Charity bazaar
Community Services of Bangalore (CSB) is organising its annual Christmas Bazaar on November 17 at the Grand Ashok, Kumara Krupa Road from 10.30 am to 6 pm at the Kalinga Hall and get into the festive mood right away.
Stalls include hand made Christmas decorations, hand made items for the home and a stall for mothers to pick up hand embroidered and knitted clothes and toys for new borns. There will be a stall with an assortment of home made cakes and bakes. There are several stalls with games for adults and children alike. The stall to watch out for is the international one with decorative pieces and handicrafts from across the world.
There is a grand raffle with amazing prizes such as free holidays and hotel stays and lots more to be won. The children's lucky dip offers some imported goodies and toys too. A few stalls have been let out to women entrepreneurs to enable them to exhibit their wares and encourage their home enterprise and will encompass designer clothing, jewellery, handicrafts, and linen. There is a huge collection of books available at very reasonable rates. There are plants that will be sold in hand painted pots and containers. Other highlights include tarot card reader, numerologist, henna and tattoos. All the proceeds collected by CSB will go to support charities.
Solo performance
Logos Theatre presents "And The Dead Tree Gives No Shelter", a solo theatre performance by Parnab Mukherjee on November 20 at Easy Library, 972 H, 1st A Main, ST Bed Lyt, 4th Block, Koramangala, Bangalore at 6.30 pm.
There is no entrance charge.
Mr Parnab Mukherjee is a media analyst, workshop facilitator and a creative mentor. He divides his time between Imphal, Delhi and the Darjeeling hills. Currently, a consultant with a human rights initiative, he has earlier worked for a sports fortnightly, English daily and a Bengali daily. He is an acclaimed authority on Badal Sircar's theatre.
He is considered as a leading light in alternative theatre in the country having directed more than 60 productions of performance texts including three international collaborations and 14 independent interpretations of the works of William Shakespeare. He has also performed 12 full length solos which includes an acclaimed River series of plays on trafficking, HIV, segregation of de-notified tribes and a series of plays with Darjeeling as the living inspiration called Foothills to Hills project. He has written four books on theatre.
Open house for aid
Pragati Educational Foundation (www.pragati-edu.org) is providing financial and non-financial support to 160 deserving students from economically weak backgrounds to pursue education in 2007-08. There will be an open house meeting of scholars and volunteers at 4 pm on November 18 at Rotary House of Learning, 11, Promenade Road (Next to Goodwill Girls’ College), Opp Coles Park.
German language day
The Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum New Delhi, the Embassies of Germany, Austria and Switzerland and the German Academic Exchange Service, New Delhi proudly announces the first-ever German Language Day in Bangalore.
The three German-speaking countries Austria, Germany and Switzerland have come together with the common objective of promoting the German language and its usefulness in intercultural interaction as well as in the economic context.
The 3rd German Language Day will take place on November 21 at the Max Mueller Bhavan, 716 CMH Road, with a conference on “German in a Globalised World” (at 10 am) and a performance, “Brigitte Schar” at 3.30 pm. Further information at the Bhavan (2520 5305/6/7/8) and on our website: www.goethe.de/bangalore At the conference titled: German in a Globalised World, three well-known experts in the field will share their knowledge and experience with German language professionals/practitioners in Bangalore: Prof S K Bhagavan from WIPRO, India, Prof. Hermann Funk from the University of Jena, Germany and Prof. Roland Fischer from the University of Linz, Austria.
The highlight of the day will be a unique theatre-concert-reading performance (in English) by Brigitte Schär. She writes for adults as well as for children and her books - for which she has received numerous awards - have been translated into 12 languages. She is also an avant-garde singer, including improvised music and experimental jazz.
As both a writer and an artist, Ms Schär seeks to create an original and extraordinary linking of her own literary work to her work as a performer. The result: theatrical "reading-performances" and "concert-readings" for both adults and children. As it is difficult to pigeonhole her and her art, just come along and experience her one-woman-show for yourself!
