[Reader-list] [Announcements] Mumbai this Monsoon and other events
Shivam Vij
zest_india at yahoo.co.in
Sun Apr 18 21:46:40 IST 2004
1) Bangladeshi film in San Francisco
2) Language and the City: The PUKAR Monsoon 2004
Schedule
3) A Livelihood Documentary Competition
4) Liberty, Art & Culture Seminars 2004
5) Liberty and Society Seminars
1) Bangladeshi film in San Francisco
The Clay Bird (Matir Moina)
3RD I SF and Milestone Films Present
in its Bay Area Premiere Run
THE CLAY BIRD (Matir Moina)
San Francisco PREMIERE
Friday, April 30 7:00 PM
CASTRO Theatre
429 Castro Street
San Francisco, CA
415.621.6120
Bangladesh's first submission for the Foreign-Language
Oscar
competition and Originally banned in Bangladesh for
"controversial
religious content". This intelligent and tender family
drama is set
against the backdrop of the turbulent period of
Bangladesh's struggle
for independence.
Director: Tareque Masud
France/Bangladesh. 2002
94 minutes. Color.
In Bengali with English subtitles
For more information visit:
http://www.thirdi.org/~sf/screenings.html
"Easily one of the finest pictures of this year or any
other!" --
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times
Winner of the FIPRESCI International Critics prize and
award
winning film at the Cannes film festival.
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2) The PUKAR Monsoon 2004 Schedule
The PUKAR Monsoon 2004 Schedule
Theme: Language and the City
PUKAR Monsoon 2004 focuses on Mumbai's linguistic
diversity. The
workshops will examine the spontaneous translations,
skilful use of
multiple languages and the constant creation of new
words and concepts
that characterize the city's routine responses to its
varied linguistic world. Participants will also
explore the inter-play between the visual and textual
aspects of communication and build a small archive
through a creative documentation of the city's
multi-lingual imaginary. All this will be used to
develop an argument about Mumbai's modern identity and
its much-debated cosmopolitan character. The sessions
will be held over weekends spread out from May to
July.
Students can sign up for as many workshops as they
wish. All workshops will be interactive, articipatory,
conceptual and creative. We expect all participants to
author texts that address the different dimensions of
this theme in the form of posters, photo-essays,
audio-novels, soundscapes, poems, essays and websites.
All the work will be displayed to the public in August
during the concluding session of the PUKAR Monsoon,
which will be accompanied by a conference and public
discussions on "Language and the City".
Other than the workshops, there will also be panel
discussions and film screenings, which will take place
through the Monsoon period and are open to the general
public. A flat registration fee of Rs. 200/-
will be charged, applicable for the entire PUKAR
Monsoon and must be paid at the Orientation Session to
be held on 27th April 2004. Participants can then
choose to attend one or as many sessions as
they desire.
SCHEDULE OF WORKSHOPS
ORIENTATION SESSION
DATE: Tuesday 27th April (10:30a.m. - 1:00p.m.)
Conducted by PUKAR Associates
For all participants signed up for any of the
workshops.
WORKSHOP 1: MAIN NAHIN KEHTA, COMIC BOOK MEIN LIKHA
HAI
DATES: Tuesday 27th April (2:00.p.m. - 5:00p.m.) to
Thursday 29th
April
(concluding 1:00p.m.)
ACTIVITY: Comics, Graphic Novels and Language.
Conducted by Sarnath Banerjee, graphic novelist
(Penguin India has
published his work Corridor: A Graphic Novel this
year)
This workshop invites students interested in reading
and producing comic-book texts. The participants will
learn the skills of creating comics and actually
produce strips around the theme of language and the
city. The exercise will also explore how linguistic
diversity has been expressed in comic-books in India,
examine the growing underground cult of comics and
explore the theme of multi-linguality and comics.
WORKSHOP 2: ENGLISH: MEDIUM
DATES: Wednesday 5th May - Friday 7th May: (10:00a.m.
- 5:00p.m.)
ACTIVITY: Producing Translated Texts
Conducted by Abhay Sardesai, editor - Art India and
graduate teacher
of English Literature and Language. In this workshop
students will
translate poems and short stories using familiar
idioms and their own
special linguistic skills. The idea is to demonstrate
how the act of
translation can have transforming qualities and be
creatively used to
learn concepts using any language as a starting point.
The workshop
will simultaneously provide a critique of the existing
bias in favour
of English that most students have to deal with within
colleges in
the city even though it is often not their first
language.
WORKSHOP 3: LISTEN TO MY STORY
DATES: Friday 14th May - Sunday 16th May (10:00a.m. -
5:00p.m.)
ACTIVITY: Creating an Audio-Novel
Conducted by Hansa Thapliyal and Vipin Bhatti,
filmmakers who have
produced an award winning audio-novel set in
Sahibabad.
What stories do the sounds of voices speaking - the
cadences and
accents, the colloquialisms and turns of phrase - tell
us? This
workshop will record and listen to the many voices the
city speaks
in, in all its different languages. It will retrieve
from them
meaning - our own and other people's - and create
expressive,
narrative works which may be fiction or non-fiction
but which will
eventually take the form of an audio novel or short
story.
