Saturday December 1 2012
IT IS BACK!
By Popular Demand
A ONE-DAY THEATRE APPRECIATION COURSE
Alliance Francaise de Bangalore in association with Bangalore Little Theatre At Alliance Française de Bangalore
Timings: 10.00 am to 5 pm
The programme is specially designed for Alliance Francaise by Bangalore Little Theatre, our cultural partner in the area of Theatre. BLT is the oldest and most widely respected theatre society in Bangalore. The Academy of Theatre Arts within BLT is devoted to a wide range of theatre development and educational activity, including a thrust programme for public outreach. In-house Theatre Appreciation courses of various durations are part of this public outreach programme, taken to a wide variety of institutions.
In keeping with its commitment to public outreach, BLT is offering this theatre appreciation workshop COMPLETELY FREE to all interested, on a first-come-served basis.
The programme at AF will be conducted by an experienced team from BLT, led by Vijay Padaki, a Theatre Educator with over fifty years of experience as an actor, director, designer and administrator. The sessions during the day will be interactive, and will include exercises, films and active participation by all present. The outline of coverage is given below
The programme is open to anybody interested in knowing more about the Theatre arts. Admission is free, but the seats are limited seats. All interested are requested to register early with AF or BLT by Monday November 26.
Tea and coffee will be provided in the breaks. Lunch arrangements are to be made by participants themselves.
Contact: 080 40808181
Saturday December 1 at 6.30 pm
Dance DISCourse
Attendance annual awards 2012
Alliance Française is proud to culminate its 2012 Dance DISCourse series, (20th event in 3 years), with a gala performance by best of Bangalore dancers , who win the prestigious attendance 2012 awards.
Attendance is India’s only yearbook of dance. Its editor-publisher Prof. Ashish Mohan Khokar, in cultural partnership with Alliance Francaise de Bangalore, presents on Saturday, 1st Dec., 2012, 1830 hours, the eagerly awaited annual roll of honours in dance field, named after various iconic names in the dance field. This is the third year of such awards, earlier awards having been bestowed to Bangaloreans like Satya Raju, Praveen Kumar, Madhu Natraj, Murli Kalva and international name like Malaysian Ramli Ibrahim.
This year the awards have been increased to include three new categories: Dance Couples; Lifetime Contribution and Lifetime Achievement. 2012 Awardees are:
Ram Gopal Best Male Dancer Award to Dr SANJAY SHANTARAM
Mohan Khokar Overall Excellence Award to NAVTEJ SINGH JOHAR
Uday Shankar Choreography Award to SYED PASHA
U.S.Krishna-Chandrabahaga Rao Dance Couple Award to SHRIDHAR-ANURADHA
Rukmini Devi Arundale Lifetime Contribution to PROF.M.R.KRISHANMURTHY
Attendance LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD To Guru Dr Maya RAo.
The Awards are unique. It carries no purse or such token lip-service of appreciation but organizes seminars, participation in national festivals and international internship with known dance companies. 90% of awards are reserved for Bangaloreans or Karnataka-based dancers, to make their names reach out nationally and internationally. 75% of past awardees have immediately won prestigious national awards and recognition after receiving these honours, such is its credibility. The Jury remains secret and no canvassing is allowed. The awards thus are benchmark of excellence, as seen and taken note by reputed critics, editors, patrons and connoisseurs.
Attendance is in its 15th year of publication (www.attendance-india.com). The yearbook and awards have highest regard in dance fraternity. And are much sought after.
On Awards night, each dancer will showcase his/her art on stage or screen and give a short acceptance speech. Members of Dance History Society can nominate also. Form on above site.
For any further questions: khokar1960@gmail.com
Sunday December 2 2012
Bangalore’s Favourite Music School Celebrates 1st Anniversary 4.30 pm onwards.
It is now one year since Taaqademy – Bangalore’s favourite space to learn, create, play and record music - was founded. In that period, over 500 individuals between the ages of 5 and 55 have experienced its unique learning environment, interacted one-on-one with musicians from the city’s best-known bands, performed live for the first time on stage, and jammed and recorded in its world-class acoustically-treated rehearsal rooms.
Celebrating its first anniversary, Taaqademy will showcase its best talent – both students and faculty – at the ‘Taaqademy 1st Anniversary Festival’. With more than 14 acts (some of whom are all of eight years old) already on the bill, the Taaqademy 1st Anniversary Festival promises to be an audio-visual treat.
Founded by the acclaimed and multiple award-winning Bangalore band Thermal And A Quarter, Taaqademy was established with a simple goal: ‘Make Space for Music’. With structured and engaging curriculum, emphasis on fun and strong fundamentals, and a one-of-a-kind ‘jam n’ learn’ process, Taaqademy has allowed individuals with diverse backgrounds and musical ambitions to bring music into their lives in a meaningful, fun and ultimately rewarding way.
The Taaqademy Jam Room, one of the best equipped such facilities in the city, has hosted everyone from Food (Norway) to Raghu Dixit, Something Relevant (Mumbai) to Prasanna, Lou Majaw to Keith Peters, Luke Kenny to the Galeej Gurus.
Taaqademy currently offers regular, flexible courses in guitar, bass, voice, keyboards, drums and music production. Taaqademy faculty comprises some of the city’s best-known musicians (many with music degrees from prestigious institutions like the LA Music Academy), all active live performers with years of on-stage experience. Taaqademy is also the sole representative for Rockschool (music examination board from the UK) in South India.
For further information, contact: Han 9663608356
December 7, 8 2012
Theatre Performance
Name of the play: GASHA
Devised at The Indian Ensemble
Friday 7th December @ 7.30 pm
Saturday 8 December @ 3.30 and 7.30 pm
Produced by: Riad Mahmood Education and Arts Foundation / Indian Ensemble
Partner : Alliance Française , Bangalore
Written by Irawati Karnik
Directed by Abhishek Majumdar
Dramaturg : Subhashim Goswami
Scenographer : Payal Wadhwa
Costumes : Divya Jain and Pallavi Krishna
Lights : Mohammad Mustafa
Sound : Abhijit Pakrashi
Cast : Adhir Bhat
Sandeep Shikhar
Asst Director and Production Controller: Virginia Rodrigues
Synopsis
While everything around seemed headed towards a slow collapse, in a shed on an island in the middle of a lake, two boys built their world. Twenty years later, it is quite another past that stands in their way.
Today, two whimsical narrators scramble madly to recreate what happened. Set against the background of the Kashmir imbroglio, ‘Gasha’ is an account of the fractured friendship between two boys, A Kashmiri Pandit and a Kashmiri Muslim , and their need to affirm their story.
Based on real stories, interviews and testimonials, Gasha has been devised at the Indian Ensemble over 2012.
Tickets: Rs 200
Telebooking: 09886324733
Online bookings: indianstage.in and bookmyshow.com
Tickets also available at the venue
December 13 – 20
An extraordinary Photo-Exhibition
The Alliance Française de Bangalore in association with the French Embassy in India and Gallery Sumukha Is pleased to invite you to the Opening of The World Upside Down Gravity Defying photographs by French conceptual artist Philippe Ramette.
On Thursday 13 December at 7.00 pm
Venue: Gallery Sumukha
Mr. Eric La Vertu, Consul General of France in Karnataka will inaugurate the exhibition.The photo-exhibition will be on view from 13 – 20 December, At Gallery Sumukha,10.30 am - 6. 00 pm (Monday - Saturday). Closed on Sunday
Gallery Sumukha
24/10 BTS Depot Road
Wilson Garden
Bangalore 560027.
Tel:22292230
A few words on this artist: Between 2003 and 2006, French conceptual artist Philippe Ramette created a series of gravity-defying photographs that show him in seemingly impossible poses. These illusions were not created digitally; they are visual illusions, or surreal photographs, made by French artist Philippe Ramette and photographer Marc Domage. His objective is to construct rationally pictures that look irrational.
ART by evam
Date : December 14th
Time : 7:30 p.m.
