French fables of Indian origin!

(Thank you Shibani, for fgorwarding this one)

Alliance Française de Bangalore, Artistes' Repertory Theatre (ART)
&
the Embassy of France in India

present

FABULATANTRA

A collaborative venture on the fables of Jean de La Fontaine and the Panchatantra.

This is a play directed by Arundhati Raja

27th,2 8th and 29th of April
7.30p.m. Auditorium, Alliance Française de Bangalore

Entry Free

Every few days, the auditorium of Alliance Franciase de Bangalore comes alive to the sounds of crabs, coromorants, wolves and thieves. Actors from Bangalore are rehearsing for FabulaTantra, the product of an artistic collaboration between the Alliance Francaise and Artistes' Repertory Theatre - one of Bangalore's best-known theatre groups.

This present-day Indo-French collaboration will celebrate a more inadvertant collaboration from antiquity. The fables of Jean de la Fontaine are to France what the Panchatantra is to India. La Fontaine took inspiration from a myriad of sources for his fables, and one of them was Visnu Sharma's fabled teachings: the stories known as the Panchatantra.

FabulaTantra will celebrate both the exuberant simplicity and cunning slant of the fable in an energetic presentation of dance, music and theatre. It will focus on the French fables that have Indian origins and let us see two sides of a very similar world. It is strange to remember how far apart these worlds were, both geographically and temporally, when one sees how well these stories and their contexts mingle on stage

with
Darius Sunawalla, Ruchika Chanana, Arati Punwani, Harish Seshadri, Kartik Kumar, Maitri Gopalakrishna and Pritham Kumar


Script - Gautam Raja Music – Tara Kini Choreographer - Helene Marionneau


Directed by Arundhati Raja

For further information, please contact : 41231340 /43 / 44 /45

regards

Priyamvada Majumdar
Cultural Coordinator
Alliance Française de Bangalore
Ph: 41231340 / 43 /44

Come to the iVolunteer Bangalore meet!

W h a t a r e t h e w a y s y o u c a n i m p a c t l i v e s ?

Find out about one...Come to the iVolunteer Bangalore meet!

iVolunteer Bangalore would like to invite you to its volunteers Meet on April 23rd at ISI Auditorium, Bangalore.

Hear volunteers working with different non-government organizations, and in different aspects of development, in and around Bangalore, talk about their experiences and learning. Find out about different types of volunteering opportunities. Learn from experiences of other volunteers, and use the learning in your projects. If you have always intended to spend your free time with underprivileged children, special needs community, health-care, or volunteering in any of the various aspects of development, but didn't know where to begin - this is the place to find out how! And we have lots of fun events throughout the day as well!

Details
# Date: 23rd April 2006 (Sunday)
# Time: 8.30 AM to 5:00 PM#

Venue: Indian Social Institute (ISI), 24, Benson Town, Benson Road, Bangalore 560 0046

# Participation Fee: Rs.200/- per participant (to cover costs of lunch, tea, iVolunteer brochure, resource materials), Rs.100/- for students

Register at:
http://bangalorevolunteers.org/register

For details, contact Anna (http://mailserver.sct.co.in/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://us.f607.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=bangalore@ivolunteer.org.in, 080-25469242)

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Version One Dot Oh!

Version One Dot Oh! in association with HDFC Ltd. is proud to present "HARVEY", a comedy in English in aid of Dream a Dream (www.dreamadream.org).
This Pulitzer winning play, by Mary Chase, with its charming simplicity will reassure you that we do not live, like many would like to believe, in an ordinary world!!
This show is co-sponsored by "Airtel" - Broadband and Telephone Services.
Details are as below. You can contact me for tickets. Please pass this around to friends and family who might be interested.

Dates: 7th, 8th and 9th April, 2006
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: JSS Auditorium, 8th block, Jayanagar ( map available on Tickets ).
Tickets: Rs 100. For bookings call
Jam @ 98866-36516 .
Donor Passes available at Dream a Dream,
call Vishal @ 9845524118.

Elwood and Harvey had never hurt a soul, And yet they were the cause of a whole rigmarole....
Thus unfolds a hilarious tale of human nature and life's ultimate goal, a story that touchs the heart and stirs the soul !!