Saturday, December 1, 2007, 5.30pm to 8.00pm, at Landmark bookstore, 1-B Moledina Road, Near Dorabjee's, Camp, Pune 411001
Open Space – Talking Poetry, as part of its outreach through the medium of poetry along with Landmark, Pune invites you to a launch-cum-reading of the anthology, Poetry with Young People, introduced and edited by the eminent writer and poet Gieve Patel, published by the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.
Introduction to the book by Gieve Patel and readings of poems by theatre actor Tom Alter, Udit Patwardhan and Bhagyashree Bhide, ex-students of Rishi Valley school. The readings will be followed by an informal discussion.
Poetry with Young People, a collection of poems written by students between the ages of twelve and eighteen from the Rishi Valley School, comes from a workshop conducted by writer Gieve Patel over a period of a decade. This collection is distinguished by its pervasive tone of full-grown awareness, dealing with a wide variety of experiences, from a moving camaraderie to violent aggression, from a deep love and understanding of nature to a concern for its fate in today’s world. There are poems about friends, animals, neighbours, teachers and mothers. The collection would be of particular interest to students, parents, teachers, educationists, psychologists and to anyone curious to meet with young minds.
‘Imagination is altogether something else. It is empathy, it lets you into worlds other than your own, ultimately leads you to understand that there is nothing out there that does not belong to you as well. When I read a poem like Villon’s Epitaph with my students I am inviting them to witness the public hanging of petty thieves in fifteenth century France, and the crowd of good citizens
who come to see the spectacle for their day’s entertainment. For my students it is an effort of
the imagination to grasp both the historical fact and the associated emotions that Villon’s
great poem arouses. But that is exactly what sets off in any reader a corresponding capacity
to conceive of situations and emotions that are not necessarily a direct personal experience.
Some of the hard-hitting poems in this collection come from a conscious decision to release
inner violence on to paper. The only restraining condition being that, as in the work
of the masters, the violence should be controlled within the structure of the poem; that it
should be ‘held’ by the poem and thereby lend power to the experience described.’
- Excerpt from the introduction to Poetry with Young People by Gieve Patel
Bio-note:
Gieve Patel is one of India’s best-known writers. He has published three books of verse, and has written three plays. All three plays have been performed in India. He is also a well-known painter and his works are in public and private collections in India and abroad.
Tom Alter was born in Mussoorie, India, in 1950, where he studied at Woodstock School. His parents were American Presbyterian missionaries. He left India to study at Yale University, returning to the country of his birth to join the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune, from where he graduated, with a gold medal, in 1974. He has since acted in over 250 Hindi films and 50 TV serials, as well as in several stage productions.
DAY & DATE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2007
TIME: 5.30pm to 8.00pm
VENUE: Landmark bookstore,1-B Moledina Road, Near Dorabjee's, Camp, Pune 411001
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Saturday, December 15 & 29, 2007, 3.00pm – 6.30pm, at Open Space
Do you have questions about HIV? Do you need an informed opinion on how to avoid transmission of HIV, or what tests and treatments are available and where they are available? What are the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS and how can the law be used to address discrimination against the HIV-positive? Do you want to know how to address the subject of HIV with your children/students?
A young team of human rights lawyers and counselors from Sahyog Trust, Pune, will address your queries on April 14th and April 28th from 3pm to 7pm at Open Space.
The Sahyog Trust strives to break the culture of silence surrounding HIV, works to protect the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS, and provides legal intervention for those whose rights have been violated.
The team comprises:
Advocate Asim Sarode, whose innovative work with HIV/AIDS and the law won him recognition from BBC as a ‘Yuva Star’. He is also a member of the Community Advisory Board of the National AIDS Research Institute.
Advocate Rama Sarode, who has been a trainer with organisations working with HIV, and has been working with legal issues related to women’s rights and the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS
Rasika Kulkarni: Former HIV/AIDS counselor with Sassoon Hospital, Pune, and the PMC’s Pune City AIDS Control Society.
Please walk in with your queries. Confidentiality of personal information is assured. Questions will also be taken on the telephone during these hours. Call 020-25457371.
