Dear friends,
Here's the exciting new line-up for CoHo!
Details on the art & line up is mentioned in the previous Post
IMPORTANT REMINDER:
CREATIVES FOR POVERTY REPRESENTATIVES WILL BE THERE TO COLLECT SOAPS, TOOTHPASTE, GARMENTS, UMBRELLAS, AND A HOST OF OTHER COMMODITIES
THAT YOU CAN DONATE FOR THE CITY'S POOREST FAMILIES.
COHO WILL ALSO HAVE ITS OWN DONATION BOX, AS WE ARE TRYING TO RAISE FUNDS INTERNALLY TO COVER COSTS OF THE MONTHLY EVENT.
COHO LINE UP, JULY 18, 2009
GALLERY BEYOND
130/132, Great Western Bldg, 1st Floor, SBS Marg, Near Lion Gate
Mumbai. Tel: 022-22837345
3.00 –
WELCOME ADDRESS, TEA, AND OPENING THE SESSION
3.30 to 3. 50 pm
1. Touching upon a very topical subject given the recent legal Indian ruling on Gay Sex, Editorial Director of VERVE magazine, Parmesh Shahani, reads an excerpt from his best selling, first person account, titled Gay Bombay. And shows a documentary that he has made.
4.10 – 4.25 pm
2. Actor, model, author and man about town Gary Richardson and his troupe to present a very sensitive theatre piece, Testing the Guarantee. A jawan loses his leg to a Tiger Hill landmine. Sent to the Pune Artificial Limb Centre, he is fitted with a Jaipur-foot and guaranteed he will be able to move ‘like before’. Fighting suicidal urges, he decides to test the guarantee: He will bet his life. The cast also features Rashmi Pitre and Saurabh Sachdeva
3.50 – 4.00 pm
3. Indie-Brazilian vocalist, salsa and belly dancer Carlyta Mouhini to do a tribute to Michael Jackson with UK-based jazz keyboardist Andrew. Carlyta spells versatility. She has four Bollywood hits to her credit, is multi-lingual and can go from jazz to folk to classical to Latina in a flash. She has recorded a song for the to-be-released starrer Kites and is due to release an album titled No Boundaries in Musicaa, set for release this winter in India and around the world
4.00pm – 4.10pm
4. Sitar exponent Madhusudhan Kumar to perform Miyan ke Malhar, a raag composed by Tansen, featuring all rasas of the monsoon, invoking rain gods, then moving into a combination of other related raags of the season.
4.25 – 4.35
5. Imagine a chiropractor turned into expert Salsa and Mirengue instructor and performer! Dr Nilay Shah is just that, and will present the two forms of Latin dance, to classic Latino tracks like Cuba or New York and Sway
4.35– 5.00 OPEN MIC/ NETWORKING, CLOSURE
Time for questions to be asked of authors, actors, dance instructor… any impromptu poems to be read, songs to be sung…leave gallery at 5.00 for next venue.
5.00 PM
ARTISTS CENTRE
Ador House, 1st Floor, 6 K Dubash Marg, Next to Rhythm House, Off MG Road, Kala Ghoda. Tel: 022 22845939
5.10 – 5.20
Management Consultant at i2m Management Services and a highly talented blogger and now novelist, Jvalant Sampat reads from his debut novel, The Tenth Unknown, set in Pre-partition India, Europe and Asia around WWII. A three-way race between a Nazi soldier, a British soldier and an Indian cricketer
5.20 – 5.35
Five minute reading of Kali chapter from the book, Bollywood on the Bend (Sampark, 2009) by Sangeeta Wadhwani, (Executive Editor of HELLO!) with dance interpretation by classical Bharat Natyam dancer Sonali Ganguly and sitar by Madhusudhan
5.35 – 5.45
Gary Richardson presents an excerpt, The First Mad Horse, from his novel The Mad Horses of Matheran. Because of non-stop construction delays, multi-nationals are going bankrupt on a 100-million dollar takeover of Matheran, India's last roadless hill station. The foreigners try to construct a road. It is stopped by protestors who say: 'As long as there are horses...the cars, trucks and road will never be allowed.' To survive, the foreigners have to kill every Matheran horse. How?
The cast also features Rashmi Pitre, Rohan Kapoor and Saurabh Sachdeva
5.45 – 5.00
Fusion repertoire with Gopal Prasad, a flautist from the Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia Gharana. excels in Hindustani Classical and Indian Folk music. Recently he has been playing the flute in the Latin Folk music genre along with Bondo, a Portuguese percussionist. In this fusion set, he plays with Carlyta Mouhini (vocals), Kumar Madhusudan on Sitar, Andrew on the keyboard.
