Lamakaan

A heartbroken romantic sets out on a search for love in the city of broken dreams. What's up With Hyd Women? is a quirky and fun take on a guy's search for love in a confused, urban and hybridized Hyd. It brings various female stereotypes that exist in Hyd to the forefront. This play has characters who resemble people we all know - pretentious Jubilee Hills Janaki Road, the innocent but cunning Mahalaxmi from Malleswaram, the neurotic bhavana from Banjara Hills, the crazy secunderabad sanaa and the manipulative Panjugutta Paya;. The play exposes each one of their true colors in a comical fashion.This play is not for the faint-hearted!!

For passes: 9449596889

An Evening Dance & Dialogue
A Unique Kuchipudi Dance Performance
By Haleem Khan & Madhu Swaminath

This program is designed to propagate and educate the audience on Indian Classical dances. It is observed that most of the younger generation do not completely understand Classical dance, and seem to have a notion that is boring and hence cannot connect with fine art.
We will position our performance, so the audience will grasp what we are doing and how we do it! We will endeavor to clear the communication gap – that exists between a Classical dancer and the Rasikas.
It would not be just a dance program, but an evening of comprehending the grammar of the dancer and dance. Trust this first ever idea would be great experience, and the audience better appreciates the values of Indian heritage and culture.
Haleem Khan will be joined by Madhu Swaminadh on the stage, to entertain and interact.

About the Artist-
Haleem Khan is a renowned Kuchipudi dancer with more than 15 years of experience. He has travelled extensively with his innovative choreographies and has given more than 500 performances in India and abroad. His passion for dance has won him laurels. Many of Haleem’s performances and choreographing have also been experimental – Yaad-e-mazee (a dance performance around the poetry of Tan Shah and Quli Qutub Shah), Rhyme & Rhythm (Kuchipudi dance based on English poetry), Melange of Dances (a fusion of Kuchipudi and Ballet), Mah Laqa ko Aadab (enacting the dance performances of the legendary dancer and poetess Maha Laqa) – to mention a few.
Haleem is also one of the few male Kuchipudi dancers who has perfected female impersonation in dance. He is also working successfuly in Telugu films as an artist. He lives in Hyerabad.
Contact details
Haleem Khan
Heleem.hr@gmail.com
Mobile: 98662 74965

'Hyderabad Science Festival' is planed to organized in December 2014, as a part of this program, few selected schools are getting ready for the HSF, for these school students we are planning to mentor in selected areas.
We are looking for passionate people in science from colleges, institutions and organizations, who can be a mentor for this students in the Weekends from August to November on Saturdays.

The program is well structured,gives you enough training and materiel support before going to mentor,We also award certifications for those who successfully complete this program base on the mentor's participation and Innovation outcome in this program, which will be assess by the individual innovation index( I3).
as well as provides you to work with different scientific organizations part of this program.

We welcome the participants who would likes to be part of this program to join for this HSF mentoring introduction meetup.
Entry - Free

A life not lived for others is not a life. - Mother Teresa

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. - Mahatma Gandhi

What?
Social Entrepreneurship is a concept that has got special attention across the world as an effective means to address global solutions.
Just as entrepreneurs change the face of business, social entrepreneurs act as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities to improve systems, invent new approaches, and create solutions to change society for the better. While a business entrepreneur might create entirely new industries, a social entrepreneur develops innovative solutions to social problems and then implements them on a large scale.
Rather than leaving societal needs to the government or business sectors, social entrepreneurs find what is not working and solve the problem by changing the system, spreading the solution, and persuading entire societies to move in different directions.

This is what PAL believes in, if you're also thinking in the similar lines then come join for the discussion. PAL invites such change makers to come forward and share their thoughts/experiences with others. So that each such change maker will gain from these discussions.

At the end of session, you will
- Understand Social Entrepreneurship concepts and methods to run it
- Become aware of the possible areas for a social entrepreneur
- Build social network
- and you can start doing great things as a change maker for a better society.


Who can attend:

Anyone who
- is keen to start social entrepreneurship or
- is already running but wants to learn from other like/right minded
- liked the concept and wants to attend


Entry Free, all are welcome...
Register here:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1AKoL6zvU6iGlC6DCuee-B91v9zaZXog4nXtlKJz6Pf8/edit

and RSVP for the meeting here: www.meetup.com/passionandlife

Puzzles- Is a comedy show by Vedaham Arts, played in Hyderabadi Hindi which involves funny moments and humorous events between friends having distinct attributes. A group of friends discuss their lives, share moments and make fun of each other. The story flows from hilarious events where old school friends sitting and gossiping about their lives, at a cafe named Puzzles. Suddenly they see a new face in the cafe, whom they start flirting with and eventually she becomes one of them. The stories vary from roommates in the apartment arguing, to the flashback of college days to the episode of the girl in boys washroom. The comedy, language and the innuendo should make the evening memorable and rib-tickling for our audience.

The quiz is about how the technology industry evolved, who were the pioneers, the improvements, Internet, milestones and the visionaries who have been part of this entire technology spectrum.

Starting from the very early days to the latest developments in Hardware, Software and Technology leap that we are experiencing, the quiz will cover the entire spectrum.

Its a story of a psychology professor who tries to experiment on his thesis on his choosen Model with a unique idea by inducing fear in him over phone. He calls him frequently and confirms whether his thesis is working. He fully controls his psychology and exploits his findings on the receipient (Model) and makes him oblige to his directions. Finally he succeeds and the Model dies.

Whether he repents for being responsible of his Model’s death or feels proud on his success of enticing someone to end his life?

See and enjoy the paranormal thriller.

For passes: 9848443727

Inviting you to the Persian Miniature Painting Exhibition by Shima Talebi from 25th - 29th Jun from 10:30am - 5pm.

The bright and pure coloring of the Persian miniature is one of its most Striking features. Normally all the pigments used are Mineral-based ones which keep their bright colors very
well if kept in proper conditions, the main exception being silver, mostly used to depict water, which will oxidize to a rough-edged black over time. The conventions of Persian miniatures changed slowly; faces are normally youthful and seen in three-quarters view, with a plump rounded lower face better suited to portraying typical Central Asian or Chinese features than those of most Persians. Lighting is even, without shadows or chiaroscuro.

The talented painter Shima holds this solo exhibition at Lamakaan. She is painting professionally since she 17 years age and her style is the combination of traditional
Miniature and carpet patterns.

Entry - Free.

