Meet the Director
12.45 pm, at ORANGE (Regional Theatre)

Misha Maltsev :Siberia at the centre of the world
Saraswathi Kavula : The coast under attack
Saumya Vincent : twinkle Twinkle Little Caste
VK Anil kumar & Amir Ali : Meleri
Rajesh Menon : Kadalkkaattiloru Dhooth
Dhyanesh Zoting : Thrishanku
Sanoop KV :’M Hungry

Mini Conference
2.00 pm at Venue VIOLET
Forcibly Displaced People in South Asia : War and Corporate Invasion of Commons
Moderator : Dr Janaki Sreedharan

Panel :

Mini Conference on Forcibly Displaced People in South Asia : War and Coporate Invasion of Commons

Venue: VIOLET ( at Regional Theatre Campus )

Moderator : Dr Janaki Sreedharan

Panel :

Sirithunga Jayasuriya: trade unionist and leader of the United Socialist Party.

Gamini Viyengoda : Writer and Activist from Srilanka, President of Srilanka Nationalist Association

Achin Vinayak: Professor and Dean os Social Sciences in Delhi University, writer and anti Nuclear activist

Jagadish Chandra: Intellectual and activist from bangalore

The following was announced yesterday (February 18th 2010 ) at the AFSPA mini conferfence by Civic Chandran ( Writer and Activist )

Dear Friends,

Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) will have its National Coordination Committee meeting on 20th and 21st as a part of the broader gamut of the ViBGYOR festival.


The CNDP had been brought to being 10 years back through a national convention in Delhi in November 1989 in response to India going openly nuclear two and a half year back with participation from all the corners of the country and also large representation from the sub-continent and the wider world.

Dalit Women’s Right to Livelihood – the Chitralekha Campaign
Chair: Ajitha
Discussants: Rekha Raj, Advocate Preetha, Elizabeth Philip, Bobby Kunhu

date: 20th February 2010
time: 5pm
where: Venue VIOLET, sangeeta nataka academi (regional theatre) campus, thrissur

Auto Court - Story of a Dalit Woman
a film by Shibi Peter
will be screened before the discussion

Meet the Directors program at ViBGYOR 2010 at 12:40 pm, Venue: ORANGE ( Regional Theatre )

Directors:

Vivek Bharathan ( Bar Code)
Manu ( French Revolution )
Yuvraj ( Pattabacki )
Rithesh Sharma ( The Holy Wives )
Bhopal Team (Twenty Years without justice )
Kannan Siddharth ( Dreams of Others )
Vidhya Madhavan ( Nizhalrooopangal )
Godwin Rodriques ( neelakurinjikal )
P P Sudevan ( Randu )

2.00 pm at Venue VIOLET

Moderator : K P Sasi.

Panel:

Dhirendra Panda - Human Rights and Anti Communal activist from Orissa

Fr. Ajay Singh - Activist and Director of Jana Vikas , a leading NGO in Kandhamal who represents National Centre for Dalit Human Rights

Paul Pradhan - Tribal leader & Survivor from Kandhamal

Jacob Pradhan , Niranjan Pradhan, Mohini nayak - Survivors from Kandhamaal

Related reading :

09.00am
CLIMATE'S FIRST ORPHANS
NILA MADHAB PANDA / 10min / CC-UK
09.20am
BABA BLACK BEARD
SANGHAMITHRA KARMAKAR / 12min/ EXP
09.35am
HUSH BABY
HIMALI KAPIL, UMANG BHATTACHARYA / 5min / FDP-SPL
09.40am
NIZHALROOPANGAL
VIDHYA MADHAVAN / 10min / KS-CF
09.50am
ARJUN
AJAY SINGH / 5min / ANIM
10.00am
NEELAKURINJIKAL
GODWIN RODRIQUES / 21min / KS-CF
10.30am
RANDU
P P SUDEVAN / 29min / KS-SF

Gauhar Raza

Gramsci was one of the most brilliant minds who pointed out that all structures created to run an organized society are intrinsically oppressive. He went to the extent of suggesting that the structures created by resistance movements, once organized also tend to be oppressive. By this formulation, one could arrive at a conclusion that creating resistance movements and continuously transforming them is the responsibility of those who take up the plunge to shape these movements.