We will host a students workshop titled Mathematics through Origami on September 10 and 11, 2009 at the Sea View Room of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai. The workshop will be conducted by Ravindra Keskar (Lecturer, St. Xavier Institute of Engineering in Mumbai).
Participating NGOs: Aseema, Doorstep School, Muktangan and The Vatsalya Foundation.
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We will host a one-day students workshop titled The Story Quilt - Narratives via Mixed Media in association with The Pomegranate Workshop (Mumbai) on December 4, 2008 at the Sea View Room of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai. The workshop will be conducted by Madhumita Srivastava (H.O.D. Masters Program in Architecture at Rachna Sansad Academy of Architecture).
Participating NGOs: Aseema, Doorstep School, Pankhudi and The Vatsalya Foundation.
We will host a one-day students workshop titled Dasavatar: A Story-Telling and Clay Modelling Workshop, in association with The Pomegranate Workshop (Mumbai) on November 14, 2008 at the Sea View Room of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai. The workshop will be conducted by the performing artist, Gowri Rao Mehta and the clay artist, Parsuram Kumbhar.
Participating NGOs: Amchaghar, Smile, Muktangan and Bandra East Community Centre.
We will host a three-day workshop The Paper Airplane Project, conducted by artist, Baptist Coelho, from June 16 to 18, 2008 at the Bombay YMCA Seminar Room, Colaba, Mumbai. The project will explore drawing, painting, collage, found-objects, installation and performance with children from seven NGOs from Mumbai.
Participating NGOs: Aangan Trust, Aseema, Doorstep School, Meljol, Mobile Creches, Saalam Balak and Yuvaunstoppable.
We will host a one-day workshop Growing Up – An Art Therapy Developmental Workshop, conducted by art psychotherapist, Oihika Chakrabarti, on June 12 2008 at the Sea View Room of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai. Children from the NGO, Amchaghar from the suburb of Bhayander, who deal with the rehabilitation and education of girl street children in Mumbai, will participate in this workshop.
The Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts is collaborating with the Communications Program of Arcadia University on Visual Culture in India.The project has two broad aims: Firstly, to discover, identify and study the specific visual idiom of Indian culture in various forms. Secondly, to acquire from that experience a broader world view about visual culture, social conditions and practical insights about the people across cultures sharing the same space in the world.
The first step in this project includes a course in Visual Culture in India which involves travel to India from March 7-16, 2008. Nine students and a faculty member will be studying and traveling various aspects of visual culture in India as part of the course, including presentations at the National Centre for the Performing Arts. The Center is also exploring with Arcadia University further opportunities for collaboration, including an international conference in visual culture in India, student and faculty projects and research on specific traditions and manifestations of visual culture in India.
We will host a book event and discussion titled Follow the Hindu Moon on March 7, 2008 at 6.30pm at the Little Theatre of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai. The author of the book, Soumya Aravind Sitaraman will converse with the noted mythologist, Devdutt Pattanaik, articulating the meaning and place of mythology, festivals, traditions, and rituals especially in a time of global culture and technology driven society.The program is free and open to all.
We will host a solo performance titled Deputy Darling (Dr. Baby - Bondaddy Revolution + Revolution = Jameese’l) by the noted German artist, Jonathan Meese on January 14, 2008 at the Little Theatre of the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai. The program is organized in collaboration with Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke on the occasion of the first solo exhibition of the artist in India, and is free and open to all.
We will host an art retreat titled Art and Ecology in association with GreenPeace India and Conservation Education Centre of the Bombay Natural History Society, from November 25 to 30, 2007 at the Kashid Beach Resort, at Kashid Village, Murud, Maharashtra.
Artists: Indrapramit Roy, Nikhileshwar Baruah, Anupam Singh, Indrajit Prasad, Tanmoy Samanta, Bharati Kapadia, Sarita Chauhan and Mahula Ghosh.
We will host a book launch event of the publication on Nalini Malani accompanied by a discussion between the artist and the noted curator, Carolyn Christov Bakargiev on November 1, 2007 at 6.30 pm at the Little Theatre of the National Center for Performing Arts in Mumbai. The program is free and open to all.