5.00-5.15
A talk by Professor Aroon Tikekar, former editor of the Loksatta, on his recently released book, Mumbai De-Intellectualised: Rise and Decline of a Culture of Thinking (Bibliophile South Asia 2009). His work reflects what a great many people in Mumbai are feeling, to quote the author: “it is painful to watch helplessly the withering away of intellectual life, particularly within a few decades after gaining political independence.”
5.15-6.00
Open mic for spontaneous presentations, questions and answers for participants, wine, cheese, snacks, tea, etc etc. Essentially party time.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Birthday party for all the HIV infected Children at Muktajeevan thane 21st july 2009
Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Time: 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: Muktajeevan,Vehloli village(2hrs drive from Thane OR half an hour Ricksaw trip from Asangaon station
Street: Half an hour Ricksaw trip from Asangaon stationCentral Railway,Mumbai train
Phone: 98333296034
Email: voicenet.vijay @gmail.com OR muktajeevan @gmail.com
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55696989485#/event.php?eid=98933677012
Time: 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: Muktajeevan,Vehloli village(2hrs drive from Thane OR half an hour Ricksaw trip from Asangaon station
Street: Half an hour Ricksaw trip from Asangaon stationCentral Railway,Mumbai train
Phone: 98333296034
Email: voicenet.vijay @gmail.com OR muktajeevan @gmail.com
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55696989485#/event.php?eid=98933677012
Muktajeevan, A Society of the Helpers of Mother Mary.
Muktajeevan is a Charitable organization founded in 1982 in Vehloli village,2hrs drive from Thane,Mumbai. It started as a Leprosy Care & rehabilitation center & now is also HIV Aid's care center & also is a Old age home for the bedridden people.,It is a Home for 67children with HIV Aid's by birth,They were found from garbage,A few were found left outside religious places & some were handed over by Abortion centers.
Website: http://www.helpersofmary.org
Office: Muktajeevan Charitable Organization,Vehloli village.
Location: Shahpura Taluka
Thana, India
The videos of the 67Children with HIV Aid's by birth is on www.youtube.com/vijaycup and soon will be stored at www.muktajeevan.org the web site which is under construction.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55696989485
Website: http://www.helpersofmary.org
Office: Muktajeevan Charitable Organization,Vehloli village.
Location: Shahpura Taluka
Thana, India
The videos of the 67Children with HIV Aid's by birth is on www.youtube.com/vijaycup and soon will be stored at www.muktajeevan.org the web site which is under construction.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55696989485
Open Forum
"Open Forum", a development organization, was incorporated in the year 2001 by some like minded people for the development of the Grassroots Communities and is registered under Societies Registration Act (XXI) of 1860. Open Forum is widely recognized for working in Rural India by using the various means of Information & Communication Technologies (ICTs). Whatever the stage of development is, no country can afford to ignore ICT. Although this technology may not be of decisive importance to the very poorest countries, it may still exert a major influence on their ability to acquire knowledge and tap into global networks.
It’s well defined that the longest journey begins with the first single step, so we did. In the year 2001 we started our activities, based upon the development for the Grassroots Communities. With our aim of development, for Grassroots Community, in a short span of time we extended our operations to another states and today we are operational in Ten States of Nation. The entire team of Open Forum is continuously working for the development of Grassroots Communities. We started with the Community based Computer Education Programmes, but today we are providing many customized community based services to the local community where we are operational with use of contents.
India is largely with more than 60 per cent of our population dependent on agriculture and allied activities. It is important to address their needs with value added information. In many situations we have witnessed local knowledge coming to the rescue of major global problems. It is a fact that the knowledge base in the grassroots actually gives ways to various solutions at the global level. Similarly other global issues like the HIV AIDS, Food Security, Digital Divide; it’s the grassroots communities who can suggest appropriate strategies.
Various ICT initiatives aimed at improving access of information communication to the grassroots communities are more inclined towards pushing external information. But the fact is not all the external information provided through such initiatives is much of use to them. They are more tuned to their own information and knowledge, which is local and is more relevant to their needs. It is not just the global knowledge but also a balance of global and local information that helps in improving quality of life at the grassroots.
Presently, no doubt, content through Information, Education and Communications program are reaching to the communities, but not sustaining at that level. Government, Non-Government Organizations are doing their best to empower the communities with knowledge, but their withdrawal leaves the vacuum behind. No doubt, other mainstreaming media are also playing a vital role, but there is a need to reflect on how ICTs could be used for IEC and need-based content could be made available to them.
The content for community needs is immense if we take the holistic approach. But there is a need to build a system to segmentize the whole process for convenience and how content-coordination mechanism could be developed to make contents available, accessible, acceptable, communicable and sharable through various ICT tools.
Open Forum, while promoting ICTs in the communities realized the importance of blending of local vis-à-vis global content and the unprecedented urgency and need to digitize content to reach out to rural and urban communities of India, as well as tailor the content as per the respective needs of the communities. With its coverage to grassroots communities of more than 106 districts - including Grassroots Organizations, NGOs, Multilateral organizations, Private sector, Media, Academicians and Governments as its partners, took the initiative of strengthening the content database for catering to these needs, but to fill-in the gap, there is a need to build content coordination mechanism.
