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A DANCER and a psychotherapist have got together to hold an unusual workshop, "My Body, My Wisdom". Santha Kumar and Tripura Kashyap promise "a workshop that reconnects you with your body intelligence". Over the centuries, we have stopped trusting the body's wisdom and have lost the ability to relate to it. We have developed damaging attitudes and beliefs about it, which leads to tension. The residential workshop aims to help you befriend your body and tune in to its natural drive, using movement as a tool. Participants will engage in individual and group activities, in artwork, dialogue, movement and body awareness practices. Santha Kumar is a U.S.-trained psychotherapist while Tripura Kashyap is a well-known dancer and choreographer who has done innovative work in dance therapy. Maximum number of participants: 18. Fee: Rs. 3,300 including full board and lodging for three days and three nights. At "Fireflies', Kanakapura Road, from July 4-6. For more information call Santha Kumar at 5536359 or e-mail santhak@lycos.com
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YOU must be familiar with hotels offering off-season discounts during the monsoon, but an art gallery doing the same might surprise you. Crimson Art Gallery has been holding its Annual Monsoon Sale for almost a decade now. People get an opportunity to buy art at heavily discounted rates. You can pick up a painting or a sculpture by your favourite artist at a discount, and if you pick up a second one, you pay only 50 per cent of its discounted price. At 28, Safina Plaza, Infantry Road, till July 31.
HAMSAVARDHAN, a professional potter, is conducting a beginner's course in ceramics, which takes novices step by step through the pains and pleasures of working with clay. The course, which extends over eight Saturdays, begins with an introductory lecture and includes five hands-on classes where students will work with the material provided, as well as get a feel of the potter's wheel.
Besides learning various pottery techniques, they will get a lecture-demonstration on glazing and decorating methods. The course concludes with a trip to the Pottery Studio run by Hamsavardhan and his wife Cynthia Susan (who is also a potter) at Harohally off Kanakapura Road, around 45 km from the city. He has been conducting many such weekend workshops, and a few students have gone on to become professional potters. The beginner's course starts on July 5 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Golden Bead Montessori, 157, Richmond Road (behind Big Kids' Kemp, near Express Apartments). For more details call Hamsavardhan on 7562912.
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IF you see a stream of vintage and classic cars puttering along the streets of Bangalore today, you might notice that they are all manufactured by the Ford Motor Company. The Ford Centenary Celebration Rally is being organised in association with Autocar India and the Karnataka Vintage and Classic Car Club. The rally will be flagged off on June 29 at 10.30 a.m. from Palace Grounds, and will cover a distance of about 25 km for vintage and classic cars, and 70 km for modern ones.
C.K. MEENA
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