Events

Vision, Strategic Framework and Plan of Action (2010-11)

The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, (MGNREGA) was enacted on 7th September 2005 as “An Act to provide for the enhancement of livelihood security of the households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of Guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household".

Organizer: Indian National Trust For Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH)

Venue:  Kudlu village

Description:

INTACH Bangalore is pleased to announce our next Parichay, which will be about the tank systems of Bangalore. Our walk leader, Rohan DSouza, a researcher at NIAS, will talk to us about the series of reservoirs that were created to harvest rainwater in Bangalore, using the example of the 1100-year-old settlement and tank at Kudlu village.

13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC)

Theme: "Sustaining Commons: Sustaining Our Future"          

Organizers:

• International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC)
• Foundation for Ecological Security (FES)

Venue: Hyderabad, India.

Description:

The 13th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) will be held in Hyderabad, India from January 10th to 14th, 2011. The Conference is being held in South Asia for the first time; and in a departure from the past, will be hosted by a practitioner organization - Foundation for Ecological Security (FES).

Organizer: Toxics Link In collaboration with India International Centre

Venue: Conference Room I, India International Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi.

Description:

“A little water is a sea to an ant.” An eco system is made up of many small parts, which could be erroneously thought of as insignificant. Within the intersection of mega scale urban planning and the impacts of climate the almost lost traditional water systems of Delhi need to be revisited urgently. The imminent challenge is to explore these water systems in the context of new urbanizations, and evolve meaningful ways in which they can coexist, for ecological security.

This past weekend was the only international film festival on water, worldwide—Voices from the Water, held in Bangalore in several different locations. Working for a water NGO, I made my schedule free to catch up on some of these movies, to understand what the current issues are and what the film circle is capturing through their lens that we don’t necessarily see from our biased eyes.

Reviews of some of the movies screened -

“Be water, My friend”

This UNESCO funded film, “Be water, My friend” tracks the research of Professor Gordon Lightgoot, an expert on ancient water monuments as he tries to understand and rectify the alarming drying up of Karez’s in northern Iragi region of Kurdistan.

Organizer:  Voices from the Waters

Venue:  Era Organic, #348, Dollars Colony, R.M.V Club Double Road. R.M.V. II Stage, Bangalore 560 094

The screening will be followed by an interaction with Film Maker  Ms. Swathi Dandekar.