Lamakaan

Lamakaan celebrates 4th Anniversary with Kathak performance by students of renowned Mangala Bhatt's Akruti School of Kathak.

A Classical Dance by Akruthi Kathak Kendra students. "Aakruti Kathak was founded way back in 1992 by Smt.Mangala Bhatt and Raghav Raj Bhatt. Since then Aakruti has been nurturing talent and spreading the rich tradition of Kathak Dance not just in India but world over;on various platforms at local, national and international festivals."

All are welcome.

Lamakaan celebrates its 4th Anniversary with this age old rich traditional story telling - Oggu Katha.

This evening's story is SON AGAINST MOTHER : THE TURBULENT TALE OF PARASURAMA and YELLAMMA.

A power-packed Oggu Katha performance of episodes from YELLAMMA KATHA and a demonstration of Yellamma Patam by​ Bolli Lakshminarasaiah Yadav​ ​ and his troupe from Karimnagar district.

with explanatory introductions in Telugu and English.

Oggukatha is a traditional folklore singing praising and narrating the stories of Hindu gods. It originated among communties who devoted themselves to the singing of ballads in praise of Lord Shiva (also called Mallikarjuna). These tradition-loving and ritual-performing community moves from place to place, narrating the stories of their caste gods. Oggus are the traditional priests of the Yadavas and perform the marriage of Mallanna with Bhramaramba.

The narrator and his chorus i.e. two narrators-help in dramatizing the narration as very often, they transform themselves into two characters. The dramatization of the narrative is what gives the Oggu Katha its predominant place in the ballad tradition of Andhra Pradesh, especially in Telangana, where Oggu Katha prevalent.

All are welcome.
Entry - Free

As a part of Lamakaan's 4th Anniversary, Sutradhar is staging their Magnum Opus 'Birjees Qadar ka Kunba'.

See how a woman’s iron conviction and obsession with reputation, money and class destroys her family. Sample this:

“Auraton ke vaaste sui-thaaga aur mardon ke vaaste hull aur bail...khaandaani logon ke yahan ka yahee dastoor hota hai.”

...And defiance: “Mera jism uska hoga jisko main chahoongi...”

Spying and Conspiring: “Hum boodhiyaan deewaron ke aar paar dekh leti hain.”

Frustration: “Vo auratein hain, mardon ke bina auratein. aur kuch nahin...”

SUTRADHAR presents

BIRJEES QADAR KA KUNBA

A full length play in Urdu adapted by the Late Dr. Raghuvir Sahay from Federico Garcia Lorca’s all-time classic

THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA

Running time: 1 hour 45 minutes without interval.

Entry Passes - 9848052541

Celebrate this Holi with your own hand-made natural colours. Learn the art of making them from ArunJyothi Lokhanday.
The colours will be made out of dried Beet Root, Marigold, orange peels, turmeric, colour mitti jaju, Palak, amla, and other dried green pigments.

Interested children can attend this free workshop - if possible - please carry your own dried powder of above mentioned items.

All are welcome.

Lamakaan's first mushaira will see recitations by a select few poets from Hyderabad's rich tradition of Urdu literature.

Among the poets are : Rashid Azar, Mohsin Jalgaonvi, Mustar Majaaz, Raoof Khalish, Rauf Khair, Rahamat Yusuf Zai and Mushaf Iqbal Taunsifi.

Set in a semi-formal way, this promises to be a delight for the lovers of Urdu poetry and ghazals.

All are welcome.

Entry - Free

World Kidney Day aims to raise awareness of the importance of our kidneys to our overall health and to reduce the frequency and impact of kidney disease and its associated health problems worldwide. Get involved!

A Survivor would like to share his experiences and need for care in life style by the affected persons by means of an inter-active session with the interested people.

- See more at: http://www.worldkidneyday.org/#sthash.2FNTZX2r.dpuf

Entry - Free

An evening of Hindustani Music.
Tabla Fusion by Suhas Shastri and Vivek Kayal....
And Presentation of Tarana by students of Smt. Aradhana Karhade Shastri.

This is a part of week-long Lamakaan's 4th Anniversary celebrations.

All are welcome.

About Miya Biwi - Adapted from the original Marathi Play ``Shri Tashi Sau`` written by Yogesh Soman into Hindustani by Saurabh Gharipurikar. This is a story about a Hyderabadi couple going to court to nullify their nuptials by divorcing each other for the final time.

Stick to your chairs as this play will take you on a laughter ride. During the course of funny incidents, they finally realize that even after so many fights they cannot live without each other. This is a story about a Hyderabadi couple going to court to nullify their nuptials by divorcing each other for the final time. Make sure you watch this play as this one will surely tickle your funny bone! Go and watch the play at Lamakaan

Hyderabad Western Music Foundation is pleased to invite you to celebrate the 4th anniversary of Lamakaan.

