Workshop conducted by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur and Irawati Harshe Mayadev

 

Programme – Day II

10:00 to 11:15 – Images Tell Stories Part II

 

11:30 to 12:30 – Save Our Cinema 

This module will take participants through a brief overview of the history of Indian cinema and the urgent need to preserve our cinematic heritage

 

 

An educational programme developed by Film Heritage Foundation that is designed to encourage participants to explore various facets of cinema from film history to technique to an appreciation of the unique grammar of this art form. Aimed at immersing children in the evolution of the magical world of cinema, transforming the experience from mere passive viewing to actively engaging with this art form and teaching them the language of the moving image. Organised in collaboration with Film Heritage Foundation and INTACH – Heritage and Communication Service

Workshop conducted by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, award-winning documentary filmmaker; and Irawati Harshe Mayadev, award-winning actor who has worked in several critically acclaimed films

 

For children and young adults of 8 years and above

 

For participation, kindly please register with the IIC Programme Office or mail at programmeiic@gmail.com

 

Programme – Day I

10:00 to 11:15 – Magic Lantern to Chaplin

Participants will embark on a visual journey chronicling the birth of cinema from the magic lantern to Muybridge to the masters of the silent era like Edison, Melies, Dadasaheb Phalke and Chaplin

 

11:30 to 13:00 – Images Tell Stories Part I

Participants will be taught that visual images can be “read” like other texts introducing them to the difference between seeing and watching a moving image; evaluate the process of capturing reality in time and space continuum; an understanding of narrative structure and the role of sound, etc.

 

 

A discussion around the recently published book by Dr. Pankaj Vohra, Paediatric Gastroenterologist, Max Hospital

 

 

Poetic Image/Visual Forms: Reading Miniature Paintings of the Gita from Mewar (1680-1694)

Speaker: Prof. Alok Bhalla

 

Chair:  Prof. Harish Trivedi

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

 

 

 

 

 

A film by Sanjoy Hazarika & Preeti Gill

Direction: Maulee Senapati (technical)

 

Conceptualised and developed by Sanjoy Hazarika who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

Rambuai focuses attention on a period in the nation’s history that has rarely figured in contemporary discourse, official reports, civil society dialogues or even scholarly debates

 

 

An exhibition of recent works – paintings, drawings and mixed media

By Amrita Ghosh and Subrata Mete from Delhi

 

Inauguration by Smt Uma Jain, Shri Niren Sen Gupta and Shri Jagdish Dey on Thursday, 15 December 2016 at 18:30

 

 

 

 

Amahl and the Night Visitors (50 mins) 

A one-act opera by Gian Carlo Menotti

Presented by the Lyric Ensemble of Delhi

          

Music Director/Conductor – Clayton Duggan

Stage Director/Choreographer – Diniz Sanchez

Founder/Voice Coach – Situ Singh Buehler

Piano Accompaniment – Dinai Rentta

Flute – Nathalie Ramirez Tovar

 

Soloists: Mother, Amahl, 3 Kings and a Page, Chorus of Shepherds and Dancers 

 

Followed by Christmas Carols

 

Amahl and the Night Visitors is a retelling of the 3 wise men of the Orient from the point of view of a young disabled boy named Amahl, who lives in poverty with his widowed mother near Bethlehem. He sees a bright star in the sky and tells his mother to go look, but she brushes him off. That night 3 Kings come across their meagre hut and seek shelter for they have travelled long and far following the star of which Amahl had spoken. They bring with them treasure and gifts to give "the Child" who has just been born and will reign over all. Blinded by the lure of Gold and what it could do for her family the mother attempts to steal just a bit of the treasure, but is caught red handed. What no one expects is a gift far greater than Gold - blessed by "the Child", Amahl finds himself suddenly cured of his disability! Amahl follows the Kings to visit the "infant Child"

 

 

 

A discussion on the book by Dr. Geeta Patel, Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Language and Cultures, University of Virginia

 

Panelists: Mekhala Krishnamurthy, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University; Simona Sawhney, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi; and Akhil Katyal, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Shiv Nadar University

 

The author will also speak

 

(Collaboration: Women Unlimited)

 

 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

Until Space Remains – The Dalai Lama & India (65 min; 2016; dvd; English)

A film directed by Gaurav Saxena

 

The Dalai Lama has often described India as the Guru of the Tibetan people. Today, that role in many ways has been reversed. He and the Tibetan people have been in exile in India since the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1959 and their story continues to be one of the most significant success stories of a displaced community. The Tibetan people have managed to preserve their identity, keeping their cause alive and reaming welcome in India, while the Dalai Lama is an eloquent and influential ambassador of India’s civilizational heritage, its inclusive philosophy and the most sophisticated mind training techniques in history. The Film explores this remarkable relationship that began in the 8th Century AD 

 

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama)