sound Design), Christoph Pohl (Video Installation), Ana Rute Costa (Dance) and Denis Ben Sussan (Photography). We saw The installation at Gallery Square Circle during the 2nd Auroville Film Festival in September/October 2011. Between 8th to 19th from 7.30 - 8.30am Tanja is offering swimming lessons in La Piscine Read more

Kalarippayat, Mohiniyattam and Theyyam were performed by the Udayan's Masters at Sri Aurobindo Auditorium. Kalarippayat is a great and ancient physical, cultural and martial art of Kerala, which was in prevalence from time immemorial. It is primarily an art of physical culture, well developed in a most scientific way. It aims at giving a practitioner of the art, perfect control over his body balance, flexibility, stamina and speed, and perfect neuro-muscular co-ordination, an ability of the body to react instinctively to the senses. Read more

Starting Fri. 6th, Auroville hosts a 3-day festival celebrating Kabir... along with the live performances, Cinema Paradiso will show 4 films about Kabir, exploring his philosopy, poetry and songs, all with English sub-titles. Auroville Architects Monograph Series first release on architect Poppo Pingel, by Mona Doctor-Pingel 7 April, 9:15 at Town Hall Conference Room. Dehashakti (physical education, sports of various kinds for Auroville students) is minus funds for award t-shirts; support them by contributing to Dehashakti Sports acc. 102264. Read more

Feel the heat, the enthusiasm and the buzz of the Auroville Marathon - 5, in which almost 2000 people participated. As Jesse announces the winners, Andrea interviews runners and supporters from all across the country and the world who share their experiences. It's not just about running, as we found out, it's much about experiencing a new terrain, a different climate, new people, and also making a promise to oneself to aim higher next time. Read more

February 11th 2012: Ted MacDonald, the athlete experimenting with running on bare feet gave an inspiring speech for the marathon runners. There was that much interest in his talk that the speech had to be given in the open air, on the Visitors Centre's square. Ted spoke of his view on running with or without shoes and his journey to find the ultimate running experience, and encouraged people to keep running and keep searching for their own perfect way of doing so. Undoubtedly, Barefoot Ted gave every runner the power they need for the marathon! Read more

Santosh, Ramesh and Sampath can be heard in this interview recounting their own experiences of the Auroville Marathon. Both Santosh and Sampath tell us how they pulled out of the first Marathon to help with the starts and the timekeeping and Ramesh describes his experience of doing the route marking for the first Marathon. Now, ahead of the fifth Auroville Marathon, these three men have their work cut out as they strive to make the event better than before! (This is the third and final edition of the 'Run with a Smile' series. Enjoy!) Read more

This program contains interviews with Ing-Marie, a participant in the upcoming race, Anand, one of the main organizers, Taj, a graphic designer closely involved with the event, and Saket, an Ashramite who enjoys volunteering and being part of the Marathon. Listen in to all these people who contribute to the event in their different ways and find out how they all come together to make the Marathon special. This is the second out of three parts of the 'Running with a Smile' series. To see the marathon route, click on READ MORE. Read more

The Auroville Marathon (marathon.auroville.com) is held in February each year and this year is the fifth anniversary of the event. This program contains interviews with Chandresh and Balaji, two organizers who make the Marathon possible. While Chandresh talks about how he first had the idea of having a Marathon for Auroville, Balaji goes through the challenges involved in organizing an event that has over two thousand participants from all over the world. The organizers closed the registration on the seventh of January. Read more

Loretta talks about her film ‘The teachings of Flowers; the Life and Work of the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Aikido Wokshop 2012: Jean-Pierre Pigeau, offers a 12 day workshop. Auroville Marathon 2012 on February 12. A conference by Dr. Aster Patel: ‘Matter Precipitates… It is in a hurry to transform itself... ’beginning on 9 Feb. with a premiere of Loretta’s film. Ela for Insight Seminars: a one-day-workshop on the deeper level of the community: ‘An Introduction to the spiritual dimension of Auroville 9th February Center Guest House. Read more

