Quotes from the Earth: The Environment Film Festival 2010: For Ecological Citizenship
04 December 2010, 05:30 am
Quotes from the Earth: The Environment Film Festival 2010: For Ecological Citizenship
Programme Type
Festivals
The festival focuses on different issues, regions, and struggles to give audiences a better chance to understand and engage with environmental issues. Initiating, propagating and
absorbing the idea of 'Eco-Citizens', the films will throw light essentially through four categories: Earth, Water, Wildlife and Sustainability. Organised in collaboration with Toxics Link.At 9:00 Ecological Reading
Readings from the book, The Secret Abode of Fireflies - Loving and Losing of Nature in the City which aims to inculcate this idea of loving the presence of natural spaces, that one is about to lose rapidly.
From 10:00 onwards
THEME: EARTH
The Last Days of Shishmaref (Netherlands; 91 min; English subtitles)
Director: Jan Louter
The Earth Story (90 Secs; Animation; English)
Directors: Megha Mathur and Suchi Tripathi
India's Climate Fever (India; 15 min; English subtitles)
Director: Arjun Pandey
You Can Only Clap with Two Hands (Introduction, Awareness & Capacity)
(Netherlands; 25 min; English)
Director: Jenny Van Houters
Once My Village (India; 3 min; Hindi; English subtitles)
Director: Pranab K. Aich
Last Words of a Dying Tree (India; 5 min; English subtitles)
Directors: Avinash Kumar Singh & Geeta Singh
Goa Goa Gone (25 min; English with subtitles)
Director: Kurush Canteenwala
Tears (India; 1.30 min; English subtitles)
Director: Rashmi Rajarao
Light of the Night (4 min; English subtitles)
Director: Metha Mathur
Diamonds and Rust (10.7 min; English with subtitles)
Director: Karuna D'Souza
From 14:30 onwards
THEME: WATER
Deluge (7.36 min; English subtitles; 2D Animation)
Director: Delwyn Jude Remedios
Ganpati Bappa Moraya! (8.33 min; Marathi with subtitles)
Director: Dr. Mayuri Panse
The Miracle Water Village (12 min; Marathi/English with English subtitles)
Directors: Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh
The Land of Vanishing Lakes (India; 20.59 min; English subtitles)
Director: Ishani K. Dutta
Reviving Faith, PSBT (57 min; English with subtitles)
Director: Rishu Nigam
At 17.00
Discussion on Is Environment Education Still Confined to Moral Relativism?
From 18:30
Bridging the Gap (Netherlands; 95 min; English subtitles)
Director: Corinne Van Egeraat & Katja Draaijer
4 Elements (Netherlands; 95 min; English subtitles)
Director: Jiska Rickels
Hazrat Amir Khusrau and the Tradition of Khanqahi Qawwali
30 November 2010, 05:30 am
Hazrat Amir Khusrau and the Tradition of Khanqahi Qawwali
Programme Type
Talks
PROGRAMME HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Music Appreciation Promotion
Hazrat Amir Khusrau and the Tradition of Khanqahi Qawwali
An illustrated presentation by Irfan Zuberi, a cultural consultant with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture
Through recordings of Hazrat Amir Khusrau's compositions, this talk will introduce the genre of khanqahi qawwali in the Indian subcontinent as a prominent expression of Chishti Sufism
Music Appreciation Promotion
Hazrat Amir Khusrau and the Tradition of Khanqahi Qawwali
An illustrated presentation by Irfan Zuberi, a cultural consultant with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture
Through recordings of Hazrat Amir Khusrau's compositions, this talk will introduce the genre of khanqahi qawwali in the Indian subcontinent as a prominent expression of Chishti Sufism
Caravaggio 400: Study on Restoration of Caravaggio's Paintings by Cesare Brandi
24 November 2010, 05:30 am
Caravaggio 400: Study on Restoration of Caravaggio's Paintings by Cesare Brandi
Programme Type
Talks
An illustrated presentation by Professor Giuseppe Basile, Istituto Centrale del Restauro
The talk will deal with the restoration of paintings such as The Last Supper and
The Basilica at Asissi
Chair: Smt Rupika Chawla, Painting Conservator
EUNIC Lecture Tagore and Spain
26 November 2010, 05:30 am
EUNIC Lecture Tagore and Spain
Programme Type
Talks
On the occasion of Rabindranath Tagore's 150th birth anniversary thislecture will look into the reasons of the Indian Poet's uninterruptedsurvival in Spain ever since his Nobel Prize Award in 1913 which is insharp contrast to his reception in other parts of Europe after the1920s. It will highlight the special literary relationship between himand the well known Jimenez couple but will also refer to the criticalreception in order to understand the dialectical process responsiblefor the said survival
Gandhi Katha
26 November 2010, 05:30 am
Gandhi Katha
Programme Type
Cultural
The Gandhi Katha conveys the story of Mahatma Gandhi, providing aninsight into his inner recesses as well as an analysis of his role inhistory through storytelling with appropriate songs composed by him. The Gandhi Katha started six years ago as reparative acts of creativenon-violence after the violence in Gujarat in 2002.
Songs rendered by Sardar Patel School
Songs rendered by Sardar Patel School
Building Inclusive Cities
23 November 2010, 05:30 am
Building Inclusive Cities
Programme Type
Talks
Panelists: Ms Pregs Govender from South Africa works locally andglobally with Parliaments, Governments and Civil Society to build analternative politics and leadership through writing, policy andeducation. A recipient of the first Ruth First Fellowship 2004 forcourageous writing and activism; Dr. Elkin Velasquez, Coordinator,Safer Cities Programme and Advisor to the Secretary, Government ofBogota, and Consultant for the European Union in Civil Safety, the UNDPand UN-Habitat for Local Citizen Safety and Decentralization; and Dr.Margaret Shaw, sociologist and criminologist and Director of Analysisand Exchange, International Centre for the Prevention of Crime,Montreal, Canada
Moderator: Ms Pamela Philipose, veteran journalist and Director, Women's Feature Service
