Misc listings
September 28, New Delhi: “Open Baithak” Performance in Poetry & Art Series at the Queen’s Gallery, British Council, 17 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi
Time: 6.30-9 pm, Sep 28, 2007 Friday
Make your own performance equation at Open Baithak. Perform the word, or just perform.
Sign up starts at 6.30pm. Open reading/performance start at 7pm. Each poet/performer gets 5 mins on the stage and is expected to bring in new work every time — and also to delight the audience by doing risky and innovative things with it. You can read/perform in any language. Wheelchair accessible.
Baithak Theme: Love, Lies, Forgetting
Please contact Monica Mody in advance if you have tech needs/questions, or for more info: openbaithak@gmail.com
Special Feature: Video Shorts by Shakti Bhatt (1980-2007)
About Open Baithak: A new monthly poetry in performance series in Delhi, Open Baithak offers a space for poets to think about new and innovative ways of presenting poetry to audiences, and a test platform for emerging poet performers. It makes a regular meeting place for poets from different linguistic, written and oral traditions. It is also a meeting place for listeners and readers of poetry.
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October 2: Peace Mela, Mumbai
Celebrating the International Day of Non-Violence: 2nd October 2007
2nd October is no longer just an important date on the Indian calendar. It is now the day on which people across the globe will observe the United Nations Day of Non-Violence.
On this special day, Citizens for Peace, in partnership with Times of India, is planning a Peace Mela - an evening dedicated to creative expressions of the striving for peace through music, song, poetry, dance, drama, films and more. The Peace Mela will be held in Mumbai (at the Horniman Circle/Asiatic Library space ) on the evening of 2nd October. It will be a five hour long gathering of well-known performing artists as well as unknown young talent. The youth of Mumbai will be invited to participate through showcasing their creative work - poems, prose pieces, posters, photographs etc.– all on the theme of peace. The Horniman Garden area will be used to display poems, photographs and prose pieces that people have sent in.
A film festival on the theme will be held in the Max Mueller Bhavan from 2pm to 7pm.
Some of the artistes who will be participating include:
Musicians - Amaan and Ayaan Ali Khan
Poets and writers - Arundhathi Subramaniam, Atul Tiwari, Javed Akhtar, Jerry Pinto, Menka Shivdasani, Ranjit Hoskote, and others
Singers - Jagjit Singh, Vivienne Pocha & Merlin D’ Souza, Suraj Bhoeer, Shekhar Sen, Devieka and Suresh Bhojwani and others
Children’s performances: Khoj (Teesta Setalvad’s group) and Raell Padamsee’s Group
Drama: Monologue from Iqbal Niyazi’s play “Yeh kiska lahu hai”
The programme will end with the taking of a Peace Pledge by everyone present.
Citizens for Peace, a volunteer group based in Mumbai, is a non political organization that was formed in response to the violence and anarchy that ravaged Mumbai in 1992-93. It is a group of concerned citizens who came together to reaffirm Mumbai’s cosmopolitan ethos and liberal, enlightened tradition. Its belief is that while there will always be differences between people – of belief, culture, values and religion – the only way to settle these differences is through open dialogue and respect for the rule of law.
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Poems, photographs and prose pieces on the theme of peace and non-violence will be hung from a ‘Peace Tree’ in the Horniman Circle lawn.
These are being collected by volunteers, and the details are:
Poems: Max 150 words
Prose pieces: Max 250 words
Photographs (prints): A3 or A4 sizes
Entries to be sent by either email or post.
By email to: meghann@emdiworld.com.
By courier/post to: EMDI, IES Management College, 4th Floor, Opposite Lilavati Hospital, Bandra Reclamation, Mumbai 4000 50. Ph: 26550808/26427171
Entries will not be returned.
The last date for sending in the entries is 28th Sept.
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Zubaan’s titles for early October:
A Terrible Matriarchy
by Easterine Iralu
First There Was Woman and Other Stories
Folktales of the Dungri Garasiya Bhils
Compiled and retold by Marija Sres
Gender, Violent Conflict and Development
Edited by Dubravka Zarkov
Reminiscences: The Memoirs of Shardabehn Mehta
Translated and compiled by Purnima Mehta Bhatt
Zubaan Diary 2008
Caste in Mithila Art
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October 10 -14, 2007: Frankfurt Book Fair
Zubaan will be present at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Urvashi Butalia and Preeti Gill will carry the most exciting and recent titles to the fair. They will be at Stand 6.0 E920, so those of you who will be there as well, do drop by!
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October 9-12: Dhrupad music festival with Uday Bhawalkar in the Jungles of Bandhavgarh.
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