The Bamboo Princess (60 min)

Based on an ancient Japanese folk tale about the princess of the moon who is cursed and must live a lifetime on the earth. The show uses shadow puppets, dance, Bunraku style puppets and actors. A collaboration between Katkatha Puppets Art Trust and Setagaya Silk of Tokyo

 

Music operator: Shruti Sunder; Puppets by Mohammed Shameem; and Choreography by Avinash Kumar & Honoh Horikawa

Directed by Anurupa Roy and Honoh Horikawa

Finding Radha: The Quest for Love

Edited by Malashri Lal and Namita Gokhale (Penguin India, 2018)

 

Natya Katha on Radha

By Dr. Sonal Mansingh, Padma Vibhushan, classical Indian dance- Guru, Choreographer, scholar and author on Indian socio-cultural traditions and Member of Parliament

 

Followed by 

Discussants: Shri Pavan K. Varma, writer-diplomat;i; Ms Renuka Narayanan, Commentator and columnist on religion and culture; and Ms Namita Gokhale, writer, Festival Director and publisher

 

Chair: Prof. Malashri Lal, formerly with Dept. of English, University of Delhi, and Member, English Advisory Board of Sahitya Akademi

Roundtable discussion on the Second Session of the 13th National People’s Congress
 

Speakers: Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty; Prof. Alka Acharya; Prof. Biswajith Dhar; and Ambassador Ashok Kantha

 

(Collaboration: Institute of Chinese Studies)

Monday 25 to 31

 

 

 

Exhibition ■ Art Gallery, Kamaladevi Complex from 11:00 to 19:00

 

Remember Slavery

 

 

 

Say it Loud - The power of the arts for justice

 

An exhibition of posters featuring the work of 21 architects of African descent that highlights their contributions to the field of design

 

 

 

As part of this exhibition, there will be screening of a film at 12 noon; 15:00; and at 17:00 every day:

 

Slavery Routes – 1620 – 1789: From Sugar to Rebellion (52 min; dvd; English)

 

The film highlights how slavery did not begin in the cotton fields but was rather a much older tragedy that has been happening since the dawn of humanity

 

 

 

(Collaboration: United Nations)

 

 

 

 

Speaker: Padma vibhushan Shri Fali S.Nariman, Constitutional Jurist

Shri N.N.Vohra, President, IIC will preside overthe lecture

 

on 23rd March 2019 at 5.45 pm in the Centre's Conference Room-I

Centenary of the May Fourth Movement of 1919

Revisiting Core Questions ofMay Fourth Movement

Discourse,Narratives and Contestations 

 

 

 

Collaboration: Institute of Chinese Studies and Harvard-Yenching Institute 

 

Roma

by academy award winning director, Alfonso Cuaron

 

In the framework of International Women's Day

 

followed by a discussion

 

"The Other in the Family: A Discussion on Domestic Workers"

 

Speakers: Ms. Renana Jhabvala, activist,SEWA; Ms. Urvashi Butalia, noted Indian feminest, publisher, writer,founder of Zubaan Books

and Ms.Archana Kapoor, filmmaker,activist, founder of Smart NGO

 

on Saturday, 16th March 2019 at 11 am to 2 pm

 

C.D.Deshmukh Auditorium 

There is no `other' Abheda
 

Non dualistic philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism and its relation to performative aspects of Indian ClassicalDance

by Dr. Advaitavadini Kaul,HOD Kala Kosha, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the A

TUESDAY 5 - 7

 

FESTIVAL  ■ C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM FROM 09:30 TO 20:00

To Mark International Women’s Day 2019

 

The 15th IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival: 5 to 7 March 2019

The 15th edition of the festival brings together a collection of over 50 films from 20 countries, directed by women filmmakers of Asian origin. The festival includes animated films, students’ films and experimental films and curated segments on Childhood, Female gaze, Seven Sisters and Soundphiles. Highlights of the festival include a special country focus on Georgia and an art installation embodying the female storyteller, the Bioscopwaali

 

Organised in collaboration with International Association of Women in Radio &Television, India Chapter; National Foundation for India; Oxfam India; Tech Mahindra Foundation; Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan; Friedrich Ebert Stiftung; UN Women; Georgia National Film Center; Embassy of Israel; Cinestaan; and others

 

Screenings will be held in the Auditorium on 5, 6 and 7 March 2019 from 09:30 onwards. Filmmakers from India, Georgia, Israel, Bangladesh, Turkey and Sweden will be present to join in post-screening discussions 

 

For detail screening schedule, kindly please log onto www.iawrtindia.blogspot.in and www.iicdelhi.in

 

TUESDAY 5 - 7

 

FESTIVAL  ■ C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM FROM 09:30 TO 20:00

To Mark International Women’s Day 2019

 

The 15th IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival: 5 to 7 March 2019

The 15th edition of the festival brings together a collection of over 50 films from 20 countries, directed by women filmmakers of Asian origin. The festival includes animated films, students’ films and experimental films and curated segments on Childhood, Female gaze, Seven Sisters and Soundphiles. Highlights of the festival include a special country focus on Georgia and an art installation embodying the female storyteller, the Bioscopwaali

 

Organised in collaboration with International Association of Women in Radio &Television, India Chapter; National Foundation for India; Oxfam India; Tech Mahindra Foundation; Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan; Friedrich Ebert Stiftung; UN Women; Georgia National Film Center; Embassy of Israel; Cinestaan; and others

 

Screenings will be held in the Auditorium on 5, 6 and 7 March 2019 from 09:30 onwards. Filmmakers from India, Georgia, Israel, Bangladesh, Turkey and Sweden will be present to join in post-screening discussions 

 

For detail screening schedule, kindly please log onto www.iawrtindia.blogspot.in and www.iicdelhi.in