A festival of eight exceptional documentary films from Australia organised in collaboration with The Walkley Foundation. Two of the filmmakers will be present to personally present their films. The festival includes a discussion
 
At 18:30
Introduction
Ms. Liz Jackson, senior journalist and former Member, The Walkley Foundation
 
Mary Meets Mohammad (80 min; 2013; dvd; English)
Directors: Heather Kirkpatrick and Kristy Dowsing
 
Multiple award winner including 2014 Special Award United Nations Media Peace Prize; 2014 MIA Award for Outstanding Coverage of Migration in the Media; 2014 Tasmania Media Award for Best Feature, Doc. Current Affairs; Winner 2013 Tasmania Outstanding Achiever Award
 
A timely and relevant story told with great sensitivity and subtlety, the film follows the arrival of Tasmania’s first detention centre through the eyes of local Christian woman and knitting club member Mary and Muslim Afghan Hazara, asylum seeker Mohammad, who is detained inside the centre
 
At 20:00
Code of Silence (56 min; 2014; dvd; English)
Directors:  Dan Goldberg and Danny Ben Moshe, Mint Pictures & Identity Films/ABC TV
 
Winner of the 2014 Walkley Documentary Award
 
Code of Silence is the story of a fight for an investigation into allegations of child sex abuse at an Orthodox Jewish boys’ school in Melbourne. As the case against the abusers continues to make news, the documentary is timely and ground-breaking

Speaker: Poonam Surie, author of the recently published book, China: Confucius in the Shadows; Adjunct Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies and Visiting Faculty, Indian Council for World Affairs. Her earlier book, China: A Search for its Soul was published in 2009
 
Discussant: Shri Ravi Bhoothalingam, Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi
 
Chair: Dr. C. Raja Mohan, Head-Strategic Studies & Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, Delhi 

By Eshani Agarwal from Lucknow, disciple of Shri Surendra Saikia

Drugs, Human Trafficking, and Migration
Speakers:  Ms Cristina Albertine, United Nation’s Office on Drugs and Crime; and Ms Tinku Khanna, ApneAap Women Worldwide and Dr. Atul Ambekar
 
Moderator: Dr. S. K. Khandelwal
 
Drugs abuse has become a global problem, and in many places it has assumed an epidemic proportion. Demand and supply chain of illicit drugs has multiple complex issues threatening fabric of the society. It has direct links with problems like human trafficking.  Drugs and human trafficking threaten the human security and development of any country. It has a health angle as most of the people trafficked are vulnerable to violence, sex crimes, and HIV/AIDS. It is a human rights issue as well, since trafficked people are often exploited for forced sex, cheap labour, and drug trade. Organized illegal migration often sees many young people into the prisons, where living conditions are deplorable. Such young illegal migrants frequently have mental health issues, and become victims to drug abuse, and ultimately to HIV/AIDS 

Presented by The Fidelio Trio – Darragh Morgan (violin); Adi Tal (cello); and Mary Dullea (piano)
With Patricia Rozario, soprano
 
The artists will present works by Shostakovich, Jonathan Dove (with verse by Vikram Seth), Haydn and Saint-Saens

Commemoration of Nelson Mandela’s 97th Birthday

Commemoration Service 10.30 am – 11.00 am (Gandhi-King Memorial Plaza)
Songs by Choirs of Schools from Delhi NCR

Procession from Gandhi-King Memorial Plaza to Deshmukh Auditorium

Mandela Katha Mala 11.15 am – 12.30 pm (Deshmukh Auditorium)
Message from the UN Secretary General to be read by Mrs Kiran Mehra-Kerpelman, Director, United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan
Speakers: H.E. Mr France Morule, High Commissioner of South Africa; Shri Satyabrata Pal, former Indian High Commissioner to South Africa; Prof. Ajay Kumar Dubey, Chairperson, Centre for African Studies, JNU & General Secretary, African Studies Association of India; and Shri Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies

Followed by an interactive session with students
During the Mandela Katha a short film on Nelson Mandela’s Life shall be screened
Central Court: Exhibitions by National Gandhi Museum on ‘Nelson Mandela’ and ‘The Great March: Gandhi’s Last Satyagraha in South Africa 1913-1914’
Foyer outside Deshmukh Auditorium: An exhibition of paintings by children of Bluebells School International on ‘Madiba and His Struggle’
Organised as part of Taking Children to Gandhi series that brings children closer to the enduring legacy of Gandhi’s non-violent struggle for equity, justice, pluralism and sustainable development

 Art historian Prof. B. N. Goswamy  on conversation with Dr. Shobita Punja, Smt. Nandini Mehta and Dr. Kavita Singh
 
 Chair: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

An exhibition of Chigiri-e paper art
By Jyotirmoy Ray from Delhi
 
Inauguration by Shri Rajeev Lochan, Director, National Gallery of Modern Art on Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 18:30
 
Chigiri-e is created in collage style from torn pieces of washi paper. It is an artist’s impression of hope that takes its flight to freedom not by rejecting the shattered ugliness but by creating harmony from torn paper

 
Bharatanatyam Recitals
By S. Vijay Kumar from Chennai, disciple of Smt Sujatha Parameswaram
 
At 19:00 pm
By Lokesh Bharadwaj from Delhi, disciple of Shri Justin McCarthy

Bharatanatyam Recitals
By Praveen Kumar from Bangalore, disciple of Guru Smt Narmada and Prof. C.V. Chandrashekar
 
At 19:00 pm
By Renjith Babu from Chennai, disciple of Prof. C.V. Chandrashekhar and the Dhananjayans