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We are starting screenings from May 1st, 2008
Movies -
1-May-2008 – Chi- hwa- seon (Painted Fire)

Language: Korean
Director: Kwon-taek Im, Year:2002
Duration: 117 min

2-May-2008 – Ten
Language: Persian
Director: Abbas Kiarostami, Year:2002
Duration: 94 min

Date – 1-May-2008 and 1-May-2008 ..( Thursday / Friday)
Time – 5pm – 6pm- for registration,
6.30pm – screening starts

Venue- cfd, Centre for Film and Drama
5th floor Sona Towers
71 millers road
Bengaluru

membership fees ֍
for professional Rs 400/- per year
for student Rs 200/- per year ( student id required)

contact:
tenfilmsqaure@gmail.com
www.10fs.org

In the context of the coming elections and heated debates about the electoral democracyō
pedestrian pictures invites you to the screening of
Secret Ballot
Director: Babak Payami
(2001/105minutes/English sub)
Date: 26-Apr-2008 , Saturday
Time: 5 ֠7.30 pm
Venue: Institution of Agricultural Technologists (IAT), Queen’s Road (near Indian Express circle, Cunningham Road), Bangalore
For directions to the venue, contact 94483 71389 (Uvaraj) or 98860 52763 (Anil). Email pedepics@gmail.com .More details about the film, directions to venue, etc. can be found at www.pedestrianpictures.org

Film synopsis

An unsuspecting soldier awakens to discover that he can forget about another uneventful day at his lonely seaside post. It’s Election Day!

A ballot box is parachuted down as a young woman pulls up to the shore of the remote island. To the soldier’s surprise, she’s actually the government bureaucrat in charge of local voting. The couple gets off to a rocky start since the soldier expects election agents to be men.

Whether he wants to or not, the soldier is thrown into an elections adventure that just may put him out of a job. Orders from above force him to accompany the female agent in an army jeep across the island’s dusty desert. The agent literally leaves no stone unturned in her search for ballots. Many a surprise lies along their route, as they find themselves in one absurd situation after another.

So much can happen in a single day, especially when opposites attract. Views can change, hearts can melt. By sunset, a woman’s idealistic notions can come back down to earth. And a lonely man can discover there’s more to voting by secret ballot than he ever imagined

Awards – Silver Lion for Best Director – Babak Payami – 2001 ,Venice International Film Festival Pasinetti Award for Best Film ֠2001, Venice International Film Festival
OCIC Award ֠2001, Venice International Film Festival Netpac Award ֠2001, ,Cinema for Unicef Award – 2001 , the FIPRESCI Prize – Special Mention at the London Film Festival , the Special Jury Award at the S䯠Paulo International Film Festival , the Best New Director at the Valladolid International Film Festival

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www.pedestrianpictures.org
pedestrian pictures is a media activist organization working in Bangalore since 2001.

Title: Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and AIR
Speaker: Mrinal Wadhwa
Date & time:
Saturday, 26-Apr-2008
10.30am – 11.30am.
Venue:
Computer Society of India, Bangalore Chapter,
(Landmark Close to Sony World, above Millenium Lifestyles
Furniture Showroom)
NO.201, IInd Floor, MBC Complex, Infantry Road,
Bangalore-560001.
Phone: 22860461/22862215.

Abstract :

1. What are Rich Internet Applications?
2. Why all the buzz?
3. What all technology options are available to develop RIAs?
4. What is Adobe Flex and how to build RIAs with it?
5. What is AIR and how to build RIAs with it?

About the Speaker:

Mrinal is an independent Rich Internet Applications Consultant
currently working with a stealth mode web startup. He has built
several RIAs both professionally at SAP (his previous employer) and
for fun on his blog where he studies the evolution of a richer
internet (http://weblog.mrinalwadhwa.com). Mrinal is also very
actively engaged with the RIA community in India and helps manage both
Flex India (http://flex-india.org) and the Bangalore Flex User Group
(http://bangalorefx.org) You can find more about Mrinal on his blog
(http://weblog.mrinalwadhwa.com).

There is no registration or registration fee for this talk. Please
forward to those who you think might be interested in this topic.

Now its your time to give solution to those problems which you face everyday. Blogathon India will start today and continue for a week. Here are the subject on which you can blog.

Infrastructure: Sunday, 20th April 2008
How can we improve the traffic condition in our city?

Politics: Monday, 21st April 2008
How do we change the focus of politics from caste/religion to grassroot issues?

Entertainment: Tuesday, 22nd April 2008
Does Bollywood overshadow regional cinema in India?

Media: Wednesday, 23rd April 2008
Why are Indian news broadcast channels not as mature as their International counterparts?

Gender: Thursday, 24th April 2008
What are the challenges that society faces in accepting the concept of alternate sexuality? How can we address them?

Sport: Friday, 25th April 2008
Are ҭediaҠand ңommercial interestsҠin cricket the only reason that are killing other sports in India?
blogathonindia

Play: Silence! The court is in session
Venue: Alliance Francaise de Bangalore
Show timings: 25-apr-2007 (7.30pm), 26-apr-2007 (3.30pm and 7.30pm)

It’s telling of the potency of a play, when it continues to be staged decades after it was originally written. In Silence! The Court is in Session Vijay Tendulkar takes the covers off a conformist society, to show us just what it is capable of when given the power to lord over those who live by their own rules.

