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      • Shouts and Calls
        • The Cage
        • Transcendence
        • Contemplations & Musings
      • We’l al b robots at d edge of kali
      • Balajan Beowa’s Ramayana
      • May Stray left : what is left to turn ? maybe a rabbit hole feat. video art by yourban2030
      • THEATRE FORUM – The circle in expansion – 4 Webinars of the Beyond Borders Project
      • (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
      • talking texts & performing print : a performance
      • purusha in a tutu
      • kumortuli rising : an art intervention
      • designs of desire : a tribute to gustave flaubert & jean genet
      • the otherness of being
      • “resonating” with kali & the sick dancing princess
      • up-rooted skies
      • digambarim : the body alone with francesca fini
      • horses & hussain
      • trunk call
      • checkpoint hoogly
    • 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
      • Soirée pleine d’histoires 2022 (Evening of Stories 2022)
      • 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 & public art
      • Bonjour India, 2022 – Wall Art Festival with SKIO
      • 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
      • 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
          • 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
          • ākāśa international workshop rural residency
        • 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

Anandee Nivedita Thank you Culture Monk and the mentors to spread and reviving the ages old art form… Story telling…

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