Lamakaan

A Lecture on

Polavaram Dam: Displacement &invitesStories

by

Satish Nainala

Lecture followed by Screening of the short docu drama film on Polavarm Project titled "MANYAM." Q & A

About the topic:

The Polavaram dam project, whose supposed benefits include increased irrigation and water supplies to big cities, is expected to displace around 150,000 tribals across three states. But the population of these villages according to the Census 2001 is much higher —236,834. State officials find it hard to explain the difference of 59,559 while estimating the number of people who will be displaced.
Further, in the past 10 years, the population of these villages would have increased. If one takes into account 15,105 households (60,118 persons) that would be displaced by the two canals, then one arrives at the figure of 317,150 persons affected.
The tribal populations in the going to be submerged areas are articulating their concerns in different forms to thwart such artificial disaster. The resistance of tribal populations against the construction of Polavaram dam, entangled in very complex political circumstances. The main feature of this resistance is the involvement of various People’s Organizations cutting across various political parties and supporting several forms of protest of the tribal population to build up resistance against the construction of the dam.

Brief note about Satish:

Satish Nainala is a full time research scholar from English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. He is also the General Secretary of the Student Association. He had worked a lot in the area of displacement of adivasis due to development projects by the government.

Synopsis of the movie:

Manyam
Manyam is a short film directed by Rushi Krishna. The film tries to capture the life and lifestyle of adivasis living in the Godavari basin and how the Polavaram Dam project impacts and affects the tribal population, displacement and their livelihood.

Inviting all to an award winning film "Frozen" a 2007 black-and-white Indian drama film directed by Shivajee Chandrabhushan. Followed by a talk by the filmmaker "Idea to Screen" as a part of Cinema Talk @ Lamakaan.

Shot entirely on location at Ladakh, 'Frozen' is a journey of imaginative and impulsive teenager, Lasya, who lives with her father Karma, an apricot jam-maker and younger brother Chomo in a remote village in the Himalayas. Pristine snow-capped mountains surround their tiny hamlet and barren harsh land stretches for miles into nowhere. One day the army moves in, settles a hundred yards across their doorstep. The last bit of comfort the family draws from their familiar surroundings changes into a harsh, ceaseless, irreversible conflict. The film depicts the life of this family whose dreamlike existence is interrupted by insurmountable odds, one after the other.

The film has won the following awards:
National Film Awards - Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director Shivajee Chandrabhushan,
National Film Award for Best Cinematography,
Durban International Film Festival - Best Cinematography and Osian-Cinefan Film Festival, Delhi - Special Jury Award.

The award winning filmmaker will deliver a talk on "Idea to Screen" vis a vis his experience of making a National Award Winning feature film on debut - the trials and tribulations, before, during, after and still.

All are welcome. Entry - Free

A Fun and Engaging Workshop for Children to learn computer Coding and Programming.

Age Groups: 7 to 15 years
Workshop Duration: 2 Days of 3 Hours each on Sat 24th May and Sun 25th May 10am-1pm.
Workshop Fee: Rs.400/-

Why Learn Coding?

Not every child needs to learn a programming language, but without some understanding of how code works and how it affects our lives, we may be depriving young people of new avenues to creativity, and valuable skills for the job market.
By learning to be familiar with how coding works and how to program a device, children will learn to think algorithmically and with the ability to apply mathematical concepts to solve problems more efficiently.

What will children learn in this workshop?

In this workshop we will introduce the concepts of programming like -objects, variables, expressions, looping and arrays in an interesting manner and provide hands-on projects for children to explore and develop a proficiency.
No prior knowledge of coding or programming is required, but it is expected that children are able to operate and navigate a web browser and perform simple tasks like typing on keyboard.

For registration or any other information, please send us an email at keabrainery@gmail.com or call Aravind at 9642713646. You can also register directly at the venue on the workshop date'.

Kind note: Upper age limit for this workshop is 15 years. Hence we will not be able to accommodate any one above this age group.

4-Week Startup(4WS) Free Seminar by Murali Krishna Devarkonda,

“4­Week Startup (4WS)” is a proven Go­to­Market Strategy framework for startups to get market validation and traction in 3 to 6 months by enabling strategic collaboration among all stakeholders.

In this 90 minute highly interactive seminar based on actual startups, learn how to optimize for user / customer engagement, while shortening time to market and lowering development costs - in turn leading to features that “emerge” and products that “just work”.

Please RSVP at :
http://www.meetup.com/IndianStartups/events/222708863/

About Murali Krishna

Murali Krishna Devarakonda is the founder of Agile Entrepreneurs and a startup coach.

A veteran of the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem who founded Agile Entrepreneurs to help founders of startups help themselves, Murali also founded startups in the ridesharing space in 1999 and 2005, evangelized Agile methods at LinkedIn in 2008 as their first Technical Program Manager, mentored startups in Stanford’s online course, “Technology Entrepreneurship 2”, and has coached & mentored numerous bootstrapping startups in Silicon Valley since 2006.

This is same seminar that was held on Tue, May 19 in Bengaluru:
http://www.meetup.com/BHive-Startup-and-Entrepreneur-Community/events/222632598/
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Seminar: Agile Entrepreneurs presents:
“4-Week Startup (4WS)” - Product Go-to-Market Strategy for Startups

“4-Week Startup (4WS)” is a proven Go-to-Market Strategy framework for startups to get market validation and traction in 3 to 6 months by enabling strategic collaboration among all stakeholders.

In this 90 minute highly interactive seminar based on actual startups, learn how to optimize for user / customer engagement, while shortening time to market and lowering development costs - in turn leading to features that “emerge” and products that “just work”.

The 4-Week Startup model is built around three simple and powerful abstractions:
Activities are a unit of User/Customer Engagement & UI design that lead to just-in-time User Stories (unit of implementation), eliminating unwieldy Product Backlogs and byte-size feature-creep inevitable with Feature-derived User Stories.
Plans are monthly strategies for user/customer validation for a single core Activity.
Milestones: are major business goals that can be achieved with 3 to 6 monthly Plans

We will show you how you create a single source of truth with three simple, flexible, interoperating models of your product strategy & business plan, and execution capability:
Visioning Phase: Vision driven Features
Go-to-Market Strategy Phase: Milestone driven Activities; and
Agile/Lean Implementation: ROI driven metrics for Agility, Quality, and “Definition of DONE” for User Stories/Activities, and grades for monthly strategic Plans.

The final payoff is when you see how you can map your 4WS model directly into your operational plan for investor pitches. And change them all at will as market realities change.

Progressive literatti, poets, writers, scribes, journalists, singers, balladeers gather today to sing, dance, talk, and express their solidarity on the increasing insensitivity towards the cultures and life habits of lesser voices.

In the wake of Maharashtra's ban on beef, Lamakaan hosts a host of these voices to send a message across.

Speakers include K.Srinivas, Kancha Ilaiah, Joopaka Subhadra, jilukara srinivas, Sangishetty Srinivas, Ambati Surendra Raju among others.

All are welcome.

Sutradhar presents a selection of stories from Pinki Virani's National Award winning book 'Bitter Chocolate'. The book is a pioneer in Asia to be the first book to talk about child sexual abuse. Designed and directed by Vinay Varma.

at Lamakaan, 26th May, 8 pm.

Contact Rita on 9849063890 for tickets, or mail team@sutradharactors.com.

