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Colaba, Mulund schools make a mark at rugby c’ship

The recently concluded 8th Mumbai Schools Touch Rugby Tournament 2014 saw a great turnout and huge participation from city schools.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

Like every year, the Mumbai Schools Touch Rugby Tournament was held in Mumbai, at Bombay Gymkhana grounds. And like every year, interest and participation in the event continued to swell.

The 8th edition of the tournament was held on January 29, 2014 with over 65 teams and over 500 students (both boys and girls) from across Mumbai (city and suburbs) participated. Participants compete in three categories – Under 12, Under 14 and Under 17.

Touch Rugby, the non-contact format of the sport, is a fast paced game that promotes fitness, teamwork, discipline and skills and is used universally to foster camaraderie. On the occasion, Nasser Hussain, Secretary, Rugby Association of Maharashtra (RAM) said, “We are thrilled to see the enthusiasm, participation and eagerness from schools across Mumbai (from international schools to Government schools) to participate in the tournament and are once again, grateful to the Bombay Gymkhana for hosting the tournament and being a forerunner in supporting the sport.”

He added, “Having the sport back in the 2016 Olympics and with Rugby’s recent inclusion in the SGFI (School Games Federation of India) there is immense potential for growth and development of the sport across the country. And with grassroots tournaments like this, we aim to provide a platform to identify young budding sports men and women who will potentially be the next breed of athletes that go on to excel at the elite level.”

Results:

St. Mary’s Girls (Mulund) – 1st and 3rd place in U-17, 1st, 2nd, 3rd in U-14, 3rd in U-12.

Colaba Municipal defended their titles at the U-17 Boys categories and secured 2nd Place in U-12 Girls and U-14 Boys.

NM Joshi defended their titles at the U-12 Boys age categories.

Podar International won the U-14 Boys and secured 3rd Place at U-17 Boys.

Yashodham School won U-12 Girls, 3rd in U-14 Boys abd 2nd in U-12 Boys and U-17 Girls.

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Stories with children

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay is hosting a day-long storytelling carnival tomorrow for children aged between 2 and 12 years.

“Stories are like spiders, with all the long legs, and stories are like spider webs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look so pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.” – Neil Gaiman

A dilemma that most parents of children today face is instilling a sense of wonder and curiosity in children. Why? Because today’s children learn to use tablets and smart phones even before they learn to read or write! With information available at one’s fingertips, it’s that much harder to inculcate and encourage a keen imagination and creativity.

If you are a parent and are reading this and agree, then you now have a reason to rejoice. Tomorrow, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay (CSMVS, formerly known as the Prince of Wales Museum) is organising a day-long story carnival for children.

The Museum’s Kahani Karnival is specifically aimed at children in the age group of 2 to 12 years. With storytelling sessions, workshops and museum walk-throughs, the event should be an exciting one!

The event starts at 10:15 am and registration is compulsory. Email kahanikarnival@gmail.com or call +91 87670 94063 to register.

(Compiled by Medha Kulkarni. Picture courtesy Kahani Karnival)

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Student? Interested in a media career? Check this out.

Sophia Institute of Social Communications is organising ‘Media Mirror’, a day-long event featuring prominent media personalities. Starts 9 am onwards.

This is a chance for students looking to make the switch to a media career after consultation with the experts – under one roof will be present filmmaker Raju Hirani, RJ Malishka, journalist Ayaz Memon, author Jerry Pinto, filmmaker Abhishek Kapoor and many more eminent personalities.

Sophia Institute for Social Communications Media (SCMSophia) will host ‘Media Mirror’ today. The event is aimed at undergraduates from colleges across Mumbai, especially those looking for unique learning experiences and not-to-be-missed opportunities to interact with industry leaders. Media heavyweights across feature films, sports journalism, radio jockeying, documentary film making, digital media and more will speak and conduct master classes at the event. Says Dr Sunitha Chitrapu, Head of Department, “’Media Mirror’ is our attempt to encourage young people to go beyond being passive consumers and to really pay attention to the media and the role it plays in all our lives. Increased media literacy is the goal of the event”.

What attendees can look forward to are these: Filmmaker Raju Hirani will be in conversation with Meera Sanyal about media and social change; RJ Malishka will conduct a masterclass on radio, Ayaz Memon will speak on media and social change and director Abhishek Kapoor will address the issue of media and gender. Says Malishka, “Media is a double-edged sword. Used responsibly, it is a tool for wonderful social change and of course, entertainment. More and more young people are attracted to media as a career option. To me personally, radio has been a very satisfying medium and a very creative one. My journey with radio has been an adventure and I’m very excited to share it at the masterclass, and chat with the ones who will be next in line to take this medium further.”

