Daily Schedule 05 February, 2012
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0:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
0:05 Jaco Pastorious Tribute Band
When Mishko M'Ba greeted the audience with announcement of repertoir which would pay the tribute to Jaco Pastorious, famous bass player, brought many smiles on the faces. The whole gig was special treat for music lovers. Excellent musicians Mishko M'Ba on Bass, Matt Littlewood on saxophone, Suresh Bascara on drums and Karan Joseph on keyboards played known songs of Jaco Pastorious, Pat Metheny, Miles Davis and Joe Zawinul with technical perfection and with all their love for the music.
1:00 The latest English news from Auroville
1:05 Arabic and Western Music
Three exceptional musicians come together in Auroville to celebrate their shared cultures and music making. Anwar is one of the greatest living oud players from Iraq. The oud, a middle eastern lute is one of the most beautiful instruments , and Anwar sings in classical Arabic . Heather Lee has the finest high soprano voice in Australia and has sung all around the world . Dr Kim Cunio is a leading performer and researcher of sacred music who has set many of the vanishing spiritual texts of the world to music to international acclaim.
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2:00 The latest English news from Auroville
2:05 Unifying Event
Natural catastrophe of cyclone(hurricane) Thane brought to town some new dimensions we even new that they do exists. On one way each of us was going trough intimate isolating issues manifested in physical cleaning around the house, but hurricane happened to all of us, no matter Aurovilians, guests, volunteers; brought the unifying moment with it. Jesse wanted to for the first time explore improvisational theatre on the given theme - hurricane. In interesting interview he share with us the concept of it, and what have happened on the stage.
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3:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
3:05 Violin and Piano Recital
Within the series of events organized by Bulgarian Pavilion Group we had a chance to listen to an violin and piano recital at Pitanga on Sunday 29th of January. They offered to Auroville devotional songs by Beinsa Duno, a Bulgarian spiritual master who wrote;"Music is the first visible indication fo love. The aim of music is to uplift hte human soul. Within music the great laws of the cosmic creation and the creative Spirit of the existence are hidden." Beside his songs numerous audience was excited over other classical pieces .
4:00 The latest English news from Auroville
4:05 Thane en español
De una hispanica celebracion ha surgido este compilado de experiencias y reflexiones que nacen de entre los Aurovillianos tras el paso del ciclon Thane por Tamil Nadu. En este podcast los entrevistados nos ayudan a valorar la "solidaridad espontanea que ha surgido entre la comunidad", ha entender la necesidad de replantear los codigos de construccion de Auroville para evitar que "el techo no se vaya, que las ventanas no exploten" y
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5:00 The latest English news from Auroville
5:05 Cyclone as Message from Nature
At Auroville Bamboo Research Centre, as all around of Auroville we could hear sound of chain saw and hammers, but Balu kindly spent some time to answer our questions. Nature is giving us message - to do something together, is his observation. Him and all the bamboo centre team share sadness over fallen trees in the area as . Last week passed in cleaning and evaluating damages, and somehow Balu is of opinion that they are on this plot at industrial zone not to make a mess with many various kit roof structures but to develop it in whole,
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6:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
6:05 Marc Vella
Hall with piano at Pitanga was yesterday too small for all those who wanted to listen to Marc Vella's concert , which was organized by The French Pavilion and CIRHU. Marc as an excellent pianist, composer, writer and a poet , knonw also by his nomadic traveling with his piano on missions called Cravana of Love shared with us... lots of Love... melodies interwoven with unusual exploration of the instrument, extending experiences we got on piano to play stories, lullaby, natural sounds, pieces of historical memories of distant places. LOVE
7:00 The latest English news from Auroville
7:05 Beach side one week after cyclone
The beach side was heavily damaged during the cyclone. One week after, reconstruction work is going on. In the town Periyamudaliarchavadi, people were helping government working men clearing away fallen trees to restore electricity lines. Near Repos beach lives Bhaga, already for 20 years now. She gives an account of what happened. During our interview, reconstruction workers entered her back garden with heavy machinery. This ended our talk prematurely, as Bhaga had to go outside to prevent the machine doing too much destruction.
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8:00 The latest English news from Auroville
8:05 New year prayer, Tibetan pavilion
Yesterday, at the Tibetan pavilion took place the traditional prayer to celebrate the new year. It occurred exceptionally on the 10th of January due to the cyclone. Probably more meaningful than ever for Auroville, after a strenuous ending year, this collective celebration opens officially 2012. Surrounded by 1000 candles, this event gathered everybody, Aurovilians as guests, to meditate and welcome the new year. Here the recordings of the tibetan prayers and mantras, to bring you back to the atmosphere of that night of sharing and serenity.
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9:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
9:05 Auroville For Dummies
To visiting Engineer Without Border Toine shortly explained what Auroville is, how it was originated and what it stands for, and drawing comparison said, that Auroville could be described also as a township without borders because of the connections and openness to the world. To Auroville are mostly drawn people with strong inner need for a change, dissatisfied with the world as it is today. Sri Aurobindo's idea of human as transitional being, in search for inner being , and the Mothers Charter are base of what experiment of Auroville might be
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10:05 Interviews at Rinpoche's talk
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.
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11:00 The latest English news from Auroville
11:05 Homage flute to Saint Tyagaraja
During the homage celebrated past Sunday 22th at the SAWCHU in Bharas Nivas, Gordon performed some of the compositions of Saint Tyagaraja. Every year the commemorative music festival Tyagaraja Aradhana is held at Thiruvaiyaru in Tyagaraja's honour. This is a week-long festival of music where various Carnatic musicians from all over the world get together with their veenas, violins, flutes, nagasvarams, mridangams and ghatams.
