Lamakaan

Verba Maximus, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus’s pride and soul, is the national annual literary fest conducted every year. The words, ‘Verba Maximus’, are Latin for “Words of the Greatest” and right from the pro-shows andevents to the competitors and organisers,everything lives up to this title. We have conducted five successful editions of this fest,and the sixth edition – Verba Maximus ’17 – is
much awaited!

As part of our tradition to hold regional competitions for Verba Maximus in major cities across India, the Hyderabad Regional leg will be conducted on the 7th of January, at Lamakaan, with Spell Bee and Debate as events. Open to all age groups, and prizes to be won, this event is not one to miss!

Please post this for Saturday 7th January 2017 - 4 to 7 PM. Write Club, Hyderabad is a meetup group in the laid-back city of Hyderabad which is the perfect place to bring your story out. We’re a hangout group for all the writers of Hyderabad to sit together and spend a lazy Saturday afternoon in the best possible way – Writing

K-Circle's monthly Non-Competitive Quiz held at Lamakaan. Everybody is welcome.

Mohit Dubey is a young classical guitarist and physicist in the making from Los Alamos, New Mexico. A student of Roberto Capocchi at New Mexico School for the Arts and Stephen Aron at the famous Oberlin Conservatory (Ohio).
Mohit has played concerts across the world - from Santa Fe to Italy to Jordan. As the son of Indian and German scientists, Mohit is excited about using music as a means of expression and storytelling across cultural differences.
There will be music from every era of the guitar and as many continents as he can get his hands on (Bach, Regondi, Dyens…). He might even include Bhajans, arranged for guitar, and some pop music.

Ghuku is a Bengali play about the inmates of an orphanage. Over the last few days, the inmates Tagor, Durba and Sharot see an old lady suspiciously moving around their ashram (orphanage) late in the evening. When they ask her, she says she is a GhunteyKurani – Ghuku – the dung collector. Is she the same Daini (witch) of the fairy tales of Thakurmar Jhuli? The kids wonder. They have heard those stories so many times from Bardi (chief warden). Debanando, the caretaker, feels the presence of some supernatural being inside the house. The kids think it must be Ghuku. There is something mysterious about the landline in this ashram. Debanando, at times, keeps the telephone connection open. He thinks that the stories of demons come alive and become more interesting if he keeps the connection open. Suparna comes in the night for an interview for the PA’s post. The same night Rajeswari from the Women and Child Welfare Department informs Bardi that an earlier inmate Parul has gone missing. The needle of suspicion of an illegal trafficking racket points to Bardi. Suparna suspiciously moves around the house and talks to Shakil Bhai on phone. Auto driver Rajkumar brings a distraught Parul in the middle of the night. Is she going to be safe here in the ashram? Or will all hell break loose on the inmates of the ashram?
Playwright & Director: Anindya Biswas

Learn to make a simple kite for yourself this Sankranthi with Ms Malvika and Ms Vandana of Books n More .This craft session is for children in the ages of 5 and above.Fee for the workshop (including materials ) is Rs 100 .

The teen years mark the beginning of our trail of tales where we start weaving our interesting encounters into stories. So join us and share your tales with us in another Lamakaan chapter!
Please keep your story to less than 10 minutes in length, so we all have time to participate.
Dont bother censoring it - coz we aint the moral police 🙂

ENTRY: RS 100
Online Payment Link: https://imjo.in/m55ec8
Or PAYTM the entry fee to mobile number 7680993179

Oil paintings exhibition

Jagdamba Prasad(JP), the thrice-married collector of Tikamganj Dist. has received a letter from his brother-in-law stating that an inspector has to arrive secretly in his district to enquire about his corrupt practices and his associates. At the same time, he apprehends that the inspector might have arrived already in the town in disguise. The story revolves around a young man 'Kewal who is mistaken as the inspector by JP and his associates. The hilarious take on corruption and how easily one can be fooled by an imposter is what makes this act interesting. this pun-intended satirical comedy is a roller coaster ride to the much-needed laughter break.

Adaption of 'Government Inspector' By 'Nikolai Gogole'
Adapted by - Sai Paranjpye
Design & Direction - Subhash Gupta

cast
Subhash Gupta
Pushpesh Pant
Anumeha Rai
Vidyasagar
Nikhil Jhadav
Suvigya Agarwal
Niteesh Pandey
Varun Gyanchandani & more.


Contact # 9700074079

Renowned activist and journalist Teesta Setalvad will discuss the Rohith Act and examine solutions to end caste based discrimination and oppression in educational institutions across the country.

Renowned activist and journalist Teesta Setalvad will be conducting a workshop on alternative journalism, how to work the mainstream media and carry out investigative work in the era of paid news.

Renowned activist and journalist Teesta Setalvad examines the proposed Gujarat Protection of Internal Security Act.

The provisions of the act are draconian on several counts; they negate the fundamental rights of citizens and go against the grain and spirit of the Constitution of India! The proposals include that:

-The Government can take action against caste groups, communities promoting ‘sectarian interests’

-All offences under the new law will be non-bailable.

-People can be arrested merely on suspicion of being a ‘threat to internal security.’

-No legal proceedings against security agencies can be initiated for action taken ‘in ‘good faith.’

-Both public and private establishments can be put under electronic surveillance

-The Government can create security zones with special policing powers.

In short, the proposed legislation literally suspends all civil rights and gives the police unbridled powers to arrest anyone ‘on suspicion’.

Night school on patriarchy and violence against women.

Bengalaru – another woman molested caught on CCTV camera, silenced by male mob! The latest in a black series of violence targeting women across the country. What’s wrong with this Pan-Indian abuse of Indian women?

Dr. Fatima Shahnaz, Professor, author, journalist and international human rights activist will talk on, and read excerpts from, her two upcoming books to be published called “The Bride Burning” and its sequel, “Girl, Reconstructed”. These two autobiographical narratives tell of her own experience as a battered wife and mother, and how she reconstructed a shattered life as a single parent after the trauma of violence. The books explore the dark side of the toxic legacy of warped cultural conventions and systemic abuse of women. The Bride Burning focuses on psychic and physical abuse; Girl, Reconstructed on the need for reform from obsolete patriarchal systems of male-dominance. Dr. Shahnaz, who grew up in the West but returned to her native Indian culture examines the relativist values and discrimination of women in both West and East.

First Talk (12th Jan): The root-causes of violence: family abuse and discrimination against the girl-child; cultural indoctrination and brainwashing; the fear psychosis instilled in women. Gender selection and female feticide. Societal judgmentalism.

Second Talk(18th Jan): Socio-political cynicism; police and political apparatus. Institutional male chauvinism : Blame-the-Victim attitudes; Sexual objectification of women; role of the media in projecting demeaning stereotypes of gender; pornography of violence.

Third Talk (19th Jan):Dangerous era of public inured to violence and gender discrimination. Corruption and delinquency in male youth. The psychic scars of trauma on victims and need for holistic healing and solutions; time for reform and attitudinal change. Support and rehabilitation of victims through state, community and family networks … and much more on the ugly truth about the conspiracy of silence!

An exclusive handwriting improvement skill workshop, organised by Institute of graphology, will be conducted by renowned graphologist, author and academician Dr. B. Rout and team for the school and college students at Lamakaan from 5pm to 7pm on 13th Jan 2017. For details contact 9000006689 Course fee Rs.200 First come first basis. Limited seats (30 only)

A theatre workshop production-

Lottery is a play adapted from a Hindustani short story written by the Indian author Premchand.

The story presents experiences of the school teacher, his friend Vikram's, and Vikram's extended family's.The teacher and Vikram discuss the lottery and speculate over their actions if either were to win a prize.

Contesting Images of Futures of India : A Historical Overview ( 19th and 20th Century)
Divyaraj Amiya, M. Phil. University of Yuebingen, Germany

Concentrating more on the images of futures of India in the works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1905), Mahatma Gandhi, Rahul Sankrityayana till Charu Mazumdar, Lohia and Vinoba Bhave attempt will be made to revisit the gaps between the projected futures of pre- and post-colonial India and the experienced reality of today. How can this hindsight help us in uncovering the underlying maps of teleological assumptions, units of analyses and areas of concern that were at the centre of their literery and political efforts ? Can this journey back to "ourselves" wil help us in narrowing the gaps between the projections of future today and the experienced reality of tomorrow ?


