Lamakaan

Jamathon, a Hyderabad based live music and jamming platform presents 'Songs of the Balladeer', an evening of storytelling through music. The artiste, Sanjo, takes the audience on a journey through songs that have a story to tell. At times the story isn't just in the song. It's also about the song, the singer or the songwriter. The entire set has a distinctly retro flavor with a focus on evocative lyrics, stirring melodies and emotions that underline the human condition. This performance is brought to you by Blue Butterfly Entertainment.

500 Expressions - Express Through Your Eyes

It is aptly said that eyes are the window to the soul. One can just look into your eyes and see the naked truth! Emoting and expressing feelings through eyes is considered a significant medium in art and cinema. Your eyes reveal the true “you”. One can’t deny the fact that eyes have become the focal point of our existence. While communicating with others, we observe and follow their eyes innately to convey emotions and expressions.
To see the first step taken by your child, to witness the marvels and scenic beauty of nature, to appreciate an artist’s grandeur performance, to sense the happiness in your loved one’s expression – to experience all the marvels of life as well as sweet nothings – we need a clear vision to revel and capture such beautiful and vivid moments in our imagination.
Here is where we walk into the picture. We provide you a clear vision with a strong mission. We, at 500 Expression, have devised an innovative concept to support and aid the deprived. We have a wide array of 500 frames owned by 500 individuals like you and me. Also, we have 100 frames contributed by renowned celebrities.
The frames owned by 400 individuals will be up for grabs online shortly. But, only one frame is available per person. The frames contributed by the crème de la crème celebrities will be auctioned. The money raised from the sale and auction will take care of the socially underprivileged. So, a part of your money will be donated for a good cause. Be a part of our social initiative and contribute in a unique way!
The pictures taken of your eyes shall be auctioned for a good cause. A part of the money raised from auctioning the frames (picture) of your eyes shall be donated to aid a needy.

'Children of the forest' a film by Dr. Mayuri Panse on the animal orphanage started by Dr. Prakash Amte 35 years ago. For 35 years, Dr. Prakash Amte and his family have worked to provide a better life for the backward Madia by providing them medical care, education and teaching this hunter-gatherer tribe to farm. Dr. Amte began taking in animal babies that were orphaned when the Madia hunted the parents for food. The orphanage has grown to include a huge variety of animals who live in absolute harmony.

The film "Honey hunters of the Blue Mountains" documents the lives of the last honey hunters in the Nilgiris hills of Southern India and their intricate relationship with Apis dorsata bees. Besides spectacular shots of Kurumba honey hunters scaling down steep cliffs and tall trees, the film offers views of the stunning landscape in this part of the Western Ghats, its wildlife and close-ups of the bees foraging and life in the hive. The film tries to capture the very essence of living with bees, it narrates the myths surrounding the harvest, while also addressing environmental degradation and some of the hardships encountered by the Kurumba and other tribes. It ends with a resume of Keystone's work in enabling the honey hunters to more successfully market honey and wax.

Chuck Glider workshop by AerotriX gives the participants an opportunity to understand the theory behind the functioning of aircraft. This workshop takes the participants through an interactive lecture supplemented by practical session, thereby providing a complete learning experience.

Workshop Structure:
The workshop is divided into 3 modules:
· Understanding Flight
· Fabrication of Glider
· Testing/ Flying of Glider

Details and Registration: Please visit www.aerotrix.com/lamakaan

MY WIFE’S HUSBAND


Written by: Miro Gavran | Indian adaptation by: Feroze
Music composed by: Amit Dasani & Suhit Chiruthapudi
Cast: Maya, Vinay Abhishek, Feroze Ahmed, Kaya
Poster & Ticket designed by: Kathik Vijay V


Not every day will you see a man and his wife’s husband together on stage.
Come and find out who gets to keep the wife and who gets to keep the misery.

Donor Pass: Rs.100/-
Contact: sifar.theatre@gmail.com | 98493 31347
Book online: www.bookmyshow.com

Twin Cities Photography Club is here to give wings to your passion of shooting. The Club is your meeting place on everything related to photography and facilitates sharpening of your photography skills. The club would provide you with opportunities to go on planned shoot on a wide range of topics.

We will provide you with great opportunity to shoot a wide range of subjects. So be it landscapes or seascapes, sunrise or sunsets, wildlife or city life, people or objects, jungles or deserts, birds or insects, flowers, buildings, monuments or even the trees and boulders around, we will shoot.

It does not matter whether you are an amateur or a seasoned professional, whether you have a compact point and shoot camera or a professional SLR, we help each other and learn from each other.

This club is based in Hyderabad (AP) India, but the activities are not restricted by geographical boundaries.

The Objectives:

- Provide a platform for photography enthusiasts to network with like minded people.

- Provide opportunities to shoot a wide range of subjects.

- Enhance knowledge through sessions with seasoned photographers and professionals.

- Provide resources on various photography equipment and accessories.

- Assist you in participating in various photography competitions around the world.

- Assist you in showcasing your work through exhibitions etc.

Light Graffiti - Painting with light.

Light painting is a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. The term light painting also encompasses images lit from outside the frame with hand-held light sources. Light Painting Photography can be traced back to the year 1914 when Frank Gilbreth, along with his wife Lillian Moller Gilbreth, used small lights and the open shutter of a camera to track the motion of manufacturing and clerical workers. Man Ray, in his 1935 series "Space Writing," was the first known art photographer to use the technique and Barbara Morgan began making light paintings in 1940.

