SMALL TALK

Art legend
The Surabhi Nag Pune Art Festival at Ishanya Mall presents a host of art events spread over three days. On December 4,Art Platform – a chance to buy art works at affordable prices and Art Style – a unique fashion show inspired by international art and sculpture will be held at Arcade 01,4.30 pm onwards. From December 5 to 13,Art Affaire (art of the greats at great prices) will be on at the Tilting Art Gallery daily from 11 am to 8 pm. Also scheduled on December 5 is a painting exhibition by children and live sculpture demonstrations by Kishore Thakur. December 6 will witness live interactive sessions with Santosh More and Art Fusion – a concert of art – where renowned artists will paint to the symphonies of famous musicians,6.30 pm onwards.

Home truths
Open Space presents a talk-cum-discussion on Homeschooling,Unschooling and Infinite Possibilities by Urmila Samson at Open Space-CCDS,2nd Floor,Kanchanjunga,Off Law College Rd on December 4,between 6 and 8 pm. Some issues which will be discussed here include – Is education different from learning,when does it begin and does it ever end,do we envisage any changes in our own selves and so on. Samson,along with her husband and three children,has embarked on a lifelong journey of learning and with the talk,hopes to share some of it with others as well.

Sea change
When viewed from the space,the Earth is a majestic blue sphere,with more than 70 per cent of its surface covered by water. However,despite the vastness of these seas,only one percent of the world’s ocean has been studied and scientists know more about the surface of the moon than about the bottom of the ocean. With its new,nine-part series,The Blue Planet that airs every Wednesday at 9 pm,the Discovery Channel reveals the mysteries of the ocean world. Filmmakers traveled to 200 locations across seven continents over the course of more than 150 filming trips and 3,000 days in the field,to provide a compendium of oceanic creatures. Narrated by legendary natural history filmmaker Sir Richard Attenborough,The Blue Planet airs on Discovery Channel every Wednesday at 9 pm. Using state-of-the-art technology,this weekly series covers scores of animals and their behaviour patterns for the first time. These include a Bioluminescent Squid,the Fang Tooth Fish,whose teeth are so big it can’t close its mouth,a deep sea ‘dumbo’ Octopus that uses its ear-like fins to fly and the Blue Whale,the largest animal ever to have lived on earth.