Visthar invites you to the Bhoomi Habba, a festival celebrating Justice and Peace on May 5 in Bangalore. This annual festival includes an International Food Festival, a Documentary Film Festival, Poster Exhibitions, Dolls Exhibition, Art Workshops for Children, Music, Dance and Theatre. Held at the green, environmentally friendly Visthar campus, the festival will showcase traditional foods from 10 countries – Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, India, Burma, Bangladesh, Philippines and Africa. The film festival screens documentaries from around the country on urgent, contemporary issues. Exhibitions of posters and dolls invite visitors to engage with struggles for justice across India. The objective of the festival is to increase peoples' awareness of justice and peace issues. A vibrant participatory democracy calls for such informed citizens. As in the previous years, there will be stalls selling traditional handicrafts and traditional varieties of rice. The Bhoomi Habba is held between 10:00am – 6:00pm on May 5, 2012 at the Visthar campus, near Kothanur, off Hennur Road, Bangalore.
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Saturday May 5, 2012 at Visthar Bangalore
Visthar invites you to a Poster Exhibition celebrating peoples' struggles for Justice and Peace on May 5 in Bangalore. Held at the green, environmentally friendly Visthar campus, the poster exhibition presents posters from around the country on urgent, contemporary issues. The poster exhibition will highlight peoples' struggle around India against the Violence of Development. This year, we have posters and cartoons from different struggles: anti-nuclear struggles, the Bhopal campaign, and the struggles of the victims of Agent Orange. The Poster Exhibition will be accompanied by an International Food Festival, Documentary Film Festival, Dolls Exhibition, Art Workshops for Children, Music, Dance and Theatre. The Poster Exhibition, organized as part sof the Bhoomi Habba, is held between 10:00am – 6:00pm on May 5, 2012 at the Visthar campus, near Kothanur, off Hennur Road, Bangalore.
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Saturday May 5, 2012 at Visthar Bangalore
Visthar invites you to "Dolls Speak", an Exhibition of Dolls by Belgian doll-maker Francoise Bosteels on May 5 in Bangalore. Held at the green, environmentally friendly Visthar campus, the exhibition will present miniature dolls depicting daily life from India and the violence of development. Francoise Bosteels' dolls have travelled around the world from India to Latin America inspiring people to share their stories. They are about people forgotten in our memory. Though silent, the dolls eloquently give them a voice. Created over a period of 32 years, the dolls have moved people to write poems about the oppression and hopes in daily life. The Dolls Exhibition will be accompanied by an International Food Festival, Documentary Festival, Poster Exhibitions, Art Workshops for Children, Music, Dance and Theatre. The Dolls Exhibition, organized as part of the Bhoomi Habba, is held between 10:00am – 6:00pm on May 5, 2012 at the Visthar campus, near Kothanur, off Hennur Road, Bangalore.
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