Lamakaan

No Man's Land
Description : Two wounded soldiers - a Bosnian and a Serb, have a confrontation in a trench in the no man's land between their line, until the Bosnian finds himself on a bouncing mine and they call for truce.
Director : Danis Tranovic

Duration : 1 hour 38 min

Hosted by Cinephiles Film Club

The water need in the city is massive, and the city extracts groundwater for the same. With depleting groundwater levels and fluctuating climate conditions, the method, with hands on practical knowledge, promises to go a long way to help mitigate water shortage and maintain the water balance by collecting rainfall for future usage.

Hyderabad, with its topographic and underground water specifics, also requires to look at this method a lot more carefully. Applied questions such as how rainwater harvesting should be practiced or where is it viable to practice rainwater harvesting, are best answered by practitioners engaged with this technology through years of experience. The Rainwater Harvesting Mela intends to demonstrate locally developed means and processes of water harvesting that people in and around the city of Hyderabad have been using. Through this mela, we hope to disseminate reliable knowledge to capture rainwater that not only recharge local aquifers in an arid zone, but also reduce urban flooding by integrating rainwater harvesting as an integral means for Hyderabad’s annual flood control.


Join us on 7th September 2019, Saturday, from 10.00 am onwards to know more about doable and practical rainwater harvesting from resource persons who will be available on site. Stay tuned to this page for more updates, from time to time !

Non competitive quiz required for every first Saturday of the month.
Capacity ~ 50 members

Matewan is a movie directed by John Sayles, a story of striking West Virginia coal miners in the 1920's against the coal mining company. It captures the bloody working class battle in the town of Matewan and examines the labor unions from a critical perspective, shedding light on racial and cultural divides that hamper the working class movement. The film not only depicts the class struggles between the mine workers and the owners but also depicts various tactics used by the company to manipulate the workers and finally defeat them.
Entry is free!
Date and time - 7th Sept, 7.30pm at Lamakaan

The TEAM of HYDERABAD HASLEY ZARA is conducting a CERTIFICATE-ORIENTED VIDEO EDITING, SOUND EDITING and PHOTOSHOP Work-Shop specially for BEGINNERS.

In this Work-Shop we are going to teach you three different softwares each one for VIDEO-EDITING, SOUND-EDITING Software and PHOTOSHOP

Our VIDEO EDITING workshop is completely practical based, one-day training format designed to teach the BEGINNERS in a SIMPLEST way and at a reasonable price!

In SOUND EDITING we are going to explain youon how to use the SOUND EDITING SOFTWARE as well and overcome the MAJOR PROBLEMS which are faced during SOUND and AUDIO

In PHOTOSHOP we are going to teach you the basics of the software and the POSTER DESIGNING, Colour Grading and other various topics which will help you MAJORLY

After completing of the WORK-SHOP everyone who have attendes the course will be presented with a "CERTIFICATE" as well.


PRICE for Work-shop is
Early Bird: Rs.400
Spot Registration: Rs.500
*LIMITED SEATS AVILABLE*

For REGISTRATION and further details please do CONTACT
ALI : +91-7675997550 E-MAIL: syed.ali.201517@gmail.com
VIVEK: +91-9392534582 E-MAIL: vivek.kamble788@gmail.com

Aly Ndiaye, a.k.a. Webster, was born and raised in Quebec city's Limoilou neighborhood. From a Senegalese father and a Quebecer mother, he has always been proud of his dual origin and sees himself as a SeneQueb. His passion for history drove him to study this field in college.

Hip-Hop militant and social activist, Webster is deeply implicated in his community. He regularly gives lecture about cultural diversity in Quebec and the influence of the hip-hop culture on the youth. His main subject is the history of black people and their enslavement in the province of Quebec since the start of the colony in the 17th century.

Since 2009, he has been travelling the globe to give workshops and teach students how to use creative writing in french; he performed in Asia, South America, Africa, Europe and North America.

Musically, he has been active since 1995; founder of the Limoilou Starz collective, he is a pioneer of the hip-hop culture in Quebec. The Old Man of the Mountain (as he is known) is reputed for his wise lyrics and the smartness of his music. His art is a tool that he has been sharpening for two decades.

IS INDIA A SECULAR COUNTRY?
Tue Sep 10, 7:00 PM

Journalist and commentator Kapil Komireddi will discuss his critically acclaimed new book, Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India, with Mohan Guruswamy and Sridala Swami.

Under Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party, India has undergone the most total transformation since 1991. The ‘invisible threads’ Nehru said held together an improbable union divided by language, religion and ethnicity have snapped under the burden of Modi’s Hindu-supremacist rule.

In this blistering critique of post-Independence India from Nehru to Modi, Komireddi charts the unsound course of Indian nationalism: its cowardly concessions to the Hindu right, convenient distortions of India’s past and demeaning bribes to India’s minorities. He argues that the missteps of the nation’s founders, the mistakes of Nehru, the betrayals of his daughter and her sons, the anti-democratic fetish for technocracy inaugurated by Narasimha Rao and carried to the extremes by Manmohan Singh—all of them laid down the road on which Hindu nationalists rode to absolute power.

Hindu bigotry, ennobled under Modi as a healthy form of self-assertion, has reopened old fissures that threaten to devour India’s hard-won unity. If secularists fail to reclaim the republic from Hindu nationalists, Komireddi argues, India will become Pakistan by another name. A short history of the modern Indian nation, Malevolent Republic is also an impassioned plea for India’s reclamation.

Kapil will be joined in conversation with Mohan Guruswamy, founder and chairman of the Guruswamy Centre, and poet Sridala Swami.

Praise for Malevolent Republic:

‘In precise and sharp language Malevolent Republic takes readers on a terrifying and yet illuminating journey through the rapidly transforming political, social and religious landscape of Modi’s India.’ — Times Literary Supplement

Avakash Mahanta was an integral part of Lamakaan with a strong presence in the Hyderabad theater circuit. Unfortunately, he is no longer with us. We are holding a prayer meeting on 11th September between 6 PM - 7 PM for his friends and colleagues to remember him.

Lemon Tree Film screening

Lemon Tree is a 2008 Israeli drama film directed by Eran Riklis and co-directed by his cousin Ira Riklis. It stars Hiam Abbass, Ali Suliman, Danny Leshman, Rona Lipaz-Michael, Tarik Kopty, Amos Lavi, Lana Zreik and Amnon Wolf.The film describes the legal efforts of a Palestinian widow to stop the Israeli Defense Minister, her next door neighbor, from destroying the lemon trees in her family farm. At the same time, she develops a human bond with the minister's wife.

ALL ARE WELCOME!!!

Ishq Mastana | Drunk on Love
Life and philosophy of Kabir, in story and song
by Vipul Rikhi

An introduction to the enigmatic, iconoclastic 15th century Bhakti-Sufi poet, Kabir, through storytelling, commentary, poetry and songs. The songs are in dialects of Hindi and the entire narration will be in English.

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Why Kabir?
Over 500 years after his lifetime, Kabir still speaks to our times. In simple, direct words, he addresses complex emotional and cultural issues, with deep insight and clarity. But who was Kabir? How and where did he live? What made him who he was? Was he just one person or has he become many? Exploring legends around his life, his poetry, the depth of his thought, and the beauty of the music that has sprung up around him, we take a journey into the heart of this unique phenomenon.