Thanks to some inspiring leadership and support, Indian documentary saw a short-lived but very exciting period at the Films Division in the 1960s and early 1970s. A bunch of remarkable filmmakers like Pramod Pati, Fali Bilimoria, Clement Baptista, Shanti
Chowdhury, S.N.S. Sastry, Sukhdev, T.A. Abraham S.N.Chari and Prem Vaidya in the area of documentary and experimental cinema with great freedom. These near-forgotten masters and their works are now being rediscovered and studied by film enthusiasts.

S.N.S. Sastry (1930–1978) was among Films Division's most celebrated cameramen and filmmakers. A diploma holder in cinematography from the Bangalore Polytechnic, Sastry joined Films Division as a cameraman and started directing films in 1956. The four films chosen for screening are among the best of the nearly 45 films he made for FD. Gentle, audacious and maverick by turns, Sastry’s films never cease to surprise!

I am 20 (1967)
English. 20 min


And I Make Short Films (1968)
English. 18 min


Burning Sun (1973)
English. 21 min


FlashBack (1974)
English, 21 min

Entry - Free

FailFest is a fun, engaging & learning forum that aims to change the conversations around Failure.

Failure is considered undesirable, unacceptable. an outright defeat and a complete disaster. However, Failure by all means, is truly ‘inevitable’. It is a quintessential part of life and we get to see it time and again. Like the classic dichotomies of life: Day-Night, Good-Bad, Black-White, Failure forms a pair with Success. However, one can’t succeed every single time. We are bound to screw up on some occasions. But at the end it’s these failures that help us learn. These mistakes enable us to think, be creative and do the innovative.
FailFest is a manifestation of this whole idea around changing the conversations around Failure. The first FailFest was held on May 3, 2013 at Lamakaan. We invited people from all walks of life, from book authors and actors to techies and entrepreneurs. Anybody, who wanted to share their major learnings with a compelling storyline was welcome.The speakers spoke about their challenging journeys where they faced failure, in some form or the other at every step and shared their biggest learnings from those thrilling experiences.

Entry - Free

Department of Communication, S. N. School of Arts & Communication, UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD
and Documentary Circle of Hyderabad ​invite you to screening of four GRADUATE FILMS 2014

Film Title: Dervish – A spiritual sojourn
Duration:40 min
Language:Urudu, Hindi & English with English subtitles
Filmmakers: Siddarth Ojha, Fazil N.C., Gayathri Ayn, Ramesh Kasa

Synopsis:This documentary film is about finding a forgotten Sufi Abu Hashim Madani, who was the teacher of Hazrat Inayat Khan. Inayat Khan journeyed from Hyderabad to New York following the guidance of his Sufi teacher who bade him to unite East and West with the harmony of Music. Meanwhile, the film intends to capture the Sufi traditions existing in the city and how it has been influencing people of different spheres in the society. The film also traces the historical context in which Sufi masters from different parts of Asia, came and established themselves in Deccan region of India and their contribution in the field of music, literature and architecture.



Film Title:Garbage Collectors
Duration:21 min
Language:Telugu with English subtitles
Filmmakers:Goutham Uyyala, Moses John Paul, Shruti A., Ashok Kondru

Synopsis:At the crux of the waste management system in any urban space lies the disposal of Garbage. In Hyderabad, this chore of collecting waste, segregating and disposing it is performed by few uneducated and poverty stricken groups belonging to lower castes and class. In spite of their constant drudgery to keep the city clean, they are neither recognized as Workers by the government nor valued by the society.
Shot in various parts of Hyderabad, Bread, Butter and Garbage explores the grinding work and functioning of the door-to-door garbage collection in the city. It gives an insight to how the State, for years, has withdrawn from its responsibilities in providing the garbage collectors the worker identity and entitlements. These groups of people, in the past 15 years, have set up their own enterprise of waste management and are completely depended on it for survival. While they are just about to reap the fruits of their endurance and perseverance, the Private group Ramky is all set to take over their business with the support of the State. Using personal interviews, the film presents the phenomenal case of how public-private partnership affects the livelihoods of these individuals leaving them threatened, and on the verge of displacement.



Film Title:Nenu Saibuni
Duration:26 min
Language:Telugu with English subtitles
Filmmakers:Vikram Kumar, Nitya Sriram, Raj Kumar Jadi, Alen Mony Mathews, Rajkumar ​Bejjanki

Synopsis:Padyanatakam is a declining traditional theatre art form, native to Telugu people. It has been a popular art form and major source of entertainment for almost a century (1890s to 1980s). Shaik Saidulu alias Uppalapati Saidulu is a renowned performer in the field of Padyanatakam for the past five decades. By interspersing the conversations of Saidulu with the Srikrishna Rayabaram play, wherein he plays the role of srikrishna, this film tries to shed some light on his life and the declining art form.



Film Title:Machismo
Duration:18 min
Language:Hindi with English subtitles
Filmmakers:Asmieta Pati, Midhuna P. S., Natasha Lamperti, Vizokhonuo Pienyii

Synopsis:Made by four young women, this films starts with examining the popular notions of masculinity. Through a series of interviews the filmmakers try to shed light on how the ideas of ‘Real Man’, ‘Ideal Man’ push the society to bring up young boys in emotionally repressive environment, leading to fragile egos and violent notions of masculinity as they grow up. The reflexive elements in the documentary prod the viewers to question the ‘norm’alisation of gender roles and the pressures they place on people, whether biological or socially constructed.

The screenings will be followed by interaction
with the graduating (M.A.Communication) filmmakers.

Entry - Free

Our conversation sessions between scientists and the general public, Sawaal-Jawaab, resume with a talk on "How Running and Throwing made us human". After a short 20 - 30 minute talk by our guest scientist, 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 features Prof. Madhusudhan Venkadesan of the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore. A mechanical engineer by training, Madhu uses a combination of measurements on human volunteers, calculations, and computer optimisation to study how the evolved form of the human body affects the way we move and control it.

Entry - Free

The vision is to help discover the entrepreneurial spirit in YOU and convert or promote ideas or talent. Simply, we put ideas to work for an individual, group or institution. Moving to an informative age of learning and doing, away from traditional approach of launching a business accompanied with the inaccessibility to resources for a start, Ideapreneur seeks to significantly create the right support to startup and business development offering to the youthful Africans, and those venturing into Africa. On this premise, this show aims at providing a platform for identifying, harnessing, opportunities for Africans-India to innovate and venture, business development, access to information, access to solid networks and fund, assistance to new market.