A hilarious take on the politics, economics, geography and history of hunger and who better to tell the tale than the immortal duo - Salim+Javed?
Sutradhar's Biryani aur Haleem is 'apna Hyderabadi' take on Hugh Chesterman's original, 'The Pie and The Tart'. Adapted into Deccani by the talented team of Sutradhar and directed by Mohit and Deepti, 'Biryani aur Haleem' promises a feast-full of satire, in a delicious pot full of laughter.
The show plays at Lamakaan on 27th and 28th of May, 2015. Entry @ Rs.100/-
For details and tickets call Vinay Varma: +91 98480 52541, or email Sutradhar-team@sutradharactors.com / info@sutradharactors.com.
Tickets also available with www.bookmyshow.com

A hilarious take on the politics, economics, geography and history of hunger and who better to tell the tale than the immortal duo - Salim+Javed?
Sutradhar's Biryani aur Haleem is 'apna Hyderabadi' take on Hugh Chesterman's original, 'The Pie and The Tart'. Adapted into Deccani by the talented team of Sutradhar and directed by Mohit and Deepti, 'Biryani aur Haleem' promises a feast-full of satire, in a delicious pot full of laughter.
The show plays at Lamakaan on the 26th, 27th and 28th of May, 2015. Entry @ Rs.100/-
For details and tickets call Vinay Varma: +91 98480 52541, or email Sutradhar-team@sutradharactors.com / info@sutradharactors.com.
Tickets also available with www.bookmyshow.com

Yeah! You heard it right. A call for all IoT enthusiasts and wake up call for all freshers. Join us to learn and experiment the stunning technology of present time. As a part to raise great open source hardware community, we decided to do series of workshops. Here's is our first event. Stay in touch to be part of change.

Here are few topics we will be covering in our first event.

Join us for more updates and surprises. Get ready to celebrate the innovation in DIY

Registrations to be confirmed.


Theoretical Sessions :

->Introduction To Digital World
->Analog World Vs Digital World
->Extracting Information From Big Data
->Introduction To Digital Circuits , Microprocessors , Microcontrollers
->Introduction To Opensource Electronics
->Arduino Vs Raspberry Pi
->Introduction to Internet of Things
->What is IoT and its need?

Practical Sessions :

->Programming Arduino For Various Applications
->Creating Robotics Applications Using Arduino
->Line Follower Robot
->Mobile Phone Controlled Robot
->Connect With Your Own Facebook Account With Arduino Using IoT

Renowned Archaeologist Dr. KK Muhammed gives a Lamakaan Lecture on Excavation and Conservation of Early Buddhist sites in U.P and Bihar.

Excavation and Conservation of Buddhist sites in U.P and Bihar is nothing but a Power Point Presentation of some of the Important sites associated with Lord Buddha in flesh and blood. The rock on which he sat became hallowed one and the message he gave to the world from here still echoes at the doorstep of the Human kind.
In this presentation you will be travelling with some one who himself has excavated some of such hither to unknown Stupas and played an important role in the conservation of the classical sites such as Nalanda, Vikramshila, Vaishali, Kesariya, Sarnath and Kushinagar. The task was challenging and often bristling with dangers as he had to fight with vested interests and anti social elements.

Karingamannu Kuzhiyil Muhammed, better known as K. K. Muhammed, is a renowned Indian archaeologist. He was the Regional Director (North) of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), and is currently serving as Project Archaeological Director in Aga Khan Trust for Culture.

Come and listen to an interesting talk at Lamakan at 7pm on Sat 30th May.

All are welcome. Entry - Free.

Learn more about different topics by participating in quizzes! This month the quiz is on General Knowledge!

Conducted by Niti Gupta, this quiz is open to all.

Entry - Free

Phantom India: Reflections of a voyage is a 1969 French seven part television documentary mini-series about India, directed by Louis Malle. It was shown on BBC television as Phantom India.

Malle later said that the film was his most personal work and the one he was most proud of, it is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of his career. It was initially inspired by a two-month trip to India in late 1967 that Malle made on behalf of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to present a selection of "new French cinema" throughout the country. Filming took place between January 5, 1968 and May 1, 1968 with a crew of two, a cameraman and a sound recordist. Malle arrived in India with no particular plans and financed the trip himself. The resulting 30 hours of footage was then edited down to the 363 minutes of Phantom India. The 105-minute long Calcutta used the footage he had recorded over his three-week stay in that city. Phantom India was shown on French television and the BBC in the UK in 1969. Many British Indians and the Indian Government felt that Malle had shown a one-sided portrait of India, focussing on the impoverished, rather than the developing, parts of the country. A diplomatic incident occurred when the Indian government asked the BBC to stop broadcasting the programme. The BBC refused and were briefly asked to leave their New Delhi bureau.

Had Louis Malle only made Phantom India, he would still hold an honored place in the history of film. Made with a small crew consisiting of cinematographer Etienne Becker and sound man Jean-Claude Laureux, Phantom India is not only a remarkable document of a time and place, but also a meditation on the difficulty of truly knowing the Other. Malle found this work to be inspirational: "In the autumn of 1967 I was asked by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to present in India a series of eight French films... I was supposed to stay two weeks but I ended up staying almost two months... After those two months I realized that although India was impossible to understand for a foreigner - it was so opaque - yet I was so completely fascinated by it that I would have to come back. So I returned to France at the end of 1967, and in a couple of weeks I raised the money I needed... My proposition was that we would start in Calcutta, look around and eventually shoot. No plans, no script, no lighting equipment, no distribution commitments of any kind... It was enormously important for me, and I'm still trying to make sense of it today."

Born to a family of wealth and privilege, Louis Malle emerged in the 1950s as one of the maverick voices of the French New Wave. Unlike many of his New Wave contemporaries, Malle defied the auteurist trappings of the movement by exploring new formal and thematic concerns with each project.

After 37 years of those films, when we are commemorating an year of new governments both at the centre and the state, it will be stark in comparision to see much of India is already same - Good and Badin equalmeasures and not much has changed through these years.

All are welcome. Entry - Free.

"Why is the Urdu Ghazal Popular Even Today?" what makes its durability?
A Talk by Dr. Fakhre Alam, Associate Professor, Department of Urdu, Khaja Mohiuddin Chisti Urdu, Farsi, Arabic University, Lucknow.
Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad at 7.00 pm.

The Urdu Ghazal as a poetic form has continued to fascinate successive generations of poetry lovers in the sub-continent. It has remained the most pre-eminent and popular form of poetic expression in Urdu. What makes the Ghazal tick? How have poets in different ages expressed themselves in this seemingly compressed form, some of them becoming immortal through their creative use of themes, language, images, symbols and metaphors? How has the Urdu Ghazal evolved from the times of Quli Qutub Shah, Wali and Siraj, to the age of Mir and Sauda, to its zenith during the era of Ghalib and Momin, to the period of daaGh and Ameer Minai, to the twentieth century represented mainly by AsGhar, Hasrat Mohaani, Faani and Jigar, as also to some extent by Firaq and later by Khumaar and Shahryar, among several others?

What was the influence of some of the path-breaking movements such as the Progressive Writers' Movement spearheaded by Faiz, Kaifi, Majrooh, MaKhdoom and others on the Urdu Ghazal? These questions among others, will feature in Dr. Alam's talk.

Dr. Fakhre Alam is a distinguished scholar, critic, poet and academic of Urdu and Faarsi literature. He has published numerous articles and is the editor and author of several books.

Entry - Free.

"The Journey" An adaptation from grandma tales. A Gymboree Kids workshop production written by Taher Ali Baig and directed by Raviraj.

Entry - Free

Two day workshop on quilling 10:30am to 1:30pm on Thu & Fri 4,5 Jun. Learn basic shapes and different techniques in quilling along with quilling jewellery making.
Fee - 1800/-per (Including material). call 9494054335 for details.

