Daily Schedule 03 September, 2010
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0:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
0:05 Celebration of the Divinity
It has been quite some time since we had an opportunity or a reason to go to Verite for a cultural event, but Thursday night 5th of August proved again that the hall can offer some intimate settings with good acoustics. It felt good to enjoy the intimacy of the numerous listeners in the audience and the artist at the same time...like a circle of friends. Ana's origin is from Portugal, and Andy from Hungary; he danced for the Divine and for us to Odissi dance, which they learned from the same teacher. Both of them mastered postures and gestures of that very specific and elaborated dance, in which each hand gesture has a meaning and a reason. Tiago, Chloe, Caroline and Mariana rocked us with their melodious voices to Africa between dances.
1:00 The latest English news from Auroville
1:05 Independence Day
On Sunday 15 th of August at Bharat Nivas in the morning was the celebration for the birthday of Sri Aurobindo and for the Independence day of India. In the opening talk of Anu we could remember that Sri Aurobidno saw that for the evolution of mankind was important for all nations to be free, and India had to take the role to start that process. In the ideal human unity this evolution would regard mankind as one single nation, that a free world union must it in its very nature be a complex unity, based on diversity, and that diversity must be based on a free self determination. Final dream was not limited in time. It carry the seeds of evolution into the future of humanity, and there we see the birth of Auroville already placed as a seed to experiment of the future of Humanity.
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2:00 The latest English news from Auroville
2:05 A Pilgrimage to Yatra with Srini
On a beautiful day in New Creation, Srini shares with us the work and projects of the “journey” that has been for him Yatra Multimedia. Through education, pedagogy and a great deal of hard work, Yatra offers to Auroville and to the surrounding villages awareness movies for children. Srini's life-long passion for visual arts is livened up by his great sense of humor, characteristic of his movies which have won awards at the 2009 Auroville Film Festival. The Auroville visual arts scene is flourishing according to Srini, and he stresses the importance of youth to reach greater cultural achievements.
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3:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
3:05 Residents’ Assembly Gathering
Yesterday afternoon more than 120 residents of Auroville met with the new team of L'avenir d'Auroville. After the personal introduction made by all the new members the microphone was shared with the people who took the opportunity to share their feelings, comments and ideas. The focus of the gathering was on the planning and development of the City and as usual, questions were raised about the Galaxy plan and vision of the City. The explanation given by the planners was well accepted and some clapping accompanied the meeting. Some criticism was also expressed but the discussion never degenerated. The Gathering was facilitated by the Residents’ Assembly Service.
4:00 The latest English news from Auroville
4:05 Hip Hop
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.
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5:00 The latest English news from Auroville
5:05 Auroville is much more than a tourist place
Trough Auroville many people pass every year. Some stays few days, some about a month, but some decide to really “taste” it. Emanuela came from Brasil few months back, and she talked with us about her life, work and experiences here. She found lots of good things for herself around, she soon realized how much she grew, and also that month is not enough to taste what Auroville is about. For her the first month was the hardest but after she started to work, and meet Aurovillians, things changed. And as she said, right now Auroville is her second home.
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6:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
6:05 Power and Change
Connecting Inner Power with Global Change. An approach to organizations/systems based on fractals and Sri Aurobindo. A talk with audio-visuals in Town Hall Conference Hall, was held on Monday, 16 August. Pravir Malik is a successful business consultant in the US, and he’s also taught in the Ashram School. He presented the work he’s doing with fractals and their assisting with solving organizational and system problems. Check out his website: www.aurosoorya.com, which covers much of what he’s described in his book Connecting Inner Power with Global Change.
7:00 The latest English news from Auroville
7:05 New ALL
The Auroville Language Lab is a full-fledged language laboratory that draws upon the unique linguistic culture of Auroville. Alive with the rich vibrant sounds of languages from all over the world, Auroville is the perfect place to learn a new one.ALL offers Tomatis Ear Re-Education Therapy for both language learning as well as therapeutic applications. While it does not replace the need for language classes covering grammar, vocabulary acquisition etc, Tomatis method gives one the hearing of a native speaker, and consequently results in extremely precise and correct pronunciation. Here the presentation made by Mita about Tomatis and Auroville Language Lab.
