Lamakaan

Hyderabad Institute of Liberal Arts is organizing a public debate on the state of school education in the Old City region of Hyderabad.
HILA is launching a 20-week long part time liberal arts education programme from this July 1st where students will be exposed to a variety of disciplines of learning including science, maths, literature, economics and geography. The programme is open to anyone with a highschool certificate and aims to enrich the students overall life skills.

In the debate, we have six individuals who have been involved in educational activities in the Old City to share their perspectives with the audience. These are Ayesha Rubina, nominated corporator of GHMC; Mohd. Azam Khan, businessman and educationist; Shama Parveen, deputy director at Princess Esin Educational Society; Sana Hussain, principal, Princess Esin junior college; Lakshmi Sankranti, teacher trainer; and Sangeeta Kamat, researcher from University of Massachusettes. We are also inviting journalists from different media organizations who specialize in reporting on education and on the Old City, he added.
The panel discussion will focus on the state of school infrastructure, facilities for instruction in Urdu and Telugu, the efficacy of vocational training schemes. Even as Hyderabad city itself has become more tightly integrated with the global economy. While this integration goes on rapidly, parents of children of all classes are faced with tough choices in selecting and keeping their children in schools. A large number of private schools have also emerged in the Old City even as government school system has not been doing well. In a city that has a long tradition of public education system, these are matters of concern not just for residents of the Old City but for everyone who believes in a just urban society.
Open for all and ENTRY is FREE.

Fancy getting round a table with like minded photo-book lovers to leaf through a bunch of great books? Want to start on your stories, have started but need some help?

We are organizing an informal gathering of friends and fellow photographers, sharing and talking about their favorite books related to photography. Our idea is to promote and enable discussion around photography through the various printed books. In a time when photo books are in scarce supply or command very high prices, it becomes difficult for the working person to allocate the resources to find books and/or purchase them.

We also hope to find photographer's books which are not currently in vogue, or books that look at photography from an outside point of view, situating in the greater galaxy of art forms.

What you need to do: Bring and Share books of yours that would be of interest to photographers.

We would appreciate it if you could bring at least one book. If you don;t have even one then time to buy one!! Seriously just come and participate even if you don;t have any in your library.

Story Sunday

The pre-lunch session will be a documentary photography bootcamp, open to anyone with an interest in visual storytelling. Photographers wanting to start working on their first stories or those who have taken the first step will benefit the most from this session. We will talk about finding stories, doing the research, getting on ground, earning trust, finding direction and editing. A day we hope will be a precursor to many more interesting events in Hyderabad. This is in collaboration with friends at Galli Magazine.

19th Listening Post:
The Voice in Western and Indian Classical Music

Vocal traditions and stylistic use of the voice differs from region to region. Here we will explore the use of the voice as an instrument in Hindustani as well as Western classical music, and contrast these two styles with each other.
Some topics we will explore will be hearing gender, the voice as an agent of information, the use of text in significant ways and so forth.
This fortnight's Classical Listening Post presents explores some critical differences in the use of the voice in the musical genres we are closest to as Indians, and helps us see some of our historical identity through the medium of vocal music!

Presented by Tejaswinee Kelkar, who is at present doing her MS at IIIT in Hyderabad. She has studied Western Classical as well as Hindustani Classical music and is locally part of the choir group the Deccan Voices

Bible preaches us: world was created in just 6 days.

Hindu texts: The creator god Brahma emerged from the egg and created the world, while in yet another tradition the Brahma himself is the Hiranyagarbha. Then there is the Vishwakarma story. All many stories in one 'faith'!

Then we have Noah; who took one pair of each species in his arc and we have multiples of many lives now!

What rational to believe?

Hyderabad Institute of Liberal Arts (HILA) presents David Attenborough's "Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life" a 2009 BBC television documentary about Charles Darwin and his revolutionary theory of evolution through natural selection, produced by the BBC to mark the bicentenary of Darwin's birth. It is part of the BBC Darwin Season. The presenter, David Attenborough, outlines the development of the theory by Darwin through his observations of animals and plants in nature and in the domesticated state, visiting sites important in Darwin's own life, including Down House, Cambridge University and the Natural History Museum, and using archive footage from Attenborough's many nature documentaries for the BBC. He reviews the development of the theory since its beginnings, and its revolutionary impact on the way in which humans view themselves - not as having dominion over the animals as The Bible says, but as part of the natural world and subject to the same controlling forces that govern all life on Earth.

Lets not get stuffed anymore! Lets learn more!! Come and watch this film for Free!!!

Fouzia Amjad a retired professor of Sociology has self published and written a book on Sociology title "Principals of Sociology and Social problems"
This is written in Urdu and is aimed at students studying in Urdu medium.
This book is written both for general reading and students.
It aims to create awareness among people on social problems by throwing light on it in various chapters.

The floor will be open for various points of view and debate.

Open to all. Entry Free.

The writing was on the wall - or shall we say - on the Dams.

Lamakaan and NAPM host a panel discusson on what happened in Uttarakhand.

