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SUMMARY:Writing Life, An immersive contemplative writing workshop, led by Vidya Rao (Registration Closed)
DESCRIPTION:Each one of us has lived and is living life. Each one has experiences of joy and hardship, sadness, and moments of deep understanding. Each of us has lived lives from which we have learned much, each one of us knows that with all its hardships and pain our lives are beautiful, and an opportunity to grow in beauty and understanding. And hopefully, we see our life as an opportunity to spread this sense of beauty to all.\nThis workshop will be for a week Five Days- and will allow us to share through recollection, imagining, experiencing, and writing, the beauty and pain of human existence and our potential for coming through suffering to a space of pure joy. This joy does not preclude the understanding of suffering. But it does see our living as deeply transformative, both for our own selves and for others.\nEvery day will start with silent meditation, and some simple body movements to honor and awaken mind and body and to come to the awareness of ourselves in the world.\nWorkshop sessions will be every day for total 4 hours. (930am-1130am : 230pm-430pm)\nMorning sessions will begin with reading aloud a passage from an existing book.\nDuring afternoon sessions, we will share our writing done in the morning, and then we can discuss our work. Why did we choose to write the way we did? How did we respond to each other’s stories? Etc.\nImportantly we will discuss—this may best be done towards the end of the workshop—how recollecting, writing, sharing, can be a form of healing for difficult memories. Or can be a deep sharing of beautiful ones. How writing can be a healing and a blessing for ourselves and for the world.\nParticipants may remember that all writing MUST be done by hand, with a pen or pencil on paper (preferably a notebook). No computers to be used. We will discuss the differences of writing by hand/working by hand, and working with a machine-like tool. What is the aesthetic of writing by hand? Does the writing feel different both physically and emotionally? Is it slower or faster, and how does that change the way we think and express our thoughts?\nLimited Seats to 10 participants.\nVidya Rao is a performer of thumri-dadra and ghazal. For many years the\ndisciple of the legendary singer, the late Vidushi Naina Devi, she continued\nher study of this form under the late Vidushi Shanti Hiranand and the late\nVidushi Girija Devi. Her initial training in khayal was under the late Prof.\nB.N. Datta and thereafter under Pandit Mani Prasad.\nShe studied Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics and has worked\nas a Research Associate with the Administrative Staff of India (Hyderabad)\nand the Centre for Women’s Development Studies (Delhi). She has been\nEditor, Social Sciences with Orient Blackswan Publishers (Delhi), where\nshe now continues to work as an Editorial Consultant.\nAn award-winning artist, Vidya Rao has performed at national and\ninternational forums to appreciative audiences. She has lectured at many\nforums and has conducted workshops and lecture demonstrations. She\nhas composed and sung for the theatre, film, and dance, and has also\nrecorded several CDs.\nHer repertoire ranges over thumri-dadra, ghazal, and allied forms, the songs\nof medieval Sufi and bhakti poets, verses from Hindu and Buddhist texts\nand the Islamic forms of naat, soz, nauha etc.\nShe has also researched and written extensively on music and the\nperforming arts. Her research and writing work has focused on gender and\nmusical form, and her work has been published in academic journals and\nas chapters in books. Her book ‘Heart to Heart: Remembering Nainaji’ is\na memoir of life with her guru Naina Devi.\nVidya Rao was the recipient of a Fellowship from the Ford Foundation, and\na Senior Fellowship from the Department of Culture, GOI. She has been\nVisiting Professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru\nUniversity, New Delhi, and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Advanced\nThe study, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. In 2012-2013, she was a Fellow at the\nInstitute of Advanced Studies, Nantes, France. In 2014 she was Artist in\nResidence at Smith College and the Five Colleges Inc. She has been\nadviser to the Kabir Project, has recorded a CD for them and also\ntranslated the poetry included in the booklets brought out by the project.\n \n
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