Celebrating 25 years of Navdanya

AUDITORIUM
10:00 Earth celebration songs by schoolchildren
10:15 Lamp lighting
10:20 Film by Tadpole Artists' Collective on 25 years of Navdanya                                                   
10:30     Women in Defence of the Earth
              Honouring Earth Defenders Jean Grossholtz, Bimla Bahuguna and Radha Bhatt
12:30     Celebrating 25 years of Seed Sovereignty: Bija Swaraj
              Release of Global Report on Seed Freedom
      
GANDHI-KING PLAZA
14:30 Street play by The Players

AUDITORIUM 
15:00      Screening of Amrit Beej by Meera Dewan 
16:00     Celebrating 50 years of Silent Spring
 Release of Poison in our Food
18:30 Recital by Parvathy Baul

Speakers: Vandana Shiva, Radha Bhatt, Frances M. Lappé, Winona Laduke, Ivonne Baki, Maria Grazia Mammuccini, Caroline Lockhart, Kusum Panigrahi, Farida Akhtar, Sarita Kumari, Ilina Sen, Anna Powar, Nalini Gite, Rachna Dhingra, Mira Shiva, Vaibhav Singh & Debbie Barker

Auroville Talks

Talks on "City of the Future"; "Remembering the Future Gardens"; "Is there an Economy beyond Money?"; "A Site of Material and Spiritual Researches;" "An Education for Self-finding"; "Towards Integral Healing" and "Garbology 101"

Seminar: Auroville: City for Transformation

Inaugural address: Dr Karan Singh

Guest Speaker: Smt Ambika Soni

Keynote Address by Dr Kapila Vatsyayan, Shri Soli Sorabjee and Mr Shigeru Aoyagi

12:00-13:00 Round Table

14:10-15:30 Session on "World in Transition and Auroville"

15:30-16:30 Session on "Sustainable and Ecological Living"

To participate e-mail auroville.iicevent@auroville.org.in

Screenings of award-winning documentaries followed by discussion with directors, and film-appreciation workshops. Film synopses at www.psbt.org

Friday 7    
The Politics of Freedom
10:00 Whistles and Bullets (54 min; 2012)
Director: Devi Prasad Mishra
11:30 Freedom Song (52 min; 2012)
Directors: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta & Subi Chaturvedi
Discussion moderated by Subasri Krishnan

14:00 Gaur in my Garden (26 min; 2012)
Director: Rita Banerji
14:45 Light on the Dark Side (26 min; 2012)
Directors: Geeta & Avinash Kumar Singh    
15:30 Nirnay (Decision) (56 min; 2012)
Directors: Pushpa Rawat & Anupama Srinivasan
17:00 Much Ado about Knotting (52 min; 2012)
Directors: Geetika Narang Abbasi & Anandana Kapur
18:30 A Farmer from Kuttanad (52 min; 2012)
Director: Santosh Sivan
Discussion moderated by Akanksha Joshi      

Multipurpose Hall at 17:00

Opening of the Festival

Welcome Address: Dr Karan Singh, M.P., Rajya Sabha

Chief Guest: Kumari Selja

Art Gallery at 18:30

Inauguration of Transformation

Exhibition curated by Sebastian Cortes

Special Guest: Kumari Selja

On view 11:00-19:00 till Friday 21

Multipurpose Hall at 19:00

Film: City of the Dawn

Speakers: Dr David Headon, former Director, Centre for Australian Cultural Studies, Canberra; and Prof Christopher Vernon, University of Western Australia

Planned as capital cities within years of each other, New Delhi and Canberra embody the vision of the British Empire at its peak. Hundred years on, we revisit the conception of these cities and reflect on their complex mutations

(102 min; 1992; dvd)
Director: Philip Cayford

The story of extinction on a global scale, from South Dakota's buffalo herds to snake stalls in Taiwan. Philip Cayford interviews conservationists and observes illegal traffickers to bring out the root causes of extinction"”loss of habitat, overpopulation and greed"”even as the film celebrates individual efforts to save species. A visual and musical tour de force, it is narrated by Kenneth Branagh with music by Elton John and David Gilmour