For further details, call 022 2352 1104/98190 32120 or email scmsophia@gmail.com for full event schedule. Head to Sophia Institute of Social Communications Media, Sophia Polytechnic, Bhulabhai Desai Road for the event.

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A match, 11 men and 11 boys

A team of young boys played cricket against a team of senior citizens – and lost! – in Borivli yesterday.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

At the very start, the younger team of cricketers was quietly advised to “take it easy” on their opponents – after all, the opposition was much advanced in years, with their youngest player 62 years old, and the oldest was 73 years old! But from the first over itself, the seniors showed the youngsters who the boss was, by claiming wickets in quick succession and bowling out the youngsters for 112 runs in 72 overs.

The country’s first ’16 v/s 60′ cricket match was played yesterday, where a team of youngsters (the team’s average age was 20 years) played against a team comprising senior citizens. The event was conceptualised by Silver Innings in partnership with Pushpa Ma Foundation and The Metrognome, and was held on the BMC ground near St Anne’s School, LT Road. The youth team belonged to the Silver Innings Football Club, an organisation that works with senior citizens and their families.

 

The jubilant seniors’s team won by 7 wickets and with five overs to spare. “We organised this event because we believe that our elders have the wisdom and experience to help and support the youth to bring the required change to create a generation-friendly world,” said Sailesh Mishra of Silver Innings. “We are happy to have organised this innovative programme for intergenerational solidarity. We hope to create awareness and sensitise the youth towards our elders, and what better than sports to develop this idea?” he added. 

(Pictures courtesy Silver Innings)
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Two-day theatre conference starts in Mumbai today

Look forward to book releases, postcards, performances, panels and much more at this two-day do from January 10 to 11.
by Sophia Institute of Social Communications Media, Mumbai

Jhelum Paranjape met a pickpocket in jail and tried to explain Animal Farm to her. Dolly Thakore’s son Quasar Padamsee’s baby sitters included Shabana Azmi and Javed Siddiqui. PG Wodehouse helped Shanta Gokhale fight cancer. Nadira Babbar swore that she would never get into theatre.

At the inauguration of a two-day conference on theatre in Mumbai titled ‘Many Cities, Many Masks’ at 9 am on Friday, January 10, the first book of a proposed series, Lives Of The Women‘ edited by the award winning author Jerry Pinto will be released. Titled On Stage/ Off Stage, this book features four in-depth essays on the professional lives of  eminent women from Mumbai’s stage such as Shanta Gokhale, Dolly Thakore, Nadira Babbar and Jhelum Paranjape.  The post-graduate students of SCMSophia have researched and written this book.

The conference being organised collaboratively by the Sophia College for Women and SCMSophia (Sophia Institute of Social Communications Media) on Friday and Saturday, January 10 and 11, 2014. This forms part of a series of Mumbai seminars organised at Sophia College for the last five years. The conference will feature academic papers and presentations by practitioners and panel discussions.

Vandana GupteAdditionally, a commemorative postcard set ‘Green Room: Mumbai’s Theatre Makers‘ featuring photos  taken by SCMSophia students of  personalities from English, Hindi, Marathi, and Gujarati  theatre in Mumbai including Anahita Uberoi, Shernaz Patel, Rita Rose, Annapurna Shukla, Aditi Desai, Vandana Gupte (in pic on left) , Kavita Lad Medhekar, Rasika Dugal, Shanta Gokhale, Nadira Babbar and Dolly Thakore will be released.

The postcards also feature insights in the form of quotes from all these personalities. “After the third bell the cast waits in the wings.  At this time, you realise more than ever how crucial you are to each other.   In the silence you acknowledge each others talent, strengths and weaknesses and together step into the collective performance zone… to create the collective illusion that we call theatre,” says Anahita Uberoi.” The theatre is a space where I submit to the will of my audience,to the vision of the director and to my own vanity,” admits Rasika Dugal candidly.

This conference will also see the release of Mumbai—Socio-Cultural Perspectives: The Contribution of Ethnic Groups and Communities, a collection of papers presented at a previous conference at Sophia College. Students of SCMSophia and Sophia College will also be presenting short performances during the breaks adding to the festive atmosphere.  These include a street play on Freud, bhavai (on Marx), lavni (on Galileo) and qawwali (on Darwin) during the breaks.

