Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 4.00pm to 7.00pm, at Open Space
Open Space invites you to a screening of 4 documentary films which address very human problems around HIV/AIDS such as stigma and discrimination of +ve people, the need for peer education about the disease, the need for legislative action against discrimination of HIV+ patients and the need for legislation to protect the rights of +ve people. The screenings will be followed by a discussion moderated by Hans Billimoria, Project Coordinator HIV/AIDS, Deepgriha Society, Rama Sarode, Human Rights Lawyer, Pathfinder, Pune and interaction with members of the MNP+ support group.
A Handful of Sun
30 mins, DVD, 2007
Director: Niru Singh
Through a close look at the life of Asha, a middle class housewife who has been infected with HIV virus through her husband, the film attempts to examine the predicament of ‘innocent bystanders’ who contract HIV without participating in any potentially risky situation.
+Ve Living
30 mins, DVD, 2007
Director: C. Vanaja
The story of HIV+ women, who defied destiny and persisted on their journey in life, against social ostracism and an uncertain future, with dignity and hope.
- Golden Pearl Award, Hyderabad Film Festival, India
Reaching Out At Work
27 mins, 2006, DVD
Directed by: Carol Duffay Clay
The film talks about HIV in the work place. It stresses on peer education and how it has been carried out by Inida’s leading industrial corporations to prevent the spread of the disease. It deals with specific target groups such as the Truck drivers and migrant workers.
EU India Media Initiative on HIV/AIDS
40 mins, 2006, DVD
Directed by: PN Ramchandran
The movie talks of three tests: Ignorant, Compulsary and Voluntary. The first case of a poor shop owner in Mumbai, who’s HIV positive status was used against him when he was in dire need of medical care. The second test deals with Goa’s Health Minister and his proposal to make HIV tests mandatory before marriage license registrations. The third test talks of youngsters and couples in Mangalore who wish to protect themselves or their partners by taking the test. The film clearly talks of the need to spread awareness about the disease, prevent its spread and the need for legislative action against discrimination of HIV+ patients.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 4.00pm to 7.30pm, at Open Space
Open Space has been using diverse audio-visual media such as feature and documentary films, shorts and PSAs as awareness raising outreach tools through regular screenings, film festivals and moderated discussions. In continuation of it’s endeavour Open Space has initiated a monthly lecture series titled, ‘Cinema as Documentation’ which will look at film as a medium of social, economic and historical documentation, while exploring other aspects of film such as art and aesthetics.
What is the meaning of identity in this polyglot of a world?
What happens to a director who is transplanted to another culture, for personal or political reasons?
Which lens does he look through?
Is identity the same as perspective?
The narrative of migration is one of the most poignantly told stories of cinema. The brief history of cinema itself coincides closely with the post colonial world
of immigration. The most moving documentation of the pain of separation, the
longing for a homeland, the idea of belonging and the experience of exile, exist
on film. The talk will discuss individual films that delve into what it means to live
on one continent in geography and another in the mind.
‘Belonging and Exile - the cinema of identity’, the second lecture in the series will address these questions supported by select film clips to exemplify notions of belonging and exile. The lecture will explore the works of filmmakers who have been addressing the theme of ‘identity – immigration and exile’ through film.
The lecture is facilitated by Ajit Duara, film critic, film script-writer and teacher of film studies who divides his time between Pune and Mumbai. He has been writing since 1984 and teaching since 1990. He completed his graduation in English (Hons) from St. Stephens College, Delhi, and took an M.F.A. in Film scholarship/Criticism from Columbia University, New York City.
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Day & Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Time: 4.00pm to 7.30pm
Venue: Open Space – CCDS, B-301, 2nd Floor, Kanchanjunga Bldg, Kanchan Lane, Off Law College Road, Near Krishna Dining Hall, Pune 411 004. Tel No: 020 25457371
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Thursday, April 10, 2008, 5.00pm to 7.00pm, at Mithi Technologies, Baner
Lecture/presentation by Ranjit Gadgil, Pune Traffic and Transportation Forum (PTTF)
and Lead India contender from Pune on Traffic and transportation, its impact on different
aspects of a liveable city and sustainable solutions to the traffic problem for a growing city,
through some current projects around citizen's participation.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 4.00pm to 7.00pm, at Open Space
Open Space invites you to a workshop cum talk titled, ‘The spiraling matrix – excavations of feminine memories’ on the documentation, conservation and dissemination of women’s traditions, by Giti Thadani, a historian who has been documenting and collecting information on women’s symbolical traditions through iconography, texts, architectural and oral history.
The talk is part of an interdisciplinary exhibition curated by Giti Thadani. The project, a first of its kind looks at archaeology, temple sites, iconographies etc from a feminist perspective and seeks to initiate a campaign to preserve a number of these deserted sites which are important repositories of women’s traditions, majority of which are in disarray, unprotected or manipulated to suit the needs of current vested interest.
The workshop will highlight how historically the earlier spaces that were traditionally seen as women’s spaces are being displaced. The exhibition and workshop has been developed through a process of many years of working with texts, traveling all over the country combining a scholastic and experiential approach. Some of the sites have been found from textual references, some through the process of traveling, connecting the different geographies of the sites, the images, texts and women’s own stories, rituals etc. to create an overall context.
The objective of this effort is the dissemination of this material for the preservation of most of the sites; some of which are perhaps the only surviving examples of their kind globally.
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