[Sarai Newsletter] January 2008

[The Sarai Programme]

*Newsletter- January 2008

[[CONTENTS]]

Announcement:
Forthcoming - Sarai Reader 07: Frontiers*
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*Film @ Sarai
Sanjhi Virasat
Director: Azam Q*
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*Thinking with Images: A Workshop with Harun Farocki
Call for entries*
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*Comix Workshop: Third Session*
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Dear Readers,
This New Year we start the month with a variety of events as always.  We 
have a film screening, a workshop and announcements for call for entries 
for a film workshop next month and of course the forthcoming Sarai- 
Reader 7.

Hope you will make yourself available for the events and access the 
particulars announced.
*Wishing you all a very Happy New Year.
*
Best,
Mitoo Das
Programme Coordinator
Sarai, CSDS
Email me at: mitoo at sarai.net
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*Announcement:
*
*Forthcoming - Sarai Reader 07: Frontiers
http://www.sarai.net/publications/reader/07-frontiers
Editors: Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Jeebesh Bagchi and 
RaviSundaram
Paperback, 600 pages, Rs 350, US$ 20, EUR20
ISBN 81-901429-9-2*

We are happy to announce the publication of Sarai Reader 07: Frontiers.

Frontiers brings together essays, accounts, notes and images to report 
and reflect on a world accustomed to living on the edge. This time, the 
Sarai Reader considers limits, borders and margins of all kind to be 
sites for declarations, occasions for conversation, settings for the 
staging of arguments, debates, recounting and reflection. Accounts of 
border crossings and life in frontier zones sit side by side with 
analyses of the actions of state power and records of transgressions. 
The limits and margins of literary texts, films and art works are 
explored together with evocations of the frontiers of the urban experience.

Sarai Reader 07 invites you to consider the frontier as an open door, 
and as a policed gate, as a chute into something new, or the rediscovery 
of that which has been obscured, as a hidden tunnel that crosses under a 
mountain, as a porous membrane of liminal possibilities and as a zone of 
contact and contagion. We want to think of the frontier as the skin of 
our time and our world, and we invite you to read this book in order to 
get under the skin of contemporary experience.

Authors and Contributors Include: Ana Longoni, Rosie Thomas, Irina 
Aristarkhova, Lamia Joreige, Cedric Vincent, Abdoumaliq Simone, Farhana 
Ibrahim, Georgi Derluguian, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Lawrence Liang, 
Jeremy Hight, Manuel Ramos Martinez, Pramod Nayar, Anuj Bhuvania, 
Solomon Benjamin, Aman Sethi, Gauri Gill, Chandak Sengoopta, Amar 
Kanwar, Mogas Collective, Angela Mitropoulos, Abhishek Hazra, Naisargi 
Dave and others
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*Film @ Sarai
Sanjhi Virasat, 2003
Director: Azam Q
Length: 20 minutes
11th January, 4:30 pm
Seminar Room, CSDS*

About the film:
Sanjhi Virasat deals with communal harmony.  It attempts to depict how 
people of different religions can live with each other, following their 
own identities and yet be at peace.
The film is the story of Kaluram Pandit of Badshahpur, a village in 
Haryana. The village was predominantly Muslim before partition but with 
partition most migrated to Pakistan. What remained were a few families, 
a mosque and an eidgah.  When an individual tried to occupy the mosque 
forcibly, Kaluram Pandit intervened and registered a case against him. 
He won the case, made the land free and invited a muslim family from the 
village to look after the mosque and supported him with all material 
requirements. Today, Badshahpur is a thriving example of how if people 
want to ignore their differences and live together as one, they can!

About the Director:
Azam has done his graduation in Mass media from Jamia Millia Islamia. 
His passions are theatre and film making. Sanjhi Virasat(2003) is his 
first documentary feature. He has been hugely involved in theatre and 
writing for the last 5 years. He now works as a theatre instructor for 
the blind at the National Association for the Blind, Haus Khas.
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*Call for entries to Thinking with Images: A Workshop with Harun Farocki

Thinking with Images: A Workshop with Harun Farocki *
/Introduced and Moderated by Raqs Media Collective/
*Sarai-CSDS in Collaboration with the Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
8th and 9th of February, 2:00 PM - 8:30 PM*
/(8th February - at MMB, Kasturba Gandi Marg, New Delhi)
(9th February - at Sarai CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054)
/
Harun Farocki's work provokes us to re-think our relationships to 
history and the politics of representation. His body of work, spanning 
documentary & essay films, installations and writing, is an invitation 
to consider the task of image-making as a philosophical undertaking. 
This workshop invites filmmakers, artists, writers, philosophers, 
political theorists, historians and activists to engage with this body 
of work? Through two days of intense film viewing and conversation with 
Harun Farocki himself. The workshop will be introduced and moderated by 
Raqs Media Collective.

*Limited seats, please apply with a short resume introducing yourself to 
dak at sarai.net by the 31st of January.*
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*The Comix Workshop: Session 3
17, 18, 19th January
Venue: Seminar Room,
              Sarai-CSDS,
Facilitator: Orijit Sen  *

This is the third and concluding session of the comic book workshop.  
This session will include participants choosing either a written 
narrative/ audiovisual/ sound tracks. These narratives, sound tracks 
etc. will be exchanged. The participants would then be asked to create a 
four-page comic strip from the narrative. Orijit Sen, the facilitator 
for the session will help the participants with their strips.
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