Venue : Alliance Francaise de Bangalore
Tickets : Rs.300
Language : English
Play Synopsis
Evam’s first ever play revolves around the friendship of Serge, Marc and Yvan, three close friends of longstanding, when Sarge indulges in his penchant for modern art by buying an expensive and almost completely white painting. Marc is horrified and describes the painting as “shit”, and their relationship suffers considerable strain. Yvan, caught in the middle, tries to please both of them, but his vacillation only adds fuel to the blazing row!
What follows, is seriously funny, the story’ll make you chuckle, nod in serious agreement, and think hard of yourself, and your best friends. ‘Art’ has strong reason for having been one of evam’s most popular plays over the years!
Director’s Note
They say great Art survives years... ours has survived and thrived through the last 9, however great it may be!
This production of ours, our first, reminds us each time of the roots of 'evam' and its 'art' itself -- 'Art' lies in the eyes of its beholder, and that in itself is a journey complete. But sometimes 'Art' is created when a creator creates and becomes the beholder - the shortest and the most powerful journey... no more beholders but that one. 'evam' oscillates between these extremes, walking that fine line of making the world happy and keeping ourselves even more so...
Our production has become more bare and simple over the years - with the elimination of backstage and the actors becoming the only laborers through the process... 'ART by evam' celebrates its 10th year, and like the great writing has, may our production of it keep going, because we do need our reminders - that we are human and therefore we can forgive... we just need to know that.
Evam Standup Tamasha – We are like this wonly
Date : December 15th
Time : 7:30 p.m.
Venue : Alliance Francaise de Bangalore
Tickets : Rs.300
Language : English
Synopsis
Five of our best standup artists – perform on the typical Indian. Everything from Cultural shocks to a Nepali trying to fit into metropolitan life to exploring the Kamasutra - this show promises to provide enough food for thought and more. Come, meet some very interesting people and watch them narrate their urban stories, thoughts, theories and peeves! A completely original evam show - this Indian, Urban perspective is meant to tickle your funny bone and create post-show debates.
The show has done two seasons in Chennai and one season in Bangalore so far, with a season running for 3 months. All three seasons were highly successful and well received, getting TV coverage, news paper articles, Radio mentions and thousands of views on our Youtube channel.
Director’s Quote
“The Show is our way of creating a stage platform where we all get to vent …oops...share our urban stories – tall tales from the top of our head.. of the urban, by the urban, for the urban, stories set in urban reality... told from the heart and with a sense of humour- all in all an evening of angst and soul served right up your alley! Slice of life urban stories meets desi Indian comic meets sensitivity meets evam to create STANDUP TAMASHA!”
Evam Standup Tamasha – What 'we-men' really want
Date: December 16th
Time: 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Alliance Francaise de Bangalore
Tickets: Rs.300
Language: English
Synopsis
Five of our best standup artists – perform on "What 'we-men' really want". Everything from Indian marriages to salon visits to women on roads - this show promises to provide enough food for thought and more. Come, meet some very interesting people and watch them narrate their urban stories, thoughts, theories and peeves! A completely original evam show - this Indian, Urban perspective is meant to tickle your funny bone and create post-show debates.
The show has done two seasons in Chennai and one season in Bangalore so far, with a season running for 3 months. All three seasons were highly successful and well received, getting TV coverage, news paper articles, Radio mentions and thousands of views on our Youtube channel.
Director’s Quote
“The Show is our way of creating a stage platform where we all get to vent …oops...share our urban stories – tall tales from the top of our head.. of the urban, by the urban, for the urban, stories set in urban reality... told from the heart and with a sense of humour- all in all an evening of angst and soul served right up your alley! Slice of life urban stories meets desi Indian comic meets sensitivity meets evam to create STANDUP TAMASHA!”
For further information, please contact: 9886789594
IT IS BACK!