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12:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
12:05 Piano in Solitude
There's no doubt that Marc Vella captured hearts of Aurovilians with his loving attitude toward music as toward audience, nature... Films we saw before his arrival, his personal presence in the town, brought again crowd to the Lively Up Your Earth eco music festival at Solitude Farm on last Saturday 28th of January. We can thank to private donors which contributed needed money to hire a piano from Chennai and with that made it possible for all of us to hear to Marc Vella amongst the palm trees of Solitude Farm.
13:00 The latest English news from Auroville
13:05 Painting with Mother's clothes
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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14:00 The latest English news from Auroville
14:05 Fundraising after Cyclone
Hemant is part of the Auroville Cyclone Relief & Rehabilitation Team. In this interview he's sharing the last few days of work of the many groups involved in the relief and rehabilitation. In the coming days the electricity will be restored in the center of Auroville but in other places it will take 4 weeks since the TNB personal is busy in other places. The main electrical work is done by Aurovilians.The positive aspect of the cyclone's event is the fact that many persons came together to help each other. Many guest also joined in this effort.
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15:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
15:05 Architecture and Planning
On the16th February of 2010 there had been a presentation in Town Hall, held by the acknowledged architects Dean D’ Cruz from Goa and Ms. Mette from Denmark. With the aim to share their work in the field of architecture and planning w ith the Aurovillians, Dean`s presentation included his involvement with the preparation of the Goa Regional Plan. Mette Lange, an architect who has her base both in Denmark and Goa, works with a few other Danish architects and engineers on a project to create sustainable modular housing for India. The presentations were followed by an interactional part with the audience, including some discussions.
16:00 The latest English news from Auroville
16:05 Divine numbers
“I see music as a combination of numbers. The music harmony is a beauty of number sequence. You can't touch numbers. They are beyond the matter. The material world is based on number's canons. They are timeless and never-ending. Their harmony helps you to get out of the mental frame and feel the Divine.” Alexander Zhikharev, a Russian inventor of a unique musical instrument - the set of specially tuned plate bells, is sharing with us in the interview the source of his inspiration in Russian.
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17:00 The latest English news from Auroville
17:05 Did you like the Movie?
Hear comments, thoughts and interviews from the public of Auroville as well as guests about their views of the Auroville film festival 2009. One thing the interviewers are constantly bringing out is: that the AVFF is great and creative endeavor. That the films give a better glimpse into Auroville and the bioregion. That this process reflects many goals of Auroville. Auroville is suppose to be a place of unending education (developing one's skills in video would definitely fit the bill), a place of human unity, many of the films were done by village kids, plus the atmosphere of cooperation and collaboration (not competition) in making the films was really great. The creative spirit is alive and well in AV thanks to the AV Film Festival! Watch the video here.
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18:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
18:05 Biology View
Anand Kumar talk on Mutation II A Clearing was touching biology point of mutation. As a biologist performing his work in genetic, infertility, cancer and hormonal investigation he started to ask himself, after reading Sri Aurobindo work twenty years back, what is the meaning of all life. Sri Aurobindo wrote that tradition of changes is the oldest tradition, but Kumar noted that tradition of mutation is actually the oldest. As he sees tradition of mutation created us, and it will take us back to origin. He reminded us that DNA are the basic units, made out of 4 the same molecules for all beings, from which either virus or a man can be created.
19:00 The latest English news from Auroville
19:05 Auroville Products
Just before the New Year we spoke with Isabele, who is one of the founders of Auroville Market about it. As she told us it started three years ago with mainly Food Link products, and slowly overgrown into a well established Saturday Market with Auroville products. Location is central, in front of Solar Kitchen, and time frame Saturday morning. That way many people do pass by, not necessary with the intention to buy. It seems that Aurovillians, and New Comers do enjoy in the culture of Saturday market, on which, they supply themselves with fresh vegetables and food products, but also exchange the ideas, and socialize...
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20:00 The latest English news from Auroville
20:05 Twilight 10
For two days - tonight and tomorrow - at Sri Aurobindo Auditorium at Bharat Nivas film lovers will come on their expense by festival of short films of students form Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communication. Before screening of films each night will be panel discussion about short films and digital media, what to keep in mind to keep the film short, and other related topics. On both nights will be a chance to see 25 the best short films from 2007 and 2008, of which two of them - Printed Rainbow and the Little Terrorist - won many awards.
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21:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
21:05 The African Night
For Friday 26th of March in Visitor Center Africa House from Unity Pavillion in International Zone organized first cultural exchange with African nations - African students from Tamil Nadu with Aurovillians. We had a chance to see different things from traditional African dances and music, boardwalk modeling to the newest afrobeats and original songs in rap and hip hop. Students were deeply moved by ideals of Auroville.
22:00 The latest English news from Auroville
22:05 The Treasure of the Silk Cocoon
Uma of Upasana and her team have been busy doing research on the silkworm, its cocoon and the incredible length of a single strand from that cocoon. The various processes that must be done before we have in our hands the textile the world knows as silk will be shown in the resultant book which is nearing completion; it presents the humble beginnings of silk and the various processes of how it becomes silk as the world knows it. The book 'Silk' will be completed in the next few months, available through Upasana.
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23:00 The latest English news from Auroville
23:05 Singing in Happiness
On Saturday, the 20th of February 2010 there was a Tibetan Dance Performance by  visiting students from Dharamsala and Chennai and the Bharat Nivas Auditorium was full of curious people. Before the main dance performance the audience could listen to Nandita Di and children from Auroville, who welcomed the student performers with three Hindustani Vocals: Mother's Mantra, Sri Aurobindo's Mantra and a song called Tin Tin. The singing was accompanied by Debashish Das with the tabla. Here you can listen to the three songs..
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