Famous tunes and compositions, from Western Classical to Jazz, Pop and Rap, will be presented by a variety of local and international musicians:
Maria Sirvent (Clarinet), Shakila (Vocal), Raphaëlle Courtay (Clarinet), Meghna Dundi (Vocal), Triveni Sunkara (Bass), Anupam Kunapuli (Piano), George Hull (Saxophone), Dorein Paul (Rap), Chaitanya K. (Piano), Jonathan Hewitt (Trumpet), Sarosh Master (Guitar), Joe Koster (Keyboard)

When: Sunday, 16th March, 7 pm

Where: Lamakaan Rd. No. 1, Banjara Hills, opps. GVK, www.lamakaan.com

Donor passes available at the venue: Rs. 100.— HWMF members: free
Contact: info@hydmusic.com 9912201659/9849451794

The story is about two strangers who meet at a park and revolves around how one of them plays on the mind of the other timid guy and psychologically controls him and finally provokes him to stab him and leave him to die. The way how a person can be almost hypnotized with words and finally brought under complete control through sheer brain games is wonderfully
drafted in this drama and can be enacted in this performance.

Annapurna International School of Film + Media acting students are enacting this play under the tutelage of Rammohan Holagundi.

Entry Passes - available at the gate

KUKKA
By Endamuri Veerendranath -

It is a fight between the haves n the have not’s. The Dora or the Zamindar goes to the extent of making the life of the domestic help miserable and worse than that of a dog for his selfish needs and desires. The story revolves around the Dora, his son Chinna dora and the
jeetagadu or Domestic help who goes against the Zamindar Raj in the finale.

This Play is staged by students of Annapurna International School of Film + Media under the tutelage of Rammohan Holagundi.

Entry - Passes at the gate

The next installment in our conversation sessions between scientists and the general public is titled "After the Higgs" and addresses the science surrounding the Higgs Boson, the subject of the 2013 Nobel prize in Physics. We will have a short 20 minute talk by our guest scientist, after which the audience is invited to engage in an informal, free-flowing discussion with the speaker. Interested participants of all ages are welcome. No prior knowledge or expertise is required.

This conversation will feature Prof. Rohini Godbole of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. A theoretical high energy physicist, Prof. Godbole is an internationally recognised expert on supersymmetry and the phenomenology of collider physics. She is also the co-editor of two books featuring the stories of Indian women in science.

On the Wings of Song brings you a collaboration of musical talent from the twin cities of Hyd and Sec'bad.

They will cover music over the decades, beginning in the 70s and bringing it up to the present.

Presenting this are:

Abbas Razvi - Is a bass guitarist and performs with Skrypt, a Hyderabad based metal band.

Maya and Paul Banerjee - This brother and sister duo have been into music for many years. Paul plays guitar and sings back-up vocals while Maya sings lead vocals. Maya is also part of a secular choir, the Deccan Voices.

Niki and Tania Shukla - The Shukla girls were brought up in the UK and moved to Hyderabad a couple of years ago. Niki plays violin and piano. Tania plays both those instruments and guitar as well. Together they harmonize and sing like angels.

Pranati Khanna - She is an accomplished artist and musician. Accompanying herself on the guitar, she sings with the sweetest of voices.
Sarosh Master - Sarosh is a sessions guitarist who accompanies and has accompanied many a band and singer in Hyderabad. He covers all genres from pop to blues and rock.

Suresh - Suresh is the lead guitarist of the bluesrock band Nile. His playing brings with it the smoothness of the music of Santana and other bands of the 80s and 90s.

Shakila - Her vocals span everything from from the styles of pop to jazz. Being part of the only jazz band in town, Jazz for Joy, she also sings with Nile and the Deccan Voices.

Viren Kundu - A relative newbie to the music scene, he plays a soft, melodious acoustic guitar.
Zervan Lakdawala - He is the lead vocalist of the band Reverb. He accompanies himself on the keyboard. He has performed in Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore apart from his regular performances in Hyderabad.

Entry passes - at the Gate.

TWIN CITY THEATER AND CULTURAL FESTIVAL

In Collaboration with: Lamakaan, Mocha Banjara Hills, Rock Castle, Roots, Our Sacred Space.
An event to gather all the painters together to paint their Twin city Theater and Cultural Festival
Bring your Tools, (brushes), Paint and Canvas will be provided.
Open to all Painters

Worls Puppet day-March 21, 2013

The puppetry story is a story 'Remembering and Forgetting' by Shri T. Rangarajan-Theatre artists from Hubli- Dharwad region, Karnataka.

It is about brain connection: when one wants to remember certain things but forgets, the only way to make them remember is - to ask them not to remember it. Result: One keeps remembering it all the time.

