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Student? Interested in a media career? Check this out.

Sophia Institute of Social Communications is organising ‘Media Mirror’, a day-long event featuring prominent media personalities. Starts 9 am onwards.

This is a chance for students looking to make the switch to a media career after consultation with the experts – under one roof will be present filmmaker Raju Hirani, RJ Malishka, journalist Ayaz Memon, author Jerry Pinto, filmmaker Abhishek Kapoor and many more eminent personalities.

Sophia Institute for Social Communications Media (SCMSophia) will host ‘Media Mirror’ today. The event is aimed at undergraduates from colleges across Mumbai, especially those looking for unique learning experiences and not-to-be-missed opportunities to interact with industry leaders. Media heavyweights across feature films, sports journalism, radio jockeying, documentary film making, digital media and more will speak and conduct master classes at the event. Says Dr Sunitha Chitrapu, Head of Department, “’Media Mirror’ is our attempt to encourage young people to go beyond being passive consumers and to really pay attention to the media and the role it plays in all our lives. Increased media literacy is the goal of the event”.

What attendees can look forward to are these: Filmmaker Raju Hirani will be in conversation with Meera Sanyal about media and social change; RJ Malishka will conduct a masterclass on radio, Ayaz Memon will speak on media and social change and director Abhishek Kapoor will address the issue of media and gender. Says Malishka, “Media is a double-edged sword. Used responsibly, it is a tool for wonderful social change and of course, entertainment. More and more young people are attracted to media as a career option. To me personally, radio has been a very satisfying medium and a very creative one. My journey with radio has been an adventure and I’m very excited to share it at the masterclass, and chat with the ones who will be next in line to take this medium further.”

For further details, call 022 2352 1104/98190 32120 or email scmsophia@gmail.com for full event schedule. Head to Sophia Institute of Social Communications Media, Sophia Polytechnic, Bhulabhai Desai Road for the event.

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A match, 11 men and 11 boys

A team of young boys played cricket against a team of senior citizens – and lost! – in Borivli yesterday.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

At the very start, the younger team of cricketers was quietly advised to “take it easy” on their opponents – after all, the opposition was much advanced in years, with their youngest player 62 years old, and the oldest was 73 years old! But from the first over itself, the seniors showed the youngsters who the boss was, by claiming wickets in quick succession and bowling out the youngsters for 112 runs in 72 overs.

The country’s first ’16 v/s 60′ cricket match was played yesterday, where a team of youngsters (the team’s average age was 20 years) played against a team comprising senior citizens. The event was conceptualised by Silver Innings in partnership with Pushpa Ma Foundation and The Metrognome, and was held on the BMC ground near St Anne’s School, LT Road. The youth team belonged to the Silver Innings Football Club, an organisation that works with senior citizens and their families.

 

The jubilant seniors’s team won by 7 wickets and with five overs to spare. “We organised this event because we believe that our elders have the wisdom and experience to help and support the youth to bring the required change to create a generation-friendly world,” said Sailesh Mishra of Silver Innings. “We are happy to have organised this innovative programme for intergenerational solidarity. We hope to create awareness and sensitise the youth towards our elders, and what better than sports to develop this idea?” he added. 

(Pictures courtesy Silver Innings)
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Talk: Japan’s post-war avant-garde

Jnanapravah to host ‘Gutai’s World’ a talk by Dr Alexandra Munroe at Fort this evening. Artists and historians, take note.

As part of its ‘Criticism and Theory’ module, Jnanapravaha is hosting a talk titled ‘Gutai’s World: Japan’s postwar avant-garde and the fate of internationalism’ by Dr Alexandra Munroe

In spring 2013, the Guggenheim Museum presented the first US museum retrospective exhibition ever devoted to Gutai, the most influential artists’ collective and artistic movement in postwar Japan and among the most important international avant-garde movements active anywhere in the world during the 1950s and ‘60s.

Founded by the visionary artist Yoshihara Jiro in 1954, the Gutai group spanned two generations, totalling 59 Japanese artists over its 18-year history. The name ‘Gutai’ literally means ‘concreteness and captures the direct engagement with materials its members championed under Yoshihara’s call to “Do what no one has done before!” and to elicit “the scream of matter itself.”

From its earliest festival-like events, Gutai artists sought to break down the barriers between art, the ordinary public, and everyday life, and continuously took on new artistic challenges using the body in direct action with materials, time and space, nature and technology.

Dr Munroe will discuss Gutai’s extraordinary range of bold and innovative creativity; examine its aesthetic strategies in the cultural, social and political context of postwar Japan, including its relationship with the traditional arts; and will argue for the need to establish Gutai in an expanded, transnational history and critical discourse of modern art.

The talk is at 6.30 pm today, January 23. Head to Jnanapravah, Queen’s Mansion, 3rd floor, G Talwatkar Marg, Fort. Entry is free.