'Children of the Pyre' is a compelling real-life, self-narrative of seven extraordinary children who make their living out of the dead. They collect, snatch or steal used coffin shrouds and sell them for petty amounts in order to ensure their own and their family's survival Tempered by the heat of the pyre, strengthened in the face of adversities and crafted by a volley of abuses, these imps weave through the pyres and struggle through disdain in this land of the dead. Laughing, smiling, weeping, fighting and shouting, these children run the race for survival - winning it again and again - everyday. The film is a terrible saga of exploitation that celebrates the victory of innocence over the most harrowing realities of life. It's a torturous journey through seared bodies, callous minds and dead consciences that constitute the human reality of the ghats at Varanasi.

The aim of Rang De Hyderabad Chapter is to screen a documentary that deals with social issues that India faces today. These films are made by filmmakers of all nationalities who want to shine a spotlight on social issues ranging from gender injustices, the climate change to the suicide of farmers in rural areas of India. Our will is two-fold: to screen these films for free (the audience is not charged)& then to have a discussion about the topic of the documentary among the audience after the screening.

The Hyderabad Western Music Foundation present "The Deccan Voices", a local choral group. They sing Pop, Classical, Broadway, Musical, Jazz.
www.hydmusic.com

India has the fifth largest electrical system with an installed capacity of 206 gigawatts. Still, about 400 million Indians lack access to electricity and to even more, it's unreliable and is of poor quality. By 2035, India's power demand is slated to double. Electricity governance is riddled with three big problems of loss and theft, lack of accountability and lack of holistic governance. What are the issues in governance in policy process and in regulatory process? How can we improve policies related to electricity? Come and listen to Usha Ramachandra, Professor and Area Chair Person of Energy Area, Administrative Staff College of India as a part of IGNITING MINDS Energy series

JAAGO STREE!!!
A solo art show by Sravanthi Juluri


About the exhibit:

Jaago Stree lends voice to the suffering of women and the girl child. It marks a new line of interpretations for the artist on a subject close to her heart. She expresses her feelings on several issues faced by women and the girl child alike. Through her works she talks about atrocities the women are subjected to like female foeticide, child molestation in addition to dowry deaths and domestic violence.

Her works are very passionate, and leave a deep impact on the audience. Through her works she wishes to lend a voice to the women who suffer in silence by encouraging them to come out of the darkness.

Jaago Stree aims to invoke the “Shakti” in every “Stree”.

HYDERABAD WESTERN MUSIC FOUNDATION

Presents
THE LISTENING POST
Pure listening to Classical and Jazz music recordings
without any visual aids

At Lamakaan 4pm – 5.30pm

Sunday 11th November – Jazz

LISTENING POST
Open up our senses to new musical experiences.
Heighten and expand musical awareness and ability.
Develop a keen ear to hear every bit of music in all its beauty.
Listen along with others who are like-minded.

Second Sundays - Jazz
Fourth Sundays - Western Classical

Open to all. No entrance fee

Gograhanam, a Telugu play written in 1986 depicting most important stages of a woman’s life & her struggle to keep up with a male dominated system. The story of every woman in a typical Indian setup, her dreams & the sour reality. The woman at every step of her life finds ‘a man’ to be the decision maker or influencer of her own destiny. Also how most of the times her own kind is not very happy to see her make choices.

This social satire has been staged ‘thousands’ of times in last 24 years , we at Octopus Studio plan to celebrate this brilliant plays 25th anniversary by performing this abstract piece in a street play format .

Written & directed by Tanikella Bharani , an eminent play wright , a muti faceted actor & a respected script writer .He has acted in over 550 films, also has penned 52 films & written several plays .His body of work in dramatics has become the syllabus for most of the theater studies in Andhra Pradesh.

Gograhanam, a Telugu play written in 1986 depicting most important stages of a woman’s life & her struggle to keep up with a male dominated system. The story of every woman in a typical Indian setup, her dreams & the sour reality. The woman at every step of her life finds ‘a man’ to be the decision maker or influencer of her own destiny. Also how most of the times her own kind is not very happy to see her make choices.
This social satire has been staged ‘thousands’ of times in last 24 years , we at Octopus Studio plan to celebrate this brilliant plays 25th anniversary by performing this abstract piece in a street play format .
Written & directed by Tanikella Bharani , an eminent play wright , a muti faceted actor & a respected script writer .He has acted in over 550 films, also has penned 52 films & written several plays .His body of work in dramatics has become the syllabus for most of the theater studies in Andhra Pradesh.

In France, November is observed as the The MONTH of DOCUMENTARY, a privileged moment to discover documentary cinema.

A wide variety of films on various topics ranging from political, social, artistic and philosophical take part in the festival.

Documentary Circle of Hyderabad joins Alliance Francaise of Hyderabad to bring a set of accomplished documentaries for the discerning and alert viewer on this occasion. The three day fest (26-28 Nov) will be observed at Alliance Francise (26 and 28 Nov) and at Lamakaan (27 Nov).

on Tuesday 27 Nov at LAMAKAAN

5 BROKEN CAMERAS

by Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi
a Palastine and Algerian co-production

94 min, 2011

Palestinian farm laborer Emad has five video cameras, and each of them tells a different part of the story of his village's resistance to Israeli oppression. Emad lives in Bil'in, just west of the city of Ramallah in the West Bank. Using the first camera, he recorded how the bulldozers came to rip the olive trees out of the ground in 2005. Here, a wall was built directly through his fellow villagers' land to separate the advancing Jewish settlements from the Palestinians.