When CAG rang a bell an year ago, who did not hear it? When Governor of the state tried to alert the laxity in the execution, who muzzled him?
Our state has suffered more human loss than many states. AP not only tops in the the highest number of pilgrims inflow but also the highest number of contractors and engineers who relentlessly grind those hills down.

The experts will share with us where has it all began to go wrong? They will throw light on 'dam'ning revelations and our utter disregard for the nature and environment.

The panelists include Dr. Channa Basavaiah, Dr. BabuRao, Saraswati Kavula and many environment activists.

Open for all and Entry is Free.

An Tribute to Mullapudi Venkata Ramana, the writer part of Bapu-Ramana duo. An audio visual presentation together with an open discussion will be done. Participated by his friends Mr. Sri Ramana, popular author, Mr. BNIM, artist, and Sri Ramulu, Vara Mullapudi, Mullapudi Ramana's son and film director will be present on the occasion.

Open to All and Entry is Free.

HWMF invites to "Theory Workshop for everyone"
come, learn, compose and enjoy! Music is not just an art but a language. Through this workshop you’ll be able to develop the skills to be able to read this universal language. Not only will you be able to read music but this workshop will provide you with the idea of composing simple music using basic music theory for any instrument of your choice. So come over to experience the foundation of music. Resource Person: Mikhail Fernandez, who is doing his BA Music in US. Course Duration: 6 Saturdays from 3-4.30. Start: 29.6.2013 Fee Rs. 1700, incl. material. More info on www.hydmusic.com

From the Arabian Nights' tale,This play is a hilarious take on Aladdin.The play has a very high contect of comedy,slapstick and music.The story is about Aladdin,an impoverished lad who meets an evil sorcerer,Jaafar,disguised as Aladdin's uncle.
The Sorcerer persuades Aladdin to retrieve a wonderful lamp from a magic cave.Aladdin finds himself trapped in the cave,and with the aid of the Genie of the lamp,Aladdin is able to get treasures for his family and marries the Sultan's daughter.
wait...!! thats not the end,
the evil sorcerer has other plans.He wants his lamp back....
Now lets see how all this goes about in the Isspecial Hyderabadi Version of the Arabian Night's tale with an extra dose of the fun all the more!!!

Any park.

In...just about anywhere.

With three regular benches. And three men...just any men...squabble about the choicest of seats.

Because each one's claim is the greatest, and the most fundamental.
And in.....just about anywhere, there is never enough room for everyone.

Join "Love Stories #1 to 14" author Annie Zaidi in conversation with Dr Fatima Shahnaz at Lamakaan.

Annie Zaidi is the author of ‘Love Stories # 1 to 14’, and the co-author of ‘The Bad Boy’s Guide to the Good Indian Girl’.

Her first collection of essays, ‘Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales’ was shortlisted for the Crossword (non-fiction) book prize.
She also writes scripts and her plays ‘Jaal’ and ‘So Many Socks’ opened in Mumbai, 2012.

Dr. Fatima Shahnaz is the Artistic Director of The Globe Repertory Company( New York ). She has directed and produced not only Shakespeare but "Murder in the Cathedral" - T.S. Eliot; "Enemy of the People" - Henrik Ibsen; "The Flies" -Jean Paul Sartre, as well as Shaw, Mannesse, Elie Wiesel and others.

Reviews of Love Stories # 1 - 14

"Neither indulgent nor critical, Zaidi offers, if not liberation, at least the comfort of sharing a fraught human emotion." - Time Out.
"This book's tone is consistently hushed, reflective, shorn of hysteria — even in a description of two people arguing, with a lifetime of companionship on the line — but beneath its still surfaces there is much emotional turbulence." - Jai Arjun Singh in the Sunday Guardian.

Please participate in the open discussion and interact with the author.
Entry is Free.

The Short Film mostly concentrated on Education and its Importance. Especially in Telangana Region, rural area people not interested to encourage their children for higher education, due to the poverty problem. In this context we planned to educate those people. This short Film shows the reality of the rural people attitude about the education importance. A poor Labor son gets more marks, than the land lord's daughter. But the labor not interested to continue the studies of his son. But when he heard the land lord daughter's marks, he will realize. His Son got more than the Land Lard Daughter' marks. Than he accepts to continue his son's further studies.

Screening is followed by "Value of education for our hinterlands".

All are welcome.

This is an event to promote Startup Leadership Program (SLP) within the entrepreneur fraternity in the city. SLP is a non-profit organization that's meant to help the future CEOs understand the various building blocks of setting up a startup. It goes beyond the learning, this platform enables the participants network and get mentors, investors, industry experts, co-founders to name a few. Again its a life time network that they build. So far SLP fellows have founded 700 companies that have raised $370 million.

Puppetry Workshop for kids between 6 to 10 yrs by Sphoorthi Theatre for Educational puppetry, Art & Carft (STEPARC) a non-voluntary organisation.

STEPARC has already done a show in Lamakan which was well received and parents and children showed keen interest to learn the art of puppetry. Both Making and Performance.

