Embedded Files
Photo credit: Pratham Chaurasia's Instagram page available at https://www.instagram.com/p/CYojWoHpRwwmZbkPsi7YFEkfZrpi9ztbCaeX0E0/
Host
Host
Sponsor
Sponsor
"Creative and Pedagogical Workshop
on
Literary, Performative, and Visual Arts"
Theme:
Theme:
Action 75
Action 75
Subtheme: Skill India
Day 1: Creative Writing
Friday: 13 May 2022 (2 to 6 pm)
Akshat Nigam is one of the founding members of the Dum Pukht Writers' Workshop. He holds a Master’s Degree in English Literature and has worked in the field of Arts Education since 2007. He teaches Literature, Creative Writing and Storytelling, and is an award-winning playwright. He has been performing as a professional Storyteller for children and adults since 2015. His performances include East of the Sun, West of the Moon, Error 404: Life Not Found, and An Uneasy Truce: Stories about Fear. In 2017, he co-wrote In Search of Dariya Shah, which won The Hindu Playwright Award for scriptwriting that year. In 2019, he wrote and performed in My Fair Ladle: A Disobedient Love Story, an “immersive performance experience,” holding the play in a restaurant and incorporating the food into the theme. The play was set for a second run in 2020 when the pandemic hit. He has written special audio tours on Mumbai for a tourism app called Hop On India, covering his own favourite haunts—Colaba, Dadar Parsi Colony, Bandra, Elephanta and Kanheri Caves among others—and conducts guided tours, telling people the story of Bombay. He also works as a subtitler, translating from Hindi to English for shows on OTT platforms.
Source: http://dumpukht.org/facilitators/ and Akshat Nigam
About Akshat Nigam's Session
Nigam's session, being the first one, aims to draw the participants out on short, creative excursions through their writing. The activities will progress from explorations of memory to metaphor to invention. Using activities, stories and prompts, the students will explore their observation, their intuition and their imagination.
Day 2: "Deep Fakes": New Media Arts Practice
Saturday: 14 May 2022 (8:30 to 9:30 am)
"Professor Sarah Kenderdine researches at the forefront of interactive and immersive experiences for galleries, libraries, archives and museums. In widely exhibited installation works, she has amalgamated cultural heritage with new media art practice, especially in the realms of interactive cinema, augmented reality and embodied narrative. She is considered a pioneer in the field digital heritage, digital museology, digital humanities and data visualisation and is a regular keynote speaker at related forums internationally. In addition to her exhibition work she conceives and designs large-scale immersive visualisation systems for public audiences, industry and researchers. Since 1991 Sarah had authored numerous scholarly articles and six books. She has produced 80 exhibitions and installations for museums worldwide including a museum complex in India and received a number of major international awards for this work. In 2017, Sarah was appointed Professor of Digital Museology at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland where she has built a new laboratory for experimental museology (eM+), exploring the convergence of aesthetic practice, visual analytics and cultural data. She is also Director and lead curator of EPFL’s new art/science initiative, inaugurated in 2016 as ArtLab."
Source: https://sarahkenderdine.info/bio-and-cv
Day 2: Poetry Writing
Saturday: 14 May (10 am to 12 noon)
Pervin Saket was awarded the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize 2021, and she was the inaugural Fellow for the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, 2021. Her poems, including the collection A Tinge of Turmeric have been widely anthologised. Her novel Urmila has been adapted for the stage, featuring classical Indian dance forms of Kathak, Bharatnatyam and Odissi. Her work has been featured in The Indian Quarterly, Singapore Unbound, Paris Lit Up, Tiferet, Borderless Journal, The Madras Courier, Cold Noon, and others. Saket is the co-founder of the annual Dum Pukht Writers’ Workshop and Poetry Editor at The Bombay Literary Magazine.
About the 'The Poetry Toolkit' Workshop
About the 'The Poetry Toolkit' Workshop
In this session, Pervin Saket will explore her insights on how to craft powerful poetry: form, imagery, structure and more. Balancing intuition with technique, the workshop will empower poets of all levels to use, as Coleridge asserted, "the best words in the best order."