DRAMANON presents 'Take 5'

A workshop production of Workshop conducted by Ramakrishna Shenoy.

1. Sad and Glad
is a story of two estranged lovers who happened to run into each other at the back of a bar. What ensues is a series of awww's or ick's and a realization that Nothing Lasts for EVER. Whether it makes you SAD or GLAD you decide!

Written by John Cariani
Directed by Adity Roy Sinha
Performed by Mimansa, Sapna and Sunil

2. Good Sam
Is it fair to ignore a problem if it doesn't affect you directly? Is it enough to wait for someone else to get their hands dirty while you just stand at a distance and spectate? After all, don't actions do speak louder than words? These are some questions that "The Good Sam" ask while trying tickle your funny bone. What you take away from it, we leave it to you.

An adaptation of a biblical story by RK Shenoy
Directed by Rahul Ghosh
Performed by Anisha, Nikhil, Rahul, Saakshi, Siddharth & Trupti

3. Sneeze
A government clerk over-apologizes and has a nervous breakdown after accidentally sneezing on a general during a night out at the opera.

Written by Neil Simon
Directed by Ankit Bakshi
Performed by Madhu, Manish, Naveen and Nikharika

4. Breakfast
A customer steps to a restaurant for a quick bite between meetings. She asks the waiter to get her some fast food. What she gets is anything but fast, or food.

Written by Norman A Bert
Adapted by Kanishka Dasgupta and RK Shenoy
Directed by Harika Vedula
Performed by Honey, KC and Shwetha

5. Getting it Back
John Cariani’s Getting it Back is an amiably absurdist vignette about life and love. The story tiptoes into the lives of a couple, who would like to take back the love they have given each other. What follows next is an exploration of love, with a touch of good-natured magic realism.

Written by John Cariani
Directed by Kanishka Dasgupta
Performed by Anvidha and Karan

Production by Netra, Rutwik, Adnan, Faiz, Nandini, Jagadish, Nabeela, Siddharth and Nikhil

For passes: 7799060457

On the eve of world environment day on Jun 5th at 7pm, Lamakaan presents a talk by Asiya Khan, a Naturalist and a regular at Lamakaan.

She would be speaking on the wild trees that can commonly be seen growing in open habitats and protected areas in and around Hyderabad.

All are welcome.
Entry - Free

Inviting all for a science conversation "Pushing the Boundaries: The Emergence of Nano".

Speaker:
Pulickel M. Ajayan (ajayan@rice.edu)
Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA

Abstract:
In this general talk, I will discuss the emergence of the nanoscale in materials and devices that will have a profound impact on the technologies of the future. The development of nano-engineered
structures and architectures is both challenging and exciting. Talk will discuss the opportunities in this field based on nearly 25 years of work done in the speaker’s lab on various nanomaterials such
as carbon nanotubes, nanocomposites, graphene and other 2D materials etc. The exploration of nanostructures, their assembly, their remarkable properties, and the challenges involved in integrating them into real applications will be the basis of discussion. The advent of nanotechnology will have a significant role in the shaping of a next generations of technologies and society at large.

Entry - Free

The Cmplt Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) is three actors effort to stage the entire works of William Shakespeare on Stage. Their effort include an abridged version of Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus as a cookery show, Othello as a rap song, rest of the comedies in one convoluted reading, all the histories through a football game, reduced versions of Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth, and to end Hamlet multiple times, speeding it up every time and backwards.

The Scriptwriting Lab is an ongoing series of weekend workshops with writers and film makers, where we discuss and practise the craft of writing for cinema.

Each session shall focus on a distinct aspect of scriptwriting in detail, with specific techniques and examples, and involving practise exercises followed by sharing/feedback.

The first session will be hosted by Triparna Banerjee. Triparna is the writer of "The Untold Tale", the first Indian feature to be selected for L’atelier du Cinefondation at Cannes Film Festival in 2012.

Triparna will talk about "Understanding Story and Story Structure"

The session is free and open to all.

The Cmplt Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) is three actors effort to stage the entire works of William Shakespeare on Stage. Their effort include an abridged version of Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus as a cookery show, Othello as a rap song, rest of the comedies in one convoluted reading, all the histories through a football game, reduced versions of Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth, and to end Hamlet multiple times, speeding it up every time and backwards.

Udaan Performing Arts, presents its 5th workshop production "Tareeka E Ishq" improvised play by workshop participants. Thsi is udaan's 28th theatre production.

About the play - The story is about college going students who lives in a hostel and one of them is in love with a girl who is his classmate in the college. Now his friends are giving him an idea to propose the girl in funny ways. Do come and watch what happens in the end.

Written by - Surendar Sahil Verma
Guidance by - Saurabh Gharipurikar
Actors - Surendar Verma, Saurabh Joshi, Pradeep, Bikram, Ashish Megh & Madhuri Thorat.

Date - 9th June 2015
Time - 08 pm
Venue - Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Rd No 01
Duration - 60 minutes
Donor Pass - 100/-

For more details contact Saurabh # 9290013166

"The Journey" An adaptation from grandma tales. A Gymboree Kids workshop production written by Taher Ali Baig and directed by Raviraj.
For passes:
Flickrollers
# +91 9848066664
email: taher@flickrollers.com
web www.flickrollers.com/

Screening of a documentary & instructional movie featuring interviews of several eminent script writers and script consultants on writing Character for Films and TV.
The screening will be followed by a discussion.

Improvised theater is a genre of theatre performed without a script- characters and scenes are taken up on the spot, based on suggestions from the audience. Come and watch the actors as they perform the same, made even more difficult by the show host, who conducts a series of 'improv'games.

India Foundation for the Arts in collaboration with Lamakaan and Hyderabad Urban Lab is delighted to bring the IFA Open House to Lamakaan, Hyderabad.

We invite you to join us for an Open House on June 13, at 10:30 am at Lamakaan where our Programme Executive, Arts Practice Programme, Tanveer Ajsi will be in conversation with artists, scholars and other practitioners about the IFA and its programmes. These are informative and interactive sessions where IFA programme executives will answer queries ranging from grant criteria to the application process and more.

Come and join the conversation, whether you have specific questions about IFA grants, or would just like to sit in and listen to the multiple exchanges at Lamakaan!

Entry - Free

Come and join the conversation, whether you have specific questions about IFA grants, or would just like to sit in and listen to the multiple exchanges at Lamakaan!

Grantee Presentation:
IFA is proud to present three projects by IFA grantees
Saturday| June 13, 2015 |7:00PM
Lamakaan, Hyderabad
(An evening of stimulating presentations and animated conversations)

Yousuf Saeed, a Delhi-based filmmaker, author and archivist will talk about the historical and socio-political relevance of printed images from popular Urdu literature produced in the first half of the 20th century. He will present on Urdu's transformation from a language reflecting the cultural plurality of North India, to one associated with Islam.

Epsita Halder teaches Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She will present glimpses of Muharram from West Bengal. The presentation will study the varied renderings of the narratives of the Karbala Battle as recounted by Shia Muslims across different districts of West Bengal during the holy month of Muharram. She is a poet in Bangla and a regular contributor to dailies and periodicals.