This is one such workshops to teach the children the art of effective story telling using the means of puppetry.

Contact 9866081172 (Padmini Rangarajan) for registration. Fee:500/- incl. Material to be given to each student.

sphoorthitheatre@gmail.com

Samahaara Workshop Production

"Silence Please"
A comedy in Telugu.

A scientist and homeowner goes temporarily blind after an experiment goes wrong. A theif enters the house but somehow, due to mistaken identity, remains as though he is a part of the household. The wife, the maid and a friend all contribute to the scientist's troubles and the thief's sketch.

Come watch the ensuing chaos and hilarity that unfold in this Telugu comedy.


Written by Sankaramanchi Parthasaradhi
Directed by Nagaraju Pejjai

A musical evening where you get to hear folk music from different parts of India. Watch Neelkanth, Sudipto, Harinarayan and Akhil perform folk songs in various Indian languages like Hindi, Oriya, Bengali, Gujarati etc. Experience the magic of traditional instruments like Ektara, Dotara and Sri Khol etc.

Entry Ticket Charges: Rs.100

This is a monthly Start-Up meet by entreprenuers, companies, partnership or temporary organisation to share their Ideas, successes and Failure with like-minded people in the industry.

Held at Lamakaan every second Saturday at 10-1pm, it has an agenda set for every meetUp.

Walk in and participate with no entry fee.
Open to All.

The Adobe Photoshop (Beginner-Basics) for Photographers FREE Seminar

No Hidden Charges….Truly Sharing of Knowledge.
Whether you’re a portrait, landscape, wedding, travel, hobby or commercial photographer (or even a serious shooter who just wants to truly unlock the real power of Photoshop), you’re going to learn techniques that will change the way you work forever.

Photoshop is now a household word, and with good reason. It can make washed-out imperfect images into digital masterpieces, or even take decades-old photos and repair damages that have been there for years. Professional technology trainer Ram will show you how to get professional results.

When combined with the Photoshop for Beginners tutorial course, you will have an impressive range of knowledge of the program and a specific expertise when it comes to working with photos after learning these Photoshop Actions for Photographers.

This Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers course goes through techniques that are tried and true, and used by professionals everywhere to touch up and enhance digital and scanned photography. This Session is for the beginner to Photoshop.

Photoshop can be overwhelming. Master the art of Adobe Photoshop by focusing just on the tools photographers need to know.

Location, Date and Time will be announced Shortly.
Hosted by: Ram, Sr. Designer in National Informatics Centre, Hyderabad.

The ultimate guide to getting the most out of your photography

Revolutions over Facebook, Dissent on Twitter, crowd sourcing of knowledge, freedom through software. Is the world changing with the ideas of open sourcing of data, software, media and knowledge? Will the closed cathedrals of the dominant be replaced by open bazaars of a new society through open source movement?

In conversation is Roy Singham, the globally recognized leader in open source and agile methods, founder of ThoughtWorks and a globally recognized speaker.

As founder and chairman of ThoughtWorks Inc., Roy Singham is recognized globally as a software development innovator of change. Throughout his 20-year career, Roy has inspired the industry as an influential supporter of emerging technologies, open source programming languages, and agile methods of software development.

He is regularly featured as a keynote speaker and panel presenter to global conferences and organizations including the prestigious Fortune Brainstorm Technology conferences, the Council on Foreign Relations, Techonomy, India’s The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) as well as for Agile conferences in China, Brasil and Australia.

Roy is a true global citizen traveling internationally over 250 days a year, and spending time in some 60 countries – not only in western nations and Silicon Valley, but also in the newly emerging markets and technology hot spots of Asia and Latin America. He represents ThoughtWorks as one of the Global Growth Companies at the World Economic Forum. Roy is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, DC.

Entry - Free

Disha Centre for Social Justice cordially invites you to M.A.Vanaja 3rd memorial lecture by Dr.Galab, Director, CESS on Child Rights and their implementation to remember one of the torch-bearers for Women and human rights.

Known to her friends as ‘Vanaa’ lived an exemplary life by standing by her convictions and values. It was impossible for her to watch violation of any helpless persons rights as a mere spectator. She always acted to support the week. She was a fine human being and a great human-rights lawyer. She was passionate and committed to her values.

She was born on 13th July in 1971 in Sangareddy and studied there till graduation. She chose law as a career with a clear vision and a specific purpose – to defend the week and helpless i.e. children and women. She became a lawyer in 1994. She worked in Hyderabad City Civil Court. She was always a lawyer and also a strong human rights activist. Fighting to defend the week came to her naturally.

Vanaja was an exceptional human being and all those who came to know her felt proud of knowing her.

All are welcome.

The Saxophone in Jazz Music

The Saxophone from the time of its invention more than just a hundred years ago has played a pivotal role in the development of Jazz music. The saxophone has firmly etched its mark in jazz,classical, pop.and almost all the other.musical genres. We will explore the construction of the instrument and the history behind it, and the players who have made it popular over the decades.