Vipul Rikhi is a poet, translator and singer, and a co-creator of Ajab Shahar, a forthcoming digital archive that celebrates the oral traditions of Bhakti, Sufi and Baul music and poetry. His work with Kabir Project includes extensive writings and translations in the area of mystic poetry, including forthcoming books. He is also the author of a novel and collections of poetry and short stories.

http://ishqfakiri.com/
https://vipulrikhi.com/

iVolunteer-Your Skills can change lives brings you a platform to do so through a highly customized training session on “Important aspects for writing effective concept note/ proposal" to be held on 14th September, 2019 from 10.00am to 03.00pm as part of #GYAN, our initiative where we have professionals volunteering to discuss the above situations faced by NGOs on various skills to help increase their efficiency



Note: Session will be conducted in Telugu and English

The resource person is Aruna Jyothi Patapati with
11+ years of grassroots experience in Women and Child Development. Apart from the full time journey in various roles: Program Development, execution, Fund Raising, Impact Assessment and Evaluation, Strategy Development and designing Volunteering programs, Aruna has been a Mentor and Consultant to non-profits working on Education and Livelihood development, especially in human-centered program development and design thinking. A Freedom Writers Fellow (USA) and served in post-conflict Uganda (Africa). Enthusiastic about cross cultural and interdisciplinary learning and collaborations and a continuous learner and backpacker to explore Best Practices in Love & Care across world.

linkedIn.com/in/arunajyothipatapati84/

These are the questions which will be discussed and addressed. The workshop is suitable for all NGO Leaders, Development Sector Professionals.

We are glad to share that all participants of GYAN will be eligible to receive a “Certificate of Completion/Participation” from iVolunteer. As always the session is for a maximum of 10 participants, with a maximum of 2 per NGO.

Cheque of Rs 1100/- (per participant) favoring ChangeX Services Private Limited to iVolunteer with a cover note indicating your interest and the participant details in the above mentioned format. Rest details will be shared post you confirmation.

Look forward to your participation. For more information,

please call Ernest Matta at 9849692140 or write to hyderabad@iVolunteer.in

Rinzin Choedon (National Director, Students for a Free Tibet- India) and Tenzin Phakdon (Grassroots Director, SFT India) will speak on the ongoing crackdown in Tibet and the new forms of resistance Tibetans have employed in their struggle for freedom.

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 to 6 PM

“Push Start to Auto Start” by Anu Kushwaha is a helping hand for those of us who feel lost, confused like we’re just drifting through life with exhaustion seeping into our bones as we keep pushing our lives forward just to succeed.

If you are feeling trapped in the life you’re living, “Push Start to Auto Start” by Anu Kushwaha can help you there. With words that teach you how to balance work and personal life without feeling empty, this book is a must-have for those who can relate.

Meet her at Book Launch event on 14 September 2019 @ 17:30 hrs at Lamakaan and see a new perspective of life.

You can read her articles on www.backtowellbeing.org
E-book and paperback of #pushstarttoautostart is also available on popular online platforms.

Reflections on the Indian Constitution and Judiciary in the Current Moment

The transfer of judges their appointments and related challenges throw long shadows on the efficacy and credibility of the system. Is the last sentinel suffering an credibility crisis or is it being attacked?

Speaker: L Ravichander is a Senior Lawyer practising at Hyderabad High Court.

This is the culmination of the Weekend Theatre Workshop for Children where we invite the parents of the children who have participated in the workshop, in order to view the children's presentations and speak with the workshop facilitator regarding their child

In the context of amendments to Right to information act, we want to create awareness on Right to information and talk about online platforms that enable all citizens to use Right to Information easily and for free.

Based on Tarapada Roy's story, dramatised by Soumitra Basu, Gadha Kahini is a political satire that portrays through a story telling style on how some of the decision making authorities are being driven by their whims and fancies and how it all turns out to be a comedy of errors

17th September this year marks 71 years since the erstwhile state of Hyderabad was annexed to India, in the year 1948, more than a year after India got its independence. While what transpired then has been largely forgotten and left out of our history books, a very important thing within that subject is the Telangana Armed Struggle (1946-51).

While the last Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan, was busy trying to do his best to stay independent and was negotiating with the Indian government, the communists in Telangana had given a call to arms against oppressive landlords in 1946 itself, two whole years before Operation Polo. The movement is one of the nest successful peasant revolutions that took place in independent India.

The state of Hyderabad, which comprised Telangana and parts of present day Maharashtra and Karnataka, was in flux, but what transpired between 1946 and 1951 in the region of Telangana was very different from the rest of the state. The Razakaars, a militia led by Qasim Razvi, which caused a lot of disturbances in the name of keeping Hyderabad independent, was met with resistance by the communists.

A very important aspect today, especially given that the issue of 'liberation day' (of Hyderabad from the Nizam) is being talked about, is that the anti-feudal struggle in Telangana was against oppressive landlords (working for the Nizam), who mostly perpetrated caste violence in the rural areas of the state. Chakali Ailamma, P. Sundarayya, Makhdoom Mohiuddin, Ravi Nayaran Reddy and many others fought for freedom to set poor peasants free from oppression.

Moreover, it is well-recorded in the Sunderlal Committee report about the atrocities perpetrated against Muslims (between 27000 to 40000 reportedly killed) in the aftermath of Operation polo (in the districts of Maharashtra and Karnataka mainly). However, in Telangana, so such thing took place, in spite of the communally charged atmosphere, thanks to the communist leadership which essentially controlled the rural areas of Telangana.

Today, very few people from that generation live; who can tells us what they witnessed during that period of flux in Telangana. Among them are Gabbete Raghu Pal (78), a member of the Communist party of India-Marxist and Kandimalla Prathap Reddy (85), a member of the Communist Party of India, who were just children when Operation Polo took place, but have several stories and eyewitness accounts that will help us understand both Operation Polo and the Telangana Armed Struggle.

So come join us for a talk and discussion with the speakers, who will help us understand our state's history in a more personal manner and also throw some light on what transpired during those days of strife.

About the speakers:

Mr. Raghu Pal's association with the Telangana Armed Struggle started as child, when he witnessed many incidents in his village in Jangaon Taluka (district today). His father, G. Gopal Reddy, was in fact a senior CPI leader, who was also arrested and jailed for his participation in the armed struggle (CPI was banned even after independence, the party called-off the rebellion in 1951). He has been with the CPM since his youth.

Kandimalla Pratap Reddy is a renowned author and public speaker on the Telangana peasant armed uprising. His association with the communist movement started when he was a teenager as a courier responsible for passing messages between the leaders and comrades underground and aiding them with food and transport. His well known books include “Veera Telangana Sayudha Samaram”, “Ralina Ratnalu”, “Gadar Viplavam”, “Bandook (novel)” etc to name a few. In “Ralina Ratnalu” he captures the stories of hundreds of commoners who lay their lives down for the cause of the peasant uprising from every district of Telangana.

ALL ARE INVITED.

Organizer:
The event is being hosted by Yunus Lasania, a city based journalist and Moses Tulasi, Documentary filmmaker who are currently interviewing eyewitnesses of Operation Polo and Telangana Armed Struggle.

When a group of Mayan Indians decides to organize a labor union to improve conditions in their village, their community is violently destroyed by the Guatemalan army. Teenage siblings, Rosa (Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez) and Enrique (David Villalpando) manage to escape the massacre and decide to start a new life in El Norte -- the USA. The two trek through Mexico, meeting a variety of characters and facing trials and tribulations on their journey toward lives as illegal immigrants in Los Angeles.

Relevance of Periyar today : Contradictions of caste, language and religion

Thanthai Periyar lived in a time when the country was witnessing a turmoil in its social and political landscape. He stood against the current questioning the idea of nation, social constructs of caste, religion and the dominant culture. He was not an armchair revolutionary, nor a seasonal activist but a speaker who spoke his mind wherever he was. The talk will revolve around the contemporary relevance of Periyar at a time the nation is divided drastically on the lines of caste, religion and other identities and rise in inequality.

Thirumurugan Gandhi is an human rights activist and a geopolitical commentator. He spoke in the UN for the past three years advocating the rights of people facing war crimes against imperial regimes. He is also the founder of May 17 Movement and raised his voice against the Indian government's atrocities against Tamils.

