IIM Bangalore will host a round table on ‘Creative Sustainability: As Artistes See It’ on January 22, at its campus on Bannerghatta Road.
Led by Prof A Damodaran, the IPR Chair at IIM-B, the workshop proposes to bring together film directors, performing artistes, actors and other thought leaders to put forth their idea on how films and other visual arts, including classical performing arts, can contribute to the idea of creative sustainability.
It will discuss this idea as artistes see it, taking into account the perspectives of directors and artistes on sustainability in performing arts and cinema (both minimalist and non-minimalist). It will also consider the role of minimalism in realising the goal of creative sustainability, on how innovative creative organisations can strive to make a transformative difference, if technology promotes creativity and creative sustainability, if creation is a matter of expression or of essence, and how creative organisations can survive and contribute to the sustainability agenda.
A panel of distinguished speakers will discuss ‘Musings on Creative Approaches to Sustainability’. The speakers include Padma Shri awardee and director, screenwriter, producer Adoor Gopalakrishnan; award-winning film director Girish Kasaravalli; Padma Bhushan awardee and Indian classical dancer and choreographer Alarmel Valli; actor and theatre personality Sanjna Kapoor; art historian and curator Zasha Colah; founder and former executive director India Foundation for the Arts Anmol Vellani; Odissi danseuse Sharon Lowen; actor, director and screenwriter Pawan Kumar; and award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter Vipin Vijay.
Prof A Damodaran will moderate the panel.
The day’s highlights include a documentary, Door to Adoor , by Girish Kasaravalli; a talk on ‘Spinning Creative Ventures: The Junoon Saga’ by theatre personality Sanjna Kapoor; and a kathakali performance by Margi, an organisation dedicated to the revival of kathakali and kutiyattom, through the Gurukula system of training.