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Chicago-based poet Ranjani Murali was presented during the first edition of Poetry with Prakriti’s all new Monthly Series. Date & Time: 10th August, 2017 at 7.00pm Venue: Amdavadi Restaurant She read excerpts from her book Blind Screens that revolved around nostalgia of growing up and living in Chennai that was Madras. Ranjani Murali also conducted a workshop the following day. She

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Kalakshetra in association with Prakriti Foundation were delighted to present The Whabiz Merchant Memorial Lecture (IV Edition) by Prof. David Shulman. The topic was ‘Visions of Dust: A Bottom-Up View of the South Indian Universe‘. The lecture was convened by Hoshang Merchant. Date & Time: Wednesday, 9th August at 7 pm Venue: Under the Banyan Tree (Kalakshetra Campus) Visions of Dust:

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Naomi Ackerman, founder and director of the Advot Project, is a theater profesional, who uses theater & performing arts to facilitate social change. On August 5th & 6th , 2017, she performed her award-winning monologue, Flowers Are Not Enough, at Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Chennai. Flowers Are Not Enough is a monologue that tells the story of Michal, a young woman

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Kalakshetra Foundation in association with Prakriti Foundation presented Vastra Smaranam – Weaving Memories. This was an exhibition, curated by Ranvir Shah, that was held from 15th – 25th March, 2017 at the Craft Education and Research Centre, Kalakshetra Foundation, Thiruvanmiyur. The exhibition revives the eponymous silk sari of Rukmni Devi, a fabric weighted by history and tradition in its warp and weft.

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Prakriti Foundation launched the book The High Priestess Never Marries by Sharanya Manivannan on the 6th January 2017 at 7 pm at Amdavadi Snack House. The author was in conversation with Prof. K. Srilata. About the Book A Sri Lankan mermaid laments the Arthurian Fisher King, a woman treks to a cliff in the Nilgiris with honey gatherers of the Irula

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Prakriti Foundation launched the book A Madras Memoir by Renuka Narayanan on the 5th November, 2016 at 7 pm at Amethyst, Royapettah. About the Book The radically westernised ‘whiskey-sambar’ Tamil brahmins of twentieth century India were a law unto themselves and broke every last taboo of five millennia of orthodoxy, while unable to wholly tear out their brahminical roots. This unsparing personal

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In association with Prakriti Foundation, The launch of (Late) M. Krishnan’s ‘book of BEASTS’ took place on 19th April, 2016 at 7 pm at Amdavadi Snack House. Tara Gandhi spoke about M.Krishnan and the reading was presented by Theatre Nisha. About the Book The hispid hare is rather rare— in fact, outside north-eastern east it lives nowhere, and even there it is

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Prakriti Foundation in association with Rajiv Menon Productions presented ‘Over Tone’, a documentary on Dr.Umayalpuram K Sivaraman which was written and directed by Rajiv Menon on the 12th of January, 2016 at 7 pm at Amethyst. About the Movie Over Tone is a documentary based on the life and music of the legendary South Indian Classical percussionist, Umayapuram K Sivaraman. Apart from

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The Embassy of Spain in association with Prakriti Foundation were delighted to present ‘Zarabanda‘, a trio comprising of Maestro Alvaro Marias (Recorder and Traverso), Alejandro Marias (Viola) and Ramiro Morales (Guitar). Date & Time: 11th April at 7 pm Venue: The Folly, Amethyst Cafe Zarabanda Zarabanda was formed in 1985 by Alvaro Marías, who brought together a group of musicians with extensive

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Goethe-Institut Chennai /Max Mueller Bhavan in association with Prakriti Foundation & Vivanta by Taj Connemara presented GERMAN THEATRE from SCHAUBÜHNE, BERLIN – ‘An Enemy of the People’  Date & Time: 24th Februaury at 7 pm Venue: Sir Muthu Venkatasubba Rao Concert Hall, Harrington Road An Enemy of the People By Henrik Ibsen Direction: Thomas Ostermeier In a version by Florian Borchmeyer Dr.

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