This hilarious play, staged is the age-old argument on MODERN ART and its creativity(or the lack of it). LOTS OF SWEARING AND FIST FIGHTS IN STORE!! On a serious note, the ingenious french playwright YASMINA REZA has gained immense popularity with this play being translated into over 30 languages. 

A friend buys a strange piece of modern art, another friend loses his mind and another gets punched in the face. Was the painting worth its 200 million euros?? Did Yvan deserve the punch to his face. Did Marc come to terms with modern art? Did Sophie retain her dignity among her philistine friends?? 




Duration - 90 minutes
Time - 8:00 pm
Actors - Srinivas (as Marc)
Aarthy (as Sophie)
Purushothama (as Yvan)
Music - Joshua
Lights - Sudarshan

On the occasion of Bhagat Singh's Birth Anniversary, Lamakaan cordially invite one and all to an important discussion on the relevance of Bhagat Singh today. With the fascists forces in political power and spreading their reactionary politics like a virus in the country, it becomes all the more necessary to recollect the society that Bhagat Singh dreamt of.

water COLOUR WITH CRIMSON
This is a Practical & complete watercolor painting workshop for one and all, An in-depth understanding of a unique art medium, painting with watercolors is all about your confidence, it's also about how you respond towards nature around, its also a confidence builder, it's a calming agent, practical approach to rejuvenate your body & mind . Learn to do watercolors with Artist Crimson.

Ventriloquism is art of voice manipulation using a puppet or doll.

M.Sathosh Kumar is a international Ventriloquism artiste, with more than 20 years experience in performing Ventriloquism shows.

He is the only ventriloquist who is attending international Ventriloquism convention at USA, since 2012.

He regularly works with school children & teachers in helping them in improving their skills

Contact 9849745838

He travels to USA, UK & UAE to do workshops on Ventriloquism for children.
www.indianventriloquism.com

We will have a reader read from Wendy Doniger's banned book The Hindus: An Alternative History and another reader read from Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses. This will be followed by a discussion of both books.

The film is about the non violent, people's movement - Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) - which has been fighting for Adivasi people's right to proper rehabilitation for over 3 decades. It has been presented as a success story, where more than 250 thousand people, under the leadership of Medha Patkar, have fought and won the battle against oppressive government policies of rehabilitation.

The present model of development which endorses big dams, has always been challenged by the NBA, and the drawbacks of this model are now seen at every corner. The range of the damage is from adversely affecting the lives of 60,000 families to 80 kms of sea ingress, making hundreds of hectares of land infertile.

NBA's alternative models of development are also presented in the film, which has a long term positive impacts on society, be it the small scale power generation project or the life-schools (Jeevan Shala), which are being run by the Andolan over the last 25 years.

Adivasi culture of songs, Holi, their value systems, faiths are also shown in the film, which also points at the virtue of 'small is beautiful'.

The Narmada Bachao Movement is a success story of a fight over the last 35 years. The world should understand it as an ongoing struggle and that people's strength can change policies and can force the government to take steps towards justice. With the film, I also want to make an appeal to the rich, upper-class and urban middle class to be sensitive, considerate and humble towards those who had to made huge sacrifices for their everyday comforts. Media has been very partial about the NBA over the past decade now, calling it dead! With the film, I want to spread the message that the NBA is still very much alive and is giving hopes to lakhs of people even outside the valley.

A comedy play about three men in a park fighting for their place;
there are three benches but not enough. The play touches upon
that thing which is at a premium these days – space – literally
and metaphorically. What starts of as light-hearted banter
evolves into a serious conflict about space, territory and
ownership. These become the main issues. 
Park can be many things; it can be a metaphor for home, or a
metaphor for love, or even your workplace. It deals with a
problem of space, which is universal.

water COLOUR WITH CRIMSON
This is a Practical & complete watercolor painting workshop for one and all, An in-depth understanding of a unique art medium, painting with watercolors is all about your confidence, it's also about how you respond towards nature around, its also a confidence builder, it's a calming agent, practical approach to rejuvenate your body & mind . Learn to do watercolors with Artist Crimson.

Exclusive book release by Dr. Bala Tripura Sundari , founder of Sri Raaga Music School, featuring the compositions composed by her.

The play, 'Rajar' has drawn from Camus' “Caligula” the concept of deification of emperors which was common to the pagan world, the Greek and Macedonian kings. Raja (the king) discovers on the death of his sister and lover, Apurupa, that people die and they are not happy. From this point on, obsessed by his search for the absolute, poisoned with contempt and horror, he tries to exercise, through murders and systematic perversion of all values. He rejects friendship, love, simple human solidarity, and the concepts of good and evil. He takes literally all those around him like Taruni, his poet-friend, and forces them to see things logically, and levels everything around him through the force of his rejection. But if his truth involves revolting against destiny, his mistake is to deny humanity. One cannot destroy everything without destroying one's self. This is why Raja depopulates the world around him and, faithful to his own logic, decides to strangle Kamini, his mistress, uttering his gospel of hate at everything around him. This play is the story of a superior suicide, as described by Camus. It is the most human of stories and the most tragic of errors. Faithless to humanity out of faith in himself, he accepts to die for having understood that no one can save himself by himself, and that one cannot be free while opposing humanity. The play remains universally relevant. It represents the face of contemporary despotism, not only in terms of the whimsical madness of rulers, but also in terms of how people react to such rule with a glimmer of hope for the future

In its first edition of HUNAR CHARCHA we bring to you an artist-chat with a unique 'CAR ARTIST' whose iconic museum in Hyderabad has people coming in from all over the world. HUNAR TV-A unique web channel for the arts and LAMAKAAN-An Open Cultural Space are pleased to invite you to the first HUNAR CHARCHA outside-Delhi-NCR. Our guest this time is K. SUDHAKAR, a unique 'CAR ARTIST' who has broken world records creating motor-vehicles in the most inconceivable shapes and sizes.

"The second artist in conversation is Kathak guru Raghav Raj Bhatt. But here will explore hos other art. His line drawings of performers caught on stage LIVE"


HUNAR CHARCHA is an artist-chat series in which we bring you face-to-face with brilliant creators who have made a name for themselves in the fields of ART, MUSIC, ENTERTAINMENT, FOOD, FASHION, TRAVEL & lots more

Climate change is a global problem. It is a contemporary problem. It may seem counterintuitive, but the solution to this modern global problem is in local, indigenous knowledge based, community driven, de centralized water management.

Speaker Rajendra Singh is an Indian water conservationist and environmentalist from Alwar district, Rajasthan in India. Also known as "waterman of India", he won the Magsaysay Award in 2001 and Stockholm Water Prize in 2015. He runs an NGO called 'Tarun Bharat Sangh', which was founded in 1975.

Entry Free
All are welcome

As part of the Indian Photography Festival - Hyderabad 2019, we would like to host a Talk and a slideshow/ projection of the photographs.

Le Havre is a 2011 comedy-drama film produced, written, and directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Blondin Miguel. It tells the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child in the French port city Le Havre. ALL ARE WELCOME

I wanted to conduct Creative Art and Craft workshop for interested children and adults. We have already conducted workshops and exhibition to government, social welfare, and private schools of Telangana and AP. This program of art with paper was identified by National Handicrafts, New Delhi. The main motto of this workshop is to develop creative skills, develop interest, develop knowledge of art and craft. Through this workshop, the children and adults will be educated and will be inculcated the skills of concentration, knowledge and all other educational and developmental skills.