(Compiled by Medha Kulkarni. Picture courtesy Jnanapravah Mumbai)

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Sony launches Vaio Flip

Available in three screen sizes and with prices starting from Rs 94,990, this new device might just take your fancy.
by Manik Kakra

Sony today launched its hybrid Vaio Flip in India. Offered in 13-inch, 14-inch, and 15-inch screen sizes, this hybrid is being touted as a combination of the traditional notebook and tablet form factors. The USP of the Vaio Flip is its swivel screen, which has an additional hinge at the centre to rotate the screen at 180 degrees. So, you can use the device as a complete tablet, swivel the screen back to use as a notebook, or rotate the screen the other way to use it as a screen like a digital photo frame for your need.

Hardware: This Windows 8 device (upgradable to Windows 8.1) comes in various processor options. Its 15-inch model (F15N17) comes loaded with Intel’s fourth generation 1.8 GHz i7 processor, 2 GB nVidia graphics card, and 8 GB of RAM. Then there is one 15-inch and one 14-inch model that come with 1.6 GHz i5 processor and 4 GB of RAM, along with 1 GB nVidia graphics card and Intel 4400 graphics card, respectively.

13Fall_VAIO_Fit_13A_Flip_SAll these models have 1 TB of hybrid storage (SSD + HDD) disks, while the 13-inch (F13N) model, which the company is marketing more as a tablet than laptop, comes with 4 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD and is powered by 1.6 GHz i3 processor. All the models have got 1920 x 1080 HD screens, and have the Windows 8 Home button at the screen’s bottom. The 13-inch model also comes with a dedicated USB 3.0 port that can be used for charging your smartphones and tablets even when your Vaio Flip has been shut down.

Other features: Connectivity-wise, there is Bluetooth, WiFi, HDMI port, USB 3.0 ports. It has an 8 MP rear camera; and a 2 MP front-facing camera.

Price points: Sony is giving its MDR-XB-920 headphones free for every buyer till the end of March 2014, and you can also get an extended warranty for a discounted price for a limited time period.  The F13N1A has been priced at Rs 99,990, and comes in silver and black colours; F14N16 at Rs 94,990, and F15N12 at Rs 1,04,990, and F15N17 for Rs 1,19,990, and come in only silver colour.

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Screening: French film ‘La Fille du 14 Juillet’

The French film will compete for ‘My French Film Festival’, the world’s first online film fest that is currently underway.
by Medha Kulkarni

Today, January 20, 2014, the Institut Français will present the film La Fille du 14 Juillet as part of the ‘My French Film Festival’.

My French Film Festival is the first online French film fest in the world, and is currently underway, having started on January 17, 2014. It will conclude on February 17, 2014. During this month, cinema lovers from the world over will be able to access online 10 feature films and 10 short films in 13 languages. On this occasion, Alliance Française de Bombay will present a film in competition.

La Fille du 14 Juillet is a 1988 film by Antonin Peretjatko. The films tells the story of Hector who encounters Truquette at the Louvre on July 14, he’s had only one thing in mind: to seduce this girl whom he’s mad about. The best way to do so is to take her to the seaside. His pal Pator agrees wholeheartedly, particularly if she comes along with her friend Charlotte…

The film is lighthearted and playful. The cinematography is beautiful, filled as it is with stunning vistas of France.

The film is subtitled in English and entry is free although seating is limited. Head to Alliance Française Auditorium, New Marine Lines today at 6.30 pm.

(Picture courtesy www.20minutes.fr)

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Screening: Have You Seen The Arana?

Alliance Française Auditorium is screening 2012 documentary that examines the relationship between man and nature, today in partnership with Vikalp.

What happens when we finally manage to wipe out our natural resources, especially our farmlands? A 1973 documentary by Sunanda Bhat, Have You Seen The Arana? attempts to answer this question.

A traditional healer’s concern over the disappearance of medicinal plants from the forest, a farmer’s commitment to growing traditional varieties of rice organically and a cash crop cultivator’s struggle to survive amidst farmers’ suicides, offer fresh insights into shifting relations between people, their knowledge systems and the environment. As hills flatten, forests disappear and traditional knowledge systems are forgotten, the film reminds us that this diversity could disappear forever, to be replaced by monotonous and unsustainable alternatives.

Sunanda worked on the film for over six years, looking for ways to capture and represent the complexity of the people and place. Much of the film rests on the relationships she was able to build with the characters over this period.

The film is presented in partnership with the Vikalp Film Archive. The screening of the film will be followed by an interaction with the filmmaker.

Head to Alliance Française Auditorium, New Marine Lines, today at 6.30 pm.

(Compiled by Medha Kulkarni. Picture courtesy dearcinema.com)

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