Finding Your Voice: Two-day Workshop conducted by Anmol Vellani

Finding Your Voice

Two–Day Workshop 

29th & 30th, August, 2015

Toto Funds the Arts, in association with British Council Library, Bangalore is offering a voice workshop conducted by

Anmol Vellani

Venue: British Council Library, Prestige Takt, 23 Kasturba Road Cross (Opposite Visvesvaraiah Industrial and Technological Museum), Bangalore.

Dates: August 29 & 30 (Saturday & Sunday) 2015.

Time:  10.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.

Fee:  Rs 3,000 inclusive of tea, coffee and snacks.

  

About the workshop

This workshop will explore the whole physiological apparatus of voice production. Apart from introducing participants to exercises to warm up, prepare and protect the voice, it will focus on how voice quality, fullness and projection are enhanced by using the muscles in the torso, correct breathing, engaging the palate and resonators, and discovering the natural pitch of your voice. 

Eligibility and deadline

The workshop will be restricted to 20 participants between the ages of 18 and 40. The workshop is expected to benefit actors, musicians, public speakers, teachers and other professionals whose work requires them to use their voice frequently and extensively. 

To apply, please send a bio-note and a short statement of interest, especially a few lines on what you see as the challenges and problems you have with your voice. Applications should be sent latest by August 15, 2015 by email to sarita.tfaindia@gmail.com.

Selected participants will be expected to memorize a few lines of a text for the workshop, preferably an excerpt from a speech or a play, in a language which they are most comfortable speaking. 

About the facilitator

ANMOL VELLANI has directed more than 40 plays in Pune, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore and Cambridge, U.K.  His recent productions have been Eugene Ionesco’s Exit the King, Georg Buchner’s Woyzeck, Slawomir Mrozek’s Tango and An Evening with Anton Chekhov. He has conducted numerous workshops for actors and corporate executives. He is the founder and former executive director of India Foundation for the Arts. 

Jaideep Varma: Film Screenings

Toto Funds the Arts

with The Department of Communication Studies, 

Mount Carmel College (Autonomous)

is proud to present the fourth edition of

‘New Voices in Indian Cinema’

with a screening and discussion of four films by Jaideep Varma

Baavra Mann, Leaving Home, I Am Offended & Hulla 

Dates: Saturday, 8 August & Sunday, 9 August 2015

Time: 10.30 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. on both days

Venue: Diamond Jubilee Auditorium, Mount Carmel College,

58, Palace Road, Vasanthanagar, Bengaluru 560 052

Entry Free! 

Programme

8 August, Saturday, 10.30 a.m.

I Am Offended!  (102 minutes) 

8 August, Saturday, 2.30 p.m.

Baavra Mann – a film on Sudhir Mishra & Other Indian Realities (127 minutes)

9 August, Sunday, 10.30 a.m. 

Leaving Home – The Life and Music of Indian Ocean (115 minutes)

9 August, Sunday, 2.30 p.m.

Hulla (107 minutes)

The screenings will be followed by an interaction with the director, Jaideep Varma.

Jaideep Varma, who worked in advertising till 2000, has directed 3 full-length documentary films—on music, cinema and standup comedy. His ‘Leaving Home – the Life & Music of Indian Ocean’ won the National Award in 2011. He also wrote and directed a fiction film ‘Hulla’ in 2008. He is the creator of Impact Index, the best analytics system in cricket today in the world, now a part of Wisden India. He published his novel ‘Local’ in 2005.

ABOUT THE FILMS 

I AM OFFENDED! (2014) 

A documentary feature about standup comedy in India in the overall context of humour and the culture of offence.

BAAVRA MANN (2013)

A documentary feature on the life and work of filmmaker Sudhir Mishra. Through this prism the filmmaker examines the declining creative and cultural scene in India. 

LEAVING HOME (2010) 

A documentary featuring one of India’s most significant music bands, Indian Ocean. It showcases their music and tells their remarkable story of overcoming the odds without compromising their integrity.

HULLA (2008)

A Hindi fiction feature film, an energetic black comedy centred on the subject of private space.

Play Reading: Parvathy Raveendran's 'The Witches'

Toto Funds the Arts

and 

British Council Library

are pleased to invite you to 

A rehearsed reading of Parvathy Raveendran’s play 

The Witches 

Directed by Abhishek Majumdar, award-winning playwright and director, the reading will be performed by Cathy Laby, Surabhi Herur, Nishant Seth, Tony Xavier, Abhijit Pakrashi, Ajay Kshatriya and Sunayna Premchander

Sound: Abhijit Pakrashi and Nishant Seth

Date and Time:  Saturday, 25 July 2015, 6.30 p.m.

Venue:  The British Council Library, Prestige Takt, 23 Kasturba Road Cross, Bangalore (Opposite Visveswaraiah Industrial and Technological Museum)

About the play

The Witches is a play in nine scenes that unfolds as a series of dream sequences—memories re-enacted in the mind of the protagonist as she confronts an intense episode of her childhood. The narrative shifts in time between the 1970s in Kerala and the present day. Exploring the themes of love and its abuse, madness and sanity, history and memory, it draws references from literature, myth, and history to negotiate these ideas, and relies on a stage design based on the game of hopscotch to play them out.

PARVATHY RAVEENDRAN is a writer and theatre enthusiast who currently teaches at Head Start Educational Academy in Bangalore. While a student at the Department of English in the University of Delhi she was awarded a Charles Wallace grant in 2010 for travel and research in the UK. Over the past years her growing interest in theatre has led her to explore various facets of theatre making—from writing and directing to nonverbal languages of performance as an actor. She looks forward to a long-term and more holistic engagement with theatre, integrating elements from her other interests such as art history and the visual arts, dance and pedagogy.