Day 2: Poetry and Dance Performance
Saturday: 14 May 2022 (4 to 6 pm)
This evening of poetry and dance will include the structured as well as the spontaneous. Beginning with a choreographed piece on a poem, the programme will then encourage participants across several styles to interpret new poems in their own unique ways. The verses and the dances will be collaborative, funny, political, exciting, poignant and hopeful.
Facilitators of Artsphere &
Facilitators of Artsphere &
“Artsphere is an exciting multi utility arts venue that fosters participation, engagement with performing arts and offers therapeutic and spiritual initiation through artistic activities.”
Soulsphere
Soulsphere
“Soulsphere is a space for therapy, counselling, training, personal growth, support, spiritual healing as well as mindfulness. At Soulsphere, we are creating a space to nourish the soul.”
Day 3: A Mindfulness, Neuroscience, and Positive Psychology Workshop on Well-Being (10 am to 1 pm) and Therapeutic Value of Arts and Creative Movement/Dance Workshop (3 to 6 pm)
Day 3: A Mindfulness, Neuroscience, and Positive Psychology Workshop on Well-Being (10 am to 1 pm) and Therapeutic Value of Arts and Creative Movement/Dance Workshop (3 to 6 pm)
Sunday: 15 May 2022 (10 am to 1 pm and 3 to 6 pm)
Sunday: 15 May 2022 (10 am to 1 pm and 3 to 6 pm)
About the Mindfulness, Neuroscience, and Positive Psychology Workshop on Well-Being
About the Mindfulness, Neuroscience, and Positive Psychology Workshop on Well-Being
Pause. Breathe. Reflect.
Pause. Breathe. Reflect.
Anubha Doshi will explore the intersection of Buddhist psychology, neuroscience, and positive psychology. It is an experiential program which will explore the theories of well–being and happiness through mindfulness practices, stories, arts, movement, and music.
About the Therapeutic Value of Arts and Creative Movement/Dance Workshop
About the Therapeutic Value of Arts and Creative Movement/Dance Workshop
We will explore Creative Movement, working with bodies, improvising and creating together. Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT, also known as Creative Movement Therapy) is a psychotherapeutic framework that works with the mind-body connection to use personal movement language and dance for the health and wellness of an individual’s physical, emotional, cognitive, social and behavioural aspects (CMTAI, 2019). Dance Movement Therapy is an alternative therapy through personal body movement. This discipline uses expressive movement and dance as a vehicle, through which people can engage in the process of personal integration and growth. It is founded on the principle that there is a relationship between motion and emotion; by exploring a more varied vocabulary of movement, people experience the possibility of becoming more securely balanced yet increasingly spontaneous and adaptable. It provides an introspective and expressive experience in which the therapeutics of dance, rather than a choreographed product, is of primary importance (CMTAI). Creative Movement incorporates dance/movement in a way that we get to know our bodies better, while blending together elements of music, drama, somatic work, warm-up, hand gestures and much more. All this while sharing thoughts, ideas and stories through one’s bodies. We will also explore the Therapeutic Potential of Indian Dance including classical and folk and social dances. Music, rhythm development, body co-ordination, group synchrony, responsiveness and expressiveness are things to look forward to in this segment.
Day 3:
Sunday: 15 May 2022
A Psychologist, Mindfulness-based Practitioner, and Arts-based Therapist, Anubha has completed her advanced PG diploma in Mindfulness & Presence-Oriented Psychotherapy from Just Being. She has studied Chakra Healing as well as Reiki. She is currently pursuing the doctoral programme in Expressive Arts Therapy from the European Graduate School, Switzerland. Her interest in Buddhism was first fuelled by the Certificate Course in Mahayana Buddhist Psychology and Ethics by the WCCL Foundation and the Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies at the Pune University. Her practice is unique as she explores the connection between Dance Movement Therapy (DMT), Mindfulness, and Buddhist as well as Eastern philosophies. She is the founder-director of Artsphere and Soulsphere, a unique arts and healing centre in Pune where performing arts and therapy co-exist under the same roof. She has been regularly conducting online workshops in mindfulness, dance therapy, positive psychology, resilience and mindfulness. She is the Editor of CMTAI’s & Artsphere’s online Indian Magazine of Dance/Movement therapy and faculty on the Dance Therapy course. She is on the Board of Studies of the Psychology department at the St. Mira’s College for Girls, Pune. She is a parenting expert on the panel of the ‘Keep Learning’ initiative by The Times of India.