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8:00 The latest English news from Auroville
8:05 In the Mood for Cinema
Nel giardino zen del Tai Chi Hall, siamo andati ad incontrare Marco, che, da più di vent'anni, invita giovani (e meno giovani) a sognare e riflettere al “Cinema Paradiso”. Tra i western e l'Auroville Film Festival, tra il cinema iraniano e il Matrimandir, tra Wong Kar-Wai e l'unità umana, Marco ha condiviso il suo rapporto particolare con il cinema ed il ruolo importante di quest'arte nell'esperienza di Auroville. Accompagnato dalla melodia melancolica e sensuale di “In the mood for love”, Marco ci offre le ultime novità sull'Auroville Film Festival del 2011. Nel silenzio meditativo di una sala di proiezione, gli essere umani sembrano più vicini.
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9:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
9:05 Planning in the Forest
As part of inclusive planning and development exercise, the Green Group, the Forest Group the Farm Group and l'Avenir d'Auroville held a joint meeting to discuss issues relating to water, environment and forest and how that impacts planning and development. The meeting was hosted by Nikolai at the Youth Center. The discussion touched many topics regarding the development of the city. This meeting was first of the kind between the planners of the city and the persons taking care of most of the green. A very positive step.
10:00 The latest English news from Auroville
10:05 Filmer Auroville
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.
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11:00 The latest English news from Auroville
11:05 Playing Together
For football fans and others this year World Cup held in South Africa was special from many different aspects. In Auroville we decided to watch some of the matches together on the La Terrace - Solar Kitchen. On one of those nights we recorded part of the atmosphere and in interviews with some of the audience Chloé found out that the most important thing that night wasn't really the game itself, but the whole thing, being together, experienced it with millions from all around, to add some energy on, as somebody named it, this particular federating event. This year the World Cup was socially unifying thing, one of the kind.
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12:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
12:05 Green Practiced
Auroville's three day workshop 'Green Practices' ended on the 28th of August. During this intensive experience 30 speakers from Auroville and almost 50 participants explored the meaning of Green Practice here in the City of Dawn. On the final day after the final session, Alan of Auroville Today moderated a 45 minute interaction between the participants and a panel, composed of Latha of l'Avenir d'Auroville, Durganand Balsavar, architect and urban planner from Chennai, Sumant Kachru of JHM Hotels from Surat and Dave Wallack, IFMR in Chennai. Here's the recording of that session. The full Green Practice workshop recording will be published in the next few days on both www.auroco.org and AurovilleRadio websites.
13:00 The latest English news from Auroville
13:05 Besides All The Yoga
Steffi, a volunteer from Germany who joined our team for good ten months just left. In the interview with Andrea we found out how she sees Auroville, its idea, life... As she said, she hasn't evolved so much on the professional level of radio speaker and journalist because that was the line of work she was already doing in Germany, but Auroville brought more clarity in her life. Trough yoga and some other activities she participated in she's not only more clear about her life, and life goals, but she's also more happy, contented with herself, but, as she said, she hasn't explore all of it yet. Here she met many talented and creative people, and was amazed over the quality of cultural life and events. Auroville she sees as a project in process, and positive for its continuation.
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14:00 The latest English news from Auroville
14:05 A Small Offerings
Amongst many celebrations and offerings the one at Deepanam school might have been small in numbers and the size of the school, but big in heart as participated by almost everyone from the school. Children from the youngest to the oldest, as well s the teachers...all took part on Saturday's “Small Offerings” as they named it, for Sri Aurobindo's birthday and India's Independence Day. We heard some excerpts of Sri Aurobindo's life, his personality, a prayer and mantras sung by children and teachers. Bharat Natyam dancing took place performed by some of the children.
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15:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
15:05 Raw and Honest
Would you like to save money, eat less, feel better, and help the environment all at once? A new revolution in eating, the raw food diet may lead you to do all of this and more. This edition of Towards Sustainability will delve into inner as well as outer sustainability. Are you familiar with Prana: the life force? According to Anandi, Prana is most available to humans in raw food. Listen to the following interview with Anandi from KOFPU to learn more about the benefits of raw food, her personal journey, and upcoming workshops so you can learn to cook and eat raw as well. “You are what you eat!”
