A Special Residency has a special orientation. That could be in terms of dates, duration, targeted participants, location etc. Presently, the following Special Residencies are available. Artists with Children Artist Family in India: Children & Art, Escaping Pollution Meditations 2019
01 February 2019 to 28 February 2019 (In a leafy suburb, tropical plateaus of Bangalore, southern India.) Suggested contribution USD 4350 per participant "On meditation’s mounting edge of trance Great stairs of thought climbed up to unborn heights Where Time’s last ridges touch eternity’s skies And Nature speaks to the spirit’s absolute." Meditation, or Dhyana … Continue reading Meditations 2019
01 – 28 March 2019 / 2020 (28 days) “Poems in largeness cast like moving worlds And metres surging with the ocean’s voice Translated by grandeurs locked in Nature’s heart But thrown now into a crowded glory of speech The beauty and sublimity of her forms, The passion of her moments and her moods Lifting … Continue reading The Longest Poem by An Immortal: (& Colourful Equinox) by An Immortal Man
A British portrait artist during July 2017 while staying at 365 Haridwar , the international artist residency programme at AZIMVTH Ashram, on the banks of Ganges and foothills of Himalayas, India made and gifted the following portrait. Frederic Shoberl, another British writer and illustrator, had the following illustration of Kanwar pilgrimage in his book titled … Continue reading A River on Shoulders: Circa 1823, 1858, and 2017 AD in Haridwar
“It is at this point of emergence from the hills that persons journeying from a great distance are anxious to fill their jars with water, that their homes may be hallowed by a portion of the sacred element. Rich and pious Hindoos, who inhabit the provinces remote from this spot, spend large sums of money … Continue reading The Art in Kanwar – 1858 and 2017, Stanford University
01 – 28 December 2018 / 2019 / 2020 “In ceaseless motion round the purple rim Day after day sped by like coloured spokes, And through a glamour of shifting hues of air The seasons drew in linked significant dance The symbol pageant of the changing year.” Banks of Ganges, Foothills of Himalayas, Haridwar, India … Continue reading Decemberists!: Margharita, With A Straw
01 – 28 November 2018 / 2019 / 2020 “Half-risen then she sent her gaze around, As if to recover old sweet trivial threads, Old happy thoughts, small treasured memories, And weave them into one immortal day.” Banks of Ganges, Foothills of Himalayas, Haridwar, India Saint Namdev (1270 AD) made devotional compositions on Lord Vishnu. … Continue reading Wahe Movember!: Scribe’s Block Impressions
01 – 28 October 2018 / 2019 / 2020 “In us too the intuitive Fire can burn; An agent Light, it is coiled in our folded hearts, On the celestial levels is its home: Descending, it can bring those heavens here.” Banks of Ganges, Foothills of Himalayas, Haridwar, India The United Nations has the most … Continue reading Celebrations +++: Oktoberfest: Aachman of Celestial Ganges
01 – 28 September 2018 / 2019 / 2020 “Armoured, protected by their lethal masks, As in a studio of creative Death The giant sons of Darkness sit and plan The drama of the earth, their tragic stage.” Banks of Ganges, Foothills of Himalayas, Haridwar, India Shraadh is the annual fortnight during which ceremonies are … Continue reading Death Enables Birth : The Drama of Earth
01 – 28 August 2018 / 2019 / 2020 “The world is a spiritual paradox Invented by a need in the Unseen, A poor translation to the creature’s sense Of That which for ever exceeds idea and speech, A symbol of what can never be symbolised, A language mispronounced, misspelt, yet true.” Banks of Ganges, … Continue reading Sanskrit & Babylon: Inspirations from languages, art, culture
