Pune International Film Festival
Find out what’s happening in Pune this weekend.
Pune International Film Festival
PIFF attracts dignitaries from the national and international film fraternity. Attracting worldwide attention, films under the categories Country Focus, World Cinema, Retrospectives, Indian Panorama, Music ‘n’ sound, NFAI, Tributes and so on will be showcased. Delegates can register their films from December 25 to January 14. The fest will be presided over by Suresh Kalmadi, MP, and Jabbar Patel, director-PIFF and eminent filmmaker.
Venue: Pune
Date: 7th Jan to 14th Jan’10
Sawai Gandharva Music Festival
The 57th Sawai Gandharva Music Festival has much more to offer to the music lovers this year besides regular concerts.
A photography exhibition as a tribute to Kirana Gharana vocalists, Gangubai Hangal and Pt Firoz Dastur, and a parallel session of music masters to help music enthusiasts develop an ear for the music will be the highlights of this year’s festival.
Another interesting event will be “Antarang” where music connoisseurs will conduct sessions for keen listeners of Indian classical music. A film festival will also be held at Sawai Gandharva Smarak that will show some where rare films on music maestros.
Venue: Pune Rahul Cinema
Date: 7th to 9th Jan’10
Creative Design Competition
An inter-NGO fashion and creative design competition is being organized by Innocent Heroes Foundation in collaboration with Symbiosis Institute of Design (SID). The workshop named Unity — united in spirit, intent on one purpose, a rainbow of hope will be attended by eight NGO’s with 40 underprivileged children.
Venue: Symbiosis Campus, Viman Nagar
Date: 4th to 9th Jan’10
Glimpses of Watercolors – Painting Exhibition
Artist Sachin Naik’s paintings titled Glimpses of Watercolors will be on display and include some of his finest paintings like landscapes featuring villages, house beaches in Konkan, old houses in Pune and temples at Keshi and Humpi.
Venue: India art Gallery, Patrakar Nagar Road, Off Senapati Bapat Road
Date: 7th to 13th Jan’10
Photo Vision – Photography Exhibition
Shutterbugs is organizing Photo Vision – Photography Exhibition, featuring exhibition of wildlife and nature photographs.
Venue: Balgandharva Art Gallery, J M Road
Date: 6th to 9th Jan’10
City of Joy – Painting Exhibition
Bringing the lanes and by-lanes of City of Joy, artist Dilip Chowdhary, takes one for a joyride of the culturally rich Kolkata through his paintings. The paintings include glimpses of old city with hand-pulled rickshaw and market areas being presented in myriads of shades.
Date: 5th Jan to 12th Jan’10
Calendar 2010
Catch the group show titled Calendar 2010 – a montage of contemporary Indian aesthetic inclinations.
Venue: Waves Art Gallery, B 204, Parmar Trade Centre, Sadhu Vaswani Chowk
Date: 8th Jan to 16th Jan’10
Ecoscope – Wildlife Photography Exhibition
The city is hosting Ecoscope – a nature and wildlife photography exhibition organized by Foliage Outdoors. Entering its seventh year, the event is a platform for budding and amateur wildlife photographers who have managed to capture the fantastic natural beauty and diversity of our country. The exhibition would also host a contest for all the visitors – the “Evergreen Eco-caption Competition”. In this competition, participants are expected to create their own slogans based on the theme of nature.
Venue: Yashwantrao Chavan Art Gallery
Date: 6th Jan to 10th Jan’10
Innovations 2010
The IIT Bombay Alumni Association (IITBAA), Pune Chapter will organize ‘Innovations 2010,’ its annual event that provides platform to innovators for showcasing their innovations.
Venue: Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems, 402, Senapati Bapat Road
Date: 9th Jan’10
Time: 9 am to 6:30 pm
Drumming Workshop
There is an awesome drumming workshop happening in Pune City only for the ladies!!!
Ladies bring out a brand new side to you this New Years! Inspire yourself with International Videos of Female Drummers and learn to play the most popular rock beat!
Venue: Just Drums, Next to Balaji Temple, Sus Road, Pashan
Date: 10th Jan’10
Contact: 9823464048
Entry Fees: Rs.100 (Inclusive of Refreshments and VCD)
Fair One Miss Pune 2010
The Miss Pune Fashion and Beauty pageant has been a much awaited event amongst the young and beautiful in Pune, for over a few years. ‘Fair One’ from the house of Elder, has signed an agreement to host the pageant for the next three years beginning 2010. ‘Fair One Miss Pune 2010” entries for which open today, will be presented by Gitanjali, in association with Chronotech, with a grand finale. The 1st ‘Fair One Miss Pune 2010, queen stands to win a cache of gifts from a host of sponsors, besides a cash prize.
Venue: Corinthians Club, Pune.
Date: 10th Jan’10
Sketching and Painting Workshop at Aperture India
This workshop is an introduction to the classic genre of Landscape, Still Life, Portrait and abstract Painting. The workshop will explore the better world of colors and use of techniques in different styles of painting and sketching.
Venue: Aperture India, First Floor, Connaught Place, Near Wadia College, Bund Garden Road.
Date: 12the Dec’09 to 17th Jan’10
Time: 09:00am-11:00am
Bonjour India Festival
To strengthen the ties between India and France, the Bonjour India Festival will be held in Pune throughout December and January where the European nation will showcase different facets of the country to Indians.
Venue: Pune
Date: 10th Dec’09 to 31st Jan’10
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