The 20th Listening Post presents the saxophone, one of the most melodious and sought after instrument of this generation.

Presented by George Hull, who is a Doctor by profession and also.plays the Saxophone professionally. He has completed his ABRSM.Jazz Saxophone Grades and is part of the city's Jazz band -"Jazz For Joy"

Entry - Free

GOODBYE BAFANA is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.

On the 95th Birthday of the greatest living freedom fighter, lets remind our selves the need for dissent.

Entry - Free

It's an 'unfair' game of membership that's currently underway at the city's Secunderabad Club. Repeatedly under attack for its women-unfriendly rulebook, the 135-year-old club has now decided to 'award' its lady members permanent membership, a privilege so far enjoyed by gentlemen alone.

But here's the catch: This provision, currently at proposal stage, will be exclusively extended to the children (on turning 25) of male members. The sons/daughters of female members of the club - referred to as Associate Member Lady (AML) - will continue to be blacklisted once they reach that age.

Event: Press Conference on Gender Discrimination in Secunderabad Club
Venue: Lamakaan.
Date and Time: Friday, 19th June, 2013 at 11 am

Contact no.: 9848512997(Anjana)

A B-Plan Workshop for Entrepreneurs and Startups.

Discovering the self through Acting and Theatre.
an Introduction to the basics of the craft and techniques of Acting.


The workshop is an introductory session with a discussion of the basic instruments of an actor, a few exercises, and a general appreciation of the art of acting. It is specially suited for beginners and novices, who are interested in exploring theatre and acting, but have not done much acting before. The paucity of time would mean that we only get to scratch the surface, but it would be a worthy initiation into the wonderful art.

previous workshops :

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Social-Canvas-FilmCamp/326201347456233?fref=ts

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.261687180599881.43628.237180769717189&type=3


social canvas on facebook :
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Entry : Free

Samahaara
Presents
A Double bill of Anton Chekhov's short plays "The Bear" & "The Proposal"

The Bear
A young man, Smirnov, comes to Popova to get his debt back that Popova’s late husband had borrowed from him. Will he get his money back?

The Proposal
The play is set in rural countryside of Russia. When Ivan arrives at the home of the Chubukov family, the elderly Stepan assumes that the well-dressed young man has come to borrow money. Instead, Stepan is pleased when Ivan asks for his daughter's hand in marriage. Stepan whole-heartedly bestows his blessing, declaring that he already loves him like a son. The old man then leaves to fetch his daughter, assuring the younger man that Natalya will graciously accept the proposal. Will she?

Simple and Colourful Animal Puppet Making Workshop for Mothers & fathers (whose kids are in the age group of 2 and Half to 5 years) by Sphoorthi Theatre for Educational Puppetry, Art and Craft (STEPARC).

This art form will help you communicate with your children with Audio-Visual aids and make that art of story telling more interesting.

Contact 9866081172 (Padmini Rangarajan) for registrations. Fee:500 including material to be given to you.
sphoorthitheatre@gmail.com

Puppetry Workshop for Parents, Pre-Primary and Primary School Teachers & Parents to Explore teaching with Puppets by Sphoorthi Theatre for Educational Puppetry, Art &Craft-STEPARC.
Puppets acts as stimulus for children to engage in conversation, reasoning and scope for productive talk about lessons and helps in learning.
Call Padmini at 9866081172 for registrations.

Charity event for disaster-struck Uttarakhand. The event will start off with a free-for-all Zumba® Fitness Workshop by Internationally Licensed Zumba® Fitness Instructor Anika Sharma and Hyderabad ZINs™ (Zumba Instructor Network), followed by donations for Uttarakhand flood victims. All the donations (through DD/Cheque/Credit Card/Debit Card) will be made to the beneficiary organizations/representatives present at the venue on the day of the event. Participants will get receipt for the donations they make.

ABOUT ZUMBA®

Zumba® is all about moving fast and having fun. It is an advanced form of aerobic dancing that combines hypnotic Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow steps. An optimal choice for body sculpting movements and fat burning, Zumba® is your ticket to fitness. Zumba® is a natural high. It's such a great beginning to a day to leave it all on the dance floor and shake off those worries. You would feel as if you're in a fun, high-energy party. Zumba® is the most exciting form of fitness routine ever. So, DITCH THE WORKOUT™ AND JOIN THE PARTY!!! Since its inception in 2001, the Zumba® program has grown to become the world's largest – and most successful – dance-fitness program with more than 14 million people of all shapes, sizes and ages taking weekly Zumba® classes in over 140,000 locations across more than 150 countries.

A discussion on "Telugu Wikipedia" to improve its context and complexion to enhance information required for Telugu Society's overall development.

This will be the workshop production of the mime workshop Natvarya. The participants of the workshop and the trainer/s will put together a mime production and present it.

Natvarya is a workshop conducted by Indian Mime Academy, the Hyderabad based mime institution. The workshop will be conducted by Arusam Madhusudan, a.k.a. Mime Madhu, who is also the founder and director of Indian Mime Academy.