A widow, 2 ghosts and clairvoyant. Sounds spooky! Huh! Naah!

Showing English comedy "A Distant Plateau” at 7:30pm on Sat 28th Jun.

Written by Paul Skye and directed by Taher Ali Baig, this rib tickling comedy will keep you in splits with its twists and turns. A story about love, loss, friendship, the other side of the world, deception and drama.

Contact: 9885730673 for tickets.

Inviting everyone for an evening of quiz on Cricket.

Well, we all love the game of cricket and almost a billion of us are crazy about it. We do play the game and also watch it for most part of the year, but, how often is our memory tested? Very seldom right. So, here is a chance for all you cricket lovers to test your cricketing knowledge. You can create a team of two and participate. We'll sneak into the games'history and fire questions at you. All the cricketing geeks out there barge in and be a part of THE ULTIMATE CRICKET PUNDIT. It'll be a cracker of an evening.

entry fee-150 per team.

Hindi play - 'Is Kambakht Sathe Ka Kya Kare?' is an adaptation of a Marathi play ‘Sathecha Kay Karaycha’ penned by a noted playwright Rajiv Naik translated into Hindi by Jyoti Subhash.
The story focuses on the tender relationship between a husband and a wife. It narrates the married life of the couple, Abhay an ad filmmaker and Salma a lecturer in college. Both lead a happy married life. Both face different tribulations in their professional lives, but Abhay takes it too seriously and thinks that his colleague Sathe does not deserve the recognition that he gets. On the other hand, Salma loves her work and does not care about the quick promotion and success. She believes that everything should be done with a pure heart. At a peak point, Salma deals with the situation and handles Abhay’s frustration. At the end of the play, both build up a strong trust in the relationship and create a companionship which stands over understanding. The twists and turns and the tribulations the couple faces in balancing their married and professional lives form rest of the story. This play tries to depict that positive attitude can make things better.” This is the first ever show of this play in Hyderabad.

Cast & Crew
Abhay – Saurabh Gharipurikar
Salma – Richa Jain
Lights – Krishna Shukl
Music – Siddhesh Dharmadhikari
Design & Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar

For passes: 9848443727

Shakkar Ke Paanch Dane (Hindi Monologue)
About The Play - Rajkumar has been requested to write a poem for a compilation to be published. If you knew Rajkumar you’d realize the absurdity of the request. In an hour long monologue, Rajkumar tells us about his unremarkable life in his nondescript village and the five grains of sugar – the five people – who have stood out in this drab life for reasons stranger than fiction. The filmy mother; her poet brother Pundaleek; Raghu, the school hero; old man Radhey; and the anonymous ‘Truckwala dost’ . As Rajkumar talks, the five grains become a single life-game that he has been unknowingly playing for years…and Rajkumar realizes that everyone has a story inside them.
Written by - Manav Kaul Music / Design & Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar Lights by – Krishna Shukl Performence by - Siddhesh Dharmadhikari
For passes contact Saurabh 9290013166

Shakkar Ke Paanch Dane (Hindi Monologue)

About The Play - Rajkumar has been requested to write a poem for a compilation to be published. If you knew Rajkumar you’d realize the absurdity of the request.
In an hour long monologue, Rajkumar tells us about his unremarkable life in his nondescript village and the five grains of sugar – the five people – who have stood out in this drab life for reasons stranger than fiction. The filmy mother; her poet brother Pundaleek; Raghu, the school hero; old man Radhey; and the anonymous ‘Truckwala dost’ . As Rajkumar talks, the five grains become a single life-game that he has been unknowingly playing for years…and Rajkumar realizes that everyone has a story inside them.



Written by - Manav Kaul
Music / Design & Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar
Lights by – Krishna Shukl
Performence by - Siddhesh Dharmadhikari

For passes contact Saurabh 9290013166

Samahaara Comedy Night

Stand-up Comedy
&
Short Plays by Team Samahaara

Directed by Rathna Shekar Reddy


It's baaaaaaaack, with a new set of short plays and stand-up comedy. 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.

For passes: 8341120303 or bookmyshow.com

Samahaara Comedy Night

Stand-up Comedy
&
Short Plays by Team Samahaara

Directed by Rathna Shekar Reddy


It's baaaaaaaack, with a new set of short plays and stand-up comedy. 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.

For passes: 8341120303 or bookmyshow.com

Exhibiting various creative entrepreneurs of Hyderabad.
A unique approach to showcase talents and products.

Stalls of small sustainable business owners with sales - display stalls of arts & crafts - stalls of NGOs & health/environmental initiatives & healthy consumables - Stage area for musical performances (in collaboration with HWMF), demonstrations & talks by stall owners and non-stall participants.

8886016603 Supreeta, 8686816060 Akhil

You are designed mentally and emotionally in such a way that task completion gives you a positive feeling.
It makes you happy. It makes you feel like a winner. - Brian Tracy (Eat That Frog)

What is Procrastination:
It is the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time, sometimes to the "last minute" before the deadline.

Whether you are a Businessman, Employee, Consultant, Professor, Student... we all procrastinate at one point or another. Finally it may result in stress, a sense of guilt and crisis, and severe loss of personal productivity, as well as social disapproval for not meeting responsibilities or commitments.

So, let us join and share some of our innovative thoughts on how to beat procrastination. We can also plan some group/individual activities during the discussions. Looking forward to a wonderful discussions over chai-samosas at Lamakaan..

Who can attend:
Anyone who's interested to understand the tips to overcome Procrastination and willing to manage their time well.

Entry free for PAL Members (who already attended at least one of our PAL meetings)
Others: Rs.50/- per person

Register yourself: http://bit.ly/1iqkzCs
and RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/passionandlife

Through this show, we aim is to provide a classy, yet entertaining musical evening to the audience with the ultimate goal being raising funds for the organization mentioned below.

This musical event features multiple artists performing a variety of genres of music. The show features Shakila, a prominent musician from Hyderabad, who will be headlining the show (along with her band) and supported by Sanjo The Balladeer (and his band), an experienced musician from Mumbai.

This is a fundraiser for the children of Srividhya’s Centre for the Special Children, a non-profit organization working for children with intellectual and related developmental disabilities. This organization does not have funding from the government or any corporate. They rely solely on donations from individuals, which as you can imagine is not enough to run an establishment. Through this show, we are trying to raise funds to help them sustain, and hopefully, develop. Please attend the show and donate any amount you can to help this organization working for a noble cause.