In the first days of resistance to the Jewish colonists and the ever-present Israeli soldiers, Emad's son Gibreel was born. Scenes shift from the infant growing into a precocious preschooler to the many peaceful acts of protest, and the steady progress of the construction of the dividing wall. Sympathizers from all over the world, including from Israel, provide help as resistance develops, but when the situation intensifies, people are arrested and villagers are killed.

Emad keeps on filming despite pleas from his wife, who fears reprisals. It makes for an intensely powerful personal document about one village's struggle against violence and oppression.

Two filmmakers create one extraordinary
work of art.

Jaago Stree!!! A panel discussion on 'Violence against Women'
The panel discussion will be chaired by Dr.Carolyn M Elliott, Ph.D (Harvard University) Professor Elliott has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was the Director of the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, and Vice Provost at the University of Vermont. Professor Elliott's areas of interest include comparative politics and women's studies, specializing in India and Women in Developing countries.

The other panelists inculde, Carla Benini, Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Consulate Hyderabad, Smt. Koadaveeti Satyavati, a well known writer on women issues in A.P and the Editor of the women's journal "Boomika" First Feminist Magazine in Andhra Pradesh.

"The United Nations General Assembly designated 25 November as the
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and
invited governments, international organizations and NGOs to organize
activities designed to raise public awareness of the problem on that day.
Women's activists have marked 25 November as a day against violence since 1981. This date came from the brutal assassination in 1960, of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic, on orders
of Dominican ruler Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961)."

Admission is free

Jenny,a teenager is on her way to heaven.She comes to know that she has to earn her wings by completing a task assigned to her in order to enter heaven.The task is to help her Man to get over her love without getting involved with him lest she'll get stuck as a lost soul.Lets join Jenny in her mission and find out how she does that...

Jewelry Creations out of natural and not-so-natural waste like, seeds, seed pods, dry flowers, and various waste objects from household. With an intention to ease the burden on earth, we try to see beauty and possibility in every little unused object or waste generated.
To view Rangmaati creations -
Website : www.rangmaati.weebly.com
Facebook : www.facebook.com/rangmaati
Email : rangmaati@gmail.com

"Rumjhuna " a High Tide Initiative brings to you an Enchanting Musical Melange ( English & Hindi ) by Bernard Lai Chung (Kolkatta) lending his baritone voice, reliving English Classics from Elvis,Tom Jones to N.Diamond & various other artists .
And Upcoming Pop Star Kabir Rafi who lend his voice for " Dream of the Nation " Album and sung tracks for A.R RAHMAN

Startup Funerals are short conferences held once a month across different cities to help the global entrepreneurship community learn lessons in failure from startups and entrepreneurs.

You must have heard, that close to 99% of startups fail! Dont you want to know why?
We do! Thats why we started Startup Funerals.
​
Failure is considered a taboo in most our countries, hence people are afraid to fail and the ones that do, hate talking about it. Yet it is only through failure that we can understand the real lessons in success.
​
We believe the time is now to change how people perceive failure globally!

​We want to foster a culture of innovation where people are comfortable to try out new ideas, take calculated risks, and be a little unreasonable.
​
At Startup Funerals we are on a mission to celebrate failure regularly by providing you a place where you are comfortable to share the stories of your failure and commemorate your startups with others to help our global entrepreneurship community learn valuable lessons from it.

About the drug mafia in Miami in the 70's lead by a woman who was infamously called The Godmother.

In the 1980s, ruthless Colombian cocaine barons invaded Miami with a brand of violence unseen in this country since Prohibition-era Chicago - and it put the city on the map. "Cocaine Cowboys" is the true story of how Miami became the drug, murder and cash capital of the United States, told by the people who made it all happen.

MindSweep, our international solo championship, is intended as a vehicle for the things that are distinctive about the quizzing that happens in some (if not all) Indian cities.

The setters (Navin Rajaram, Kiran Vijayakumar and Arul Mani) have enjoyed taking (and bulbing at) the World Quizzing Championships, perhaps because Indian quizzing is a wee bit different from its international cousin. MindSweep is our attempt at sharing the things we enjoy about quizzing with an international audience.

So, what the devil is distinctive about Indian quizzing? A privileging of good guesswork over memory; the triumph of generalists over specialists; bombing a syllabus, rather than using one; the pleasure of parsing, or unknotting, or sometimes being pythoned by a carefully coiled question; a festive relationship with the English language; and the strange appetite for knowing joy and defeat in one instant–a mystical state known as AJM, or Goddamn-it-I-was-that-close.

After the first edition of MindSweep in Jan 2012, several embittered souls sent in their punning suggestions (not all of them were polite) for what we should actually have called the quiz. We laughed, and carried on. The first edition of a quiz, like a first kiss, must elicit some reaction, some `hubbub, babel, shindy, hullabaloo, stramash, charivari, and total contempt of repose,' or what's a contemptibly long zindagi for?

In MindSweep 2.0, the taker will meet ten sets of questions (200 in all) over two one-hour sessions–this means two installments of five sets of questions, interrupted by a short 30-minute break for answers, corrections, and worship of the bladder.