Prof Divyaraj Amiya is reader for Hindi at the Dept. of Indology and Comparative Religion, University of Tuebingen (Germany).

Please post this for Saturday 14th January 2017 - 4 to 7 PM

Write Club Hyderabad helps you pen your thoughts, spill your mind and finally make an appointment with the writer in your head. We conduct free, weekly events that foster writing. Our Meetups aim at helping writers reach their goals in a supportive, collaborative, social setting.

Writing doesn't have to be all by oneself. We welcome anyone who writes, regardless of genre, language or age. We have members writing novels, short stories, poetry, screenplays, essays, school reports and more.

What we do, basically: One of the members of Write Club (anyone with a participation count over 2 consecutive meetups) hosts a session. They bring forth a theme and writing exercises. We all then write to the host’s prompts and guidelines for about an hour. Once we're done writing, we read out our write-ups (optional). We also exchange feedback and constructively critique each other's works. Entry is free, anyone with an interest in writing can walk in. Bring your writing devices and we’re all set! We promise to provide you with good coffee and a super-creative conversation. We have Write Club sessions every Saturday afternoon – 4 PM to 7 PM

Playback singers Anudeep & Lipsika will be performing few beautiful melodies from bollywood movies (Old/New) unplugged style.

April 4, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is always watching. A haunting, shockingly timely look at a future that seems disturbingly present. We have already committed a thought crime! The Lord Chamberlain's Men presents a stage adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece '1984'. A radical and much lauded staging exploring surveillance, identity and why Orwell’s vision of the future is as relevant now as ever.

This exhibition showcases series of hand drawn doodles on the theme - The Happiness Project, which revolve around Habits.

In the year 2016 I read lot of different books. The best two books which I like the most are The Happiness Project & Better than before written by Gretchen Rubin. These books have inspired me to make a series of doodle on Habits.

I hope these will inspire you too!

The Expendable People (Hindi/2016/58mins) Dir. Tapan Bose. The film documents the continuing struggle of the Adivasis for their right to life and dignity using rare archival footage and interviews with anthropologist, Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf. It focuses on a moment of hope when the government brought in the Forest Rights Act 2006 to right 'historic wrongs', but how the justice framework got nullified by vested interests so as to protect the interests of 'developers'.

Duration:58 Mins

Screening will be followed by an interaction with the director. Entry Free. All are welcome

April 4, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is always watching. A haunting, shockingly timely look at a future that seems disturbingly present. We have already committed a thought crime! The Lord Chamberlain's Men presents a stage adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece '1984'. A radical and much lauded staging exploring surveillance, identity and why Orwell’s vision of the future is as relevant now as ever.

1st Film Screening
Le Nouveau (The New Kid by Rudi Rosenberg), Coming of age story | 2014, 1 h 21 min (For all)

Benoit is the new kid at a junior high school. His first week turns out not the way he'd hoped.
He's bullied by a gang of arrogant popular boys, led by Charles, who make things difficult for him, and the only students who treat him with any kindness are the "losers."
Fortunately there's Johanna, a pretty Swedish girl, with whom Benoit forms a friendship. But just when he falls under her spell, she joins Charles' gang.
Following his uncle's advice, Benoit organizes a big party and invites the whole class. It will provide an opportunity to become popular and to see Johanna again.


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Panel Discussion on The Roots of The Periphery, A History of the Gonds of Deccan India, the new book by Bhangya Bhukya.

Panelists: Kalpana Kannabiran, Kancha Iliah, Susie Tharu

Night school on patriarchy and violence against women.

Bengalaru – another woman molested caught on CCTV camera, silenced by male mob! The latest in a black series of violence targeting women across the country. What’s wrong with this Pan-Indian abuse of Indian women?

Dr. Fatima Shahnaz, Professor, author, journalist and international human rights activist will talk on, and read excerpts from, her two upcoming books to be published called “The Bride Burning” and its sequel, “Girl, Reconstructed”. These two autobiographical narratives tell of her own experience as a battered wife and mother, and how she reconstructed a shattered life as a single parent after the trauma of violence. The books explore the dark side of the toxic legacy of warped cultural conventions and systemic abuse of women. The Bride Burning focuses on psychic and physical abuse; Girl, Reconstructed on the need for reform from obsolete patriarchal systems of male-dominance. Dr. Shahnaz, who grew up in the West but returned to her native Indian culture examines the relativist values and discrimination of women in both West and East.

First Talk (12th Jan): The root-causes of violence: family abuse and discrimination against the girl-child; cultural indoctrination and brainwashing; the fear psychosis instilled in women. Gender selection and female feticide. Societal judgmentalism.

Second Talk(18th Jan): Socio-political cynicism; police and political apparatus. Institutional male chauvinism : Blame-the-Victim attitudes; Sexual objectification of women; role of the media in projecting demeaning stereotypes of gender; pornography of violence.

Third Talk (19th Jan):Dangerous era of public inured to violence and gender discrimination. Corruption and delinquency in male youth. The psychic scars of trauma on victims and need for holistic healing and solutions; time for reform and attitudinal change.

It is a shirt film based on love story
Directed by chandu
Dip utthej
Producer prtahyusha

Night school on patriarchy and violence against women.

Bengalaru – another woman molested caught on CCTV camera, silenced by male mob! The latest in a black series of violence targeting women across the country. What’s wrong with this Pan-Indian abuse of Indian women?

Dr. Fatima Shahnaz, Professor, author, journalist and international human rights activist will talk on, and read excerpts from, her two upcoming books to be published called “The Bride Burning” and its sequel, “Girl, Reconstructed”. These two autobiographical narratives tell of her own experience as a battered wife and mother, and how she reconstructed a shattered life as a single parent after the trauma of violence. The books explore the dark side of the toxic legacy of warped cultural conventions and systemic abuse of women. The Bride Burning focuses on psychic and physical abuse; Girl, Reconstructed on the need for reform from obsolete patriarchal systems of male-dominance. Dr. Shahnaz, who grew up in the West but returned to her native Indian culture examines the relativist values and discrimination of women in both West and East.

First Talk (12th Jan): The root-causes of violence: family abuse and discrimination against the girl-child; cultural indoctrination and brainwashing; the fear psychosis instilled in women. Gender selection and female feticide. Societal judgmentalism.

Second Talk(18th Jan): Socio-political cynicism; police and political apparatus. Institutional male chauvinism : Blame-the-Victim attitudes; Sexual objectification of women; role of the media in projecting demeaning stereotypes of gender; pornography of violence.

Third Talk (19th Jan):Dangerous era of public inured to violence and gender discrimination. Corruption and delinquency in male youth. The psychic scars of trauma on victims and need for holistic healing and solutions; time for reform and attitudinal change.

Feminist Street Theatre – Histories and Stories
A Presentation on Feminist Street Theatre during the 1970s & 80s in Delhi by Deepti Priya Mehrotra
Friday, January 20, 2017 | 05:30 PM

The late 1970s and 80s was a particularly fertile time for street plays, within the context of a vibrant women’s movement. Deeply political plays were created by ordinary women, from colleges, bastis and women’s groups, in Delhi, and performed hundreds of times. Actor-activist memories provide occasions to explore theatre as activism, as education and art. Revisiting vintage drama scripts feels meaningful, for the history they embody and the power they still exude.

Deepti is an independent scholar and a Fellow at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, researching towards a book on a spectrum of social movements in India of the ’70s and ’80s. Her publications include, Gulab Bai the Queen of Nautanki Theatre, Burning Bright: Irom Sharmila and the Struggle for Peace in Manipur and Home Truths: Stories of Single Mothers.

Sampurna Trust received a grant, with Deepti Priya Mehrotra as the Principal Investigator, under the Arts Research programme of India Foundation for the Arts, with part support from South Asia Women’s Fund.

Felicity, IIIT Hyderabad's annual techno-cultural fest is back on the 27th to the 29th of January.
This edition we have added a Battle of Bands competition and this is the precursor to that event. This event is a precursor for Battle of Bands.

Band Name : Nishabdh
Band Members : Arya Mihir Singh, Vivek Kaushal, Kshitij Gupta, Sourabh Rajguru, Shovan Swain, Anshul Gupta
Genre : Aleternative Acoustic Music
"We Grew Up" - Felicity Theme Song

This is an anual event conducted every year in the month of January. It's a great get together for all hams in and around Hyderabad.