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 Gramap
Last Saturday in the small village Rayapettai in the Auroville bioregion people gathered for a special event – introduction of Village Mapping Project with Google Earth. Amazing, and maybe hard to imagine but Rayapettai is on the map of the world on net! The aim of the project which started in spring was to contribute to the cultural and social revitalization of the region, and improve rural development. The project was introduced to the villagers with huge map made by Village Mapping Project team, and a children's play, which told us about Google Earth on its own way. Now Rayapettai exists on the map of the whole world! Would any of other villages follow that great example?
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18:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
18:05 Le jeu de peindre a Auroville
Arno Stern est le premier praticien d'éducation créatrice, une fonction qu'il a inventée au sortir de la guerre, en 1946, et qu'il continue à exercer. Dans le Closlieu (l'espace qu'il a créé pour cette activité) il a fait une extraordinaire découverte : la Formulation. Le dessin enfantin est dicté par une nécessité organique, et il s'accomplit selon des lois spécifiques qui, seules, permettent de le comprendre. Cette approche simple et profonde de l’expression picturale offre un cadre rassurant et une liberté bénéfique à qui est en difficulté ou non. Elle est compatible avec une pratique artistique mais totalement différente : les traces ne sont pas destinées à la communication et à l’approbation des autres, mais simplement accueillies « en l’état » ! Sandrine, praticienne du jeu de peindre à Auroville depuis quatre ans nous raconte son expérience... Pour télécharger l'interview cliquez ici.
19:00 The latest English news from Auroville
19:05 Studiare sempre
Alex e' di passaggio a Auroville perche' ha accompagnato la sua fidanzata che fa un tirocinio sull'educazione integrale per l'Universita in Italia. Dopo un viaggio attraverso l'India questo ragazzo che si muove in carrozzella ci parla del suo passato a Bergamo dove faceva l'informatico e del suo futuro che lui spera pieno di studi ''Vorrei studiare sempre''. Forse Lui non sa ancora che Auroville e' il posto di una ''never ending education'' un'educazione che non finisce mai... Potete ascoltare l'intervista cliccando sul logo play o scaricare l'intervista cliccando qui.
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20:00 The latest English news from Auroville
20:05 Improbable Aurovilians episode 6
This week's episode of the 'Improbable Aurovilians' covers the Revolution Del la kids who issue an edict against meetings, and mayhem breaks loose. Will the giant Teacup be smashed to bits or will peace be established?! Follow the quixotic adventures of Etoile, Charles, and Madam Flaflasky. Guest Stars: Isa as kid one, Amara as kid two, Milla as kid three, Roshan as kid four, Daniel as Italian. The usual cast: Norman as Charles, Paul as Etoile and Yeti, Auroson as Blade and Meetingman, Krishna as M. Flaflatsky, and the Busker Jesse as Luno. Just listen by clicking in the logo play. 
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21:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
21:05 Auroville Powered by Wind
The wind flies wild in the hills of Coimbatore. The idea to harness it for the benefit of Auroville was sparked in the minds of those responsible for bringing Varuna to life: Arjun, Carel, Michael B., Toby and Ulli. Varuna is a privately owned company managed by Aurovilians and friends of Auroville. The goal of the company is to assist Auroville in becoming a carbon neutral site. Currently, donations from monies received as a result of selling the electricity to TNEB will be given to Auroville, but future ideas include wheeling the electricity directly to Auroville. The recording consists of highlights from a presentation given by the directors of Varuna.
22:00 The latest English news from Auroville
22:05 Tsunamika Birthday
“She is a symbol, a living symbol with her own life / As her name suggests, she is a child of tsunami / The tsunami that changed the lives of millions / She is the memory of Tsunami...”Last Sunday the celebration of Tsunamika´s 5th birthday was hold in Periyamudaliyarchavadi. At this event many entertaining and informative performances, speeches, games, plays, dances, competitions and interesting activities like stitching/drawing your personal Tsunamika took place and made that day joyful and worth to remember. Here are some thoughts and impressions about Tsunamika and her birthday party.
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23:00 The latest English news from Auroville
23:05 Salut
(From a letter by Savitra) "Let us live with Serge's sense of urgency. Let us live with a deeper sense of conviction, breaking out of our cages and comfort zones -- freeing ourselves from the mesmerism of old formulas and governing structures, freeing ourselves to think and act in new ways we have never let ourselves think or act before, empowering and believing in ourselves rather than waiting for someone else to save us from ourselves.." Here Serge speaks about human unity.
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