Website: http://openforum.in
Office: New Delhi
It’s well defined that the longest journey begins with the first single step, so we did. In the year 2001 we started our activities, based upon the development for the Grassroots Communities. With our aim of development, for Grassroots Community, in a short span of time we extended our operations to another states and today we are operational in Ten States of Nation. The entire team of Open Forum is continuously working for the development of Grassroots Communities. We started with the Community based Computer Education Programmes, but today we are providing many customized community based services to the local community where we are operational with use of contents.
India is largely with more than 60 per cent of our population dependent on agriculture and allied activities. It is important to address their needs with value added information. In many situations we have witnessed local knowledge coming to the rescue of major global problems. It is a fact that the knowledge base in the grassroots actually gives ways to various solutions at the global level. Similarly other global issues like the HIV AIDS, Food Security, Digital Divide; it’s the grassroots communities who can suggest appropriate strategies.
Various ICT initiatives aimed at improving access of information communication to the grassroots communities are more inclined towards pushing external information. But the fact is not all the external information provided through such initiatives is much of use to them. They are more tuned to their own information and knowledge, which is local and is more relevant to their needs. It is not just the global knowledge but also a balance of global and local information that helps in improving quality of life at the grassroots.
Presently, no doubt, content through Information, Education and Communications program are reaching to the communities, but not sustaining at that level. Government, Non-Government Organizations are doing their best to empower the communities with knowledge, but their withdrawal leaves the vacuum behind. No doubt, other mainstreaming media are also playing a vital role, but there is a need to reflect on how ICTs could be used for IEC and need-based content could be made available to them.
The content for community needs is immense if we take the holistic approach. But there is a need to build a system to segmentize the whole process for convenience and how content-coordination mechanism could be developed to make contents available, accessible, acceptable, communicable and sharable through various ICT tools.
Open Forum, while promoting ICTs in the communities realized the importance of blending of local vis-à-vis global content and the unprecedented urgency and need to digitize content to reach out to rural and urban communities of India, as well as tailor the content as per the respective needs of the communities. With its coverage to grassroots communities of more than 106 districts - including Grassroots Organizations, NGOs, Multilateral organizations, Private sector, Media, Academicians and Governments as its partners, took the initiative of strengthening the content database for catering to these needs, but to fill-in the gap, there is a need to build content coordination mechanism.
Website: http://openforum.in
Office: New Delhi
Sahyadri foundation Nagpur
Sahyadri foundation is registered under Society Registration Act, 1860 and Trust under the Mumbai Public Trust Act, 1950 on dated march 2002.
Sahyadri is a non govt. development organisation working on issues affecting the urban & rural people, with a special focus on HIV/AIDS & TB.
The community is for people who want to help others selflessly .
Our few projects includes HIV/ AIDS, TB, Cancer,child education , and many more .
I need active volunteers in diff cities of the country from somewhat diff backgrounds ,please help us in spreading the message to as many ppl as u can .
Lets enter and do something good other then what we usually do rather then cursing others and feel proud of working for a noble cause .
Lets join and help them who needs us .
Be proud to be an Indian.
Website: http://www.sahyadriindia.webs.com
Office: 0712-2293314 - NAGPUR
Location: Nagpur, India
We have successfully completed project under scheme 1 of Revised National Tubeculosis control Programme (RNTCP)
we have more than 6 years experience in medical field.
We are a member of District TB-HIV coordination committee, Nagpur.
We are also attached with R D Birla Group, Mumbai every year in HIV/AIDS-TB, Cancer detection & awareness programmes in Nagpur Rural.
We are working in Nagpur city & district, Maharashtra.
Sahyadri is a non govt. development organisation working on issues affecting the urban & rural people, with a special focus on HIV/AIDS & TB.
The community is for people who want to help others selflessly .
Our few projects includes HIV/ AIDS, TB, Cancer,child education , and many more .
I need active volunteers in diff cities of the country from somewhat diff backgrounds ,please help us in spreading the message to as many ppl as u can .
Lets enter and do something good other then what we usually do rather then cursing others and feel proud of working for a noble cause .
Lets join and help them who needs us .
Be proud to be an Indian.
Website: http://www.sahyadriindia.webs.com
Office: 0712-2293314 - NAGPUR
Location: Nagpur, India
We have successfully completed project under scheme 1 of Revised National Tubeculosis control Programme (RNTCP)
we have more than 6 years experience in medical field.
We are a member of District TB-HIV coordination committee, Nagpur.
We are also attached with R D Birla Group, Mumbai every year in HIV/AIDS-TB, Cancer detection & awareness programmes in Nagpur Rural.
We are working in Nagpur city & district, Maharashtra.
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