BASANT IN CHICAGO

Invitation: Twine @ Polvo
Friday December 14, 2007
from 7pm -9pm
FREE ADMISSION

Join Twine for an evening of "Basant": A celebration of the metaphor of spring in the cold of December in Chicago. We invite you for an evening of art, film, storytelling, and dialogue dedicated to building awareness about choices in art, craft, and design to nature and humanity.

- Viewing of "Basant" a sculptural piece inspired by the visual language of Sufi Basant that integrates fiber, natural dye and video to explore the process of resistance to destructive monocultural values through personal narrative and metaphor.

- Screening of "Basant" a short documentary about theSufi Basant in India directed by Delhi Based Filmmaker, Yousuf Saeed:. http://www.ektara.org/

- "Why I went to Lubbock Texas" a presentation byTwine director, and Chicago based artist: Amy Mall, about her research in Sustainable Dye and Fiber. Amy has been researching the ecological and social concerns linked to cotton in India, where the rate of cancer and suicide in Punjab is growing. She recently traveled to Lubbock Texas, the center of the US cotton Industry, to visit with the Texas Organic Cotton Marketing Cooperative and try to gain a broader perspective of this global issue. www.twinenfp. org

- "What do handbags have to do with the Iraq war?": Presentation by co-collaborator of Noon Solar, Marianne Fairbanks, about the start of her solarpowered handbag company with Jane Palmer and the ecological and social motivations behind their carefulmaterial choices: www.noonsolar. com

- the evening will conclude with a conversation amongall who attend. Please Join Us! Twine, NFP is dedicated to the intersection of Art, Ecology and Social Justice Internationally.

POLVO
1458 W. 18th St., 1R (entrance on Laflin St.)
Chicago, IL 60608
http://www.polvo.org/

Amir Khusrau: Between the Kings and the Masses
An installation of Khusrau's poetry in visual arts form, at the
India Social Forum, Delhi, 2006

Click here for the photo gallery of the exhibit
http://www.alif-india.com/exhibit/

Basant: a short film about the sufi festival of spring at Delhi

Sufi festival of Spring in India is an annual festival held at the shrine of the 13th century sufi saint Nizamuddin Aulia and Amir Khusrau. Film directed by Yousuf Saeed, New Delhi, India

Indian films show students Asian culture - News

promo of "Khayal Darpan" - A Mirror of Imagination

This is a short promotional video of the documentary film KHAYAL DARPAN, about classical music in Pakistan. The film is produced by an Indian filmmaker, Yousuf Saeed

Amir Khusrau Dehlavi (1253-1325 AD), a prolific classical poet associated with royal courts of more than seven rulers of Delhi Sultanate, is also a household name in much of North India and Pakistan, through hundreds of playful riddles, songs and legends attributed to him. Through his enormous literary output and the legendary folk personality, Khusrau represents one of the first (recorded) Indian personages with a true multi-cultural or pluralistic identity. Those following Hindi film music, may remember a Lata Mangeshkar song called Zehale miskin makun... (from the film Gulaami) that borrows from a Persian-Hindi ghazal attributed to Amir Khusrau, one of the most colourful examples of the synthesis of two great cultural streams.