August 2011
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Table of Contents Conferences, Films and stories - – - – - – - – - – - - Give to NFSC You can donate online to strengthen the National Folklore Support Centre. - – - – - – - – - – - - Events Calendar: August 5, 2011 Marupakkam and NFSC jointly organize screening of I have ignored this love for long (18 min/ English; documentary) by R.V.Ramani and 1000 days and a dream by P. Baburaj & C. Saratchandran (60 mins/ English; documentary) NFSC organizes a special screening of the film Punarjjani (Documentary/ English/ 30 mins/ India/2011) by Madhu Eravankara August 24, 2011 TamilNadu Thiraipada Iyakkam(TTI) along with NFSC will screen the film ‘Your Next Life‘ by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón August 25, 2011 TamilNadu Thiraipada Iyakkam(TTI) along with NFSC will screen the film ‘Bright Star‘ by Jane Campion - – - – - – - – - – - - NFSC Portal for Journals: The latest issue of our flagship publication Indian Folklife is out! Visit our journal portal to download and read it first! - – - – - – - – - – - - Volunteer at NFSC: We invite volunteers who can contribute online or at the Center. Interested volunteers can register online here or send in profile, bio-data, letter of interest, areas of work and experience and commitment of time to the address provided below. - – - – - – - – - – - - Information Corner: The latest issue of ‘Mukt-saad’,a journal on the Nomadic and Denotified communities, hosted by NFSC is now out! Click here to view the journal. If you are interested in contributing to this journal, please mail your contributions to the Editor Aruna Joshi here. |
Hello Readers! The first monsoon showers are here! The sudden showers and pleasant evenings are welcome reliefs from the sweltering hot months of summer aren’t they? The weather is ideal for travel and at NFSC, we now give you the perfect excuse to take a break! National Folklore Support Centre is very happy to announce a National Seminar on ‘Folk Dances of Jharkhand’. Scheduled for the 25th and 26th of August 2011, at the Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, this seminar is an initiative to encourage local scholars and artistes to participate. We invite interested scholars to submit abstracts to the Dr.Rabindranath Sarma, Associate Professor, Central University of Jharkhand. Select papers fr om the seminar will be compiled and published as collected volume on the Folk Dances of Jharkhand. If you need more information, write to us here.
Digitization of documented material is being done and the annual reports are due to be compiled. The fellows are in the final stages of data collection and review.
National Folklore Support Centre is proud to announce the Haridas Bhatt award for the year 2011. Haridas Bhatt award is awarded annually to recognize outstanding contribution to folklore. We are very happy to award the 2011 award to Dr. M.Prabhakar Joshi from Mangalore. Mr. Joshi is a renowned scholar and artiste of an outstanding order. He has many publications on Yakshagana to his credit. Our heartfelt congratulations to Mr.Joshi!
That’s all we have for you this month! Don’t forget to catch all our screenings! ‘Your Next life’ and ‘Bright Star’ with TTI and ‘I have ignored this love for long’ and ’1000 days and a dream’ in collaboration with Marupakkam. We will see you next month! Adieu! - Bhargavi Narayanan |
National Folklore Support Centre (NFSC) is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation, registered in Chennai, dedicated to the promotion of Indian folklore research, education, training, networking, and publications. The aim of the Centre is to integrate scholarship with activism, aesthetic appreciation with community development, comparative folklore studies with cultural diversities and identities, dissemination of information with multi-disciplinary dialogues, folklore fieldwork with developmental issues, folklore advocacy with public programming events and digital technology with applications to voice the cultures of the marginalised and historically disadvantaged communities. Folklore is a tradition based on any expressive behaviour that brings a group together, creates a convention and commits it to cultural memory. NFSC aims to achieve its goals through cooperative and experimental activities at various levels. NFSC is supported by grants from the Ford Foundation and the Tata Education Trust.
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