Entry passes: 9177772744

CAMS (Center for Arts Media and Social Welfare) in association with Theatre Resource, Pune is presenting a lecture by Rtd. Prof. Bhaskar Shewalkar on 'Theatre in Social Development'.

About Prof. Bhaskar Shewalkar: A former HOD, Theatre Arts, University of Hyderabad, a nationally recognized theatre personality, Prof. Shewalkar has so far directed more than 100 plays in Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, English and Telugu. After retiring, he has dedicated himself towards training actors. He is a guiding force behind ‘Sutradhar’ and he is a founder member of ‘Rangadhara’ since 1971.

All are welcome.

Wilson, the simpleton. A regular guy with regular needs is devastated by some unforeseen turn of events in his life. One night, while thinking about his future his thoughts has drawn him close to his surroundings and the environment.

Thus begins the Story of Wilson! A journey that changes Wilson's life and and the life of his city.

Rangadhara winds up at Lamakaan its month-long theatre fest with a Marathi Play "Andhalay Khidikya".
It is a tete-a-tete of two senior citizens / pensioners about life and its happiness. Among them one adopt boy and another a girl through their mind game. Later, the story revolve around that boy & girl who fall in love, get married & blessed with a son.During this period of time, difference of opinion arises which attributes to separation.

But a grandson who live away from his parents is the only source of pensioners' happiness for their rest of the life?. Is a couple illusionary effect of mind game / fiction or a grandson is facto?

Its a million dollar question, whether it a Fiction or Action? watch it.

Cast –
PRAKASH PHADNIS
PRAKASH DHARMA
SUSHANT DESHPANDE
SANYOGITA SATHE

and Crew –
Name of the Writer – ASHOK KAMBLI


Name of the Director - SUHAS BARVE


RANGADHARA TEAM

Genre / Language – DRAMA – MARATHI

Are children allowed for the event (specific age to enter) – YES

Is the play free seated or fixed seated (like cinema, where one can chose his seat) – free seated

For passes: 9848443727

Train to Pakistan, chapter#1 - Dacoity (a play) An adaption of Khuswant singh's first novel 'Train to Pakistan.' a powerful and moving account of India's partition, where Hindus and Muslims have lived together in peace for more than a 100 years, are plunged into a war of religious strife.
For passes: 9296153233

Train to Pakistan, chapter#1 - Dacoity (a play)
An adaption of Khuswant singh's first novel 'Train to Pakistan.'
a powerful and moving account of India's partition, where Hindus and Muslims have lived together in peace for more than a 100 years, are plunged into a war of religious strife.

For passes: 9296153233

Rang De is registered as a non-profit organisation. Not wanting to concentrate on the argument about profit or non-profit, our single-minded focus is to ensure that our borrowers pay interest rates that are fair and our social investors get the opportunity to make a meaningful difference to other people's lives.

As part of touring various cities of India, the founders of RangDe Ram & Smitha are visiting Hyderabad on July 12th.

This is an excellent opportunity to listen to them, about RangDe, from the founders themselves.

Social investors can get answers to the questions they have.

All are welcome

Welcoming all for a book launch of 'When a Lawyer walks down the aisle...'.
It tells the story of a bunch of lawyers as they navigate through life, love and relationships. Written by Amrita Suresh, a National best selling author of her first book "'When a Lawyer falls in love..." launches her second book in this comedy series.

Synopsis of the book: An unsolved murder. Half a dozen lawyers. And a talking ghost. 'When a Lawyer walks down the aisle' is all about expecting the unexpected. Of course, it's also about a young couple on the brink of a break up and about how a divorce lawyer has a happy marriage. A sequel to the book 'When a Lawyer falls in love, this book is the kind you ought to pick up if you want to lose forever, your fear of ghosts. Written by someone who has yet to watch a horror film in it's entirety, yet has done reams and reams of research on the afterlife, this book will help you view ghosts in a new light. Ghosts are simply beings who hang on long after it's time to go. Much like most politicians today. Funny, pacey, yet it has it's moments, 'When a Lawyer walks down the aisle....' is the kind of book that will make you laugh and cry, both for the same reasons! Entry - free

Lamakaan hosts a Handloom Bazaar for Sale and exhibit the Fabric of Freedom. Woven in to the wonderful tapestry that is India, handloom weaving is a 4000 year old tradition. Handloom weaving is one of India’s predominant rural economic activities.This unique tradition has surpassed ages solely because of the magnificence of its craft, the mastery of its makers and patronizing consumers. Handlooms had a glorious past and o a penurious present. The handloom weavers used to live in a life of comfort and complacence in the past. They were respected for their invaluable craft that symbolized the essence of our rich culture and tradition. However, as time wheeled by machines began to exude dominance over human labour. In the state of Andhra Pradesh alone, there are about 320,000 handlooms on which about 500,000 families directly and 20,00,000 families indirectly depend for livelihoods. The recent years have witnessed migrations to cities in large numbers by handloom cotton weavers, taking up of alternative employment in rural industrial units and in extreme cases even starvation deaths or suicide deaths. The monthly handloom bazaar is one of the initiatives we are undertaking to bring back the wonder of handloom into mainstream popular culture, thus increasing the market for these products. In addition the exhibition cum sale hopes to educate the people at large on the issues of handloom weavers, and also on how to recognize the "real handloom" from fakes and "powerloom products". The bazaar will also include talks from time to time, display of weaving skills, and also will encourage children to learn these skills in an interactive way - like learning to use the "charkha".

Entry - Free

The Food Sovereignty Alliance invites you for the screening of the documentary “Breeding Invasions”. The screening will be followed by a discussion with members and leaders of the alliance.

About Breeding Invasions:

‘Breeding Invasions.... Livestock At stake’ explores the intricate connections between land, people, animals,food and takes an incisive look at the policies that are dismantling these organic linkages, resulting in an artificial separation of livestock and agriculture.The film, through conversations with livestock rearers, farmers and scientists exposes this unfolding tragedy, of dwindling livestock, destroyed livelihoods, acute indebtedness, polluted environments and unsafe food increasingly being produced by energy intensive monoculture industrial farming systems, which threaten sovereignty over our land, food and animals.

Producer: Anthra
Director: C. Vanaja, Vipul Kulkarni

For details Contact:
Email: foodsoveriegntyalliance@gmail.com Phone : +91-7382009046

All are invited. Entry Free.