Sports ground at Certitude, the field next to and Udavi sports ground were very lively past weekend with Hat Tournament , which is ultimate frisbee tournament a different way with mixed team, as Mark explained it to us. Twelve teams consisted of seven players played for four games (long 1h15m) in the morning and two games in the afternoon on all three fields. Ultimate frisbee is more self sponsored sport with clear spirit of sportmanship; ultimate is different, one has to keep it cool, know the rules, has to call it fair and work in a team. Read more

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. Read more

On February 4th and 5th at Certitude and Udavi sports ground we can witness Auroville Hat Tournament 2012 India Ultimate's. Two hundred players from all over will come and test their fitness and improve their skills with an 'Auroville' spirit . The Auroville Hat is the only 'hat' tournament in India, and reflects its spirit of Unity in Diversity. We feature interview with Kumaran about it. In today's news is also interview with Daniel updating us from Working Committee about work in progress on wood, fire hazards, effects of cyclone... Read more

We are all invited tomorrow between 5 to 7pm at Multimedia Center Auditorium in Town Hall to a slideshow presentation of three different adventures that took place this year in Hampi and Himalyas(Darjeeling and Laddakh). Presentations are full of images, while members will narrate the experience, and members of treks - The Learning Community (TLC) team, Jean, Joy, Pierre Anu, Lalit, Palani, Swaha, Elke, Dinesh, Lola, Anandamayi, Vladimir, Aurevan, Sergei and Jonah are looking forward to see and share the stories with us. 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

Listen to JV talking about a pollution solution: green mobile phones, inspired by the pollution spread through their use and their towers. Telos: a research project to make integral yoga easily accessible and practical in one's everyday life. A workshop - 'Explore seven states of Consciousness Experientially' next week. Georges Van Vrekhem's next talk: An intermediary range of transitory beings the Mother called 'surhommes,overmen.' To realize the transitory beings in their huge variety was our task. And, training for Marathon 2012 has begun. Read more

Sunny Sunday afternoon at Fertile Windmill, children and horses. To raise necessary funds for the horses and ponies to be fed under the roof at Baraka. Children of all ages together with Mahi and parents prepared a fundraising event and open house. We had a chance to see different skills of children on horses and their deep bonding with these lovable beings. Children prepared T-shirts with Baraka logo and some refreshments to sell. Afterward we spoke with Mahi what it takes to care for the horses around here and what are the difficulties, Read more

In today's news we feature interview with Tanja on the life-saving swimming competition in Trivandrum which she attended with 15 AV children and 7 adults previous weekend.On Thursday September 8, at 5.30 pm in the Picture Gallery at Savitri Bhavan Ladislav Brozman will have a Solo Violin Recital with Sonatas by J.S. Bach, Ysaye and Honegger. Auroville Green Practices Organizing Team is organizing the annual Auroville Green Practices event from 8-10 September with the tittle Regenerative Townships of Tomorrow - Vision Workshop. Read more

Evolution, Religion, and the Unknown God" by Georges Van Vrekhem now published; from Upasana an exhibition ‘Cotton-A Way Forward’ to be showcased in Nov. 2011; the second edition of the Auroville Triathlon will take place on Sunday 11th at New Creation Sports; ‘White Sails’ from Arseny: the idea of starting sailing action in Auroville, inspired by past experience, and time spent with a sailing and fencing club ‘The Carabela' in Russia and, l’Avenir d'Auroville announces 9 housing projects: 245 units followed by at least 270 more to follow. Read more

Resident Assembly Service informs us that The silver RAS boxes will be waiting to receive our Candidate Proposal Forms until Monday 5th September at the Solar Kitchen, Town Hall, PTDC and Pour Tous Aspiration. Two Candidate Proposal Forms (one for AVC members, one for WC members) will be available wherever the boxes are placed. On all locations boxes will be there until noon, at Solar Kitchen until. Next AVI meeting at Ethiopia at the end of October need sponsors for speakers / participants because AVI's donations are not enough. PT # 251350 Read more

Saturday shouldn't be boring at all because Africa House in International Zone prepared whole day in African spirit. They will start at 3pm with drumming circle and blessings on African Land in International Zone, behind Secretary house. At 5pm at Certitude sports ground will be lively since there will be two friendly matches between Auroville and African students in football and basketball. They sincerely hope - both teams, that you will come to cheer them up. AT 8pm at Unity Pavilion in International Zone African students from the area prepared cultural event which will include dances, songs, story telling, poems ...and more...We all know that Africans stay up long at night so we can expect a surprise or two...