Please post this for Saturday 21st January 2017 - 3 to 6 PM Write Club Hyderabad helps you pen your thoughts, spill your mind and finally make an appointment with the writer in your head. We conduct free, weekly events that foster writing. Our Meetups aim at helping writers reach their goals in a supportive, collaborative, social setting. Writing doesn't have to be all by oneself. We welcome anyone who writes, regardless of genre, language or age. We have members writing novels, short stories, poetry, screenplays, essays, school reports and more. What we do, basically: One of the members of Write Club (anyone with a participation count over 2 consecutive meetups) hosts a session. They bring forth a theme and writing exercises. We all then write to the host’s prompts and guidelines for about an hour. Once we're done writing, we read out our write-ups (optional). We also exchange feedback and constructively critique each other's works. Entry is free, anyone with an interest in writing can walk in. Bring your writing devices and we’re all set! We promise to provide you with good coffee and a super-creative conversation. We have Write Club sessions every Saturday afternoon – 3 PM to 6 PM

Personal Life, Familial Life, Academic Life, Professional Life, Occupational Life and Social Life are the various aspects of life a given individual has to deal with at various points of time in his/her life. It is but natural that while dealing with these aspects of one's life, one gets into a lot of dilemmas, most of which are demonstrably self-created.

"How to Resolve Dilemmas" is a Workshop during which the attendees are invited to present various dilemmas and the Conductor of the Workshop shall analyse various aspects of those dilemmas with the objective of arriving at a specific method that can help one in the process of resolving each one of those said dilemmas.

The Workshop is highly interactive. It is meant for people of all age groups and walks of life and IT IS FREE.

BABA FARID MIR PROJECT

About the Mirs

The Mirs are a music community based in the Pugal region of Rajasthan. Hereditary singers
of the Sufiyana Kalam, the Mirs have been known for their passionate and intimate renderings
of the compositions of the Sufi mystics such as Baba Sheikh Farid, Sain Bulleh Shah, Hazrat
Shah Hussain, Hazrat Sultan Bahu, Ali Haider and Khwaja Ghulam Farid. They have been
musicians of the common people, serving as mediums of devotion and harbingers of peace,
hope and love through the ecstatic performances of the bhajans and vanis of Meera, Kabir,
Gorakhnath, Baba Ramdev and Achalram, which form part of the wider repertoire of the
Mirs. Their songs are mostly in Siraiki, a dialect of West Punjab which has strong affinity with Sindhi and Punjabi. In addition to their singing, the Mirs are deft players of the been (a
kind of bagpipe) and algoza (a double barrel wind instrument). Most of these compositions
stress on love as the basis of the relationship with God, nature and other living things.

The Sufi traditions of the Mirs have primarily been traditions of dissent and have flowered on the margins of mainstream life.

Performers:

Nazru Khan, Abdul Jabbar, Antar Khan, Manji Khan, Bassu Khan, Mode Khan and Sattar Khan.

About the Baba Farid Mir project:

The Baba Farid Mir project brings together the families of Mir musicians and their patrons scattered across the Bikaner region, in an attempt to reinvigorate their musical tradition. From October 2015 to December 2016, a core team of senior as well as young artists along with patrons undertook a yatra across the far flung Mir strongholds in the Bikaner region towards facilitating musical interchanges,community interactions and mapping of musical opportunities within cultural festivals and events.

This performance is part of the Baba Farid Mir project supported under the Arts Practice programme of India Foundation for the Arts, funded by Infosys Foundation.

Do It Yourself (DIY) - The Magical products
A workshop on handmade products to know how one can make the best from anything.

DIY segments:
Cushions; Creative Shewing; Journals; Greetings; Paper bags; Gift items; Plant hoarders; Lampshades
Pen stands; Apparels; Furnitures; Interior; Jewellery; Kitchen & Handicrafts

Why: Upcoming artists or the beginners who want to learn how to make the best from anything
-Homemakers who want to utilize their free time to bring out their creativity
-Who wants to become a full-time professional!
-Who wants to showcase their artistic skills!
-Who wants to turn passion into career!
-Who wants to build useful connections!
-Who wants to get a chance to work with ThinkMagical too!

Agenda: Briefing on TM; Members Introduction; Presentations; Q&As; Tea/Snacks

Fee: INR 50 per person [for Tea & Snacks and TM's Social Responsibility events]

Those who wants to showcase your product/talent, please bring material/products. For further details, you can contact 8179992806 / thinkmagicalindia@gmail.com

Web: www.thinkmagical.in
FB: www.fb.com/thinkmagicalindia

In Memory of Janab Wahabuddin Siddique, a very active champion of water bodies particularly Firangi Nala and Yerra Kunta, we gather for Remembrance and Lunch.

Yours Queerly: A discussion with psychologists is a friendly meet between Parents, Families, Friends and allied of Queer folks who would not otherwise sought help from Psychologists. It's a space where friends and families of queer folks gather and discuss freely with the specialists and remove any inhibitions about LGBTQIA+ (Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transgenders, Gender Queer, Intersex, Asexuals and etc), and make the world a better place to live for queer folks.

India holds the dubious distinction of having the highest number of road accident deaths. There is an urgent need for us as a society to be more aware of the issues and involved so that our roads become safer and lives are saved. There will be a open discussion followed by screening of some road safety films.

Darpan Theatre Presents

Visibly Invisible (An evening of three monologues)

1. मैं मुसलमान-
Written By: Shri Hubnath Pandey
Performed By Rajnish Songara

वक़्त सबको एक साथ रखता है, वो हम है जो फ़र्क करते है | पहले दोस्ती और फिर मज़हब हालात और रिश्ते |

2.Asmita-
Written and Performed By: Shailja Chaturvedi

Asmita is a monologue performed by Shailja Chaturvedi. It is a story of a rape victim who loses her her mind and does something which she never expected from herself. An act which not only revolves around a girl who is victimized for a heinous act, they call it “Rape”. But also, questions the whole institution on which the society works. The act shows how the victim faces problems in leading a normal life again and how the society remains indifferent about it. It talks about the repercussions of two types of crimes. One which the man who raped has committed and the other committed by the girl victim. How the whole agenda of the society changes. And how the victim finally loses the battle with the society, herself and her life!!

3. I v/s Me-
Written By: Tilak Bobby
Performed By Ali Ahmed

A 10 years old guy forsaken by parents’ had to face life alone. There is a debate within his soul. This play depicts the course of events that turned him to what his heart really does not want to be.

Je ne suis pas un salud (A Decent Man by Emmanuel Finkiel) | 2015, 1 h 51 min (Above 12+)

After he is violently attacked in the street, Eddie wrongly identifies Ahmed, an ideal suspect whom he'd noticed a few days before the attack. While the legal machine gets underway with Ahmed, Eddie attempts to win back his wife and son through a new job. But Eddie soon becomes aware of the seriousness of his accusation and he'll do anything to establish the truth - even if it means he risks losing everything.

Anupam a visually challenged musician will be enthralling us with performance of Jazz, Blues, Rock & Indian fusion.

On the occasion of 68th Republic Day of India, a panel discussion titled "Constitutional Rights & Continuous Violations" to examine how the Indian State has failed its citizens.

Panelists:

Malini Subramaniam; Journalist. Malini has extensively covered the conflict in Bastar and has highlighted issues like police brutality, humans rights voilations

Padmaja Shaw: Retd Prof of Journalism, Osmania
University

K. Savitri, Advocate and member of the rights advocacy group Telangana Democratic Forum

Screening of Bommalollu - The Puppeteers, a documentary film on the surviving artists of Chekka Bommalata from Warangal district of Telangana State.

Zentangle:Art of meditational tangling.


The Zentangle Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns.

Almost anyone can use it to create beautiful images. It increases focus and creativity, provides artistic satisfaction along with an increased sense of personal well being. The Zentangle Method is enjoyed all over this world across a wide range of skills, interests and ages.

We believe that life is an art form and that our Zentangle Method is an elegant metaphor for deliberate artistry in life.

