Kids & Teens summer camp at AFB!
Is vacation boring your children?
Get in touch and enrol them in our May workshops:
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2017 Kids & teens summer workshop!
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2017 WORLD DANCE DAY!
5 pm to 9 pm | Saturday, 29th April | Alliance Française Auditorium
Alliance Française de Bangalore with Ashish Khokar’s attenDance present
2017 WORLD DANCE DAY!
National Seminar on GSP – Guru Shishya Parampara
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CONCERT: KOLKATA JAM MASALA
KOLKATA JAM MASALA – Indian psyche, improvisation, AV performance : a thrilling experience !
7 pm onwards | Sunday, 7th May 2017 | at blueFROG
KJM is a music band exploring Indian ragas with a pinch of rock’n’roll and psychedelia. Far from a consensual fusion, KJM incorporates technical excellence to create an exciting and passionate music. On one hand, there is Indian classical virtuoso and on second hand, there are musicians from the rock, and psychedelic jazz scene. More than a fusion, it can be called contemporary Indian music. In this project, tracks are improvised on Indian modes (ragas), no more indication are given to musicians. During live concerts, musicians play in a sponteneous way. The driving force behind KJM’s music is to bring out an artist’s honest expression at a given moment and thus going beyond the established structures or paradigms of music. As a “Bitches Brew” (Miles Davis) for the African American jazz, KJM explores the Indian psychedelia with an endless pleasure and the result is stunning. The spiritual aspect of traditional music is maintained but the shape is discussed, revised and polyphony exacerbated.
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Play – The Professionals
12th MAY, FRIDAY , 7 PM to 8 PM and 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM at Alliance Française de Bangalore
Power-Prestige-Money or just pure dedication and love for work. Appraisals/onsite-and the things one does for it.
Chandu loves his work and the people around him ‘love’ him for he does their work too! We all are Chandu at one point of time and change roles as time and experience teaches us. The professionals is a comedy that every working individual will relate to! Come -Be sarcastic,Laugh and Enjoy!
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SANJUKTA – BLT
BLT Presents Sanjukta, a workshop production to promote new voices in theatre. BLT has a long track record of encouraging new writing for the stage. There has also been active support for new directors. Sanjukta presents Bangalore audiences both a new script and a new director. The Bangalore theatre community is already aware of the Directors Training programmes offered by BLT. We may look forward to a more formal training opportunity for writers in playwriting and dramaturgy too in the near future. Preparations are on for a really professional course with international collaborations.
Synopsis:
Sanjukta-Written & Directed by Viji Sashikant
Sanjukta is single, unmarried, a lawyer in a large law firm and lives with her elderly mother and a younger unmarried sister. Sanju (as she is called) is fairly content with her life – she is the ‘man of the house’ and attends to typical male chores like banking, car repair, etc., leaving the household tasks to her mother and sister.
Though a partner in a prestigious law firm, Sanju is not stylish. She is invariably dressed in unbecoming functional clothes with her hair in a pony tail. She is not a prude or old-maidenly, but she hasn’t had romance in her life.
Her younger sister Meera has been having an office affair for several years. Suddenly, she announces that she is getting married. Sanjukta is 39 and realizes that Meera would leave and when her mother passed away, she would be all alone.
Her best friend Parveen is an incurable romantic and has spent the better part of 10 years trying to find a suitable match for Sanju. She now urges Sanju to advertise in the newspaper for a groom.
Between surprise from her mother, contempt from her sister and a push from Parveen, Sanju meets 3 of the men who have answered her ad. Will she find Mr Right?
The play is set in the mid-90s.
Date and Time:
May 26th, May 27th, May 28th
Friday – 7 pm
Saturday & Sunday – 3:00 pm & 7:00 pm
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PLAY – THE PROPHET & THE POET
JUNE 10 & 11, 2017 at 7 PM
Critical acclaim for The Prophet and the Poet
“The audience thoroughly enjoyed every bit of this 90-minute-play…rising to their feet as the play came to an end.”- Deccan Herald, Bangalore
“Enthralled” – .President Pratibha Patil at Raj Bhavan
“A moving evening, elevating.”- The Hindu, Bangalore
“Powerful and enlightening”.The Star, Dhaka
“Simply superb…a rare non-fiction drama.”- Shunya Theatre, Houston
“An evening of great intellectual stimulation.”- University of Iowa
“Gandhi, Tagore leave Trinidad & Tobago spellbound.”- Guardian, Trinidad
“Highly educative, an extraordinary production.”- Faculty, University of Chittagong
“An enriching experience.”- Times of India, Kolkata
“Exalting and inspiring experience.”- New Indian Express, Bangalore
“Enlightening … melody from fascinating verbal images.”- Times of India, Ahmedabad ”
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Fête de la Musique 2017 / World Music Day 2017
Fête de la Musique 2017 / World Music Day 2017
17th & 18th June 2017
Are you ready for Bangalore’s most loved music festival?
Each year, the Fete de la musique family gathers to listen, create, feel, and live in the moment. This year it is being organized over the weekend of 17-18 June.
