[Reader-list] Reminder: A Wall is A Screen/ Bal Sangam 2011/ Screening of a Film on Tibet, Nov 9, TISS, Bombay/ Save the Date : Belgian Film Festival - 21st to 30th November

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Tuesday, November 8 and Thursday, November 10, 7 pm 
Meeting Point: Central Park 
Main Market, Defence Colony, 6.45 pm 

A Wall is a Screen is a mobile cinema, a combination of a guided city tour and a film night. Using a beamer, a sound system, and a car battery, short films are projected on walls. At the end of a film, the group moves on to the next wall. Each and every tour is different. The films are selected according to the surroundings and the occasion, with a specific film being chosen for a specific location. Film and location are in harmony with each other and allow the observer a different view of his surroundings. The resultant associations – sometimes deliberate, sometimes coincidental - between the film and the location are exciting, and often surprising. Be it the street sounds that mingle with what is happening on the screen or the reactions of the audience and passers-by – the tours are special and unique precisely because of these random disturbances. 

The screenings are free, on principle, and a film is selected bearing the local language in mind. This is a low-profile programme for passers-by and invited guests to come together and experience art in the public space. In the course of the evening, a growing number of spectators attaches itself to the group and the crowd swells. People, who perhaps would never have been at the same programme together, now stand side by side to watch a film and talk about it as they walk to the next venue.

For further information please contact 011 23471139 or visit http://www.germany-and-india.com/en/event/32.
 
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Bal Sangam 2011

New Delhi, November 4, 2011: Sanskaar Rang Toli (Theatre-in-Education Company) of National School of Drama (NSD) announced Bal Sangam 2011 at Sammukh Auditorium, NSD today. As part of its constant endeavor towards cultural and educational development of children, this year’s edition of the bi-annual cultural mela will focus on the revival of dying cultural art forms of India through children. 

Bal Sangam 2011 is being organized at Crafts Museum, Bhairon Marg, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi from 8th to 14th November, 2011 and will be featuring an ensemble of various traditional performing art forms that will be presented by children from different states across India. Ranging from the folk dances and martial art forms of the North East to the Kallari Payattu of Kerala in the South to the traditional dance forms of Jammu & Kashmir in the North, the children belonging to traditional performing families, guru-paramparas and institutions will present a kaleidoscopic view of rich Indian culture. 

Participating groups include Bhavesh Chaue Natya Kala Kendra from Jharkhand, Hari Saran Cultural Centre, Reasi from J&K, Hindustan Kalari Sangam from Kerala, Sahitya Kala Mandal from Mumbai, Garh Joypur Saptarshi (Vatdi Chhau Akademi) and Sarabhuj, Medinipur from West Bengal, Dasabhuja Gotipua Orissi Nrutya Parisad and UKIA (An Institution of Sambalpuri Folk and Tribal Dance Group) from Orissa, Huyen Lallong Manipur Thang Ta Cultural Association from Manipur, Pragati Sangha and Kadam Toli Ojahpali Dal from Assam, Kohinoor Langa Group and The Performers, Udaipur from Rajasthan, Anand Niketan Eklavya Model Residential School from Gujarat and Shri Krishna Lok Sanskritik Vikas Sansthan from Madhya Pradesh. Children from these groups will showcase the various art forms of their respective states and regions during the 7 day festival. The festival also includes art and craft workshops like origami, pottery, puppet-making, recycling, etc.

Theatre In Education Company (Sanskar Rang Toli) of National School of Drama was established on October 16, 1989, and is one of the important educational resource centers in the country. 

TIE Company consists of a group of actor-teachers working with and performing for children. The major focus of TIE Company is to perform creative, curriculum based and participatory plays in schools specially designed and prepared for children of different age groups. The major thrust of the plays is to create an atmosphere to encourage children, to raise questions, make decisions and choices with an awareness of themselves within larger society. 

TIE Company has done more than 800 performances of 26 plays in Delhi and other parts of the country. More than 5.5 lakh children, apart from college students, teachers, parents and theatre lovers, have witnessed these plays.
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Screening of a Film on Tibet, Nov 9, TISS, Bombay

From: Friends of Tibet <support at friendsoftibet.org>


TWO DAYS FOR TIBET (MUMBAI, NOV 9-10, 2011)


Wed, November 9, 2011
The Root Reel in association with Friends of Tibet invite you for the screening of the documentary "The Sun Behind The Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom" by Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam at the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Deonar, Mumbai on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 6:15pm. The award-winning documentary film will be presented by Tenzin Tsundue, Tibetan poet and activist followed by a question and answer session. All are invited.


Thu, November 10, 2011
Join us for a book reading session by Tibetan poet-writer-activist Tenzin Tsundue as he reads from the seventh edition of Kora and shares his thoughts, hopes and concern around his homeland - Tibet. The event will be held at Kitab Khana, Somaiya Bhavan, 45/47 MG Road, Fort, Mumbai. All are invited.  


To know about the event, call Nitesh Mohanty of The Root Reel at: 9820095432 or email: jointheroot at gmail.com
More about Tenzin Tsundue: www.friendsoftibet.org/tenzin/
More about "The Sun Behind The Clouds": www.thesunbehindthecoulds.com
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Save the Date : Belgian Film Festival - 21st to 30th November


Alliance Française de Delhi
 
In association with theRoyal Belgian Embassy in India
 
Cordially invite you to
 
The Belgian Film Festival
 
(More info to follow)