By Popular Demand
A ONE-DAY THEATRE APPRECIATION COURSE
Alliance Francaise de Bangalore in association with Bangalore Little Theatre At Alliance Française de Bangalore
Timings: 10.00 am to 5 pm
The programme is specially designed for Alliance Francaise by Bangalore Little Theatre, our cultural partner in the area of Theatre. BLT is the oldest and most widely respected theatre society in Bangalore. The Academy of Theatre Arts within BLT is devoted to a wide range of theatre development and educational activity, including a thrust programme for public outreach. In-house Theatre Appreciation courses of various durations are part of this public outreach programme, taken to a wide variety of institutions.
In keeping with its commitment to public outreach, BLT is offering this theatre appreciation workshop COMPLETELY FREE to all interested, on a first-come-served basis.
The programme at AF will be conducted by an experienced team from BLT, led by Vijay Padaki, a Theatre Educator with over fifty years of experience as an actor, director, designer and administrator. The sessions during the day will be interactive, and will include exercises, films and active participation by all present. The outline of coverage is given below
- How and why did mankind invent the theatre?
- Is there a difference between theatre and drama?
- Are there some things common to drama in all cultures?
- What is a “good” play? What to look for in a play?
- What goes into the making of a play?
- Why do some plays succeed? Why do others flop?
- How do actors prepare for their profession?
- How is drama different from other performing arts?
The programme is open to anybody interested in knowing more about the Theatre arts. Admission is free, but the seats are limited seats. All interested are requested to register early with AF or BLT by Monday November 26.
Tea and coffee will be provided in the breaks. Lunch arrangements are to be made by participants themselves.
Contact: 080 40808181
Saturday December 1 at 6.30 pm
Dance DISCourse
Attendance annual awards 2012
Alliance Française is proud to culminate its 2012 Dance DISCourse series, (20th event in 3 years), with a gala performance by best of Bangalore dancers , who win the prestigious attendance 2012 awards.
Attendance is India’s only yearbook of dance. Its editor-publisher Prof. Ashish Mohan Khokar, in cultural partnership with Alliance Francaise de Bangalore, presents on Saturday, 1st Dec., 2012, 1830 hours, the eagerly awaited annual roll of honours in dance field, named after various iconic names in the dance field. This is the third year of such awards, earlier awards having been bestowed to Bangaloreans like Satya Raju, Praveen Kumar, Madhu Natraj, Murli Kalva and international name like Malaysian Ramli Ibrahim.
This year the awards have been increased to include three new categories: Dance Couples; Lifetime Contribution and Lifetime Achievement. 2012 Awardees are:
Ram Gopal Best Male Dancer Award to Dr SANJAY SHANTARAM
Mohan Khokar Overall Excellence Award to NAVTEJ SINGH JOHAR
Uday Shankar Choreography Award to SYED PASHA
U.S.Krishna-Chandrabahaga Rao Dance Couple Award to SHRIDHAR-ANURADHA
Rukmini Devi Arundale Lifetime Contribution to PROF.M.R.KRISHANMURTHY
Attendance LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD To Guru Dr Maya RAo.
The Awards are unique. It carries no purse or such token lip-service of appreciation but organizes seminars, participation in national festivals and international internship with known dance companies. 90% of awards are reserved for Bangaloreans or Karnataka-based dancers, to make their names reach out nationally and internationally. 75% of past awardees have immediately won prestigious national awards and recognition after receiving these honours, such is its credibility. The Jury remains secret and no canvassing is allowed. The awards thus are benchmark of excellence, as seen and taken note by reputed critics, editors, patrons and connoisseurs.
Attendance is in its 15th year of publication (www.attendance-india.com). The yearbook and awards have highest regard in dance fraternity. And are much sought after.
On Awards night, each dancer will showcase his/her art on stage or screen and give a short acceptance speech. Members of Dance History Society can nominate also. Form on above site.
For any further questions: khokar1960@gmail.com
Sunday December 2 2012
Bangalore’s Favourite Music School Celebrates 1st Anniversary 4.30 pm onwards.