MindSweep 2.0: The Topics

The Arts: Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Design, Architecture, Installation Art, Dance, Theatre
Science and Tech: Concepts in the Sciences, History and Philosophy of Science, History of Technology, The Environment, Astronomy, Medicine, Inter-disciplinary work, Popular Science Writing
Literature: Poetry, Literary Fiction, Non-Fiction, Drama, Genre Fiction, Graphic Novels, Critics, Literary History, Translation
Social Sciences: History, Anthropology, Cultural Studies/Social History, History of Ideas, Economics,The Philosophers
Business: Brands, Fashion, Business History, Advertising
Sports and Leisure: Sporting History, Games, Television, Gaming, Sports-Writing, Sports-Coverage, Hobbies–Collecting, Gardening, Fan-communities, The Internet
Cinema: Hollywood, National Cinemas, World Cinema, Film Genres, Film-Technology, Film-language, Cinema & Society, Film-writing
Music: Instruments, Performers, Genre Music, World Music, Tech Innovations, Music-magazines, Music industry, Music-journalism
Food & Drink: From all over the world
Travel: Places, Peoples, Languages, Landmarks, Journeys, Voyages, Means of Transport

This is a quiz that is being organized all over the country for teams. It is open to all. You just need to form teams of 4 members each. Find more details at http://kqaquizzes.org and register on the site.

HYDERABAD WESTERN MUSIC FOUNDATION

Presents
THE LISTENING POST
Pure listening to Classical and Jazz music recordings
without any visual aids

At Lamakaan 4pm – 5.30pm

Sunday 9th December – Jazz

LISTENING POST
Open up our senses to new musical experiences.
Heighten and expand musical awareness and ability.
Develop a keen ear to hear every bit of music in all its beauty.
Listen along with others who are like-minded.

Second Sundays - Jazz
Fourth Sundays - Western Classical

Open to all. No entrance fee

A exclusive event designed for short films, to show case some serious work in the short films category. With this event the studio wants to create an eco system for filmmakers to co exist & evolve, this is forum will address practical pain points of filmmaker like production (including pre & post), casting & other important issues. After the entire list of movies is screened we have a 30-45 min focused discussion moderated by the studio to find ans to some of the current problem of film making. A bi-monthly event held to promote short films; we call for short films entries to be sent to us. We accept films below 45 mins in this type. Your work can be submitted to Octopus Studios, the set of independent curator will go through the films & select a set of films. We screen selected short films to an elite audience who are short film enthusiasts. We introduce the filmmakers as well cast & crew to the audience. The entire event is open & free of cost, it’s also held at place which has actually inspired the idea. Lamaakan-An Open Cultural Space.

Police and social welfare orgaisations need to work together for attainment of children and women's rights. This collaborative effort has gained more visibility in the state of andhra pradesh with anti trafficking units established in the state with civil society organisations, support centres in the police station for women facing domestic violence being run by women's organisations, child welfare committees playing a crucial role in getting rights for vulnuerable children. But there are many problems in the functionig of these institutions.The meeting would focus on this colloborative and positive results of the same.Shri Dinesh Reddy, Director General of police,Shri Krishna Prasad,Additional Director (P& L) Shri Umapati (former IG CID) will be the guest speakers for the occasion

LEAVING HOME: The Life and Music of Indian Ocean

Language: English, Hindi and Bengali (with English Subtitles)
Duration: 1 Hour 55 Minutes

7.00 pm at LAMAKAAN on Wed, 12 Dec 2012

Writer-Director: Jaideep Varma
Producer: D. Ramakrishna, Jaideep Varma

Beyond Indian Ocean, I don’t see anyone…I see brown-wannabe whites. - Rabbi Shergill
INDIAN OCEAN.

Based in Delhi, the band has been in existence for 18 years. It has released less than 30 songs during this time, with not a filler amidst them. Every single one of them refuses to age and more than half of those are bona fide classics.

They conform to no music industry norms. Their songs (and instrumental pieces) have an average length of more than eight minutes (some go beyond ten), and none of them are love songs in the conventional sense. They sing in many different Indian languages, sometimes in dialects not easily understood; their most famous song is in the ancient language of Aramaic.

And yet, with their acoustic guitar-bass-tabla-drums-vocals format, their fluid jazzy vibe and rock intensity, they sound more urgently contemporary than most music does anywhere in the world. The strong influence of Indian Classical and the time-honoured earthiness of folk root their music more than most contemporary music anywhere in the world. All resulting in an absolutely unique sound, but accessible to anyone, anywhere.

All four have given up conventional earning careers to pursue their calling, without even a respectful nod to the commerce of their times. This abstinence has cost them mainstream presence and the backing of a premier music company.

And yet they have a following that is growing week after week. Their volume of concerts is growing all around the world (an average of 70 concerts a year now, over five continents).

Urdu shayari meiN tasavvur-e-Gham



The idea of sorrow has fascinated almost every single Urdu poet, be it the grief of unrequited love ( Gham-e-jaanaaN) or sorrow that arises from other circumstances (Gham-e-duniya). The sorrows of existence have no cure other than death, according to Ghalib:

Gham-e-hasti ka Asad kis se ho juz marg a'ilaaj 
sham'a har rang meiN jalti hai seHer hone tak
(the grief of existence has no cure save death, Asad/the candle of life burns in all hues till daybreak )
In the words of Meer Taqui Meer, there is no respite from sorrow:
Gham raha jab tak ke dum meiN dum raha 
dum ke jaane ka nihaayat Gham raha 

Hafeez Jullunduri says :
zamaane bhar ke Gham, ya ik tera Gham
yeh Gham hoga tau kitne Gham na honge
(the griefs of the world or the sorrow you gave me
this one sorrow outweighs so many others...)
This concept of sorrow in traditional Urdu poetry will form the central idea of the talk.

