FEST “Festival of Places” at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), CV Mess, Janpath > 9am-7pm on 7th, 8th & 9th April 2017

Time : 9:00 am - 7:00 pm Add to Calendar 07/04/2017 09:00 09/04/2017 19:00 Asia/Kolkata FEST “Festival of Places” Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2017/04/fest-festival-of-places-at-indira.html Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), 1, Central Vista (CV) Mess, Janpath, New Delhi-110001 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

Venue : Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), 1, Central Vista (CV) Mess, Janpath, New Delhi-110001
Landmark : Opp. National Archives, adjoining India Gate Lawns
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Metro : Nearest Metro Station - 'Central Sectt.' (Yellow Line and Violet Line)

Event Description : FEST “Festival of Places”

The theme this year is People Places Memories. 

The festival will explore and interpret the bond between people and places, how public spaces contribute to the creation of a cultural fabric and memories. The event will focus on the cities of Delhi, Kolkata and Lucknow, with each day being dedicated to one city.

About the show

The Festival of Places is a unique event unraveling and interpreting the fascinating bond that exists between People, Places and Memories. The Festival aims to highlight the rich cultural legacy of places that exist in Indian cities, towns and villages. It explores the invaluable cultural fabric and a memory associated with places and provides an opportunity to people for sharing their personal narratives. The Festival is also about understanding the idea of ‘Space as a Place’; about exploring ‘Places’ that form an integral part of cities and towns; about experiencing ‘Places as vital and meaningful connected spaces’ through which urban life throbs; and rediscovering the lost art of creating vibrant Places that nurture culture and creativity.

The Festival conceptualized by CATTS, a not-for-profit organization working in the area of heritage conservation and management, has been envisaged as a convergence of people from all walks of life and disciplines who seek a deeper understanding of our culture through the places we live in as well as share an eagerness to rejuvenate them. The Festival encourages participation of people of all ages, youth and experience for developing an in-depth understanding of places and spaces we live in. The festival seeks people to play an active role both in the creation of new places and the preservation and sustenance of existing ones. The Festival will inspire people to enjoy and creatively engage with places in cities for meaningful action. It will motivate people to reimagine, reclaim and revitalize places especially ones in the public realm. It will encourage people to think about sustenance and resilience, about accessibility and mobility, about the future of their cities and communities. In this sense the Festival goes beyond just being an event to becoming a community movement for reviving and re-imagining places at the heart of healthy and vibrant communities.

Schedule :

Day 1, 7th April, 2017

REGISTRATION OPENS- 09:00 AM TO 10:00 AM ONWARDS                                              

INAUGURAL SESSION

10:00 AM TO 10:15 AM

KEYNOTE ADRESS (10:15 AM TO 10:30 AM)
Ashok Vajpeyi

Delhi Place Talks (10:30 AM TO 11:10 AM)
Dr Nalin Mehta & Amit Mehra
 Moderated by Nupur Prothi Khanna

TIME OUT
(11:20 AM TO 11:30 AM)

DELHI PLACE TALKS  (11:30 AM TO 12:20 PM)
Akshay Kaul & Ajay Sood
Moderated by Nupur Prothi Khanna

PLACE PANORAMA (12:20 PM TO 12:35 PM)
‘Delhi’ Centre for Community Knowledge (CCK)

DELHI PLACE TALKS ( 12:35 PM TO 1:30 PM )
Surajit Sarkar & Vikramjit Rooprai
Moderated by Nupur Prothi Khanna

TIME OUT
(01:30 PM 02:30 PM)

PLACE FORUM (02:30 PM 03:15 PM)
 Moderated Open House

 PLACEMAKING (03:15 PM TO  04:15 PM)
Hanif Kureshi, Manas Murthy, Sarika Panda Bhatt  
Moderated by Nupur Prothi Khanna

TIME OUT
(04:15 PM TO 04:30 PM)

PLACEMAKING (04:30 PM TO 05:30 PM)
Kalpana Vishwanath, Moe Chiba, Minja Yang
Moderated by Nupur Prothi Khanna

PLACE FORUM (05:30 PM TO  06:10 PM)
Partha Mukhopadhyay, NIUA & Panel
Moderated Open House

REFLECTIONS
06:10 PM TO 06:30 PM

TIME OUT
(06:30 PM 07:00 PM)

PLACE PERFORMANCE (07:00 PM ONWARDS)
Dastangoi Sunil Mehra & Askari Naqvi

Day 2, 8th April, 2017

REGISTRATION OPENS- (9:00 AM 10:00 AM Onwards)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS (10:00 AM TO 10:30 AM)
Amit Chaudhuri