Similar is our habits too. The story revolves around a bald head King who wants to regrow hair on his bald head. So, he invites the best Ayurvedic specialist, Siddha specialist and so on. As everybody fail in their attempts, a clever man by name Bantuklal Patra takes the advantage of the situation and promises to regrow hair on bald head of the King within a month. He prepares a special oil and asks the King to apply it on his head everyday, with a condition that he should not eat, see, touch, hear think or remember cucumbers - as he says "cucumbers have negative impact and hence, the hair growth would not be possible". Need not mention that Cucumber is the only thing king remembers all day and all night!

Entry - 100/-

a performance on the underlying theme of memory and madness in Leopoldo Maria Panero's Mondragon poems with additional text from the Language of Flowers and Aphorisms by Cesar Vallejo and a line from Lorca as a part of Twin City Theatre and Cultural festival tribute to Leopolodo Maria Panero who passed away on March 5, 2014

directed and performed by Parnab Mukherjee

installation: Gautam Bajoria and Baishampayan Saha.

Entry - Free

The play is an interaction between a boy and a girl who have met each other for marriage, due to family's insistance. The girl seems introvert and very negative about Arranged marriages, love marriages, and even relationships in general. The boy tries to change her perspective about relationships and to show her the bright side.

Would he succeed to convince the girl on the end? Come and watch the play.
Open to All

Entry - Free

UIFF-2014, is a traveling film festival, specially screening films on issues of Nuclear technology. The festival is part of Uranium Film Festival, which is conducted in different cities of the world to bring in public awareness against the dangers of radiation due to Nuclear industries. As india is mad in going for more and more nuclear establishments much against the concerns of public health, the festival aims facilitate public discourse against nuclear establishments.

Samahaara Workshop Production
presents

Samahaara Comedy Night:

Stand-up Comedy by Anjali Parvati Koda
&
Short Plays by Team Samahaara

Directed by Rathna Shekar Reddy


It's baaaaaaaack. Remember how much fun we had last time? It's going to be Double the Fun this time with 2 Nights of Comedy Plays and Stand-up (The second night being a repeat show). Get that funny bone tickled with mad, funny, impish, satirical and hilarious characters and situations.

Watch and be amused at the reality behind a "Fairy Tale Wedding", grin at the banter between a crazy writer and her friend as he tries to edit her play which is "the most important play in the world". Chuckle as a father takes his son out into the big bad world to "experience things" and laugh out loud as two therapy patients get together on a blind date. Wait, there's more - nope, we'll wait for you to come be a part of it all. See you there.

Entry by Donation Rs.100/-

Tele bookings: 8341120303
Online booking: www.bookmyshow.com

Samahaara Workshop Production presents
Samahaara Comedy Night:
Stand-up Comedy by Anjali Parvati Koda & Short Plays by Team Samahaara
Directed by Rathna Shekar Reddy
It's baaaaaaaack. Remember how much fun we had last time? It's going to be Double the Fun this time with 2 Nights of Comedy Plays and Stand-up (The second night being a repeat show). Get that funny bone tickled with mad, funny, impish, satirical and hilarious characters and situations.
Watch and be amused at the reality behind a "Fairy Tale Wedding", grin at the banter between a crazy writer and her friend as he tries to edit her play which is "the most important play in the world". Chuckle as a father takes his son out into the big bad world to "experience things" and laugh out loud as two therapy patients get together on a blind date. Wait, there's more - nope, we'll wait for you to come be a part of it all. See you there.
Entry by Donation Rs.100/-
Tele bookings: 8341120303 Online booking: www.bookmyshow.com

About The Play - April Fool ….pranks can be notorious ….but truth can be uglier ….!! How many of us have dealt with imprisonment of all sorts inside our own homes??? Where freedom of speech, freedom of thought & freedom as such is a rare entity …!!! Hasn’t the world seen the most disturbing parental relationships, yet? The impact of a disturbed child hood is grave, not even close to what a non-victim can imagine!!!
The story of 4 roommates (Anil,Ajay,Sirish & rakesh) in a college hostel who plan to play a prank with their friend to pull his leg .These 4 have been together for a while now, they know each other pretty well. 3 of them plan to tell Ajay that his father is here & waiting for him in the room. He is shocked, because his father never came to see him in 3 years. He rushes to the room to meet him & finds out that there is nobody in the room except for his 3 prankster friends .He is irated because of the topic they chose to pull his leg ,’His Father’. He pounces on them yelling, these 3 were in no mood to give up. They continue saying that his father is here, the 3 of them keep talking to a chair claiming he was there. After a while he kind of believes

Hyderabad's oldest Amateur Theatre group, Dramatic Circle of Hyderabad celebrates its 50th year with 3 short plays by Chekov -The Sneeze, The Surgery and The Arrangement.