It is now one year since Taaqademy – Bangalore’s favourite space to learn, create, play and record music - was founded. In that period, over 500 individuals between the ages of 5 and 55 have experienced its unique learning environment, interacted one-on-one with musicians from the city’s best-known bands, performed live for the first time on stage, and jammed and recorded in its world-class acoustically-treated rehearsal rooms.
Celebrating its first anniversary, Taaqademy will showcase its best talent – both students and faculty – at the ‘Taaqademy 1st Anniversary Festival’. With more than 14 acts (some of whom are all of eight years old) already on the bill, the Taaqademy 1st Anniversary Festival promises to be an audio-visual treat.
Founded by the acclaimed and multiple award-winning Bangalore band Thermal And A Quarter, Taaqademy was established with a simple goal: ‘Make Space for Music’. With structured and engaging curriculum, emphasis on fun and strong fundamentals, and a one-of-a-kind ‘jam n’ learn’ process, Taaqademy has allowed individuals with diverse backgrounds and musical ambitions to bring music into their lives in a meaningful, fun and ultimately rewarding way.
The Taaqademy Jam Room, one of the best equipped such facilities in the city, has hosted everyone from Food (Norway) to Raghu Dixit, Something Relevant (Mumbai) to Prasanna, Lou Majaw to Keith Peters, Luke Kenny to the Galeej Gurus.
Taaqademy currently offers regular, flexible courses in guitar, bass, voice, keyboards, drums and music production. Taaqademy faculty comprises some of the city’s best-known musicians (many with music degrees from prestigious institutions like the LA Music Academy), all active live performers with years of on-stage experience. Taaqademy is also the sole representative for Rockschool (music examination board from the UK) in South India.
For further information, contact: Han 9663608356
December 7, 8 2012
Theatre Performance
Name of the play: GASHA
Devised at The Indian Ensemble
Friday 7th December @ 7.30 pm
Saturday 8 December @ 3.30 and 7.30 pm
Produced by: Riad Mahmood Education and Arts Foundation / Indian Ensemble
Partner : Alliance Française , Bangalore
Written by Irawati Karnik
Directed by Abhishek Majumdar
Dramaturg : Subhashim Goswami
Scenographer : Payal Wadhwa
Costumes : Divya Jain and Pallavi Krishna
Lights : Mohammad Mustafa
Sound : Abhijit Pakrashi
Cast : Adhir Bhat
Sandeep Shikhar
Asst Director and Production Controller: Virginia Rodrigues
Synopsis
While everything around seemed headed towards a slow collapse, in a shed on an island in the middle of a lake, two boys built their world. Twenty years later, it is quite another past that stands in their way.
Today, two whimsical narrators scramble madly to recreate what happened. Set against the background of the Kashmir imbroglio, ‘Gasha’ is an account of the fractured friendship between two boys, A Kashmiri Pandit and a Kashmiri Muslim , and their need to affirm their story.
Based on real stories, interviews and testimonials, Gasha has been devised at the Indian Ensemble over 2012.
Tickets: Rs 200
Telebooking: 09886324733
Online bookings: indianstage.in and bookmyshow.com
Tickets also available at the venue
December 13 – 20
An extraordinary Photo-Exhibition
The Alliance Française de Bangalore in association with the French Embassy in India and Gallery Sumukha Is pleased to invite you to the Opening of The World Upside Down Gravity Defying photographs by French conceptual artist Philippe Ramette.
On Thursday 13 December at 7.00 pm
Venue: Gallery Sumukha
Mr. Eric La Vertu, Consul General of France in Karnataka will inaugurate the exhibition.The photo-exhibition will be on view from 13 – 20 December, At Gallery Sumukha,10.30 am - 6. 00 pm (Monday - Saturday). Closed on Sunday
Gallery Sumukha
24/10 BTS Depot Road
Wilson Garden
Bangalore 560027.
Tel:22292230
A few words on this artist: Between 2003 and 2006, French conceptual artist Philippe Ramette created a series of gravity-defying photographs that show him in seemingly impossible poses. These illusions were not created digitally; they are visual illusions, or surreal photographs, made by French artist Philippe Ramette and photographer Marc Domage. His objective is to construct rationally pictures that look irrational.