Fee:Rs.300

"Sports Podium" is a Part of "The Sports Carnival" (Sports Conference & Expo). Sports Podium is a Monthly Event in which Experts, Influencers, Sports Personalities, Companies, Players, Coaches, Start Ups, Aspirants and Enthusiasts will attend as Speakers and also audience.

Main aim of the Event is to Promote Sports from India.

Samahaara
presents

Ajay Shukla's "TAJ MAHAL KA TENDER", a hilarious play in Hindi

Directed by Rathna Shekar Reddy

Date: 28th Jan 2017
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Hyd.

Donation Rs.100/-

The play bravely takes on a situation where Emperor Shah Jahan is living in contemporary India. He decides to build Taj Mahal in the memory of his beloved Mumtaz Mahal. The succeeding chain of events takes the Emperor through all the red-tape and bureaucratic hurdles possible within the political machinery. Would he succeed in building this monument? What happens to his dream project - forms the crux of the play.

On June 12, 1817 the first bicycle was run in the town of Baden by its inventor, Karl Draise. Since then there have been millions of bicycle enthusiasts and in 2017 a very large number of events celebrating the occasion will occur all over the world.

From an ecological perspective the bicycle is one of the most sustainable and affordable mode of transport. Almost any one can afford it. It is cheaper than a smart phone! It is the transport of the future particularly when oil resources are depleting.

We at Ecologise Hysderabad will also like to celebrate the event. We open the year with a film show ‘The Bicycle-A Celebration of the Invention’. It will be followed by different people presenting the scene in Hyderabad and we hope that it will end up with forming a committee to celebrate the event in Hyderabad through out the year.

All bicycle enthusiasts are welcome!

Civil liberties and Human Rights activist,Gautam Navlakha would be sharing updates on the recent developments in Kashmir.

"SERIAL KILLER" a short play by children.

Date: 29th Jan 2017
Time: 6.00pm
Venue: Lamakaan Stage.
Language: English
Duration : 20 minutes

The play is about the addiction of daily serials. The play conveys a strong message through a series of comic incidents.

Entry Free. All are Welcome.

Performance by students of Aradhana Kharade & Suhas Sastry followed by Carnatic Music Concert by Pardhasaradhi N Ch.

N.Ch. Pardhasaradhi, an illustrious carnatic musician for the past 35 years, was born into a
family where Carnatic music thrived for many generations as a lineage. His mother Smt.
Ramanjamma is a famous violist and student of Susarla Dakshinamurthi. His teacher and uncle
‘Sangeetha Sahitya Kalanidhi’ N.Ch. Krishnamacharyulu, a famous musician and literary
composer, belongs the lineage of Saint Tyagaraja and is the 5th generation student descendant of the great saint.

Rohith Vemula - a research scholar at University of Hyderabad committed suicide which the community calls 'Institutional Murder'. So what is his story? What he suffered? Why did he sacrificed his life? Who are responsible for it ? Discover Rohith Vemula in this documentary!

Director: Srikanth Chintala
Editor: sreekar J
Camera: Amit Raj, Sandeep T, Kiran Krishnan
Co-written : PR
Background Score : Suhas Remo

Occasion -
Renowned urdu poet
Shaz tamkanat s birthday .
31 st jan 2017 at 7 pm.
Sham - e. -ghazal .
Singer - varsi brothers and few more singers .

World Wetlands Day is celebrated every year on 2 February. This day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Wetlands provide significant economic, social and cultural benefits. They are important for primary products such as grasslands, timber and fish. Wetlands also help reduce the impacts from storm damage and flooding, maintain good water quality in rivers, recharge groundwater, store carbon, help stabilize climatic conditions and control pests.

Wetlands are home to many special plants, birds, fish and frogs. Wetlands provide essential habitat for rare or important species such as the endangered Spoonbill Sandpiper or the Baer’s Pochard. They are an important stopover for many migratory birds and many species rely on the regular flooding cycles of wetlands (such as those on inland floodplains) to reproduce. Some plants and animals live only in particular types of wetlands, for example, in mangroves, saltmarshes or hanging swamps.

We welcome you to join us on this important day for a talk by the Honorable Secretary of Birdwatchers Society of AP Mr. Shafaat Ulla.

Three short films

1. La convention de Genève / The Geneva Convention by Benoît Martin | 2016 | 15 min

2. Le Dernier des Céfrans / The Last Frenchman by Pierre-Emmanuel Urcun | 2015 | 30 min 17 seconds

3. La Bande à Juliette / Juliet's Band by Pierre-Emmanuel Urcun | 2016 | 48 min

Online film festival - 28 films, 10 languages.

MyFrenchFilmFestival is the 1st online French Film Festival, accessible to Web users around the world.

Ten recent French feature films and ten French short films will be broadcasted in the festival competition, and 7 films out of competition.

The films will be presented in their original version subtitled in 10 languages including German, English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian.

3 prizes will be awarded at the close of the festival: an audience award, an international director prize and an International Press prize.

What after 1oth and 12th?
A career counselling workshop is organised by Education Empower Club, Hyderabad for grade 10 and 12 students at Lamakaan on 3rd Feb from 5 pm to 7pm. The workshop will be led by Dr R. B Anand and team. Entry fee Rs200.

Intezaar is a two-part radio play written by Saadat Hasan Manto. This light-hearted play represents the writer in a much different light than he is recognised for.

Intezaar is the story of a boy who is preparing for the visit of his girlfriend and his dialogue with himself in the process and what happens when the girl does not come in the end.

Intezaar ka Doosra Rukh is the girlfriend's story explaining the difficulties she faces in coming to meet with her boyfriend.

This talk is to connect consumers with farmers. As we all know there is price fluctuations very on and off, still we carry on and take those issues as just a news. But to make people understand the gaps and reasons for the price fluctuations and how much farmers get in the cost we are paying and is that amount even near to the investment he has done.

Please help post this for Saturday 4th February 2017 - 3 to 6 PM Write Club Hyderabad helps you pen your thoughts, spill your mind and finally make an appointment with the writer in your head. We conduct free, weekly events that foster writing. Our Meetups aim at helping writers reach their goals in a supportive, collaborative, social setting. Writing doesn't have to be all by oneself. We welcome anyone who writes, regardless of genre, language or age. We have members writing novels, short stories, poetry, screenplays, essays, school reports and more. What we do, basically: One of the members of Write Club (anyone with a participation count over 2 consecutive meetups) hosts a session. They bring forth a theme and writing exercises. We all then write to the host’s prompts and guidelines for about an hour. Once we're done writing, we read out our write-ups (optional). We also exchange feedback and constructively critique each other's works. Entry is free, anyone with an interest in writing can walk in. Bring your writing devices and we’re all set! We promise to provide you with good coffee and a super-creative conversation. We have Write Club sessions every Saturday afternoon – 3 PM to 6 PM

Online Violence Against Women: Challenges and Solution is the topic of event. There would be screening of a documentary/ movie followed by panel discussion.
There may be the gathering of around 50-80 people for this event on 4 Feb 2017, 3.30-6pm

K-Circle's monthly Non-Competitive Quiz held at Lamakaan. Everybody is welcome

Public interaction with prospective students, faculty and parents for information regarding symbiosis school for liberal arts, Pune. SSLA hosts public seminars to provide information regarding admission procedure, program structure, curricular and extra-curricular activities, academic requirements and internationalization and career growth. All students of std X,XI and XII are welcome to receive guidance for the liberal arts program at symbiosis, Pune.

Queer carnival an inclusive event which focuses on sensitizing people over LGBTQ community issues.
The event consists of flea market stalls which sell hand-made items, Culturals (Theater, monologues, dance and singing) which is message-centric, and Art exhibition.
If you want to rent a stall or have any queries about stall, please write to queercampushyd@gmail.com or call on 9959518885
Please fill the form in the following link to rent a stall and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSet76uCqTJEsFArAon3Td610eDd06QgEV2QeOC1iUQLG-4rqQ/viewform

If you want to be part of culturals like Theater, monologues, poetry reading, dance and singing, please write to us on queercampushyd@gmail.com
Call for performers - register yourselves here
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfI_Haj4yRrLPNCA22CgeNvOA5diwxlo-FB5snNtt8IH6xpTQ/viewform

If you are an artiste and want to showcase your paintings - write to us on queercampushyd@gmail.com

This is how the Queer Carnival - 2017 is going to be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie86zO2uvQs

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

Verba Maximus, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus’s pride and soul, is the national annual literary fest conducted every year. The words, ‘Verba Maximus’, are Latin for “Words of the Greatest” and right from the pro-shows andevents to the competitors and organisers,everything lives up to this title. We have conducted five successful editions of this fest,and the sixth edition – Verba Maximus ’17 – is
much awaited!

