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Mumbai, gear up for Barclays Premier League – live!

BPL Live is a free, interactive two-day fan part at MMRDA over the weekend, football legends will interact with fans.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

It started in Johannesberg, and the Barclays Premier League Live (BPL Live) is now in Mumbai. The event is hosting its second international fan park over the weekend at MMRDA Grounds, and will offer fans in Mumbai an awesome experience – they can meet legends of the Barclays Premier League, get up close with the iconic Barclays Premier League Trophy and watch live matches broadcast on a giant 380 sq ft screen.

Barclays Premier League Live, a free and interactive experience designed for fans of all ages to enjoy, will be the next best thing to being in the stadium on match day.

What’s more, Robbie Fowler, Peter Schmeichel and Emile Heskey will be in attendance to take part in autograph-signing sessions and interact with fans.

Barclays Premier LiveHere’s what fans can take part in:

– The Live Match Zone – the main arena where fans will watch the live Barclays Premier League matches on a giant screen.

– The Trophy Zone – get up close to the Barclays Premier League Trophy.

– The Club Zone – supporters will be able to learn more about the 20 Barclays Premier League clubs, and through green screen technology, will be able to picture themselves lifting the Barclays Premier League Trophy decorated with the ribbons of their favourite club.

– The Screening Zone – supporters will experience the noise and excitement of a match day before learning all about the winning teams and captains of the Premier League in this exclusive film.

– The Pitch Zone – there will be a mini-football pitch where Barclays Premier League clubs will be conducting skills sessions with local football teams, and there will also be the chance for young fans to have a game of football run by Premier League community coaches.

– The Skills Zone – there are three football skills pods for supporters to test their accuracy, close control and shooting power.

Head to MMRDA Grounds, BKC, between 2.30 pm and 10.30 pm on Saturday, and from 1.00 pm to 9 pm on Sunday. 

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Financial journalists, this one’s for you

Shriram Sanlam Awards invite entries in financial journalism, will be judged by an eminent panel of editors and corporate personalities.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

Financial journalists in India need to take note: the Shriram Sanlam Awards for financial journalism is currently inviting entries.

This is the third edition of the Shriram Sanlam Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism constituted by Shriram Group along with the South Africa-based Sanlam Group (South Africa) in association with the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR), Chennai, in 2012.

Journalists can submit or nominate anything in the purview of financial journalism, ranging from Indian Economic Policy, Macro Economic Issues, Financial Markets including Equity, Debt and Foreign Exchange, Banking and allied services, Sectoral Issues, financial inclusion and financial literacy. There will also be a Life Time Achievement Award, for which recommendations are welcome. This year, the categories of Awards will be decided after receiving nominations. Journalists and editors are free to nominate as many entries or people as they wish. Parameters for the Awards are Insight, Analysis, Depth, Uniqueness, Originality, Comprehensive and Balanced Approach, Level of research, Follow up of story by others leading to wider discussion, and overall impact of the story.

Entries are being accepted up to January 31, 2015.

TN NinanOne of India’s most respected media personalities, TN Ninan (in pic on left, Chairman, Business Standard) has been inducted on the jury panel of the Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism 2014. He was also the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2nd Shriram Sanlam Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism in the year 2013. He will join a distinguished panel of independent jury members comprising, amongst others, Gopal Srinivasan (Chairman and Managing Director – TVS Capital Ltd.), Srinivasan K Swamy (Chairman and Managing Director, RK Swamy BBDO), Ashu Suyash (CEO, L&T Mutual Fund), Adit Jain (Chairman, IMA Asia) and Swaminathan S Aiyar, Consulting Editor of The Economic Times.

GS Sundararajan, Wholetime Director, Shriram Capital Ltd., said, “This year, the jury has a good mix of corporate personalities and eminent media editors. We are striving to ensure that renowned editors act as mentors to financial and corporate journalists. Financial journalism in the country needs to evolve dynamically as India braces itself for higher goals with challenges therein. These Awards are a step towards inspiring financial journalists to achieve higher levels of professional excellence.”

Look up www.shriramawards.com for rules and nomination form. Entries need to be mailed to awards@shriram.com from official email IDs. The grand finale of the Awards Function will be held in April 2015.

