Lively and vibrant young Trishala shares with us her enthusiasm over volunteer work with Integral Animal Care just behind Edayanchavadi, and before Red Earth Riding School. Since she got a break at school she have decided to spend this time something different, wanted to be useful. And since the whole family was visiting Auroville at the time of the cyclone Thane, Trishala was very much inspired by The Dream, and by so many different possibilities to learn, to grow, and to actively participate, to see different perspectives. Read more

Yesterday afternoon TLC or Traveling Learning Community shared with the wider community what they have been doing throughout the school year. Afternoon was sunny and hot but children presented with joy, and lots of laughter pieces of history through historical figures in the play. Languages were presented, recited and sang poems, and the fun part was English grammar given to children through the cake testing. If last year was focused on Big Bang or the beginning of our home planet, this year they have "zoomed" in and focused on the insects. Read more

Conference Room in Town Hall was almost too small last Saturday for all those who wanted to listen to a classical European piano recital. Rina brought to the children at Udavi School for the first time in their life some knowledge about European classical music, and they were all enthusiastic about it. Soon they have started to practice this music on piano, and their love, determination for the music leaded to the concert, where we were impressed by their performance. Read more

Chiildren of Dolphins and Rainbow Horses from Deepanam School had been practising singing with Joy and Jivatman for the whole school year... and they wanted to share with their friends, parents, members of community how joyful singing can be. Last night, despite that the Kabir Festival is going on in the city , audience was quite numerous, listening attentively to a range of songs from all over. Graceful children voices, accompanied by Jivatman on guitar cheered up our hearts. Read more

On Tuesday 27th at Savitri Bhavan opened the exhibition Cyclone Inversions by Gotz Rogge an artist and an experimental photographer from Berlin, Germany. He organized a workshop with Sasi Somu, the teacher of photography and art at the Future School. It involved some students to make large scale Camera Obscura photographic artifacts about the landscape generated by the cyclone. In the interview (in English) Gotz, Sasi and the student Gal explain us about their experience. Their work is shown untill the 3rd of April. - www.heimat.de/halqa Read more

Part two of our documentary where we explore the possibilities of introducing Laughter Yoga in schools as part of the daily routine. Certified Laughter Yoga Teachers and Leaders from Canada, Fif & Hamish, have used laughter as a therapy for children. But now, they are doing an experiment of doing Laughter Yoga with about 60 children every day for 4 days at Deepanam School. Would the kids like it? Would the parents and teachers agree on the benefits? Do we even think that it is okay for kids to laugh? Let's find out! Read more

This morning, everyone was invited to come to Aikiyam School in New Creation to participate in the unveiling of colorful Peace Flags painted by Tamil children from Auroville's surrounding villages. What does 'Peace' mean to the kids? How did they get motivated to express their understanding of Peace in an artistic way? Deborah from America, who has come to Auroville as a volunteer, has been working in Aikiyam School for two months and explains to us the project's background and the philosophy of her work. Read more

Shadow Liberation is an experimental theater group of Evan Hastings and his students from Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology in Bangalore. Evan is a theater artist and drama therapist from USA, who directs and produces original performance pieces that grapple with pressing issues while innovative aesthetics invite audience engagement. This participatory theater piece portrays a series of unresolved conflicts around gender oppression and leaves it up to the audience to come on the stage in role and change the outcome. Read more

This is part one of our radio documentary which explores the meaning of laughter in a child's life and the role of laughter yoga. Certified laughter yoga teachers and leaders from Canada, Fif & Hamish, share extremely touching stories where they have used 'laughter' to help children heal mentally, physically and emotionally. In this episode, we also observe parts of a laughter yoga session at Deepanam School in Auroville to understand some techniques used by Fif & Hamish to instill the 'happy feeling' in the hearts of the participants.

Two Waldorf professors from Antioch University interacted with teachers, parents and many others connected with Education, today at the Future School. Torin Finser is a teacher, author of several books on education, Chair of the Waldorf Teacher Training program at Antioch, and also the President of the Center for Anthroposophy. His wife, Karine, has expertise in Waldorf curriculum painting and art therapy. With them we explored how both integral and Waldorf education address all the planes of the being, and particularly the spiritual plane. ... Read more

“Umm… I …umm forgot to say umm…,” Red tried to tell the truth, but she didn't have the courage to say that they didn't know how to colour. All they had ever done in their lives was stay in the box and quarrel. ... This is the story of three qarrelsome, insensitive children, called Red, Blue and Yellow, who must give up all the bitterness in their hearts, and learn to help each other to save their lives. In the process, they realize their unique ability to create new colours. Read more