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

Jamathon, a Hyderabad based live music and jamming platform presents 'Songs of the Balladeer', an evening of storytelling through music. The artiste, Sanjo, takes the audience on a journey through songs that have a story to tell. At times the story isn't just in the song. It's also about the song, the singer or the songwriter. The entire set has a distinctly retro flavor with a focus on evocative lyrics, stirring melodies and emotions that underline the human condition. This performance is brought to you by Blue Butterfly Entertainment.

500 Expressions - Express Through Your Eyes

It is aptly said that eyes are the window to the soul. One can just look into your eyes and see the naked truth! Emoting and expressing feelings through eyes is considered a significant medium in art and cinema. Your eyes reveal the true “you”. One can’t deny the fact that eyes have become the focal point of our existence. While communicating with others, we observe and follow their eyes innately to convey emotions and expressions.
To see the first step taken by your child, to witness the marvels and scenic beauty of nature, to appreciate an artist’s grandeur performance, to sense the happiness in your loved one’s expression – to experience all the marvels of life as well as sweet nothings – we need a clear vision to revel and capture such beautiful and vivid moments in our imagination.
Here is where we walk into the picture. We provide you a clear vision with a strong mission. We, at 500 Expression, have devised an innovative concept to support and aid the deprived. We have a wide array of 500 frames owned by 500 individuals like you and me. Also, we have 100 frames contributed by renowned celebrities.
The frames owned by 400 individuals will be up for grabs online shortly. But, only one frame is available per person. The frames contributed by the crème de la crème celebrities will be auctioned. The money raised from the sale and auction will take care of the socially underprivileged. So, a part of your money will be donated for a good cause. Be a part of our social initiative and contribute in a unique way!
The pictures taken of your eyes shall be auctioned for a good cause. A part of the money raised from auctioning the frames (picture) of your eyes shall be donated to aid a needy.

'Children of the forest' a film by Dr. Mayuri Panse on the animal orphanage started by Dr. Prakash Amte 35 years ago. For 35 years, Dr. Prakash Amte and his family have worked to provide a better life for the backward Madia by providing them medical care, education and teaching this hunter-gatherer tribe to farm. Dr. Amte began taking in animal babies that were orphaned when the Madia hunted the parents for food. The orphanage has grown to include a huge variety of animals who live in absolute harmony.

The film "Honey hunters of the Blue Mountains" documents the lives of the last honey hunters in the Nilgiris hills of Southern India and their intricate relationship with Apis dorsata bees. Besides spectacular shots of Kurumba honey hunters scaling down steep cliffs and tall trees, the film offers views of the stunning landscape in this part of the Western Ghats, its wildlife and close-ups of the bees foraging and life in the hive. The film tries to capture the very essence of living with bees, it narrates the myths surrounding the harvest, while also addressing environmental degradation and some of the hardships encountered by the Kurumba and other tribes. It ends with a resume of Keystone's work in enabling the honey hunters to more successfully market honey and wax.

Chuck Glider workshop by AerotriX gives the participants an opportunity to understand the theory behind the functioning of aircraft. This workshop takes the participants through an interactive lecture supplemented by practical session, thereby providing a complete learning experience.

Workshop Structure:
The workshop is divided into 3 modules:
· Understanding Flight
· Fabrication of Glider
· Testing/ Flying of Glider

Details and Registration: Please visit www.aerotrix.com/lamakaan

MY WIFE’S HUSBAND


Written by: Miro Gavran | Indian adaptation by: Feroze
Music composed by: Amit Dasani & Suhit Chiruthapudi
Cast: Maya, Vinay Abhishek, Feroze Ahmed, Kaya
Poster & Ticket designed by: Kathik Vijay V


Not every day will you see a man and his wife’s husband together on stage.
Come and find out who gets to keep the wife and who gets to keep the misery.

Donor Pass: Rs.100/-
Contact: sifar.theatre@gmail.com | 98493 31347
Book online: www.bookmyshow.com

Twin Cities Photography Club is here to give wings to your passion of shooting. The Club is your meeting place on everything related to photography and facilitates sharpening of your photography skills. The club would provide you with opportunities to go on planned shoot on a wide range of topics.

We will provide you with great opportunity to shoot a wide range of subjects. So be it landscapes or seascapes, sunrise or sunsets, wildlife or city life, people or objects, jungles or deserts, birds or insects, flowers, buildings, monuments or even the trees and boulders around, we will shoot.

It does not matter whether you are an amateur or a seasoned professional, whether you have a compact point and shoot camera or a professional SLR, we help each other and learn from each other.

This club is based in Hyderabad (AP) India, but the activities are not restricted by geographical boundaries.

The Objectives:

- Provide a platform for photography enthusiasts to network with like minded people.

- Provide opportunities to shoot a wide range of subjects.

- Enhance knowledge through sessions with seasoned photographers and professionals.

- Provide resources on various photography equipment and accessories.

- Assist you in participating in various photography competitions around the world.

- Assist you in showcasing your work through exhibitions etc.

Light Graffiti - Painting with light.

Light painting is a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. The term light painting also encompasses images lit from outside the frame with hand-held light sources. Light Painting Photography can be traced back to the year 1914 when Frank Gilbreth, along with his wife Lillian Moller Gilbreth, used small lights and the open shutter of a camera to track the motion of manufacturing and clerical workers. Man Ray, in his 1935 series "Space Writing," was the first known art photographer to use the technique and Barbara Morgan began making light paintings in 1940.