(Featured image courtesy blog.meraevents.com)

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Celebrate Bandra returns with 40 artists

The much-awaited ‘Celebrate Bandra’ festival will showcase the work of 40 Indian artists all around the suburb from November 22.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

‘Celebrate Bandra’ is back.

The latest edition is scheduled to begin on November 22, 2014 and will go on till November 30, 2014. The festival that began in 2003 was conceptualised with a view to bring people together through world-class entertainment that is free of cost and accessible to all. In the process, it showcases professional talent and provide a platform for budding talent to grow. This year it promises to be bigger and better.

Art has always been the major highlight of ‘Celebrate Bandra’. This year, visitors can spot extraordinary art forms at unexpected venues that will fill up the entire suburb, in and around Bandra. This year, 40 national artists from various cities have come together to create art works all around the suburb. Curated by renowned art curator Minali Thakkar, Art Head of the festival, ‘Celebrate Bandra 2014’ will see exciting functional, public interactive and visually appealing installations like benches, 3D street art as well as light art displayed at Carter Road, Bandstand, MET, parks and other such public locations.

Each art installation have a message to convey; for example, MET will have a huge web light art installation which is an artistic take on the current textology and Whatsapp trend. Minali says, “We wanted people to notice art in an unconventional setting. People will bump into a complete new world in their daily life setting through art and that would be a welcome change from their mundane life. Art has the energy to bring people together, emit positive vibes and bring a change in small ways and we hope to connect people through art.”

Artists are working round the clock to create art works on ground, rocks, grass, and windows using materials like fishing nets, rubic cubes, balloons and metal scrap, to name few. Be it the huge limousine or an armour skirt and choli designed to protect women, the organisers claim that each art piece will mesmerise viewers and leave them with a food for thought.

For all the art lovers and enthusiasts, ‘Celebrate Bandra’ will also host an Open Air Art Classroom in a setting where one can sketch, paint landscapes and create designs. Don’t forget to get your art bag along. This will be held on daily basis during the tenure of the festival at 4.30 pm at Carter Road Promenade and Bandstand Promenade.

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Join the discussion: How can US and India make it work together?

Charles Rivkin, US Assistant Secretary of State and Ashish Chauhan, MD and CEO, Bombay Stock Exchange, will discuss US-Indo ties.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

This is a discussion you can’t afford to miss, especially if you’re keeping tabs on the growing closeness between the US and India.

Charles Rivkin, Ashish ChauhanThis evening, Charles H Rivkin, US Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs and Ashish Chauhan, MD and CEO of the Bombay Stock Exchange, will jointly discuss how nations can create the ideal conditions to foster greater investment and innovation.

An excerpt about the event released by the US Consulate General, Mumbai, which is hosting the discussion, says, “In the 21st century, the wealth of a nation is often measured in intangible capital such as knowledge, goodwill and intellectual property assets. From the Jaipur foot to water ATMs and backpack Electrocardiogram (ECG) machines, necessity has fuelled India’s innovation sector. As the premium on innovation grows, businesses and governments are looking for ways to best foster innovation and increase global competitiveness. What opportunities can the world’s two largest democracies create through collaboration on innovation? How might India take steps to cultivate an environment which encourages greater innovation and supports more sustainable economic growth? And how would doing so deepen U.S.-India business ties?”

Charles Rivkin has previously served for more than four years as the United States Ambassador to France and Monaco where he led one of America’s largest diplomatic missions. Prior to his Government service, Ambassador Rivkin worked in the media sector for over 20 years where he served as President and CEO of award-winning entertainment companies such as The Jim Henson Company and Wildbrain. In 2013, Ambassador Rivkin was personally awarded the Légion d’honneur with the rank of Commander by French President François Hollande.

Ashish Chauhan is currently the Managing Director and CEO of the Bombay Stock Exchange. He is best known as the father of modern financial derivatives in India. Ashish has been an integral part of the team responsible for setting up the National Stock Exchange where he set up the first commercial satellite network, initial technology platform, the Nifty index and many other such platforms for trading. He has also been responsible for technologically revamping the BSE. His efforts have been lauded through numerous awards, most recently – the Best CEO in the Financial Markets of Asia Pacific by the Asian Banker.

Head to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Visitors Annexe, 159-161, MG Road, Fort, Mumbai 400023, today, November 13, at 7 pm. Entry is free but you will need to register at 6.30 pm. 

