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Menka Shivdasani- Mumbai, India 2023

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Menka Shivdasani- Mumbai, India at Kitab Khana online, October 7 – 9, 2022

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Menka Shivdasani- Navi Mumbai, India w/ Kitab Khana 2021

Menka Shivdasani-menka.shivdasani@gmail.com Navi Mumbai, India Three events, September 24, 25 and 26 Includes Read A Poem To A Child. Event in association with Kitab Khana ZOOM VIDEO ARCHIVE LINK: https://archive.org/details/september-25-2021-100-thousand-poets-for-change-mumbai-seeds-of-change-with-kita https://archive.org/details/mumbai-100-thousand-poets-for-change-september-24-fb-poets-across-borders-part-1 https://archive.org/details/100-thousand-poets-for-change-mumbai-sept-26-2021-final-video-childrens-event-ha      

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Menka Shivdasani-Mumbai, India 2020

      Parsi Times,  article on the children’s event of the 100 Thousand Poets for Change Mumbai poetry festival in your current issue!    

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Menka Shivdasani- Mumbai, India 2018

ORGANIZER: Menka Shivdasani CONTACT: menka.shivdasani@gmail.com                     Menka Shivdasani organizes Read A Poem To A Child in Mumbai, India for 100 Thousand Poets for Change. Photos by Shashikant Patil Delna Mody singing … Continue reading

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100 Thousand Poets For Change: Mumbai Edition 2018

ORGANIZER: Jagruti Verma, Laxmi Krishnan CONTACT: jagrutiverma15@gmail.com Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at 1 PM U.S. Consulate General Mumbai U.S. Consulate General, C-49, G-Block, Band   100 Thousand Poets for Change is a global movement with various local events being held … Continue reading

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100 Thousand Poets For Change: University of Mumbai Edition

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Organiser: Department of Communication and Journalism at The University of Mumbai Contact: dcjuniversityofmumbai@gmail.com, jagrutiverma15@gmail.com Event page: https://goo.gl/hrA88d Organisation: Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India Images of the event on September 29, 2017. As a part of our … Continue reading

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Johnson Nishanth – Mumbai – antiSOCIAL, Khar Mumbai, India 2017

ORGANIZER: Johnson Nishanth CONTACT: nishanth@socialoffline.in ORGANIZATION: Mumbai – antiSOCIAL, Khar DATE: September 30th FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/antiSOCIALkhar Mumbai, India

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Vijendra Pathak – Mumbai, Maharashtra, India 2017

ORGANIZER: Vijendra Pathak CONTACT: vjpathak.04@gmail.com

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Laxmi Krishnan -Mumbai, India 2017

ORGANIZER: Laxmi Krishnan CONTACT: laxmi.krishnan12@gmail.com  

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Anish Vyavahare – Mumbai, India 2017

ORGANIZER: Anish Vyavahare CONTACT: anish.vyavahare@gmail.com

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Menka Shivdasani- Mumbai, India 2017

Organizer: Menka Shivdasani Contact: menka.shivdasani@gmail.com          

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Menka Shivdasani- Mumbai, India 2016

Organizer: Menka Shivdasani Contact: menka.shivdasani@gmail.com   PRESS RELEASE • As the global movement 100 Thousand Poets for Change enters its sixth year, Kitab Khana hosts its annual celebration of poetry for the fifth time on September 22, 23, 24 and … Continue reading

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Press Club Mumbai Culture Beat and 100 Thousand Poets for Change- March 2016- Mumbai, India

A Press Club Mumbai Culture Beat event in association with 100 Thousand Poets for Change, held at the Mumbai Press Club on March 22, 2016 When Sanjeev Khandekar and Jennifer Robertson met at the Mumbai Press Club for the Jugalbandi … Continue reading

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Rochelle Dsilva-Mumbai, India 2015

Organizers: Rochelle Dsilva Contact: roch.dsilva@gmail.com-Mumbai

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Ankita Shah-Mumbai, India 2015

Organizers: Ankita Shah Contact: thepoetryclubmumbai@gmail.com

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Menka Shivdasani- Mumbai, India 2015

ORGANIZER: Menka Shivdasani CONTACT: menka.shivdasani@gmail.com          

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Shailja Shaily Adhya -Mumbai, India 2014

Organizers: Shailja Shaily Adhya Contact: shailjabrainsmart@gmail.com    

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Mehul Shrimali -Mumbai, India 2014

ORGANIZER: Mehul Shrimali CONTACT: mehul.41@gmail.com

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Sneha Rout -Mumbai, India 2014