Entry Passes - 50/-

Hyderabad's oldest Amateur Theatre group, Dramatic Circle of Hyderabad celebrates its 50th year with 3 short plays by Chekov -The Sneeze, The Surgery and The Arrangement.

Entry Passes - 50/-

Sambalpuri folk dance will be performed by the children from Books n More Library and Activity Centre.
Sambalpuri Folk Dance in the Rangabati style will be presented by the students from Books n More Library and Activity Centre. Guru Archana Misra , an exponent of the Sambalpuri folk dance form has been training children in the age group of 7-14 years at our Centre. This performance is a culmination of their efforts in learning this folk style that celebrates Nua Khali (harvest).

Entry - Free

Children from Books n More Library and Activity Centre will be presenting this much loved Children's classic Chitti Chitti Bang Bang. This hour long performance of the play will be staged by the children under the guidance of Ms Anuradha Vinod.

All are welcome. Entry - Free

The play “Daddy’s lil girl” is divided in three parts which throw light on the 3 major parts of a woman’s life. The first
part is about how the parents of the girl are in doubt whether to have her or not, putting her very existence into
jeopardy. This part has both the mother and the father present arguments about why they should or shouldn’t
have a baby and another couple enacting the imaginations – both fears & expectations of the parents. How they
come to the decision whether or not they should have a baby is showcased in this part.
The second part shows the girl in her early twenties. She has just got a job and her parents are looking for
matrimonial alliances for her. However, she doesn’t like any of the matches her parents bring forth. After a long
wait, she does finally like one of the matches her parents bring and the wedding is fixed…but only a few days
before the wedding she gets to know something about the guy that will make her rethink her decision to marry
him. What is that thing..? What does she decide? How she copes with her decision? Does her family support her?
All these questions are answered in the second part.
The third part is a monologue that portrays the life of a highly successful woman in her mid-30’s and is a divorcee.
She is tired of the questions she is asked at every turn of life, the justification she has to give for every step she
takes. Annoyed at the change of people’s attitude towards her since the divorce, she expresses her frustration at
the lack of support from her close ones and expresses anguish at the current state of affairs of the chauvinistic
society.

Directed by: Rahul R
Directors Note:
‘Daddy’s lil girl’ is a depiction of the various stages of women life which are influenced or
dictated by the allegedly ‘stronger’ sex or the same .This play is a unheard voice of the
ordinary women who fails to express he distress to her loved one & also talk about how
women can take control completely when required. We focus on her ….her sacrifices, her
fear, her strength, her ego , her happiness , her love , her passion & her every lil thing …!!

Written by: Sherin Bhat

Entry Passes - 9885730673

The play “Daddy’s lil girl” is divided in three parts which throw light on the 3 major parts of a woman’s life. The first part is about how the parents of the girl are in doubt whether to have her or not, putting her very existence into jeopardy. This part has both the mother and the father present arguments about why they should or shouldn’t have a baby and another couple enacting the imaginations – both fears & expectations of the parents. How they come to the decision whether or not they should have a baby is showcased in this part. The second part shows the girl in her early twenties. She has just got a job and her parents are looking for matrimonial alliances for her. However, she doesn’t like any of the matches her parents bring forth. After a long wait, she does finally like one of the matches her parents bring and the wedding is fixed…but only a few days before the wedding she gets to know something about the guy that will make her rethink her decision to marry him. What is that thing..? What does she decide? How she copes with her decision? Does her family support her? All these questions are answered in the second part. The third part is a monologue that portrays the life of a highly successful woman in her mid-30’s and is a divorcee. She is tired of the questions she is asked at every turn of life, the justification she has to give for every step she takes. Annoyed at the change of people’s attitude towards her since the divorce, she expresses her frustration at the lack of support from her close ones and expresses anguish at the current state of affairs of the chauvinistic society.
Directed by: Rahul R Directors Note: ‘Daddy’s lil girl’ is a depiction of the various stages of women life which are influenced or dictated by the allegedly ‘stronger’ sex or the same .This play is a unheard voice of the ordinary women who fails to express he distress to her loved one & also talk about how women can take control completely when required. We focus on her ….her sacrifices, her fear, her strength, her ego , her happiness , her love , her passion & her every lil thing …!!
Written by: Sherin Bhat
Entry Passes - 9885730673

Two 25 year old strangers meet on a hill top. One of them dreams to become a Bollywood star, and all his struggle goes in vain. The other one lost his girl friend in an accident because of his rash riding. Both are depressed and dont feel like living so they come here to commit suicide. The moment they met each other an argument arises. Now what is going to happen? Suicide or murder? Come and watch. Cast&Crew A - Sunjit Rao B - Vinayak Raikhelkar Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar Music - Ashutosh Patwardhan Entry - 9290013166

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

Lamakaan celebrates 4th Anniversary with Kathak performance by students of renowned Mangala Bhatt's Akruti School of Kathak.