(Featured image courtesy thehansindia.com)

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Children’s festival kicks off in Thane today

Timed to include Children’s Day on Friday, November 14, the week-long festivities include activities for children of all age groups.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

Thane has long had a tradition of celebrating Children’s Day on November 14 with gusto, every year. This year, too, with several building societies holding prestigious competitions and private organisations organising activities for children, the situation is no different.

However, Thane has an exciting Children’s Festival lined up starting today, to interest children of all age groups. The Vinod Memorial Welfare Society is organising the week-long festival and will include a variety of activities, such as acts like magic shows to serious sporting competitions.

Says Mukesh Thombre, one of the organisers, “The festival was organised with a view to observing Vinod Thombre’s birthday on November 11, and to also celebrate Children’s Day on November 14. This will be a week-long fiesta with all participants enjoying art and crafts competitions, treasure hunts, essay writing competitions, etc. We are also organising afashion show, and sporting matches for box cricket, badminton and ring football for the older age groups, and there will also be traditional Indian games such as lagori, gilli danda being played.”

Younger age groups can also participate in song and dance competitions and art contests. The festival wraps up on Sunday, November 16.

For details and to register your child for the festival, contact Mukesh Thombre on 9892111999 or Sameer Shetye on 9892126036.

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Attend: ‘Museum of Chance’, a photo-book release

Singh’s photographic sequence of her own work ‘Go Away Closer’ is titled ‘Chance’ and opens for public viewing in Mumbai.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

Dayanita Singh’s Museum of Chance (2014) is a book about how life unfolds, and asks to be recorded and edited, along and off the axis of time. The inscrutably woven photographic sequence of Singh’s Go Away Closer has now grown into a labyrinth of connections and correspondences. The thread through this novel-like web of happenings is that elusive entity called Chance. It is Chance that seems to disperse as well as gather fragments or clusters of experience, creating a form of simultaneity that is realized in the idea and matter of the book, with its interlaced or parallel timelines and patterns of recurrence and return. “While I was in London I dreamed that I was on a boat on the Thames,” Singh writes in the book’s epigraph, “which took me to the Anandmayee Ma ashram in Varanasi. I climbed the stairs and found I had entered the hotel in Devigarh. At a certain time I tried to leave the fort but could not find a door. Finally I climbed out through a window and I was in the moss garden in Kyoto.”

The 88 quadratone images in the book also appear on the front and back covers in random pairs, transforming each copy of the book into a distinct piece of work by the author. ‘’Exhibitions come and go,” Singh says in an interview, “but what remains is the book’’. Each copy of Museum of Chance, therefore, is mass-produced as well as unique because of the random combination of images on its front and back covers and the different colored cloth covers. Moving away from showing editioned prints framed on the wall, Singh makes the book itself the art object, to be valued, looked at and read as such, rather than being regarded as a gathering of photographic reproductions. Infact the Book in its special structure is the work, as were  her silver gelatin prints, and the images inside could be seen as the catalogue of this exhibition of the 88 book covers.

One of the finest photographic artists in the world, Dayanita Singh has always seen herself as a bookmaker working with photography. She has published several mass produced artist books in the course of her career like Go Away Closer (2007), Sent a Letter (2008), Blue Book (2009), Dream Villa (2010), Dayanita Singh (2010), House of Love (2011) and File Room (2013), among others. She has also presented her work in several solo and group exhibitions like Go Away Closer, a solo exhibition at Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2014); Dayanita Singh, a solo exhibition at the Art Institute, Chicago (2014); A group exhibition in the German Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale; Indian Highway, a touring group exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London; Astrup Museum, Oslo (2009); Privacy, a solo exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2003).

During the opening today, November 6, 2014, Singh will make available the very first of her limited edition of the Book object. She will also individualise them during the opening. The limited edition of the book object, in an edition of 352, costs Rs 9,000 and is only available through her.

It is the same object as you will see on the wall (the book, Museum of Chance, in a specially-made wooden structure to install it on the wall). So in a sense, you can carry part of the exhibition home.

Head to Galerie Max Mueller, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Kalaghoda, Mumbai on Thursday, November 6, at 6.30 pm. The exhibition is on till December 10, 2014.

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