(62 min; 2015; HD; English subtitles)
 

Director: Sanju Surendran

 

Recipient of the National Award for Best Documentary (Arts & Culture), 62nd National Film Awards; Special Mention, Visions du Reel, Nyon, Switzerland; John Abraham Award for Best documentary Film, SIGNS 2015

 

The National Award-winning documentary Kapila revives popular interest in an ancient dance form by portraying it through the eyes of one of its most talented exponents in Kerala. Kapila is an actor-performer of Kutiyattam, one of the oldest forms of theatre originating in Kerala. The acting-style is based on hand movement and facial expressions. Sanju Surendran composes a dreamlike and abstract portrait, focussing on the sensorial universe of a hyper-contemporary vestal committed to a thousand-year-old practice

 

 

 

Speaker: Shri A.N.D. Haksar, renowned scholar, author and former Ambassador of India

 

Chair: Amb. Ashok Sajjanhar

 

(Collaboration: India Harmony Foundation)

Release of Aruna Chakravarti’s Daughters of Jorasanko

By Sharmila Tagore

 

Followed by: 

Madhurilata

By the Storytellers

 

Script by Aruna Chakravarti with dramatised readings by Minoti Chatterjee and Averee Chaurey

Music: Jayati Ghosh 

Visual presentation: Sharmila Bakshi 

 

(Collaboration: HarperCollins Publishers)

 

By Mixed Voices, a thirty-four member choir from Gerestried in Bavaria, South Germany 

Conductor: Roland Hammerschmied

 

Formed in 1992, they are renowned in Germany and Italy for their repertoire of pop, gospel, spirituals and classical music

The Capital City Minstrels will join them for some items in the programme

 

(Collaboration: The Capital City Minstrels)

 

 

TUESDAY, 25 OCTOBER 2016

 

 

India International Centre

40 Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi 110003

Telephone: 24619431 www.iicdelhi.in

 

 

 

 

 

                               An exhibition on the history and contribution of the Asiatic Society to the knowledge and study of human
                              civilization in Asia since 1784. The exhibition includes archival photographs, 
                              digitised manuscripts and paintings, letters,   documents, books and journals

 

                             With additional photographs by Mala Mukherjee 

 

                            inauguration by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Life Trustee IIC and Chairperson, IIC – International Research Division

 

 

                           (Collaboration: The Asiatic Society, Kolkata; and with the support of Ministry of Culture, Government of India)

 

                            A celebration of the life and work of K.G. Subramanyan 

                           The exhibition of original works in gouache, the artist’s own writings and illustrated books for children  

                           Curator: Vijay Kowshik

 

 

                            On view at the Art Gallery, Kamaladevi Complex, 11 am to 7 pm 

   

                           The exhibition will remain on view until 4 November 2016

 

                           (Collaboration: Rasaja Foundation; and The Seagull Foundation for the Arts and ARTS GLACERHI)

 

 

                          By Ms Marta Salomón Moreno, Counsellor – Cultural and Press Affairs, Embassy of Spain

 

                         The Beehive (La Colmena)

                         (112 min; 1982; dvd; English subtitles)

                         Director: Mario Camus

 

                        Multiple award winner including the Golden Berlin Bear & CIDALC Award, Berlin International Film Festival 1983;
                       CEC Awards for Best Film, Best Actor, Best Supporting 
                       Actress, Best Director & Best Screenplay, Cinema Writers   Circle    Awards, Spain 1983; Premio ACE Awards for
                       Best Film, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor & Best Supporting
                       Actress, Permios ACE 1984; among others

 

                        In the Language of Clay 

                        Demonstrations by craftspersons 

 

                       Terracotta Shrines to Lord Ayyanar by M. Rangaswamy from Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu

 

                       Painted Terracottas of Lodai and Khavda, Bhuj by Amana Ben and Kumbhar Hasan Umar from Bhuj, Gujarat

 

                       Bhitti chitra – The Painted Sculpted Clay Reliefs by Sundari Bai, Surguja, Chhattisgarh

 

                       Mirrors Sculpted in Clay Relief by Bastar Bhura, Bhuj, Gujarat

 

                       Nazar Battus Terracotta Roof tiles of Bargarh by Manbodh Ram, Bargarh, Odisha

 

                      Glazed Terracotta of Delhi by Harkishan Prajapati from Delhi

 

                       Village Terracotta of Madhya Pradesh by Deevedeen Prajapati, Chattarpur District, Madhya Pradesh

 

                      Curator: Ritu Sethi

 

                       Inauguration by Shri Vipin Malik, Trustee IIC

 

                       On view at the Gandhi-King Memorial Plaza

 

                       (Collaboration: Crafts Museum and the Craft Revival Trust)

 

 

                        ( Collaboration: Crafts Museum and the Craft Revival Trust)

 

                          By Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President IIC

 

                         Chaturvidh: Four Dances in the Odishi Marga

                         Devi Bharani: Traditionally performed during Dussehra in the Sambaleswari temple, Orissa

                         Abartan-Bibartan: connecting games to the talas of Odishi

                        Yashoda’s Story: On the story of Vishnu’s reincarnations as Rama and Krishna, a composition of  the late Kalanidhi Narayan

                         Murchhana: the Odishi mrudanga tradition and dance

 

                         Presented by Odishi Vision and Movement Centre, Kolkata

                          Choreographed by Sharmila Biswas

 

                          Dancers: Monami Nandy, Ankita Kulabhi, Tri Paul, Rohini Bannerjee, Shayori Mitra, Riti Majumdar, Riya Saha
                          and Krishnendu Roy

 

                          Prepared by Chitra Ghose
                         (FOR IIC MEMBERS ONLY)

 

                          Cria Cuervos (Raise Ravens)

                         (110 min; 1976; dvd; English subtitles)

                          A film by Carlos Saura

 

                          Multiple award winner including the Grand Prize of the Jury, Cannes Film Festival 1976; CEC Award for Best
                          Director, Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain 1976; 
                         Critics Award for Best Foreign Film, French Syndicate of Cinema   Critics 1977; among others
 

 

 

A European Library in Nineteenth-century India: The Enlightenment world of King Serfoji II of Tanjore

Speaker: Professor Indira Viswanathan Peterson, Professor of Asian Studies Emerita, Mount Holyoke College, U.S.A. and American Institute of Indian Studies and National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellow 2016

 

Chair: Prof. Romila Thapar

 

Prof. Peterson’s major publications include: Poems to ?iva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints, Design and Rhetoric in a Sanskrit Court Epic: The Kir?t?rjun?ya of Bh?ravi, and Arjuna and the Hunter, the first complete English translation of the Sanskrit literary epic Kir?t?rjun?ya, in the Murty Classical Library of India, Harvard University Press (2016). She has recently completed Scholar-king of Tanjore: Serfoji II and Indian Modernity, an intellectual biography of a remarkable early 19th century South Indian ruler Serfoji II; in progress is the monograph Drama, the Court, and the Public in Early Modern India