Day 3:
Sunday: 15 May 2022
Karishma Harlalka is the co-founder of Artsphere and Soulsphere. She is a psychologist, dancer, choreographer, and therapeutic movement practitioner. She has been learning and performing dance since the age of four and has received training in various dance forms such as Bharatanatyam, Ballet, Contemporary, Folk, and Belly Dance. She has trained in Bharatanatyam under Padmashree Geeta Chandranji and also under Mrs. Suparna Sood, Smt. Rekha Chowdharyji, and Padma Vibhushan Yamini Krishnamurthyji. She has trained in Ballet under Mr. Fernando Aguilera, one of the foremost ballet teachers in India. Her Contemporary Dance training has been under Rajyashree Ramamurthi, a UK-based artist. She has attended workshops and trainings with Swati Mohan, a Delhi-based artist, and Hrishikesh Pawar, Pune’s foremost Contemporary Dance Artist. She has attended workshops in Latin American Dance Forms, Belly Dance, Kalaripayattu, and Physical Theatre. She first became interested in Dance Movement Therapy at the age of 16, when she attended a workshop under Tripura Kashyap. Since then, she has assisted and co-facilitated workshops in Dance Therapy and Arts-based Therapies with her sister Anubha Doshi, eventually going on to study Dance Therapy. She continues to choreograph and perform regularly at events and festivals along with practicing movement therapy. She has also performed at the British Library in Pune and at the PEN@Prithvi at the Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai. She incorporates her practice of Yoga and body awareness and knowledge of anatomy in her own practices as well as the classes that she conducts. She is interested in Mindful Movement practices and is working on developing a cohesive movement program that combines the knowledge of Anatomy, Fascia, Chakra, and Dance Therapy.
Day 4: Graphic Narratives
Monday: 16 May 2022 (11 to 12 noon)
Parismita Singh is a writer and artist. She has written and illustrated the graphic novels The Hotel at the End of the World and Mara and the Clay Cows. Her other publications include Centrepiece: New Writing and Art from Northeast India ( edited) and a collection of stories Peace has Come. She has worked on the graphic reportage series ‘NRC Sketchbook’ for Huffington Post (India). She writes an illustrated column on the confluence of art, culture, folklore and fashion for the Voice of Fashion. She also works in a community education and books project for the NGO Pratham.
Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10152092724332886&set=pcb.455312161268807
Day 4: Visual Arts
Monday: 16 May 2022 (4 to 5 pm)
Suresh K. Nair was born in Kerala, India. He has studied from Institute of Mural Painting, Guruvayur; Film and Television Institute of India, Pune; and Visva Bharati University Santiniketan, and he is an alumnus of Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. As a Muralist, he has acquired a major presence in art spaces both in India and abroad for his Public Art Projects. He exhibited his works both in Indian Cities and Foreign Cities. He has travelled to UAE, UK, USA, Nepal, and Bangladesh for his art research and exhibitions. He has been awarded the Kerala Lalithakala Akadami award (2005) by the Government of Kerala; Elizabeth Green Shield Scholarship, Canada (1997); Fulbright Fellowship (2005–06); and Earth Day network award (2015 and 2018) by Washington Lions Club International Award along with various arts exchange programs and research projects. He did a music-based drawing performance at TEDex IIT, Banaras Hindu University, on the theme of “Order and Chaos”; Carnival of Creativity (CEC) at the North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya; and Kabira Festival in Varanasi; and recently, he participated in “OVNI International Art Project—Mural Urbano” and performed with Portugal Musician Joana Rodrigues at Caldas de Rainha at Portugal. Apart from hosting over 25 exhibitions for the Indian and international students, he also conducted the show “Wonder that was India” at the Tyler School of Art Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia. More recently, he also curated Students Biennale by the Kochi Muzriz Biennale. He specializes in both Indian and Western Mural Techniques and created and exhibited Monumental Mural in public and private spaces in India and abroad. He is also interested in Calligraphy traditions of Chinese, Japanese, Islamic and Indian and has experimented with this form through his music-based drawings. He also attempts to address significant social issues pertaining to the Environment, Plastic Pollution, World Peace, Partition and Migration through his Art, Activism and Art Performance. Before settling as a faculty member of Visual Art in the Department of Painting, Faculty of Visual Arts, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, he had been a visiting artist at the Faculty of Visual Arts Gallery there.
