Till June 30: This Figured: Murals, Vandalism & Visualities, a joint exhibition by Gita, K.T. Gandhirajan and Roos Gerritsen.

The walls shown in this exhibition have various connections to the world around them. They explore the iconoclasm on early murals that has been traced, as depicted by Gandhirajan, to the new inspirations that the older murals have triggered, portrayed in Gita's paintings and the elaborate visual street culture in Chennai's urban spaces, as shown in Roos' images (at DakshinaChitra).

April 19: The Music of Monk, 10th Anniversary Concert by Madhav Chari.

2013 marks the 10th year international jazz pianist Madhav Chari has been in residence in Chennai. His very first India concert was in April 2003 at Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Chennai. This concert is a celebration of the continued relationship between Goethe Institut and Madhav Chari. The programme starts with a very brief medley of songs by Austrian-German composer Kurt Well, and continues with the music of Thelonious Monk, one of the geniuses of Jazz music. Monk is the third great jazz composer in the line that starts with Jelly Roll Morton and followed by Duke Ellington. He was one of the seminal founding members of the bebop movement within Jazz in the late 1930s/early 1940s (at Goethe Institut, 7.30 p.m.).

April 20-29: Paintings by V. Ravi Chandran (at DakshinaChitra).

May 2-6: Paintings by Paremeshwar (at DakshinaChitra).

May 9-13: Kaivinay: an inhouse exhibition. The museum collection at DakshinaChitra offers a glimpse into an era when even the most mundane of household objects such as combs, foot scrubs, coconut scrubs, spoons etc. were aesthetically crafted 'wonders of the hands' (at DakshinaChitra).

June 5-16: Paintings by Rupak Munje (at DakshinaChitra).

DakshinaChitra Workshops

FOR ADULTS

April 19-21: Kerala murals on canvas

May 10-12: Rajasthani miniature painting – advanced (16+years)

May 18, 19, 25: Terracotta jewellery – making and firing (15+years)

FOR CHILDREN

April 20: Ignite your potential (8-12 years)

April 30: Activity camp (11-14 years)

May 4: Intro to Kazhiyalattam and Oyilattam (10-14 years)

May 9-11: Residential camp for folk dance – thappattam (all)

May 18: Card modelling – miniature house (8-12 years)

May 25: Intro to Kalari – martial art of Kerala (10-14 years)

To register contact Lakshmi, 98417 77779.