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

Hyderabad Institute of Liberal Arts is organizing a public debate on the state of school education in the Old City region of Hyderabad.
HILA is launching a 20-week long part time liberal arts education programme from this July 1st where students will be exposed to a variety of disciplines of learning including science, maths, literature, economics and geography. The programme is open to anyone with a highschool certificate and aims to enrich the students overall life skills.

In the debate, we have six individuals who have been involved in educational activities in the Old City to share their perspectives with the audience. These are Ayesha Rubina, nominated corporator of GHMC; Mohd. Azam Khan, businessman and educationist; Shama Parveen, deputy director at Princess Esin Educational Society; Sana Hussain, principal, Princess Esin junior college; Lakshmi Sankranti, teacher trainer; and Sangeeta Kamat, researcher from University of Massachusettes. We are also inviting journalists from different media organizations who specialize in reporting on education and on the Old City, he added.
The panel discussion will focus on the state of school infrastructure, facilities for instruction in Urdu and Telugu, the efficacy of vocational training schemes. Even as Hyderabad city itself has become more tightly integrated with the global economy. While this integration goes on rapidly, parents of children of all classes are faced with tough choices in selecting and keeping their children in schools. A large number of private schools have also emerged in the Old City even as government school system has not been doing well. In a city that has a long tradition of public education system, these are matters of concern not just for residents of the Old City but for everyone who believes in a just urban society.
Open for all and ENTRY is FREE.

Fancy getting round a table with like minded photo-book lovers to leaf through a bunch of great books? Want to start on your stories, have started but need some help?

We are organizing an informal gathering of friends and fellow photographers, sharing and talking about their favorite books related to photography. Our idea is to promote and enable discussion around photography through the various printed books. In a time when photo books are in scarce supply or command very high prices, it becomes difficult for the working person to allocate the resources to find books and/or purchase them.

We also hope to find photographer's books which are not currently in vogue, or books that look at photography from an outside point of view, situating in the greater galaxy of art forms.

What you need to do: Bring and Share books of yours that would be of interest to photographers.

We would appreciate it if you could bring at least one book. If you don;t have even one then time to buy one!! Seriously just come and participate even if you don;t have any in your library.

Story Sunday

The pre-lunch session will be a documentary photography bootcamp, open to anyone with an interest in visual storytelling. Photographers wanting to start working on their first stories or those who have taken the first step will benefit the most from this session. We will talk about finding stories, doing the research, getting on ground, earning trust, finding direction and editing. A day we hope will be a precursor to many more interesting events in Hyderabad. This is in collaboration with friends at Galli Magazine.

19th Listening Post:
The Voice in Western and Indian Classical Music

Vocal traditions and stylistic use of the voice differs from region to region. Here we will explore the use of the voice as an instrument in Hindustani as well as Western classical music, and contrast these two styles with each other.
Some topics we will explore will be hearing gender, the voice as an agent of information, the use of text in significant ways and so forth.
This fortnight's Classical Listening Post presents explores some critical differences in the use of the voice in the musical genres we are closest to as Indians, and helps us see some of our historical identity through the medium of vocal music!

Presented by Tejaswinee Kelkar, who is at present doing her MS at IIIT in Hyderabad. She has studied Western Classical as well as Hindustani Classical music and is locally part of the choir group the Deccan Voices

Bible preaches us: world was created in just 6 days.

Hindu texts: The creator god Brahma emerged from the egg and created the world, while in yet another tradition the Brahma himself is the Hiranyagarbha. Then there is the Vishwakarma story. All many stories in one 'faith'!

Then we have Noah; who took one pair of each species in his arc and we have multiples of many lives now!

What rational to believe?

Hyderabad Institute of Liberal Arts (HILA) presents David Attenborough's "Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life" a 2009 BBC television documentary about Charles Darwin and his revolutionary theory of evolution through natural selection, produced by the BBC to mark the bicentenary of Darwin's birth. It is part of the BBC Darwin Season. The presenter, David Attenborough, outlines the development of the theory by Darwin through his observations of animals and plants in nature and in the domesticated state, visiting sites important in Darwin's own life, including Down House, Cambridge University and the Natural History Museum, and using archive footage from Attenborough's many nature documentaries for the BBC. He reviews the development of the theory since its beginnings, and its revolutionary impact on the way in which humans view themselves - not as having dominion over the animals as The Bible says, but as part of the natural world and subject to the same controlling forces that govern all life on Earth.

Lets not get stuffed anymore! Lets learn more!! Come and watch this film for Free!!!

Fouzia Amjad a retired professor of Sociology has self published and written a book on Sociology title "Principals of Sociology and Social problems"
This is written in Urdu and is aimed at students studying in Urdu medium.
This book is written both for general reading and students.
It aims to create awareness among people on social problems by throwing light on it in various chapters.

The floor will be open for various points of view and debate.

Open to all. Entry Free.

The writing was on the wall - or shall we say - on the Dams.

Lamakaan and NAPM host a panel discusson on what happened in Uttarakhand.

