The Seventh Toto Annual Awards

The seventh Toto Annual Awards function will be held at the Alliance Française de Bangalore, Thimmaiah Road, Vasanth Nagar, Bangalore, on Saturday, 8 January 2010 at 6.30 p.m.

The names of the winners in all three award categories – writing (including Kannada writing), music, photography – will be announced at the function, and will be available on this blog by 11 January at the latest. The names of short-listed and long-listed applicants will also be available.

We hope you will join us at the event.

Performance Reading on 9 December

Toto Funds the Arts

is pleased to invite you to Harami Theatre’s

Trivial Disasters

(a collection of comic sketches)

Written by: Ajay Krishnan

Performed by: Arjun Shankar, Rebecca Spurgeon and Vinod Ravindran 

  Venue: Crossword Bookstore, ACR Towers, Ground Floor, 32 Residency Road,Bangalore - 1

Date and time:  Thursday, 09 December at 6.30 p.m.  

Ajay Krishnan is a short fiction writer and playwright. Butter and Mashed Banana, Excavatorsand Hair are some of his plays which have been performed at venues across the country. He is copy editor of TimeOut magazine's Bengaluru edition. Trivial Disasters is a collection of comic sketches comprising ‘Interview with Murugesh Sreekumar’, ‘The Electric Kettle’, ‘The Proposal’,‘Coming Out’ and ‘Road Safety’. The sketches were first scripted, and then developed further with the actors.

Arjun Shankar is an actor and freelance graphic designer.

 

Rebecca Spurgeon is an actor who recently appeared in Jester Productions' Equus.

 

Vinod Ravindran is an actor. He recently appeared in Park, written and directed by

Manav Kaul, and Max Frisch's The Fire Raisers, directed by Phyllis Bose.

 

Audience responses will be most welcome.