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Poetry with contemporary music "Alif & Almut" Live.

Kolkata: 18.01. 6:30 PM




Alif and Almut come together once again, after their sold-out performance at Edward theatre Mumbai for Poets Translating Poets festival and a concert at Bengaluru Poetry Festival. Enjoy the sound of poetry!

© Aagaaz Theatre Trust, 2018

TheatreBhagi Hui Ladkiyan

New Delhi: 18– 20 January, 19:00, daily

The devised, ensemble piece created for intimate spaces – both real and imaginary – is a collection of stories that begin on a seemingly random day and are first hand retellings of day to day in Nizamuddin Basti. The spectator is invited to enter the performer’s world; twisting into tales of how gender and sexuality plays out in the lives of the four actors.

© Ilija Trojanow

Workshop with Ilija TrojanowTravel writing

Mumbai: 28.01.-30.01.


Trojanow will unpack the seemingly simple but actually demanding situation in which the participants, as travel writers find themselves, and in which they must craft their writing: the self, with its prior assumptions; language, as a means of approaching the world; and the world itself, in its complexity.

Photo (detail): © picture alliance/dpa-Zentralbild/Klaus Grabowski

Algorithmic GovernanceTotal surveillance

Algorithms that reward or penalise the citizens of a country on the basis of collated data – in places like China and India, “algorithmic governance” has long been a reality. But even in Germany, computer software already takes decisions that have consequences for many people’s lives.

Photo (detail): picture alliance/dpa/Stefan Jaitner

Provenance researchThe long arm of colonialism

Scheduled to open in 2019, the Humboldt Forum with its collection of objects of non-European origin was conceived as a space of cultural encounter and understanding. But serious questions have arisen about how German and European cultural institutions are responding to critical questions about the restitution of artefacts brought in by colonialism.

© Goethe-Institut | Illustration: DOON 東

PopcastPopcast - Current Music from Germany

Rock, Pop, Hip-Hop, Electro: at the beginning of every month we shine our search beacon into the nation’s studios and clubs from Kiel up north to Weilheim way down south. Together with Zündfunk, Bavarian Radio’s scene magazine, we showcase the latest music by riveting off-the-charts bands. Quality pop made in Germany can also be downloaded here by subscription.