Project 560, 2015: Festival Schedule | Bangalore

The Project 560 Festival Schedule is Out
– Nodi Nammuru, Sakkat Bengaluru!

This year, Project 560 will span the city and include diverse spaces, their contexts and stories of the lives of the people and places that have contributed to the arts and culture in the city. We are excited about this year's line-up, which reflects the hard work extended to this project by our grantees and staff; while we look forward to your participation in this festival, rooted in namma ooru!

Please find the details of the four days of the festival below, and also the link to a printable version of the schedule in PDF in English and Kannada, for your convenience. We hope you will catch some of the events, closest to your home, while we would, of course, love to see you throughout the festival.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2015

PROJECT 560 SEMINAR | Re-imagining Spaces
02:00 PM to 07:00 PM | Rangoli Metro Arts Center, M G Road Metro Station (Directions)
Join us for presentations by our Project 560 grantees: Archana Prasad, N Mangala, Prathibha Nandakumar, S Ramanatha, and members of the KLATSCH Collective. They will provide a glimpse into the artistic processes underlying their respective projects.
Furthermore, invited artists Pa Madhavan, Tushar Joag and Manas Acharya will also talk about their engagement with cityscapes in their artistic practices.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2015

ANURADHA VENKATARAMAN | Stories Unearthed (For School Children)
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM | Government Museum, Kasturba Road (Directions)
A dancer and theatre artiste, Anuradha will explore war stories across the centuries, through the artefacts in the Museum

KLATSCH COLLECTIVE | Installation – Myself Mohan 1909
11:00 AM to 07:00 PM | Mohan Building, Chikpet (Directions)
An artist collective, KLATSCH will explore stories of the 100 year old Mohan Building in Chikpet, through the years

ARCHANA PRASAD | Malleshwaram Calling – Phone Booth Installation
12:00 PM to 05:00 PM | Under the Yashwanthpuram Flyover (Directions)
A visual artist and the founder of JAAGA, Archana's Phone Booth will tell the stories of Malleshwaram residents and their memories of the area, through the 1940s and 1950s

PRATHIBHA NANDAKUMAR | Baadal Nanjundaswamy's Installation & Performance of Café Poems
04:00 PM | Coffee house, Coffee Board, Vidhana Veedhi (Directions)
A poet, writer and filmmaker, Prathibha will explore the history and culture of Bangalore’s Coffee Houses, through dramatised presentations of her poems

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2015

ANURADHA VENKATARAMAN | Stories Unearthed
03:00 PM to 04:30 PM | Government Museum, Kasturba Road (Directions)
A dancer and theatre artiste, Anuradha will explore war stories across the centuries, through the artefacts in the Museum

ARCHANA PRASAD | Malleshwaram Calling - Phone Booth Installation
12:00 PM to 05:00 PM | Under the Yashwanthpuram Flyover (Directions)
A visual artist and the founder of JAAGA, Archana's Phone Booth will tell the stories of Malleshwaram residents and their memories of the area, through the 1940s and 1950s

PRATHIBHA NANDAKUMAR | ondu lessu, ondu plussu – Performance of Café Poems
06:00 PM to 07:30 PM | Coffee house, Coffee Board, Vidhana Veedhi (Directions)
A poet, writer and filmmaker, Prathibha will explore the history and culture of Bangalore’s Coffee Houses, through dramatised presentations of her poems

S RAMANATHA | Rangajangamana Stavara
07:00 PM | B V Karanth's former residence, Girinagar
(Babukodi, 1325, 2nd Stage, Girinagar, Bangalore 560085. Landmark: Near Sunder Mahal, Girinagar. Directions)
A theatre artiste, Ramanatha through music and theatre will tell the story of thespian B V Karanth, at Karanth’s former residence in Girinagar)

ARCHANA PRASAD | Open Studio: Process Documentation in Exhibition
07:00 PM onwards | Jaaga DNA, Malleshwaram
(At Jaaga DNA, MEWS Bhooma, G2, Second Floor, 17th Cross, Between 4th and 6th Main, Malleshwaram, Bangalore 560055. Directions)
A peek into the artistic process behind Malleshwaram Calling - Phone Booth Installation

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2015

PRATHIBHA NANDAKUMAR | ondu lessu, ondu plussu – Performance of Café Poems
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM | Coffee house, Coffee Board, Vidhana Veedhi (Directions)
A poet, writer and filmmaker, Prathibha will explore the history and culture of Bangalore’s Coffee Houses, through dramatised presentations of her poems

KLATSCH COLLECTIVE | Guided Tour of Mohan
12:00 PM & 04:00 PM | Begins at Avenue Road (Directions)
KLATSCH collective members will conduct two tours of the Mohan Building in Chikpet, which will begin at State Bank of Mysore, Avenue Road

N MANGALA | Uttaravaranadolondu Hadugala Hoodota
06:00 PM | In front of K H Kalasaudha, Hanumanthanagara (Directions)
A theatre artiste, Mangala will present an evening of music and songs, telling the story of the writers, poets and artists who frequented Vidyarthi Bhavan

These events are part of Project 560, 2015, an IFA initiative partnered by Citi India.

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Project 560, 2015: Festival Schedule | Bangalore