Mumbai Diary: Tuesday Dossier

A brush with divinityA worker paints statues of saints of Maharashtra ahead of the Ashadi Ekadashi festival at Dahisar West on MondayFor the kids by the kidsCurrent Conservation CC is a magazine that as the name suggests features articles on the issue of conservation tackled through a scientific lens They also have an annual supplement called Current Conservation Kids which is aimed at readers between the ages of six and 14 The editors have now put out an open call for submissions for this supplement with different categories such as A Day in the Life which will have entries that detail the daily lives of a specific creature tree or habitat Storytelling which entails fiction pieces of mythology or nature and Fun Facts which will have a visual narrative ldquoCC rests on three pillars mdash conservation science storytelling and a visual narrative When we receive an article we ask is it based on sound science Does it tell a good story Is it imaginative We love an engaging narrative simple jargonfree language and sharp observationsrdquo shared managing editor and art editor Manini Bansal in pic To know more visit currentconservationorgLens on cultureHerersquos good news for fans of world cinema Culture Cinema 2021 is an ongoing film festival supported by UNESCO which celebrates movies from across the globe featuring 75 entries from 21 countries selected by a jury that consists of Indian actor Ramesh Tekwani filmmaker Ritesh Taksande and director Vinod Ganatra among others Some of the selected films include No Heaven for Gunga Din Iran in pic that follows the story of a bestselling bookrsquos publication Nightingales in Berlin Finland which is about a music band and Sir CV Raman India which follows the life of the famous scientist The programming also includes virtual workshops and panel discussions and the movies are available for viewing on moviesaintscom till July 21 Its festival director Praveen Nagda told us ldquoCulture has the power to bring humanity closer and that seems to have been demonstrated here via the enthusiastic participation of filmmakers from all over the worldrdquoTheatre artistes get a legupSelected participants will get to use Harkat Studiosrsquo space for 14 daysHarkat Studios in Andheri is lending theatre artistes a helping hand at a time when they are struggling during the pandemic They have started a microresidency programme as part of which selected artistes and theatre groups will be given the studiorsquos space to work on a semideveloped idea which will be staged for a private audience at the end of the period ldquoThe inspiration for this idea came from something that Sunil Shanbag had done with Tamaasha Theatre some years agordquo Harkat cofounder Karan Talwar told this diaristArt gets mappedAn Art Walks Mumbai event before the pandemic hit last yearRecognising that many public artworks had been devoured by the busy city landscape over the years Art Walks Mumbai AWM founders Alisha Sadikot and Nishita Zachariah launched the Public Art Map Project a Googlebased map that works as a kind of database or repository of all unnoticed or often forgotten public artworks murals and sculptures ldquoThe idea is to catalogue places or artworks that are in the public realm but are fast disappearingrdquo shared AWM cofounder Zachariah The map invites submissions from citizens and currently has around 21 such works like the Start Indiarsquos Worli Diary project the Dabbawala Statue at Tardeo and other sites across the city To check out this initiative visit artwalksmumbai on InstagramPalate of poetryOnline poetry platform The Alipore Post has joined hands with Museum of Arts and Photography in Bengaluru for an exhibition that marries art with food poetry It features poems that are themed on food and which will add a layer to the artworks that are on display ldquoThere is one poem on chillies for instance which was born out of a specific artwork on the same subject We wanted to bring out how food has played a vital part in peoplersquos lives during the pandemicrdquo shared The Alipore Post founder Rohini Kejriwal