On
Friday 29 September 2006
At
Legends of Rock
#905, 80 ft road, 6th block, Koramangala
On the National Games Village to Sony World Circle Road,
In the same lane as Chandani Chowk,
Opposite to Feast of Asia and Daal Roti, Just above Ammaӳ restaurant,
Ph: 5130-323, 5112-4112.

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Bangalore CMS VATAVARAN 2006 Environment & Wildlife Travelling Film Festival
Date: 6 – 8 October 2006
Venue: Alliance Fran袩se de Bangalore, Vasanthnagar, Bangalore

Friday, October 6, 2006

9.30 am
Registration

10.00 am – 12.30 pm Inaugural Ceremony
Screening of Inaugural Film: The Source of Life for Sale, 58′, K P Sasi and Ajit Muricken

12.45 pm Living with Gaints, 50′, Ashish Chandola
Symposium on Managing Electronic Waste (2.30 pm – 5.30 pm)
Film Screening: A Second Hand Life, 26Ҭ Nutan Manmohan

Chairperson: Dr. H.C. Sharatchandra, Chairman, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board
Chairperson: Dr. H.C. Sharatchandra, Chairman, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board

Panelists:
Dr. Seema Purushothaman, Associate Director, ATREE
Mr. Ramapathy Kumar, Team leader, Toxics, GreenPeace
Ms. Vinutha Gopal, Campaigner, GreenPeace
Mr. P. Parthsarathy, Director, E- Parisaraa
Mr Kiran Subbarao, Group Product Manager – Super Genius, WIPRO

Screenings (6.30 pm to 8.30 pm)

6.30 pm
Miles to Go, 58′, Nina Subramani

7.45 pm
Leaving No Trace – Cyclist in the City, 15Ҭ Prayas and Manjushree Abhinav

8. 05 pm
Shores of Silence – Whale Sharks in India, 24′, Mike H pandey

Saturday, October 7, 2006

Special Screenings for children (9.30 am ֠11.00 am)

9.30 am
Chasing Butterflies, 24′, Gurmeet Sapal, Husain Akbar and Pervaiz Alam
10.00 am
Cute Bunny, 3′, Dhimant Vyas
10.05 am
A Brush with Death, 16′, Syed Fayaz
10.25 am
Victims of Garbage Dump, 11ҠPlan India
10.40 am
Birds Through My Window, 18′ Rudransh Mathur

Special Screenings for children (11.30 am – 1.30 pm)

11.30 am
Timeless Traveller – The horseshoe Crab, 12′, Gautam Pandey
11.45 am
Shadows, 3′, Vishal Furia
11.50 am
King Cobra, 53Ҭ Romulus Earl Whitaker
1.05 pm
Many Faces of Madness, 18Ҭ Amar Kanwar
12.50 pm
Irony, 50″, R Sathya Narayanan
12.55 pm
A Second Hand Life, 26′, Nutan Manmohan

Symposium on Wildlife-Human Conflict’s: What is the way forward? (2.30 pm – 5.30 pm)

Film Screening: Elephant God or Destroyer, 30Ҭ Krishnendu Bose

Chairperson: Prof. R. Sukumar, Chairman, Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc, Bangalore

Panelists: Dr. M.D. Madhusudan, Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore

Dr. Vidya Athreya , Kaati Trust, Pune

Screenings (6.30 pm to 8.30 pm)

6.30 pm
Darwin’s Nightmare or “Le cauchemare de Darwin”,107Ҭ Hubert Sauper

Sunday, October 8, 2006

Special Screenings (10.30 am ֠12.30 pm)

10.30 am
Magic of Life, 7′, Gautam Pandey
10.45 am
Troubled Waters, 16Ҭ Reef Watch Marine Conservation
11.10 pm
Why Not?, 4′, Anitha Balachandran
11.20 am
Oozy Ozone 10′, TVE, UNEP
11.40 am
Spandan, 75″, Vinay Rai & Meenakshi Rai
11.45 am
Chasing Butterflies, 24′, Gurmeet Sapal, Husain Akbar & Pervaiz Alam
12.15 pm
A Hunter’s Tale, 6′, Abhishek Singh