As part of our tradition to hold regional competitions for Verba Maximus in major cities across India, the Hyderabad Regional leg will be conducted on the 7th of January, at Lamakaan, with Spell Bee and Debate as events. Open to all age groups, and prizes to be won, this event is not one to miss!

Please post this for Saturday 7th January 2017 - 4 to 7 PM. Write Club, Hyderabad is a meetup group in the laid-back city of Hyderabad which is the perfect place to bring your story out. We’re a hangout group for all the writers of Hyderabad to sit together and spend a lazy Saturday afternoon in the best possible way – Writing

K-Circle's monthly Non-Competitive Quiz held at Lamakaan. Everybody is welcome.

Mohit Dubey is a young classical guitarist and physicist in the making from Los Alamos, New Mexico. A student of Roberto Capocchi at New Mexico School for the Arts and Stephen Aron at the famous Oberlin Conservatory (Ohio).
Mohit has played concerts across the world - from Santa Fe to Italy to Jordan. As the son of Indian and German scientists, Mohit is excited about using music as a means of expression and storytelling across cultural differences.
There will be music from every era of the guitar and as many continents as he can get his hands on (Bach, Regondi, Dyens…). He might even include Bhajans, arranged for guitar, and some pop music.

Ghuku is a Bengali play about the inmates of an orphanage. Over the last few days, the inmates Tagor, Durba and Sharot see an old lady suspiciously moving around their ashram (orphanage) late in the evening. When they ask her, she says she is a GhunteyKurani – Ghuku – the dung collector. Is she the same Daini (witch) of the fairy tales of Thakurmar Jhuli? The kids wonder. They have heard those stories so many times from Bardi (chief warden). Debanando, the caretaker, feels the presence of some supernatural being inside the house. The kids think it must be Ghuku. There is something mysterious about the landline in this ashram. Debanando, at times, keeps the telephone connection open. He thinks that the stories of demons come alive and become more interesting if he keeps the connection open. Suparna comes in the night for an interview for the PA’s post. The same night Rajeswari from the Women and Child Welfare Department informs Bardi that an earlier inmate Parul has gone missing. The needle of suspicion of an illegal trafficking racket points to Bardi. Suparna suspiciously moves around the house and talks to Shakil Bhai on phone. Auto driver Rajkumar brings a distraught Parul in the middle of the night. Is she going to be safe here in the ashram? Or will all hell break loose on the inmates of the ashram?
Playwright & Director: Anindya Biswas

Learn to make a simple kite for yourself this Sankranthi with Ms Malvika and Ms Vandana of Books n More .This craft session is for children in the ages of 5 and above.Fee for the workshop (including materials ) is Rs 100 .

The teen years mark the beginning of our trail of tales where we start weaving our interesting encounters into stories. So join us and share your tales with us in another Lamakaan chapter!
Please keep your story to less than 10 minutes in length, so we all have time to participate.
Dont bother censoring it - coz we aint the moral police 🙂

ENTRY: RS 100
Online Payment Link: https://imjo.in/m55ec8
Or PAYTM the entry fee to mobile number 7680993179

Oil paintings exhibition

Jagdamba Prasad(JP), the thrice-married collector of Tikamganj Dist. has received a letter from his brother-in-law stating that an inspector has to arrive secretly in his district to enquire about his corrupt practices and his associates. At the same time, he apprehends that the inspector might have arrived already in the town in disguise. The story revolves around a young man 'Kewal who is mistaken as the inspector by JP and his associates. The hilarious take on corruption and how easily one can be fooled by an imposter is what makes this act interesting. this pun-intended satirical comedy is a roller coaster ride to the much-needed laughter break.

Adaption of 'Government Inspector' By 'Nikolai Gogole'
Adapted by - Sai Paranjpye
Design & Direction - Subhash Gupta

cast
Subhash Gupta
Pushpesh Pant
Anumeha Rai
Vidyasagar
Nikhil Jhadav
Suvigya Agarwal
Niteesh Pandey
Varun Gyanchandani & more.


Contact # 9700074079

Renowned activist and journalist Teesta Setalvad will discuss the Rohith Act and examine solutions to end caste based discrimination and oppression in educational institutions across the country.

Renowned activist and journalist Teesta Setalvad will be conducting a workshop on alternative journalism, how to work the mainstream media and carry out investigative work in the era of paid news.

Renowned activist and journalist Teesta Setalvad examines the proposed Gujarat Protection of Internal Security Act.

The provisions of the act are draconian on several counts; they negate the fundamental rights of citizens and go against the grain and spirit of the Constitution of India! The proposals include that:

-The Government can take action against caste groups, communities promoting ‘sectarian interests’

-All offences under the new law will be non-bailable.

-People can be arrested merely on suspicion of being a ‘threat to internal security.’

-No legal proceedings against security agencies can be initiated for action taken ‘in ‘good faith.’

-Both public and private establishments can be put under electronic surveillance

-The Government can create security zones with special policing powers.

In short, the proposed legislation literally suspends all civil rights and gives the police unbridled powers to arrest anyone ‘on suspicion’.

Night school on patriarchy and violence against women.

Bengalaru – another woman molested caught on CCTV camera, silenced by male mob! The latest in a black series of violence targeting women across the country. What’s wrong with this Pan-Indian abuse of Indian women?

Dr. Fatima Shahnaz, Professor, author, journalist and international human rights activist will talk on, and read excerpts from, her two upcoming books to be published called “The Bride Burning” and its sequel, “Girl, Reconstructed”. These two autobiographical narratives tell of her own experience as a battered wife and mother, and how she reconstructed a shattered life as a single parent after the trauma of violence. The books explore the dark side of the toxic legacy of warped cultural conventions and systemic abuse of women. The Bride Burning focuses on psychic and physical abuse; Girl, Reconstructed on the need for reform from obsolete patriarchal systems of male-dominance. Dr. Shahnaz, who grew up in the West but returned to her native Indian culture examines the relativist values and discrimination of women in both West and East.

First Talk (12th Jan): The root-causes of violence: family abuse and discrimination against the girl-child; cultural indoctrination and brainwashing; the fear psychosis instilled in women. Gender selection and female feticide. Societal judgmentalism.

Second Talk(18th Jan): Socio-political cynicism; police and political apparatus. Institutional male chauvinism : Blame-the-Victim attitudes; Sexual objectification of women; role of the media in projecting demeaning stereotypes of gender; pornography of violence.

Third Talk (19th Jan):Dangerous era of public inured to violence and gender discrimination. Corruption and delinquency in male youth. The psychic scars of trauma on victims and need for holistic healing and solutions; time for reform and attitudinal change. Support and rehabilitation of victims through state, community and family networks … and much more on the ugly truth about the conspiracy of silence!

An exclusive handwriting improvement skill workshop, organised by Institute of graphology, will be conducted by renowned graphologist, author and academician Dr. B. Rout and team for the school and college students at Lamakaan from 5pm to 7pm on 13th Jan 2017. For details contact 9000006689 Course fee Rs.200 First come first basis. Limited seats (30 only)

A theatre workshop production-

Lottery is a play adapted from a Hindustani short story written by the Indian author Premchand.

The story presents experiences of the school teacher, his friend Vikram's, and Vikram's extended family's.The teacher and Vikram discuss the lottery and speculate over their actions if either were to win a prize.

Contesting Images of Futures of India : A Historical Overview ( 19th and 20th Century)
Divyaraj Amiya, M. Phil. University of Yuebingen, Germany

Concentrating more on the images of futures of India in the works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1905), Mahatma Gandhi, Rahul Sankrityayana till Charu Mazumdar, Lohia and Vinoba Bhave attempt will be made to revisit the gaps between the projected futures of pre- and post-colonial India and the experienced reality of today. How can this hindsight help us in uncovering the underlying maps of teleological assumptions, units of analyses and areas of concern that were at the centre of their literery and political efforts ? Can this journey back to "ourselves" wil help us in narrowing the gaps between the projections of future today and the experienced reality of tomorrow ?


