From dak at sarai.net Tue Aug 3 10:54:57 2010 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:54:57 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] SURFACES/ 6 Younger Poets & Chapbook Launch Message-ID: <4C57A829.3090200@sarai.net> *Sarai-CSDS City As Studio & Sarai Media Lab Presents:* *SURFACES / 6 Younger Poets & Chapbook Launch* *Monday August 9 - Sarai Cafe - 6 PM* *Featuring readings in Hindi and English by: Geet Chaturvedi Giriraj Kiradoo Monica Mody Nabina Das Nitoo Das Rahul Soni Vyomesh Shukla *(*Event arranged in collaboration with Pratilipi, a bilingual online literary magazine.*) The evening will also include a short discussion around innovation in poetry editing and publishing and launch of a special limited edition chapbook, made together with the visual artists of Sarai's City As Studio fellowship, featuring some of the poems that will be read. *About the readers*: Poet and fiction writer Geet Chaturvedi has published five books including two translations. He is Editor (Magazines), Dainik Bhaskar. Poet and translator Giriraj Kiradoo co-edits the bilingual journal Pratilipi: http://pratilipi.in/ Born in Ranchi, Monica Mody just received her M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Notre Dame where she won the 2010 Nicholas Sparks Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Wasafiri, Pratilipi, nthposition and elsewhere. Nabina Das's first novel, Footprints in the Bajra, was published this year by Cedar Books. She is a poet, fiction writer and India editor for the literary journal Danse Macabre. Nitoo Das teaches English at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. Her first collection, Boki, was published by Virtual Artists Collective, Chicago, in September 2008. Rahul Soni is a writer, editor and translator "of no fixed address". He co-edits the bilingual journal Pratilipi and works with Writer's Side ( www.writersside.com ) among other things. Vyomesh Shukla has published a poetry collection and is editor of a magazine, Samas. -------------------------------------------------------------- *[[END OF NEWSLETTER]]* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dak at sarai.net Mon Aug 9 20:51:41 2010 From: dak at sarai.net (The Sarai Programme) Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:51:41 +0530 Subject: [Sarai Newsletter] City as Studio: EXB 10.04 - Invitation Message-ID: <4C601D05.1070102@sarai.net> *City as Studio: EXB 10.04 Opening: August 20, 2010 (open till midnight) Venue: Sarai CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi* Open Evening and Exhibition featuring artists from the 'City as Studio' Fellowship Programme at Sarai-CSDS, Delhi "An evening of new artworks, performance, poetry, energy, found knowledge, argument, star-gazing and friendly but unpredictable moves" EXB (Exhibition Basement) is an exceptional artist and practitioner run space for emerging and experimental contemporary art at the basement of the Sarai Programme at CSDS in the heart of Delhi. Rife with curious energy, open to new practices, sharp and finely tuned to the frequencies of a rapidly changing world and a transforming city, EXB is a space hospitable to all those willing to re-define art and life, speculate, fantasize, play and take the pulse of a critical time. City as Studio: EXB 10.04 focuses on the processes initiated as part of the 'City as Studio' Fellowship programme for artists and practitioners. It will showcase work by an exciting group of artists, architects, filmmakers, dancers, writers, researchers, media practitioners and their interlocutors at Sarai. Featuring the work of: Shamsher Ali Nabina Das Rohini Devasher Iram Ghufran Dhrupadi Ghosh Goutam Ghosh Deepankar Gohain Amitabh Kumar Ashawari Mazumdar Paribartana Mohanty Radhika Murthy Samir Parkar Bhagwati Prasad Gaurav Sharma Priya Sen -------------------------------------------- *[[END OF NEWSLETTER]]* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: