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Shadipur Natak Utsav at Studio Safdar is a unique, community-curated theatre festival.

Do you have a play fit for a black box space? Something that residents of Shadipur might enjoy? Apply now!

Shadipur Natak Utsav Dates: November 15, 16, 17 & 22, 23, 24.

Last date for Applications: 7 September 2019

See application form for further details: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9ngCJ-hMvFobQCyXFL3KxI1buWvsHu1we_DMAn4M2XdbSTA/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Greetings from The Red Cycle!

Issues associated with menstruation are never discussed openly and the silence surrounding menstruation burdens menstruators by keeping them ignorant of this biological function. Even after the attainment of menarche, very little information is given to young menstruators about the physiological processes involved and the hygienic practices to be followed. Overall, the absence of conversation around the social and political facets to menstruation in the policy debate and hence inaction is striking. This point to a glaring need to highlight this issue in the policy debate together with practical work on what menstruators require to manage their menstrual needs in terms of materials, education and facilities for management and disposal. Gender sensitivity in health, hygiene and sanitation needs of menstruators is a critical input required to be integrated into the governments' health, sanitation and education programmes.

The Red Cycle is a grassroots movement that aims to address various facets of menstruation by knowledge-sharing and action. Through online forums and off-line sessions, The Red Cycle has been challenging the taboos, social stigma and misconceptions associated with menstruation and focuses on educating people on the biological process.

We invite you to an open chat on menstruation and the related issues in May Day Bookstore on 1st October 2019. Arjun Unnikrishnan and Meemansa Singh from The Red Cycle will moderate the chat.

Time: 6:00 p.m

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Directed by Shruti Sunder, The Other Half is a physical ensemble play that questions the very root of our identities and our perception of Gender. Through a very irreverent attitude, the play questions about the identity of 'Gender', what is, how it is and how it became that way. It questions the lens through which we view the world.

The Director

Shruti Sunder is an alumnus of Drama School Mumbai and UNIMA-India Foundation Course for Puppeteers. She is also a trained classical singer, artist and a movement enthusiast.

The Cast

Kunal Dara, Anomita Sen, Navya, Anant Gaur, Jyoti Rana, Radha Bhatt, Harsh Gussain, Amit Verma, Ruby Shivam Upadhyay, Ahmer, Dhruv Rai

Time: 07:00 p.m.

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Highlights of the workshop -

1) Discussion on North Indian classical, semi-classical & film music; its structure (Sur, Raga & Taal), nuances, genres, aesthetics, artists, false practices in music education, correct methodology of studying music, how to avoid fraudulent teachers & find genuine ones and busting myths associated with Indian music.

2) There will also be a few group musical exercises.

Time: 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

All are welcome.

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Readings from works of progressive writers by Saman Habib and Sanjay Muttoo

An illustrated reading of works of writers and poets of the early period of the progressive writers movement that presents a range of their creative output, reflecting and engaging with societal and political issues and spanning concerns that reverberate even today. Music accompanies the reading.

Time: 07:00 p.m. to 8:00 P.M.

All are welcome

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Shadipur Natak Utsav - 2019

India's first Community Curated Theatre Festival.

22 November -

Kabutar Ja Ja Ja by Natak Company, Pune.

23 November -

Maccoman, The Power Play by Madhyamgram Natomon Natya Sanstha, Kolkata

24 November -

Medea by Pandies' Theatre, Delhi

Two shows daily, 4 and 7 pm.

We have four ticket prices at Shadipur Natak Utsav 2019.

General public: Rs 200.

Shadipur residents: Rs 20.

Children below 13: pay as you like.

Ricksha wallahs and other daily wage earners: free.

Come, support India’s first community curated theatre festival.

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Book-reading session and interaction with Saba Dewan & Namita Devidayal

The event will be moderated by Ashwini Deshpande, Professor, Ashoka University

Lovers of books and music, join us for what’s going to be a fantastic evening.

Details:- Friday, 8 November 2019, 5:30 p.m.

Please join us for tea and snacks at 5 p.m.

Advisory:

May Day Bookstore 2254/2A Shadi Khampur, New Ranjit Nagar, New Delhi 110008 INDIAPhone: (91 11) 2570 9456

Metro: Shadipur on BLUE line 

Directions: Shadipur metro – Satyam Cinema (now Inox) – cycle ricksha – ‘Biyaasi number’ – May Day next to Rahmat Medical Store. 

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On the occasion of Safdar Hashmi Memorial Lecture 2019 Jana Natya Manch cordially invite you to

Reading of Shanta Gokhale's play "Maili Chadar: The Stained Shawl"

(followed by a discussion with the playwright)

Date & Time: 29 November, 6 p.m.