Ashima Sood, a Hyderabad-based writer and researcher on the urban, will highlight ways in which elements of religious and spiritual pluralism are woven into the lyrical and musical idioms, rites and modes of worship associated with community kirtan or devotional music practice in middle and lower middle class South Delhi
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) is a national, not-for-profit, grant-making organisation that supports practice, research and education in the arts in India. IFA’s mission is to enrich practice and knowledge, by widening public access to the arts while strengthening infrastructure of the arts in India by supporting innovative projects, commissioning research and creating public platforms. IFA has supported over 400 grants across twenty-one states disbursing over Rs 21 crore to both individuals and institutions under our various Programmes—Arts Research, Arts Practice and Arts Education and Archival and Museum Fellowships.
We invite you all to be part of IFA’s engagement with Hyderabad.
Hope to see you there!

Beta Customers / Reviewers / Visitors / Audience Networking

Are you looking for Beta Customers/ Users/ Visitors/ Early Adopters / Reviewers to validate / evaluate your Idea / Audio / Video / startup?

OR

Looking to become yourself as a Beta Customer / Audience / Visitor / User / Tester / Early Adopter / Reviewer of products & services or audio / video of other startups? Which ever side you are on, come join us in the Indian Startups Beta Club. The club provides you the platform to find Beta Customers or facilitates in becoming one.


Advantages for those looking for Beta Customers/Users:

As an entrepreneur / startup you are cash strapped and cannot afford to advertise / market your product or service. Also, you cannot grow your startup with out the necessary customers / users trying your products / services. This is where the Beta Club can help you. Join the club and find appropriate Beta customers and request them to evaluate your products and services in live / production environment.

Advantages in becoming a Beta Customer/User / Tester / Evaluator / Early Adopter:

You are interested in helping other entrepreneurs / startups succeed. While doing so you want to gain tangible or intangible benefits from these startups. Once you enroll in the Beta Club, you will gain access to many freebies from other startups. Essentially you will be enjoying the free products / services from these organization and still be able to help them grow.

This is a Win-Win for both who are looking for Beta Customers/ Users and for those who wish to enroll as Beta folks.

Come join us in the Beta Club and help each other. It is our community, we can grow together. Please RSVP on http://www.meetup.com/IndianStartups/events/222983534/

The Scriptwriting Lab is an ongoing series of weekend workshops with writers and film makers, where we discuss and practise the craft of writing for cinema.

Each session shall focus on a distinct aspect of scriptwriting in detail, with specific techniques and examples, and involving practise exercises followed by sharing/feedback.
The session is free and open to all.

LAMAKAAN LECTURE SERIES

invites you to

A Lecture on

"Stories from Behind the Walls of Prisons: A sorry state of Indian prison system"
by

Arun Ferreira

About the topic:

The life on the other side of the wall is very different. The prisoners are made to feel like slaves and each one is at the mercy of the authorities. The Indian prison system perpetuates many of the injustices of the penal system set up by the British. For example, inmates of foreign origin or of high caste and social status are routinely imprisoned under relatively better conditions and segregated from those inmates who are poorer and of lower social position. Tribal and Dalit inmates are subject to various forms of abuse, ranging from the denial of visitors and refusal to provide medical care, to prolonged labor, sexual harassment, rape and “concealed” physical and mental torture. Many of India’s prisons date back to the era of British colonial rule, with thousands of prisoners kept in crumbling facilities largely unchanged since the beginning of the last century. The only major all-Indian prison reform ever implemented dates back to the Indian Jails Committee of 1919-1920. This lecture dispels myths, misconceptions and many claims of reforms by the authorities and gives a personal account of the speaker on the gory, plight and merciful conditions of the Indian prisons.

Brief note about Arun Ferreira:

Arun Ferreira is an Indian political activist and cartoonist based in Mumbai. In 2007, he was branded as the leader of the propaganda and communications wing of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist). He was acquitted of all charges in 2014. Arun Ferreira was a free man. He reveals the horrors he faced in prison and describes how several others are facing similar situations all around India. He is the author of several articles and books. His recent book “Colors of the Cage: A Prison Memoir” is an eye-witness account of life in an Indian prison.

Entry - Free.

Lamakaan and Hyd Urban Lab invites you for an evening of film screening "Khayal Darpan - A Mirror of Imagination" by Yousuf Saeed.

Khayal Darpan, divided into four parts, totaling a 100 minutes, starts by exploring Pakistan's melodic past, especially in Lahore where south Asia's most famous musicians of early 20th century performed in large concerts as well as small baithaks (homely gatherings) and takias (shrines). It talks about the legendary Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Raushanara Begum, and Nazakat-Salamat Ali, and their discerning local audience who could not be pleased by any substandard music. The partition of India changed the scenario drastically as hundreds of musician families migrated from India to Pakistan, while many Hindu and Sikh patrons of music migrated the other way around. The film looks at the innovative ways in which the musicians struggled to keep their art alive for the new generations.

Synopsis:
While much of the literature on the Partition of India provides disturbing accounts of separation and violence, very little academic research has been done on its impact on the material culture of South Asia, especially the arts, music and other traditional forms. Since the apparent justification for the Partition, the ‘two-nation theory’, recognized Hindus and Muslims as two dissimilar communities unlikely to coexist, it was popularly assumed that the Indian Muslims migrating to Pakistan took with them whatever “belonged” to them, leaving behind the “purer” culture of the Hindus in India. As it seemed like the closing of a chapter on cultural co-existence, new chapters had to be written on both sides of the border to sort out what belonged to whom. North Indian classical music, along with other traditional cultural forms, had to bear the brunt of this tug of war, since it represented one of the most vigorous examples of cultural plurality, besides being practiced abundantly in the regions affected by the Partition.

Yousuf Saeed, an Indian filmmaker from Delhi, visited Pakistan in 2005 on research fellowship to explore the impact of 1947 partition on the cultural traditions, especially the classical music of the region. Spending over 5 month traveling through Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad - interviewing musicians and scholars, attending music concerts, and observing the teaching of music in various institutions, Yousuf not only managed to document some of the surviving practitioners and patrons of art music, but also raised many vital questions about cultural identity, nationalism, legitimacy of music in Islam, Pakistan's popular culture and its affairs with India, and the survival of classical music itself in South Asia. The result is a feature-length documentary film, Khayal Darpan, highlighting some well-known as well as many lesser known but talented musicians of Pakistan, breaking many stereotypes about the country.

About the Filmmaker:
Graduating from Jamia Millia’s Mass Communication Research Centre (Delhi), Yousuf Saeed started his career in television with the Times TV (Times of India) in 1990, co-directing the science series Turning Point. Later, Yousuf directed many documentary films for Doordarshan and other institutions, including a series on Ladakh and one on the Sufi poet Amir Khusrau. His short films Basant, The Train to Heaven and others have been shown at prestigious international venues such as the universities of Harvard, Boston, Columbia, Chicago, Texas (in the US) and of Heidelberg (Germany), and Vienna (Austria). His other recent films are Qasba Sanskriti: Amroha, Making of the Taj, and Khusrau Darya Prem Ka, among others. He also wrote the illustrated book Muslim Devotional Art in India (Routledge, 2012). More details about Yousuf Saeed at www.yousufsaeed.com
Contact the filmmaker: saeed.yousuf@gmail.com

Entry - Free.

Inviting all for an "a Talk on Cyber crime: Threat and Prevention" by Mr.U Ramamohan SP Cyber Crime, CID, Hyderabad.

Living in the world of 3G, everyone today is virtually active. With the rise of people getting virtually active the risk of cyber crime is increasing side-by-side. It is good to be connected to cyber world but with that most important is to know how to prevent oneself from getting trapped and from becoming a victim of cyber crime. This evening, the cyber crime C.I.D S.P Mr. Ram Mohan shares his experiences and his knowledge about types of cyber crime happening these days and he shares ways to get prevented.