When CAG rang a bell an year ago, who did not hear it? When Governor of the state tried to alert the laxity in the execution, who muzzled him?
Our state has suffered more human loss than many states. AP not only tops in the the highest number of pilgrims inflow but also the highest number of contractors and engineers who relentlessly grind those hills down.

The experts will share with us where has it all began to go wrong? They will throw light on 'dam'ning revelations and our utter disregard for the nature and environment.

The panelists include Dr. Channa Basavaiah, Dr. BabuRao, Saraswati Kavula and many environment activists.

Open for all and Entry is Free.

An Tribute to Mullapudi Venkata Ramana, the writer part of Bapu-Ramana duo. An audio visual presentation together with an open discussion will be done. Participated by his friends Mr. Sri Ramana, popular author, Mr. BNIM, artist, and Sri Ramulu, Vara Mullapudi, Mullapudi Ramana's son and film director will be present on the occasion.

Open to All and Entry is Free.

HWMF invites to "Theory Workshop for everyone"
come, learn, compose and enjoy! Music is not just an art but a language. Through this workshop you’ll be able to develop the skills to be able to read this universal language. Not only will you be able to read music but this workshop will provide you with the idea of composing simple music using basic music theory for any instrument of your choice. So come over to experience the foundation of music. Resource Person: Mikhail Fernandez, who is doing his BA Music in US. Course Duration: 6 Saturdays from 3-4.30. Start: 29.6.2013 Fee Rs. 1700, incl. material. More info on www.hydmusic.com

From the Arabian Nights' tale,This play is a hilarious take on Aladdin.The play has a very high contect of comedy,slapstick and music.The story is about Aladdin,an impoverished lad who meets an evil sorcerer,Jaafar,disguised as Aladdin's uncle.
The Sorcerer persuades Aladdin to retrieve a wonderful lamp from a magic cave.Aladdin finds himself trapped in the cave,and with the aid of the Genie of the lamp,Aladdin is able to get treasures for his family and marries the Sultan's daughter.
wait...!! thats not the end,
the evil sorcerer has other plans.He wants his lamp back....
Now lets see how all this goes about in the Isspecial Hyderabadi Version of the Arabian Night's tale with an extra dose of the fun all the more!!!

Any park.

In...just about anywhere.

With three regular benches. And three men...just any men...squabble about the choicest of seats.

Because each one's claim is the greatest, and the most fundamental.
And in.....just about anywhere, there is never enough room for everyone.

Join "Love Stories #1 to 14" author Annie Zaidi in conversation with Dr Fatima Shahnaz at Lamakaan.

Annie Zaidi is the author of ‘Love Stories # 1 to 14’, and the co-author of ‘The Bad Boy’s Guide to the Good Indian Girl’.

Her first collection of essays, ‘Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales’ was shortlisted for the Crossword (non-fiction) book prize.
She also writes scripts and her plays ‘Jaal’ and ‘So Many Socks’ opened in Mumbai, 2012.

Dr. Fatima Shahnaz is the Artistic Director of The Globe Repertory Company( New York ). She has directed and produced not only Shakespeare but "Murder in the Cathedral" - T.S. Eliot; "Enemy of the People" - Henrik Ibsen; "The Flies" -Jean Paul Sartre, as well as Shaw, Mannesse, Elie Wiesel and others.

Reviews of Love Stories # 1 - 14

"Neither indulgent nor critical, Zaidi offers, if not liberation, at least the comfort of sharing a fraught human emotion." - Time Out.
"This book's tone is consistently hushed, reflective, shorn of hysteria — even in a description of two people arguing, with a lifetime of companionship on the line — but beneath its still surfaces there is much emotional turbulence." - Jai Arjun Singh in the Sunday Guardian.

Please participate in the open discussion and interact with the author.
Entry is Free.

The Short Film mostly concentrated on Education and its Importance. Especially in Telangana Region, rural area people not interested to encourage their children for higher education, due to the poverty problem. In this context we planned to educate those people. This short Film shows the reality of the rural people attitude about the education importance. A poor Labor son gets more marks, than the land lord's daughter. But the labor not interested to continue the studies of his son. But when he heard the land lord daughter's marks, he will realize. His Son got more than the Land Lard Daughter' marks. Than he accepts to continue his son's further studies.

Screening is followed by "Value of education for our hinterlands".

All are welcome.

This is an event to promote Startup Leadership Program (SLP) within the entrepreneur fraternity in the city. SLP is a non-profit organization that's meant to help the future CEOs understand the various building blocks of setting up a startup. It goes beyond the learning, this platform enables the participants network and get mentors, investors, industry experts, co-founders to name a few. Again its a life time network that they build. So far SLP fellows have founded 700 companies that have raised $370 million.

Puppetry Workshop for kids between 6 to 10 yrs by Sphoorthi Theatre for Educational puppetry, Art & Carft (STEPARC) a non-voluntary organisation.

STEPARC has already done a show in Lamakan which was well received and parents and children showed keen interest to learn the art of puppetry. Both Making and Performance.

