Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts

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.

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.

The Mohile Parikh Center for the Contemporary in association with Indian Architect and Builder Magazine will host a book launch event titled In Conversation by Architects, B.V. Doshi and Sen Kapadia on May 17, 2007 at 6.00 pm at the Little Theatre of the National Center for Performing Arts in Mumbai. The program is free and open to all.

From February 1-3, 2007, there will be a national seminar at M. S. University in Baroda.

UGC National Seminar
Cultural Practice and Discourses of the ‘Minor’
Department of Art History and Aesthetics, Faculty of Fine Arts
The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara
February 1-3, 2007

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