'Children of the Pyre' is a compelling real-life, self-narrative of seven extraordinary children who make their living out of the dead. They collect, snatch or steal used coffin shrouds and sell them for petty amounts in order to ensure their own and their family's survival Tempered by the heat of the pyre, strengthened in the face of adversities and crafted by a volley of abuses, these imps weave through the pyres and struggle through disdain in this land of the dead. Laughing, smiling, weeping, fighting and shouting, these children run the race for survival - winning it again and again - everyday. The film is a terrible saga of exploitation that celebrates the victory of innocence over the most harrowing realities of life. It's a torturous journey through seared bodies, callous minds and dead consciences that constitute the human reality of the ghats at Varanasi.

The aim of Rang De Hyderabad Chapter is to screen a documentary that deals with social issues that India faces today. These films are made by filmmakers of all nationalities who want to shine a spotlight on social issues ranging from gender injustices, the climate change to the suicide of farmers in rural areas of India. Our will is two-fold: to screen these films for free (the audience is not charged)& then to have a discussion about the topic of the documentary among the audience after the screening.

The Hyderabad Western Music Foundation present "The Deccan Voices", a local choral group. They sing Pop, Classical, Broadway, Musical, Jazz.
www.hydmusic.com

India has the fifth largest electrical system with an installed capacity of 206 gigawatts. Still, about 400 million Indians lack access to electricity and to even more, it's unreliable and is of poor quality. By 2035, India's power demand is slated to double. Electricity governance is riddled with three big problems of loss and theft, lack of accountability and lack of holistic governance. What are the issues in governance in policy process and in regulatory process? How can we improve policies related to electricity? Come and listen to Usha Ramachandra, Professor and Area Chair Person of Energy Area, Administrative Staff College of India as a part of IGNITING MINDS Energy series

JAAGO STREE!!!
A solo art show by Sravanthi Juluri


About the exhibit:

Jaago Stree lends voice to the suffering of women and the girl child. It marks a new line of interpretations for the artist on a subject close to her heart. She expresses her feelings on several issues faced by women and the girl child alike. Through her works she talks about atrocities the women are subjected to like female foeticide, child molestation in addition to dowry deaths and domestic violence.

Her works are very passionate, and leave a deep impact on the audience. Through her works she wishes to lend a voice to the women who suffer in silence by encouraging them to come out of the darkness.

Jaago Stree aims to invoke the “Shakti” in every “Stree”.

HYDERABAD WESTERN MUSIC FOUNDATION

Presents
THE LISTENING POST
Pure listening to Classical and Jazz music recordings
without any visual aids

At Lamakaan 4pm – 5.30pm

Sunday 11th November – Jazz

LISTENING POST
Open up our senses to new musical experiences.
Heighten and expand musical awareness and ability.
Develop a keen ear to hear every bit of music in all its beauty.
Listen along with others who are like-minded.

Second Sundays - Jazz
Fourth Sundays - Western Classical

Open to all. No entrance fee

Gograhanam, a Telugu play written in 1986 depicting most important stages of a woman’s life & her struggle to keep up with a male dominated system. The story of every woman in a typical Indian setup, her dreams & the sour reality. The woman at every step of her life finds ‘a man’ to be the decision maker or influencer of her own destiny. Also how most of the times her own kind is not very happy to see her make choices.

This social satire has been staged ‘thousands’ of times in last 24 years , we at Octopus Studio plan to celebrate this brilliant plays 25th anniversary by performing this abstract piece in a street play format .

Written & directed by Tanikella Bharani , an eminent play wright , a muti faceted actor & a respected script writer .He has acted in over 550 films, also has penned 52 films & written several plays .His body of work in dramatics has become the syllabus for most of the theater studies in Andhra Pradesh.

Gograhanam, a Telugu play written in 1986 depicting most important stages of a woman’s life & her struggle to keep up with a male dominated system. The story of every woman in a typical Indian setup, her dreams & the sour reality. The woman at every step of her life finds ‘a man’ to be the decision maker or influencer of her own destiny. Also how most of the times her own kind is not very happy to see her make choices.
This social satire has been staged ‘thousands’ of times in last 24 years , we at Octopus Studio plan to celebrate this brilliant plays 25th anniversary by performing this abstract piece in a street play format .
Written & directed by Tanikella Bharani , an eminent play wright , a muti faceted actor & a respected script writer .He has acted in over 550 films, also has penned 52 films & written several plays .His body of work in dramatics has become the syllabus for most of the theater studies in Andhra Pradesh.

In France, November is observed as the The MONTH of DOCUMENTARY, a privileged moment to discover documentary cinema.

A wide variety of films on various topics ranging from political, social, artistic and philosophical take part in the festival.

Documentary Circle of Hyderabad joins Alliance Francaise of Hyderabad to bring a set of accomplished documentaries for the discerning and alert viewer on this occasion. The three day fest (26-28 Nov) will be observed at Alliance Francise (26 and 28 Nov) and at Lamakaan (27 Nov).

on Tuesday 27 Nov at LAMAKAAN

5 BROKEN CAMERAS

by Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi
a Palastine and Algerian co-production

94 min, 2011

Palestinian farm laborer Emad has five video cameras, and each of them tells a different part of the story of his village's resistance to Israeli oppression. Emad lives in Bil'in, just west of the city of Ramallah in the West Bank. Using the first camera, he recorded how the bulldozers came to rip the olive trees out of the ground in 2005. Here, a wall was built directly through his fellow villagers' land to separate the advancing Jewish settlements from the Palestinians.

