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    • theatre & performances
      • culture monkś performances
        • katha’ koli : storytelling performances
          • designs of desire : a tribute to gustave flaubert & jean genet
          • the otherness of being
          • trunk call
          • “resonating” with kali & the sick dancing princess
          • up-rooted skies
          • digambarim : the body alone with francesca fini
          • horses & hussain
        • checkpoint hoogly
        • (i²) remembering the frayed 3rd edges: dust to dust – a tribute to badal sircar with a special performance by subol das bhairago (bohurupi)
        • a birthday letter for yehuda amichai – a performance by parnab mukherjee – a preview
        • khache kintu gilche na – an intimate theatrical performance based on texts of bratya basu
        • purusha in a tutu
        • talking texts & performing print : a performance
        • kumortuli rising : an art intervention
      • curated performances
        • theatre adda – the park street sessions
          • session I – oct 9, 2015
          • session II – nov 13, 2015
          • session III – dec 11, 2015
          • session IV – jan 8, 2016
          • session V – feb 12, 2016
          • session VII – april 8, 2016
          • session VIII – may 20,2016
          • session IX – june 21, 2016
          • session X – july 15, 2016
          • session XI – august 4, 2016
          • session XII – september 23, 2016
          • session XVI – jan 16, 2017
          • session XVII – feb 6, 2017
          • session XX – may 6 , 2017
          • session XXI – june 20, 2017
          • session XXII – july 25, 2017
          • session XXIII – aug 1, 2017
          • session XXIV – sep 13, 2017
          • session XXV : Oct 24, 2017
          • session XXVI – Nov 29, 2017
          • theatre adda – park street sessions presents ´red alert´ : a performance by alternative living theatre
          • mirrors of the soul – memory , history & trauma
          • crisis of civilisation : a musical featuring mohiner ghoraguli
        • “they never cease”- performance by syv bruzeau
        • butoh performance by rhizome lee
        • made in ILVA by instabili vaganti India tour
    • cafe philo kolkata
      • cafe philo july session : from buddha to kolkata
      • cafe philo : integral advaita: the philosophies of sri ramakrishna and sri aurobindo – talk/discussion moderated by ayon maharaj
      • cafe philo session : making sense of misery with dr. sunrit mullick
      • cafe philo august session : tagore in the context of rural development
      • the challenge of the oceanic feeling: romain rolland’s mystical critique of psychoanalysis and his call for a “new science of the mind” : a talk by ayon maharaj – a report
    • lectures
      • lectures and workshop by ma tan (matan berkowitz)
      • over A cuppa : jillian haslam sessions
      • over a cuppa : a talk on ´what happens after death & beyond ?´- a talk by baisakhi saha.
      • Greek Myths & its influence on French Renaissance
    • poetry
      • #reinscribe: the stratosphere saga
    • storytelling
      • over A cuppa : open call for´stories of the inanimate´
      • preview of ´une soiree pleine d´histoires (an evening of stories) 2017 – the stories & their tellers !!
      • une soirée pleine d’histoires (an evening of stories), 2018
    • new media & performance art
      • transArt rupture. theme : congestion
      • transart.2 : the river
      • screening of ‘ophelia did not drown’ & performance of ‘blind’ by francesca fini at bikaner house, delhi
      • “shadows” by francesca fini in kolkata
      • marko 93 in calcutta
      • variable interval reinforcement- live cinema performance by francesca fini
      • digambarim : the body alone with francesca fini
      • sound track for ultracorpi nomadic identity : a project for performance art TV by francesca fini with culture monks. recorded in kolkata by varun desai
      • report on the # international video art xibition in kolkata. april 2017
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    • music
      • baba lo-fi band : a session of avant – garde music
      • nebulas : an out of the box music experience
      • luigi attademo in calcutta
      • angela papale & fabio marra
    • Festivals & Projects
      • festivals
        • the south asian fringe
          • the south asian fringe : mountain india edition 2017 – a report
        • kolkata butoh festival
          • kolkata international butoh festival 2016
          • kolkata international butoh festival 2017
        • momentum experimental arts festival
          • momentum : experimental arts festival 2016
          • momentum experimental arts festival 2017
          • momentum experimental arts festival 2018
            • seven chakras : an audio-visual meditation session
        • film festivals from europe
        • world music day
          • world music day 2016
          • the other side of budge budge : celebrating world music day 2017 – a photographic exhibition
        • ghosts of shakespeare festival
  • Workshops & Residencies
    • workshops
      • shadowbody butoh intensive guided by adam koan
      • the rani blair & prof. sami shalom chetrit sessions
      • oneness: intensive residential butoh workshop by rhizome lee
      • “the musical body’- a workshop conducted by jean jacques lemetre
      • music workshop by jean jacques lemetre
      • visionary actions : live media performance art lab by francesca fini
      • storytelling with roger jenkins
      • katha’koli story telling workshop
      • young monks creative arts program
