Monday, June 2, 2008, 5.00pm to 7.00pm, at Open Space
Welcome to PUNE FIRST!
DID YOU KNOW…
- That a mind-boggling 513 vehicles are registered
every day at the Pune RTO?!
- That Pune’s two-wheeler population of 11.2 lakhs
is the highest in the country?!
- That YOU can actually map pollution in the city with
just one friend and a mobike?!
- That you could become a reporter for a Times of India news
supplement if you sign up for the ‘Pune First’ project?!
- That Pune’s 15,000 foreign student population is the highest in India?!
- That the oldest Jewish synagogue in Pune is not the Lal Deval,
but a very small synagogue situated in the by lanes of Rasta peth?
- That the weekly bazaar in Pune used to take place outside the Shaniwar wada fort?
Pune city, the erstwhile ‘pensioner’s paradise’ has over the years rapidly transformed
into a bustling mega city. There is rapid change to be seen everywhere. Be it the city’s
roads, its educational institutions, the IT boom, the building industry, the cosmopolitan
profile of its people, there is a ‘work in progress’ board to be seen everywhere!
To address some of these concerns, Open Space has initiated a series of six
monthly workshops titled, ‘Pune First’ that are intended to bring the city’s Gen
Next, face-to-face with the rapidly changing face of Pune city. Through guided
lectures and interaction by city-based experts in the fields of geography, heritage
conservation, town planning, air pollution, sociology and urban planning, the workshops
will enable young people to get to know Pune, walk its streets, talk to its people, measure
its pollution, count its trees and report on its history, heritage and environment.
Starting, Monday, June 2, Open Space will begin its once-a-month workshop.
Noted geographer Jayamala Diddee, co-author of the publication, ‘Pune: Queen
of the Deccan’ will facilitate the first session with a talk on Pune’s history. Prof. Diddee
will take participants back and forth through the history of Pune and the stages through
which this once, Peshwa town has metamorphosed into the mega city of today.
One of the unique features of the ‘Pune First’ workshops will be the opportunity extended to
the city’s collegians to work on a 15-day-project related to the topics addressed through the
monthly workshops.
Prof Diddee will guide the participants on a project developed over a period of 2 weeks to map
and compare a peth area like Kasba peth and draw parallels with the developmental changes
taking
part in a fringe village/suburb like Dhanori, near the pune airport. The students will also
get to report
on their respective projects for a leading newspaper in the city.
City-based freelance journalist and Lead Fellow, Rahul Chandawarkar will facilitate each of the
six workshops.
All ‘Pune First’ workshops will be held at Open Space. There is no registration fee and entry is
free on a first-come-first-served basis only!
Youngsters keen on registering for the workshops should contact Renu Iyer from Open Space at
renu@openspaceindia.org
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Saturday-Sunday, June 7 & 8, 2008, 10.00am to 6.00pm
Open Space, has organised a two-day workshop on ‘REPORTING ON HIV/AIDS’ to be held on (Sat-Sunday), 7th & 8th of June, 2008, in Pune . The workshop is open to young reporters/correspondents in the print, audiovisual and internet media in Maharashtra and Goa who write or report on health issues and would like to develop perspectives to report accurately on HIV/AIDS.
Reporting on HIV/AIDS highlights all the challenges faced by journalists in the course of their work. Journalists must identify the relevant information and understand the issues involved. They must also be sensitive to ethical concerns when interviewing and writing on vulnerable groups. They must present their reports within the larger socio-economic and political perspective. They must clarify their audience’s questions rather than present an overload of information. This workshop is designed to address all these issues and equip the journalist with the required knowledge and perspectives.
The objectives of the workshop are to:
- Inform participants of the current debates around HIV/AIDS, especially within public health.
- Promote discussion on the role of the media in reportage and advocacy in HIV/AIDS and identify concerns in media ethics.
The two-day workshop will have four sessions that focus on case-study-based discussions. |
Wednesday, June 25, 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.
Love in the time of cinema!
It has been One Hundred Years of Solitude, a century since the advent of the movies, and we now pause to consider love, gender and the relationship between the sexes in film. Across the world, the documentation of women in cinema has largely been conducted by men, the target audience is men and the rituals of courtship, romance, sex and love is often seamlessly and similarly defined by the male of the species.
Ironically, an 100 years of cinema also corresponds exactly to the beginning of the emancipation of women in America, the coming of birth control in Europe and the ideas and the subsequent implementation of women's rights in the constitutions of emerging democracies across Asia and the world. How has cinema documented the dynamically changing equations between men and women, between women and women, and the wildly fluctuating definition of gender from one culture to another?
In continuation of the series of lectures on 'cinema as documentation', this talk attempts a cross cultural look at how love has changed in the time of cinema.
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.
ENTRY FREE ON A FIRST-COME-FIRST-SERVED-BASIS ONLY!
Day & Date: Wednesday, June 25, 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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Saturday, June 21, 2008, 10.00am to 6.00pm, at the YWCA International Centre, Mumbai
HIV/AIDS: THE BIG QUESTIONS
In the more than 20 years since HIV infection was first identified in India, there has been a transformation in the official response to it.
Prevention programmes targeted vulnerable groups, promoting stigma and discrimination and shifting the focus away from factors related to people’s socio-economic conditions and health services. Public messages created acute paranoia and fear mongering (AIDS kills). Almost nothing existed in the form of treatment and support services.
All this is changing. However, many concerns and questions remain. Is the programme doing the right thing? Has it made a difference? What hurdles do we face in this effort?
To seek responses to such vital questions from the specialists, Centre for Communication and Development Studies, Pune, and the Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit, Mumbai, propose a day-long seminar on “HIV/AIDS: The Big Questions”. The seminar will be held on June 21, 2008 at the YWCA International Guesthouse, Colaba, Mumbai.
Some questions that will be discussed are:
1. How significant is HIV as a public health problem and does the National AIDS Control Programme support the strengthening of existing public healthcare services?
2. What is the source of money for the AIDS control programme and is the money used well?
3. Have prevention programmes worked?
4. How have NGOs contributed to the programme and what are the problems they have faced?
5. What is the perspective of Positive people on the programme? Is there a reduction in stigma and discrimination? Is there an improvement in access to care and support services?
6. What are the challenges in ensuring effective drugs in the future?
7. What is happening to the proposed law on HIV/AIDS?
Centre for Communication and Development Studies
C-12 Gera Greens, NIBM Road, Kondhwa, Pune 411 048 Phone: (020) 2685 2845 / 2545 7371 www.ccds.in www.infochangeindia.org
Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit
61 Jalaram Kripa, Janmabhoomi Marg, Mumbai, Fort, Mumbai 400 001
Phone: (022) 2287 5482/ 83
aidslaw@lawyerscollective.org
www.lawyerscollective.org
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