BackThe Mint Planner, 12 December 2014
From music and movies to dance and drama, there's plenty to do or experience over the coming week
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Around town
Birdwatching
14 December
Every winter, as the temperature begins to dip, migratory birds start flocking to the city. Parvish Pandya, an associate professor in zoology at Bhavan’s College in Andheri and a consultant with the Sanctuary Asia wildlife magazine, will conduct an introductory course on birdwatching at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park. An audio-video by Pandya, Bird Identification & The Art of Birdwatching, will also be screened.
6am-12.30pm. Sanjay Gandhi National Park, off Western Express Highway Borivali—East (28847800). Fee, ₹ 650, will include tea, breakfast, workshop contents, and transportation within the forest. Participants will have to buy entry tickets, for vehicles too. To register, email nicsgnp78@gmail.com, or head for on-the-spot registration at 6.15am.
Music
The Magic of Motown
13 December
The mother-daughter duo of Sharon Prabhakar and Shazahn Padamsee, Neal Murray and Sid Meghani come together to belt out hit songs from the 1970s and 1980s. This evening of jazz will pay tribute to yesteryear legends like Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye and Percy Sledge.
7.30pm. Tata Theatre, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Nariman Point, NCPA Marg (66323737). Tickets, ₹ 300, ₹ 500, ₹ 800 and ₹ 1,000, available on in.bookmyshow.com
Art
aPaulogy
15 December
From Irani cafés to the Regal cinema hall—all find place in the watercolour prints on display at Bengaluru-based cartoonist Paul Fernandes’ new gallery aPaulogy, which will open on Monday. The Mumbai gallery will have 100 watercolour prints inspired by the time he spent in the city, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, as well as some images of Goa, Mangaluru and Bengaluru.
11am-6 pm. aPaulogy gallery, 2-B, Mohatta Bhavan, Dr E Moses Road, Worli, near Geeta Cinema, opposite Oriental Container. Prices of artworks and merchandise range from ₹ 200-15,000. For details, call 09821097907.
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Dance
Rhythm Divine II
16-17 December
Contemporary dance master Astad Deboo will collaborate with Guru Meihoubam
Seityaban Singh and the Manipuri ‘pung cholom’ drummers for the event, a performance that will blend music and dance. Deboo has been known to bring together theatre and folk, traditional and contemporary dance forms.
7pm. Experimental Theatre, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Nariman Point, NCPA Marg (66323737). Tickets, 200-300, available on
in.bookmyshow.com
By Shinibali Mitra Saigal
Bengaluru
Theatre
Tughlaq
13 December
Written by Girish Karnad and directed by Samkutty Pattomkary, Tughlaq is a 13-scene Kannada play about the tumultuous rule of Muhammad bin Tughlaq. Tughlaq is known for the grand vision of a unified India and reformist ideas that were ahead of his time, but his reign was an abject failure. Though it’s a play that delves into history, the story is fairly relevant to the politics of any era. 2 hours.
3.30pm/7.30pm. Ranga Shankara, 36/2, 8th Cross, 2nd Phase, JP Nagar. Tickets, ₹ 100, available on in.bookmyshow.com
Between The Lines
13 December
The cine screening of Nandita Das and Divya Jagdale’s play, Between The Lines, stars Das and Subodh Maskara. A contemporary play set in urban India, where educated and affluent couples get trapped between the dilemmas of modernity and tradition, Between The Lines focuses on the lives of Maya and Shekhar, both lawyers. They end up on the opposite sides of a criminal trial and find that this affects their personal and professional lives.
8.45pm. Atta Galatta, 134, KHB Colony, 5th Block, Koramangala. Tickets, ₹ 300, available on in.bookmyshow.com. For details, call 9632510126.
Art
New Works of KG Subramanyan
Till 28 December
The National Gallery of Modern Art, in collaboration with the Seagull Foundation for the Arts, Kolkata, is hosting an exhibition of the latest works of K.G. Subramanyan. More than 90 works—in a variety of media including murals, sculpture, printmaking and illustrations—are on display.
10am-5pm (closed on Mondays and national holidays). National Gallery of Modern Art, 49, Palace Road, Manikyavelu Mansion (22342338).
Music
Jyotsna Srikanth
13 December
An evening of south Indian and Western classical fused with contemporary music, as violin artiste Jyotsna Srikanth performs along with Shadrach Solomon on keyboards and Manjunath N.S. on drums.
Srikanth’s performance will be followed by a late-night set by the folk/rock band Flee, which is also launching its album ‘Sand Castles’.
9pm. BFlat, 776, 100 Feet Road, Indiranagar (25278361). Tickets, 400, available on in.bookmyshow.com
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Music
Ruhaniyat
13 December
The music festival is back, in its 14th year, with an array of brilliant musicians who will bring to life the work of great mystics. The other line-up includes performers from Uttarakhand, Kutch, West Bengal, Telangana and Punjab, as well as ‘qawwals’ from various ‘dargahs’ and monks from Tibet.