        • young monks theatre summer camp
        • Young Monks theatre &amp for children
        • electronic music workshop for children
        • puppet making workshop for children
      • the shrunken room performances : a workshop by Parnab Mukherjee
      • understanding third theatre’ – an introductory workshop on body politic and body polemic by parnab mukherjee
      • to : movement & mixed media workshop by surjit Nongmeikapam
      • tabla workshop by shankar patra
      • training the body, mind & voice : a workshop by soti rpd
      • visual arts
        • workshop on a brief history of indian and european art
    • residencies
      • actor chorus text (act) by anna helena mclean
        • actor chorus text (act) : international residency by anna helena mcLean, 2015
        • actor chorus text (act) : international residency by anna helena mcLean, 2016
      • training-untraining-utopia theatre of connection workshop – kerala, india
      • VI° international work session of rags of memory international performing art project by instabili vaganti
      • kosmos project
  • New Culture
    • literary
      • poems
        • the murat nemet-nejat session
      • stories : long & short
        • the absence quartet with a little more: acid, alkali, bulb and filament by parnab mukherjee
        • an indian youth searches for a hero – a play written by janardan ghosh
    • travel writings
      • travel diary : lawrence of arabia ! marauders in morocco in 2017 by sourabh datta gupta
    • dialogue series
      • sami shalom chetrit: a life of reflection and action, literary production for social change
      • dialogue with alfredo miralles : exploring the concept of interdisciplinary
      • a dialogue with roger jenkins
      • with honza svasek
      • with diniz sanchez (spicy tutuboy)
      • with janardan ghosh
      • dialogue with nicola pianzola on his project megalopolis
      • life in and out of the theatre – a [performance talk by khalid tyabji
      • dialogue with andre ceuterick, executive director of festival international du film d’amour de mons
      • dialogue with alfredo miralles : exploring the concept of interdisciplinary
      • jean jacques lemêtre : the musical soul of théâtre du soleil
    • essays, lectures & blogs
      • guest writers
        • greek myths & its influence on french renaissance
        • theatre is transcendental. just like experiencing ‘brahman’ – janardan ghosh
        • critical analysis janardan ghosh’s theatrical adaptation of girish karnad’s hayavadana by Dr Payal Trivedi
      • janardan ghosh
        • a directorial hangover: an article by janardan ghosh
        • an indian youth searches for a hero – a play written by janardan ghosh
        • lady macbeth & her imaginary child : an essay by janardan ghosh
        • a brief interview with janardan ghosh by rijita chatterjee
      • parnab mukherjee
        • the real bharat versus the reality of india – the manifesto of a trash-can-voice by parnab mukherjee
        • baba lal singh dil uncut : a performance poem and photo – essay by parnab mukherjee
        • come to the edge: the piracy drift – a set of essays curated by parnab mukherjee
        • From the spine of the night to the belly of the butt: Bimba to Mayangkhola by Parnab Mukherjee
      • sudipta dawn
        • report on ‘to’ : a workshop and two performances directed by surjit nongmeikapam
        • sudipta’s blog
        • over a cuppa : cafe toto session – ´dwoirath (duel)´ – a play by badal sircar
        • making of hayavadana by janardan ghosh
        • report on checkpoint hoogly : ver 1 – an interdisciplinary arts project
        • the challenge of the oceanic feeling: romain rolland’s mystical critique of psychoanalysis and his call for a “new science of the mind” : a talk by ayon maharaj – a report
        • theatre adda : park street session XXI – an introduction to the afterlife: death & beyond! – a report on the talk by baisakhi saha
    • visual – sketches,cartoons & multimedia
    • reportage
    • urban bodies : entrapments & releases
      • poems by dr. srimanta das
      • “body revolution: intimate regeneration of the city” – an essay by oriana haddad
      • city of fate : a novella by ch lady diana
      • who belongs in the Indian City? – an experiment in defining indian urbanity by conner singh vanderbeek
      • urban projections : a poem by mehk chakraborty
  • Reconfiguring Dystopia
    • Towards Peace & Social Justice
    • Democracy in progress
    • Environmental Sustainability

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Katha'Koli Storytelling Workshop
Katha’Koli Storytelling Workshop
Listening Across the Table
Listening Across the Table
Sound Across Workshop
Sound Across Workshop

Culture Gram

Ideologically speaking
Legend of Innovation
The Dagars of Dhrupad
Happening at Jaipur Literature Festival 2021
The intriguing devices of spying in literature.
The endless love for destruction in the antropocene largely due to unprecedented progress in technology which feeds the natural human lust and enables quick extraction. That this technology is universally available means that the masters of extraction and profit could now easily lead hordes into carnage and plunder (as consumers) while the horde (consumer) are sawing off the very log which keeps them afloat to fuel the spaceships joyrides of their masters.
For more details
Obotaar : the storytelling app
Listening Across the Table

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parnab@culturemonks.in
janardan@culturemonks.in
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