Special Screenings for Children (2.30 pm – 5.00 pm)

2.30 pm
Spunky Monkey, 38ҠRomulus Earl Whitaker
3.15 pm
Rainwater Harvesting, 1′, Nandita Das and Saumya Sen
3.20 pm
Rhino – The Indian Unicorn, 24′, Bedi Films

3.50 pm
Shadows, 3′, Vishal Furia
4.00 pm
Birds Through My Window, 18′, Rudransh Mathur
4.25 pm
Cute Bunny, 3′, Dhimant Vyas
4.30 pm
Destiny, 5′, BD Infotech
4.40 pm
Victims of Garbage Dump, 11ҠPlan India

Screenings for General Public (6.00 pm to 8.30 pm)

6.00 pm
The Ridley’s Last Stand, 46′, Shekar Dattatri
6.55 pm
Healing the Coast, 28′ Nina Subramani

7.00 pm
The Many Faces of Madness, 19Ҭ Amar Kanwar
7.25 pm
Healing the Coast, 28′, Nina Subramani
8.05 pm
The Last Flight, 24′, Nutan Manmohan

Photography Exhibition

Walk with Nature’ by Thakur Dalip Singh, Wildlife Photographer

Ullaash Kumar.R.K,
Freelance Journalist, Wildlifer
Mobile: 94493-50275
ullaashkumar@yahoo.co.uk
rkullash_ooty@yahoo.com

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Aranyam 2006 -A Project for Wildlife Week Oct 3rd – 5th .The festival is purely a voluntary initiative of Bangalore youth:
The events: The Aranyam 2006 festival
Dates: Oct 3rd to 5th, 2006
Time: 17:00hrs to21:00hrs.
Where: Unwind Center Koramangala. www.unwindcenter.com

Wildlife Film Festival:
“Exclusive” Suresh heblikar’s world premiere “The Great Indian Bustard” and “The Tiger and the Brahmin” told by Ben Kingsley, Music by Ravi Shankar for Kids.

Sandesh Kadur – Sahyadris: India’s Western Ghats’A Vanishing Heritage’ Synopsis- SAHYADRIS: MOUNTAINS OF THE MONSOON follows the wildlife of these mountains, from the peaks of the High Ranges, where the drama of the Nilgiri tahr rutخever before fully captured on cameraشakes place during the height of the monsoon, to the thick shola forests, home to the highly endangered Lion-Tailed Macaque, to the dry deciduous forests at the foothills of the mountains, where elephants
and other wildlife wait in expectation for the coming deluge. Also explored is the relationship between spirituality and the strong conservation ethos of India, a land of over a billion people.

Awards:

2005 – Infosys – Young Achiever of the Year Award – India
2003 – Vatavaran Film Festival ͠Special Jury Award for Wildlife Conservation, New Delhi ͠India
2003 – Houston Worldfest ͠Gold REMI award for Creative Excellence.
2002 – Wildscreen Wildlife Film Festival ͠Green Oscar Nominee, BBC Newcomer of the Year award.
2002 – International Wildlife Film Festival – Missoula, Montana ΍erit Award for Cinematography

P Baburaj and C Saratchandran ֢The Silent Valley-Only An Axe Away“-
Synopsis – The film narrates the story of a unique campaign to save the valley from destructive development. The Silent Valley was declared a national park twenty years ago, in 1984. The Kerala State Electricity Board plans to build a dam on the fringes of the Silent Valley National Park at Pathrakadavu, across the river Kunthi. Nature lovers are concerned that the proposed dam will harm the pristine evergreen forests in the valley. This film shares the anxieties of the people of Kerala about the future of the Silent Valley.

K.P.Sasi-” The Wings of Kokkrebellur”
Synopsis -A film on the conservation values of the villagers of Kokkrebellur, Karnataka, who
protect painted storks and grey pelicans as a part of their ongoing culture and life.