ALL ARE WELCOME!

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On the occasion of Safdar Hashmi Memorial Lecture 2019, Jana Natya Manch cordially invite you to

Safdar Hashmi Memorial Lecture

"Singing in Dark Times" by Shanta Gokhale (playwright, novelist, translator, theatre scholar)

Dat & Time: 30 November, 6.30 pm

The lecture will be chaired by Rimli Bhattacharya (writer, theatre scholar, teacher)

ALL ARE WELCOME!

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Sarhadee Shaam

(Pakistan Ki Maujooda Shayari)

An event dedicated to Pakistan's contemporary poetry and Shashank Shukla 'Baaz'

मैं दुश्मनों से अगर जंग जीत भी जाऊँ

तो उनकी औरतें क़ैदी नहीं बनाऊँगा

तहज़ीब हाफ़ी

पड़ोसी मुल्क पाकिस्तान में इस वक़्त बहुत आला दर्जे की शायरी हो रही है। युवा शायरों और शायरात ने अलग-अलग ज़ावियों को, तमाम emotions को नए तरीक़े से ग़ज़लों और नज़्मों में ढालने का काम ब-ख़ूबी किया है, और लगातार कर रहे हैं।

शशांक शुक्ला की पहल पर, हम ऐसी शायरी को आपके बीच लगातार लाते रहे हैं। इस बार हम उसी सिलसिले को आगे बढ़ाते हुए, Mayday Bookstore की जानिब से, पाकिस्तान की मौजूदा शायरी आपके बीच ले कर आ रहे हैं।

पाकिस्तान से राजनीतिक मसले कब हल हो सकेंगे, इसका ना किसी को अंदाज़ा है न ही शायरी और art इसकी फ़िक्र करते हैं। तो उन सब लकीरों को भुला कर, आइये और शायरी का मज़ा लीजिये।

इस इवेंट में हम पढ़ेंगे पाकिस्तान के युवा शायर-शायरात की नए तरह की शायरी को, और उन पर कुछ बातें करेंगे।

आइये और शामिल हो जाइए शायरी की एक और शाम में।

बाक़ी details जल्द ही साझा की जाएंगी।

ये इवेंट हम dedicate कर रहे हैं शशांक शुक्ला के नाम, जिन्होंने ऐसी महफ़िलों का आग़ाज़ किया था।

Date : 1 December 2019

Time : 1:30 PM- 3:30 PM

Venue : Mayday Bookstore, Shadipur

Contact : Satyam Tiwari (9711009524)

Dhairyakant Mishra( 9999598194)

E-mail : [email protected]

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Panthers Paw Publication invites you the book launch of ‘ Flowers on the Grave of Caste’ by Yogesh Maitreya. Followed by the book launch, there will be an interactive session between the author and Raj Kumar, Professor and Head of Department of English, Delhi University. Followed by this, there will be a question-answer session between audience and author, moderator.

About the book:

Flowers on the Grave of Caste by Yogesh Maitreya is the first English Dalit short story collection in India. In India, adding to the development of Dalit literature in English language, this short story collection is a significant contribution since in the domain of fiction, it has introduced Dalit/Ambedkar perspective as a literary imagination. It contains six short stories, and most of them portray the internal complex of a Dalit youth in urban spaces, and them leading to assertion against caste.

About the author:

Yogesh Maitreya is a poet, translator, columnist, PhD scholar and publisher at Panther’s Paw Publication. He has translated work of fiction and non-fiction from dalit literature. For his PhD, he is working on Ambedkari Shayiri as a music against caste.

Timing: 6.00 pm

Date: 5th December, 2019

Venue: May Day Bookstore 2254/2A Shadi Khampur, New Ranjit Nagar New Delhi- 110008

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Screening of documentary film #UNFAIR - the interconnectedness of stories from skin, colour, race & caste.

Indian society conflates different forms of prejudices and discriminations relating to skin, colour, race, caste and class, and their interrelationship with each other. Consequently, frequent acts and events of individual and collective violence against the ‘other’, across the country, lead to public humiliation, shame and torture. We seek to bring under the lens – ‘blackness’ in ‘brown’ spaces.

Through this film we engage in dialogue with the “African” diaspora here in India, as well as diverse individuals from various backgrounds, to understand what constructs - the images, thoughts and ideas; one associates with the concerns of prejudice and discrimination.

Duration: 52 mins.

Time: 7 p.m

ALL ARE WELCOME.

