[Reader-list] [Announcements] Presentations at KG Arts Festival 2003

[PUKAR @ Kala Ghoda]

Dear Friends:

PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research) invites you to 
attend and participate in the following presentations/discussions to 
be held during the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2003. The PUKAR 
Associates will present and discuss various dimensions of their work 
on the city of Mumbai, from the fields of anthropology and 
architecture to documentary film and literature.

All of these presentations will be held from 4.30 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. 
in the AUDITORIUM of the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), 
behind the Prince of Wales Museum in Kala Ghoda. See below for the 
details of each 45 minute presentation, to be followed by discussion 
with the audience.



SUNDAY 9 FEBRUARY

"Heritage and the City"

PANKAJ JOSHI is a conservation architect in private practice, and 
works in the fields of urban heritage and planning. He is involved in 
the PUKAR Studio and the Post-Industrial Landscapes projects.



MONDAY 10 FEBRUARY

"Gender and Urban Space"

SHILPA PHADKE is a sociologist pursuing her doctorate at the Tata 
Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She has written extensively on 
feminism, has taught sociology for many years in the city, and is 
involved in the PUKAR Gendered Spaces project.



TUESDAY 11 FEBRUARY

"Packaging Urban Space"

SHEKHAR KRISHNAN is a social scientist and is a Coordinator of PUKAR. 
He is involved in the PUKAR Studio and Post-Industrial Landscapes 
project.



WEDNESDAY 12 FEBRUARY

"Writing Across the City"

ABHAY SARDESAI is a writer and translator in several Indian 
languages, and is the Editor of Art India Magazine. He is involved in 
the PUKAR Writing Across the City project.



FRIDAY 14 FEBRUARY

"The Space of the Public"

HIMANSHU BURTE is a practising architect, and a critic and writer on 
issues of public space and art institutions.



SATURDAY 15 FEBRUARY

"Visualising Locality: Focus on Kala Ghoda"  (with the students of 
Elphinstone College)

RAHUL SRIVASTAVA is an anthropologist and is a Coordinator of PUKAR. 
QUAID DOONGERWALA is a practising architect and designer. They work 
with students on the PUKAR Neighbourhood Project.



SUNDAY 16 FEBRUARY

"Unlimited Girls": Film Screening

PAROMITA VOHRA is a documentary film-maker and writer, and the 
director of "Unlimited Girls", a film on feminism. She is involved in 
the PUKAR Gendered Spaces and Post-Industrial Landscapes projects.



For more information on PUKAR @ Kala Ghoda, contact us at the address 
and phone numbers below.


Regards,



Rahul Srivastava and Shekhar Krishnan
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PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research)
P.O. Box 5627
Dadar, Mumbai 400014, India
E-Mail <pukarsecretariat at vsnl.net>
Phone +91 (022) 2077779, +91 98200.45529, +91 98204.04010
Web Site http://www.pukar.org.in
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