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<DEFANGED_div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">PUKAR Events, October 2003<br>
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Dear Friends,<br>
<br>
You are invited to the following PUKAR events scheduled for this
month. Those of you who would like us to send special reminders every
week please do write to<u> secretariat@pukar.org.in</u> with the
request and we shall comply.<br>
<br>
The calendar of events provided below is followed by details about
each event and the people involved.<br>
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<i>FILM SCREENINGS:<br>
<br>
</i>1.<br>
Title: Bombay Our City/ Humara Shahar<br>
Director: Anand Patwardhan<br>
Date: Wednesday, 8 October 2003<br>
Time: 6 p.m.<br>
Venue: NGMA Auditorium, NGMA, Kala Ghoda<br>
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2.<br>
Title: New Empire<br>
Director: Kurush Canteenwala<br>
Date: Friday, 10 October 2003<br>
Time: 6 p.m.<br>
Venue: NGMA Auditorium, NGMA, Kala Ghoda<br>
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<i>VIDEO TABLE:<br>
</i>8 Short Films on Mumbai at the NGMA (available for viewing till
19th October 2003)<br>
<br>
<i>Occupation Mill Worker </i> (Anand Patwardhan)<br>
<i>Crystal </i> (Students of Social Communications Media, Sophia
Polytechnic)<br>
<i>Circadian Cycle </i> (Mahesh Mathai)<br>
<i>I Ranu Gayen </i> (Shyamal Karmarkar)<br>
<i>Aur Irani Chai </i> (Wilson College Students)<x-tab>
</x-tab><br>
<i>Living With the Dead </i> (Students of Social Communications
Media, Sophia Polytechnic)<br>
<i>Sambhawami Yuge Yuge</i> (Madhushree
Dutta)<x-tab> </x-tab><br>
<i>Phantoms </i> (Tushar Joag)<br>
<br>
<i>TALKS:<br>
<br>
</i>1.<br>
<i>Researching Locality.<br>
</i>Speaker: Alito Siqueira<br>
Date: Thursday, 23 October 2003<br>
Time: 6:30p.m.<br>
Venue: PUKAR Office<br>
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2.<br>
<i>Examining Social Change and the Media in Mumbai. <br>
</i>Speakers: Prabir Bose and the "Media Matters" Team<br>
Date: Friday 31 October 2003<br>
Time: 6:30p.m.<br>
Venue: PUKAR Office<br>
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Details of the Events:<br>
<br>
<i>A: Film Screenings:<br>
<br>
</i>1. Bombay Our City / Humara Shahar<br>
82 mins. Colour, 16mm, 1985<br>
<br>
Director: Anand Patwardhan<br>
<br>
This moving verite film follows the travails and triumphs in the daily
battle for survival of Bombay's slum dwellers, as they face
demolitions, monsoons, death and life. It has won the National Award,
Best Non-fiction, India, 1986, Filmfare Award, Best Documentary,
India, 1986 and Special Jury Prize, Cinema du Reel, France, 1986.<br>
<br>
Anand Patwardhan is a pioneering documentary filmmaker living and
working in Bombay.<br>
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Date: Wednesday, 8 October 2003</font></DEFANGED_div>
<DEFANGED_div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Time: 6 p.m.</font></DEFANGED_div>
<DEFANGED_div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Venue: NGMA Auditorium, NGMA,
Kala Ghoda</font></DEFANGED_div>
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<DEFANGED_div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">2. New Empire</font></DEFANGED_div>
<DEFANGED_div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">37 Minutes, 2002</font></DEFANGED_div>
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<DEFANGED_div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Director: Kurush
Canteenwala</font></DEFANGED_div>
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<DEFANGED_div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">New Empire is a visually
impressionistic, non-fiction film that attempts to chronicle personal
encounters with new colonialism and the accompanying loss of an
indigenous way of urban being.<br>
<br>
Kurush Canteenwala is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Film
Production and Film Aesthetics at the Southern Illinois
University.<br>
<br>
Date: Friday, 10 October 2003<br>
Time: 6 p.m.<br>
Venue: NGMA Auditorium, NGMA, Kala Ghoda<br>
<br>
<br>
<i>Video Table:<br>
<br>
</i>The video film table is predicated on a design of interactive
viewing. A card provides a brief synopsis of the videos. Visitors can
choose which film they want to watch and it will be played for
them.<br>
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The above screenings are part of the ongoing PUKAR-NGMA collaboration,
for the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai's annual exhibition,
"Ideas and Images" (September 10th to October 19th 2003). PUKAR
has organized a screening of several documentary films on
Mumbai.</font></DEFANGED_div>
<DEFANGED_div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">The curator for the series is
PUKAR Associate, filmmaker and writer Paromita Vohra.</font></DEFANGED_div>
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<i>B: Discussions/ Talks:</i></font></DEFANGED_div>
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<DEFANGED_div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">1. Topic: Researching
Locality</font></DEFANGED_div>
<DEFANGED_div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Speaker: Prof. Alito
Siqueira</font></DEFANGED_div>
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Last month we started a monthly series of discussions on research
practices and methodologies. Sociologist Manorama Savur provided a
historical overview about research practices in Mumbai University's
Department of Sociology. This month we have invited Prof. Alito
Siqueira - who presently teaches in Goa University - to discuss
methodological issues that arise when studying local spaces. Research
on urban themes often has to contend with the concept of locality.
Drawing on his present work that involves understanding representation
and performance and its links to place and community in Goa, Siqueira
will lead a discussion on various conceptual challenges that any
research on local space produces.</font></DEFANGED_div>
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Date: Thursday, 23 October 2003<br>
Time: 6:30p.m.<br>
Venue: PUKAR Office</font></DEFANGED_div>
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2.<br>
Topic: Examining Social Change and the Media in Mumbai. <br>
Speaker: Prabir Bose and the "Media Matters" Team<br>
<br>
Every month PUKAR organizes a discussion in Marathi on various urban
issues. Last month Bhargavi Davar and Aparna Sathe initiated a
vigorous discussion at the Akshara centre in Dadar on the theme,
"The City, Mental Health and Women", in which about 40 activists,
journalists and students participated. This month we have invited
Prabir Bose and his team from the Mumbai based NGO "Media Matters"
to initiate a discussion on the changing perceptions of the media -
especially in the context of its role in instigating "social
change".<br>
"Media Matters" is located at Ambernath and seeks to research,
study and experiment with media forms and the dynamics of
communication.<br>
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Date: Friday 31 October 2003<br>
Time: 6:30p.m.<br>
Venue: PUKAR Office</font></DEFANGED_div>
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<br>
PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research)<br>
Mumbai.<br>
<br>
E-Mail <mailto:secretariat@pukar.org.in><br>
Phone +91 (022) 2207 7779, +91 98204 04010<br>
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