All are welcome. Entry - Free.

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

A Lecture on

Polavaram Dam: Displacement &invitesStories

by

Satish Nainala

Lecture followed by Screening of the short docu drama film on Polavarm Project titled "MANYAM." Q & A

About the topic:

The Polavaram dam project, whose supposed benefits include increased irrigation and water supplies to big cities, is expected to displace around 150,000 tribals across three states. But the population of these villages according to the Census 2001 is much higher —236,834. State officials find it hard to explain the difference of 59,559 while estimating the number of people who will be displaced.
Further, in the past 10 years, the population of these villages would have increased. If one takes into account 15,105 households (60,118 persons) that would be displaced by the two canals, then one arrives at the figure of 317,150 persons affected.
The tribal populations in the going to be submerged areas are articulating their concerns in different forms to thwart such artificial disaster. The resistance of tribal populations against the construction of Polavaram dam, entangled in very complex political circumstances. The main feature of this resistance is the involvement of various People’s Organizations cutting across various political parties and supporting several forms of protest of the tribal population to build up resistance against the construction of the dam.

Brief note about Satish:

Satish Nainala is a full time research scholar from English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. He is also the General Secretary of the Student Association. He had worked a lot in the area of displacement of adivasis due to development projects by the government.

Synopsis of the movie:

Manyam
Manyam is a short film directed by Rushi Krishna. The film tries to capture the life and lifestyle of adivasis living in the Godavari basin and how the Polavaram Dam project impacts and affects the tribal population, displacement and their livelihood.

Inviting all to an award winning film "Frozen" a 2007 black-and-white Indian drama film directed by Shivajee Chandrabhushan. Followed by a talk by the filmmaker "Idea to Screen" as a part of Cinema Talk @ Lamakaan.

Shot entirely on location at Ladakh, 'Frozen' is a journey of imaginative and impulsive teenager, Lasya, who lives with her father Karma, an apricot jam-maker and younger brother Chomo in a remote village in the Himalayas. Pristine snow-capped mountains surround their tiny hamlet and barren harsh land stretches for miles into nowhere. One day the army moves in, settles a hundred yards across their doorstep. The last bit of comfort the family draws from their familiar surroundings changes into a harsh, ceaseless, irreversible conflict. The film depicts the life of this family whose dreamlike existence is interrupted by insurmountable odds, one after the other.

The film has won the following awards:
National Film Awards - Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director Shivajee Chandrabhushan,
National Film Award for Best Cinematography,
Durban International Film Festival - Best Cinematography and Osian-Cinefan Film Festival, Delhi - Special Jury Award.

The award winning filmmaker will deliver a talk on "Idea to Screen" vis a vis his experience of making a National Award Winning feature film on debut - the trials and tribulations, before, during, after and still.

All are welcome. Entry - Free

A Fun and Engaging Workshop for Children to learn computer Coding and Programming.

Age Groups: 7 to 15 years
Workshop Duration: 2 Days of 3 Hours each on Sat 24th May and Sun 25th May 10am-1pm.
Workshop Fee: Rs.400/-

Why Learn Coding?

Not every child needs to learn a programming language, but without some understanding of how code works and how it affects our lives, we may be depriving young people of new avenues to creativity, and valuable skills for the job market.
By learning to be familiar with how coding works and how to program a device, children will learn to think algorithmically and with the ability to apply mathematical concepts to solve problems more efficiently.

What will children learn in this workshop?

In this workshop we will introduce the concepts of programming like -objects, variables, expressions, looping and arrays in an interesting manner and provide hands-on projects for children to explore and develop a proficiency.
No prior knowledge of coding or programming is required, but it is expected that children are able to operate and navigate a web browser and perform simple tasks like typing on keyboard.

For registration or any other information, please send us an email at keabrainery@gmail.com or call Aravind at 9642713646. You can also register directly at the venue on the workshop date'.

Kind note: Upper age limit for this workshop is 15 years. Hence we will not be able to accommodate any one above this age group.

4-Week Startup(4WS) Free Seminar by Murali Krishna Devarkonda,

“4­Week Startup (4WS)” is a proven Go­to­Market Strategy framework for startups to get market validation and traction in 3 to 6 months by enabling strategic collaboration among all stakeholders.

In this 90 minute highly interactive seminar based on actual startups, learn how to optimize for user / customer engagement, while shortening time to market and lowering development costs - in turn leading to features that “emerge” and products that “just work”.

Please RSVP at :
http://www.meetup.com/IndianStartups/events/222708863/

About Murali Krishna

Murali Krishna Devarakonda is the founder of Agile Entrepreneurs and a startup coach.

A veteran of the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem who founded Agile Entrepreneurs to help founders of startups help themselves, Murali also founded startups in the ridesharing space in 1999 and 2005, evangelized Agile methods at LinkedIn in 2008 as their first Technical Program Manager, mentored startups in Stanford’s online course, “Technology Entrepreneurship 2”, and has coached & mentored numerous bootstrapping startups in Silicon Valley since 2006.

This is same seminar that was held on Tue, May 19 in Bengaluru:
http://www.meetup.com/BHive-Startup-and-Entrepreneur-Community/events/222632598/
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Seminar: Agile Entrepreneurs presents:
“4-Week Startup (4WS)” - Product Go-to-Market Strategy for Startups

“4-Week Startup (4WS)” is a proven Go-to-Market Strategy framework for startups to get market validation and traction in 3 to 6 months by enabling strategic collaboration among all stakeholders.

In this 90 minute highly interactive seminar based on actual startups, learn how to optimize for user / customer engagement, while shortening time to market and lowering development costs - in turn leading to features that “emerge” and products that “just work”.

The 4-Week Startup model is built around three simple and powerful abstractions:
Activities are a unit of User/Customer Engagement & UI design that lead to just-in-time User Stories (unit of implementation), eliminating unwieldy Product Backlogs and byte-size feature-creep inevitable with Feature-derived User Stories.
Plans are monthly strategies for user/customer validation for a single core Activity.
Milestones: are major business goals that can be achieved with 3 to 6 monthly Plans

We will show you how you create a single source of truth with three simple, flexible, interoperating models of your product strategy & business plan, and execution capability:
Visioning Phase: Vision driven Features
Go-to-Market Strategy Phase: Milestone driven Activities; and
Agile/Lean Implementation: ROI driven metrics for Agility, Quality, and “Definition of DONE” for User Stories/Activities, and grades for monthly strategic Plans.

The final payoff is when you see how you can map your 4WS model directly into your operational plan for investor pitches. And change them all at will as market realities change.

Progressive literatti, poets, writers, scribes, journalists, singers, balladeers gather today to sing, dance, talk, and express their solidarity on the increasing insensitivity towards the cultures and life habits of lesser voices.

In the wake of Maharashtra's ban on beef, Lamakaan hosts a host of these voices to send a message across.

Speakers include K.Srinivas, Kancha Ilaiah, Joopaka Subhadra, jilukara srinivas, Sangishetty Srinivas, Ambati Surendra Raju among others.

All are welcome.

Sutradhar presents a selection of stories from Pinki Virani's National Award winning book 'Bitter Chocolate'. The book is a pioneer in Asia to be the first book to talk about child sexual abuse. Designed and directed by Vinay Varma.

at Lamakaan, 26th May, 8 pm.

Contact Rita on 9849063890 for tickets, or mail team@sutradharactors.com.