A Classical Dance by Akruthi Kathak Kendra students. "Aakruti Kathak was founded way back in 1992 by Smt.Mangala Bhatt and Raghav Raj Bhatt. Since then Aakruti has been nurturing talent and spreading the rich tradition of Kathak Dance not just in India but world over;on various platforms at local, national and international festivals."

All are welcome.

Lamakaan celebrates its 4th Anniversary with this age old rich traditional story telling - Oggu Katha.

This evening's story is SON AGAINST MOTHER : THE TURBULENT TALE OF PARASURAMA and YELLAMMA.

A power-packed Oggu Katha performance of episodes from YELLAMMA KATHA and a demonstration of Yellamma Patam by​ Bolli Lakshminarasaiah Yadav​ ​ and his troupe from Karimnagar district.

with explanatory introductions in Telugu and English.

Oggukatha is a traditional folklore singing praising and narrating the stories of Hindu gods. It originated among communties who devoted themselves to the singing of ballads in praise of Lord Shiva (also called Mallikarjuna). These tradition-loving and ritual-performing community moves from place to place, narrating the stories of their caste gods. Oggus are the traditional priests of the Yadavas and perform the marriage of Mallanna with Bhramaramba.

The narrator and his chorus i.e. two narrators-help in dramatizing the narration as very often, they transform themselves into two characters. The dramatization of the narrative is what gives the Oggu Katha its predominant place in the ballad tradition of Andhra Pradesh, especially in Telangana, where Oggu Katha prevalent.

All are welcome.
Entry - Free

As a part of Lamakaan's 4th Anniversary, Sutradhar is staging their Magnum Opus 'Birjees Qadar ka Kunba'.

See how a woman’s iron conviction and obsession with reputation, money and class destroys her family. Sample this:

“Auraton ke vaaste sui-thaaga aur mardon ke vaaste hull aur bail...khaandaani logon ke yahan ka yahee dastoor hota hai.”

...And defiance: “Mera jism uska hoga jisko main chahoongi...”

Spying and Conspiring: “Hum boodhiyaan deewaron ke aar paar dekh leti hain.”

Frustration: “Vo auratein hain, mardon ke bina auratein. aur kuch nahin...”

SUTRADHAR presents

BIRJEES QADAR KA KUNBA

A full length play in Urdu adapted by the Late Dr. Raghuvir Sahay from Federico Garcia Lorca’s all-time classic

THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA

Running time: 1 hour 45 minutes without interval.

Entry Passes - 9848052541

Celebrate this Holi with your own hand-made natural colours. Learn the art of making them from ArunJyothi Lokhanday.
The colours will be made out of dried Beet Root, Marigold, orange peels, turmeric, colour mitti jaju, Palak, amla, and other dried green pigments.

Interested children can attend this free workshop - if possible - please carry your own dried powder of above mentioned items.

All are welcome.

Lamakaan's first mushaira will see recitations by a select few poets from Hyderabad's rich tradition of Urdu literature.

Among the poets are : Rashid Azar, Mohsin Jalgaonvi, Mustar Majaaz, Raoof Khalish, Rauf Khair, Rahamat Yusuf Zai and Mushaf Iqbal Taunsifi.

Set in a semi-formal way, this promises to be a delight for the lovers of Urdu poetry and ghazals.

All are welcome.

Entry - Free

World Kidney Day aims to raise awareness of the importance of our kidneys to our overall health and to reduce the frequency and impact of kidney disease and its associated health problems worldwide. Get involved!

A Survivor would like to share his experiences and need for care in life style by the affected persons by means of an inter-active session with the interested people.

- See more at: http://www.worldkidneyday.org/#sthash.2FNTZX2r.dpuf

Entry - Free

An evening of Hindustani Music.
Tabla Fusion by Suhas Shastri and Vivek Kayal....
And Presentation of Tarana by students of Smt. Aradhana Karhade Shastri.

This is a part of week-long Lamakaan's 4th Anniversary celebrations.

All are welcome.

About Miya Biwi - Adapted from the original Marathi Play ``Shri Tashi Sau`` written by Yogesh Soman into Hindustani by Saurabh Gharipurikar. This is a story about a Hyderabadi couple going to court to nullify their nuptials by divorcing each other for the final time.

Stick to your chairs as this play will take you on a laughter ride. During the course of funny incidents, they finally realize that even after so many fights they cannot live without each other. This is a story about a Hyderabadi couple going to court to nullify their nuptials by divorcing each other for the final time. Make sure you watch this play as this one will surely tickle your funny bone! Go and watch the play at Lamakaan

Hyderabad Western Music Foundation is pleased to invite you to celebrate the 4th anniversary of Lamakaan.

