Bae Chang-Ho’s My Heart shall be screened today at the Max Mueller Bhavan at 1830 hours i. e. 6:30 in the evening. The director is considered the foremost exponent of the Korean New Wave cinema. In a stark departure from his usual style of film-making, My Heart is set in the Korea of 1920’s.

The movie is shot amidst the beautiful scenery of Korea. It tells the story of Sun-Yi (played by Kim Yoo-Mi, the director’s wife), who is married off to a ten-year old spoiled brat. When her husband grows past adolescence, he brings home a mistress much to the petrifaction of Sun-Yi. The movie tells the story of how Sun-Yi leaves home and searches for an identity of her own. In a way, the movie mirrors the struggle of Korea to find its identity in a shrinking world. (Click here to read the whole post)

A lot of people come to the Kala Ghoda Art Festival in the evening. A lot of people don’t know what they are missing. And it might be a good idea to not be one of that lot of people!

I was lucky. Having signed up for a morning workshop, I ended up in town bright and early and just in time to watch the festivities being set up. I spent the entire weekend in that single lane bordered by Elphinston college, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay Natural History society and Rhythm House.

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Sunday evening, 5.30pmonwards, author, illustrator and education material developer Deepa Balsavar with some live storytelling. Deepak Dalal of Lakshwadeep, Ranthambore, Ladakh and Andaman Adventures fame will read AND show a slideshow of his collection of wildlife pictures from his research for these books.
Tulika will launch Nina Sabnani’s book Mukand and Riaz, with readings by Chandita Mukherjee. The author will also screen her award-winning short animation film based on the book.
So bring your little ones, and not so little ones, and if you like me, you can’t resist a trip into the children’s section at a bookstore, please come and join us from 5.30 to 7.30pm at David Sassoon Library Garden!

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12th February 5:30 p.m.

We’ll be starting off with the results and presentations for the SMS Poetry and Flash Fiction contests. Our prize sponsors, the British Council, India, will be represented by their Director, Sue Beaumont. The winning entries will be read by their authors (if they are present; entries came in from all over the country, and a few from abroad as well, so if the winners aren’t around, our tireless jury members will be pressed into overtime duty).

We will then move into a mixed programme. Straight readings from our members, with interludes staged by Theatre Watch, directed and moderated by Vivin Mathew Easo.

Theatre Watch was given a bunch of original writing by Caferati members, and Viv and his perfomers have chosen a few pieces which inspire them. So you will get to experience Ivan John on the piano, interpreting three poems, Jitendra Jawda on the violin, working with two poems and a short story, and Swaroop Biswas, who has chosen a short story, which he will use as his inspiration for a painting which he will execute live, while the other readings and performances are on. Vivin may also choose a piece, which he will use as the base for a solo theatre performance.

All of Caferati’s writers, as well as Theatre Watch’s performers, will be available for questions.

We will also be introducing the book we plan to have out by next month, Stories at the Coffee Table, which features the winners in a nation-wide short fiction contest we hosted last year. We hope to have a few of the authors present, to read extracts from their stories.

We hope to see you there

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He sits there on the edge of the table sprawling on the tablecloth. Dressed in red and a bifurcated jesters cap, staring at me blankly with motionless black beady eyes. It is hard to believe he is not flesh and blood but wood, paint and string. Let me introduce you to “Der sternäugige Schäfer” or the “Star-Eyed Shepherd“; and as you may have guessed he is a puppet.

Theater Am Faden [link] which translates to Theatre on String are Stuttgart based puppeteers and are adding much needed colour to the Street Festival at the Kala Ghoda by bringing to us a glimpse of the rich European Marionette puppeteering tradition. Helga Brehme who started this theatre company in 1976, tells me ‘Der sternäugige Schäfer‘ is adapted from a Hungarian folk tale and is a story that both children and adults will enjoy.

“Der sternäugige Schäfer” runs tomorrow at 12 noon at the Amphitheatre at Rampart Row.