[Reader-list] [announcements] PUKAR MONSOON 2005: An Invitation

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PUKAR Monsoon 2005

 

The Mumbai Palimpsest: City as An Archive of Images and Words

 

28th May - 4th June 2005: Workshop on Archiving and Editing Video Footage

8th June - 20th June 2005: Discussions in Mumbai's Undergraduate Colleges 

 

Open to all under-graduate students in Mumbai.



Registration Open till May 18th 2005 



Dear Friends, 

 

Every year PUKAR organizes a series of workshops, lectures and screenings aimed specifically at Mumbai's undergraduate students.

 

Collectively referred to as the PUKAR Monsoon - the aim of these sessions is to provide a space for Mumbai's youth so that they reflect on the city and get an opportunity to creatively express their ideas and insights.

 

The last three years have seen as many programs and hundreds of young minds engage with themes such as the city's work culture (2002), its relationship to 'water' (2003) and its complex linguistic history (2004). The participants have produced short films, audio-documentaries, translations of literary works, photo-essays, a monograph, posters, post-cards and various other creative texts. 

 

This year the theme of PUKAR Monsoon 2005 is: 

 

The Mumbai Palimpsest - City as an Archive of Images and Words  

 

Like all urban spaces Mumbai too is a dense cluster of signs and meanings. It makes all its citizens archivists and interpreters in their own right. The program will discuss how images and meanings about Mumbai are produced - in the media and the mind, in the market place and the political sphere.

 

The Monsoon 2005 is a collaborative venture between PUKAR and MAJLIS - A Centre for Alternative Culture and Rights Discourse. Among its many activities MAJLIS is also engaged with documenting images under its initiative - 'Godaam - Archiving the Political', which is the focus of the Monsoon program.

 

According to this initiative:

 

'.information has become an onslaught, which is constant. It is almost impossible to go back to an image or a text, to rethink or remember. We absorb much and often have little space to re interpret. Godaam is an archive of fragments from this torrent. We are trying to make a library, where fragments of audio, text and especially the video image, are archived in theme based collections.'

 

(www.majlisbombay.org)

 

As part of the Monsoon 2005, PUKAR and MAJLIS will jointly organize a special eight-day workshop that will help students understand the section from Godaam that pertains to Mumbai city. 

 

The workshop will involve responding to video footage, films and other images and encourage participants to use them to re-create short edited works of their own. These little expressions (around two to three minutes each) will be based on re-working images from the archive. 

 

The workshop will have inputs on images, poetry and the city and four days will be kept aside purely for learning techniques of editing moving images. 

 

It will be held between May 28th and June 4th 2005.

 

We will subsequently organize special screenings of these student's works in undergraduate colleges all over the Mumbai Metropolitan Region from June 8th to June 20th. These screenings will be accompanied by discussions about Mumbai as 'An Archive of Images and Words'. This will be done through getting students to respond to the texts produced by their colleagues.

 

All those Mumbai based undergraduate students interested in taking part in the Pukar Monsoon 2005 workshop to be held between May 28th and June 4th at the Majlis Cultural Centre (Kalina, Santa Cruz - East) must submit their name, address, telephone no., e-mail i.d. and college affiliation to pukar at pukar.org.in before May 18th 2005.

 

All those students who are keen that we hold the discussions in their particular college please write to us with details about your college as soon as possible.

 

For further details on the PUKAR Monsoon please look up our website www.pukar.org.in

 

Warm regards,

 

Rahul Srivastava

PUKAR 

Hansa Thapliyal

MAJLIS      

 

 

PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research)
Mumbai
Address:: 1-4, 2nd Floor, Kamanwala Chambers, Sir P. M. Road, Fort, Mumbai 400 001
Telephone:: +91 (022) 5574 8152 / +91 (0) 98204 04010
Email:: pukar at pukar.org.in
Website:: www.pukar.org.in
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