"Consider Yourself at Home": Celebrating Charles Dickens - 21st to 23rd February 2014
Film screenings at 10:00 & 12:30
A Tale of Two Cities (UK)
(117 min; 1958; dvd; English)
Director: Ralph Thomas
With Dirk Bogarde; Dorothy Tutin; Cecil Parker; Stephen Murray
At 12:30
The Pickwick Papers (UK)
(109 min; 1952; dvd; English)
Director: Noel Langley
With Hermione Gingold; Kathleen Harrison; James Hayter; Nigel Patrick
From 10:30 to 13:30 in Gandhi-King Plaza
Illustrating Dickens
A workshop for children conducted by Atanu Roy and Deepa Agarwal
At 15:30 in the Auditorium
"What the Dickens!"
An open quiz conducted by Aryapriya Ganguly
At 18:15 in the Auditorium
Of Frogs Expiring and Other Marvels: An Evening of Dickens Reading
Readings by Yatrik - Sunit Tandon, Giti Chandra and others
"Consider Yourself at Home": Celebrating Charles Dickens - 21st to 23rd February 2014
A three-day festival celebrating the life and work of Charles Dickens. The festival includes talks, discussions, workshop, readings, concert, quiz, film screenings of adaptations and an exhibition. Films courtesy British Council Division
Charles Dickens: Pictures from Italy
An exhibition of contemporary paintings based on Charles Dickens' 1840 travelogue to Italy and France
Paintings by Livia Signorini
On view in the Foyer outside the Auditorium until 23rd February 2014
Charles Dickens Collection
An exhibition on posters, frontispiece
On view in the Quadrangle Garden until 23rd February 2014
At 18:30 in the Auditorium
Dickens and India
Inaugural lecture by Shri Girish Karnad
Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President IIC
FRONTIERS OF HISTORY
An Uncertain Arc: Impressions of India's Design Century
Illustrated lecture by Itu Chaudhuri
Design has come into focus in present day India. It is seen as a source of competitive advantage, as a business resource, as a development resource and even an expression of soft power. In popular culture, the concept is more "˜available' than at any other time. The lecture is an attempt by a practitioner designer to give a clearer shape to the practice of design and tracing the trajectory of its development. Necessarily personal, the speaker draws on images and moments that he finds illuminating how design is practiced and consumed
Kathak Recital
By Moumala Nayak from Delhi, disciple of Pt. Birju Maharaj
MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION
Kabir in the Thumri Repertoire
Illustrated lecture by Vidya Rao, well-known vocalist
HEALTHY MEDICINE
Health Advertisements - How Misleading?
Keynote speaker: Dr. Naresh Gupta, Director-Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College & associated with Lok Nayak & G.B. Pant Hospitals; and Chairman, Advisory Group, Consumers India
Panelists: Dr. (Smt) Najma Heptullah, MP, former Deputy Chairperson, Rajya Sabha; Dr. Jayashree Gupta, President, Consumers India; and Shri Suhas Borker, Director, CFTV
Second in the series Healthy Medicine organised in collaboration with Consumers India
Two Faces of Beauty: Relationship Between Science and Art
Opening remarks: Shri Jaipal Reddy, Minister for Science and Technology
Presentations by P.M. Bhargava, well-known scientist and former Chairman, National Knowledge Commission; and Chandana Chakrabarti, communications expert, columnist and writer, co-authors of the new book of the same title
Panel discussion
Panelists: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi, poet and former Secretary of Culture, Ministry of Culture; Prof. K. Kasturirangan, Member, Planning Commission; and Shri Sunil Kothari, dance critic
Screening of the film
M.F. Husain's Vision 20th Century
Paintings by M.F. Husain with interpretation by Dr. P.M. Bhargava
Poetry Reading and Talk
By Jan Kemp, well-known English poet, short story writer and accomplished performer from New Zealand; and readings by Sukrita Paul Kumar
Chair: Prof. Sumanyu Satpathy, Professor & Head, Dept. of English, University of Delhi
Persistence Resistance 2014: 17th to 19th February 2014
Organised in collaboration with Magic Lantern Movies LLP Interrogating collaborative practices in cinema, Persistence Resistance 2014 will focus on an in-depth conversation with practitioners on their craft and collaborations. The documentary filmmaker and their subjects are positioned in a matrix of power, ethics, desire and trust that is constant yet shifting. How do filmmakers approach this complex relationship, how do they create a relationship of trust and then determine its parameters, both on and off-camera. These and other issues will be discussed in conversations with filmmakers, editors and cinematographers - Deepa Dhanraj with Navroze Contractor; Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam; Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayashankar; Surabhi Sharma; Sanjay Kak; R.V. Ramani, Anupama Srinivasan; Spandan Banerji; Subasri Krishnan; and Jabeen Merchant, the Editor.
For details of the programme and screening schedule, please log onto www.iicdelhi.in and http://magiclanternmovies.in/ As part of this festival, on 16th February 2014, there will be launch of the book Cinema City at Max Mueller Bhawan at 18:00; and the Closing session of Persistence Resistance 2014 will be held at Khoj on 20th February from 12:00 onwards...