On Monday, February 10th, AVI USA held a Donor Development Training in Auroville. The training was designed for AVI USA’s partners & projects leaders in Auroville, to discuss, create and collaborate in developing strategies for connecting with new donors.

The meeting, hosted at SAIIER hall was hours long, filled with curiosity, enthusiasm and creative ideas. Almost 50 project leaders, as well as AVI USA’s Beam support team,  were in attendance, ready with questions and expectations about what the session would bring. 

It was with this certainty that I woke in early November, 2022 with the idea of collecting bras to take around the globe.  Hear me out before you think me crazy…bras were on my mind for two reasons….

Join us Saturday, April 8, 11:00am New York, 20:30pm Auroville, to watch three episodes of the Matrimandir and I series.

Filmmaker Serena Aurora and B William Sullivan, featured in the Matrimandir and I episode premiere, are joining us for an intro and discussion of the series

The Mother, Mirra Alfassa, 1878-1973, is the creative force behind the birth of Auroville. Every year, during the fourth week of February, Auroville celebrates two anniversaries. The Mother’s birth, February 21, and Auroville’s creation, February 28th.

Every Soul Is Unique is a co-creative musical play, performed by 70 children from the Auroville area, including children from outreach programs and special needs school. Fakeera, the creator, was moved to use the interplay of art, personal healing and spontaneous expression in a manner that would be a joyful opportunity for the children’s growth, using the medium of performing arts to reflect their accomplishments back to the children.

Ruud Lohman is the author of Iniyan, the short story on which the film Iniyan is based on.