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Theatre Festival
The week-long `The Hungry Theatre Festival - Women In Relationships', the first of its kind with performers of the stage and the screen participating, concluded at the India Habitat Centre. Habitat was also the venue for The Habitat Children's Book Forum, which celebrated Tagore's birthday with "Tales from the Nobel Laureate's Childhood". Performance, storytelling was by Chaiti Ghosh.
Canadian Films
India International Centre was host to a festival of award-winning films from Canada. The event concluded with the film Jesus of Montreal this past Wednesday. Other films featured included Manners of Dying, Dance Me Outside, A Silent Love, Love, Sex and Eating Bones and Men with Brooms.
Artists from Kerala
`Elements - Spring 2005' that was mounted at the Travancore House, was an attempt to showcase a set of artists from Kerala in New Delhi. Also the show paved the way for establishing the illustrious Travancore House as a centre of socio-cultural activities in the map of the Capital culture. The participating artists included Ajayakumar, Anil Dayanand, Anoop Kamath, Bindu Mehra, Binoy Verghese, C.N. Karunakaran, Dharmendra Rathore, Himanshu Desai, K. Damodaran, K.S. Radhakrishnan, Karunakaran, Kishore Shinde, Lizzie Jacob, Manoj Kulkarni, Namboothiri, Nitasha Jaini, Pratul Dash, Ritu Singh, Shijo Jacob, Sushma Yadav, T. Kaladharan and Tensingh Joseph.
Works by Ompal and Meena
Recent works by Ompal and Meena were on display at Arushi Arts located at Greater Kailash. While Ompal's emphasis was on nature, Meena came out with powerful symbolic images.
Black & White Photographs
United Nations Development Fund for Women and Muktangan, in collaboration with Alliance Francaise de Delhi hosted `Eye Reveal', an exhibition of black and white photographs that were accompanied with short stories. Project `Eye Reveal' has been conceptualised and curated by artist and activist Probir Gupta.
Book Launch
"First Proof", the Penguin book of New Writing from India, was launched at the British Council. The book, an anthology of new writing, showcases original and brilliant non-fiction and fiction by new established writers and will be annual publication. Some of the writers featured in the first edition include Anuradha Roy, Arun John, Ranjit Hosksote, Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta, Paromita Vohra, Indrajit Hazra and others.
The Trojan War
Third Year students of the National School of Drama mounted the play "The Trojan Horse" at the Open Lawns, Bahawalpur House, Bhagwandas Road.
Marie's Recital
Marie Elangovan, a disciple of the late Guru Govindarajan, gave a Bharatanatyam recital recently in New Delhi. Highlights included Ayappa kavuthuvam, dedicated to the Lord of Sabarimalai, besides a varnam in the raga Keeravani with music, lyrics and choreography by G. Elangovan. Marie also performed a rarely seen piece, a humorous composition by the Tamil poet Subramania Bharati, and a tillana in the raga Sindhu Bhairavi choreographed by her guru.
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