Famous tunes and compositions, from Western Classical to Jazz, Pop and Rap, will be presented by a variety of local and international musicians:
Maria Sirvent (Clarinet), Shakila (Vocal), Raphaëlle Courtay (Clarinet), Meghna Dundi (Vocal), Triveni Sunkara (Bass), Anupam Kunapuli (Piano), George Hull (Saxophone), Dorein Paul (Rap), Chaitanya K. (Piano), Jonathan Hewitt (Trumpet), Sarosh Master (Guitar), Joe Koster (Keyboard)

When: Sunday, 16th March, 7 pm

Where: Lamakaan Rd. No. 1, Banjara Hills, opps. GVK, www.lamakaan.com

Donor passes available at the venue: Rs. 100.— HWMF members: free
Contact: info@hydmusic.com 9912201659/9849451794

The story is about two strangers who meet at a park and revolves around how one of them plays on the mind of the other timid guy and psychologically controls him and finally provokes him to stab him and leave him to die. The way how a person can be almost hypnotized with words and finally brought under complete control through sheer brain games is wonderfully
drafted in this drama and can be enacted in this performance.

Annapurna International School of Film + Media acting students are enacting this play under the tutelage of Rammohan Holagundi.

Entry Passes - available at the gate

KUKKA
By Endamuri Veerendranath -

It is a fight between the haves n the have not’s. The Dora or the Zamindar goes to the extent of making the life of the domestic help miserable and worse than that of a dog for his selfish needs and desires. The story revolves around the Dora, his son Chinna dora and the
jeetagadu or Domestic help who goes against the Zamindar Raj in the finale.

This Play is staged by students of Annapurna International School of Film + Media under the tutelage of Rammohan Holagundi.

Entry - Passes at the gate

The next installment in our conversation sessions between scientists and the general public is titled "After the Higgs" and addresses the science surrounding the Higgs Boson, the subject of the 2013 Nobel prize in Physics. We will have a short 20 minute talk by our guest scientist, after which the audience is invited to engage in an informal, free-flowing discussion with the speaker. Interested participants of all ages are welcome. No prior knowledge or expertise is required.

This conversation will feature Prof. Rohini Godbole of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. A theoretical high energy physicist, Prof. Godbole is an internationally recognised expert on supersymmetry and the phenomenology of collider physics. She is also the co-editor of two books featuring the stories of Indian women in science.

On the Wings of Song brings you a collaboration of musical talent from the twin cities of Hyd and Sec'bad.

They will cover music over the decades, beginning in the 70s and bringing it up to the present.

Presenting this are:

Abbas Razvi - Is a bass guitarist and performs with Skrypt, a Hyderabad based metal band.

Maya and Paul Banerjee - This brother and sister duo have been into music for many years. Paul plays guitar and sings back-up vocals while Maya sings lead vocals. Maya is also part of a secular choir, the Deccan Voices.

Niki and Tania Shukla - The Shukla girls were brought up in the UK and moved to Hyderabad a couple of years ago. Niki plays violin and piano. Tania plays both those instruments and guitar as well. Together they harmonize and sing like angels.

Pranati Khanna - She is an accomplished artist and musician. Accompanying herself on the guitar, she sings with the sweetest of voices.
Sarosh Master - Sarosh is a sessions guitarist who accompanies and has accompanied many a band and singer in Hyderabad. He covers all genres from pop to blues and rock.

Suresh - Suresh is the lead guitarist of the bluesrock band Nile. His playing brings with it the smoothness of the music of Santana and other bands of the 80s and 90s.

Shakila - Her vocals span everything from from the styles of pop to jazz. Being part of the only jazz band in town, Jazz for Joy, she also sings with Nile and the Deccan Voices.

Viren Kundu - A relative newbie to the music scene, he plays a soft, melodious acoustic guitar.
Zervan Lakdawala - He is the lead vocalist of the band Reverb. He accompanies himself on the keyboard. He has performed in Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore apart from his regular performances in Hyderabad.

Entry passes - at the Gate.

TWIN CITY THEATER AND CULTURAL FESTIVAL

In Collaboration with: Lamakaan, Mocha Banjara Hills, Rock Castle, Roots, Our Sacred Space.
An event to gather all the painters together to paint their Twin city Theater and Cultural Festival
Bring your Tools, (brushes), Paint and Canvas will be provided.
Open to all Painters

Worls Puppet day-March 21, 2013

The puppetry story is a story 'Remembering and Forgetting' by Shri T. Rangarajan-Theatre artists from Hubli- Dharwad region, Karnataka.

It is about brain connection: when one wants to remember certain things but forgets, the only way to make them remember is - to ask them not to remember it. Result: One keeps remembering it all the time.