WORKSHOP 4: ENGLISH FONT, VERNACULAR FILTER; SIGNS OF
A NEIGHBOURHOOD.
DATES: Friday 28th May - Sunday 30th May (10:00a.m. -
5:00p.m.)
ACTIVITY: Photographic Documentation of Signs
Conducted by Sameera Khan, writer and Chirodeep
Chaudhuri,
photographer.
How do signs differ from neighbourhood to
neighbourhood? How do they
represent the transformations of a language? These
themes will be
explored as participants will travel, photograph and
analyze the
exciting graphic/visual world of signs that layers the
city and is
often not part of our conscious gaze. The participants
will photograph
street signs, shop-fronts, posters and advertisements
that are a
medley of scripts and linguistic symbols and act as
the physical
embodiment of the city's multi-lingual imaginary. The
photo-essays
and posters that students will produce will be
exhibited in the
concluding session of the Monsoon.
WORKSHOP 5: THE TIES THAT DIVIDE
DATES: Friday 4th June - Sunday 6th June (10:00a.m. -
5:00p.m.)
ACTIVITY: Making an Audio-Documentary on language as a
divider in the
city Conducted by Paromita Vohra, filmmaker and
writer.
Vernie, Townie, Elite are all labels we throw at each
other and
somehow these divisions have come to play a very
powerful role in
shaping student relations in college campuses. What
exactly do these
labels mean? What kind of prejudices do they foster?
How do people
sometimes turn them upside down, through the
excitements of slang and
then re-instate them as the unspoken hierarchy of the
spoken word?
Through the exciting field of audio-documentary
participants will be
invited to create stories exploring these divisions
around language.
Each student (or pairs of students) will produce their
own audio-
documentary.
WORKSHOP 6: THE WAY WE SPEAK
DATES: Friday 11th June - Sunday 13th June (10:00a.m.
- 5:00p.m.)
ACTIVITY: Ethnographies of Slang using Audio
Technology.
Conducted by Rahul Srivastava, social anthropologist
and Jerry Pinto,
writer. Language is stretched and reshaped, given
street-credibility
and infused with flavor through the creation of slang.
Slang is the
way we create special codes and counter-linguistic
cultures in very
specific contexts. What kind of slang do we produce in
English,
Marathi and Hindi in very specific contexts in Mumbai?
How does this
help in pushing new frontiers to the way in which
different languages
grow? By observing and recording slang in different
parts of the city
the participants will produce their own ethnographies
of slang in a
variety of forms - mini-dictionaries, sound
installations and prose
pieces.
WORKSHOP 7: SO MANY MARATHIS IN MUMBAI
DATES: Monday 21st June - Wednesday 23rd June
(10:00a.m. - 5:00p.m.)
ACTIVITY: Multi-Media
Conducted by Vandana Khare, writer and theatre person.
The relationship of the Marathi language to Mumbai is
a very special
one. Yet there is not just one Marathi that the city
speaks in. The
way in which the language is spoken, read and written
is as
multitudinous as the city's social history. Through
this workshop
Marathi speaking students will explore this diversity
and find
creative ways of representing this through
self-produced radio-
programs, audio-features and even visual
documentation.
NOTE: SPECIAL WORKSHOPS
There will be two more specialized weekend workshops
held in end-July
for which a schedule will be available in June. These
will have
international resource persons who are in conversation
with us and
will
confirm their details only by end-May.
PANEL DISCUSSION SCHEDULE
There will be a series of panel discussions on
language and the
younger generation. Each panel will have a college
student in
discussion with representatives of the literary
tradition of that
particular language. The list of panelists will be
announced later.
June 26th Saturday: Panel Discussion on Urdu in
Mumbai
July 3rd Saturday: Panel Discussion on Sindhi in
Mumbai
July 10th Saturday: Panel Discussion on Tamil in
Mumbai.
July 17th Saturday: Panel Discussion on Bengali in
Mumbai.
Others on Gujarati, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada and
Malayalam will also be
held (Dates TBA)
FILM SCREENINGS
An evening of film screenings that explore the issue
of linguistic
diversity will also be held in July. Details for this
will be
circulated soon.
FINAL EVENT
7th and 8th of August are the days scheduled for the
concluding
session of the PUKAR Monsoon. The final event will
involve
exhibitions / display and presentation of the texts
produced in the
workshop, a panel discussion and a public lecture.
Eminent personalities from the world of Media,
Education, Literature
and the Arts will attend this session.
PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and
Research) Mumbai
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3) A Livelihood Documentary Competition
Jeevika
A Livelihood Documentary Competition
Centre for Civil Society, Delhi
Description
People earn their livelihood in myriad ways: catch
fish; collect medicinal leaves and fuelwood in
forests; work on the farm or in the factory; pull a
cycle-rickshaw, sell water, vegetables, or food on the
roadside; rent land, money, or property; run an
enterprise of a repair shop or road construction. At
the root of this is the economic freedom to produce
and sell a product or a service. Take away this
freedom and the impact is as devastating as the loss
of the right to vote or freedom of _expression.