Planning, planning, planning. The time has come again for nine days exploration and discoveries in nature. On Tuesday the 11th of May at 12am, Thirty children and 12 adults of the second group of the Auroville Summer Camp will start their journey direction Kodaikanal. In this broadcast we have leader Jonah and Savnon from Deepanam School, telling you about what kids of the second group are awaiting in this years summer camp. Listen further and you will become part of the itinerary and discussions of the ten adults and activity leaders on preparation from mobile phones, clothes, expeditions,health, to sweets and snacks and much more. Read more

Featured today is an excerpt from last Thursday's concert by the Brand New Band that played at Kalabhumi to an enthusiastic audience. All the music can be heard on aurovilleradio as of this afternoon. Announcements include the Auroville Football Club's tournament Saturday at Aurodam football field; at Sri Ma Pizza gratis/ potuck on the beach, also on Sunday Hibiscus Art Village Project presents Pink Floyd in Concert London,1994 plus dancing to the dj expertise of Jessie. And finally, five points from l'Avenir d'Auroville to International Advisory Council. Read more

If last week passed in Earth Day-Week spirit, this one will be mostly in Sufi since the visiting guest Sufi musician Latif Bolat prepared many lectures, which are all followed by concerts. Latif is a very serious and advanced Sufi scholar. And on Saturday at 8pm he and Parvathy Baul will give a concert at Sri Aurobindo Auditorium Bharat Nivas, Pavilion of Indian Culture with tittle "Songs from the heart beyond borders." In today's news we feature also interview with Johnny and children about wacky Earth Day Parade, and with Satyen about fund raising tournament for the football field at Aurodhan on Saturday at 8am. Read more

It started before dawn...and to see the sunrise, dew on tree leaves, feel the sand and grass under the feet, was a blessing...the high spirits of people who supported runners all the way, with taunts as well as with water and medical assistance, was contagious...it gave them reason to do their best, run the best they could...morning cold was soon warmed up by sun, and the cheerful spirit of participants, slowly finishing the distance they had chosen to run. We'll be back for sure next year...all said! Read more

" Running a marathon is a dream: It is intense, it is arduous, it is challenging both physically and mentally and it demands all of you - commitment, endurance, persistence, focus.” This is what you can read in the website of the Auroville Marathon (marathon.auroville.com). What is missing in this sentence is the pleasure the runners have. In the interview recorded at the arrival, we have heard a lot of appreciation for the beauty of the trail, the warm and familiar atmosphere and the good organization. Some athletes just make it short. Awesome. Read more

The news today features the art and science of the run as experienced by Aurovilian Paul Blanchflower. The Fourth Auroville Marathon took place yesterday. By now this annual event is anticipated amidst recreational runners in India as well as abroad, as seen by the increasing number of runners; almost 1,400 runners of various ages participated in several differemt categories. Also the news announces today's opening at Savitri Bhavan of the Supramental Transformation, an exhibition of Mother's work of supramental transformation. Sri Aurobindo's writings, both poetry and prose, and Mother's reports on Her experiences bring an explanation of the tremendous changes that we see today, and which Sri Aurobindo called the supramental descent. Read more

Today we feature an interview with Chandresh, from the team of the Auroville Marathon. He explain us their ideas, wishs and needs for this very important event that is going to happen this next Sunday the 13th of February. Volunteers are more then welcome to come and help in this big happening! And we also share some announcements that impacts our daily life: L'Avenir Financial Report from Oct-Dec 2010 available in intranet, AV Health Fund new timings, Unending Education Portal, Eco Service changes and the resignation at the Auroville Library. And remember: tomorrow is the General Meeting on Housing day! Read more

The theme for 3rd interactive workshop on Mutation II tomorrow at "White Room” at Bharat Nivas, Sri Aurobindo Centre for studies will be - Bridging the Arc of Mysticism guided by Bahman A.K. Shirazi. Matter changes as human mind evolves. This process seems to have accelerated greatly since 1956, due to the influence of the Supermind on lower mental spheres. And Loretta's talk on Thursday will be on - Mother Becomes The Tremendous Pulsation Of Love From The Origin. Read more