Prof Divyaraj Amiya is reader for Hindi at the Dept. of Indology and Comparative Religion, University of Tuebingen (Germany).

Please post this for Saturday 14th January 2017 - 4 to 7 PM

Write Club Hyderabad helps you pen your thoughts, spill your mind and finally make an appointment with the writer in your head. We conduct free, weekly events that foster writing. Our Meetups aim at helping writers reach their goals in a supportive, collaborative, social setting.

Writing doesn't have to be all by oneself. We welcome anyone who writes, regardless of genre, language or age. We have members writing novels, short stories, poetry, screenplays, essays, school reports and more.

What we do, basically: One of the members of Write Club (anyone with a participation count over 2 consecutive meetups) hosts a session. They bring forth a theme and writing exercises. We all then write to the host’s prompts and guidelines for about an hour. Once we're done writing, we read out our write-ups (optional). We also exchange feedback and constructively critique each other's works. Entry is free, anyone with an interest in writing can walk in. Bring your writing devices and we’re all set! We promise to provide you with good coffee and a super-creative conversation. We have Write Club sessions every Saturday afternoon – 4 PM to 7 PM

Playback singers Anudeep & Lipsika will be performing few beautiful melodies from bollywood movies (Old/New) unplugged style.

April 4, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is always watching. A haunting, shockingly timely look at a future that seems disturbingly present. We have already committed a thought crime! The Lord Chamberlain's Men presents a stage adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece '1984'. A radical and much lauded staging exploring surveillance, identity and why Orwell’s vision of the future is as relevant now as ever.

This exhibition showcases series of hand drawn doodles on the theme - The Happiness Project, which revolve around Habits.

In the year 2016 I read lot of different books. The best two books which I like the most are The Happiness Project & Better than before written by Gretchen Rubin. These books have inspired me to make a series of doodle on Habits.

I hope these will inspire you too!

The Expendable People (Hindi/2016/58mins) Dir. Tapan Bose. The film documents the continuing struggle of the Adivasis for their right to life and dignity using rare archival footage and interviews with anthropologist, Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf. It focuses on a moment of hope when the government brought in the Forest Rights Act 2006 to right 'historic wrongs', but how the justice framework got nullified by vested interests so as to protect the interests of 'developers'.

Duration:58 Mins

Screening will be followed by an interaction with the director. Entry Free. All are welcome

April 4, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is always watching. A haunting, shockingly timely look at a future that seems disturbingly present. We have already committed a thought crime! The Lord Chamberlain's Men presents a stage adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece '1984'. A radical and much lauded staging exploring surveillance, identity and why Orwell’s vision of the future is as relevant now as ever.

1st Film Screening
Le Nouveau (The New Kid by Rudi Rosenberg), Coming of age story | 2014, 1 h 21 min (For all)

Benoit is the new kid at a junior high school. His first week turns out not the way he'd hoped.
He's bullied by a gang of arrogant popular boys, led by Charles, who make things difficult for him, and the only students who treat him with any kindness are the "losers."
Fortunately there's Johanna, a pretty Swedish girl, with whom Benoit forms a friendship. But just when he falls under her spell, she joins Charles' gang.
Following his uncle's advice, Benoit organizes a big party and invites the whole class. It will provide an opportunity to become popular and to see Johanna again.


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Panel Discussion on The Roots of The Periphery, A History of the Gonds of Deccan India, the new book by Bhangya Bhukya.

Panelists: Kalpana Kannabiran, Kancha Iliah, Susie Tharu

Night school on patriarchy and violence against women.

Bengalaru – another woman molested caught on CCTV camera, silenced by male mob! The latest in a black series of violence targeting women across the country. What’s wrong with this Pan-Indian abuse of Indian women?

Dr. Fatima Shahnaz, Professor, author, journalist and international human rights activist will talk on, and read excerpts from, her two upcoming books to be published called “The Bride Burning” and its sequel, “Girl, Reconstructed”. These two autobiographical narratives tell of her own experience as a battered wife and mother, and how she reconstructed a shattered life as a single parent after the trauma of violence. The books explore the dark side of the toxic legacy of warped cultural conventions and systemic abuse of women. The Bride Burning focuses on psychic and physical abuse; Girl, Reconstructed on the need for reform from obsolete patriarchal systems of male-dominance. Dr. Shahnaz, who grew up in the West but returned to her native Indian culture examines the relativist values and discrimination of women in both West and East.

First Talk (12th Jan): The root-causes of violence: family abuse and discrimination against the girl-child; cultural indoctrination and brainwashing; the fear psychosis instilled in women. Gender selection and female feticide. Societal judgmentalism.

Second Talk(18th Jan): Socio-political cynicism; police and political apparatus. Institutional male chauvinism : Blame-the-Victim attitudes; Sexual objectification of women; role of the media in projecting demeaning stereotypes of gender; pornography of violence.

Third Talk (19th Jan):Dangerous era of public inured to violence and gender discrimination. Corruption and delinquency in male youth. The psychic scars of trauma on victims and need for holistic healing and solutions; time for reform and attitudinal change.

It is a shirt film based on love story
Directed by chandu
Dip utthej
Producer prtahyusha

Night school on patriarchy and violence against women.

Bengalaru – another woman molested caught on CCTV camera, silenced by male mob! The latest in a black series of violence targeting women across the country. What’s wrong with this Pan-Indian abuse of Indian women?

Dr. Fatima Shahnaz, Professor, author, journalist and international human rights activist will talk on, and read excerpts from, her two upcoming books to be published called “The Bride Burning” and its sequel, “Girl, Reconstructed”. These two autobiographical narratives tell of her own experience as a battered wife and mother, and how she reconstructed a shattered life as a single parent after the trauma of violence. The books explore the dark side of the toxic legacy of warped cultural conventions and systemic abuse of women. The Bride Burning focuses on psychic and physical abuse; Girl, Reconstructed on the need for reform from obsolete patriarchal systems of male-dominance. Dr. Shahnaz, who grew up in the West but returned to her native Indian culture examines the relativist values and discrimination of women in both West and East.

First Talk (12th Jan): The root-causes of violence: family abuse and discrimination against the girl-child; cultural indoctrination and brainwashing; the fear psychosis instilled in women. Gender selection and female feticide. Societal judgmentalism.

Second Talk(18th Jan): Socio-political cynicism; police and political apparatus. Institutional male chauvinism : Blame-the-Victim attitudes; Sexual objectification of women; role of the media in projecting demeaning stereotypes of gender; pornography of violence.

Third Talk (19th Jan):Dangerous era of public inured to violence and gender discrimination. Corruption and delinquency in male youth. The psychic scars of trauma on victims and need for holistic healing and solutions; time for reform and attitudinal change.

Feminist Street Theatre – Histories and Stories
A Presentation on Feminist Street Theatre during the 1970s & 80s in Delhi by Deepti Priya Mehrotra
Friday, January 20, 2017 | 05:30 PM

The late 1970s and 80s was a particularly fertile time for street plays, within the context of a vibrant women’s movement. Deeply political plays were created by ordinary women, from colleges, bastis and women’s groups, in Delhi, and performed hundreds of times. Actor-activist memories provide occasions to explore theatre as activism, as education and art. Revisiting vintage drama scripts feels meaningful, for the history they embody and the power they still exude.

Deepti is an independent scholar and a Fellow at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, researching towards a book on a spectrum of social movements in India of the ’70s and ’80s. Her publications include, Gulab Bai the Queen of Nautanki Theatre, Burning Bright: Irom Sharmila and the Struggle for Peace in Manipur and Home Truths: Stories of Single Mothers.

Sampurna Trust received a grant, with Deepti Priya Mehrotra as the Principal Investigator, under the Arts Research programme of India Foundation for the Arts, with part support from South Asia Women’s Fund.

Felicity, IIIT Hyderabad's annual techno-cultural fest is back on the 27th to the 29th of January.
This edition we have added a Battle of Bands competition and this is the precursor to that event. This event is a precursor for Battle of Bands.

Band Name : Nishabdh
Band Members : Arya Mihir Singh, Vivek Kaushal, Kshitij Gupta, Sourabh Rajguru, Shovan Swain, Anshul Gupta
Genre : Aleternative Acoustic Music
"We Grew Up" - Felicity Theme Song

This is an anual event conducted every year in the month of January. It's a great get together for all hams in and around Hyderabad.

