[Reader-list] [Announcements] Open Mic/Open Screen

[Aarti]

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Open Mic/Open Screen: An Evening of Mixed Forms
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*Open Mic/Open SCreen: An Evening of Experimental Video, Film, Poetry, 
Prose, Spoken Word, Photographs, Audio & Sonic Work and Performance*
6:00 P.M., Friday, 10 March 2006

At the last Open Screen/Open Mic on the 31st of January at Sarai, about 
30 people came together to listen, watch and experience mixed media 
forms over a period of about three hours. The open invitation had asked 
people to bring as diverse a range of works as they wished, and the 
selection was truly varied. Works included a short film on dance, a 
video loop called "Gurgaon Giraffe" which was a mesmerising meditation 
on a bulldozer, a student film on 9/11, a video project on love and 
longing in Bombay, travels in abandoned landscapes in Latvia, a short 
photo-essay (?) on demolitions in Delhi, a exuberant film on popular 
Islamic devotional music and iconography. Highlights of the evening 
included a selection of Bhojpuri song recordings from the 1960s, and a 
poetry-performance by Harlow. Some people showed completed works, some 
culls from works-in-progress, and some shared photographs.

We wish to continue these sessions as a way for people working across a 
diversity of forms to come and share their work in an open, fun and 
relaxed context. We like the dynamic that is produced when all kinds of 
forms are brought together in the same space, a feast with many dishes 
to choose from, so to speak.

The next Open Screen/Open Mic will be in March. However I am announcing 
it now so that friends know it is happening and have time to prepare. 
Perhaps you might want to create a small work for it, or transfer some 
older footage onto DVD/VCD format, or forage through photographs and 
select some you would like to share, or choose a piece to read/perform 
aloud :)

How it works is, everyone gets 5-7 minutes to screen/play video/audio 
works, and read/perform text based work. You can share video, audio, 
poetry, spoken word, a short prose piece, a performance, singly or in 
groups, in any language (though do be prepared to translate
for those uninitiated :) The screening/performance is decided on a 
first-come-first-serve basis.

Films, Video and Audio pieces should be between 1-7 minutes long, and on 
DVD/VCD format only. Alternatively you can also pipe from a laptop. You 
can share a complete work, parts of a work, a work in progress, even 
stills, in B/W and or colour.

Do come, tell your friends and share an evening with us!

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