The Alliance Française de Bangalore will continue with its traditional 2 days setup with local acts from 12.30 am to 10.00 pm. Along with the unusual rock-jazz-classical-fusion
We are very glad to announce our partners for this year’s music festival:Blue FROG Bangalore, Saiacs Ceo Centre Take5 Watson’s The Bangalore School of Music Café Noir Furtados Music Le Casse Croûte
Our Annual Sponsor – Schneider Electric and our Co- Sponsor for this event – BMW Navnit Motors Bangalore & Mangalore
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DANCE: ATTENDANCE annual DANCE awards
6.30 pm | 14th of December | Alliance Française auditorium
In its 7th year of awards, Ashish Khokar’s ATTENDANCE History Society with AFB and BSM , bring 2016 season awards to five worthies.
- Kalamandalam Suresh to receive Ram Gopal Best MALE solo dancer award.
- Tushar Pooja BHATT to receive Nataraja Shakuntala Award for best dance couple.
- S.Janaki to receive Mohan Khokar Award for DANCE writing and service to arts.
- Dr Choodamani Nandagopal to receive RUKMINI DEVI Award for significant contribution to scholarship in art history
- Smt. Usha Venkateswaran to receive Uday Shankar award for choreography.
Performance by young awardees and film on seniors. Join us for concluding event of Dance discourse 2016.
Curated and conducted by Ashish KHOKAR.
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New weekend session starting July 8
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HISTOIRES VRAIES: Cécile Loyer
1st JULY 2017 / 7 PM / AF AUDITORIUM
FREE AND OPEN FOR ALL
Histoires Vraies (True story) questions, above all, the origin of movement and its transmission.
Cécile Loyer combines two highly different traditions and conceptions of body. For one tradition, the body is a receptacle of history, carrying forward traces; for the other, it is a ‘forgetter’ (Salman Rushdie).
Histoires Vraies tries to reinvent dance based on these perspectives from two cultures.
On stage, two Indian dancers and two European dancers will testify and narrate their stories to shift, move and change roles… This chaos of movements that seems to come from everywhere and nowhere is strange and sometimes funny, and makes us feel our collective history. Through signs, poses and representations, can dance reveal different conceptions of history, conceptions that are less perceptible but more significant?
CREDITS :
Choreography : Cécile Loyer
Dancers : Vijna Vasudevan, Renjith Babu, Mai Ishiwata & Steven Hervouet
Music : Sylvain Chauveau
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YOUNG TALENT PROGRAM: Man Made by Uday Raj
All day | 9th – 29th of November | Alliance française Atrium
Opening night on 9th November at 7.00 pm
Uday has done his BFA from ken school of art and MFA santhiniketan west Bengal. He has been involved in art making in realistic drawing and painting, abstract painting, printmaking, photography, conceptual image making and practicing creative art works like installations, performing arts, conceptual art. He is also involved in art related to various social and environmental projects, from the past 8 years. He works as a assistant professor (JD institute of fashion technology) and freelancer also covering areas such as illustrating images, logo making, magazine designing, product designing etc. Instructing art sectors and exploring art are his most preferred sectors to work in and his aim is to work with other passionate people in this sector to produce compelling content in art field.
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AF CINEMA: One of a kind / Mon âme pour toi guérie
6.30 pm | 11th of November | Suchitra Cinema & Cultural Academy
Free and open to all // Subtitled in English
François Dupeyron, France – 2013 – 2h03min – Drama
Frédi is a born healer who can save people by touching them with his hands. His mother bequeathed this gift to him. When she dies honours her by putting his aptitude to good use.
This screening is a part of the Alliance française de Bangalore and Suchitra Film Society partnership.
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PLAY READING: Tughlaq
5:00 pm | 6th November| Alliance Française classroom 7
This play reading is a part of the Alliance française de Bangalore and Bangalore Little Theatre partnership.
Girish Karnad’s play Tughlaq explores the character of one of the most fascinating kings to occupy the throne in Delhi, namely, Mohammed-bin-Tughlaq. He ruled for 26 years, a period of unparalleled cruelty and agonising existence for his subjects.
He’s fascinating because though he was one of the most learned monarchs of Delhi, and had great ideas and a grand vision, his reign was also an abject failure. He started his rule with great ideals — of a unified India, of Hindus and Muslims being equal in the eyes of the state (he abolished the onerous tax Jaziya on the Hindus) and the Sultan being the first among equals.He understood the value of money as not deriving from its intrinsic worth but from the promise behind it: and introduced copper coins. Yet in 20 years his reign had degenerated into an anarchy and his kingdom had become a “kitchen of death”. Girish Karnad’s play explores why this happened.
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CONCERT: Jean du Voyage in Manipal
8.30 pm | 5th of November | Manipal
In collaboration with the Manipal University, with the support of La Rochelle and La Sirène.
Jean du Voyage is a turntablist and beatmaker, a passionate musician who has been carrying around his discs and vinyls in clubs around the world since 1998. Eclectic sound explorer, he has a keen interest in the different cultures. This helps him to fine tune his sensibilities to the rhythms and the respiration of our planet, and inspires and influences his music. The productions are mastered, precise and reflect his insatiable curiosity.