Similar is our habits too. The story revolves around a bald head King who wants to regrow hair on his bald head. So, he invites the best Ayurvedic specialist, Siddha specialist and so on. As everybody fail in their attempts, a clever man by name Bantuklal Patra takes the advantage of the situation and promises to regrow hair on bald head of the King within a month. He prepares a special oil and asks the King to apply it on his head everyday, with a condition that he should not eat, see, touch, hear think or remember cucumbers - as he says "cucumbers have negative impact and hence, the hair growth would not be possible". Need not mention that Cucumber is the only thing king remembers all day and all night!

Entry - 100/-

a performance on the underlying theme of memory and madness in Leopoldo Maria Panero's Mondragon poems with additional text from the Language of Flowers and Aphorisms by Cesar Vallejo and a line from Lorca as a part of Twin City Theatre and Cultural festival tribute to Leopolodo Maria Panero who passed away on March 5, 2014

directed and performed by Parnab Mukherjee

installation: Gautam Bajoria and Baishampayan Saha.

Entry - Free

The play is an interaction between a boy and a girl who have met each other for marriage, due to family's insistance. The girl seems introvert and very negative about Arranged marriages, love marriages, and even relationships in general. The boy tries to change her perspective about relationships and to show her the bright side.

Would he succeed to convince the girl on the end? Come and watch the play.
Open to All

Entry - Free

UIFF-2014, is a traveling film festival, specially screening films on issues of Nuclear technology. The festival is part of Uranium Film Festival, which is conducted in different cities of the world to bring in public awareness against the dangers of radiation due to Nuclear industries. As india is mad in going for more and more nuclear establishments much against the concerns of public health, the festival aims facilitate public discourse against nuclear establishments.

Samahaara Workshop Production
presents

Samahaara Comedy Night:

Stand-up Comedy by Anjali Parvati Koda
&
Short Plays by Team Samahaara

Directed by Rathna Shekar Reddy


It's baaaaaaaack. Remember how much fun we had last time? It's going to be Double the Fun this time with 2 Nights of Comedy Plays and Stand-up (The second night being a repeat show). Get that funny bone tickled with mad, funny, impish, satirical and hilarious characters and situations.

Watch and be amused at the reality behind a "Fairy Tale Wedding", grin at the banter between a crazy writer and her friend as he tries to edit her play which is "the most important play in the world". Chuckle as a father takes his son out into the big bad world to "experience things" and laugh out loud as two therapy patients get together on a blind date. Wait, there's more - nope, we'll wait for you to come be a part of it all. See you there.

Entry by Donation Rs.100/-

Tele bookings: 8341120303
Online booking: www.bookmyshow.com

Samahaara Workshop Production presents
Samahaara Comedy Night:
Stand-up Comedy by Anjali Parvati Koda & Short Plays by Team Samahaara
Directed by Rathna Shekar Reddy
It's baaaaaaaack. Remember how much fun we had last time? It's going to be Double the Fun this time with 2 Nights of Comedy Plays and Stand-up (The second night being a repeat show). Get that funny bone tickled with mad, funny, impish, satirical and hilarious characters and situations.
Watch and be amused at the reality behind a "Fairy Tale Wedding", grin at the banter between a crazy writer and her friend as he tries to edit her play which is "the most important play in the world". Chuckle as a father takes his son out into the big bad world to "experience things" and laugh out loud as two therapy patients get together on a blind date. Wait, there's more - nope, we'll wait for you to come be a part of it all. See you there.
Entry by Donation Rs.100/-
Tele bookings: 8341120303 Online booking: www.bookmyshow.com

About The Play - April Fool ….pranks can be notorious ….but truth can be uglier ….!! How many of us have dealt with imprisonment of all sorts inside our own homes??? Where freedom of speech, freedom of thought & freedom as such is a rare entity …!!! Hasn’t the world seen the most disturbing parental relationships, yet? The impact of a disturbed child hood is grave, not even close to what a non-victim can imagine!!!
The story of 4 roommates (Anil,Ajay,Sirish & rakesh) in a college hostel who plan to play a prank with their friend to pull his leg .These 4 have been together for a while now, they know each other pretty well. 3 of them plan to tell Ajay that his father is here & waiting for him in the room. He is shocked, because his father never came to see him in 3 years. He rushes to the room to meet him & finds out that there is nobody in the room except for his 3 prankster friends .He is irated because of the topic they chose to pull his leg ,’His Father’. He pounces on them yelling, these 3 were in no mood to give up. They continue saying that his father is here, the 3 of them keep talking to a chair claiming he was there. After a while he kind of believes

Hyderabad's oldest Amateur Theatre group, Dramatic Circle of Hyderabad celebrates its 50th year with 3 short plays by Chekov -The Sneeze, The Surgery and The Arrangement.