"Why I Resigned?" A talk by Kannan Gopinath, Former IAS Officer

Injustice and curbing of freedom of expression are worth sacrificing the biggest of power positions

Kannan Gopinath stands by democracy and free speech. He was an IAS officer who resigned in protest to the Centre's clampdown in Kashmir abrogating Article 370 and 35A. He stated, "What triggered my decision is the attempt to mutilate fundamental rights, to silence people. And the situation is that nobody should protest, nobody should raise their voice, raising your voice is not acceptable. The amount of power to silence those who react is tremendous,”
In this juncture of history of the country, where speaking truth to power is seen as an attack on the State and its machineries Gopinathan will talk about his experience in the service and his way forward. The shrinking democratic spaces within the administrative bureaucracy and the public sphere with the legitimisation of the rule of law is another aspect democratic aspirants had to deal in the current political scenario.

ALL ARE WELCOME!!!

Let’s talk podcasts!

• What on earth is a podcast?
• What does the world of podcasting look like?
• Who makes podcasts and who listens?

And—

• Do you have a podcast idea you’d like to try out—or one you’d like feedback on?

On the occasion of International Podcast Day, let’s get together to explore these questions and bounce around some answers.

You’ll meet

Other podcast enthusiasts from the city
Folks curious about this exciting media form
Makers of podcasts

Be there! Bring yourself, a smart phone and your earbuds, and listen in!

When: 5:30 p.m., Friday, 27 September
Where: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad

(Logos of Goethe-Zentrum, SunoIndia and Bol Hyderabad 90.4FM)

India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) in collaboration with Lamakaan presents
the premiere screening of

Songs of Our Soil
by Aditi Maddali
Duration: 52 mins | Language: Telugu with English subtitles

Friday, September 27, 2019 | 07:00 PM | Lamakaan, Hyderabad
Off Road 1, Near GVK Mall, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad - 500 034

Join us for the premiere screening of Songs of Our Soil followed by a discussion with the filmmaker Aditi Maddali and writer - scholar Dr Gogu Shyamala.

Through Uyyala songs, an agricultural tradition rooted in the political expression of women in Telangana, Songs of Our Soil traces the histories of their resistance and memories of disillusionment. By looking at women’s participation in major political movements, from the Telangana People’s Movement to the demands of justice from the contemporary Mallana Sagar Irrigation project, this film attempts to complicate the relationship between memory, history and cultural production.

Aditi Maddali is a Mumbai-based researcher and multimedia producer. She is currently pursuing an MPhil in Women's Studies.

Aditi Maddali received a grant from India Foundation for the Arts, under the Arts Research programme made possible with support from Titan Company Limited.

ALL ARE WELCOME!!!

This two day workshop is for beginners.During this workshop participants will learn the technique of woodcut printmaking which is one of the oldest printing method. Participants will learn from preparing a 2D visual image to carving it on a flat piece of wood to finally printing it in black and white. Participants can bring a drawing or an image they want to work on or they can come unprepared. Each participant will get to print three identical prints of the composition. All the materials will be provided during the workshop.

We CHRA (Council for Harm Reduced Alternatives) are a not-for-profit organization working towards tobacco harm reduction in the country. We are organising a meeting to express our point of view regarding the e-cigarette ban by the central government recently. We will have interactions including discussions on the matter and brief the press on our point of view.

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 biweekly on a Saturday afternoon – 3 to 6 PM

Darpan Theatre is back with their next play Pakitmaar Rangmandal. The play potrays how one can do anything when they're passionate about it. Come to witness the practical problems usually faced by theatre groups, how they cope with it, and in the end how they somehow achieve what they aimed for, because the show must go on!

Written by: Asgar Wajahat
Directed by: Ali Ahmed

28th Sep 2019, Sat
7:30 p.m. onwards
At Lamakaan

This is a pencil sketching workshop where you can learn basics in sketching and several techniques of shading which helps you to make a portrait drawing.

NRC- RELEVANCE & EFFECTS
A Dialogue

NATIONAL REGISTER OF CITIZENS’s (NRC) final list for Assam was released recently. Around 17 lakhs individuals have been left out of the list including a retired army veteran. In some families the father’s name is in the list but his son’s isn’t. Many people have committed suicides as they weren’t part of this final list.A petition has been filed in the Supreme court as 2000 transgenders were left out.
Detention camps are also under construction in Assam for detaining all the ones that will be declared foreign intruders. So far, the whole process has been daunting for the marginalized sections to produce the documents proving them as the citizen of this country.Amid so many inadequacies in the NRC Assam, Amith Shah has announced his desire to implement NRC all over the country.

At this point we feel that it is important to understand the relevance and implications of NRC, therefore lets us get together to discuss it and understand on 29th September at 4pm in Lamakaan.

Four-Play is a piece of performance art curated by Patruni Sastry in which the subject will be playing few games names EGO, POWER, LUST AND Seduction. a performance piece involving body , art and how body becomes the part of art Performance art is a performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated, spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or via media; the performer can be present or absent. It can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body, or presence in a medium, and a relationship between performer and audience. Performance art can happen anywhere, in any type of venue or setting and for any length of time. The actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work.

YOCS is conducting "YOCS debate championship" on 1st October 2019 at lamaakan from 3pm to 7pm. The topic for the debate will be announced on spot. each team will have 2 people, each team gets 4 minutes. The winning team will get Rs 3000 and the runner up team will get Rs 2000.For registration contact : yocs.contact@gmail.com. to register you have to give your name, phone number and the name of your institution. There is no entry free. All participants must arrive on time. (Slogan : you don't get to have an opinion you cannot defend).

A Social Sustainablity initiative on Up-cycling Plastic Bottles into useful things that can help thrive the ecosystem.

In regards to launch of social media challenge, we want to engage more number of users to deal this.

We are planning to launch an social media challenge on Plastic Up-cycling, in regards to the Ban on Single use plastic from government India.

"Indirabayi" was the first social novel in Kannada, published towards the end of the 19th century. Recently it has been translated into English by Prof. Vanamala Viswanatha, Visiting Professor at Azim Premji University, and Prof. Shivarama Padikkal,Professor at University of Hyderabad, and published by Oxford University Press. The present program involves Reading and Discussion with the translators. Dr. Tharakeshwar V.B. of The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad will moderate the discussion.

Udaan Performing Arts Presents its 43rd theatre production 'Pichle Ikkis Saal', Originally written by Dharmakirti Sumant ( Pune ) Translation, Design & Direction by Saurabh Gharipurikar.

Vaishnavi savalla.
In this workshop you will be learning about how the mandalas are drawn and the basic designs and filling up the mandala by basic and pro strokes on the handmade paper with artist pens
We will be supplying all the materials and notes about the basics of mandalas
You can take away your art piece

Fees - 600/-
Venue - Lamakaan
Contact - 9177300699 (can dm in watsapp)

Lamakaan invites one and all to the book launch of 'Viriah' authored by Krishna Gubili

About the book:
VIRIAH is about the lifelong search for his ancestor, indian indenture and the related aspects of colonial India and sugar slavery.

The book was ranked # 1 on Amazon and got great reviews from Gandhiji's great granddaughter Uma, actors like Nasser, Tanikella Bharani and scores of readers globally.

One can get a copy of the book at:
https://www.amazon.com/Viriah-Indentured-Sugarcane-Plantations-Great-Grandfather/dp/1684663245

About the author and conceptualization of this book: Krishna Gubili, as a youngster, Krishna discovered that his ancestor, Viriah was one of the 1.3 million Indians who were shipped off as Indenture labor to replace slaves on sugarcane plantations in South Africa, Caribbean, Mauritius and Fiji.

Yes. 1.3 Million Indians.

The SEARCH for his ROOTS lasted a Lifetime.

It took him to countless researchers, embassies, websites & ship lists. At last, In 2014, on a miracle trip to South Africa, he found the original ship record of his ancestor!


ALL ARE INVITED. ENTRY IS FREE & OPEN TO ALL!!!

This is to give upcoming mimicry artists a chance to know how to perform. An open mic for aspirants and senior mimic's will give them advises after their act.

