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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...

"In the end one has to reject it all and not learn but unlearn, not to know how to do but how not to do and always face doing" - Jerzy Grotowski The Arshinagar Project presents To the Flame vlcsnap-2011-12-10-13h11m35s238.png A workshop to explore sound and silence, movement and stillness, breath and breathlessness, the Other and the Self, space and the spaceless, the body and the unbodied You can join if you: Seek what is simple and essential in us, what makes us human Wish to come in in authentic contact with other human beings, in a space of co-creation without any pretence Are willing to participate actively, to be in shared solitude In order to join, send an e-mail stating who you are, and what you seek form this work, to: thearshinagarproject@gmail.com, or call 09831731422 Dates: December 26th - 29th Time: 6 PM - 9 PM Venue- Karuna Wellness Centre, Basement, A 105 Defence Colony, New Delhi Facilitators: Arka Mukhopadhyay - theatre performer/d...