In the first days of resistance to the Jewish colonists and the ever-present Israeli soldiers, Emad's son Gibreel was born. Scenes shift from the infant growing into a precocious preschooler to the many peaceful acts of protest, and the steady progress of the construction of the dividing wall. Sympathizers from all over the world, including from Israel, provide help as resistance develops, but when the situation intensifies, people are arrested and villagers are killed.

Emad keeps on filming despite pleas from his wife, who fears reprisals. It makes for an intensely powerful personal document about one village's struggle against violence and oppression.

Two filmmakers create one extraordinary
work of art.

Jaago Stree!!! A panel discussion on 'Violence against Women'
The panel discussion will be chaired by Dr.Carolyn M Elliott, Ph.D (Harvard University) Professor Elliott has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was the Director of the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, and Vice Provost at the University of Vermont. Professor Elliott's areas of interest include comparative politics and women's studies, specializing in India and Women in Developing countries.

The other panelists inculde, Carla Benini, Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Consulate Hyderabad, Smt. Koadaveeti Satyavati, a well known writer on women issues in A.P and the Editor of the women's journal "Boomika" First Feminist Magazine in Andhra Pradesh.

"The United Nations General Assembly designated 25 November as the
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and
invited governments, international organizations and NGOs to organize
activities designed to raise public awareness of the problem on that day.
Women's activists have marked 25 November as a day against violence since 1981. This date came from the brutal assassination in 1960, of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic, on orders
of Dominican ruler Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961)."

Admission is free

Jenny,a teenager is on her way to heaven.She comes to know that she has to earn her wings by completing a task assigned to her in order to enter heaven.The task is to help her Man to get over her love without getting involved with him lest she'll get stuck as a lost soul.Lets join Jenny in her mission and find out how she does that...

Jewelry Creations out of natural and not-so-natural waste like, seeds, seed pods, dry flowers, and various waste objects from household. With an intention to ease the burden on earth, we try to see beauty and possibility in every little unused object or waste generated.
To view Rangmaati creations -
Website : www.rangmaati.weebly.com
Facebook : www.facebook.com/rangmaati
Email : rangmaati@gmail.com

"Rumjhuna " a High Tide Initiative brings to you an Enchanting Musical Melange ( English & Hindi ) by Bernard Lai Chung (Kolkatta) lending his baritone voice, reliving English Classics from Elvis,Tom Jones to N.Diamond & various other artists .
And Upcoming Pop Star Kabir Rafi who lend his voice for " Dream of the Nation " Album and sung tracks for A.R RAHMAN

Startup Funerals are short conferences held once a month across different cities to help the global entrepreneurship community learn lessons in failure from startups and entrepreneurs.

You must have heard, that close to 99% of startups fail! Dont you want to know why?
We do! Thats why we started Startup Funerals.
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Failure is considered a taboo in most our countries, hence people are afraid to fail and the ones that do, hate talking about it. Yet it is only through failure that we can understand the real lessons in success.
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We believe the time is now to change how people perceive failure globally!

​We want to foster a culture of innovation where people are comfortable to try out new ideas, take calculated risks, and be a little unreasonable.
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At Startup Funerals we are on a mission to celebrate failure regularly by providing you a place where you are comfortable to share the stories of your failure and commemorate your startups with others to help our global entrepreneurship community learn valuable lessons from it.

About the drug mafia in Miami in the 70's lead by a woman who was infamously called The Godmother.

In the 1980s, ruthless Colombian cocaine barons invaded Miami with a brand of violence unseen in this country since Prohibition-era Chicago - and it put the city on the map. "Cocaine Cowboys" is the true story of how Miami became the drug, murder and cash capital of the United States, told by the people who made it all happen.

MindSweep, our international solo championship, is intended as a vehicle for the things that are distinctive about the quizzing that happens in some (if not all) Indian cities.

The setters (Navin Rajaram, Kiran Vijayakumar and Arul Mani) have enjoyed taking (and bulbing at) the World Quizzing Championships, perhaps because Indian quizzing is a wee bit different from its international cousin. MindSweep is our attempt at sharing the things we enjoy about quizzing with an international audience.

So, what the devil is distinctive about Indian quizzing? A privileging of good guesswork over memory; the triumph of generalists over specialists; bombing a syllabus, rather than using one; the pleasure of parsing, or unknotting, or sometimes being pythoned by a carefully coiled question; a festive relationship with the English language; and the strange appetite for knowing joy and defeat in one instant–a mystical state known as AJM, or Goddamn-it-I-was-that-close.

After the first edition of MindSweep in Jan 2012, several embittered souls sent in their punning suggestions (not all of them were polite) for what we should actually have called the quiz. We laughed, and carried on. The first edition of a quiz, like a first kiss, must elicit some reaction, some `hubbub, babel, shindy, hullabaloo, stramash, charivari, and total contempt of repose,' or what's a contemptibly long zindagi for?

In MindSweep 2.0, the taker will meet ten sets of questions (200 in all) over two one-hour sessions–this means two installments of five sets of questions, interrupted by a short 30-minute break for answers, corrections, and worship of the bladder.

