By ASI and IGNCA

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Contact No. : 23388211

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Film screening of Mahakumbha – In Search of the Nector
Director: Bappa Ray Duration: 48 minutes

Prayag is the place of the confluence of sacred waters. Pilgrimage to this place is equated with three million ten thousand pilgrimages. Mahakumbha, which takes place once in twelve years, is the subject of the film covering the Mahakumbha of 2001. It explores the vast orality of an internal agnihotra. The fire of tapas (penance) burns retas or soma (semen fluid) in the body of the human being, purges it of poisonous lust and turns it into the healing nectar of energy. The process is equated with the cycle of waters, incited in the universe by the solar fire. The devotee substitutes a new, clean self for his old self through his ablution in the Mahakumbha.

Contact No. : 23388815

Monthly Documentary Film Screening Series

Director: Michael Williams,
Duration: 27 Mins

Time: 1:30 PM (School Children)     3:30 PM (General Public)

A travelling exhibition that retraces the lives and achievements of some of the talented and prominent Africans of yesterday who became an integral part of the socio-cultural heritage of India.

Visitors’ Lobby of UN headquarters
1st Avenue and 46th street,
New York.
U.S.A.

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A travelling exhibition that retraces the lives and achievements of some of the talented and prominent Africans of yesterday who became an integral part of the socio-cultural heritage of India.

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For Workshop register at igncakaladarsana@gmail.com or Shanmukhanandass@gmail.com

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IGNCA SRC, Bengaluru in association with DakshinChitra Museum, Chennai and Sanskriti Pratishtan, New Delhi cordially invites you for the inauguration of Exhibition From Earth to Earth – Devotion and Terracotta Offerings in Tamil Nadu
Curator and Photography by Ms. Julie Wayne.

* Exhibition for public view between 6th to 28th Feb 2016
* Inauguration is followed by Film Screening and Interaction with the Curator.

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IGNCA is hosting a storytelling festival, Kathakar: International storytellers Festival at the Amphitheatre, C. V. Mess Janpath, in collaboration with Nivesh, an NGO. This is the third year of the festival at IGNCA.

Like in the previous years, this year also, we would be presenting storytellers from India and abroad. Both contemporary stories and tales from legend, history and oral traditions will be presented by professional and passionate storytellers. We get students from government schools to attend the sessions in the morning. This year, we are hosting a session for children with special needs.

Participating story tellers will be: 

National – Puran Bhat (Rajasthan), Gangacharn Singh, Kalicharan and group (Swang, Meerut), Usha Venkataramen (Mumbai)

International – Emily Hennessey (U.K.), Giles Abbott (U.K.), Tim Ralphs (U.K.)

Venue: IGNCA, Amphitheatre, C.V. Mess, Janpath, New Delhi-110001
Time: 9.00 am to 11.45 am (for school children)   and 4.30 pm to 8.00 pm (for open audience)

Due to unavoidable circumstances, the afternoon session planned for children with different abilities (7 February 2016 , 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm) stands cancelled.

Press Updates:

• http://hangouts.co.in/3238-kathakar-international-storytellers-festival-in-delhi.html
• http://www.deccanherald.com/content/526775/into-world-storytelling.html
• http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/reviving-the-art-of-storytelling/article8200730.ece
• http://www.asianage.com/arts/art-s-telling-675
• http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/culture/3258-tale-storytellers
• http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/voices-of-the-people/article8224015.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RS
• https://maverickfeet.wordpress.com/2016/02/07/storytelling-exhibition-by-day-revelries-nostalgia-by-night/
• http://news-express.in/entertainment/voices-of-the-people-18975/

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• 05.02.2016 – Photographs
  • Morning
  • Evening
• 06.02.2016 – Photographs
  • Morning
  • Evening
• 07.02.2016 – Photographs
  • Evening
• 05.02.2016 Video Clips
  • Morning
  • Evening
  • Panel Discussion
• 06.02.2016 Video Clips
  • Morning
  • Evening
  • Open Session
• 07.02.2016  Video Clips
  • Evening
  • Open Session

Contact No. : 9868964007

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IGNCA Book Circle @ Reference Library. This month, Prof Susan Visvanathan will read from her book The Children of Nature: The Life and Legacy of Ramana Maharshi. The book addresses the question of devotion and community life with respect to Ramanasramam in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu. It seeks to understand mysticism, transcendence and detachment within a historical perspective, looking at narratives from a feminist perspective. Prof Susan Visvanathan teaches Sociology at Centre for the Study of Social Systems, JNU, Delhi. She is the author of The Christians of Kerala, and also a well known writer of literary fiction. Susan Visvanathan was Fellow at NMML, Delhi and at IIAS, Shimla and MSH, Paris She was SASNET Fellow at Lund University and Charles Wallace Fellow at Belfast.

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Director: Milind Gour      Duration: 26 Mints

Time of Screening:

• 1:30 PM (School Students)

• 3:30 PM (General Public)

Duration: 31 mins
Director: Shri Anirban Mahapatra

A box filled with photographs and negatives, made in India in 1945, compels a couple to try and unravel the mystery behind who took these photographs. Contemporary Indian artists draw inspiration from these images and create new artworks in response. The resulting film is a cross-cultural exploration of the power of art.

Allan and Jerri will be available for Q & A after the screening.

Contact No. : 23388815

Directed by Jaichandiram
Duration: 21 Mins

Time: 1:30 PM (School Students), 3:30 PM (General Public)