An urban writings festival

Mapping the city through its many stories

IIHS Bengaluru City Campus: 197/36, 2nd Main Road, Sadashivanagar, Bengaluru 560 080 | P +91 80 6760 6666

DAY 1 | 16 FEB, FRIDAY

10:30 - 11: 30 - NS Gundur, Padmini Ray Murray, Aromar Revi, Kaveri Gill, Neha Sami

11:45 - 12:45 Padmini Ray Murray, TB Dinesh, Meera K, Tanveer Hasan

Break

14:00 - 15:00 Aditi Surie, Mukul Kesavan

15:15 - 16:15 Reading in the City: Conversations with Bengaluru's librarians - Hamsa Kalyani, Nagappa Bakkannanavar, Sheshagiri Kulkarni,Preedip Balaji, Ananda Byrappa

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Knowing the City: Urban scholarship from the Global South

Common Knowledge: The possibilities of open access publishing -

'Uber-ed': Bengaluru's platform economy and urban subjectivities -

16:30 - 18:00 Writing for Impact: Narratives from the ground up - Supriya Sharma, Isaac Arul Selva, Mallika, Kayonaaz Kalyanwala, Raksha Kumar, Pinky Chandran, Meera K, Kanchan Kaur, Rathnamma

DAY 2 | 17 FEB, SATURDAY (All day live art by the Aravani Art Project)

10:30 - 11:30 Unravelling the Black Bag: Waste and the city - Kaveri Gill, Archana Kashyap, Kabir Arora, Siddique Pasha, Kavita Wankhade

11:45 - 12:45 Tribute to Gauri Lankesh and Readings from ‘The Way I See It: A Gauri Lankesh Reader’ - Mamta Sagar, Deepu, Surekha

Break

14:00 - 15:00 Bombay Rosie and the Art of Writerly Promiscuity - Paromita Vohra, Supriya Nair

15:15 - 16:15 Street Vendors Act: Digital storytelling as an intervention - TB Dinesh, Sruthi Krishnan, Keerthi Shastri

16:30 - 18:30 The Alipore Post Poetry Appreciation: Readings, magnetic poetry and games, curated by Rohini Kejriwal

DAY 3 | 18 FEB, SUNDAY (All day live art by the Aravani Art Project)

10:30 - 11: 30 So you think you know about children's books? - Shruti Rao, Bijal Vachharajani, Ayushi Saxena, Priya Kuriyan

11:45 - 12:45

Break

14:00 - 15:00 #CitizenMovements: How technology is reframing public participation - Srinivas Alavilli, Divya Narayanan, Ashwin Mahesh (tbc), Amogh Arakali

15:15 - 16:15 When Bangalore became Bengaluru - Vasanthi Hariprakash, audience

16:30 - 17:30 Swalpa Adjust Maadi: Taking Bengaluru to the world - Bruce Lee Mani, Shikha Nambiar, Anjum Hasan, Sriram Aravamudan, Vasanthi Hariprakash

10:30 - 12:30 My Bengaluru, My Stories: Storytelling workshop for children (8-14 yrs) - Vikram Sridhar

16:30 - 18:30 Masterclass: City as Texts - Gautam Bhan

16:30 - 18:30 Game: Made to Order with Fields of View

Parallel Sessions (Prior registration reqd.)

Parallel Session (Prior registration reqd.)

10:30 - 12:30 Writing workshop: Love and the city - Nisha Susan

Art as Intervention - The Aravani Art Project, Aastha Chauhan