Throwback Thursday #6 | Once There was a Lake | A Presentation by Chanakya Vyas | August 06, 2020 | 06:30 PM
India Foundation for the Arts (IFA)
invites you to
Once There was a Lake: A Presentation by Chanakya Vyas
under
Throwback Thursdays with IFA
Thursday, August 06, 2020 | 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM | Zoom
invites you to
Once There was a Lake: A Presentation by Chanakya Vyas
under
Throwback Thursdays with IFA
Thursday, August 06, 2020 | 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM | Zoom
As the lockdown and call for physical distancing continue, we, at IFA, are discovering new ways of engaging with technology and online platforms to share the work of our grantees. We are delighted to introduce a virtual series of conversations, film screenings, and performances titled Throwback Thursdays with IFA, where everyone is welcome.
Join us at the next session to meet Chanakya Vyas, a playwright, performance maker and educator based in Bangalore, and learn about the making of a theatrical game about lakes in the city. He will be in conversation with John Xaviers, Programme Officer, Arts Practice, IFA.
Chanakya Vyas received a grant from IFA, under the Project 560 programme for a Year-long Curated Series of Artistic Engagements in Bangalore.
Click here and register to join us at the discussion on zoom.
The discussion will also be streamed live on our facebook page - no prior registration required to join the live streaming.
As part of the project, Chanakya Vyas has been making a series of game-theatre performances. In these theatrical games, the players/audiences are invited to make choices around problems associated with city spaces for the public (urban commons). The degraded condition of the lakes in Bangalore city is the environmental problem that Chanakya wants to highlight through his storytelling games. The invitation to the audience/players would be to protect, revive and transform a common space in the city - the lake! These artistic engagements through storytelling also borrow from elements of participatory art. Chanakya has been using the mechanics of card games and board games to aggregate a repertoire of signs and symbols that are familiar to the players. Subsequent to the impositions of the lockdowns, Chanakya and his team has been planning to start a podcast channel and develop a fictional audio drama inspired from the myths, folktales and stories surrounding the lakes in the city, to mobilise the possibilities of audio as an artistic medium, and has plans to explore the options of the game to be played online.
Join us at the next session to meet Chanakya Vyas, a playwright, performance maker and educator based in Bangalore, and learn about the making of a theatrical game about lakes in the city. He will be in conversation with John Xaviers, Programme Officer, Arts Practice, IFA.
Chanakya Vyas received a grant from IFA, under the Project 560 programme for a Year-long Curated Series of Artistic Engagements in Bangalore.
Click here and register to join us at the discussion on zoom.
The discussion will also be streamed live on our facebook page - no prior registration required to join the live streaming.
As part of the project, Chanakya Vyas has been making a series of game-theatre performances. In these theatrical games, the players/audiences are invited to make choices around problems associated with city spaces for the public (urban commons). The degraded condition of the lakes in Bangalore city is the environmental problem that Chanakya wants to highlight through his storytelling games. The invitation to the audience/players would be to protect, revive and transform a common space in the city - the lake! These artistic engagements through storytelling also borrow from elements of participatory art. Chanakya has been using the mechanics of card games and board games to aggregate a repertoire of signs and symbols that are familiar to the players. Subsequent to the impositions of the lockdowns, Chanakya and his team has been planning to start a podcast channel and develop a fictional audio drama inspired from the myths, folktales and stories surrounding the lakes in the city, to mobilise the possibilities of audio as an artistic medium, and has plans to explore the options of the game to be played online.