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

A heartbroken romantic sets out on a search for love in the city of broken dreams. What's up With Hyd Women? is a quirky and fun take on a guy's search for love in a confused, urban and hybridized Hyd. It brings various female stereotypes that exist in Hyd to the forefront. This play has characters who resemble people we all know - pretentious Jubilee Hills Janaki Road, the innocent but cunning Mahalaxmi from Malleswaram, the neurotic bhavana from Banjara Hills, the crazy secunderabad sanaa and the manipulative Panjugutta Paya;. The play exposes each one of their true colors in a comical fashion.This play is not for the faint-hearted!!

For passes: 9449596889

An Evening Dance & Dialogue
A Unique Kuchipudi Dance Performance
By Haleem Khan & Madhu Swaminath

This program is designed to propagate and educate the audience on Indian Classical dances. It is observed that most of the younger generation do not completely understand Classical dance, and seem to have a notion that is boring and hence cannot connect with fine art.
We will position our performance, so the audience will grasp what we are doing and how we do it! We will endeavor to clear the communication gap – that exists between a Classical dancer and the Rasikas.
It would not be just a dance program, but an evening of comprehending the grammar of the dancer and dance. Trust this first ever idea would be great experience, and the audience better appreciates the values of Indian heritage and culture.
Haleem Khan will be joined by Madhu Swaminadh on the stage, to entertain and interact.

About the Artist-
Haleem Khan is a renowned Kuchipudi dancer with more than 15 years of experience. He has travelled extensively with his innovative choreographies and has given more than 500 performances in India and abroad. His passion for dance has won him laurels. Many of Haleem’s performances and choreographing have also been experimental – Yaad-e-mazee (a dance performance around the poetry of Tan Shah and Quli Qutub Shah), Rhyme & Rhythm (Kuchipudi dance based on English poetry), Melange of Dances (a fusion of Kuchipudi and Ballet), Mah Laqa ko Aadab (enacting the dance performances of the legendary dancer and poetess Maha Laqa) – to mention a few.
Haleem is also one of the few male Kuchipudi dancers who has perfected female impersonation in dance. He is also working successfuly in Telugu films as an artist. He lives in Hyerabad.
Contact details
Haleem Khan
Heleem.hr@gmail.com
Mobile: 98662 74965

'Hyderabad Science Festival' is planed to organized in December 2014, as a part of this program, few selected schools are getting ready for the HSF, for these school students we are planning to mentor in selected areas.
We are looking for passionate people in science from colleges, institutions and organizations, who can be a mentor for this students in the Weekends from August to November on Saturdays.

The program is well structured,gives you enough training and materiel support before going to mentor,We also award certifications for those who successfully complete this program base on the mentor's participation and Innovation outcome in this program, which will be assess by the individual innovation index( I3).
as well as provides you to work with different scientific organizations part of this program.

We welcome the participants who would likes to be part of this program to join for this HSF mentoring introduction meetup.
Entry - Free

A life not lived for others is not a life. - Mother Teresa

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. - Mahatma Gandhi

What?
Social Entrepreneurship is a concept that has got special attention across the world as an effective means to address global solutions.
Just as entrepreneurs change the face of business, social entrepreneurs act as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities to improve systems, invent new approaches, and create solutions to change society for the better. While a business entrepreneur might create entirely new industries, a social entrepreneur develops innovative solutions to social problems and then implements them on a large scale.
Rather than leaving societal needs to the government or business sectors, social entrepreneurs find what is not working and solve the problem by changing the system, spreading the solution, and persuading entire societies to move in different directions.

This is what PAL believes in, if you're also thinking in the similar lines then come join for the discussion. PAL invites such change makers to come forward and share their thoughts/experiences with others. So that each such change maker will gain from these discussions.

At the end of session, you will
- Understand Social Entrepreneurship concepts and methods to run it
- Become aware of the possible areas for a social entrepreneur
- Build social network
- and you can start doing great things as a change maker for a better society.


Who can attend:

Anyone who
- is keen to start social entrepreneurship or
- is already running but wants to learn from other like/right minded
- liked the concept and wants to attend


Entry Free, all are welcome...
Register here:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1AKoL6zvU6iGlC6DCuee-B91v9zaZXog4nXtlKJz6Pf8/edit

and RSVP for the meeting here: www.meetup.com/passionandlife

Puzzles- Is a comedy show by Vedaham Arts, played in Hyderabadi Hindi which involves funny moments and humorous events between friends having distinct attributes. A group of friends discuss their lives, share moments and make fun of each other. The story flows from hilarious events where old school friends sitting and gossiping about their lives, at a cafe named Puzzles. Suddenly they see a new face in the cafe, whom they start flirting with and eventually she becomes one of them. The stories vary from roommates in the apartment arguing, to the flashback of college days to the episode of the girl in boys washroom. The comedy, language and the innuendo should make the evening memorable and rib-tickling for our audience.

The quiz is about how the technology industry evolved, who were the pioneers, the improvements, Internet, milestones and the visionaries who have been part of this entire technology spectrum.

Starting from the very early days to the latest developments in Hardware, Software and Technology leap that we are experiencing, the quiz will cover the entire spectrum.

Its a story of a psychology professor who tries to experiment on his thesis on his choosen Model with a unique idea by inducing fear in him over phone. He calls him frequently and confirms whether his thesis is working. He fully controls his psychology and exploits his findings on the receipient (Model) and makes him oblige to his directions. Finally he succeeds and the Model dies.

Whether he repents for being responsible of his Model’s death or feels proud on his success of enticing someone to end his life?

See and enjoy the paranormal thriller.

For passes: 9848443727

Inviting you to the Persian Miniature Painting Exhibition by Shima Talebi from 25th - 29th Jun from 10:30am - 5pm.

The bright and pure coloring of the Persian miniature is one of its most Striking features. Normally all the pigments used are Mineral-based ones which keep their bright colors very
well if kept in proper conditions, the main exception being silver, mostly used to depict water, which will oxidize to a rough-edged black over time. The conventions of Persian miniatures changed slowly; faces are normally youthful and seen in three-quarters view, with a plump rounded lower face better suited to portraying typical Central Asian or Chinese features than those of most Persians. Lighting is even, without shadows or chiaroscuro.

The talented painter Shima holds this solo exhibition at Lamakaan. She is painting professionally since she 17 years age and her style is the combination of traditional
Miniature and carpet patterns.

Entry - Free.

