Category Archives: Culture
12 Women, Infinite stories..
On March 8th Unity Pavillion invited 12 women from different nationalities and different cultures to share their stories as a part of International Women's Day celebration. They talked about love, fights, fears, insecurities, inspirations, and a lot more, shared their journeys, the struggles they had been through all of their lives, problems they faced being a woman and how they kept moving on in their lives with or without support. They expressed their views on feminism, gender equality, etc. In the two hours a million stories were told, all different but still one thing common in all of them and that is the high spirits women possess. After the talk there were beautiful cultural dance performances (including, Odissi , Kathakali, Bharatnatyam, and contemporary), all were prayers to the 'Devi', not any physical being but the feminine side embedded in nature. And this session of sharing ended with a fun pot luck dinner.
50th Anniversary General Meeting
Auroville 50th Anniversary Update and General Information Meeting Meeting and presentation about the preliminary planning stages and participatory planning process of Auroville 50th Birthday in February 2018, followed by questions and answers.
Participants of Tamil Heritage Festival
Tamil Heritage Festival at Bamboo Land on Saturday, and here are some short interviews with the stall holders and about the art programs and the cultural events conducted.
Film: Heritage Fight
The French movie director speaks about the making of her documentary Heritage Fight. It tells the story of the Australian Aboriginal tribe Goolarabooloo who fought against a company that intended to build the world's largest gas plant on the land they have been living on and protecting over millenia. Through a tight knit community culture and the practice of dreaming as a collective the Goolarabooloo managed to defend their holy land against corporate interest and destruction. Heritage Fight will be screened on Saturday, January 28 at 5 pm at Cinema Paradiso. Eugenie Dumont, the French director of the movie, will be at the screening for a discussion afterwards. The event was organized by the French Pavilion.
Theatre Festival in Adishakti
April 9th, 2016, the 2nd annual Remembering Veenapani theatre festival at Adishakti commences. Artistic director Vinaykumar K.J. met with Kaeridwyn to talk about the festival, Veenapani Chawla, and the history and future of Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Art Research.
Listen to hear about the beginnings of Adishakti, the significance of Veenapani's work, and the wide array of artists (including visual artists and musicians) that will be performing at Adishakti from April 9 to May 1.
East Asian Full Moon
The first Full Moon in the East Asian year is a special date, which Chinese, Japanese and Korean people use to celebrate. For the first time, Aurovilians from these countries organized such a Full Moon Festival together. Yesterday, they invited all to the Unity Pavilion and integrated lots of cultural elements from the three countries.
Contemporary Dance- New Delhi
New Delhi held the Festival of Contemporary Dance from October 9th to 16th. Krishna Devanandan joins others in discussing the relation to the body in dance as 'taught' by visionary dancer Chandralekha {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandralekha_(dancer)}. This recording was made possible with the help of Avradio volunteer Samira Bose in New Delhi.
Poems, Tango Milonga
Capoeira, Latin - American songs, poems and Tango Milonga With Jivatman, Marlenka, Trovadores and Auroville Tango
Documentary on Heritage
Culture, tradition, heritage, values. This is what defines the third Auroville and Puducherry heritage festival. Organised by Mohanam and supported by the Department of Tourism, the festival focuses on keeping alive the local Tamil cultures. This is a documentary on the thoughts of the coordinator Mr.Balasubramaniam, craft stall owner Mr.Karthikeyen and Mr.Walter from Belgium, who helped coordinate the festival.