6.30pm. Jayamahal Palace Hotel, 1, Jayamahal Road (40580444). Tickets, ₹ 600, available on in.bookmyshow.com
By Priyadarshini Nandy
Delhi
Theatre
She
12-13 December
Written and directed by Pallav S. Chander and Debontika Das, She highlights the fears and suffering of women today. An original piece of writing, it is a compilation of three separate monologues. She is presented by CurtainCall Productions and Events and White Noise Productions, and produced by Vishesh Arora. 1 hour, 30 minutes.
7.30pm (12 December), at Epicentre, Apparel House, Sector 44, Gurgaon; 6.30pm/8pm (13 December), at Akshara Theatre, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, near Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital. Tickets, ₹ 300 and ₹ 500, available on in.bookmyshow.com
Still And Still Moving
Till 14 December
The Tadpole Repertory, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut and Royal Court Theatre, UK, is presenting Neel Chaudhuri’s Still And Still Moving—a play about a same-sex love story between a writer in his 40s and a young college student. Set in north Delhi and Gurgaon, the title is inspired by T.S. Eliot’s poem Four Quartets.
7.30pm; and 4pm/8pm on Sunday. Siddhartha Hall, Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, 3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg (23471112). To reserve a pass, call 9953091529 or email praktikum1.
program@delhi.goethe.org
Photography
Georges Gasté in India: 1905-1910
Till 23 December
Alliance Française and the French embassy are presenting a travelling exhibition of 34 photographic works, as well as colour reproductions of paintings and a few letters written by French Orientalist and painter Georges Gasté. Taken during his sojourn in India in the early 20th century, the photographs depict life in Indian towns—from Agra to Madurai. The exhibition, which opened in New Delhi on Thursday, will travel to eight cities between December and March.
11am-8pm. Alliance Française de Delhi, 72, Lodi Estate.
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Around town
Dastkar Winter Mela, 2014
Till 22 December
This year’s Dastkar focuses on, and is dedicated to, the crafts of Kashmir, in view of the recent floods that brought tragedy to the valley. Exquisite pashmina shawls, woven Namda floor coverings, stoles and saris in aari and sozni embroidery, Kashmiri saffron and more are on sale. There is also an exhibition of paintings depicting stories from the Panchatantra, titled ‘Painted Fables: Panchatantra Chitra’ .
11am-7pm. Nature Bazaar Venue, Kisan Haat, Andheria Modh. Entry, ₹ 20.
By Arunima Mazumdar
Hyderabad
Theatre
Grimm’s Märchen Theatre
12 December
Watch children enact a collection of German fairy tales penned by the famous Brothers Grimm. Directed by Udaya Bhanu Garikipati of the Bhoomika theatre group, the play will be performed by students of Kendriya Vidyalaya.
6.30pm. Golden Threshold, Nampally Station Road, Abids (23350443).
Photography
Helga Paris Fotografie
Till 20 December
Photographer Helga Paris has presented a pictorial record of Germany’s history over 30 years. Her works on life in East Germany are celebrated and showcase everyday life—at street corners and in parks and colonies that once had Russian garrisons.
10am-5pm. Salar Jung Museum, Salar Jung Road, Darulshifa (24576443).
By Yogendra Kalavalapalli
Chennai
Around town
Festival of Himachal Pradesh
13-21 December
The festival aims to highlight the dance forms and crafts of the state. There will be folk dance performances such as mahasu nati and churahi. Handmade Himachali crafts, textiles and jewellery will be on sale.
11.30am–4.30pm. DakshinaChitra, Muttukadu, East Coast Road (24462435).
Music
Indian Ocean and Raghu Dixit
14 December
Indian rock legends—Raghu Dixit, of the multilingual band Raghu Dixit Project, and fusion rock band Indian Ocean—will perform some of their crowd-swooning numbers.
5pm. Phoenix Marketcity mall, Velachery main road.
Theatre
A Scrooge Faces Christmas
12-13 December
The play, directed by Susanna Myrtle Lazarus, tells the story of Sam Edwards—a stingy man who knocks his head on a fallen beam and begins recalling scenes from his life. The play is being performed to raise money for the Bethany Home for the Aged.
7pm. Museum Theatre, Government Museum Pantheon Road, Egmore. Tickets, ₹ 200, ₹ 300 and ₹ 500, available on eventjini.com
By Nandini Reddy
Kolkata
Art
Refined Impressionism
Till 15 December
Purnendu Mandal studied visual arts from the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata. He has held many solo shows and taken part in group shows, in India and abroad. This latest exhibition has 18 acrylic-on-canvas works depicting cityscapes.
3-8pm. Academy of Fine Arts, New South B, 2, Cathedral Road. For details, call 09752115228/09907745923.
Film
TENT Little Cinema International Fest
12-14 December
TENT, a non-profit that aims to create an interactive space to foster experiments with moving image,s is organizing TENT Little Cinema International Fest in association with Goethe-Institut and Studio 21. The festival will screen feature films and docu-fiction. Ghasiram Kotwal, directed by K. Hariharan, Mani Kaul, Saeed Mirza and Kamal Swaroop, will open the festival at 6.30pm.
Timings vary. The longer films will be screened at the Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, 8, Ballygunge, Circular Road; and the experimental films and shorts will be screened at Studio21, 17-L, Dover Terrace. For details, visit www.goethe.de/resources/files/pdf30/Schedule_Goethe_Institut1.pdf
By Indranil Bhoumik
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