A hilarious take on the politics, economics, geography and history of hunger and who better to tell the tale than the immortal duo - Salim+Javed?
Sutradhar's Biryani aur Haleem is 'apna Hyderabadi' take on Hugh Chesterman's original, 'The Pie and The Tart'. Adapted into Deccani by the talented team of Sutradhar and directed by Mohit and Deepti, 'Biryani aur Haleem' promises a feast-full of satire, in a delicious pot full of laughter.
The show plays at Lamakaan on 27th and 28th of May, 2015. Entry @ Rs.100/-
For details and tickets call Vinay Varma: +91 98480 52541, or email Sutradhar-team@sutradharactors.com / info@sutradharactors.com.
Tickets also available with www.bookmyshow.com

A hilarious take on the politics, economics, geography and history of hunger and who better to tell the tale than the immortal duo - Salim+Javed?
Sutradhar's Biryani aur Haleem is 'apna Hyderabadi' take on Hugh Chesterman's original, 'The Pie and The Tart'. Adapted into Deccani by the talented team of Sutradhar and directed by Mohit and Deepti, 'Biryani aur Haleem' promises a feast-full of satire, in a delicious pot full of laughter.
The show plays at Lamakaan on the 26th, 27th and 28th of May, 2015. Entry @ Rs.100/-
For details and tickets call Vinay Varma: +91 98480 52541, or email Sutradhar-team@sutradharactors.com / info@sutradharactors.com.
Tickets also available with www.bookmyshow.com

Yeah! You heard it right. A call for all IoT enthusiasts and wake up call for all freshers. Join us to learn and experiment the stunning technology of present time. As a part to raise great open source hardware community, we decided to do series of workshops. Here's is our first event. Stay in touch to be part of change.

Here are few topics we will be covering in our first event.

Join us for more updates and surprises. Get ready to celebrate the innovation in DIY

Registrations to be confirmed.


Theoretical Sessions :

->Introduction To Digital World
->Analog World Vs Digital World
->Extracting Information From Big Data
->Introduction To Digital Circuits , Microprocessors , Microcontrollers
->Introduction To Opensource Electronics
->Arduino Vs Raspberry Pi
->Introduction to Internet of Things
->What is IoT and its need?

Practical Sessions :

->Programming Arduino For Various Applications
->Creating Robotics Applications Using Arduino
->Line Follower Robot
->Mobile Phone Controlled Robot
->Connect With Your Own Facebook Account With Arduino Using IoT

Renowned Archaeologist Dr. KK Muhammed gives a Lamakaan Lecture on Excavation and Conservation of Early Buddhist sites in U.P and Bihar.

Excavation and Conservation of Buddhist sites in U.P and Bihar is nothing but a Power Point Presentation of some of the Important sites associated with Lord Buddha in flesh and blood. The rock on which he sat became hallowed one and the message he gave to the world from here still echoes at the doorstep of the Human kind.
In this presentation you will be travelling with some one who himself has excavated some of such hither to unknown Stupas and played an important role in the conservation of the classical sites such as Nalanda, Vikramshila, Vaishali, Kesariya, Sarnath and Kushinagar. The task was challenging and often bristling with dangers as he had to fight with vested interests and anti social elements.

Karingamannu Kuzhiyil Muhammed, better known as K. K. Muhammed, is a renowned Indian archaeologist. He was the Regional Director (North) of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), and is currently serving as Project Archaeological Director in Aga Khan Trust for Culture.

Come and listen to an interesting talk at Lamakan at 7pm on Sat 30th May.

All are welcome. Entry - Free.

Learn more about different topics by participating in quizzes! This month the quiz is on General Knowledge!

Conducted by Niti Gupta, this quiz is open to all.

Entry - Free

Phantom India: Reflections of a voyage is a 1969 French seven part television documentary mini-series about India, directed by Louis Malle. It was shown on BBC television as Phantom India.

Malle later said that the film was his most personal work and the one he was most proud of, it is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of his career. It was initially inspired by a two-month trip to India in late 1967 that Malle made on behalf of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to present a selection of "new French cinema" throughout the country. Filming took place between January 5, 1968 and May 1, 1968 with a crew of two, a cameraman and a sound recordist. Malle arrived in India with no particular plans and financed the trip himself. The resulting 30 hours of footage was then edited down to the 363 minutes of Phantom India. The 105-minute long Calcutta used the footage he had recorded over his three-week stay in that city. Phantom India was shown on French television and the BBC in the UK in 1969. Many British Indians and the Indian Government felt that Malle had shown a one-sided portrait of India, focussing on the impoverished, rather than the developing, parts of the country. A diplomatic incident occurred when the Indian government asked the BBC to stop broadcasting the programme. The BBC refused and were briefly asked to leave their New Delhi bureau.

Had Louis Malle only made Phantom India, he would still hold an honored place in the history of film. Made with a small crew consisiting of cinematographer Etienne Becker and sound man Jean-Claude Laureux, Phantom India is not only a remarkable document of a time and place, but also a meditation on the difficulty of truly knowing the Other. Malle found this work to be inspirational: "In the autumn of 1967 I was asked by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to present in India a series of eight French films... I was supposed to stay two weeks but I ended up staying almost two months... After those two months I realized that although India was impossible to understand for a foreigner - it was so opaque - yet I was so completely fascinated by it that I would have to come back. So I returned to France at the end of 1967, and in a couple of weeks I raised the money I needed... My proposition was that we would start in Calcutta, look around and eventually shoot. No plans, no script, no lighting equipment, no distribution commitments of any kind... It was enormously important for me, and I'm still trying to make sense of it today."

Born to a family of wealth and privilege, Louis Malle emerged in the 1950s as one of the maverick voices of the French New Wave. Unlike many of his New Wave contemporaries, Malle defied the auteurist trappings of the movement by exploring new formal and thematic concerns with each project.

After 37 years of those films, when we are commemorating an year of new governments both at the centre and the state, it will be stark in comparision to see much of India is already same - Good and Badin equalmeasures and not much has changed through these years.

All are welcome. Entry - Free.

"Why is the Urdu Ghazal Popular Even Today?" what makes its durability?
A Talk by Dr. Fakhre Alam, Associate Professor, Department of Urdu, Khaja Mohiuddin Chisti Urdu, Farsi, Arabic University, Lucknow.
Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad at 7.00 pm.

The Urdu Ghazal as a poetic form has continued to fascinate successive generations of poetry lovers in the sub-continent. It has remained the most pre-eminent and popular form of poetic expression in Urdu. What makes the Ghazal tick? How have poets in different ages expressed themselves in this seemingly compressed form, some of them becoming immortal through their creative use of themes, language, images, symbols and metaphors? How has the Urdu Ghazal evolved from the times of Quli Qutub Shah, Wali and Siraj, to the age of Mir and Sauda, to its zenith during the era of Ghalib and Momin, to the period of daaGh and Ameer Minai, to the twentieth century represented mainly by AsGhar, Hasrat Mohaani, Faani and Jigar, as also to some extent by Firaq and later by Khumaar and Shahryar, among several others?

What was the influence of some of the path-breaking movements such as the Progressive Writers' Movement spearheaded by Faiz, Kaifi, Majrooh, MaKhdoom and others on the Urdu Ghazal? These questions among others, will feature in Dr. Alam's talk.

Dr. Fakhre Alam is a distinguished scholar, critic, poet and academic of Urdu and Faarsi literature. He has published numerous articles and is the editor and author of several books.

Entry - Free.

"The Journey" An adaptation from grandma tales. A Gymboree Kids workshop production written by Taher Ali Baig and directed by Raviraj.

Entry - Free

Two day workshop on quilling 10:30am to 1:30pm on Thu & Fri 4,5 Jun. Learn basic shapes and different techniques in quilling along with quilling jewellery making.
Fee - 1800/-per (Including material). call 9494054335 for details.