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सफ़दर हाश्मी शहादत दिवस 2020

मज़दूरों और कलाकारों का साझा कार्यक्रम

Since 1989, on every 1st January, Jana Natya Manch goes back to Jhandapur, to perform, to reaffirm its commitment to people's theatre and the unity of the working people and artists. Many artists friends, comrades and local residents of Sahibabad Site-IV join us to celebrate Safdar's red-hot, luminous life by singing, performing and watching plays together.

This year the public meeting will be addressed by Com Sitaram Yechury.

We will observe the birth centenary year of Kaifi Azmi saheb at Jhandapur. Eminent actress Shabana Azmi and famous poet and writer Javed Akhtar will read Kaifi saheb's poetry and address the audience.

Along with that 'Halla Bol: The Death and Life of Safdar Hashmi' written by Sudhanva Deshpande will be released by Shabana Azmi at Jhandapur.

ALL ARE WELCOME!

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How to reach:

Take metro (blue line) towards Koshambi; Get off at Koshambi Metro station; Walk back a few yards and take shared auto-rickshaw towards Jhandapur; Get down in front of CEL factory; Cross the road and follow red CITU banners and flags towards Dr Ambedkar Park.

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We invite you to visit us at the New Delhi World Book Fair Saturday, 4th January to Sunday, 12th January 2020, Pragati Maidan, at the IPD Alternatives stall:

STALL NO -  565

HALL NOs -  H-8-11

Please also forward this to other friends who may be interested. We look forward to seeing you there.

Visit www.leftword.com to get LeftWord Books at discounted prices (only for book club members).

If you are in Delhi visit May Day Bookstore to discover interesting books from independent publishers and hunt for gems in the used books section!

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Join acclaimed novelist Amitava Kumar and theater scholar Shayoni Mitra in conversation with Sudhanva Deshpande about his new book *Halla Bol: The Death and Life of Safdar Hashmi* on Friday Jan. 10th, 6:30pm @The People's Forum. Copies available from Word Up! and signing to follow.

RSVP here: https://peoplesforum.org/event/book-launch-halla-bol-the-death-and-life-of-safdar-hashmi/?fbclid=IwAR3vs2QRVHXSgTC7W20u3vQbZiDxahTtdenw0-qM-G7l-yGKw_tSk67X3OA

In Halla Bol, Sudhanva Deshpande tells the story of Safdar Hashmi, extraordinary in all its ordinariness. On New Year’s Day in 1989, Janam, the theatre group Safdar was a part of and which he led, was attacked while performing a street play on the outskirts of Delhi. He was only thirty-four when he died from injuries sustained during this senseless attack.

Beginning with a record of this fatal attack, this vivid memoir illuminates the life of Safdar Hashmi – artist, comrade, poet, writer, actor, activist, and a man everyone loved. But this is not a book about one man or one tragic incident. Halla Bol shows us, close up, how one man’s death and life are intertwined with the stories of many people.

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Hello, bookworms of Kolkata !

Make sure to creep up to our stall at the International Book Fair. We're bringing the Red back to your soil.

Hall - 1, Stall - 15

44th International Kolkata Book Fair 2020

Central Park Mela Ground, Salt Lake

12 pm to 8 pm

29 January to 9 February

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Please join us for a discussion of Chris Moffat's new book, India's Revolutionary Inheritance: Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh (Cambridge University Press, 2019). With Sanjay Kak (filmmaker and writer), Simona Sawhney (critical theorist and literary scholar), Taru Dalmia (poet and musician), Vanessa Chishti (Historian) & Chris Moffat (historian).

Attendees are welcome from 17:30, and the event will begin at 18:00.

Book Summary: What do anti-colonial histories mean for politics in contemporary India? How can we understand a political terrain that appears crowded with the dead, heroic figures from past struggles who call the living to account and demand action? What role do these 'afterlives' play in the inauguration of new politics and the fashioning of possible futures? In this engaging and innovative analysis of anti-colonial afterlives in modern South Asia, Chris Moffat crafts a framework that takes the dead seriously - not as passive entities, ceremonially invoked, but as active interlocutors and instigators in the present. Focusing on the iconic revolutionary martyr Bhagat Singh (1907–1931), Moffat establishes the problem of inheritance as central to the forms and futures of democracy in this postcolonial polity. Tracing Bhagat Singh's revenant presence in India today, he demonstrates how living communities are animated by a sense of obligation, duty or debt to the dead.

