Calendar South Asia

Calendar South Asia

Shillong, India


January 18, 2019

 
Poets Translating Poets - Shillong

16:00 hrs: Gather around the hearth at You & I Arts Café (Mawroh) for an evening of Poetry, Translation and Khasi Traditional Music

In this forthcoming editon of the project, we bring together contemporary poets writing in Assamese, German and Khasi along with translators, in a ‘poetic encounter’. The week will culminate in public programmes including language, poetry, music, theatre and dialogue on 18th January in Shillong. More


21:00 hrs: Poetry in Performance by Lapdiang A Syiem, Theatre Artist
Lapdiang attempts to adapt Khasi folk narratives and dramatise them for a contemporary audience. She is also exploring poetry as a performance text. More

Mumbai, India


November 18, 2017

 
Tata Literature Live

10:30 – 11:30 hrs: Berlin, London & Mumbai - Ulrike Draesner in conversation with Kiran Nagarkar

Drawing links between art and the creative city, novelist, poet and essayist Dr Ulrike Draesner and novelist, playwright and screenplay writer Kiran Nagarkar discuss how these cities have inspired them to create new narratives. More


14:00 – 15:00 hrs: Poets Translating Poets - German poet Ulrike Draesner and Marathi poet Aruna Dhere on translating each other's works
Dr. Ulrike Draesner and Dr. Aruna Dhere speak about the translation process and the interlinear translation method, the joys of discovering the language of the other through translation and the challenges they faced. More
 
Little Theatre, NCPA, Mumbai, India

Mumbai, India


November 16, 2017

 
In this public conversation, the writers Ulrike Draesner and Ranjit Hoskote will discuss the predicament, challenges, and transformative possibilities of living and working in an inter-lingual condition – between languages, across languages. More ...

Gangtok/Sikkim, India


Mar 28 – Apr 2, 2016

 
Workshop mit Judith Zander. Christian Filips, Dawangi Chawngthu, Lalnunsanga Ralte, Rajendra Bhandari, Sudha M. Rai More ...
 
Gangtok/Sikkim, India

Hyderabad, India


Jan 31 – Feb 5, 2016

 
Workshop with Sylvia Geist, Tom Schulz, Jaya Prabha, Sridala Swami, Jeet Thayil, Jameela Nishat
 
Goethe Zentrum Hyderabad
Hyderabad, India

Kolkata, India



Jan 18 – Jan 22, 2016

 
Workshop with Anja Utler, Jan Wagner, Yashodhra Ray Choudhari, Sumanta Mukhopadhyay, Basudev Sunani, Kedar Misra
 
Goethe Institut Kolkata
Kolkata, India

Trivandrum, India



Dec 6 – Dec 12, 2015

 
Workshop with Orsolya Kalasz, Nicolai Kobus, Ulf Stolterfoht, N Sukumaran, Sukirtharani, Mamta Sagar, Abdul Rasheed, Anitha Thampi, Veerankutty
 
Goethe Institut Chennai
Chennai, India
Goethe Zentrum Trivandrum
Trivandrum, India

Colombo, Sri Lanka



Nov 30 – Dec 4, 2015

 
Workshop with Barbara Köhler, Ariyawansa Ranaweera, Somasunthampillai Sopa Pathanathan
 
Goethe Institut Sri Lanka
Colombo, Sri Lanka

Karachi, Pakistan



Nov 12 – Nov 16, 2015

 
Workshop with Daniela Danz, Andreas Altmann, Ali Akbar Natiq, Afzal Ahmed Syed, Attiya Dawood, Amar Sindhu
 
Goethe Institut Pakistan
Karachi, Pakistan

New Delhi, India



Nov 1 – Nov 5, 2015

 
Workshop with Ulrike Sandig, Gerhard Falkner, Savita Singh, Mangalesh Dabral, Naseem Shafaie, Shafi Shauq
 
Goethe Institut New Delhi
New Delhi, India

Dhaka, Bangladesh



Sep 7 – Sep 11, 2015

 
Workshop with Hendrik Jackson, Sajjad Sharif, Shahnaz Munni
 
Goethe Institut Bangladesh
Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mumbai, India

Jul 20 – Jul 24, 2015

 
Workshop with Aruna Dhere, Pradnya Daya Pawar, Harish Meenashru, Neerav Patel, Ulrike Draesner, Thomas Kunst
 
Goethe Institut Mumbai
Mumbai, India