Mahesh Dattani
Mahesh Dattani
Day 5: Dramatic Arts
Tuesday: 17 May 2022 (9 am to 1 pm)
Mahesh Dattani is a playwright, stage director, screenwriter and filmmaker. His published works include FINAL SOLUTIONS AND OTHER PLAYS, TARA, a COLLECTED WORKS edition in two volumes published by Penguin India and more recently, ME AND MY PLAYS, also by Penguin. In 1998, he won the prestigious central Sahitya Akademi Award for his book FINAL SOLUTIONS AND OTHER PLAYS, the highest award for a literary work in the country. He is the first playwright to write in English to receive this award. Today, his plays are produced in all the major cities of India. In addition, his works are performed in cities outside the country, including London, Leicester, New York, Washington DC, Sydney, Colombo, and Dubai. His plays have been translated and performed in Hindi, Gujarati, and Kannada. His play Dance Like a Man, directed by Lillete Dubey, received 635 performances and continues to tour. His plays are on the syllabus of several Indian and foreign universities and schools. His film Mango Souffle (writer and director) was shown in several international film festivals worldwide, including the London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. It was adjudged best motion picture at the Barcelona Film Festival 2003. His film Morning Raga (writer and director) had its international premiere at the Cairo Film Festival in December, and he won the award for best artistic contribution. The script has been archived by The Academy of Motion Pictures, USA. As a director, he has worked extensively in the US with ICS Theatre, New Jersey, and Barnard College, Columbia University. Currently, he is working on a new play as a writer. He lives in Mumbai city.
“One of India’s best and most serious contemporary playwrights writing in English.”—Alexandra Viets, International Herald Tribune
“A playwright of world stature”—Mario Relich, Wasafiri
“Powerful and disturbing.”—The New York Times
“Since Salman Rushdie swung open the door to the West, English language Indian novelists have wowed the world. Indian playwrights have been less conspicuous except for Mahesh Dattani.”—Vibhuti Patel, Newsweek International
Day 6: Cinematic Arts
Wednesday: 18 May 2022 (9 am to 1 pm)
Haobam Paban Kumar is a prominent voice emitting out of the restive North Eastern state of Manipur, dabbling in both non-fiction and fiction storytelling. Immediately after graduating from SRFTI Kolkata in direction and screenwriting, he burst onto the documentary scenario with his hard-hitting film, AFSPA 1958, winning several national and international awards, including the FIPRESCI and Jury prize at the 9th MIFF 2006 and the Golden Lotus Award at The 56 National Film Awards 2009. After nearly a decade of making non-fiction, he made his critically acclaimed debut fiction feature film, Loktak Lairembee (Lady of the Lake) in 2016. He instantly became a force to reckon with, featuring at the Forum—67th Berlin Film Festival, 2017 and at Asian New Currents at 21st Busan International Film Festival, 2016. The film bagged the Golden Gateway Award at the 18th Mumbai Film Festival 2016, Special Mention or Cultural Diversity Award at the 11th Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Brisbane, 2017, besides winning the Silver Lotus for the Best Environmental Film at the 64th National Film Awards, 2016. His love for the Film Arts and his vision for its development particularly in his native state made him into an important contributor to the Manipur State Film Development Society, the nodal State agency for Cinema in Manipur. Individually, he is managing Cinema Imphal Foundation, a trust for the promotion of Cinema, as its Founding Managing Director. He also serves the Film Society of Manipur as its General Secretary. He has been part of many important film workshops and screenwriting labs and has also served as national and international juries several times. Till date, he has won four national awards and seven Indian Panorama Selection. He is currently working on his third fiction feature venture called Joseph’s Son.