Surabhi Sharma-”The Turtle People”
Synopsis ֠It shows the everyday life of the so-called Turtle People, in North Kerala (India),
fighting for the survival of an Olive Ridley Turtle nesting beach while their own survival is threatened by the sinking of their village due to the erosion of the shore from sand mining activity in their estuary. The film juxtaposes the community’s struggle against elements threatening their village and its natural resources with the cycle of life of the turtles.

Awards:
4th EcoCinema Festival as this year’s best movie on wetlands and water(5 June 2004)

P. Balan – “The 18th Elephant“-Synopsis
this film is a powerful critique of modern man’s mercenary attitude towards nature and his
anthropocentric conception of development. The sad plight of the elephant in both its wild and domesticated states exposes clearly how such behavior brings death and wreaks havoc on the lives and habitats of other species. Shot over five years, this is Balan’s third film.
Awards:
– Won the award for `the best scientific film/environment conservation/preservation film’ at the 51st National Award for Non Feature Films
- P. Balan, had featured in many international film festivals and had won many awards, including a nomination for the prestigious biennial environmental film festival at Bristol, the U.K., often termed as `Green Oscar’.

And other Asian Films from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and local Amateur Documentary films
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In the 3rd session of September, Collective Chaos pays tribute to Swen Nykvist, one of the greatest cinematographers of all time, who passed away on 20th September 2006. He was a long time collaborator with legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman and also has worked with directors like Polanski, Louis Malle, Tarkovsky and Woody Allen.

Tribute: SVEN NYKVIST

3 Films by 3 different directors, evocative of the different approaches with each filmmaker and one documentary film on Sven Nykvist by his son.

Date:Fri 29 Sept 2006 6.30 pm
Film:persona
Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
Cinematography by: Sven Nykvist
Sweden / 1966 / 84 min

Date:Sat 30 Sept 2006 6.30 pm
Film:the sacrifice
Directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky
Cinematography by: Sven Nykvist
Sweden / 1986 / 142 Min

Date:Sun 1 Oct 2006 4.00 pm
Film: the unbearable lightness of being
Directed by: Philip Kaufman
Cinematography by: Sven Nykvist
USA / 1988 / 172 min

Date: Sun 1 Oct 2006 7.15 pm
Film: light keeps me company
Documentary on Sven Nykvist Directed by his son: Carl-Gustaf Nykvist
USA /2000 / 76 min

Venue
NANI CINEMATHEQUE
CFD, 5th Floor, Sona Towers, Millers Road

Please Note:
http://www.collectivechaos.org/current_schedule.html
ENTRY BY MEMBERSHIP ONLY. QUARTERLY MEMBERSHIP @ RS. 200 AVAILABLE AT THE
VENUE.
MOBILE PHONES & EATABLES ARE STRICTLY NOT ALLOWED INSIDE THE AUDITORIUM.

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St.Joseph’s College of Commerce, Bangalore presents its annual business quiz ‘Chanakya’ with a unique twist this year.We are providing a platform for college students to pit their business acumen
against corporates in a unique face off.The quiz will be conducted by Mr.Mitesh Agarwal of KQA.The quiz is on the 30th of September.The details about the quiz are as follows.

Teams of two
-Any number of teams from a company/educational institution
-The quiz is open to all colleges(Pre-University ,Undergraduate,Post Graduation)
-Mixed Corporate teams are allowed
- Mixed College teams are allowed
- Mixed College & Corporate is not allowed
-Common prelims for both corporates and students
-Top 6 corporate teams directly enter the mail finals
-Top 6 college teams slug it out in a mini final ,and the top two teams from there advance to the main finals which will comprise of 6 corporate teams & top 2 college teams.

Confirmed Cash prizes
I Place-Rs 7500/-
II Place-Rs 5000/-
And cash prizes for the remaining finalists (depending on collection from Entry Fee)
Apart from cash prizes there are some prizes in kind. And of course tons of audience prizes.