Thanks to some inspiring leadership and support, Indian documentary saw a short-lived but very exciting period at the Films Division in the 1960s and early 1970s. A bunch of remarkable filmmakers like Pramod Pati, Fali Bilimoria, Clement Baptista, Shanti
Chowdhury, S.N.S. Sastry, Sukhdev, T.A. Abraham S.N.Chari and Prem Vaidya in the area of documentary and experimental cinema with great freedom. These near-forgotten masters and their works are now being rediscovered and studied by film enthusiasts.

S.N.S. Sastry (1930–1978) was among Films Division's most celebrated cameramen and filmmakers. A diploma holder in cinematography from the Bangalore Polytechnic, Sastry joined Films Division as a cameraman and started directing films in 1956. The four films chosen for screening are among the best of the nearly 45 films he made for FD. Gentle, audacious and maverick by turns, Sastry’s films never cease to surprise!

I am 20 (1967)
English. 20 min


And I Make Short Films (1968)
English. 18 min


Burning Sun (1973)
English. 21 min


FlashBack (1974)
English, 21 min

Entry - Free

FailFest is a fun, engaging & learning forum that aims to change the conversations around Failure.

Failure is considered undesirable, unacceptable. an outright defeat and a complete disaster. However, Failure by all means, is truly ‘inevitable’. It is a quintessential part of life and we get to see it time and again. Like the classic dichotomies of life: Day-Night, Good-Bad, Black-White, Failure forms a pair with Success. However, one can’t succeed every single time. We are bound to screw up on some occasions. But at the end it’s these failures that help us learn. These mistakes enable us to think, be creative and do the innovative.
FailFest is a manifestation of this whole idea around changing the conversations around Failure. The first FailFest was held on May 3, 2013 at Lamakaan. We invited people from all walks of life, from book authors and actors to techies and entrepreneurs. Anybody, who wanted to share their major learnings with a compelling storyline was welcome.The speakers spoke about their challenging journeys where they faced failure, in some form or the other at every step and shared their biggest learnings from those thrilling experiences.

Entry - Free

Department of Communication, S. N. School of Arts & Communication, UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD
and Documentary Circle of Hyderabad ​invite you to screening of four GRADUATE FILMS 2014

Film Title: Dervish – A spiritual sojourn
Duration:40 min
Language:Urudu, Hindi & English with English subtitles
Filmmakers: Siddarth Ojha, Fazil N.C., Gayathri Ayn, Ramesh Kasa

Synopsis:This documentary film is about finding a forgotten Sufi Abu Hashim Madani, who was the teacher of Hazrat Inayat Khan. Inayat Khan journeyed from Hyderabad to New York following the guidance of his Sufi teacher who bade him to unite East and West with the harmony of Music. Meanwhile, the film intends to capture the Sufi traditions existing in the city and how it has been influencing people of different spheres in the society. The film also traces the historical context in which Sufi masters from different parts of Asia, came and established themselves in Deccan region of India and their contribution in the field of music, literature and architecture.



Film Title:Garbage Collectors
Duration:21 min
Language:Telugu with English subtitles
Filmmakers:Goutham Uyyala, Moses John Paul, Shruti A., Ashok Kondru

Synopsis:At the crux of the waste management system in any urban space lies the disposal of Garbage. In Hyderabad, this chore of collecting waste, segregating and disposing it is performed by few uneducated and poverty stricken groups belonging to lower castes and class. In spite of their constant drudgery to keep the city clean, they are neither recognized as Workers by the government nor valued by the society.
Shot in various parts of Hyderabad, Bread, Butter and Garbage explores the grinding work and functioning of the door-to-door garbage collection in the city. It gives an insight to how the State, for years, has withdrawn from its responsibilities in providing the garbage collectors the worker identity and entitlements. These groups of people, in the past 15 years, have set up their own enterprise of waste management and are completely depended on it for survival. While they are just about to reap the fruits of their endurance and perseverance, the Private group Ramky is all set to take over their business with the support of the State. Using personal interviews, the film presents the phenomenal case of how public-private partnership affects the livelihoods of these individuals leaving them threatened, and on the verge of displacement.



Film Title:Nenu Saibuni
Duration:26 min
Language:Telugu with English subtitles
Filmmakers:Vikram Kumar, Nitya Sriram, Raj Kumar Jadi, Alen Mony Mathews, Rajkumar ​Bejjanki

Synopsis:Padyanatakam is a declining traditional theatre art form, native to Telugu people. It has been a popular art form and major source of entertainment for almost a century (1890s to 1980s). Shaik Saidulu alias Uppalapati Saidulu is a renowned performer in the field of Padyanatakam for the past five decades. By interspersing the conversations of Saidulu with the Srikrishna Rayabaram play, wherein he plays the role of srikrishna, this film tries to shed some light on his life and the declining art form.



Film Title:Machismo
Duration:18 min
Language:Hindi with English subtitles
Filmmakers:Asmieta Pati, Midhuna P. S., Natasha Lamperti, Vizokhonuo Pienyii

Synopsis:Made by four young women, this films starts with examining the popular notions of masculinity. Through a series of interviews the filmmakers try to shed light on how the ideas of ‘Real Man’, ‘Ideal Man’ push the society to bring up young boys in emotionally repressive environment, leading to fragile egos and violent notions of masculinity as they grow up. The reflexive elements in the documentary prod the viewers to question the ‘norm’alisation of gender roles and the pressures they place on people, whether biological or socially constructed.

The screenings will be followed by interaction
with the graduating (M.A.Communication) filmmakers.

Entry - Free

Our conversation sessions between scientists and the general public, Sawaal-Jawaab, resume with a talk on "How Running and Throwing made us human". After a short 20 - 30 minute talk by our guest scientist, 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 features Prof. Madhusudhan Venkadesan of the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore. A mechanical engineer by training, Madhu uses a combination of measurements on human volunteers, calculations, and computer optimisation to study how the evolved form of the human body affects the way we move and control it.

Entry - Free

The vision is to help discover the entrepreneurial spirit in YOU and convert or promote ideas or talent. Simply, we put ideas to work for an individual, group or institution. Moving to an informative age of learning and doing, away from traditional approach of launching a business accompanied with the inaccessibility to resources for a start, Ideapreneur seeks to significantly create the right support to startup and business development offering to the youthful Africans, and those venturing into Africa. On this premise, this show aims at providing a platform for identifying, harnessing, opportunities for Africans-India to innovate and venture, business development, access to information, access to solid networks and fund, assistance to new market.

