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JUMP INTO THE RAMAYANA: WORKSHOP FOR CHILDREN 7-10 YEARS Sunday, 2 nd  Februa ry, 2014 |  11 am  | Open air garden opposite the museum café and shop, CSMVS Museum, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Fort, Mumbai In  The Mighty Tale of Hanuman,  the beloved monkey deity Hanuman narrates the legendary story of the Ramayana, the epic struggle between good and evil, in which Ram undertakes a perilous journey to rescue his beloved wife Sita, who has been kidnapped by the Demon King Ravana. The book is illustrated with magnificent original 18 th  century paintings from the collection of the  Mehrangarh Museum Trust . All profits from book sales support the  Veerni Project  to empower girls in Rajasthan. This workshop will be conducted by  Saker Mistri  and  Mamta Dalal Mangaldas,  also authors of the children's book  The Kidnapping of Amir Hamza. For more information on this programme, click   here   "THR...

The Arshinagar Project  in association with  Centre for Canadian Studies, Jadavpur University, Ebong Amra and Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute  Presents: The Memory Trail...with Tomson Highway (Cree Playwright, Performer, Canada) February 5-9, 2014 On the 5th evening, Tomson will lead a story weaving session at Space, C521 Lake Gardens, while on the 6th evening, he will perform with Rahim Chitrakar, India at the same venue Tomson will also lead a masterclass on the 6th morning at Space, which will culminate in a small sharing along with Tomson and Rahim's performance that evening.  On the 7th and 8th, there will be a workshop with the members of  Ebong Amra  at their space, Tepantar Theatre Village, in Satkahuniya, West Bengal. This workshop is open to a limited number of external participants.  To register for the events, please call  9831731422  (Arka) or  9836003314  (Dheeman) Please refer to the attached...

The Arshinagar Project is inviting proposals for the Ghosts of Shakespeare  Festival 2014, which will take place in the city of Kolkata, India, between April 23rd and 30th, 2014. Background : Ghosts of Shakespeare is an annual festival that is meant to confront the world of Shakespeare (primarily) from the vantage of Indian performance idioms and aesthetics, as well as contemporary subjectivities and lived experience. It is meant to exist, both physically and metaphorically, in marginal spaces. This means that it intends to explore non-traditional venues, including open and public spaces, as well  as reach out to genres other than traditional theatre, such as dance, performance art, street theatre and other forms of theatre activism, and genres which defy any easy categorization. It looks at Shakespeare as a talisman of protest and humanistic articulation, and hence embraces artistic actions that articulate disturbing and perhaps unpopular truths about the world and time...

KELI is a Mumbai based Charitable organization striving to preserve, develop and propagate the classical and traditional cultural heritage of India. Keli has been active in this field from the past several years and during this period, has successfully handled a number of important projects in furtherance of its objectives. The annual Keli festivals, structured thematically every year, are well known to artists and art lovers of the City and have earned the organization a significant place in the cultural life of Mumbai. On its 22 nd  anniversary, Keli continues its commitment to preserving, developing and propagating the enormously exciting cultural heritage of India with a theatre festival dedicated to  Chavittu Natakam . This is the first time this art form will be presented in Mumbai Keli Indigenous Theatre Festival 2014 (On Chavittu Natakam- India’s most ancient Maritime theatre Tradition) 9, 10, 11 January 2014 Human life is incomplete ...