Jeevika is a search of documentaries that focus on
legal and regulatory restrictions, bureaucratic
process of approvals and licenses with attendant
extortion and harassment as well as social and
cultural norms and religious practices that prevent or
constrain people from earning an honest living in the
vocation of their choice. These procedures and
practices coupled with the lack of rule of law,
absence of transparency and accountability in
governance, and poor enforcement of individual rights
including property rights take away the freedom to
earn a living.
Entry Form Jeevika 2004
Application form is available here (.doc / .pdf), fill
it in and send it by registered post/ courier only to
the Centre's address
http://www.ccsindia.org/jeevika.htm
Entry Rules
Young filmmakers are particularly encouraged to
participate
Any Indian language with English subtitles
Submit one copy in in VCD/ VHS
Prizes
* Cash prizes
* Financial support for the next film venture on a
related issue to a winner
Prize Ceremony & Screening of select entries: February
2005 (Venue: India Habitat Centre, New Delhi)
Resource Material
Last date for submission of entries with complete
entry form: December 20, 2004
Press Coverage of Jeevika 2003
Jeevika 2004
Centre for Civil Society
K-36 Hauz Khas Enclave, New Delhi 110016
Tel: 011-2653 7456/ 2652 1882 Fax: 2651 2347
Email: jeevika at ccsindia.org Website: www.ccsindia.org
Supported by Sir Ratan Tata Trust
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4) Liberty, Art & Culture Seminars (LACS) 2004
Liberty, Art & Culture Seminars (LACS) 2004
Centre for Civil Society, Delhi and Kolkata
A four-day residential seminar exclusively for
students or recent graduates of Mass Communications,
Media, Journalism, Cultural Studies, Literature,
Performing & Creative Arts
Globalisation: A threat to Indian Culture?
Market or State: Who is good for the arts?
Are we cultural pessimists or optimists?
Liberty & equality: can we have both?
Individual & Society: A Conflict?
Has our culture become commercial?
Are the arts for the masses?
Are Indians free to express?
Censor the Censors?
Are businessmen moral?
What is creativity?
A seminar that provides a greater understanding of the
society and culture, within the classical liberal
framework that emphasises limited government, rule of
law, free trade, and individual rights
To debate this issues and more with a host of
prominent speakers and artists like Anand Patwardhan,
Dadi Pudumjee, Ritu Menon apply for any LACS:
New Delhi: August 26-29, 2004
Kolkata: November 4-7, 2004
Download the Application Form:
http://www.ccsindia.org/lacs.htm
LAST DATE FOR APPLICATIONS:
Delhi: July 26, 2004
Kolkata: October 4, 2004
Room & board will be provided by CCS
Send your applications by courier/ speedpost only to
Manali Shah
Centre for Civil Society
K-36 Hauz Khas Enclave, New Delhi 110016
Phone: 011-2653 7456/ 26521882 Fax: 011-2651 2347
Email: mana at ccsindia.org
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5) Liberty and Society Seminars
Liberty and Society Seminars (LSS)
Centre for Civil Society
Mangalore, New Delhi, Shillong, Trivandrum, Ranchi,
Mumbai
What is LSS?
The Liberty & Society Seminar (LSS) aims to provide
college students a greater understanding of the larger
world-society, economy and the culture-within the
classical liberal framework that emphasises limited
government, rule of law, free trade, and individual
rights.
LSS is the proud winner of the Templeton Award for
Student Outreach by Atlas Foundation USA.
The LSS is a four-day residential seminar. The format
is interactive with discussions, working groups,
documentary videos and field trips. About 45 students
are selected through an application process.
Who can participate?
College students currently enrolled in Graduation or
Post Graduation degree in any field. Recent graduates
can also apply.
How can I apply?
You have to fill in a application form and send it to
us. (click here to download the application form)
http://www.ccsindia.org/lss.htm
Are there any interesting articles related to Liberty
& Society which I can read before the seminar?
Yes. Download the LSS Reader and read articles by
famous economists, and media personalities from India
and abroad.
What is the LSS Schedule for 2004?
Apply for ANY ONE of the following seven LSSs in 2004:
City
Dates*
Last Date for Applications
Mangalore August 5-8 July 5
New Delhi September 2-5 August 2
Shillong September 16-19 August 16
Trivandrum October 14-17 September 13
Ranchi October 28-31 September 27
Mumbai November 25-28 October 25
New Delhi December 2-5 November 1
* These dates are subject to change. Please confirm
before applying.
What happens after LSS?
There are various ways in which you can follow-up with
us after the LSS:
Contribute to eCatalyst, the quarterly e-newsletter
run by the LSS Grads themselves.
Participate in the Competition among LSS Grads: Let us
know how you have applied your learning at LSS in your
lives and how you have helped further the cause for
liberty in your college/ city/ state. Prizes: Rs
3,000, Rs 2000, Rs 1000.
Winners of 2003 Competition for LSS Grads!
Get nominated to attend the Advanced Liberty & Society
Seminar, December 2004
Start a Friends of Freedom group in your city
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