This is one such workshops to teach the children the art of effective story telling using the means of puppetry.

Contact 9866081172 (Padmini Rangarajan) for registration. Fee:500/- incl. Material to be given to each student.

sphoorthitheatre@gmail.com

Samahaara Workshop Production

"Silence Please"
A comedy in Telugu.

A scientist and homeowner goes temporarily blind after an experiment goes wrong. A theif enters the house but somehow, due to mistaken identity, remains as though he is a part of the household. The wife, the maid and a friend all contribute to the scientist's troubles and the thief's sketch.

Come watch the ensuing chaos and hilarity that unfold in this Telugu comedy.


Written by Sankaramanchi Parthasaradhi
Directed by Nagaraju Pejjai

A musical evening where you get to hear folk music from different parts of India. Watch Neelkanth, Sudipto, Harinarayan and Akhil perform folk songs in various Indian languages like Hindi, Oriya, Bengali, Gujarati etc. Experience the magic of traditional instruments like Ektara, Dotara and Sri Khol etc.

Entry Ticket Charges: Rs.100

This is a monthly Start-Up meet by entreprenuers, companies, partnership or temporary organisation to share their Ideas, successes and Failure with like-minded people in the industry.

Held at Lamakaan every second Saturday at 10-1pm, it has an agenda set for every meetUp.

Walk in and participate with no entry fee.
Open to All.

The Adobe Photoshop (Beginner-Basics) for Photographers FREE Seminar

No Hidden Charges….Truly Sharing of Knowledge.
Whether you’re a portrait, landscape, wedding, travel, hobby or commercial photographer (or even a serious shooter who just wants to truly unlock the real power of Photoshop), you’re going to learn techniques that will change the way you work forever.

Photoshop is now a household word, and with good reason. It can make washed-out imperfect images into digital masterpieces, or even take decades-old photos and repair damages that have been there for years. Professional technology trainer Ram will show you how to get professional results.

When combined with the Photoshop for Beginners tutorial course, you will have an impressive range of knowledge of the program and a specific expertise when it comes to working with photos after learning these Photoshop Actions for Photographers.

This Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers course goes through techniques that are tried and true, and used by professionals everywhere to touch up and enhance digital and scanned photography. This Session is for the beginner to Photoshop.

Photoshop can be overwhelming. Master the art of Adobe Photoshop by focusing just on the tools photographers need to know.

Location, Date and Time will be announced Shortly.
Hosted by: Ram, Sr. Designer in National Informatics Centre, Hyderabad.

The ultimate guide to getting the most out of your photography

Revolutions over Facebook, Dissent on Twitter, crowd sourcing of knowledge, freedom through software. Is the world changing with the ideas of open sourcing of data, software, media and knowledge? Will the closed cathedrals of the dominant be replaced by open bazaars of a new society through open source movement?

In conversation is Roy Singham, the globally recognized leader in open source and agile methods, founder of ThoughtWorks and a globally recognized speaker.

As founder and chairman of ThoughtWorks Inc., Roy Singham is recognized globally as a software development innovator of change. Throughout his 20-year career, Roy has inspired the industry as an influential supporter of emerging technologies, open source programming languages, and agile methods of software development.

He is regularly featured as a keynote speaker and panel presenter to global conferences and organizations including the prestigious Fortune Brainstorm Technology conferences, the Council on Foreign Relations, Techonomy, India’s The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) as well as for Agile conferences in China, Brasil and Australia.

Roy is a true global citizen traveling internationally over 250 days a year, and spending time in some 60 countries – not only in western nations and Silicon Valley, but also in the newly emerging markets and technology hot spots of Asia and Latin America. He represents ThoughtWorks as one of the Global Growth Companies at the World Economic Forum. Roy is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, DC.

Entry - Free

Disha Centre for Social Justice cordially invites you to M.A.Vanaja 3rd memorial lecture by Dr.Galab, Director, CESS on Child Rights and their implementation to remember one of the torch-bearers for Women and human rights.

Known to her friends as ‘Vanaa’ lived an exemplary life by standing by her convictions and values. It was impossible for her to watch violation of any helpless persons rights as a mere spectator. She always acted to support the week. She was a fine human being and a great human-rights lawyer. She was passionate and committed to her values.

She was born on 13th July in 1971 in Sangareddy and studied there till graduation. She chose law as a career with a clear vision and a specific purpose – to defend the week and helpless i.e. children and women. She became a lawyer in 1994. She worked in Hyderabad City Civil Court. She was always a lawyer and also a strong human rights activist. Fighting to defend the week came to her naturally.

Vanaja was an exceptional human being and all those who came to know her felt proud of knowing her.

All are welcome.

The Saxophone in Jazz Music

The Saxophone from the time of its invention more than just a hundred years ago has played a pivotal role in the development of Jazz music. The saxophone has firmly etched its mark in jazz,classical, pop.and almost all the other.musical genres. We will explore the construction of the instrument and the history behind it, and the players who have made it popular over the decades.

The 20th Listening Post presents the saxophone, one of the most melodious and sought after instrument of this generation.