Hemant is part of the Auroville Cyclone Relief & Rehabilitation Team. In this interview he's sharing the last few days of work of the many groups involved in the relief and rehabilitation. In the coming days the electricity will be restored in the center of Auroville but in other places it will take 4 weeks since the TNB personal is busy in other places. The main electrical work is done by Aurovilians.The positive aspect of the cyclone's event is the fact that many persons came together to help each other. Many guest also joined in this effort. Read more

The Working Committee member Daniel talks about the rehabilitation work happening in Auroville after the Thane cyclone. The most urgent matter is the restoring of the electricity since Auroville depends 100% on water pumped by the borewells. The electrical distribution lines are totally destroyed. About 150 electrical poles are broken and only 50 of them are available. It is estimated that the recovery of electrical power in all the different communities will take around one month. The next week most probably the school will open. Read more

The Auroville community have joint together to work in the cleaning up of public spaces after the stroke of the Thane Cyclone. In Isai Ambalam School kids have been working with teachers and parents to improve roads and general conditions of gardens and buildings. The Volunteer Desk, located in the reception of the Town Hall, is offering the possibility to guests and Aurovilians to work together reverting the impacts left by the cyclone. The schools in Auroville are supposed to open on Monday the 9th of January. Read more

One day before the cyclone Thane, on the 29th of December 2011, the Italian musicians Ludovica and Paolo offered a music workshop in the Life Education Centre of Auroville, teaching Tamil girls how to express themselves through sound and rhythm. During this rainy morning the LEC girls enjoy the flavour of gypsy music performed by Ludovica and Paolo, sang African songs of joy, learned to play different instruments, to make sound with their own bodies, while dancing and laughing with the diversity of activities developed during the workshop. Read more

That Shakespeare is far from being boring proved group of actors, mainly consisted from Aikiyam School Students, and lots of good will of volunteers all leaded by Hazel from Manchester. Short span of time they had to put play on the stage didn't stop them to do it the best they could. Dialogs were well learnt and spoken, costumes colorful and set simple but adequate to bring out the magic of the play and theater experience itself. On the premiere on Firday 2nd of December first audience were Aikiyam students enjoyed and laughed in it. Read more

On 2nd and 3rd of December our town will be richer for a Shakespeare play The Tempest, put onstage by English volunteer Hazel, by Aikiyam School children. Children and the whole school are working with all their enthusiasm to rehearse and put the play onstage on time. As Hazel told us, they were working on it even before she came to Auroville, and now they work intensively on the correct English, correct intonation, tone, posing.. For them this is also part of an English class project, and for Hazel to work with this children is a special joy.

Stories about repatriation of Black and Rasta people might sound similar yet each of them is a story in itself. However, from the spiritual aspect, though not visible at first , a common thread runs through all life's faiths. The overwhelming experiences of first visits are similar. For Kathy and Winston it was closely connected by them being active members of Twelve Tribes, one of the largest Rasta organizations, and after first two months visit they decided to come "home" . They're talking honestly about their life, blessings, problems.. Read more

During the Auroville International meeting in Addis Abbaba at the Red Cross Society Training Institute Deepti presented "An Auroville Perspective" on the topic of education and Lourdes Nadine talked about "Activity Based Learning for Primary Education in India". Both talks were very much interesting for numerous local audience, and practical questions on methods arose after the presentations. Integral education, based on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's principals, and Activity Based Learning trough cards over years proved their effeciency. Read more

A radio drama in which we can peek into a life of Desmond. One Day Desmond comes from a walk, and finds out that there is an alien in his house. Desmond needs to stay with him. Where the alien is from, and what they were doing with Desmond , who they meet on the road... In this episode the alien and Desmond figure out that another alien invasion is going to come.. they must save Auroville from the invasion.. what will they do? Read more

"The third and final discussion on Live AurovilleRadio from the Auroville Film Festival action station was concluded yesterday. The participants were Uriel, Rakhal, Sagarika, Priyadharshni, Graham and Danbe. And I got to moderated it. While Graham, Uriel, and Rakhal were film making instructors, Danbe, Sagu and Priya were participants in film making workshops. I tried to get a common definition for the topic that all participants including the younger members could understand and be comfortable with. Read more