Follow the link to download a PDF of the book's introduction: https://bit.ly/316gmuH

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वक़्त की आवाज़ : 6 क़िताबें, 6 ज्वलंत मुद्दे

वाम प्रकाशन और न्यूज़क्लिक आपको आमंत्रित करते हैं
किताब शृंखला “वक़्त की आवाज़” के लोकार्पण में

वक्ता :

आयिशा कादर, बेज़वाड़ा विल्सन, जगमति सांगवान, यूसुफ़ तारीगामी, उर्मिलेश (अध्यक्षता)

शाम 6.00 से 9.00 तक

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Please do come for the book release in Chennai today at 5:30 p.m., where V. Vasanthi Devi (former Chairperson of the TN Commission for Women) and KA Manikumar, a LeftWord author, will discuss the book. This will be held at MIDS

The book is available here: https://mayday.leftword.com/catalog/product/view/id/21579

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We are now witnessing the rise of a neo-fascist menace. This menace has turned its attention to left books – with attacks on left bookshops and with murders and threats of left writers and publishers. There has been an upsurge of support for these bookshops as well as for the writers and publishers. A sense of outrage has built up that shows confidence amongst our readers and comrades to confront the neo-fascists and stand up for left books.

It is in this context, of the return of left book publishing as well as the attack and defense of left books and left writers, that we propose the establishment of Red Books Day. On 21 February 2020, join us by reading the Communist Manifesto in your language. Livestream it on social media, tape it, play it on Youtube.

Red Books Day @ May Day Bookstore:

- Readings of The Communist Manifesto in Assamese, Bengali, German, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Odiya, Punjabi, Telugu, Urdu and more...

- Machine by Janam

- Singing of Revolutionary songs

Join us on 21 February from 6 pm onwards.

For more details visit - www.redbooksday.org

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Celebrating the life and art of Safdar Hashmi

MARCH 4, WEDNESDAY

12.30 pm St Andrews Centre for Philosophy and Performing Arts (SAPP), Bandra

Nandita Das, Annie Zaidi, Moloyashree Hashmi, Sudhanva Deshpande

7.30 pm Antarang, 106, Aramnagar I, Being Association

Mohd. Zeeshan Ayyub, Moloyashree Hashmi, Sudhanva Deshpande

MARCH 5, THURSDAY

6.30 pm NCPA Experimental Theatre, Nariman Point

Naseeruddin Shah, Sameera lyengar, Moloyashree Hashmi, Sudhanva Deshpande

MARCH 6, FRIDAY

1 pm TISS, Chembur

Joy Sengupta, Moloyashree Hashmi, Sudhanva Deshpande

6.30 pm Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Kala Ghoda

Shanta Gokhale, P Sainath, Moloyashree Hashmi, Sudhanva Deshpande

MARCH 7, SATURDAY

7 pm Studio Tamaasha, Lokhandwala, Andheri (W)

Actors and singers from Mumbai will read and perform from Janam's and Safdar's works. Ticketed show www. bookmyshow.com.

At all venues, Jana Natya Manch will perform its iconic 13-minute play Machine. At NCPA on March 5, Naseeruddin Shah will join Janam actors in reading excerpts from the play Hallo Bol. Janam actors will read excerpts from this play at all other venues as well, except on March 7.

Halla Bol is published in Hindi and English by Vaam Prakashaan and Leftword Books, respectively, and copies of both editions will be at all venues.

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On April 22, we celebrate V. I. Lenin's 150th birth anniversary. Lenin was the chief theorist of the October Revolution of 1917, and one of the most important leaders of the new Soviet Republic and then the USSR. Three left presses - LeftWord Books (India), Expressão Popular (Brazil), and Batalla de Ideas (Argentina) - in collaboration with Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research have produced a joint commemorative book called Lenin 150. This volume collects Lenin's 1913 essay on 'The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism' (193), Vladimir Mayakovsky's epic poem written at Lenin's death (1924), and a brief essay by Vijay Prashad on the theory and praxis of Lenin.

Join us for the online release, along with

Sudhanva Deshpande Managing Editor, LeftWord Books

Unni Maya General Secretary, Lady Shri Ram College for Women Students Union

Subhashini Ali Member of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Vijay Prashad Chief Editor LeftWord Books

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Every year on the 1st of May we have a grand celebration of workers' rights at our bookstore. We salute workers who struggled for our rights for over a century. This year we are not able to hold the festival because of the lockdown. But we will be celebrating it online with Aamir Aziz, M D Pallavi, Prakash Karat, Tania Saleh, Aishe Ghosh, Jana Natya Manch, Jose Delgado, As Canatadeiras, Martin Espada, Aisi Taisi Democracy and Roger Waters.

