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PUKAR Events, October 2003

Dear Friends,

You are invited to the following PUKAR events scheduled for this 
month. Those of you who would like us to send special reminders every 
week please do write to secretariat at pukar.org.in with the request and 
we shall comply.

The calendar of events provided below is followed by details about 
each event and the people involved.

FILM SCREENINGS:

1.
Title: Bombay Our City/ Humara Shahar
Director: Anand Patwardhan
Date: Wednesday, 8 October 2003
Time: 6 p.m.
Venue: NGMA Auditorium, NGMA, Kala Ghoda

2.
Title: New Empire
Director: Kurush Canteenwala
Date: Friday, 10 October 2003
Time: 6 p.m.
Venue: NGMA Auditorium, NGMA, Kala Ghoda


VIDEO TABLE:
8 Short Films on Mumbai at the NGMA (available for viewing till 19th 
October 2003)

Occupation Mill Worker  (Anand Patwardhan)
Crystal  (Students of Social Communications Media, Sophia Polytechnic)
Circadian Cycle  (Mahesh Mathai)
I Ranu Gayen  (Shyamal Karmarkar)
Aur Irani Chai  (Wilson College Students)
Living With the Dead  (Students of Social Communications Media, 
Sophia Polytechnic)
Sambhawami Yuge Yuge  (Madhushree Dutta)
Phantoms  (Tushar Joag)

TALKS:

1.
Researching Locality.
Speaker: Alito Siqueira
Date: Thursday, 23 October 2003
Time: 6:30p.m.
Venue: PUKAR Office

2.
Examining Social Change and the Media in Mumbai. 
Speakers: Prabir Bose and the "Media Matters" Team
Date: Friday 31 October 2003
Time: 6:30p.m.
Venue: PUKAR Office


Details of the Events:

A: Film Screenings:

1. Bombay Our City / Humara Shahar
82 mins. Colour, 16mm, 1985

Director: Anand Patwardhan

This moving verite film follows the travails and triumphs in the 
daily battle for survival of Bombay's slum dwellers, as they face 
demolitions, monsoons, death and life. It has won the National Award, 
Best Non-fiction, India, 1986, Filmfare Award, Best Documentary, 
India, 1986 and Special Jury Prize, Cinema du Reel, France, 1986.

Anand Patwardhan is a pioneering documentary filmmaker living and 
working in Bombay.

Date: Wednesday, 8 October 2003
Time: 6 p.m.
Venue: NGMA Auditorium, NGMA, Kala Ghoda


2. New Empire
37 Minutes, 2002

Director: Kurush Canteenwala

New Empire is a visually impressionistic, non-fiction film that 
attempts to chronicle personal encounters with new colonialism and 
the accompanying loss of an indigenous way of urban being.

Kurush Canteenwala is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Film 
Production and Film Aesthetics at the Southern Illinois University.

Date: Friday, 10 October 2003
Time: 6 p.m.
Venue: NGMA Auditorium, NGMA, Kala Ghoda


Video Table:

The video film table is predicated on a design of interactive 
viewing. A card provides a brief synopsis of the videos. Visitors can 
choose which film they want to watch and it will be played for them.

The above screenings are part of the ongoing PUKAR-NGMA 
collaboration, for the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai's 
annual exhibition, "Ideas and Images" (September 10th to October 19th 
2003). PUKAR has organized a screening of several documentary films 
on Mumbai.
The curator for the series is PUKAR Associate, filmmaker and writer 
Paromita Vohra.



B: Discussions/ Talks:

1. Topic: Researching Locality
Speaker: Prof. Alito Siqueira

Last month we started a monthly series of discussions on research 
practices and methodologies. Sociologist Manorama Savur provided a 
historical overview about research practices in Mumbai University's 
Department of Sociology. This month we have invited Prof. Alito 
Siqueira - who presently teaches in Goa University - to discuss 
methodological issues that arise when studying local spaces. Research 
on urban themes often has to contend with the concept of locality. 
Drawing on his present work that involves understanding 
representation and performance and its links to place and community 
in Goa, Siqueira will lead a discussion on various conceptual 
challenges that any research on local space produces.

Date: Thursday, 23 October 2003
Time: 6:30p.m.
Venue: PUKAR Office

2.
Topic: Examining Social Change and the Media in Mumbai. 
Speaker: Prabir Bose and the "Media Matters" Team

Every month PUKAR organizes a discussion in Marathi on various urban 
issues. Last month Bhargavi Davar and Aparna Sathe initiated a 
vigorous discussion at the Akshara centre in Dadar on the theme, "The 
City, Mental Health and Women", in which about 40 activists, 
journalists and students participated. This month we have invited 
Prabir Bose and his team from the Mumbai based NGO "Media Matters" to 
initiate a discussion on the changing perceptions of the media - 
especially in the context of its role in instigating "social change".
"Media Matters" is located at Ambernath and seeks to research, study 
and experiment with media forms and the dynamics of communication.

Date: Friday 31 October 2003
Time: 6:30p.m.
Venue: PUKAR Office
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PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research)
Mumbai.

E-Mail <mailto:secretariat at pukar.org.in>
Phone +91 (022) 2207 7779, +91 98204 04010
Web Site http://www.pukar.org.in
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