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Kerala’s historic art form comes to Mumbai

Chavittu Naatakam, India’s most ancient coastal art form from Kerala, forms the theme of the annual Keli Festival starting today.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

Human life is incomplete without cultural identity. When people migrate to distant shores, they take with them aspects of their culture, which then mix with the local cultures to create unique cultural expressions. Chavittu Natakam, India’s most ancient maritime theatre tradition is one such cultural expression that came out of such a mixing of cultures – drawing from the European operatic tradition carried by the Portuguese Christian missionaries who came to Kerala’s shores post the 15th century, and merging with the local Kerala martial arts and dramatic traditions.

ramachandran kStarting today, the Keli Festival, a three-day festival to be held at the YB Chavan Auditorium, Nariman Point and Prithvi Theatre, celebrates Chavittu Natakam. Performances over the three days will retell the history of Emperor Charlemagne’s capture of Turkey, and the events that unfolded thereafter. The Metrognome spoke to Keli Festival director Ramachandran K (in pic on left) about the festival; he has been the Festival’s Director since its inception in 1992.

Why did Keli think of bringing Chavittu Naatakam to Mumbai?

I was the special curator for the cultural programmes of India’s premier biennale that happened in Cochi last year. During my work I came across this art form and associated with it. I realised that the historic relevance of this art form in the art history of the world is not yet unveiled. It was not much presented outside Kerala, except for one performance that happened in the 60s in Delhi. It was in these circumstances that our organisation KELI decided to do this year’s annual festival with Chavittu Naatakam as the main theme and to propagate the strength of this art form to the maximum possible extent.

What is the response you anticipate to the Keli Festival this year?

Fairly good. We have had lots of enquiries already.

Can you elaborate a bit on Chavittu Naatakam’s importance in present-day life?

It is the only existing, most ancient maritime theatre tradition in India. It is quite remarkable that it passed the test of time for over five centuries.

Chavittu Naatakam has a significant place in the art history of the world. [It is] A pattern of culture that migrated from across the sea; a theatre form that was nurtured and Anjelikka അഞ്ചേലിക്കdeveloped by the coastal people, a tradition of drama written, directed and enacted by the same coastal people, and a theatre movement with performance spaces, created at the coastal villages out of meagre donations from villagers. It is an artistic emanation which draws its audiences from the same coastal people – Chavittu Natakam is truly the most authentic ancient maritime theatre tradition in every sense of the term.

Unfortunately, no serious research or academic studies have been done on this fascinating art form so far, nor have academies and state patrons extended significant attention towards preserving and propagating this tradition. The form lives on due to enthusiastic artists, passionate audience, and the support and dedication of a very few art lovers.

What has been the most satisfying part of being associated with an initiative of this sort?

Bringing the Indigenous artistic strength of India’s rural locales to the metros, with their purity of tradition.

Why do you think that Mumbai needs to be exposed to Chavittu Naatakam?

Mumbai should acknowledge the proud legacy of the only maritime theatre tradition in India. I also feel that artistic traditions should be explored more and should be presented without being compromised on quality.

Programme schedule:

Day 1

Venue: YB Chavan Centre, opposite Mantralaya, Nariman Point.

Date: Thursday, January 9, 2014 | Time: 6.45 pm

Inaugural Programme: Story: Karalman Charitham (Charelsmagne) Part 1

Written by : Chinnathambi Annavi

Presented by: Yuvajana Chavittunataka Kalasamithi Gothuruth

Directed by: Thampi Payyappilly

Day 2

Venue: Y.B. Chavan auditorium,Opp. Mantralaya

Date: Friday, January 10, 2014 | Time : 7.30 pm

Story: Karalman Charitham (Charelsmagne) Part 2

Day 3

Venue: Prithvi Theatre, Juhu, Vile Parle.

Date: January 11, 2014 | Time: 7 pm and 9 pm

Story: Karalman Charitham (Charelsmagne) Part 3 ( Subtext)

Name of Subtext: Story of Anjelikka

Written by : Raphel Acharuparambil

Presented by: St. Rocky’s  Nrutha Kalabhavan, Pallippuram

Directed by: Alex Thalooppaadath, disciple of late Guru Antony Charamkulam

Collect free entry passes from YB Chavan Centre, Rhythm House, Prithvi Theatre, Maharashtra Watch Company, Dadar and Giri stores Matunga.

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