New Kalabhumi, not by the spirit but by the new bright colors on the sits, lights, stage, and roof over snack area. And Sunday night 28th of August was a special night for the Brand New Band, since that was the night to say goodby to Noam, who left Auroville. A musically inspired band of young teenagers was great on expressing themselves trough instruments, but for vocals it was obvious that time for rehearsal was too short. It didn't take long for enthusiastic public to rock on evergreen rock close to the stage area. Read more

The RAS team sincerely invites all residents to a General Meeting on Tuesday, July 12th at 5.00pm at SAWCHU to introduce the new members and hear your concerns, hopes and suggestions for the future. The meeting is also an opportunity to discuss how we as a community would like to proceed on the issue of the selection process for Auroville's Council and Working Committee. Snacks and refreshments will be served. From Bangalore Open Ultimate 2011 last weekend Ultimate Frisbee: Auroville takes home the national title for the first time! Read more

Planning, planning, planning. The time has come again for nine days exploration and discoveries in nature. On Tuesday the 11th of May at 12am, Thirty children and 12 adults of the second group of the Auroville Summer Camp will start their journey direction Kodaikanal. In this broadcast we have leader Jonah and Savnon from Deepanam School, telling you about what kids of the second group are awaiting in this years summer camp. Listen further and you will become part of the itinerary and discussions of the ten adults and activity leaders on preparation from mobile phones, clothes, expeditions,health, to sweets and snacks and much more. Read more

In today's news we feature short report on yesterdays meeting of L'Avenir d'Auroville on dis-mountable houses proposition. Meeting was held behind Courage community where the actual site of this kind of temporary community should be. Savi proposes A 4-Day Program for Volunteers and Students" from 9th of May until Thursday 12th of MayThis program is free for registered volunteers. They will meet on Monday at 9am at Evergreen entrance. After this program they will have on Thursday 12th of May at Unity Pavilion at 5pm "Volunteers gathering" - an opportunity to share experiences between long and short term volunteers. Read more

Friday, April 15th, 2011 was a big day for the children of the Transition School. From 10:30 to 12:30 all kids were presenting their work of the year to their parents, neighbors and friends. A specific slide-show on the Awareness Through the Body classes was also displayed continuously at the multimedia room, same as for the Arts and Craft production in a dedicated area. Most of the kids were also preparing for a slip over at the school. An opportunity for them to spend the evening together, watch a film and have a moon watch. Some of the kids are telling us about that special day. Read more

"Let this golden thread of music tie all of us together" was the leading note in the cultural program prepared by children of Deepanam School together with teachers. This program was a just a glimpse of what they've been doing trough school year. And indeed, in the leading tone of music they showed us different things - from classical Indian dance, trough theater play of African fairy tale, sung songs composed by children, compositions played on piano to capoeira in which children are very active on Deepanam School. Read more

The Mother”To be a good teacher, one has to be a yogi.” In interesting talk of Jean Yves we heard the role of education or no role of it. If Auroville is a specific place to live, work and be, intensity of questions carry us, and it is a learning process where education invades other domains. And if education should be more than just the one which makes people employable on the labor market today, what faculties we should foster? The speed of changes showed us that universe is much more complex as we thought, is a totality of simultaneous complexity. The world has been manipulated by experts of local knowledge; we are globally incompetent, no knowledge of the whole, and we're maybe entering to the new stage of I don't know state.

Le temps d'une soirée poésie (organisée par le Pavillon de France), devenez avec Croquette le célèbre Victor Hugo: "Victor Hugo est un géant qui occupe toute la scène et, avec Molière, peut être, et Voltaire, l'incarnation de la France dans ce qu'elle a de plus universel aux yeux d'un monde époustouflé par un mélange sans précédent de virtuosité et de puissance. Parce que le grotesque et le sublime ne cesse jamais chez lui de se côtoyer et de se répondre, la virtuosité se combine avec une puissance d'émotion où la souffrance et les larmes entrent comme du levain." Read more

All activities happening in Auroville have the aim to construct the city we all want. Planning, Development, Education, Sustainability, Arts. The news today give a glimpse of all this aspects of our community. Starting with a interesting interview with Renu, from L'Avenir Communication Plataform, that shares with us their actual challenges and efforts to make the growth of Auroville a matter that brings all us together. In this same line we have the announcement of two workshops: Sustainable Building and Modern Architecture. On arts: Indian Concert and Adishakti Festival (www.adishaktitheatrearts.com) From our schools: Nandanam invites we all for their joyfull open house! Read more