A widow, 2 ghosts and clairvoyant. Sounds spooky! Huh! Naah!

Showing English comedy "A Distant Plateau” at 7:30pm on Sat 28th Jun.

Written by Paul Skye and directed by Taher Ali Baig, this rib tickling comedy will keep you in splits with its twists and turns. A story about love, loss, friendship, the other side of the world, deception and drama.

Contact: 9885730673 for tickets.

Inviting everyone for an evening of quiz on Cricket.

Well, we all love the game of cricket and almost a billion of us are crazy about it. We do play the game and also watch it for most part of the year, but, how often is our memory tested? Very seldom right. So, here is a chance for all you cricket lovers to test your cricketing knowledge. You can create a team of two and participate. We'll sneak into the games'history and fire questions at you. All the cricketing geeks out there barge in and be a part of THE ULTIMATE CRICKET PUNDIT. It'll be a cracker of an evening.

entry fee-150 per team.

Hindi play - 'Is Kambakht Sathe Ka Kya Kare?' is an adaptation of a Marathi play ‘Sathecha Kay Karaycha’ penned by a noted playwright Rajiv Naik translated into Hindi by Jyoti Subhash.
The story focuses on the tender relationship between a husband and a wife. It narrates the married life of the couple, Abhay an ad filmmaker and Salma a lecturer in college. Both lead a happy married life. Both face different tribulations in their professional lives, but Abhay takes it too seriously and thinks that his colleague Sathe does not deserve the recognition that he gets. On the other hand, Salma loves her work and does not care about the quick promotion and success. She believes that everything should be done with a pure heart. At a peak point, Salma deals with the situation and handles Abhay’s frustration. At the end of the play, both build up a strong trust in the relationship and create a companionship which stands over understanding. The twists and turns and the tribulations the couple faces in balancing their married and professional lives form rest of the story. This play tries to depict that positive attitude can make things better.” This is the first ever show of this play in Hyderabad.

Cast & Crew
Abhay – Saurabh Gharipurikar
Salma – Richa Jain
Lights – Krishna Shukl
Music – Siddhesh Dharmadhikari
Design & Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar

For passes: 9848443727

Shakkar Ke Paanch Dane (Hindi Monologue)
About The Play - Rajkumar has been requested to write a poem for a compilation to be published. If you knew Rajkumar you’d realize the absurdity of the request. In an hour long monologue, Rajkumar tells us about his unremarkable life in his nondescript village and the five grains of sugar – the five people – who have stood out in this drab life for reasons stranger than fiction. The filmy mother; her poet brother Pundaleek; Raghu, the school hero; old man Radhey; and the anonymous ‘Truckwala dost’ . As Rajkumar talks, the five grains become a single life-game that he has been unknowingly playing for years…and Rajkumar realizes that everyone has a story inside them.
Written by - Manav Kaul Music / Design & Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar Lights by – Krishna Shukl Performence by - Siddhesh Dharmadhikari
For passes contact Saurabh 9290013166

Shakkar Ke Paanch Dane (Hindi Monologue)

About The Play - Rajkumar has been requested to write a poem for a compilation to be published. If you knew Rajkumar you’d realize the absurdity of the request.
In an hour long monologue, Rajkumar tells us about his unremarkable life in his nondescript village and the five grains of sugar – the five people – who have stood out in this drab life for reasons stranger than fiction. The filmy mother; her poet brother Pundaleek; Raghu, the school hero; old man Radhey; and the anonymous ‘Truckwala dost’ . As Rajkumar talks, the five grains become a single life-game that he has been unknowingly playing for years…and Rajkumar realizes that everyone has a story inside them.



Written by - Manav Kaul
Music / Design & Direction - Saurabh Gharipurikar
Lights by – Krishna Shukl
Performence by - Siddhesh Dharmadhikari

For passes contact Saurabh 9290013166

Samahaara Comedy Night

Stand-up Comedy
&
Short Plays by Team Samahaara

Directed by Rathna Shekar Reddy


It's baaaaaaaack, with a new set of short plays and stand-up comedy. 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.

For passes: 8341120303 or bookmyshow.com

Samahaara Comedy Night

Stand-up Comedy
&
Short Plays by Team Samahaara

Directed by Rathna Shekar Reddy


It's baaaaaaaack, with a new set of short plays and stand-up comedy. 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.

For passes: 8341120303 or bookmyshow.com

Exhibiting various creative entrepreneurs of Hyderabad.
A unique approach to showcase talents and products.

Stalls of small sustainable business owners with sales - display stalls of arts & crafts - stalls of NGOs & health/environmental initiatives & healthy consumables - Stage area for musical performances (in collaboration with HWMF), demonstrations & talks by stall owners and non-stall participants.

8886016603 Supreeta, 8686816060 Akhil

You are designed mentally and emotionally in such a way that task completion gives you a positive feeling.
It makes you happy. It makes you feel like a winner. - Brian Tracy (Eat That Frog)

What is Procrastination:
It is the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time, sometimes to the "last minute" before the deadline.

Whether you are a Businessman, Employee, Consultant, Professor, Student... we all procrastinate at one point or another. Finally it may result in stress, a sense of guilt and crisis, and severe loss of personal productivity, as well as social disapproval for not meeting responsibilities or commitments.

So, let us join and share some of our innovative thoughts on how to beat procrastination. We can also plan some group/individual activities during the discussions. Looking forward to a wonderful discussions over chai-samosas at Lamakaan..

Who can attend:
Anyone who's interested to understand the tips to overcome Procrastination and willing to manage their time well.

Entry free for PAL Members (who already attended at least one of our PAL meetings)
Others: Rs.50/- per person

Register yourself: http://bit.ly/1iqkzCs
and RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/passionandlife

Through this show, we aim is to provide a classy, yet entertaining musical evening to the audience with the ultimate goal being raising funds for the organization mentioned below.

This musical event features multiple artists performing a variety of genres of music. The show features Shakila, a prominent musician from Hyderabad, who will be headlining the show (along with her band) and supported by Sanjo The Balladeer (and his band), an experienced musician from Mumbai.

This is a fundraiser for the children of Srividhya’s Centre for the Special Children, a non-profit organization working for children with intellectual and related developmental disabilities. This organization does not have funding from the government or any corporate. They rely solely on donations from individuals, which as you can imagine is not enough to run an establishment. Through this show, we are trying to raise funds to help them sustain, and hopefully, develop. Please attend the show and donate any amount you can to help this organization working for a noble cause.