ART by evam
Date : December 14th
Time : 7:30 p.m.
Venue : Alliance Francaise de Bangalore
Tickets : Rs.300
Language : English
Play Synopsis
Evam’s first ever play revolves around the friendship of Serge, Marc and Yvan, three close friends of longstanding, when Sarge indulges in his penchant for modern art by buying an expensive and almost completely white painting. Marc is horrified and describes the painting as “shit”, and their relationship suffers considerable strain. Yvan, caught in the middle, tries to please both of them, but his vacillation only adds fuel to the blazing row!
What follows, is seriously funny, the story’ll make you chuckle, nod in serious agreement, and think hard of yourself, and your best friends. ‘Art’ has strong reason for having been one of evam’s most popular plays over the years!
Director’s Note
They say great Art survives years... ours has survived and thrived through the last 9, however great it may be!
This production of ours, our first, reminds us each time of the roots of 'evam' and its 'art' itself -- 'Art' lies in the eyes of its beholder, and that in itself is a journey complete. But sometimes 'Art' is created when a creator creates and becomes the beholder - the shortest and the most powerful journey... no more beholders but that one. 'evam' oscillates between these extremes, walking that fine line of making the world happy and keeping ourselves even more so...
Our production has become more bare and simple over the years - with the elimination of backstage and the actors becoming the only laborers through the process... 'ART by evam' celebrates its 10th year, and like the great writing has, may our production of it keep going, because we do need our reminders - that we are human and therefore we can forgive... we just need to know that.
Evam Standup Tamasha – We are like this wonly
Date : December 15th
Time : 7:30 p.m.
Venue : Alliance Francaise de Bangalore
Tickets : Rs.300
Language : English
Synopsis
Five of our best standup artists – perform on the typical Indian. Everything from Cultural shocks to a Nepali trying to fit into metropolitan life to exploring the Kamasutra - this show promises to provide enough food for thought and more. Come, meet some very interesting people and watch them narrate their urban stories, thoughts, theories and peeves! A completely original evam show - this Indian, Urban perspective is meant to tickle your funny bone and create post-show debates.
The show has done two seasons in Chennai and one season in Bangalore so far, with a season running for 3 months. All three seasons were highly successful and well received, getting TV coverage, news paper articles, Radio mentions and thousands of views on our Youtube channel.
Director’s Quote
“The Show is our way of creating a stage platform where we all get to vent …oops...share our urban stories – tall tales from the top of our head.. of the urban, by the urban, for the urban, stories set in urban reality... told from the heart and with a sense of humour- all in all an evening of angst and soul served right up your alley! Slice of life urban stories meets desi Indian comic meets sensitivity meets evam to create STANDUP TAMASHA!”
Evam Standup Tamasha – What 'we-men' really want
Date: December 16th
Time: 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Alliance Francaise de Bangalore
Tickets: Rs.300
Language: English
Synopsis
Five of our best standup artists – perform on "What 'we-men' really want". Everything from Indian marriages to salon visits to women on roads - this show promises to provide enough food for thought and more. Come, meet some very interesting people and watch them narrate their urban stories, thoughts, theories and peeves! A completely original evam show - this Indian, Urban perspective is meant to tickle your funny bone and create post-show debates.
The show has done two seasons in Chennai and one season in Bangalore so far, with a season running for 3 months. All three seasons were highly successful and well received, getting TV coverage, news paper articles, Radio mentions and thousands of views on our Youtube channel.
Director’s Quote
“The Show is our way of creating a stage platform where we all get to vent …oops...share our urban stories – tall tales from the top of our head.. of the urban, by the urban, for the urban, stories set in urban reality... told from the heart and with a sense of humour- all in all an evening of angst and soul served right up your alley! Slice of life urban stories meets desi Indian comic meets sensitivity meets evam to create STANDUP TAMASHA!”
For further information, please contact: 9886789594
Alliance Françai se de Bangalore, P.B. 108, Thimmaiah Road, Vasanthanagar
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