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

No Man's Land
Description : Two wounded soldiers - a Bosnian and a Serb, have a confrontation in a trench in the no man's land between their line, until the Bosnian finds himself on a bouncing mine and they call for truce.
Director : Danis Tranovic

Duration : 1 hour 38 min

Hosted by Cinephiles Film Club

The water need in the city is massive, and the city extracts groundwater for the same. With depleting groundwater levels and fluctuating climate conditions, the method, with hands on practical knowledge, promises to go a long way to help mitigate water shortage and maintain the water balance by collecting rainfall for future usage.

Hyderabad, with its topographic and underground water specifics, also requires to look at this method a lot more carefully. Applied questions such as how rainwater harvesting should be practiced or where is it viable to practice rainwater harvesting, are best answered by practitioners engaged with this technology through years of experience. The Rainwater Harvesting Mela intends to demonstrate locally developed means and processes of water harvesting that people in and around the city of Hyderabad have been using. Through this mela, we hope to disseminate reliable knowledge to capture rainwater that not only recharge local aquifers in an arid zone, but also reduce urban flooding by integrating rainwater harvesting as an integral means for Hyderabad’s annual flood control.


Join us on 7th September 2019, Saturday, from 10.00 am onwards to know more about doable and practical rainwater harvesting from resource persons who will be available on site. Stay tuned to this page for more updates, from time to time !

Non competitive quiz required for every first Saturday of the month.
Capacity ~ 50 members

Matewan is a movie directed by John Sayles, a story of striking West Virginia coal miners in the 1920's against the coal mining company. It captures the bloody working class battle in the town of Matewan and examines the labor unions from a critical perspective, shedding light on racial and cultural divides that hamper the working class movement. The film not only depicts the class struggles between the mine workers and the owners but also depicts various tactics used by the company to manipulate the workers and finally defeat them.
Entry is free!
Date and time - 7th Sept, 7.30pm at Lamakaan

The TEAM of HYDERABAD HASLEY ZARA is conducting a CERTIFICATE-ORIENTED VIDEO EDITING, SOUND EDITING and PHOTOSHOP Work-Shop specially for BEGINNERS.

In this Work-Shop we are going to teach you three different softwares each one for VIDEO-EDITING, SOUND-EDITING Software and PHOTOSHOP

Our VIDEO EDITING workshop is completely practical based, one-day training format designed to teach the BEGINNERS in a SIMPLEST way and at a reasonable price!

In SOUND EDITING we are going to explain youon how to use the SOUND EDITING SOFTWARE as well and overcome the MAJOR PROBLEMS which are faced during SOUND and AUDIO

In PHOTOSHOP we are going to teach you the basics of the software and the POSTER DESIGNING, Colour Grading and other various topics which will help you MAJORLY

After completing of the WORK-SHOP everyone who have attendes the course will be presented with a "CERTIFICATE" as well.


PRICE for Work-shop is
Early Bird: Rs.400
Spot Registration: Rs.500
*LIMITED SEATS AVILABLE*

For REGISTRATION and further details please do CONTACT
ALI : +91-7675997550 E-MAIL: syed.ali.201517@gmail.com
VIVEK: +91-9392534582 E-MAIL: vivek.kamble788@gmail.com

Aly Ndiaye, a.k.a. Webster, was born and raised in Quebec city's Limoilou neighborhood. From a Senegalese father and a Quebecer mother, he has always been proud of his dual origin and sees himself as a SeneQueb. His passion for history drove him to study this field in college.

Hip-Hop militant and social activist, Webster is deeply implicated in his community. He regularly gives lecture about cultural diversity in Quebec and the influence of the hip-hop culture on the youth. His main subject is the history of black people and their enslavement in the province of Quebec since the start of the colony in the 17th century.

Since 2009, he has been travelling the globe to give workshops and teach students how to use creative writing in french; he performed in Asia, South America, Africa, Europe and North America.

Musically, he has been active since 1995; founder of the Limoilou Starz collective, he is a pioneer of the hip-hop culture in Quebec. The Old Man of the Mountain (as he is known) is reputed for his wise lyrics and the smartness of his music. His art is a tool that he has been sharpening for two decades.

IS INDIA A SECULAR COUNTRY?
Tue Sep 10, 7:00 PM

Journalist and commentator Kapil Komireddi will discuss his critically acclaimed new book, Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India, with Mohan Guruswamy and Sridala Swami.

Under Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party, India has undergone the most total transformation since 1991. The ‘invisible threads’ Nehru said held together an improbable union divided by language, religion and ethnicity have snapped under the burden of Modi’s Hindu-supremacist rule.

In this blistering critique of post-Independence India from Nehru to Modi, Komireddi charts the unsound course of Indian nationalism: its cowardly concessions to the Hindu right, convenient distortions of India’s past and demeaning bribes to India’s minorities. He argues that the missteps of the nation’s founders, the mistakes of Nehru, the betrayals of his daughter and her sons, the anti-democratic fetish for technocracy inaugurated by Narasimha Rao and carried to the extremes by Manmohan Singh—all of them laid down the road on which Hindu nationalists rode to absolute power.

Hindu bigotry, ennobled under Modi as a healthy form of self-assertion, has reopened old fissures that threaten to devour India’s hard-won unity. If secularists fail to reclaim the republic from Hindu nationalists, Komireddi argues, India will become Pakistan by another name. A short history of the modern Indian nation, Malevolent Republic is also an impassioned plea for India’s reclamation.

Kapil will be joined in conversation with Mohan Guruswamy, founder and chairman of the Guruswamy Centre, and poet Sridala Swami.

Praise for Malevolent Republic:

‘In precise and sharp language Malevolent Republic takes readers on a terrifying and yet illuminating journey through the rapidly transforming political, social and religious landscape of Modi’s India.’ — Times Literary Supplement

Avakash Mahanta was an integral part of Lamakaan with a strong presence in the Hyderabad theater circuit. Unfortunately, he is no longer with us. We are holding a prayer meeting on 11th September between 6 PM - 7 PM for his friends and colleagues to remember him.

Lemon Tree Film screening

Lemon Tree is a 2008 Israeli drama film directed by Eran Riklis and co-directed by his cousin Ira Riklis. It stars Hiam Abbass, Ali Suliman, Danny Leshman, Rona Lipaz-Michael, Tarik Kopty, Amos Lavi, Lana Zreik and Amnon Wolf.The film describes the legal efforts of a Palestinian widow to stop the Israeli Defense Minister, her next door neighbor, from destroying the lemon trees in her family farm. At the same time, she develops a human bond with the minister's wife.

ALL ARE WELCOME!!!

Ishq Mastana | Drunk on Love
Life and philosophy of Kabir, in story and song
by Vipul Rikhi

An introduction to the enigmatic, iconoclastic 15th century Bhakti-Sufi poet, Kabir, through storytelling, commentary, poetry and songs. The songs are in dialects of Hindi and the entire narration will be in English.

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Why Kabir?
Over 500 years after his lifetime, Kabir still speaks to our times. In simple, direct words, he addresses complex emotional and cultural issues, with deep insight and clarity. But who was Kabir? How and where did he live? What made him who he was? Was he just one person or has he become many? Exploring legends around his life, his poetry, the depth of his thought, and the beauty of the music that has sprung up around him, we take a journey into the heart of this unique phenomenon.

