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By Bharti Lalwani

15 Feb 2011

Beyond an Art Fair – part 1

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culture360 contributor, Bharti Lalwani was in New Delhi last month to attend the third edition of the India Art Summit. In this two parts in-depth, she interviews the founding director …

By Claire Wilson

23 Dec 2010

Dancing in the Graey: A Festival of Asian Dance in Singapore

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The Graey Festival, staged in Singapore in November at the Substation, had its 3rd edition this year in 2010. The festival originally began as a study of Indian contemporary dance …

By Anupama Sekhar

15 Dec 2010

Talking Dance in India

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Conceptualised by the Delhi-based Gati Dance Forum, Ignite! succeeded in creating a dedicated platform for both performances and the debates surrounding practice.

By Valentina Riccardi

14 Dec 2010

Walking for social and ecological transformation

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The first edition of the “International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social transformation” (Gabrovo, Bulgaria, August 2010) proved an insightful and challenging process for the wide …

By Shirley Abraham

03 Dec 2010

The traveling screen: Exploring resonances between nomadic cinemas in India and Europe

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Remote villages in the state of Maharashtra, in western India, remain one of the last stops of travelling cinemas in the world.

By Siddharth

03 Dec 2010

An experimental artistic journey through local communities of South India

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In South India, Reloading Images (a Berlin based art association) and Maraa (a Bangalore based artists collective) collaborated with the support of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and Arts Network Asia …

By Judith Staines

28 Sep 2010

Complicite Theatre’s long road to India

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Complicite producer Judith Dimant describes the long process of setting up a tour of their theatre production about Indian mathematician, Ramanujan, to Mumbai.

By Jerneja Rebernak

08 Sep 2010

New Delhi:contemporary Asian cinema at Netpac 2010

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The following article is a review of the conference organised by the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (Netpac), held in Delhi from the 18-22 August 2010. In addition …

By Anjali Devidayal

12 Apr 2010

Indonesia-India: arts frameworks best practices

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The following brief interviews of Mirwan Andan, Researcher, Ruangrupa (Artist Inditiative) Jakarta, Indonesia and Tushar Jiwrajka, Director – volte gallery, Mumbai, India have been conducted simultaneously using a similar set …

By Siddharth

18 Feb 2010

Riding the radio wave: community radio in South Asia

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India’s first cable community radio station, Namma Dhwani (meaning ‘Our Voice’) has made a small but substantial impact on the everyday lives of the villagers.

By Kerrine Goh

25 Nov 2009

Mapping Indian Film Festivals

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With a nation fiercely devoted to its own national cinemas, international film festivals are a crucial bridge between Bollywood, Indian cinema and world cinema.

By Siddharth

20 Nov 2009

Video: What do you think of media piracy?

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Video: What do you think of media piracy? Siddharth Chadha has asked this question to a broad group of people in the streets of New Delhi, India.

By Siddharth

20 Nov 2009

India: media piracy-intellectual property interview

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Lawrence Liang is a researcher and writer based at the Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore. His areas of interest have been in the intersection of law, culture and technology.

By Siddharth

20 Nov 2009

Media Piracy in India

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Piracy in the Indian Media and Entertainment Industry. In Bangalore, the racks selling pirated copies of the latest Hollywood, Bollywood and Tamil films could almost go unnoticed.

By Valentina Riccardi

17 Nov 2009

Cultural journalism and its grasp on cultural policy

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The Central European University, Budapest, held a seminar to give cultural journalists an overview of the major trends in cultural policy-making in Europe.

By Anjali Devidayal

29 Oct 2009

A new cultural platform for Indian contemporary art?

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The visual arts scene for Indian Modern and Contemporary art has grown exponentially over ten years, but its internal structure reveals almost no support system for public art.

By Valentina Riccardi

28 Oct 2009

Creative economies: tent cinemas of India

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The tent cinema project portrays a different perspective on media entertainment in the rural provinces of Maharashtra, India, showing an alternative economy in action.

By Jeffrey Withaya Campbell

20 Oct 2009

Bangalore: Asian cultural actors connect

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CultureAsia: Connecting Asian Cultural Actors, was organised by the Arts and Culture Network Program of the Open Society Institute, Hivos, a Dutch development agency, with the Center for the Study …

By Kerrine Goh

25 Jul 2009

..At A Tent Theatre Near You..’ : The Itinerant Tent Talkies Of Western Maharashtra, India.

As the lunar calendar heralds the full moon after the crop gathering season, pilgrims in remote hamlets in Maharashtra (western India) begin preparing to participate in the annual religious fairs …