Please post this for Saturday 21st January 2017 - 3 to 6 PM Write Club Hyderabad helps you pen your thoughts, spill your mind and finally make an appointment with the writer in your head. We conduct free, weekly events that foster writing. Our Meetups aim at helping writers reach their goals in a supportive, collaborative, social setting. Writing doesn't have to be all by oneself. We welcome anyone who writes, regardless of genre, language or age. We have members writing novels, short stories, poetry, screenplays, essays, school reports and more. What we do, basically: One of the members of Write Club (anyone with a participation count over 2 consecutive meetups) hosts a session. They bring forth a theme and writing exercises. We all then write to the host’s prompts and guidelines for about an hour. Once we're done writing, we read out our write-ups (optional). We also exchange feedback and constructively critique each other's works. Entry is free, anyone with an interest in writing can walk in. Bring your writing devices and we’re all set! We promise to provide you with good coffee and a super-creative conversation. We have Write Club sessions every Saturday afternoon – 3 PM to 6 PM

Personal Life, Familial Life, Academic Life, Professional Life, Occupational Life and Social Life are the various aspects of life a given individual has to deal with at various points of time in his/her life. It is but natural that while dealing with these aspects of one's life, one gets into a lot of dilemmas, most of which are demonstrably self-created.

"How to Resolve Dilemmas" is a Workshop during which the attendees are invited to present various dilemmas and the Conductor of the Workshop shall analyse various aspects of those dilemmas with the objective of arriving at a specific method that can help one in the process of resolving each one of those said dilemmas.

The Workshop is highly interactive. It is meant for people of all age groups and walks of life and IT IS FREE.

BABA FARID MIR PROJECT

About the Mirs

The Mirs are a music community based in the Pugal region of Rajasthan. Hereditary singers
of the Sufiyana Kalam, the Mirs have been known for their passionate and intimate renderings
of the compositions of the Sufi mystics such as Baba Sheikh Farid, Sain Bulleh Shah, Hazrat
Shah Hussain, Hazrat Sultan Bahu, Ali Haider and Khwaja Ghulam Farid. They have been
musicians of the common people, serving as mediums of devotion and harbingers of peace,
hope and love through the ecstatic performances of the bhajans and vanis of Meera, Kabir,
Gorakhnath, Baba Ramdev and Achalram, which form part of the wider repertoire of the
Mirs. Their songs are mostly in Siraiki, a dialect of West Punjab which has strong affinity with Sindhi and Punjabi. In addition to their singing, the Mirs are deft players of the been (a
kind of bagpipe) and algoza (a double barrel wind instrument). Most of these compositions
stress on love as the basis of the relationship with God, nature and other living things.

The Sufi traditions of the Mirs have primarily been traditions of dissent and have flowered on the margins of mainstream life.

Performers:

Nazru Khan, Abdul Jabbar, Antar Khan, Manji Khan, Bassu Khan, Mode Khan and Sattar Khan.

About the Baba Farid Mir project:

The Baba Farid Mir project brings together the families of Mir musicians and their patrons scattered across the Bikaner region, in an attempt to reinvigorate their musical tradition. From October 2015 to December 2016, a core team of senior as well as young artists along with patrons undertook a yatra across the far flung Mir strongholds in the Bikaner region towards facilitating musical interchanges,community interactions and mapping of musical opportunities within cultural festivals and events.

This performance is part of the Baba Farid Mir project supported under the Arts Practice programme of India Foundation for the Arts, funded by Infosys Foundation.

Do It Yourself (DIY) - The Magical products
A workshop on handmade products to know how one can make the best from anything.

DIY segments:
Cushions; Creative Shewing; Journals; Greetings; Paper bags; Gift items; Plant hoarders; Lampshades
Pen stands; Apparels; Furnitures; Interior; Jewellery; Kitchen & Handicrafts

Why: Upcoming artists or the beginners who want to learn how to make the best from anything
-Homemakers who want to utilize their free time to bring out their creativity
-Who wants to become a full-time professional!
-Who wants to showcase their artistic skills!
-Who wants to turn passion into career!
-Who wants to build useful connections!
-Who wants to get a chance to work with ThinkMagical too!

Agenda: Briefing on TM; Members Introduction; Presentations; Q&As; Tea/Snacks

Fee: INR 50 per person [for Tea & Snacks and TM's Social Responsibility events]

Those who wants to showcase your product/talent, please bring material/products. For further details, you can contact 8179992806 / thinkmagicalindia@gmail.com

Web: www.thinkmagical.in
FB: www.fb.com/thinkmagicalindia

In Memory of Janab Wahabuddin Siddique, a very active champion of water bodies particularly Firangi Nala and Yerra Kunta, we gather for Remembrance and Lunch.

Yours Queerly: A discussion with psychologists is a friendly meet between Parents, Families, Friends and allied of Queer folks who would not otherwise sought help from Psychologists. It's a space where friends and families of queer folks gather and discuss freely with the specialists and remove any inhibitions about LGBTQIA+ (Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transgenders, Gender Queer, Intersex, Asexuals and etc), and make the world a better place to live for queer folks.

India holds the dubious distinction of having the highest number of road accident deaths. There is an urgent need for us as a society to be more aware of the issues and involved so that our roads become safer and lives are saved. There will be a open discussion followed by screening of some road safety films.

Darpan Theatre Presents

Visibly Invisible (An evening of three monologues)

1. मैं मुसलमान-
Written By: Shri Hubnath Pandey
Performed By Rajnish Songara

वक़्त सबको एक साथ रखता है, वो हम है जो फ़र्क करते है | पहले दोस्ती और फिर मज़हब हालात और रिश्ते |

2.Asmita-
Written and Performed By: Shailja Chaturvedi

Asmita is a monologue performed by Shailja Chaturvedi. It is a story of a rape victim who loses her her mind and does something which she never expected from herself. An act which not only revolves around a girl who is victimized for a heinous act, they call it “Rape”. But also, questions the whole institution on which the society works. The act shows how the victim faces problems in leading a normal life again and how the society remains indifferent about it. It talks about the repercussions of two types of crimes. One which the man who raped has committed and the other committed by the girl victim. How the whole agenda of the society changes. And how the victim finally loses the battle with the society, herself and her life!!

3. I v/s Me-
Written By: Tilak Bobby
Performed By Ali Ahmed

A 10 years old guy forsaken by parents’ had to face life alone. There is a debate within his soul. This play depicts the course of events that turned him to what his heart really does not want to be.

Je ne suis pas un salud (A Decent Man by Emmanuel Finkiel) | 2015, 1 h 51 min (Above 12+)

After he is violently attacked in the street, Eddie wrongly identifies Ahmed, an ideal suspect whom he'd noticed a few days before the attack. While the legal machine gets underway with Ahmed, Eddie attempts to win back his wife and son through a new job. But Eddie soon becomes aware of the seriousness of his accusation and he'll do anything to establish the truth - even if it means he risks losing everything.

Anupam a visually challenged musician will be enthralling us with performance of Jazz, Blues, Rock & Indian fusion.

On the occasion of 68th Republic Day of India, a panel discussion titled "Constitutional Rights & Continuous Violations" to examine how the Indian State has failed its citizens.

Panelists:

Malini Subramaniam; Journalist. Malini has extensively covered the conflict in Bastar and has highlighted issues like police brutality, humans rights voilations

Padmaja Shaw: Retd Prof of Journalism, Osmania
University

K. Savitri, Advocate and member of the rights advocacy group Telangana Democratic Forum

Screening of Bommalollu - The Puppeteers, a documentary film on the surviving artists of Chekka Bommalata from Warangal district of Telangana State.

Zentangle:Art of meditational tangling.


The Zentangle Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns.

Almost anyone can use it to create beautiful images. It increases focus and creativity, provides artistic satisfaction along with an increased sense of personal well being. The Zentangle Method is enjoyed all over this world across a wide range of skills, interests and ages.

We believe that life is an art form and that our Zentangle Method is an elegant metaphor for deliberate artistry in life.