Entry Passes - 50/-

Hyderabad's oldest Amateur Theatre group, Dramatic Circle of Hyderabad celebrates its 50th year with 3 short plays by Chekov -The Sneeze, The Surgery and The Arrangement.

Entry Passes - 50/-

Sambalpuri folk dance will be performed by the children from Books n More Library and Activity Centre.
Sambalpuri Folk Dance in the Rangabati style will be presented by the students from Books n More Library and Activity Centre. Guru Archana Misra , an exponent of the Sambalpuri folk dance form has been training children in the age group of 7-14 years at our Centre. This performance is a culmination of their efforts in learning this folk style that celebrates Nua Khali (harvest).

Entry - Free

Children from Books n More Library and Activity Centre will be presenting this much loved Children's classic Chitti Chitti Bang Bang. This hour long performance of the play will be staged by the children under the guidance of Ms Anuradha Vinod.

All are welcome. Entry - Free

The play “Daddy’s lil girl” is divided in three parts which throw light on the 3 major parts of a woman’s life. The first
part is about how the parents of the girl are in doubt whether to have her or not, putting her very existence into
jeopardy. This part has both the mother and the father present arguments about why they should or shouldn’t
have a baby and another couple enacting the imaginations – both fears & expectations of the parents. How they
come to the decision whether or not they should have a baby is showcased in this part.
The second part shows the girl in her early twenties. She has just got a job and her parents are looking for
matrimonial alliances for her. However, she doesn’t like any of the matches her parents bring forth. After a long
wait, she does finally like one of the matches her parents bring and the wedding is fixed…but only a few days
before the wedding she gets to know something about the guy that will make her rethink her decision to marry
him. What is that thing..? What does she decide? How she copes with her decision? Does her family support her?
All these questions are answered in the second part.
The third part is a monologue that portrays the life of a highly successful woman in her mid-30’s and is a divorcee.
She is tired of the questions she is asked at every turn of life, the justification she has to give for every step she
takes. Annoyed at the change of people’s attitude towards her since the divorce, she expresses her frustration at
the lack of support from her close ones and expresses anguish at the current state of affairs of the chauvinistic
society.

Directed by: Rahul R
Directors Note:
‘Daddy’s lil girl’ is a depiction of the various stages of women life which are influenced or
dictated by the allegedly ‘stronger’ sex or the same .This play is a unheard voice of the
ordinary women who fails to express he distress to her loved one & also talk about how
women can take control completely when required. We focus on her ….her sacrifices, her
fear, her strength, her ego , her happiness , her love , her passion & her every lil thing …!!

Written by: Sherin Bhat

Entry Passes - 9885730673

The play “Daddy’s lil girl” is divided in three parts which throw light on the 3 major parts of a woman’s life. The first part is about how the parents of the girl are in doubt whether to have her or not, putting her very existence into jeopardy. This part has both the mother and the father present arguments about why they should or shouldn’t have a baby and another couple enacting the imaginations – both fears & expectations of the parents. How they come to the decision whether or not they should have a baby is showcased in this part. The second part shows the girl in her early twenties. She has just got a job and her parents are looking for matrimonial alliances for her. However, she doesn’t like any of the matches her parents bring forth. After a long wait, she does finally like one of the matches her parents bring and the wedding is fixed…but only a few days before the wedding she gets to know something about the guy that will make her rethink her decision to marry him. What is that thing..? What does she decide? How she copes with her decision? Does her family support her? All these questions are answered in the second part. The third part is a monologue that portrays the life of a highly successful woman in her mid-30’s and is a divorcee. She is tired of the questions she is asked at every turn of life, the justification she has to give for every step she takes. Annoyed at the change of people’s attitude towards her since the divorce, she expresses her frustration at the lack of support from her close ones and expresses anguish at the current state of affairs of the chauvinistic society.
Directed by: Rahul R Directors Note: ‘Daddy’s lil girl’ is a depiction of the various stages of women life which are influenced or dictated by the allegedly ‘stronger’ sex or the same .This play is a unheard voice of the ordinary women who fails to express he distress to her loved one & also talk about how women can take control completely when required. We focus on her ….her sacrifices, her fear, her strength, her ego , her happiness , her love , her passion & her every lil thing …!!
Written by: Sherin Bhat
Entry Passes - 9885730673

Two 25 year old strangers meet on a hill top. One of them dreams to become a Bollywood star, and all his struggle goes in vain. The other one lost his girl friend in an accident because of his rash riding. Both are depressed and dont feel like living so they come here to commit suicide. The moment they met each other an argument arises. Now what is going to happen? Suicide or murder? Come and watch. Cast&Crew A - Sunjit Rao B - Vinayak Raikhelkar Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar Music - Ashutosh Patwardhan Entry - 9290013166