The University's Clock Tower building by Manohar Devadoss. |
For many years now, Manohar and Mahema Devadoss designed 4-6 greeting cards every year with his ink drawings of heritage buildings and her text about the buildings and gave the sale proceeds to service-minded NGOs. In 2007/2008, though her stamina was waning, Mahema and Manohar sold 34,000 cards, their record. Sadly, just two months after that she passed away.
The University's Clock Tower building by Manohar Devadoss. |
Soon after her passing away, Manohar instituted two endowments in her memory, one with Sankara Nethralaya and the other with Aravind Eye Hospital. In order to enhance the corpuses, he is holding an art exhibition with 30-plus pictures. The exhibition is sponsored by Prakriti Foundation. At the inaugural on October 18th a thin but colourful portfolio Mahema and the Butterfly – presenting incidents relating to Mahema and the butterfly, before and after her passing away – will be released (at Lakshana Art Gallery).
Till October 7: British Council, Madras Naturalists’ Society and WWF-India Tamil Nadu State Office together celebrate Wildlife Week with the theme of Biodiversity. As part of this week-long celebration, they will be organising a number of events like exhibitions, film screenings, seminars, competitions, quizzes and much more. Some of these events require registration. For more details, please 044-4205 0600-02.
Till October 10: Dussera Festival: There will be folk performances of the Tuluvas with Koraga Tribal Drums and Dance by a group from Bidinagudde-Udupi. The Koraga tribal drum, the kaddayi, it is believed, can eradicate any evil force with its magical and powerful sounds. There will also be Lambani women present exhibiting their crafts (at DakshinaChitra).
October 30 & 31: The Phou - oibi dance by the Laihui group from Manipur (at DakshinaChitra,
4 p.m.).
Dakshina Chitra
workshops
For adults
October 9 and 10: Temple architecture and photography by Chithra Madhavan and Poochi Venkat.
October 23: Mini beaded jewellery.
October 29-31: Rajasthani miniature paintings.
Till October 10: Paintings exhibition by Narendra Babu (at DakshinaChitra).
October 28- November 4: Exhibition of Lamps (at DakshinaChitra).
October 30: Zinx plays contemprorary world fusion music, basically integrating the East and the West. The band plays verious genres of music – from jazz to blues to funk to classical to even folk. Zinx comprises Anirudh, Kishor and Vivek (at Alliance Francaise).
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