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Film @ Sarai
Sanjhi Virasat
Director: Azam Q
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Thinking with Images: A Workshop with Harun Farocki
Call for entries
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Comix Workshop: Third Session
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Dear Readers,
This New Year we start the month with a variety of events as always.  We have a film screening, a workshop and announcements for call for entries for a film workshop next month and of course the forthcoming Sarai- Reader 7.

Hope you will make yourself available for the events and access the particulars announced.
Wishing you all a very Happy New Year.

Best,
Mitoo Das
Programme Coordinator
Sarai, CSDS
Email me at: mitoo@sarai.net
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Announcement:

Forthcoming - Sarai Reader 07: Frontiers
Editors: Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Jeebesh Bagchi and RaviSundaram
Paperback, 600 pages, Rs 350, US$ 20, €20
ISBN 81-901429-9-2

We are happy to announce the publication of Sarai Reader 07: Frontiers.

Frontiers brings together essays, accounts, notes and images to report and reflect on a world accustomed to living on the edge. This time, the Sarai Reader considers limits, borders and margins of all kind to be sites for declarations, occasions for conversation, settings for the staging of arguments, debates, recounting and reflection. Accounts of border crossings and life in frontier zones sit side by side with analyses of the actions of state power and records of transgressions. The limits and margins of literary texts, films and art works are explored together with evocations of the frontiers of the urban experience.

Sarai Reader 07 invites you to consider the frontier as an open door, and as a policed gate, as a chute into something new, or the rediscovery of that which has been obscured, as a hidden tunnel that crosses under a mountain, as a porous membrane of liminal possibilities and as a zone of contact and contagion. We want to think of the frontier as the skin of our time and our world, and we invite you to read this book in order to get under the skin of contemporary experience.

Authors and Contributors Include: Ana Longoni, Rosie Thomas, Irina Aristarkhova, Lamia Joreige, Cedric Vincent, Abdoumaliq Simone, Farhana Ibrahim, Georgi Derluguian, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Lawrence Liang, Jeremy Hight, Manuel Ramos Martinez, Pramod Nayar, Anuj Bhuvania, Solomon Benjamin, Aman Sethi, Gauri Gill, Chandak Sengoopta, Amar Kanwar, Mogas Collective, Angela Mitropoulos, Abhishek Hazra, Naisargi Dave and others
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Film @ Sarai
Sanjhi Virasat, 2003
Director: Azam Q
Length: 20 minutes
11th January, 4:30 pm
Seminar Room, CSDS

About the film:
Sanjhi Virasat deals with communal harmony.  It attempts to depict how people of different religions can live with each other, following their own identities and yet be at peace.
The film is the story of Kaluram Pandit of Badshahpur, a village in Haryana. The village was predominantly Muslim before partition but with partition most migrated to Pakistan. What remained were a few families, a mosque and an eidgah.  When an individual tried to occupy the mosque forcibly, Kaluram Pandit intervened and registered a case against him. He won the case, made the land free and invited a muslim family from the village to look after the mosque and supported him with all material requirements. Today, Badshahpur is a thriving example of how if people want to ignore their differences and live together as one, they can!

About the Director:
Azam has done his graduation in Mass media from Jamia Millia Islamia. His passions are theatre and film making. Sanjhi Virasat(2003) is his first documentary feature. He has been hugely involved in theatre and writing for the last 5 years. He now works as a theatre instructor for the blind at the National Association for the Blind, Haus Khas.
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Call for entries to Thinking with Images: A Workshop with Harun Farocki

Thinking with Images: A Workshop with Harun Farocki
Introduced and Moderated by Raqs Media Collective
Sarai-CSDS in Collaboration with the Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
8th and 9th of February, 2:00 PM - 8:30 PM
(8th February - at MMB, Kasturba Gandi Marg, New Delhi)
(9th February - at Sarai CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi 110054)

Harun Farocki's work provokes us to re-think our relationships to history and the politics of representation. His body of work, spanning documentary & essay films, installations and writing, is an invitation to consider the task of image-making as a philosophical undertaking. This workshop invites filmmakers, artists, writers, philosophers, political theorists, historians and activists to engage with this body of work? Through two days of intense film viewing and conversation with Harun Farocki himself. The workshop will be introduced and moderated by Raqs Media Collective.

Limited seats, please apply with a short resume introducing yourself to dak@sarai.net by the 31st of January.
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The Comix Workshop: Session 3
17, 18, 19th January
Venue: Seminar Room,
              Sarai-CSDS,
Facilitator: Orijit Sen  

This is the third and concluding session of the comic book workshop.  
This session will include participants choosing either a written narrative/ audiovisual/ sound tracks. These narratives, sound tracks etc. will be exchanged. The participants would then be asked to create a four-page comic strip from the narrative. Orijit Sen, the facilitator for the session will help the participants with their strips.
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