His first album Mantra (released on 21 October 2016 with Jarring Effects) is composed of haunting sounds of cinematic moods and varied soundscapes. The guests artists on the album participate in the plurality of the album in sublimating through their personalities the emotions generated by the productions. A poetic and dreamlike world that invites evasion and introspection.
Mantra reveals an authentic work, reflecting a true generosity and openness to multiculturalism of this world.
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EXHIBITION: Objectif Sport!
All day | 21st of October – 6th of November | Alliance Française Atrium
International Photography Contest 2016 by Fondation Alliance Française – 6th Edition
Each year Fondation Alliance Française, Paris organizes an International photography contest within the wide network of Alliance Française, spread across all the 4 continents. In this 6th edition of the competiton, the topic of the contest was “Objectif Sport”, and non-professional photographers from all over the world were invited to present works illustrating a sport, which, in their opinion, best portrayed the sport of the country and the values it convey. 108 Alliances from 50 countries took part in this edition. Saurabh KUMAR who represented Alliance Française Hyderabad was declared the runner up by an eminent jury of professional photographers, journalists and gallery owners.
Alliance Française de Bangalore will present a collective exhibition of 44 photographs that were selected by the jury in Paris.
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CONCERT: Jean du Voyage at blueFROG Bangalore
8.30 pm | 4th of November | blueFROG Bangalore
In collaboration with blueFROG Bangalore, with the support of La Rochelle and La Sirène.
Tickets : 300 INR (general public) / 150 INR (students/members of AF with i-cards).
Jean du Voyage is a turntablist and beatmaker, a passionate musician who has been carrying around his discs and vinyls in clubs around the world since 1998. Eclectic sound explorer, he has a keen interest in the different cultures. This helps him to fine tune his sensibilities to the rhythms and the respiration of our planet, and inspires and influences his music. The productions are mastered, precise and reflect his insatiable curiosity.
His first album Mantra (released on 21 October 2016 with Jarring Effects) is composed of haunting sounds of cinematic moods and varied soundscapes. The guests artists on the album participate in the plurality of the album in sublimating through their personalities the emotions generated by the productions. A poetic and dreamlike world that invites evasion and introspection.
Mantra reveals an authentic work, reflecting a true generosity and openness to multiculturalism of this world.
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CINE FORUM MELIES: Insecure / Qui vive
7.00 pm | 27th of October | Alliance Française auditorium
Free and open to all // Subtitled in English
Marianne Tardieu, France – 2014 – 1h23min – Drama
Cherif hates his day job as a security guard in the mall.He is trying to get his nursing degree without success. He likes Jenny, a girl he met on the bus. His life is complicated by a band of teenagers who harasses him daily.
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French language survival kit
Leaving to France soon and you do not know French? Not to worry, you can enrol for our survival course starting in Vasanthnagar on July 24: hurry up!
Get in touch asap: 080 40 80 81 81
afbangalore@afindia.org / afbangalore2@afindia.org
We look forward to welcoming you soon at the AFB!
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YOUNG TALENT PROGRAM: ASHMITA MONDAL
YOUNG TALENT PROGRAM
6PM onwards / 21st of July / Alliance Française Atrium
Press It!
When I go to Kala Bhavana, the Tagore founded art school in Santaniketan, there is a place I never forget to visit: the printmaking department. I have a fascination for the press they use, the smell of the various inks, the papers that are all around, the prints that are discarded and those that are carefully kept in the especially designed chests of drawers. I had also noticed there is always a bunch of students around, chatting, discussing, getting a tip. The place being dedicated to paper works makes it very special, a sort of concentrate of experiences. I can easily imagine Ashmita Mondal exploring the art of lithography with her peers and her teachers. I can also easily imagine her being well motivated, perhaps inspired, by the artists who worked on the presses before her: KG Subramaniam, Sanat Kar, Nandalal Bose, Ramkinkar, Somnath Hore, etc. Sometimes, a teacher comes and shows the lucky visitor a well-kept lithograph done by one the school’s legends, a treasure made out of memories.
In Press It!, the artist selected four bodies of works. The Truck series, inspired by the colourful roads of India i.e. what Mondal must had seen on the roads and on the roads sides throughout her life. She uses the back of the truck as a screen where she projects the mundane, a miniature type landscape or a scene from the Mahabharata. Deshavatar gives life to different avatars of Vishnu. She creates an interesting context where the techniques (embossing, printing, painting) help seeing through the complex personality of the god. Perhaps a frustrated or a talented poker player, the artist illustrated a royal family in the Play series, a winning royal family obviously backed up by well wishing gods. Mondal’s Divinityseries is perhaps the most humoristic and sarcastic of the lot. Blending the Amul popular brand culture with symbols of the holy cows, the young artist incorporates the archaic in the modern with a noted freedom of speech.
What I find interesting in Press It! is the subtle balancing of a technically talented young artist between classical representations and attempts to break away from the well accepted imagery of her culture. Showing her works and getting feedbacks from a wider audience will surely help Mondal find a strong and personal way to move forward and affirm her style. This is just a beginning !
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SURSAGAR: CONCERT – LIVING LEGENDS AND BUDDING MASTERS-2
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