MindSweep 2.0: The Topics

The Arts: Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Design, Architecture, Installation Art, Dance, Theatre
Science and Tech: Concepts in the Sciences, History and Philosophy of Science, History of Technology, The Environment, Astronomy, Medicine, Inter-disciplinary work, Popular Science Writing
Literature: Poetry, Literary Fiction, Non-Fiction, Drama, Genre Fiction, Graphic Novels, Critics, Literary History, Translation
Social Sciences: History, Anthropology, Cultural Studies/Social History, History of Ideas, Economics,The Philosophers
Business: Brands, Fashion, Business History, Advertising
Sports and Leisure: Sporting History, Games, Television, Gaming, Sports-Writing, Sports-Coverage, Hobbies–Collecting, Gardening, Fan-communities, The Internet
Cinema: Hollywood, National Cinemas, World Cinema, Film Genres, Film-Technology, Film-language, Cinema & Society, Film-writing
Music: Instruments, Performers, Genre Music, World Music, Tech Innovations, Music-magazines, Music industry, Music-journalism
Food & Drink: From all over the world
Travel: Places, Peoples, Languages, Landmarks, Journeys, Voyages, Means of Transport

This is a quiz that is being organized all over the country for teams. It is open to all. You just need to form teams of 4 members each. Find more details at http://kqaquizzes.org and register on the site.

HYDERABAD WESTERN MUSIC FOUNDATION

Presents
THE LISTENING POST
Pure listening to Classical and Jazz music recordings
without any visual aids

At Lamakaan 4pm – 5.30pm

Sunday 9th December – Jazz

LISTENING POST
Open up our senses to new musical experiences.
Heighten and expand musical awareness and ability.
Develop a keen ear to hear every bit of music in all its beauty.
Listen along with others who are like-minded.

Second Sundays - Jazz
Fourth Sundays - Western Classical

Open to all. No entrance fee

A exclusive event designed for short films, to show case some serious work in the short films category. With this event the studio wants to create an eco system for filmmakers to co exist & evolve, this is forum will address practical pain points of filmmaker like production (including pre & post), casting & other important issues. After the entire list of movies is screened we have a 30-45 min focused discussion moderated by the studio to find ans to some of the current problem of film making. A bi-monthly event held to promote short films; we call for short films entries to be sent to us. We accept films below 45 mins in this type. Your work can be submitted to Octopus Studios, the set of independent curator will go through the films & select a set of films. We screen selected short films to an elite audience who are short film enthusiasts. We introduce the filmmakers as well cast & crew to the audience. The entire event is open & free of cost, it’s also held at place which has actually inspired the idea. Lamaakan-An Open Cultural Space.

Police and social welfare orgaisations need to work together for attainment of children and women's rights. This collaborative effort has gained more visibility in the state of andhra pradesh with anti trafficking units established in the state with civil society organisations, support centres in the police station for women facing domestic violence being run by women's organisations, child welfare committees playing a crucial role in getting rights for vulnuerable children. But there are many problems in the functionig of these institutions.The meeting would focus on this colloborative and positive results of the same.Shri Dinesh Reddy, Director General of police,Shri Krishna Prasad,Additional Director (P& L) Shri Umapati (former IG CID) will be the guest speakers for the occasion

LEAVING HOME: The Life and Music of Indian Ocean

Language: English, Hindi and Bengali (with English Subtitles)
Duration: 1 Hour 55 Minutes

7.00 pm at LAMAKAAN on Wed, 12 Dec 2012

Writer-Director: Jaideep Varma
Producer: D. Ramakrishna, Jaideep Varma

Beyond Indian Ocean, I don’t see anyone…I see brown-wannabe whites. - Rabbi Shergill
INDIAN OCEAN.

Based in Delhi, the band has been in existence for 18 years. It has released less than 30 songs during this time, with not a filler amidst them. Every single one of them refuses to age and more than half of those are bona fide classics.

They conform to no music industry norms. Their songs (and instrumental pieces) have an average length of more than eight minutes (some go beyond ten), and none of them are love songs in the conventional sense. They sing in many different Indian languages, sometimes in dialects not easily understood; their most famous song is in the ancient language of Aramaic.

And yet, with their acoustic guitar-bass-tabla-drums-vocals format, their fluid jazzy vibe and rock intensity, they sound more urgently contemporary than most music does anywhere in the world. The strong influence of Indian Classical and the time-honoured earthiness of folk root their music more than most contemporary music anywhere in the world. All resulting in an absolutely unique sound, but accessible to anyone, anywhere.

All four have given up conventional earning careers to pursue their calling, without even a respectful nod to the commerce of their times. This abstinence has cost them mainstream presence and the backing of a premier music company.

And yet they have a following that is growing week after week. Their volume of concerts is growing all around the world (an average of 70 concerts a year now, over five continents).

Urdu shayari meiN tasavvur-e-Gham



The idea of sorrow has fascinated almost every single Urdu poet, be it the grief of unrequited love ( Gham-e-jaanaaN) or sorrow that arises from other circumstances (Gham-e-duniya). The sorrows of existence have no cure other than death, according to Ghalib:

Gham-e-hasti ka Asad kis se ho juz marg a'ilaaj 
sham'a har rang meiN jalti hai seHer hone tak
(the grief of existence has no cure save death, Asad/the candle of life burns in all hues till daybreak )
In the words of Meer Taqui Meer, there is no respite from sorrow:
Gham raha jab tak ke dum meiN dum raha 
dum ke jaane ka nihaayat Gham raha 

Hafeez Jullunduri says :
zamaane bhar ke Gham, ya ik tera Gham
yeh Gham hoga tau kitne Gham na honge
(the griefs of the world or the sorrow you gave me
this one sorrow outweighs so many others...)
This concept of sorrow in traditional Urdu poetry will form the central idea of the talk.