Day & Date: Saturday, November 24, 2007
Time: 3.00pm – 6.30pm
Venue: Open Space, B 301, Kanchanjunga Bldg, Kanchan Lane, Off Law College Road, Near Krishna Dining Hall. Pune 411 004, Tel No: 020 25457371 |
HIV/AIDS AWARENESS WORKSHOP
As part of its HIV/AIDS educational outreach, Open Space is organizing a one-day HIV and AIDS awareness workshop in collaboration with the Deepgriha Society, Pune, for college students and young adults.
The objective of this workshop is to raise awareness amongst youth about HIV and AIDS. HIV does not discriminate. HIV/AIDS is not a threat only for high-risk groups in society such as commercial sex workers, drug users and men having sex with men. The reality is that 85% of HIV transmission in the state of Maharashtra is through unprotected heterosexual intercourse (UNAIDS 2006).
Participants of this workshop will learn:
- how to protect themselves from HIV
- how to promote HIV awareness in their community and understand the social, political and economic context of HIV/AIDS
- how to fight the stigma and discrimination that the HIV-positive face.
Day & Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Time: 3.00pm to 7.00pm
The workshop will be divided into two sessions:
Session 1: An hour-long interactive powerpoint presentation that will cover the following topics:
- A brief introduction to the Wake Up Pune campaign: a city-wide campaign aiming to spread awareness about HIV and AIDS in Pune.
- What is HIV? What is AIDS? (Creative demonstration on how the HIV virus attacks the immune system)
- How HIV is transmitted and how it is not
- What are Sexually Transmitted Infections?
- Brief review of HIV origin theories
- The situation of HIV in the world, in India and in Pune
- HIV as a multifaceted issue (political, cultural, social, economic, religious and biological)
- How stigma and discrimination perpetuates the spread of HIV in Pune (an HIV-positive speaker will be present to discuss this issue)
Session 2: Discussion, Feedback and Way Forward
Screening of a selection of HIV public service announcements (PSAs) followed by discussion and feedback on the effectiveness of each at promoting HIV awareness (i.e. condom use, HIV testing, HIV transmission), increasing HIV risk perception, and decreasing levels of stigma and discrimination directed towards people living with HIV and AIDS.
This session will also emphasise how college students can take an active stance against HIV and AIDS in their community.
The workshop will be facilitated by Hans Billimoria, Project Manager HIV/AIDS, Deepgriha Society. Hans is a member of the International AIDS Society and a founder member of the Wake Up Pune campaign (WUP), Pune.
Wake Up Pune campaign: a city-wide campaign aiming to spread awareness about HIV and AIDS to all sectors of society
Venue: Open Space, 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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Friday, December 28, 2007, 4.00pm to 6.30pm, at Open Space
Open Space’s Friday film club invites you to a screening of the film, Charulata (Dir: Satyajit Ray) 117 mins, Bengali with English subtitles.
Set in a late 19th century Bengali middle-class household, it revolves around Charu a lonely and childless housewife, and her efforts to alleviate the ennui in which she lives. Although her husband devotes more time to his newspaper than to their marriage, he sees her loneliness and asks his brother-in-law, Amal, a would-be writer to keep her company. However, after several months, Charu and Amal's feelings for each other move beyond literary friendship.
Charulata belongs to that venerable category of films that unabashedly display their complexities, and are readily regarded as “exemplary” because of the delightful struggle involved in making them. For several Ray enthusiasts it is the director's masterpiece.
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OPEN SPACE OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
December 3, 2007
PLHIV AWareness Workshop for undergraduate students at St. Mira's College, Camp, Pune
December 10, 2007
PLHIV workshop for Lawyers in collaboration with Sahyog Trust and Wake Up Pune (WUP), facilitated by Hans Billimoria, Programme Coordinator, HIV and AIDS, Deepgriha Society and Rama Sarode, Human Rights Lawyer, Sahyog Trust, Pune
December 17 - 27, 2007
10-day Film appreciation cum filmmaking workshop at Open Space.
December 20, 2007
'Follow Your Heart': Youth outreach workshop for undergraduate students at Wadia College, Camp, Pune
December 27, 2007
'Follow Your Heart': Youth outreach workshop for undergraduate students at the Symbiosis College of Arts, Commerce & Computer Science, Camp, Pune |