With a drama woven into a drama, the play revolves around theatre group about to perform a play in a village. As the plot thickens, the comforting mist of ‘pretend’ starts to dissolve revealing the frustrated, bitter and jaded lives of the performers.

Light years ahead of its times, Silence… exposes the dark side of middle class morality, where judgements are passed by the minute and silence is often the only recourse left to the defendant.

About the group

“Version One Dot Oh!” (VODO – www.vodo.blogpsot.com) is a young theatre group based in Bangalore consisting of members from various backgrounds who share a common passion for theatre. Members include IT professionals, lawyers, journalists, students, TV actors etc.

VODO has staged more than 30 shows of 7 different plays over the last 3 years including Sriranga’s Shadows in the Dark and Listen Janamejaya, Dario Fo’s Can’t Pay! Won’t Pay!, Mary Chase’s Harvey, Christopher Durang’s Actor’s Nightmare and Monty Python Sketches; Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty, A collection of short stories by Shashi Deshpande – Chimeras; all of which have been well received and appreciated by audiences in Bangalore, Mumbai and Dharwad.

Silence! The Court is in Session marks the 8th stage production of VODO

About the playwright

Vijay Tendulkar was born in Mumbai on January 6, 1928. Mostly classified as social satires, his plays are known for their honest, often feminist, stand on issues that were conveniently swept under the carpet. His better known works include Shantata! Court Chalu Ahe (Silence! The Court is in Session), Ghashiram Kotwal, Mitrachi Goshta (A Friend’s Story) and Sakharam Binder.

Silence!…, written in Marathi(Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe) in 1967, fetched Tendulkar a Sahitya Academy Award.

For details call VOD productions at 99800 08278/ 98455 01929

This is to inform you that the Sunfeast World 10k will be held in Bangalore on the 18th of May. The run calls upon Bangaloreans to run for fun and for a cause.

Registration for the event is open, and will remain so until the 30th of April. Those interested in participating in the event may register online at www.sunfeastworld10k.indiatimes.com .

You can also register by picking up registration forms at any of the following: Nike outlets, Manipal Care & Cure retail outlets, the Windsor Bengaluru & Standard Chartered Bank branches. Drop boxes for the same are also available at all of the above.

Subsequently we have also established a runners’ network- www.runmaadirun.com where running enthusiasts may interact with others who share their interest.
We hope you will add this event to your calendar!

BIG 92.7 FM & Close-up presents Rock with Sonu! live in concert on the 19th of April at Palace Grounds from 7pm onwards.
This is a 5 city tour of Sonu Niigaam with BIG FM and will conclude on 20th at Mumbai.

For free passes pls call BIG 92.7 FM corporate office in Koramangala (#20, Reliance Energy Building, 5th Block, 5th Cross, Koramangala, Nr Nilgiris & Printo) on 30480475 or tune into our station for contests.

Get more details

Every Hand Counts!!!

PERCH ( A performance collective from Madras) presents to you, AN ENGLISH PLAY – SANGATHI ARINHYA! (HAVE YOU HEARD! ) AT RANGASHANKARA, from 22nd – 27th april 08.

This play is a part of the ” Under the Mangosteen Tree festival” ,
which celebrates the centennary year of the aclaimed writer, ‘Vaikom
Muhammad Basheer”. Having performed in Madras, in Jan 08, to about
8500 audiences, PERCH brings down The english play – SANGATHI
ARINHYA !
( HAVE YOU HEARD !), alongwith a photo exhibition of rare archival
photographs of Basheer, – “Portraits of the Sultan”, and Moplah
cuisine served at the rangashankara cafe.

Details :

ENGLISH PLAY : SANGATHI ARINHYA! (HAVE YOU HEARD!)
22nd -27th april 08

22 – 25th – 730 pm
26 & 27 th – 330 pm & 730 pm
Tickets at rs 100/- Available at Landmark (forum mall), Blossom book
house (church st), Rangashankara

Call PERCH for bookings at 9945108610 / 9845602265
Do check out www.perch.co.in and www.collective-perch.blogspot.com

Under the hood of robust enterprise IT systems, infrastructure, software, products and applications, is the wisdom, passion, grit and experience of people who have contributed in multiple ways to make the end product successful. This collective ecosystem of “Developers” נdecision makers, analysts, architects, engineers, project managers, designers, and programmers נis what makes the world of software tick.

The 2008 edition of Saltmarch Mediaӳ annual Great Indian Developer Summit, centered around the theme of “Recipes for Enterprise Productivity”, features a blockbuster convergence of three on-the-radar co-located conferences that no entity in the “Developer ecosystem” can ignore in their quest for success at work and in their careers ֠Bleeding-edge .NET, Rich Web and Daring Java.

The first of its kind in India, Saltmarch Media’s Developer Summit 2008, held from May 19-23 2008 ( 19-May-2008 to 23-May-2008 ) at the IISc in Bangalore, will provide a high quality summit experience where the most intelligent minds and proactive technology organizations converge to create a high-quality learning experience. Hosted in an intimate setting, the summit offers its participants the best food and comforts, ample networking opportunities, and thematized downtimes and after hours to foster informal interaction among the developer community in India. Visit the summit on the web http://www.developersummit.com.
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