Here’s what’s happening in Gujarat this week (March 26 to April 2)
AHNA CARES — Paintings of Nature to save lives
About the Event: An art exhibition by Ramesh Vyas, who has donated his paintings to AHNA CARES, is being organised by Ahmedabad Hospitals and Nursing Home Association. The proceeds will be used to support patients in ICU and on ventilator support.
Venue: Ellisbridge Gymkhana, Ahmedabad
Host/Organiser: AHNA
Time and Date: March 26 from 2 pm to 7 pm, March 27 from 11 am to 2 pm
Design and Feminisms – Looking at our work and how we made it — from NID Archives
About the Event: To celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8, NID Archives curated a collection of artefacts that were shared on the NID Archives’ Instagram account (@archives nid) from March 8 to 12, including rare books, vinyl records, and student and faculty projects in print, audio, visual, and mixed media.
The creators of the featured artefacts will talk about their work process in these projects, what the subjects meant to them then and now, and how they explored the medium in a panel discussion that will follow this Instagram series.
Venue: Online Zoom discussion, register here
Host/Organiser: National Institute of Design, Wikipedia Foundation and Art+Feminism
Time and Date: March 26, 4 pm to 6 pm
‘One is to One’ – Exhibition of Stories, Practice, and Collaboration of Kamal Mangaldas and Devendra Shah
About the Event: The exhibition showcases the Ahmedabad based collaborative practice of architect Kamal Mangaldas and structural engineer Devendra Shah, displaying work from their practice ‘Design Associates’, which they partnered in 1964.
With four decades (1964–2006) of practice, the work includes pioneering projects such as the Jaishefali Row Houses in 1974, Shanku’s Water Park.
CEPT Archives now houses the digital collection of this practice, containing over 10,000 drawings recording the execution of over 400 projects, bearing testimony to the complexity of practising architecture in post-colonial India.
Host/Organiser: CEPT
Venue, Date and Time: CEPT Exhibition Centre (CEC), Lilavati Lalbhai Library at CEPT University, Ahmedabad, where it will be open for public viewing from March 12 to 31, 11 am to 7 pm daily. It will then move to CEPT Archives Gallery AES Premises near Commerce Six Crossroads, from April 8.
Adhantar – A Play
About the Event: With the portrayal of the life of a Bombay mill worker family, the play represents the struggles of a family where the entire psychological and physical energy of each member is invested and occupied in managing their basic needs, resulting in human relationships taking a backseat.
Venue: Rhaen Basera Theatre – House for Art , 647/2, Off Billionaire Street, Karnavati Club – Mumatpura Road – 380054, Ahmedabad
Book tickets here, Rs 300 per seat
Date and Time: March 26, 8 pm to 10:15 pm
Spirit of India – Treasure of Traditional Visual Art
About the Event: With an aim to reflect the vast diversity of various regions and cultures through Indian visual art, Kalyan Joshi will exhibit ‘Phad’ paintings, a religious style of scroll and folk painting from Rajasthan, done on a long piece of cloth
Organiser: Indian Arts Collective in collaboration with Mangalbaug Gallery
Venue: Mangalbaug Galeery, near Parimal Garden, Ahmedabad
Date and Time: April 1 and 2, 11 am to 7 pm
Enter at Your Own Risk
About the Event: A play based on Sa’adat Manto’s stories from the 1947 Partition, reimagining what Manto would have written today if he had witnessed the country’s chaos.
Venue: Scrapyard the Theatre, Paldi, Ahmedabad
Date and Time: April 1, 8 pm
Tickets: Call on +91 7698201299, 9978001005