TALK / POETRY / MUSIC / THEATRE : 11th Annual International Peace Day Festival: Interpretations of Peace and Conflict at Amaltas Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7pm on 21st September 2016

Time : 7:00 pm Add to Calendar 21/09/2016 19:00 21/09/2016 22:00 Asia/Kolkata TALK / POETRY / MUSIC / THEATRE : 11th Annual International Peace Day Festival: Interpretations of Peace and Conflict Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/09/11th-annual-international-peace-day.html Amaltas Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)
Note : This is an independently initiated event! Contributions are requested/ welcome to our Peace Day 'Gullaq' in cash or kind from those who would like to make a peace imprint for this day! We can organise some refreshments and some peace gestures for participants with it. Please write to space.kriti@gmail.com if you would like to support the festival.

Venue : Amaltas Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1, 2 & 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 (Bikes & Bicycles)
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Stations :
'Jor Bagh(Yellow Line)Exit Gate-1' - Walk Direction
'Khan Market(Violet Line)'
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events

Event Description : 11th Annual International Peace Day Festival: Interpretations of Peace and Conflict  
a Kriti team initiative

An eclectic evening featuring multi-media articulations of peace. Film, Poetry, Performance, Discussion, Music and Art. Celebrating the International Day of Peace.

The International Day of Peace (“Peace Day”) is observed around the world each year on 21 September. Established in 1981 by unanimous United Nations resolution 36/37, the General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to “commemorating and strengthening the ideals of peace both within and among all nations and peoples.” Peace Day provides a globally shared date for all humanity to commit to Peace above all differences and to contribute to building a Culture of Peace.

Programme : 

We recite and resist…Peace Poetry 
Peace and Us by Indu Prakash Singh
Indu Prakash Singh is a human rights defender, poet, author, a feminist and a PRA / PLA practitioner/ facilitator, is currently the Leader of the Urban Knowledge Activist Hub (Citizens' Rights Collective - CiRiC) of ActionAid India. Indu is also the Facilitator of CityMakers Mission International, the EC member of Shahri Adhikar Manch: Begharon Ke Saath and Convenor, National Forum for Housing Rights (NFHR) and closely associated with many other organizations and forums. Indu has 30 years of work experience in the social sector and has won many awards. His recent book on City Makers was released by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal last month.

Peace, Harmony and Dreams by Shruti Batra
Shruti Batra is a poetry enthusiast. Through “my poetry, I shout..I scream...I yell...I crave...I yearn...I love! I am attempting to shut up the mouth and pull the ears of anything unjust by my pen. And I understand that it is not easy, so I have a long and difficult path ahead and I am getting myself ready! I have pursued my Bachelors in Economics and my Masters in Development Studies. I work with Jagori, a feminist organisation where I have learnt ways to challenge patriarchy (I am 5 years and 3 months old now)”.

We engage…Interpretations on Peace and Conflict
Peace journies from within and across the borders
by Devika Mittal
Devika Mittal is presently pursuing Ph.D from Delhi School of Economics. She has been trying to engage with conflict through both academics and activism. Her doctoral research is focused on studying secularism in Indian schools. She is a core member of Mission Bhartiyam, a voluntary organisation that works for Inter-faith peace and harmony in India and South Asian Peace. She is the convener (India) of its joint cross-border initiative called Aaghaz-e-Dosti (lit. beginning of friendship) which has been working for Indo-Pak Peace primarily through peace education. She was also in the national core committee of Save Sharmila Solidarity Campaign that worked to highlight peaceful struggle of Irom Sharmila and the human rights violations in North-East and Kashmir.

We experience…
Mindfullness and Peace
by Samarth Sharma and All of Us
Samarth Sharma is a Kriti team volunteer. He has a degree in Marketing and has worked in the corporate sector for a few years. This is his ‘break year’ to be a social sector volunteer and just ‘be’, before he takes on a higher degree in Integrated Communications Marketing.

We perform and challenge…
Parichay and Peace
by Shapno Ekhon (Dream Now)
Shapno Ekhon is a creative platform based in New Delhi that aims to practice and promote individuals with a creative bent of mind. We were set up by some like-minded individuals passionate about various performing arts. The demands of everyday life pulling us apart in all directions, we hardly get time to even think of the dream we had last night, let alone living some of them that we may have cherished all life. Shapno Ekhon has over the years evolved into a social movement where we want to actively and consciously engage with socially responsive theatre. Apart from theater we are actively engaged in promoting the built and natural heritage of Delhi to the young generation—we organise talks, heritage awareness workshops, film shows and heritage walks to different heritage locations in Delhi.

Bharat Mata Ki Jai (Abridged version)
by Mandala
Lokesh Jain is a poet, playwright and theatre activist who has been engaged for nearly three decades in search of a theatre that depicts the miseries of people marginalised by a market-driven society based on the capitalist mode of production. 
Jaya Iyer is trained in theatre and has extensive experience in youth work, education and social development. She dreams, creates and facilitates learning opportunities for individuals and communities on farming and ecological issues, conflict transformation and human rights, creative campaigning and contemplative practices.

We see and visualise...
Peace Reels by Rajat, Samarth and Kiran (Kriti team volunteers)
Rajat has been volunteering with the Kriti team for almost a decade. He is a film buff, techie, nano technologist and hopefully soon a scientist/ inventor in his field. Kiran is interested in film making and works with Love Matters, she occasionally volunteers with the Kriti team.

We sing and echoe…
Sounds of Peace
by Ashish Dha
Ashish Dha is a composer, musician and sound designer based in New Delhi, India. His unique brand of experimental music draws from genres and traditions around the world, but remains rooted in his native Hindustani classical sensibility. He is also developing what he calls Hindustani 2.0, a new avatar of our classical music tradition, including new raags, swars and compositional forms. He owns and runs his studio cum training centre ‘Naadaalay’, where he records and produces aural art, and teaches various creative and technical subjects of sound and music.

by Students from communities and colleges

We express and support….
Interactive spaces for peace
We believe….Share your perspective and make a peace footprint!

ALL OF US!

Come and spend an evening in and with peace with friends, family, colleagues and more. If you want to share a peace expression, we will have an open house during the festival for any impromptu sharing.

Co-create, Collaborate, Co-participate
Make a peace footprint this September

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