Fee:Rs.300

"Sports Podium" is a Part of "The Sports Carnival" (Sports Conference & Expo). Sports Podium is a Monthly Event in which Experts, Influencers, Sports Personalities, Companies, Players, Coaches, Start Ups, Aspirants and Enthusiasts will attend as Speakers and also audience.

Main aim of the Event is to Promote Sports from India.

Samahaara
presents

Ajay Shukla's "TAJ MAHAL KA TENDER", a hilarious play in Hindi

Directed by Rathna Shekar Reddy

Date: 28th Jan 2017
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Hyd.

Donation Rs.100/-

The play bravely takes on a situation where Emperor Shah Jahan is living in contemporary India. He decides to build Taj Mahal in the memory of his beloved Mumtaz Mahal. The succeeding chain of events takes the Emperor through all the red-tape and bureaucratic hurdles possible within the political machinery. Would he succeed in building this monument? What happens to his dream project - forms the crux of the play.

On June 12, 1817 the first bicycle was run in the town of Baden by its inventor, Karl Draise. Since then there have been millions of bicycle enthusiasts and in 2017 a very large number of events celebrating the occasion will occur all over the world.

From an ecological perspective the bicycle is one of the most sustainable and affordable mode of transport. Almost any one can afford it. It is cheaper than a smart phone! It is the transport of the future particularly when oil resources are depleting.

We at Ecologise Hysderabad will also like to celebrate the event. We open the year with a film show ‘The Bicycle-A Celebration of the Invention’. It will be followed by different people presenting the scene in Hyderabad and we hope that it will end up with forming a committee to celebrate the event in Hyderabad through out the year.

All bicycle enthusiasts are welcome!

Civil liberties and Human Rights activist,Gautam Navlakha would be sharing updates on the recent developments in Kashmir.

"SERIAL KILLER" a short play by children.

Date: 29th Jan 2017
Time: 6.00pm
Venue: Lamakaan Stage.
Language: English
Duration : 20 minutes

The play is about the addiction of daily serials. The play conveys a strong message through a series of comic incidents.

Entry Free. All are Welcome.

Performance by students of Aradhana Kharade & Suhas Sastry followed by Carnatic Music Concert by Pardhasaradhi N Ch.

N.Ch. Pardhasaradhi, an illustrious carnatic musician for the past 35 years, was born into a
family where Carnatic music thrived for many generations as a lineage. His mother Smt.
Ramanjamma is a famous violist and student of Susarla Dakshinamurthi. His teacher and uncle
‘Sangeetha Sahitya Kalanidhi’ N.Ch. Krishnamacharyulu, a famous musician and literary
composer, belongs the lineage of Saint Tyagaraja and is the 5th generation student descendant of the great saint.

Rohith Vemula - a research scholar at University of Hyderabad committed suicide which the community calls 'Institutional Murder'. So what is his story? What he suffered? Why did he sacrificed his life? Who are responsible for it ? Discover Rohith Vemula in this documentary!

Director: Srikanth Chintala
Editor: sreekar J
Camera: Amit Raj, Sandeep T, Kiran Krishnan
Co-written : PR
Background Score : Suhas Remo

Occasion -
Renowned urdu poet
Shaz tamkanat s birthday .
31 st jan 2017 at 7 pm.
Sham - e. -ghazal .
Singer - varsi brothers and few more singers .

World Wetlands Day is celebrated every year on 2 February. This day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Wetlands provide significant economic, social and cultural benefits. They are important for primary products such as grasslands, timber and fish. Wetlands also help reduce the impacts from storm damage and flooding, maintain good water quality in rivers, recharge groundwater, store carbon, help stabilize climatic conditions and control pests.

Wetlands are home to many special plants, birds, fish and frogs. Wetlands provide essential habitat for rare or important species such as the endangered Spoonbill Sandpiper or the Baer’s Pochard. They are an important stopover for many migratory birds and many species rely on the regular flooding cycles of wetlands (such as those on inland floodplains) to reproduce. Some plants and animals live only in particular types of wetlands, for example, in mangroves, saltmarshes or hanging swamps.

We welcome you to join us on this important day for a talk by the Honorable Secretary of Birdwatchers Society of AP Mr. Shafaat Ulla.

Three short films

1. La convention de Genève / The Geneva Convention by Benoît Martin | 2016 | 15 min

2. Le Dernier des Céfrans / The Last Frenchman by Pierre-Emmanuel Urcun | 2015 | 30 min 17 seconds

3. La Bande à Juliette / Juliet's Band by Pierre-Emmanuel Urcun | 2016 | 48 min

Online film festival - 28 films, 10 languages.

MyFrenchFilmFestival is the 1st online French Film Festival, accessible to Web users around the world.

Ten recent French feature films and ten French short films will be broadcasted in the festival competition, and 7 films out of competition.

The films will be presented in their original version subtitled in 10 languages including German, English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian.

3 prizes will be awarded at the close of the festival: an audience award, an international director prize and an International Press prize.

What after 1oth and 12th?
A career counselling workshop is organised by Education Empower Club, Hyderabad for grade 10 and 12 students at Lamakaan on 3rd Feb from 5 pm to 7pm. The workshop will be led by Dr R. B Anand and team. Entry fee Rs200.

Intezaar is a two-part radio play written by Saadat Hasan Manto. This light-hearted play represents the writer in a much different light than he is recognised for.

Intezaar is the story of a boy who is preparing for the visit of his girlfriend and his dialogue with himself in the process and what happens when the girl does not come in the end.

Intezaar ka Doosra Rukh is the girlfriend's story explaining the difficulties she faces in coming to meet with her boyfriend.

This talk is to connect consumers with farmers. As we all know there is price fluctuations very on and off, still we carry on and take those issues as just a news. But to make people understand the gaps and reasons for the price fluctuations and how much farmers get in the cost we are paying and is that amount even near to the investment he has done.

Please help post this for Saturday 4th February 2017 - 3 to 6 PM Write Club Hyderabad helps you pen your thoughts, spill your mind and finally make an appointment with the writer in your head. We conduct free, weekly events that foster writing. Our Meetups aim at helping writers reach their goals in a supportive, collaborative, social setting. Writing doesn't have to be all by oneself. We welcome anyone who writes, regardless of genre, language or age. We have members writing novels, short stories, poetry, screenplays, essays, school reports and more. What we do, basically: One of the members of Write Club (anyone with a participation count over 2 consecutive meetups) hosts a session. They bring forth a theme and writing exercises. We all then write to the host’s prompts and guidelines for about an hour. Once we're done writing, we read out our write-ups (optional). We also exchange feedback and constructively critique each other's works. Entry is free, anyone with an interest in writing can walk in. Bring your writing devices and we’re all set! We promise to provide you with good coffee and a super-creative conversation. We have Write Club sessions every Saturday afternoon – 3 PM to 6 PM

Online Violence Against Women: Challenges and Solution is the topic of event. There would be screening of a documentary/ movie followed by panel discussion.
There may be the gathering of around 50-80 people for this event on 4 Feb 2017, 3.30-6pm

K-Circle's monthly Non-Competitive Quiz held at Lamakaan. Everybody is welcome

Public interaction with prospective students, faculty and parents for information regarding symbiosis school for liberal arts, Pune. SSLA hosts public seminars to provide information regarding admission procedure, program structure, curricular and extra-curricular activities, academic requirements and internationalization and career growth. All students of std X,XI and XII are welcome to receive guidance for the liberal arts program at symbiosis, Pune.

Queer carnival an inclusive event which focuses on sensitizing people over LGBTQ community issues.
The event consists of flea market stalls which sell hand-made items, Culturals (Theater, monologues, dance and singing) which is message-centric, and Art exhibition.
If you want to rent a stall or have any queries about stall, please write to queercampushyd@gmail.com or call on 9959518885
Please fill the form in the following link to rent a stall and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSet76uCqTJEsFArAon3Td610eDd06QgEV2QeOC1iUQLG-4rqQ/viewform

If you want to be part of culturals like Theater, monologues, poetry reading, dance and singing, please write to us on queercampushyd@gmail.com
Call for performers - register yourselves here
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfI_Haj4yRrLPNCA22CgeNvOA5diwxlo-FB5snNtt8IH6xpTQ/viewform

If you are an artiste and want to showcase your paintings - write to us on queercampushyd@gmail.com

This is how the Queer Carnival - 2017 is going to be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie86zO2uvQs