Vipul Rikhi is a poet, translator and singer, and a co-creator of Ajab Shahar, a forthcoming digital archive that celebrates the oral traditions of Bhakti, Sufi and Baul music and poetry. His work with Kabir Project includes extensive writings and translations in the area of mystic poetry, including forthcoming books. He is also the author of a novel and collections of poetry and short stories.

http://ishqfakiri.com/
https://vipulrikhi.com/

iVolunteer-Your Skills can change lives brings you a platform to do so through a highly customized training session on “Important aspects for writing effective concept note/ proposal" to be held on 14th September, 2019 from 10.00am to 03.00pm as part of #GYAN, our initiative where we have professionals volunteering to discuss the above situations faced by NGOs on various skills to help increase their efficiency



Note: Session will be conducted in Telugu and English

The resource person is Aruna Jyothi Patapati with
11+ years of grassroots experience in Women and Child Development. Apart from the full time journey in various roles: Program Development, execution, Fund Raising, Impact Assessment and Evaluation, Strategy Development and designing Volunteering programs, Aruna has been a Mentor and Consultant to non-profits working on Education and Livelihood development, especially in human-centered program development and design thinking. A Freedom Writers Fellow (USA) and served in post-conflict Uganda (Africa). Enthusiastic about cross cultural and interdisciplinary learning and collaborations and a continuous learner and backpacker to explore Best Practices in Love & Care across world.

linkedIn.com/in/arunajyothipatapati84/

These are the questions which will be discussed and addressed. The workshop is suitable for all NGO Leaders, Development Sector Professionals.

We are glad to share that all participants of GYAN will be eligible to receive a “Certificate of Completion/Participation” from iVolunteer. As always the session is for a maximum of 10 participants, with a maximum of 2 per NGO.

Cheque of Rs 1100/- (per participant) favoring ChangeX Services Private Limited to iVolunteer with a cover note indicating your interest and the participant details in the above mentioned format. Rest details will be shared post you confirmation.

Look forward to your participation. For more information,

please call Ernest Matta at 9849692140 or write to hyderabad@iVolunteer.in

Rinzin Choedon (National Director, Students for a Free Tibet- India) and Tenzin Phakdon (Grassroots Director, SFT India) will speak on the ongoing crackdown in Tibet and the new forms of resistance Tibetans have employed in their struggle for freedom.

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 to 6 PM

“Push Start to Auto Start” by Anu Kushwaha is a helping hand for those of us who feel lost, confused like we’re just drifting through life with exhaustion seeping into our bones as we keep pushing our lives forward just to succeed.

If you are feeling trapped in the life you’re living, “Push Start to Auto Start” by Anu Kushwaha can help you there. With words that teach you how to balance work and personal life without feeling empty, this book is a must-have for those who can relate.

Meet her at Book Launch event on 14 September 2019 @ 17:30 hrs at Lamakaan and see a new perspective of life.

You can read her articles on www.backtowellbeing.org
E-book and paperback of #pushstarttoautostart is also available on popular online platforms.

Reflections on the Indian Constitution and Judiciary in the Current Moment

The transfer of judges their appointments and related challenges throw long shadows on the efficacy and credibility of the system. Is the last sentinel suffering an credibility crisis or is it being attacked?

Speaker: L Ravichander is a Senior Lawyer practising at Hyderabad High Court.

This is the culmination of the Weekend Theatre Workshop for Children where we invite the parents of the children who have participated in the workshop, in order to view the children's presentations and speak with the workshop facilitator regarding their child

In the context of amendments to Right to information act, we want to create awareness on Right to information and talk about online platforms that enable all citizens to use Right to Information easily and for free.

Based on Tarapada Roy's story, dramatised by Soumitra Basu, Gadha Kahini is a political satire that portrays through a story telling style on how some of the decision making authorities are being driven by their whims and fancies and how it all turns out to be a comedy of errors

17th September this year marks 71 years since the erstwhile state of Hyderabad was annexed to India, in the year 1948, more than a year after India got its independence. While what transpired then has been largely forgotten and left out of our history books, a very important thing within that subject is the Telangana Armed Struggle (1946-51).

While the last Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan, was busy trying to do his best to stay independent and was negotiating with the Indian government, the communists in Telangana had given a call to arms against oppressive landlords in 1946 itself, two whole years before Operation Polo. The movement is one of the nest successful peasant revolutions that took place in independent India.

The state of Hyderabad, which comprised Telangana and parts of present day Maharashtra and Karnataka, was in flux, but what transpired between 1946 and 1951 in the region of Telangana was very different from the rest of the state. The Razakaars, a militia led by Qasim Razvi, which caused a lot of disturbances in the name of keeping Hyderabad independent, was met with resistance by the communists.

A very important aspect today, especially given that the issue of 'liberation day' (of Hyderabad from the Nizam) is being talked about, is that the anti-feudal struggle in Telangana was against oppressive landlords (working for the Nizam), who mostly perpetrated caste violence in the rural areas of the state. Chakali Ailamma, P. Sundarayya, Makhdoom Mohiuddin, Ravi Nayaran Reddy and many others fought for freedom to set poor peasants free from oppression.

Moreover, it is well-recorded in the Sunderlal Committee report about the atrocities perpetrated against Muslims (between 27000 to 40000 reportedly killed) in the aftermath of Operation polo (in the districts of Maharashtra and Karnataka mainly). However, in Telangana, so such thing took place, in spite of the communally charged atmosphere, thanks to the communist leadership which essentially controlled the rural areas of Telangana.

Today, very few people from that generation live; who can tells us what they witnessed during that period of flux in Telangana. Among them are Gabbete Raghu Pal (78), a member of the Communist party of India-Marxist and Kandimalla Prathap Reddy (85), a member of the Communist Party of India, who were just children when Operation Polo took place, but have several stories and eyewitness accounts that will help us understand both Operation Polo and the Telangana Armed Struggle.

So come join us for a talk and discussion with the speakers, who will help us understand our state's history in a more personal manner and also throw some light on what transpired during those days of strife.

About the speakers:

Mr. Raghu Pal's association with the Telangana Armed Struggle started as child, when he witnessed many incidents in his village in Jangaon Taluka (district today). His father, G. Gopal Reddy, was in fact a senior CPI leader, who was also arrested and jailed for his participation in the armed struggle (CPI was banned even after independence, the party called-off the rebellion in 1951). He has been with the CPM since his youth.

Kandimalla Pratap Reddy is a renowned author and public speaker on the Telangana peasant armed uprising. His association with the communist movement started when he was a teenager as a courier responsible for passing messages between the leaders and comrades underground and aiding them with food and transport. His well known books include “Veera Telangana Sayudha Samaram”, “Ralina Ratnalu”, “Gadar Viplavam”, “Bandook (novel)” etc to name a few. In “Ralina Ratnalu” he captures the stories of hundreds of commoners who lay their lives down for the cause of the peasant uprising from every district of Telangana.

ALL ARE INVITED.

Organizer:
The event is being hosted by Yunus Lasania, a city based journalist and Moses Tulasi, Documentary filmmaker who are currently interviewing eyewitnesses of Operation Polo and Telangana Armed Struggle.

When a group of Mayan Indians decides to organize a labor union to improve conditions in their village, their community is violently destroyed by the Guatemalan army. Teenage siblings, Rosa (Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez) and Enrique (David Villalpando) manage to escape the massacre and decide to start a new life in El Norte -- the USA. The two trek through Mexico, meeting a variety of characters and facing trials and tribulations on their journey toward lives as illegal immigrants in Los Angeles.

Relevance of Periyar today : Contradictions of caste, language and religion

Thanthai Periyar lived in a time when the country was witnessing a turmoil in its social and political landscape. He stood against the current questioning the idea of nation, social constructs of caste, religion and the dominant culture. He was not an armchair revolutionary, nor a seasonal activist but a speaker who spoke his mind wherever he was. The talk will revolve around the contemporary relevance of Periyar at a time the nation is divided drastically on the lines of caste, religion and other identities and rise in inequality.

Thirumurugan Gandhi is an human rights activist and a geopolitical commentator. He spoke in the UN for the past three years advocating the rights of people facing war crimes against imperial regimes. He is also the founder of May 17 Movement and raised his voice against the Indian government's atrocities against Tamils.