Venue
St.Joseph’s College of Commerce
#163,Brigade Road,Bangalore-560025
Landmarks-Opposite Kanti Sweets,next to Eva Mall
Time-The prelims begin at 10 am
Mini Final for College teams – 11:15 AM
Mega Finals – 1:15 PM

Registration
Corporate entities-300 per team
Colleges-100 per team

Contact Vidyashankar-9845966921 ,Rithika-9886410920,Aditya -9945088872

Play: The Chairs
Writer: Eugene Ionesco
Venue: Rangashankara
Dates: 28 -Sepr-2006 to 01-Oct-2006
Read the introduction to the play below. It looks very interesting.
Introduction to ‘The Chairs’ Via BookRags

Eugene lonesco’s The Chairs is one of the playwright’s most popular plays.First performed in Paris on April 22, 1952, The Chairs was only the third of lonesco’ s plays to be produced. At the time, lonesco was still a struggling playwright.

Most critics and audiences did not know what to make of The Chairs. In the play, an elderly couple sets up chairs and greets invisible guests who have come to hear the Old Man’s message to the world. The message is left in the hands of an Orator after the couple commits suicide, but he is deaf-mute and cannot relay it.

n the program for the original production, lonesco writes, “As the world is incomprehensible to me, I am waiting for someone to explain it.” As the idea of a theater of the absurd a literary form that explored the futility of human existance evolved, The Chairs came to be seen as a seminal example of the genre, highlighting the loneliness and futility of human existence.

By the time the play was revived in Paris in 1956, most critics and audiences lauded lonesco for his unique staging and profound sense of humor. Since these early productions, The Chairs is still regularly performed worldwide

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Nrityakalamandiram is organising a Dance Programme by Students of Sridevi Nruthya Kendra, at Indian Institute of World Culture in Basavanagudi, Bangalore. For more details contact 26678581.
Where:
Indian Institute of World Culture
B P Wadia Road
Basavanagudi
Bangalore, Karnataka
When: Sep 30 2006 6:00PM

Contact :
Indian Institute of World Culture
Phone : 26678581

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ActNow in collabration with Unwind Center, WWF Bangalore and Kalamadhyam is organising Aranyam 2006 Wild Life Film Festival, a film festival with WILD LIFE as its theme in Bangalore during Wild Life Week on October.

Aranyam 2006 will be held at Unwind Center, (#104,17 cMain 5th block Koramangala.), Bangalore on 3rd to 5th Oct 2006.

The festival will start the screenings of documentaries, animations, PSAs, music videos and feature films from 17:00 to 21:00 hrs.

Wildlife Film Festival: is a three-day special event showing films about wildlife and nature. Films will be presented with discussions including consumers of eco tourism services, adventure professionals, environment organizations, wildlife organizations, forest department and documentary movie producers, inviting audience participation. It will be held Oct 3rd to 5th , 2006 at Unwind Center. The festival will attract not only people interested in wildlife and eco tourism
but anyone who is a documentary buff. The Aranyam Film Festival is a special event with focus on entertaining and educating people through films.

• To promote the conservation of nature and the public appreciation of biodiversity, through the power of wildlife imagery.
• Promote excellence in the films from which many first learn about nature.
• Inspire greater interest in Earth’s living riches.
• Illustrate the wonders of our natural world.
• Educate about the threats facing our planet’s biodiversity.
• Encourage enthusiasm for nature.

We would be happy if you could attend and contribute films on WILD LIFE/NATURE for the Festival.

For more details:
Ullash,
Editor
ACT NOW
# 52/9, 2nd Main, Karavali Road
Ramaiah Layout
St. Thomas Town Post
Bangalore- 560 084
Tel: 080- 25436319
94493-50275

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The Teachers Foundation in association with Shikshantar Andolan is organising the Nai Taleem Film Festival for educatiors. This collection of films brings forth various dimensions of Nai Taleem or basic eucation – different spaces, processes and experiments of deep learing and is dedicated to
Siddhraj Dhadda, an eminent Gandhian and anti-globisation activist. The festical takes place on

Sep 26, Apeejay Oxford Bookstores (41155222),Leela Palace Hotel, Airport Road
Sep 27, CFD Millers Road
Sep 28/29, Hippocampus (25630306)

Admission Free

Call Anuradha Baraya #22350163 #4123114926

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