Entry passes: 9177772744

CAMS (Center for Arts Media and Social Welfare) in association with Theatre Resource, Pune is presenting a lecture by Rtd. Prof. Bhaskar Shewalkar on 'Theatre in Social Development'.

About Prof. Bhaskar Shewalkar: A former HOD, Theatre Arts, University of Hyderabad, a nationally recognized theatre personality, Prof. Shewalkar has so far directed more than 100 plays in Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, English and Telugu. After retiring, he has dedicated himself towards training actors. He is a guiding force behind ‘Sutradhar’ and he is a founder member of ‘Rangadhara’ since 1971.

All are welcome.

Wilson, the simpleton. A regular guy with regular needs is devastated by some unforeseen turn of events in his life. One night, while thinking about his future his thoughts has drawn him close to his surroundings and the environment.

Thus begins the Story of Wilson! A journey that changes Wilson's life and and the life of his city.

Rangadhara winds up at Lamakaan its month-long theatre fest with a Marathi Play "Andhalay Khidikya".
It is a tete-a-tete of two senior citizens / pensioners about life and its happiness. Among them one adopt boy and another a girl through their mind game. Later, the story revolve around that boy & girl who fall in love, get married & blessed with a son.During this period of time, difference of opinion arises which attributes to separation.

But a grandson who live away from his parents is the only source of pensioners' happiness for their rest of the life?. Is a couple illusionary effect of mind game / fiction or a grandson is facto?

Its a million dollar question, whether it a Fiction or Action? watch it.

Cast –
PRAKASH PHADNIS
PRAKASH DHARMA
SUSHANT DESHPANDE
SANYOGITA SATHE

and Crew –
Name of the Writer – ASHOK KAMBLI


Name of the Director - SUHAS BARVE


RANGADHARA TEAM

Genre / Language – DRAMA – MARATHI

Are children allowed for the event (specific age to enter) – YES

Is the play free seated or fixed seated (like cinema, where one can chose his seat) – free seated

For passes: 9848443727

Train to Pakistan, chapter#1 - Dacoity (a play) An adaption of Khuswant singh's first novel 'Train to Pakistan.' a powerful and moving account of India's partition, where Hindus and Muslims have lived together in peace for more than a 100 years, are plunged into a war of religious strife.
For passes: 9296153233

Train to Pakistan, chapter#1 - Dacoity (a play)
An adaption of Khuswant singh's first novel 'Train to Pakistan.'
a powerful and moving account of India's partition, where Hindus and Muslims have lived together in peace for more than a 100 years, are plunged into a war of religious strife.

For passes: 9296153233

Rang De is registered as a non-profit organisation. Not wanting to concentrate on the argument about profit or non-profit, our single-minded focus is to ensure that our borrowers pay interest rates that are fair and our social investors get the opportunity to make a meaningful difference to other people's lives.

As part of touring various cities of India, the founders of RangDe Ram & Smitha are visiting Hyderabad on July 12th.

This is an excellent opportunity to listen to them, about RangDe, from the founders themselves.

Social investors can get answers to the questions they have.

All are welcome

Welcoming all for a book launch of 'When a Lawyer walks down the aisle...'.
It tells the story of a bunch of lawyers as they navigate through life, love and relationships. Written by Amrita Suresh, a National best selling author of her first book "'When a Lawyer falls in love..." launches her second book in this comedy series.

Synopsis of the book: An unsolved murder. Half a dozen lawyers. And a talking ghost. 'When a Lawyer walks down the aisle' is all about expecting the unexpected. Of course, it's also about a young couple on the brink of a break up and about how a divorce lawyer has a happy marriage. A sequel to the book 'When a Lawyer falls in love, this book is the kind you ought to pick up if you want to lose forever, your fear of ghosts. Written by someone who has yet to watch a horror film in it's entirety, yet has done reams and reams of research on the afterlife, this book will help you view ghosts in a new light. Ghosts are simply beings who hang on long after it's time to go. Much like most politicians today. Funny, pacey, yet it has it's moments, 'When a Lawyer walks down the aisle....' is the kind of book that will make you laugh and cry, both for the same reasons! Entry - free

Lamakaan hosts a Handloom Bazaar for Sale and exhibit the Fabric of Freedom. Woven in to the wonderful tapestry that is India, handloom weaving is a 4000 year old tradition. Handloom weaving is one of India’s predominant rural economic activities.This unique tradition has surpassed ages solely because of the magnificence of its craft, the mastery of its makers and patronizing consumers. Handlooms had a glorious past and o a penurious present. The handloom weavers used to live in a life of comfort and complacence in the past. They were respected for their invaluable craft that symbolized the essence of our rich culture and tradition. However, as time wheeled by machines began to exude dominance over human labour. In the state of Andhra Pradesh alone, there are about 320,000 handlooms on which about 500,000 families directly and 20,00,000 families indirectly depend for livelihoods. The recent years have witnessed migrations to cities in large numbers by handloom cotton weavers, taking up of alternative employment in rural industrial units and in extreme cases even starvation deaths or suicide deaths. The monthly handloom bazaar is one of the initiatives we are undertaking to bring back the wonder of handloom into mainstream popular culture, thus increasing the market for these products. In addition the exhibition cum sale hopes to educate the people at large on the issues of handloom weavers, and also on how to recognize the "real handloom" from fakes and "powerloom products". The bazaar will also include talks from time to time, display of weaving skills, and also will encourage children to learn these skills in an interactive way - like learning to use the "charkha".

Entry - Free

The Food Sovereignty Alliance invites you for the screening of the documentary “Breeding Invasions”. The screening will be followed by a discussion with members and leaders of the alliance.

About Breeding Invasions:

‘Breeding Invasions.... Livestock At stake’ explores the intricate connections between land, people, animals,food and takes an incisive look at the policies that are dismantling these organic linkages, resulting in an artificial separation of livestock and agriculture.The film, through conversations with livestock rearers, farmers and scientists exposes this unfolding tragedy, of dwindling livestock, destroyed livelihoods, acute indebtedness, polluted environments and unsafe food increasingly being produced by energy intensive monoculture industrial farming systems, which threaten sovereignty over our land, food and animals.

Producer: Anthra
Director: C. Vanaja, Vipul Kulkarni

For details Contact:
Email: foodsoveriegntyalliance@gmail.com Phone : +91-7382009046

All are invited. Entry Free.