Directed by Ashvin Kumar who will introduce the screening

 

A film on migrants. Migrants undergo perilous journeys, risking drowning, deportation, arrest, physical and sexual violence in the hope of finding a place of greater safety and economic opportunity in a distant country. Those who survive become nannies, housekeepers and drivers – ever present yet unwilling themselves to disappear into the multitudes of the new country. The film tells the story of three distinct women who undertook this perilous journey in hope of a better life

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

Speakers: Ashvin Kumar, Director of the Film; and Christina MacGillivray, Co-Producer and Lead Researcher of the film; Pia Oberoi, Advisor on Migration and Human Right, UNOCHR; Igor Bosc, Work in Freedom Programme, International Labour Organisation; and Karuna Nundy, Advocate, Supreme Court of India

 

 

A programme based on 100 Great Poems for Children, book edited by Deepa Agarwal (published by Red Turtle)

 

Readings by Keki Daruwalla and Anushka Ravishankar

 

Followed by a Quiz

Recitations/Songs/Dance based on the poems in Hindi and Bengali

 

For children between the ages 9-12 years

 

 

MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

 

Music for the Enlightenment: Jean-Philippe Rameau  

This lec-dem by Justin McCarthy  will look into  the composer as both musician and music philosopher, a guided listening experience 

 

Justin McCarthy is a dancer and musician, teaching and performing Bharatanatyam, piano and harpsichord 

 

Illustrated lecture by Smt Jasleen Dhamija, veteran Indian textile art historian, crafts expert and former UN Advisor

 

An Introduction on Carpet Stories – Tribal Carpets from Prominent Waving Regions Outside India

By Danny Mehra

 

Carpet Stories

An exhibition of rare tribal carpets from Persia, Anatolia, the Caucasus, Central Asia and various Kurdish enclaves

From the collection of Danny Mehra

 

Inauguration on Thursday, 17 December 2015 at 18:30

 

Danny Mehra will present a brief talk on Tribal Carpets and conduct a walk-through of the exhibition every day from 17:30 to 18:30

 

As part of this exhibition, there will be talks on:

Saturday 19 December 2015 at 18:30 on the Seminar Rooms II & III, Kamaladevi Complex on

Tribes and Their Weavings from Iran

Illustrated lecture by Smt Jasleen Dhamija, veteran Indian textile art historian, crafts expert and former UN Advisor

 

An Introduction to Carpet Stories – Tribal Carpets from Prominent Weaving Regions Outside India

By Danny Mehra

Beyond Witness: Poetry's Engagement with the Reality

By  Shri Keki N. Daruwalla 

 

Chair:  Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

 

 

 

Research Lecture Series

Survey and Characterization of Historic Lakhori Bricks

Speaker: Ms Bhawna Dandona, Conservation Architect, presently Visiting Faculty, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi

  

 

 

 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

Humano: South America, A New Awakening 

(90 min; 2013; dvd; English)

A film by Alan Stivelman 

 

A young man is twenty-five years old and is looking for the reason of his existence, the meaning of life. A camera and a notebook filled with questions are the only items he needs to set off on a journey to the Andes range. With Placido, an Andean paqo (priest), he will be taken on an introspective journey such as has never been documented before

 

 

An exhibition of photographs by Hiranmay Karlekar

 

Preview on Tuesday, 15 December 2015 at 18:30