Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata

The interactive exhibition Games & Politics, on display at the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata February 5th – 28th, 2019, encourages the visitor to try out sixteen significant politically-ambitious video games and examine how they each unfold their unique political potential.
The exhibition comprises 18 video games. Visitors can actively play and try out 16 games on computer terminals or just watch them as videos. Discussions, talks and workshops accompany the exhibition.
The exhibition will be inaugurated at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata Auditorium on Tuesday, 5th February 2019 at 6:30 pm.
Timings: 5-28 February 2019, 11.00 am to 6:30 pm (daily, except for public holidays and Sundays)
Open to all
This exhibition is enabled by the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and is part of “The Kolkata Festival” as well as a collateral for the “CIMA Awards”.

Videogames have far outpaced other entertainment media worldwide in terms of their extremely rapid growth-rate. In 2008, the videogame Grand Theft Auto IV sailed into the record books after selling 3.6 million copies in 24 hours. For a time considered ‘recession-proof’, the game industry is doing well and the effect is evident in new geographies for gaming culture such as India.The lack of awareness of videogame as a medium have caused a lack of global-standard game writing and the use of the medium to carry the powerful message through interactivities.
It is eminently necessary to open up the conversation on videogames as a storytelling medium and on how they have a serious impact on culture and society.
This workshop aims to redress this lack providing a unique opportunity for those who like writing stories and experimenting with new media.
Deadline for registrations: 5th February 2019. Log on to our website for details and eligibility.
 

In 1968 tens of thousands of youths from California to Kolkata took to streets demanding radical political and societal changes. On the fiftieth anniversary of the global youth movements, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata in collaboration with  the Centre of Advanced Study, Phase III, of the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University presents a week-long of programme including an exhibition, panel discussions, theatre performance, music and film shows.
The whole programme is open to all and will take place in the Jadavpur University, Kolkata campus.

For ten days in February, Kolkata will celebrate. There will be music and art and food and dance. It will be in the city’s iconic venues but it will also be on the streets and in the parks.
The exhibition "Games and Politics" is brought to Kolkata and presented by the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and is part of “The Kolkata Festival”

A1 Weekday & Weekend Courses starting from 18 March & 11 May 2019. Registration is on first come first served basis. For further queries please get in touch with the Language Department.