Director’s Filmography
Director’s Filmography
Nine Hills One Valley/2020/Fiction/Feature/75 Min
Pabung Syam/2020/Documentary/52 Min
Loktak Lairembee (Lady of the lake)/2016/Fiction/Feature/72 Min
Phum Shang (Floating Life)/2014/Documentary/Short/52 Min
Ruptured Spring/2012/Documentary/Short/16 Min
Nupishabi (Women Impersonator)/2010/Documentary/Short/52 Min
Mr. India/2009/Documentary/Short/47 Min
The First Leap/2008/Documentary/Short/25 Min
Ngaihak Lambida/2006/Fiction/Short/19 Min
A Cry in the Dark/2006/Documentary/Short/52 Min
AFSPA 1958/2005/Documentary/Feature/77 Min
Day 7: Cinematic Arts
Thursday: 19 May (9 am to 1 pm)
Sonia Nepram is the founder of Yelhoumee Pictures based in Manipur. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree from the Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh, and she holds a postgraduate degree in mass communication from the AJK MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She has been working on various media and audio-visual projects and has also set up Yelhoumee Pictures to scale newer heights. Her critically acclaimed sociopolitical documentary titled Bloody Phanek was released in September 2017 at the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival in South Korea. It is a documentary film on phanek, an exclusive attire similar to a sarong, which is worn by Meitei women of Manipur in India’s Northeast region that borders Burma. The film blends the personal and the political. It starts from a personal impression that began from the earliest memories of the filmmaker’s life. The film aims to discover how women use phanek as a medium of protest, while it explores the concept of impurity and how this attire challenges masculinity in a conflict zone. The film received a special mention in Signs Festival Kerala 2018. It has also been included in several prestigious film festivals like South Asian Short Film Festival, Kolkata, 2017; Kathmandu Mountain International Film Festival, 2018; 5th Peloponnisos International documentary festival, Greece, 2019; People’s Film Collective, Kolkata, 2019; Vizantrop Festival, Serbia, 2019; and Days of Ethnographic Cinema, Moscow, 2020; and will be screened in the forthcoming Film South Asia festival, Kathmandu, and Ethnografilm Paris Film Festival, France. Her earlier documentaries that were also critically appreciated were: Gun and a God (2012), a documentary on a former insurgent woman who found justice in gun and a god, had won the Jury Award at the Mumbai Women’s International Film Festival (2012); and Limited Edition (2009), a student film on the aspiration of a tea-seller.
Source: https://www.yelhoumee.org/#about
Day 7: Creative Writing
Thursday, 19 May (6 to 7 pm)
Aruni Kashyap is a writer and translator. He is the author of His Father’s Disease: Stories and the novel The House With a Thousand Stories. Along with editing a collection of stories called How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency: Fifteen Tales from Assam, he has also translated two novels from Assamese to English, published by Zubaan Books and Penguin Random House. Winner of the Faculty Research Grants in the Humanities and Arts Program 2022, Arts Lab Faculty Fellowship 2022 (both from the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts), and the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing to the University of Edinburgh, his poetry collection, There is No Good Time for Bad News was a finalist for the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and Four Way Books Levis Award in Poetry.
Source: https://www.arunikashyap.com/
Day 7: Graphic Narratives
Monday: 19 May 2022 (7 to 8 pm)
Amruta Patil, writer and painter, is India’s first female graphic novelist. Her debut graphic novel, Kari explored themes of love, loneliness, sexuality, friendship, and death in urban India. Her Parva Duology—Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean and Sauptik: Blood and Flowers—tells stories from the Mahabharata and Puranas from the viewpoint of outlier narrators. Her latest work, Aranyaka: Book of the Forest explores hunger, fear, and the quest for learning and wisdom through three feisty rishikas in a Vedic setting. In 2017, Patil received a Nari Shakti Puraskar from the President of India for “unusual work that breaks boundaries” in art and literature. Recurring themes in her work include ecofeminism, philosophy, sexuality, and the unbroken thread of stories passed down from storyteller to storyteller through the ages.
Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154691578836199&set=pb.647046198.-2207520000..&type=3
Registration Fee:
Within India:
IIT Jodhpur participant: 1000 INR
Non-IIT Jodhpur participant: 3000 INR
Outside India:
200 US Dollars
Bank details:
Name of Account Holder: Research and Development IIT Jodhpur
Bank Name: HDFC
Branch Name: Chopasani Road
IFSC Code: HDFC0000142
Type of Account: Saving
Account Number: 01421000144666
Please also email your payment receipt to:
nthoudam@iitj.ac.in
Page updated
Report abuse