DRAMANON presents 'Take 5'

A workshop production of Workshop conducted by Ramakrishna Shenoy.

1. Sad and Glad
is a story of two estranged lovers who happened to run into each other at the back of a bar. What ensues is a series of awww's or ick's and a realization that Nothing Lasts for EVER. Whether it makes you SAD or GLAD you decide!

Written by John Cariani
Directed by Adity Roy Sinha
Performed by Mimansa, Sapna and Sunil

2. Good Sam
Is it fair to ignore a problem if it doesn't affect you directly? Is it enough to wait for someone else to get their hands dirty while you just stand at a distance and spectate? After all, don't actions do speak louder than words? These are some questions that "The Good Sam" ask while trying tickle your funny bone. What you take away from it, we leave it to you.

An adaptation of a biblical story by RK Shenoy
Directed by Rahul Ghosh
Performed by Anisha, Nikhil, Rahul, Saakshi, Siddharth & Trupti

3. Sneeze
A government clerk over-apologizes and has a nervous breakdown after accidentally sneezing on a general during a night out at the opera.

Written by Neil Simon
Directed by Ankit Bakshi
Performed by Madhu, Manish, Naveen and Nikharika

4. Breakfast
A customer steps to a restaurant for a quick bite between meetings. She asks the waiter to get her some fast food. What she gets is anything but fast, or food.

Written by Norman A Bert
Adapted by Kanishka Dasgupta and RK Shenoy
Directed by Harika Vedula
Performed by Honey, KC and Shwetha

5. Getting it Back
John Cariani’s Getting it Back is an amiably absurdist vignette about life and love. The story tiptoes into the lives of a couple, who would like to take back the love they have given each other. What follows next is an exploration of love, with a touch of good-natured magic realism.

Written by John Cariani
Directed by Kanishka Dasgupta
Performed by Anvidha and Karan

Production by Netra, Rutwik, Adnan, Faiz, Nandini, Jagadish, Nabeela, Siddharth and Nikhil

For passes: 7799060457

On the eve of world environment day on Jun 5th at 7pm, Lamakaan presents a talk by Asiya Khan, a Naturalist and a regular at Lamakaan.

She would be speaking on the wild trees that can commonly be seen growing in open habitats and protected areas in and around Hyderabad.

All are welcome.
Entry - Free

Inviting all for a science conversation "Pushing the Boundaries: The Emergence of Nano".

Speaker:
Pulickel M. Ajayan (ajayan@rice.edu)
Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA

Abstract:
In this general talk, I will discuss the emergence of the nanoscale in materials and devices that will have a profound impact on the technologies of the future. The development of nano-engineered
structures and architectures is both challenging and exciting. Talk will discuss the opportunities in this field based on nearly 25 years of work done in the speaker’s lab on various nanomaterials such
as carbon nanotubes, nanocomposites, graphene and other 2D materials etc. The exploration of nanostructures, their assembly, their remarkable properties, and the challenges involved in integrating them into real applications will be the basis of discussion. The advent of nanotechnology will have a significant role in the shaping of a next generations of technologies and society at large.

Entry - Free

The Cmplt Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) is three actors effort to stage the entire works of William Shakespeare on Stage. Their effort include an abridged version of Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus as a cookery show, Othello as a rap song, rest of the comedies in one convoluted reading, all the histories through a football game, reduced versions of Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth, and to end Hamlet multiple times, speeding it up every time and backwards.

The Scriptwriting Lab is an ongoing series of weekend workshops with writers and film makers, where we discuss and practise the craft of writing for cinema.

Each session shall focus on a distinct aspect of scriptwriting in detail, with specific techniques and examples, and involving practise exercises followed by sharing/feedback.

The first session will be hosted by Triparna Banerjee. Triparna is the writer of "The Untold Tale", the first Indian feature to be selected for L’atelier du Cinefondation at Cannes Film Festival in 2012.

Triparna will talk about "Understanding Story and Story Structure"

The session is free and open to all.

The Cmplt Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) is three actors effort to stage the entire works of William Shakespeare on Stage. Their effort include an abridged version of Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus as a cookery show, Othello as a rap song, rest of the comedies in one convoluted reading, all the histories through a football game, reduced versions of Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth, and to end Hamlet multiple times, speeding it up every time and backwards.

Udaan Performing Arts, presents its 5th workshop production "Tareeka E Ishq" improvised play by workshop participants. Thsi is udaan's 28th theatre production.

About the play - The story is about college going students who lives in a hostel and one of them is in love with a girl who is his classmate in the college. Now his friends are giving him an idea to propose the girl in funny ways. Do come and watch what happens in the end.

Written by - Surendar Sahil Verma
Guidance by - Saurabh Gharipurikar
Actors - Surendar Verma, Saurabh Joshi, Pradeep, Bikram, Ashish Megh & Madhuri Thorat.

Date - 9th June 2015
Time - 08 pm
Venue - Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Rd No 01
Duration - 60 minutes
Donor Pass - 100/-

For more details contact Saurabh # 9290013166

"The Journey" An adaptation from grandma tales. A Gymboree Kids workshop production written by Taher Ali Baig and directed by Raviraj.
For passes:
Flickrollers
# +91 9848066664
email: taher@flickrollers.com
web www.flickrollers.com/

Screening of a documentary & instructional movie featuring interviews of several eminent script writers and script consultants on writing Character for Films and TV.
The screening will be followed by a discussion.

Improvised theater is a genre of theatre performed without a script- characters and scenes are taken up on the spot, based on suggestions from the audience. Come and watch the actors as they perform the same, made even more difficult by the show host, who conducts a series of 'improv'games.

India Foundation for the Arts in collaboration with Lamakaan and Hyderabad Urban Lab is delighted to bring the IFA Open House to Lamakaan, Hyderabad.

We invite you to join us for an Open House on June 13, at 10:30 am at Lamakaan where our Programme Executive, Arts Practice Programme, Tanveer Ajsi will be in conversation with artists, scholars and other practitioners about the IFA and its programmes. These are informative and interactive sessions where IFA programme executives will answer queries ranging from grant criteria to the application process and more.

Come and join the conversation, whether you have specific questions about IFA grants, or would just like to sit in and listen to the multiple exchanges at Lamakaan!

Entry - Free

Come and join the conversation, whether you have specific questions about IFA grants, or would just like to sit in and listen to the multiple exchanges at Lamakaan!

Grantee Presentation:
IFA is proud to present three projects by IFA grantees
Saturday| June 13, 2015 |7:00PM
Lamakaan, Hyderabad
(An evening of stimulating presentations and animated conversations)

Yousuf Saeed, a Delhi-based filmmaker, author and archivist will talk about the historical and socio-political relevance of printed images from popular Urdu literature produced in the first half of the 20th century. He will present on Urdu's transformation from a language reflecting the cultural plurality of North India, to one associated with Islam.

Epsita Halder teaches Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She will present glimpses of Muharram from West Bengal. The presentation will study the varied renderings of the narratives of the Karbala Battle as recounted by Shia Muslims across different districts of West Bengal during the holy month of Muharram. She is a poet in Bangla and a regular contributor to dailies and periodicals.

