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Lamakaan has been open since 2010. Here are the events held since then, month by month, and the recordings of talks and performances on our YouTube channel.
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Events in July 2010
From the old Lamakaan blog, as the Internet Archive saved it.
On Saturday, the 17th of July at 7:30 pm there shall be a screening of the documentary Notes on Man Capture and interaction with its director Nandini Bedi.
Nandini Bedi (a once-upon-a-time Hyderabadi) is a documentary film maker and has been working, along with her anthropologist husband, for many years with the Garo Hill tribes of the North East. Her film, Notes on Man Capture, is an entertaining and deeply serious film about a very small social set-up, and its effects on marriage
About ‘Notes on Man Capture’
It is a truth (not very widely) accepted that to capture a man, then
immediately marry him, you need a chicken.
But not because the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
The Garo Hills, an extension of the Eastern Himalayas. When the cotton
is in bloom, it is the season for man capture. Men from one village
capture men from another for marriage to their unmarried sisters,
cousins and nieces. If a man accepts the marriage, he moves into the
village of his wife and shares her property. And if he doesn’t?
Ratmi, a young, single mother wants to get married. The film follows
the process of capturing a man for her as it observes the players
behind Ratmi’s marriage in 2000/2001 and again in 2006.
As we follow Ratmi’s story, some questions emerge for us. What does
India look like as it is in some types of unseen fringes, where power
shifts back and forth from individual to group, man to woman, the
person behind the camera and the people in front of it? This film
about the India that we don’t see, reverses some of the dominant
images we see all the time about caste, gender and difference.
Dir: Nandini Bedi
43 minutes.
Garo with English subtitles
This friday ie 16th July, 7:30 pm onwards, Lamakaan will hold it’s first Open Mic Night.
Come play and listen to the Beatles, America, Pink Floyd, Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Neil Young and more.
If you can strum or hum, then play and sing some. Or just enjoy an evening of classic rock .
Veenu and Shriram who study music in Finland will be opening.
The event is open to all and free
An Exploration… The Effect of Music on the Mind followed by a Jazz Performance at Lamakaan on Sunday, 25th July at 7 pm.
This is an event being organized by the Hyderabad Western Music Forum. Entry is open to all. Entry fee is Rs100 for non members and Rs 50 for members.
It is going to be an unusual evening, where research scholars in music from Finland, will present their findings on how Music effects the mind and the senses. The presentation will be audio visual. Then, their Professor, an experienced jazz pianist, will play jazz standards on piano accompanied by bass and drums. Find details of the event below.
An Exploration… The Effect of Music on the Mind
A Presentation by members of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research, Jyvaskyla, Finland
https://www.jyu.fi/hum/laitokset/musiikki/en/research/coe
Petri Toiviainen is the founder and head of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research, Jyvaskyla, Finland.
His research interests include music cognition, music information retrieval, and
music motorics. Within these areas, he focuses on modelling of music perception, computational analysis of musical structure, and kinetics of
music-related movement.
Followed by a Jazz performance:
Petri Toiviainen – Keyboard/Piano
Petri Toiviainen is a seasoned jazz pianist. With his Combo, he has played
at jazz festivals in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Germany and Canada.
He has also performed with trumpeters Ted Curson (USA) and
Palle Mikkelborg (Denmark) as well as vocalist Anita Wardell (UK).
Accompanied by
Bernard Genevois - Electric Bass
Bernard Genevois is from France and is stationed In Hyderabad at present.
An engineer by profession, he has been playing electric bass guitar and double bass in French jazz and rock bands and has done concerts with a many good musicians.
Kartik Kalyan – Drums
Kartik is originally from Hyderabad, works with an IT company and travels extensively. He performs as part of a Piano drums Jazz Duo. He has a very good jazz sensibility with percussive drive and swing.
What Happened at Sompeta? : Report Back & Analysis
On Thursday 22nd July at 6pm in Lamakaan, we are having a discussion on the above topic. The panel will constitute
Usha Seethalakshmi, An activist and researcher on SEZ’s who has long been involved in related activities like those at SEZ near Kakinada and Polepalli. She is the author of the book “Special Economic Zones in AP: Policy claim and people’s experiences’
Burra Ramulu: Key activist and Vice President of the Human Rights forum. He is also a lecturer at Kakatiya university. He is currently in Sompeta and will report back on the status of the events there.
S Jeevan Kumar : A retired lecturer and President of HRF, he has been an activist in the field for over 30 years. He has visted srikakulam several times and has taken part in their protests.
Prafulla Samantra: An activist and scholar form Orissa. He has been deeply involved with several anti SEZ struggles including the anti Vedanta and Anti POSCO struggles.
The event is free and open for all.
On Thursday 29th of July at 8:30 pm we are bringing back a guest who has enthralled the city for years. Legendary ghazal singer Vithal Rao will be performing at Lamakaan.
Vithal Rao has inspired a generation of ghazal singers from Hyderabad. He has also been a guru to many now established singers.
Apart from his ghazal singing, we will also hold conversation with him in this intimate setting.
The Admission is Free.
In Lamakaan on Sunday 1st August at 11 Am we have a short lecture followed by a hands on demonstration on telescopes and telescope making.
Telescopes are the basic tool used by astronomers to study the minuscule light from the stars – which have led to a revolution in our understanding of the universe. With the help of telescope kits, participants will be made to understand in a simple manner the construction and working of telescopes.
Audience: Children above 10 years and adults with child like curiosity.
Speaker: Dr. Priya Hasan
About the Speaker: Dr. Priya Hasan has obtained her integrated masters from the Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. She has obtained her Doctoral degree in Astrophysics from Osmania University, Hyderabad. Priya is an Observational Astronomer, her area of research is Star formation, Dynamical Evolution of Star Clusters and Galaxy Morphology. She has traveled widely in Europe and the US on academic assignments. She is an eloquent speaker and takes great interests in popularizing astronomy.
Entry is Free for this event.
On July 29th from 10 Am to 5 PM there is going to be a Technoscience Barcamp at Lamakaan.
Technoscience Barcamp is formatted as an extended conversation. It is intended to be a self-organized /user-generated non-conference. All attendees are encouraged to present or facilitate a session, and to restrict their talks to 10 minute informal presentations, with lots of time for discussion and debate.
For more details about the event or Contact information please refer to the following link.
janastu.org/technoscience
This is the latest in a series of informal conversations on science,
technology, and society. The series was initiated in 2007 by Janastu
(http://www.janastu.org), and friends, affiliated Scholars,
Programmers, and Non-Profit Organizers.