Presented by George Hull, who is a Doctor by profession and also.plays the Saxophone professionally. He has completed his ABRSM.Jazz Saxophone Grades and is part of the city's Jazz band -"Jazz For Joy"

Entry - Free

GOODBYE BAFANA is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.

On the 95th Birthday of the greatest living freedom fighter, lets remind our selves the need for dissent.

Entry - Free

It's an 'unfair' game of membership that's currently underway at the city's Secunderabad Club. Repeatedly under attack for its women-unfriendly rulebook, the 135-year-old club has now decided to 'award' its lady members permanent membership, a privilege so far enjoyed by gentlemen alone.

But here's the catch: This provision, currently at proposal stage, will be exclusively extended to the children (on turning 25) of male members. The sons/daughters of female members of the club - referred to as Associate Member Lady (AML) - will continue to be blacklisted once they reach that age.

Event: Press Conference on Gender Discrimination in Secunderabad Club
Venue: Lamakaan.
Date and Time: Friday, 19th June, 2013 at 11 am

Contact no.: 9848512997(Anjana)

A B-Plan Workshop for Entrepreneurs and Startups.

Discovering the self through Acting and Theatre.
an Introduction to the basics of the craft and techniques of Acting.


The workshop is an introductory session with a discussion of the basic instruments of an actor, a few exercises, and a general appreciation of the art of acting. It is specially suited for beginners and novices, who are interested in exploring theatre and acting, but have not done much acting before. The paucity of time would mean that we only get to scratch the surface, but it would be a worthy initiation into the wonderful art.

previous workshops :

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Social-Canvas-FilmCamp/326201347456233?fref=ts

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.261687180599881.43628.237180769717189&type=3


social canvas on facebook :
https://www.facebook.com/socialcanvas.in?fref=ts

Entry : Free

Samahaara
Presents
A Double bill of Anton Chekhov's short plays "The Bear" & "The Proposal"

The Bear
A young man, Smirnov, comes to Popova to get his debt back that Popova’s late husband had borrowed from him. Will he get his money back?

The Proposal
The play is set in rural countryside of Russia. When Ivan arrives at the home of the Chubukov family, the elderly Stepan assumes that the well-dressed young man has come to borrow money. Instead, Stepan is pleased when Ivan asks for his daughter's hand in marriage. Stepan whole-heartedly bestows his blessing, declaring that he already loves him like a son. The old man then leaves to fetch his daughter, assuring the younger man that Natalya will graciously accept the proposal. Will she?

Simple and Colourful Animal Puppet Making Workshop for Mothers & fathers (whose kids are in the age group of 2 and Half to 5 years) by Sphoorthi Theatre for Educational Puppetry, Art and Craft (STEPARC).

This art form will help you communicate with your children with Audio-Visual aids and make that art of story telling more interesting.

Contact 9866081172 (Padmini Rangarajan) for registrations. Fee:500 including material to be given to you.
sphoorthitheatre@gmail.com

Puppetry Workshop for Parents, Pre-Primary and Primary School Teachers & Parents to Explore teaching with Puppets by Sphoorthi Theatre for Educational Puppetry, Art &Craft-STEPARC.
Puppets acts as stimulus for children to engage in conversation, reasoning and scope for productive talk about lessons and helps in learning.
Call Padmini at 9866081172 for registrations.

Charity event for disaster-struck Uttarakhand. The event will start off with a free-for-all Zumba® Fitness Workshop by Internationally Licensed Zumba® Fitness Instructor Anika Sharma and Hyderabad ZINs™ (Zumba Instructor Network), followed by donations for Uttarakhand flood victims. All the donations (through DD/Cheque/Credit Card/Debit Card) will be made to the beneficiary organizations/representatives present at the venue on the day of the event. Participants will get receipt for the donations they make.

ABOUT ZUMBA®

Zumba® is all about moving fast and having fun. It is an advanced form of aerobic dancing that combines hypnotic Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow steps. An optimal choice for body sculpting movements and fat burning, Zumba® is your ticket to fitness. Zumba® is a natural high. It's such a great beginning to a day to leave it all on the dance floor and shake off those worries. You would feel as if you're in a fun, high-energy party. Zumba® is the most exciting form of fitness routine ever. So, DITCH THE WORKOUT™ AND JOIN THE PARTY!!! Since its inception in 2001, the Zumba® program has grown to become the world's largest – and most successful – dance-fitness program with more than 14 million people of all shapes, sizes and ages taking weekly Zumba® classes in over 140,000 locations across more than 150 countries.

A discussion on "Telugu Wikipedia" to improve its context and complexion to enhance information required for Telugu Society's overall development.

This will be the workshop production of the mime workshop Natvarya. The participants of the workshop and the trainer/s will put together a mime production and present it.

Natvarya is a workshop conducted by Indian Mime Academy, the Hyderabad based mime institution. The workshop will be conducted by Arusam Madhusudan, a.k.a. Mime Madhu, who is also the founder and director of Indian Mime Academy.