Ashima Sood, a Hyderabad-based writer and researcher on the urban, will highlight ways in which elements of religious and spiritual pluralism are woven into the lyrical and musical idioms, rites and modes of worship associated with community kirtan or devotional music practice in middle and lower middle class South Delhi
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) is a national, not-for-profit, grant-making organisation that supports practice, research and education in the arts in India. IFA’s mission is to enrich practice and knowledge, by widening public access to the arts while strengthening infrastructure of the arts in India by supporting innovative projects, commissioning research and creating public platforms. IFA has supported over 400 grants across twenty-one states disbursing over Rs 21 crore to both individuals and institutions under our various Programmes—Arts Research, Arts Practice and Arts Education and Archival and Museum Fellowships.
We invite you all to be part of IFA’s engagement with Hyderabad.
Hope to see you there!

Beta Customers / Reviewers / Visitors / Audience Networking

Are you looking for Beta Customers/ Users/ Visitors/ Early Adopters / Reviewers to validate / evaluate your Idea / Audio / Video / startup?

OR

Looking to become yourself as a Beta Customer / Audience / Visitor / User / Tester / Early Adopter / Reviewer of products & services or audio / video of other startups? Which ever side you are on, come join us in the Indian Startups Beta Club. The club provides you the platform to find Beta Customers or facilitates in becoming one.


Advantages for those looking for Beta Customers/Users:

As an entrepreneur / startup you are cash strapped and cannot afford to advertise / market your product or service. Also, you cannot grow your startup with out the necessary customers / users trying your products / services. This is where the Beta Club can help you. Join the club and find appropriate Beta customers and request them to evaluate your products and services in live / production environment.

Advantages in becoming a Beta Customer/User / Tester / Evaluator / Early Adopter:

You are interested in helping other entrepreneurs / startups succeed. While doing so you want to gain tangible or intangible benefits from these startups. Once you enroll in the Beta Club, you will gain access to many freebies from other startups. Essentially you will be enjoying the free products / services from these organization and still be able to help them grow.

This is a Win-Win for both who are looking for Beta Customers/ Users and for those who wish to enroll as Beta folks.

Come join us in the Beta Club and help each other. It is our community, we can grow together. Please RSVP on http://www.meetup.com/IndianStartups/events/222983534/

The Scriptwriting Lab is an ongoing series of weekend workshops with writers and film makers, where we discuss and practise the craft of writing for cinema.

Each session shall focus on a distinct aspect of scriptwriting in detail, with specific techniques and examples, and involving practise exercises followed by sharing/feedback.
The session is free and open to all.

LAMAKAAN LECTURE SERIES

invites you to

A Lecture on

"Stories from Behind the Walls of Prisons: A sorry state of Indian prison system"
by

Arun Ferreira

About the topic:

The life on the other side of the wall is very different. The prisoners are made to feel like slaves and each one is at the mercy of the authorities. The Indian prison system perpetuates many of the injustices of the penal system set up by the British. For example, inmates of foreign origin or of high caste and social status are routinely imprisoned under relatively better conditions and segregated from those inmates who are poorer and of lower social position. Tribal and Dalit inmates are subject to various forms of abuse, ranging from the denial of visitors and refusal to provide medical care, to prolonged labor, sexual harassment, rape and “concealed” physical and mental torture. Many of India’s prisons date back to the era of British colonial rule, with thousands of prisoners kept in crumbling facilities largely unchanged since the beginning of the last century. The only major all-Indian prison reform ever implemented dates back to the Indian Jails Committee of 1919-1920. This lecture dispels myths, misconceptions and many claims of reforms by the authorities and gives a personal account of the speaker on the gory, plight and merciful conditions of the Indian prisons.

Brief note about Arun Ferreira:

Arun Ferreira is an Indian political activist and cartoonist based in Mumbai. In 2007, he was branded as the leader of the propaganda and communications wing of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist). He was acquitted of all charges in 2014. Arun Ferreira was a free man. He reveals the horrors he faced in prison and describes how several others are facing similar situations all around India. He is the author of several articles and books. His recent book “Colors of the Cage: A Prison Memoir” is an eye-witness account of life in an Indian prison.

Entry - Free.

Lamakaan and Hyd Urban Lab invites you for an evening of film screening "Khayal Darpan - A Mirror of Imagination" by Yousuf Saeed.

Khayal Darpan, divided into four parts, totaling a 100 minutes, starts by exploring Pakistan's melodic past, especially in Lahore where south Asia's most famous musicians of early 20th century performed in large concerts as well as small baithaks (homely gatherings) and takias (shrines). It talks about the legendary Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Raushanara Begum, and Nazakat-Salamat Ali, and their discerning local audience who could not be pleased by any substandard music. The partition of India changed the scenario drastically as hundreds of musician families migrated from India to Pakistan, while many Hindu and Sikh patrons of music migrated the other way around. The film looks at the innovative ways in which the musicians struggled to keep their art alive for the new generations.

Synopsis:
While much of the literature on the Partition of India provides disturbing accounts of separation and violence, very little academic research has been done on its impact on the material culture of South Asia, especially the arts, music and other traditional forms. Since the apparent justification for the Partition, the ‘two-nation theory’, recognized Hindus and Muslims as two dissimilar communities unlikely to coexist, it was popularly assumed that the Indian Muslims migrating to Pakistan took with them whatever “belonged” to them, leaving behind the “purer” culture of the Hindus in India. As it seemed like the closing of a chapter on cultural co-existence, new chapters had to be written on both sides of the border to sort out what belonged to whom. North Indian classical music, along with other traditional cultural forms, had to bear the brunt of this tug of war, since it represented one of the most vigorous examples of cultural plurality, besides being practiced abundantly in the regions affected by the Partition.

Yousuf Saeed, an Indian filmmaker from Delhi, visited Pakistan in 2005 on research fellowship to explore the impact of 1947 partition on the cultural traditions, especially the classical music of the region. Spending over 5 month traveling through Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad - interviewing musicians and scholars, attending music concerts, and observing the teaching of music in various institutions, Yousuf not only managed to document some of the surviving practitioners and patrons of art music, but also raised many vital questions about cultural identity, nationalism, legitimacy of music in Islam, Pakistan's popular culture and its affairs with India, and the survival of classical music itself in South Asia. The result is a feature-length documentary film, Khayal Darpan, highlighting some well-known as well as many lesser known but talented musicians of Pakistan, breaking many stereotypes about the country.

About the Filmmaker:
Graduating from Jamia Millia’s Mass Communication Research Centre (Delhi), Yousuf Saeed started his career in television with the Times TV (Times of India) in 1990, co-directing the science series Turning Point. Later, Yousuf directed many documentary films for Doordarshan and other institutions, including a series on Ladakh and one on the Sufi poet Amir Khusrau. His short films Basant, The Train to Heaven and others have been shown at prestigious international venues such as the universities of Harvard, Boston, Columbia, Chicago, Texas (in the US) and of Heidelberg (Germany), and Vienna (Austria). His other recent films are Qasba Sanskriti: Amroha, Making of the Taj, and Khusrau Darya Prem Ka, among others. He also wrote the illustrated book Muslim Devotional Art in India (Routledge, 2012). More details about Yousuf Saeed at www.yousufsaeed.com
Contact the filmmaker: saeed.yousuf@gmail.com

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Inviting all for an "a Talk on Cyber crime: Threat and Prevention" by Mr.U Ramamohan SP Cyber Crime, CID, Hyderabad.

Living in the world of 3G, everyone today is virtually active. With the rise of people getting virtually active the risk of cyber crime is increasing side-by-side. It is good to be connected to cyber world but with that most important is to know how to prevent oneself from getting trapped and from becoming a victim of cyber crime. This evening, the cyber crime C.I.D S.P Mr. Ram Mohan shares his experiences and his knowledge about types of cyber crime happening these days and he shares ways to get prevented.

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