KOLKATA PLACE TALKS(10:30 AM TO 11:20 AM)
Ina Puri, Amit Chaudhuri & V. Ramaswamy
Moderated by Kamalika Bose

TIME OUT
(11:20 AM 11:30 AM)

KOLKATA PLACE TALKS (11:30 AM TO 12:30 PM)
Iftekhar Ahsan, Rangan Datta & Ananya Bhattacharya
Moderated by Kamalika Bose

PLACE ECHOES (12:30 PM TO 12:45 PM)
‘Sounds of Kolkata’ Ali Pretty

PLACE FORUM (12:45 PM TO 01:30 PM)
Moderated Open House

TIME OUT
(01:30 PM TO 02:30 PM)

PLACEMAKING (02:30 PM TO  03:45 PM)
Paramita Saha, Manas Acharya, Bappaditya Biswas & Aishwarya Tipnis
Moderated by Kamalika Bose

PLACE PANORAMA (03:45 PM TO  04:15 PM)
‘The Legend of Fat Mama’ Rafeeq Ellias  

TIME OUT
(04:15 PM TO 04:30 PM)

PLACEMAKING (04:30 PM TO  05:20 PM)
Hans Peter Egler & Rohit Jigyasu
Moderated by Kamalika Bose

PLACE FORUM (05:20 PM TO 06:00 PM)
Hans Peter Egler, SK Lohia, IIA Northern Chapter, Rohit Jigyasu
Moderated Open House

REFLECTIONS
(06:00 PM TO 06:30 PM)

TIME OUT
(06:30 PM TO 07:00 PM)

PLACE PERFORMANCE (07:00 PM ONWARDS)
Folks of Bengal Debalina Bhowmick, Sumanta Das Baul & Arijit Chakraborty

Day 3 ,9th April, 2017

REGISTRATION OPENS- 09:00 AM TO 10:00 AM ONWARDS

KEYNOTE ADDRESS (10:00 AM TO 10:30 AM)
Saeed Naqvi

LUCKNOW PLACE TALKS (10:30 AM TO 11:20 AM)
Lucknow in Letters - Saman Habib & Sanjay Muttoo
Moderated by Mukta Naik & Saumya Baijal

TIME OUT
(11:20 AM TO 11:30)

LUCKNOW PLACE TALKS (11:30 AM TO 12:15 PM)
Madhavi Kuckreja & Manjari Chaturvedi
Moderated by Mukta Naik

PLACE ECHOES (12:15 PM TO 01:00 PM)
Kissagoi Takhat

PLACE FORUM (01:00 PM TO 01:30 PM)
Moderated Open House

TIME OUT
(01:30 PM TO 02:30 PM)

LUCKNOW PLACE TALKS (02:30 PM TO 04:00 PM)
Ritu Gulati, Ravi Kapoor & Mohammed Ahsan
Moderated by Mukta Naik

PLACE PANORAMA 04:15 PM TO 04:00 PM
Mohalla Filmistan
Moderated by Mukta Naik & Saumya Baijal

TIME OUT
(04:15 PM TO 04:30 PM)

PLACEMAKING (04:30 PM TO  05:30 PM)
Navin Pangti, Dr Christian Ost, Ivan De La Lanza,
Moderated by Mukta Naik

PLACE FORUM 05:30 PM 06:00
PM Dr Christian Ost, Ivan De La Lanza, Dr O P Agarwal, IGNCA 
Moderated Open House

REFLECTIONS
(06:00 PM TO 06:30 PM)

TIME OUT
(06:30 PM TO 07:00 PM)

PLACE PERFORMANCE (07:00 PM)
The Lost Songs of Awadh – Reliving the Courtesan Manjari Chaturvedi

About CATTS

CATTS feel very strongly about the dismal state of public places in Indian cities and firmly believe change in the way we think, talk and use public spaces can only begin at the grassroots by creatively engaging with people and empowering them to make a difference to the places and spaces around. CATTS see the festival as a great opportunity to jointly develop the agenda of Place-led development in cities and  forward to your support on the very important agendas of re imagining public places in cities and creative public engagement with places. The Festival is an excellent platform to engage people at large with these very pertinent themes.

With the partnership and support of various organizations and Corporates CATTS  aspire to build a community of people who value places and who believe in the power of creativity and collective vision for the future of our cities. CATTS is a registered not-for-profit organization accredited to give Tax exemption under u/s 80G 5 (vi) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, a partnership with us can also enable companies to achieve their Corporate Social Responsibility objectives.

Organized by IGNCA and Conceptualized by CATTS a non-profit organization working in the area of heritage conservation and management .

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