Saturday, October 6, 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, October 6th, 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 |
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Thursday, October 25, 2007, 5.30pm - 8.00pm, S.M.Joshi Foundation Hall, S. No. 191/192, Next to Patrakar Bhavan, Navi Peth, Ganjave Chowk, off Shastri Road, Pune 411 030
Open Space - Centre for Communication and Development Studies (CCDS) invites all interested students and members of the public to a lecture by DR ROBERT W. FULLER (USA) titled, Democracy’s Next Step:
Building a Dignitarian Society.
Robert Fuller has identified a form of domination that everyone has experienced but few dare to protest: rankism, abuse of the power inherent in rank to exploit and humiliate someone of lower rank. It plays a role in just about every form of social oppression—racism, sexism, homophobia, and religious intolerance all have a significant element of rankism in them. What is the social cost of rankism and how can we develop a grassroots capacity to defend and protect dignity in everyday life?
Fuller discusses practical solutions for fashioning a world where human relationships are governed by respect and every person’s right to dignity is affirmed. Far from being utopian, building a dignitarian society is democracy’s next natural evolutionary step.
This lecture is part of Dr Fuller’s international speaking tour to launch ‘All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies and the Politics of Dignity’, a sequel to his bestselling ‘Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank’
Entry to the lecture is free for all. Please bring along family and friends!
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Thursday, October 11, 2007, 6.15pm, at the Theosophy Hall, 3rd floor, 40 New Marine Lines, Churchgate, Bombay 400 020
THE PEN ALL-INDIA CENTRE invites you, with your friends, to the Bombay launch of 50 POETS 50 POEMS, An anthology edited by Priya Sarukkai Chabria
Adil Jussawalla, Deepankar Khiwani, Marilyn Noronha,
Peter Griffin, Anju Makhija, Gieve Patel, Sampurna Chattarji, Anand Thakore and Priya Sarukkai Chabria will read from the anthology
Date: 11 October, 2007 (Thursday)
Time: 6.15 pm
Place: Theosophy Hall, 3rd floor, 40 New Marine Lines, Churchgate, Bombay 400 020.
ALL ARE WELCOME
50 Poets 50 Poems, published by Open Space, draws from the contents of the website Talking Poetry edited by Priya Sarukkai Chabria. Open Space, a civil society outreach program encourages discussion, debate and action on social justice, sustainable development and human rights issues. It is an initiative of the Centre for Communication and Development Studies.
Open Spaces; 50 Poems 50 Poets has been made possible as the contributing poets have each 'donated-a poem' to the anthology. It is an effort that reflects faith in poetry and its readership to keep alive this art that adds to our larger cultural life and our sense of multiple identities. This anthology hopes to focus on the diverse voices speaking from different cultures that enrich our lives. |
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FILM SCREENING CUM WORKSHOP
Sunday – Monday, October 28 - 29, 2007 at the Main Auditorium, Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) campus, Law College Road,
Pune 411 004
Open Space, the civil society outreach initiative of the Centre for Communication and Development Studies (CCDS), Pune, in collaboration with the Film and Television Institute of India invites you to a 2 day programme of documentary film screenings and an interactive talk and discussion with noted independent Delhi-based documentary filmmaker Amar Kanwar. The talk will outline the role of independent documentary filmmaking in India as a media advocacy tool for social change.
Amar Kanwar lives and works in New Delhi, India. Emerging from the Indian sub continent, his films are complex, contemporary narratives that connect intimate personal spheres of existence to larger social political processes. Finding a contextual relationship with diverse audiences, Kanwar's work maps a journey of exploration revealing our relationship with the politics of power, violence, sexuality and justice.
Amar Kanwar is the recipient of the 1st Edvard Munch Award for Contemporary Art from Norway, a Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Maine College of Art, USA , the MacArthur Fellowship in India, the Golden Gate Award ( San Francisco International Film Festival); Golden Conch (Mumbai International Film Festival ); The First Prize (Torino International Film Festival, Italy ) ; Jury's Award (Film South Asia , Nepal ), Grand Prix at EnviroFilm, Slovak Republic and the Golden Tree at the 1st National Environment and Wildlife Film Festival, Vatavaran, Delhi.
PROGRAMME SCHEDULE
Sunday, October 28, 2007, 6.00pm to 9.00pm, at the Main Auditorium, Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Law College Road, Pune
Screening of THE LIGHTNING TESTIMONIES
Dir: Amar Kanwar, Duration: 1 hour, 56 min, 2007
Why is one image different from the other? Why does an image seem to contain many secrets? What can release them so as to suddenly connect with many unknown lives.
The Lightning Testimonies reflects upon a history of conflict in the Indian subcontinent through experiences of sexual violence. As the film explores this violence, there emerge multiple submerged narratives, sometimes in people, images and memories, and at other times in objects from nature and everyday life that stand as silent but surviving witnesses. In all narratives the body becomes central - as a site for honour, hatred and humiliation and also for dignity and protest.
As the stories unfold, women from different times and regions come forward. The film speaks to them directly, trying to understand how such violence is resisted, remembered and recorded by individuals and communities. Narratives hidden within a blue window or the weave of a cloth appear, disappear and are then reborn in another vocabulary at another time. Using a range of visual vocabularies the film moves beyond suffering into a space of quiet contemplation, where resilience creates a potential for transformation.
The screening will be followed by an informal discussion with the filmmaker
Monday, October 29, 2007, 2.00pm to 7.00pm, at the Main Auditorium, Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Law College Road, Pune
Screening of a selection of Amar Kanwar’s films followed by a talk cum discussion with the filmmaker
2.10pm
A Season Outside
Dir: Amar Kanwar, Duration: 30 min, 1997
There is perhaps, no border outpost in the world quite like Wagah, where this film begins its exploration. An outpost where every evening people are drawn to a thin white line… and probably anyone in the eye of a conflict could find themselves here.
A Season Outside is a personal and philosophical journey through past generations, conflicting positions, borders and time zones.
3.00pm
A Night of Prophecy
Dir: Amar Kanwar, Duration: 77 min, 2002
Is it possible to understand the passage of time through poetry? And if that were so even for one special moment then would it be possible to see the future? The film travels in the states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Nagaland and Kashmir trying to understand the past, the severity of conflict and the cycles of change. Through poetry you suddenly see where each and all the territories are heading to, where you belong and where to intervene, if you want to. The different poetic narratives merge together, allowing us to see a more universal language of symbols and meanings. The moment when this merger in the mind takes place is the simple moment of prophecy.
4.30pm
The Many Faces of Madness
Dir: Amar Kanwar, Duration: 19 min, 2000
The Many Faces of Madness is a short film that emerges from the reality of ecological destruction and the appropriation of the commons in India.
5.00pm
Henningsvaer
Dir: Amar Kanwar, Duration: 15 min, 2006
Henningsvaer is about being in exile and the thin line that can exist between paradise and prison. Filmed entirely through glass, this film is located on the famous cod fishing island of Henningsvaer in Norway in the Arctic Circle.
5.30pm to 6.30pm
Presentation by the film maker outlining the importance of the documentary film as a media advocacy tool for social change followed by an open discussion
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