This hilarious play, staged is the age-old argument on MODERN ART and its creativity(or the lack of it). LOTS OF SWEARING AND FIST FIGHTS IN STORE!! On a serious note, the ingenious french playwright YASMINA REZA has gained immense popularity with this play being translated into over 30 languages. 

A friend buys a strange piece of modern art, another friend loses his mind and another gets punched in the face. Was the painting worth its 200 million euros?? Did Yvan deserve the punch to his face. Did Marc come to terms with modern art? Did Sophie retain her dignity among her philistine friends?? 




Duration - 90 minutes
Time - 8:00 pm
Actors - Srinivas (as Marc)
Aarthy (as Sophie)
Purushothama (as Yvan)
Music - Joshua
Lights - Sudarshan

On the occasion of Bhagat Singh's Birth Anniversary, Lamakaan cordially invite one and all to an important discussion on the relevance of Bhagat Singh today. With the fascists forces in political power and spreading their reactionary politics like a virus in the country, it becomes all the more necessary to recollect the society that Bhagat Singh dreamt of.

water COLOUR WITH CRIMSON
This is a Practical & complete watercolor painting workshop for one and all, An in-depth understanding of a unique art medium, painting with watercolors is all about your confidence, it's also about how you respond towards nature around, its also a confidence builder, it's a calming agent, practical approach to rejuvenate your body & mind . Learn to do watercolors with Artist Crimson.

Ventriloquism is art of voice manipulation using a puppet or doll.

M.Sathosh Kumar is a international Ventriloquism artiste, with more than 20 years experience in performing Ventriloquism shows.

He is the only ventriloquist who is attending international Ventriloquism convention at USA, since 2012.

He regularly works with school children & teachers in helping them in improving their skills

Contact 9849745838

He travels to USA, UK & UAE to do workshops on Ventriloquism for children.
www.indianventriloquism.com

We will have a reader read from Wendy Doniger's banned book The Hindus: An Alternative History and another reader read from Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses. This will be followed by a discussion of both books.

The film is about the non violent, people's movement - Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) - which has been fighting for Adivasi people's right to proper rehabilitation for over 3 decades. It has been presented as a success story, where more than 250 thousand people, under the leadership of Medha Patkar, have fought and won the battle against oppressive government policies of rehabilitation.

The present model of development which endorses big dams, has always been challenged by the NBA, and the drawbacks of this model are now seen at every corner. The range of the damage is from adversely affecting the lives of 60,000 families to 80 kms of sea ingress, making hundreds of hectares of land infertile.

NBA's alternative models of development are also presented in the film, which has a long term positive impacts on society, be it the small scale power generation project or the life-schools (Jeevan Shala), which are being run by the Andolan over the last 25 years.

Adivasi culture of songs, Holi, their value systems, faiths are also shown in the film, which also points at the virtue of 'small is beautiful'.

The Narmada Bachao Movement is a success story of a fight over the last 35 years. The world should understand it as an ongoing struggle and that people's strength can change policies and can force the government to take steps towards justice. With the film, I also want to make an appeal to the rich, upper-class and urban middle class to be sensitive, considerate and humble towards those who had to made huge sacrifices for their everyday comforts. Media has been very partial about the NBA over the past decade now, calling it dead! With the film, I want to spread the message that the NBA is still very much alive and is giving hopes to lakhs of people even outside the valley.

A comedy play about three men in a park fighting for their place;
there are three benches but not enough. The play touches upon
that thing which is at a premium these days – space – literally
and metaphorically. What starts of as light-hearted banter
evolves into a serious conflict about space, territory and
ownership. These become the main issues. 
Park can be many things; it can be a metaphor for home, or a
metaphor for love, or even your workplace. It deals with a
problem of space, which is universal.

water COLOUR WITH CRIMSON
This is a Practical & complete watercolor painting workshop for one and all, An in-depth understanding of a unique art medium, painting with watercolors is all about your confidence, it's also about how you respond towards nature around, its also a confidence builder, it's a calming agent, practical approach to rejuvenate your body & mind . Learn to do watercolors with Artist Crimson.

Exclusive book release by Dr. Bala Tripura Sundari , founder of Sri Raaga Music School, featuring the compositions composed by her.

The play, 'Rajar' has drawn from Camus' “Caligula” the concept of deification of emperors which was common to the pagan world, the Greek and Macedonian kings. Raja (the king) discovers on the death of his sister and lover, Apurupa, that people die and they are not happy. From this point on, obsessed by his search for the absolute, poisoned with contempt and horror, he tries to exercise, through murders and systematic perversion of all values. He rejects friendship, love, simple human solidarity, and the concepts of good and evil. He takes literally all those around him like Taruni, his poet-friend, and forces them to see things logically, and levels everything around him through the force of his rejection. But if his truth involves revolting against destiny, his mistake is to deny humanity. One cannot destroy everything without destroying one's self. This is why Raja depopulates the world around him and, faithful to his own logic, decides to strangle Kamini, his mistress, uttering his gospel of hate at everything around him. This play is the story of a superior suicide, as described by Camus. It is the most human of stories and the most tragic of errors. Faithless to humanity out of faith in himself, he accepts to die for having understood that no one can save himself by himself, and that one cannot be free while opposing humanity. The play remains universally relevant. It represents the face of contemporary despotism, not only in terms of the whimsical madness of rulers, but also in terms of how people react to such rule with a glimmer of hope for the future

In its first edition of HUNAR CHARCHA we bring to you an artist-chat with a unique 'CAR ARTIST' whose iconic museum in Hyderabad has people coming in from all over the world. HUNAR TV-A unique web channel for the arts and LAMAKAAN-An Open Cultural Space are pleased to invite you to the first HUNAR CHARCHA outside-Delhi-NCR. Our guest this time is K. SUDHAKAR, a unique 'CAR ARTIST' who has broken world records creating motor-vehicles in the most inconceivable shapes and sizes.

"The second artist in conversation is Kathak guru Raghav Raj Bhatt. But here will explore hos other art. His line drawings of performers caught on stage LIVE"


HUNAR CHARCHA is an artist-chat series in which we bring you face-to-face with brilliant creators who have made a name for themselves in the fields of ART, MUSIC, ENTERTAINMENT, FOOD, FASHION, TRAVEL & lots more

Climate change is a global problem. It is a contemporary problem. It may seem counterintuitive, but the solution to this modern global problem is in local, indigenous knowledge based, community driven, de centralized water management.

Speaker Rajendra Singh is an Indian water conservationist and environmentalist from Alwar district, Rajasthan in India. Also known as "waterman of India", he won the Magsaysay Award in 2001 and Stockholm Water Prize in 2015. He runs an NGO called 'Tarun Bharat Sangh', which was founded in 1975.

Entry Free
All are welcome

As part of the Indian Photography Festival - Hyderabad 2019, we would like to host a Talk and a slideshow/ projection of the photographs.

Le Havre is a 2011 comedy-drama film produced, written, and directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Blondin Miguel. It tells the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child in the French port city Le Havre. ALL ARE WELCOME

I wanted to conduct Creative Art and Craft workshop for interested children and adults. We have already conducted workshops and exhibition to government, social welfare, and private schools of Telangana and AP. This program of art with paper was identified by National Handicrafts, New Delhi. The main motto of this workshop is to develop creative skills, develop interest, develop knowledge of art and craft. Through this workshop, the children and adults will be educated and will be inculcated the skills of concentration, knowledge and all other educational and developmental skills.