Join us on May 1st at live.leftword.com from 13:30 pm (IST) onwards to celebrate the 2020 International Workers Day with music and conversation.

13:30 Aamir Aziz, poet, Mumbai

14:30 M D Pallavi, singer, Bangalore

15:30 Aishe Ghosh, JNUSU President in conversation with Vijay Prashad

16:30 Tania Saleh, Lebanese singer-songwriter

17:30 Prakash Karat, CPI(M) in conversation with Vijay Prashad

18:30 Jana Natya Manch, Delhi

19:30 Jose Delgado, singer, Venezuela

20:30 As Cantadeiras, Brazil

21:30 Martin Espada, poet, USA

22:30 Aisi Taisi Democracy, Delhi and Mumbai

23:30 Roger Waters (Pink Floyd), USA

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Comrade Subhashini Ali will be speaking on ' R B More: Link between Dalit and Communist Movement' on 11th May at 7 pm.

Join us at www.facebook.com/leftwordbooks

or at www.facebook.com/comrademarx

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ऑनलाइन लोकार्पण एवं चर्चा

कोरोना में कवि
(निःशुल्क पीडीएफ)

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ऑनलाइन लोकार्पण एवं चर्चा

आज के सवाल
प्रेमचंद के जवाब
(निःशुल्क पीडीएफ)

30 जुलाई, शाम 5 बजे
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असग़र वजाहत, रोहिणी अग्रवाल और वीरेंद्र यादव से
संजय कुंदन की बातचीत

वाम प्रकाशन, दिल्ली

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वाम विमर्श

ब्लूम्सबरी की किताब वापसी

सुधन्वा देशपांडे

प्रबंध संपादक, लेफ्टवर्ड बुक्स

मृणाल वल्लरी

पत्रकार, जनसत्ता

संजय कुंदन

संपादक, वाम प्रकाशन

शनिवार, 29 अगस्त, शाम चार बजे

Zoom ID: 898 3493 2764 Password: 605831

Limited entry on zoom. Live stream on Facebook Page

https://www.facebook.com/maydaybookstore/

वाम प्रकाशन, दिल्ली

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आज देश में असहमति और विरोध के लिए जगह कम होती जा रही है। केंद्र सरकार को अपनी नीतियों व विचारधारा की आलोचना तो बर्दाश्त नहीं ही है, वह कमजोर वर्ग के पक्ष में या सामाजिक बदलाव के लिए उठने वाली आवाजों को भी सुनना नहीं चाहती। आखिर उसे किसी भी प्रगतिकामी स्वर से क्यों घबराहट होती है? आखिर क्यों सरकार और उसके समर्थकों से भिन्न राय रखने वाले बुद्धिजीवियों को आज निशाना बनाया जा रहा है? सरकार का यह रवैया हमारे लोकतंत्र पर क्या असर डालने वाला है? इन्हीं कुछ सवालों पर सुनिए तीस्ता सेतलवाड़ के विचार।

तीस्ता सेतलवाड़ देश की जानी-मानी पत्रकार, नागरिक अधिकार, मानवाधिकार और सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता हैं। वे सिटिजेंस फॉर जस्टिस ऐंड पीस (सीजेपी) की सचिव हैं, जिसका गठन गुजरात के सांप्रदायिक दंगों के पीड़ितों को न्याय दिलाने के लिए किया गया। शोषितों और पीड़ितों को न्याय दिलाने के साथ ही वे संवैधानिक मूल्यों की प्रतिष्ठा और एक धर्मनिरपेक्ष, समावेशी व वैज्ञानिक समाज की स्थापना के लिए संघर्षरत हैं।

वाम विमर्श

विचार से डरती सरकार

तीस्ता सेतलवाड़

नागरिक अधिकार कार्यकर्ता और पत्रकार

संजय कुंदन

संपादक, वाम प्रकाशन

गुरुवार, 3 सितम्बर

शाम चार बजे

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वाम विमर्श

जाति से जंग

उर्मिलेश

पत्रकार और विचारक

प्रांजल

पत्रकार और कार्यकर्ता

संजय कुंदन

संपादक, वाम प्रकाशन

17 सितम्बर (गुरुवार)

शाम 4 बजे

Zoom id: 835 5662 3902

Password: 791654

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Studio Safdar presents Our Space — A series of conversations around theatre spaces created by theatre persons.

The creator of Seagull Studio Theatre Guwahati, Bhagirathi Bai, will be in conversation with Sudhanva Deshpande.

Thursday 24 September, 4 pm

Duration: 30 mins

Zoom id: 830 9421 7661

Passcode : 922723

Live on https://facebook.com/StudioSafdar