Organizers: Sneha Rout Contact: sneharout321@gmail.com        

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Menka Shivdasani- Mumbai, India 2014

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NSPA- 100 Thousand Poets for Change | Kitab Khana

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Menka Shivdasani- Mumbai, India 2013

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FINAL PRESS RELEASE: final press release for 100 Thousand Poets for Change Mumbai September 16 pdf

Kitab Khana to host poetry festival for 100 Thousand Poets for Change

As the third edition of the global movement 100 Thousand Poets for Change gains momentum around the world, Kitab Khana, the well-known book store in South Mumbai, will host a four-day poetry festival this September. The event, curated by Mumbai-based writer Menka Shivdasani, takes place between September 26 and 29, 2013 (6 p.m onwards) and includes musical performances and readings by city poets. This is the second time that Kitab Khana is hosting the event in Mumbai.

“We are extremely happy to be associated with 100 Thousand Poets for Change once again,” says Mrs Amrita Somaiya, Director, Kitab Khana. “Kitab Khana believes in being a space to provide intellectual thought, exchange and a place to support ideas of social change. We are a bookstore with a difference and thank Menka and her team in helping us become such a space.”

Suneeta Rao, the internationally acclaimed pop singer and a spokesperson for LAADLI, will perform on the inaugural day, with guitarist Ravi Iyer. This event, on September 26, is being held in association with LAADLI, a Population First initiative for the girl child, and will include a performance by child artiste Afsana Ahmed and poetry readings by Prof. Madhuri Chedda and Charmayne D’Souza, among others. Dolly Thakore, theatre personality, social activist with women and children’s issues and the National Co-ordinator for the Laadli Media Awards will read poetry on the theme of the girl child.

“The cause of the Girl Child has always been close to my heart,” says Suneeta Rao. “As a spokesperson for LAADLI, the Girl Child Initiative by Population First, it has been an honour to help this sincere and hard working team in their efforts to save, help and protect the Laadlis of our Nation. To help them achieve their goal, and to help change the way India treats its women, has been my privilege – and I will continue to do so as long as I live – so that we can stop this horrifying practise of eliminating the Girl Child.”

On September 27, in a programme coordinated by writer and artist Anjali Purohit, the focus will be on women’s lives. This event, entitled ‘Holding up Half the Sky’, will have music and poetry based on the three sub-themes of Woman and work, Being Woman and Woman as daughter, mother, wife, lover and partner. There will be musical recitals by Amarendra Dhaneshwar and Mukta Raste and readings by poets Annie Zaidi, Rochelle Potkar, Menka Shivdasani, Anjali Purohit and Smita Sahay. Gujarati poet Dileep Jhaveri will read from his Vyasochchhvas, (A Breath of Vyas) based on the Mahabharata.

On September 28, which is the global day for 100 Thousand Poets for Change this year, classical singer Neela Bhagwat of the Gwalior gharana will perform her interpretations of Tagore’s compositions from her concert Robi Anurag; this will be followed by ‘Poems for Peace’ readings by city poets, including Ranjit Hoskote, Mustansir Dalvi and Hemant Divate.

For the final day of this festival, September 29 at 10.30 a.m., Mrs Rati Dady Wadia, a prominent educationist in Mumbai and former principal of Queen Mary School, is coordinating a programme with children, on the themes of peace and sustainability. Students of the Bombay International School, Avabai Petit School, Bandra, J.B. Petit School, G.D. Somani School and Gopi Birla School will participate. Poems by Ayra Cama will also be presented and an exhibition, ‘Wonders of Nature’ will be held.

The global movement, 100 Thousand Poets for Change (www.100tpc.org) began in 2011. An event that began primarily with poet organizers, 100 Thousand Poets for Change has grown into an interdisciplinary coalition with year round events which includes musicians, dancers, mimes, painters and photographers from around the world.

“Peace and sustainability are major concerns worldwide, and the guiding principles for this global event,” says Michael Rothenberg, Co-Founder of 100 Thousand Poets for Change. “We are in a world where it isn’t just one issue that needs to be addressed. A common ground is built through this global compilation of local stories, which is how we create a true narrative for discourse to inform the future.”

For more information, contact:
Menka Shivdasani
menka.shivdasani@gmail.com.
Mobile: 9820101507

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Mumbai, India

Organizers: Menka Shivdasani Contact: poetsinmumbai@gmail.com ****PDF DOCUMENT OF MUMBAI 2012 EVENT WITH PHOTOS, POEMS AND DESCRIPTION**** :MUMBAI 2012 for archive blog01   Press Release For Time Out   press release_new final for media September 26 Multilingual reading and Kabeer performance, … Continue reading

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