"Why I Resigned?" A talk by Kannan Gopinath, Former IAS Officer

Injustice and curbing of freedom of expression are worth sacrificing the biggest of power positions

Kannan Gopinath stands by democracy and free speech. He was an IAS officer who resigned in protest to the Centre's clampdown in Kashmir abrogating Article 370 and 35A. He stated, "What triggered my decision is the attempt to mutilate fundamental rights, to silence people. And the situation is that nobody should protest, nobody should raise their voice, raising your voice is not acceptable. The amount of power to silence those who react is tremendous,”
In this juncture of history of the country, where speaking truth to power is seen as an attack on the State and its machineries Gopinathan will talk about his experience in the service and his way forward. The shrinking democratic spaces within the administrative bureaucracy and the public sphere with the legitimisation of the rule of law is another aspect democratic aspirants had to deal in the current political scenario.

ALL ARE WELCOME!!!

Let’s talk podcasts!

• What on earth is a podcast?
• What does the world of podcasting look like?
• Who makes podcasts and who listens?

And—

• Do you have a podcast idea you’d like to try out—or one you’d like feedback on?

On the occasion of International Podcast Day, let’s get together to explore these questions and bounce around some answers.

You’ll meet

Other podcast enthusiasts from the city
Folks curious about this exciting media form
Makers of podcasts

Be there! Bring yourself, a smart phone and your earbuds, and listen in!

When: 5:30 p.m., Friday, 27 September
Where: Lamakaan, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad

(Logos of Goethe-Zentrum, SunoIndia and Bol Hyderabad 90.4FM)

India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) in collaboration with Lamakaan presents
the premiere screening of

Songs of Our Soil
by Aditi Maddali
Duration: 52 mins | Language: Telugu with English subtitles

Friday, September 27, 2019 | 07:00 PM | Lamakaan, Hyderabad
Off Road 1, Near GVK Mall, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad - 500 034

Join us for the premiere screening of Songs of Our Soil followed by a discussion with the filmmaker Aditi Maddali and writer - scholar Dr Gogu Shyamala.

Through Uyyala songs, an agricultural tradition rooted in the political expression of women in Telangana, Songs of Our Soil traces the histories of their resistance and memories of disillusionment. By looking at women’s participation in major political movements, from the Telangana People’s Movement to the demands of justice from the contemporary Mallana Sagar Irrigation project, this film attempts to complicate the relationship between memory, history and cultural production.

Aditi Maddali is a Mumbai-based researcher and multimedia producer. She is currently pursuing an MPhil in Women's Studies.

Aditi Maddali received a grant from India Foundation for the Arts, under the Arts Research programme made possible with support from Titan Company Limited.

ALL ARE WELCOME!!!

This two day workshop is for beginners.During this workshop participants will learn the technique of woodcut printmaking which is one of the oldest printing method. Participants will learn from preparing a 2D visual image to carving it on a flat piece of wood to finally printing it in black and white. Participants can bring a drawing or an image they want to work on or they can come unprepared. Each participant will get to print three identical prints of the composition. All the materials will be provided during the workshop.

We CHRA (Council for Harm Reduced Alternatives) are a not-for-profit organization working towards tobacco harm reduction in the country. We are organising a meeting to express our point of view regarding the e-cigarette ban by the central government recently. We will have interactions including discussions on the matter and brief the press on our point of view.

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 biweekly on a Saturday afternoon – 3 to 6 PM

Darpan Theatre is back with their next play Pakitmaar Rangmandal. The play potrays how one can do anything when they're passionate about it. Come to witness the practical problems usually faced by theatre groups, how they cope with it, and in the end how they somehow achieve what they aimed for, because the show must go on!

Written by: Asgar Wajahat
Directed by: Ali Ahmed

28th Sep 2019, Sat
7:30 p.m. onwards
At Lamakaan

This is a pencil sketching workshop where you can learn basics in sketching and several techniques of shading which helps you to make a portrait drawing.

NRC- RELEVANCE & EFFECTS
A Dialogue

NATIONAL REGISTER OF CITIZENS’s (NRC) final list for Assam was released recently. Around 17 lakhs individuals have been left out of the list including a retired army veteran. In some families the father’s name is in the list but his son’s isn’t. Many people have committed suicides as they weren’t part of this final list.A petition has been filed in the Supreme court as 2000 transgenders were left out.
Detention camps are also under construction in Assam for detaining all the ones that will be declared foreign intruders. So far, the whole process has been daunting for the marginalized sections to produce the documents proving them as the citizen of this country.Amid so many inadequacies in the NRC Assam, Amith Shah has announced his desire to implement NRC all over the country.

At this point we feel that it is important to understand the relevance and implications of NRC, therefore lets us get together to discuss it and understand on 29th September at 4pm in Lamakaan.

Four-Play is a piece of performance art curated by Patruni Sastry in which the subject will be playing few games names EGO, POWER, LUST AND Seduction. a performance piece involving body , art and how body becomes the part of art Performance art is a performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated, spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or via media; the performer can be present or absent. It can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body, or presence in a medium, and a relationship between performer and audience. Performance art can happen anywhere, in any type of venue or setting and for any length of time. The actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work.

YOCS is conducting "YOCS debate championship" on 1st October 2019 at lamaakan from 3pm to 7pm. The topic for the debate will be announced on spot. each team will have 2 people, each team gets 4 minutes. The winning team will get Rs 3000 and the runner up team will get Rs 2000.For registration contact : yocs.contact@gmail.com. to register you have to give your name, phone number and the name of your institution. There is no entry free. All participants must arrive on time. (Slogan : you don't get to have an opinion you cannot defend).

A Social Sustainablity initiative on Up-cycling Plastic Bottles into useful things that can help thrive the ecosystem.

In regards to launch of social media challenge, we want to engage more number of users to deal this.

We are planning to launch an social media challenge on Plastic Up-cycling, in regards to the Ban on Single use plastic from government India.

"Indirabayi" was the first social novel in Kannada, published towards the end of the 19th century. Recently it has been translated into English by Prof. Vanamala Viswanatha, Visiting Professor at Azim Premji University, and Prof. Shivarama Padikkal,Professor at University of Hyderabad, and published by Oxford University Press. The present program involves Reading and Discussion with the translators. Dr. Tharakeshwar V.B. of The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad will moderate the discussion.

Udaan Performing Arts Presents its 43rd theatre production 'Pichle Ikkis Saal', Originally written by Dharmakirti Sumant ( Pune ) Translation, Design & Direction by Saurabh Gharipurikar.

Vaishnavi savalla.
In this workshop you will be learning about how the mandalas are drawn and the basic designs and filling up the mandala by basic and pro strokes on the handmade paper with artist pens
We will be supplying all the materials and notes about the basics of mandalas
You can take away your art piece

Fees - 600/-
Venue - Lamakaan
Contact - 9177300699 (can dm in watsapp)

Lamakaan invites one and all to the book launch of 'Viriah' authored by Krishna Gubili

About the book:
VIRIAH is about the lifelong search for his ancestor, indian indenture and the related aspects of colonial India and sugar slavery.

The book was ranked # 1 on Amazon and got great reviews from Gandhiji's great granddaughter Uma, actors like Nasser, Tanikella Bharani and scores of readers globally.

One can get a copy of the book at:
https://www.amazon.com/Viriah-Indentured-Sugarcane-Plantations-Great-Grandfather/dp/1684663245

About the author and conceptualization of this book: Krishna Gubili, as a youngster, Krishna discovered that his ancestor, Viriah was one of the 1.3 million Indians who were shipped off as Indenture labor to replace slaves on sugarcane plantations in South Africa, Caribbean, Mauritius and Fiji.

Yes. 1.3 Million Indians.

The SEARCH for his ROOTS lasted a Lifetime.

It took him to countless researchers, embassies, websites & ship lists. At last, In 2014, on a miracle trip to South Africa, he found the original ship record of his ancestor!


ALL ARE INVITED. ENTRY IS FREE & OPEN TO ALL!!!

This is to give upcoming mimicry artists a chance to know how to perform. An open mic for aspirants and senior mimic's will give them advises after their act.