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HINDUSTAN TIMES, MUMBAI
FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2015
SWITCH OFF. UNWIND. EXPLORE
The No TV Weekend is finally here. In the run-up, we suggest ways in which you can celebrate with friends and family.
Don’t miss: HT’s exciting events and prizes. Join the celebration on facebook.com/htnotvday and twitter.com/htnotvday
What’s your story?
READ This No TV Weekend, swap yarns, host a book club meet, dress up as an anime character.
Spend your time exchanging the books that have most touched you, with your literary soulmates
We have lots lined up for you
throughout No TV Weekend. Here’s
a look at the schedule highlights
ON FRIDAY, CHECK OUT
Kanika Sharma
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HINDUSTAN TIMES
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OPEN-DECK BUS RIDES
kanika.sharma@hindustantimes.com
Breeze through south
Mumbai atop an open-deck
bus. Collect passes at the
Coomaraswamy Hall gate of
the Chhatrapati Shivaji
Maharaj museum between
3pm and 3.15pm. Hop on for
an hour-long ride at 4.30pm
One way to spend the No TV Day weekend is with soulmates — people who
were as heartbroken as you when the
Weasley twins died, and as exhilarated
by Gandalf ’s return.
Bring alive the storyteller in you.
Move those piles of books that have
been hogging the furniture and start a
conversation with other readers.
You can organise a book club yourself
— pick a novel, or a theme, or both, and
invite friends over. Or, if you’d prefer
to outsource, spend the long weekend
sampling the reading groups and book
exchange clubs scattered across the city.
Deepak Gupta, 33, works in the merchant navy and started one such group
in August 2012. Called Book Exchange
Club of Mumbai, it encourages members
to swap their favourite reads and discuss
the new books they have discovered.
Meets are held on the weekends,
across restaurants in Bandra, Juhu,
Fort, Worli, Lower Parel, Nariman Point,
Ghatkopar and Belapur.
“It’s a great way to meet new people
from different age groups and professions, pass on old books and take home
something new,” Gupta says. It’s also
a great way to come across books you
might otherwise never have read.
TREASURE HUNT
Do you know your city well
enough? Test your knowledge
of Mumbai at 6pm, at
Shivaji Park, Dadar
MUMBAI CYCLOTHON
Join us on a fun bike ride! Do
bring your own bicycle and
cycling gear. Assembly time
is 6am, at Lucky
Restaurant, Bandra
STAND-UP COMEDY
Get ready to laugh your heart
out with Arzan Khambatta
and Neville Bharucha. 8 pm
to 8.30 pm, David Sassoon
Library, Kala Ghoda
ON SATURDAY, CHECK OUT
HELICOPTER JOYRIDE
Soar hundreds of feet above
the city and see its stunning
coastline from an all-new
perspective. Noon to 1 pm,
at Pawan Hans, Juhu
BEER-AND-FOOD PAIRING
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(Clockwise from above) Book Exchange Club of Mumbai encourages members to swap their favourite reads and then discuss the books they have discovered. Small
Tales, the children’s chapter of storytelling group Tall Tales, organises yarn-weaving sessions on weekends. Super Readers Club organises interactive storytelling and
book-exploration sessions ideal for children aged two-and-a-half to 12, with meets addressed by children’s authors too.
Get tips from the experts.
Entry based on availability
of space. 1 pm to 2 pm, at
Irish House, Kala Ghoda
PIZZA-MAKING WORKSHOP
Let Serafina show you how to
roll out your pizza the Italian
way. Entry based on availability of space. 5 pm to 6 pm,
at Serafina, Kala Ghoda
“With every session, we meet as strangers but books are the medium through
which we open up to each other,” says
homemaker Reeta Gandhi, 34, a member
of BEC since 2013. “I was new to the
city then and I yearned to find fellow
booklovers. Because of the confidence
I gained in the book club, I have even
started conducting storytelling sessions
for companies and for street children.”
Gandhi says the club introduced her
to PG Wodehouse and Brian Weiss, but if
superheroes and heroines are more your
thing, you could opt for the Mumbai Anime
Club. Members here range from 20-yearold college students to 60-year-old retirees.
“One of the best things about being in
Mumbai Anime Club is the people you
get to meet,” says Ankur Chakravarty,
23, a Mira Road resident, content writer
and ardent fan of the Japanese Manga
comic form. “I used to be so quiet, always
keeping to a corner, observing silently.
Through the club I found people who
shared my interests, and I felt like I could
be myself with them. These friends have
changed me and become an integral part
of my life.”
Anime is also an ideal theme for a
book-based costume party. You and your
friends can attend dressed as Kakashi
from the anime Naruto or a character
from Dragon Ball Z.
There are also storytelling
clubs where you can preserve the oral tradition and
take turns being creator
and listener. Storytelling
club Katha Kosa (which
means Treasury of Stories
in Prakrit) is one such platform. Started by professional storyteller
Dhara Kothari
in 2012, it invites
people to weave and
listen to narrations of
stories based on real life, fiction, mythology and fables.
“You can share stories
from books or movies,
things you heard or read
about, anything, as long
as it is a story to share
and listen to,” Kothari
says. “We usually pick
a theme — seasons, travels,
‘once upon a time’ and so on.
KICKBOXING WORKSHOP
WITH LEENA MOGRE
Get some high-intensity
aerobics and resistance training for muscle-building and
heart and lung fitness. 10 am
to 11 am at Leena Mogre
Fitness Centre, Bandra
PHIR MAINE WOH SAPNA
DEKHA - A HINDI PLAY
Get a peek into the experiences of a soldier. 7.30 pm to
8.30 pm, at David Sassoon
Library, Kala Ghoda
The Guide
MAP
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We also create games and activities based
on storytelling, to ensure that everyone
gets to participate without feeling out of
place or shy. There are no rules. You can
even come and listen to stories, even if
you have none to share.”
And then there’s Tall Tales (for
adults) and Small Tales
(the children’s version),
which org anises
yarn-weaving sessions on weekends.
“Small Tales helps give
young people a deeper
appreciation and
understanding of stories, encouraging them to
spin yarns and skip boredom,”
says founder Gayatri Aptekar, a
professional storyteller.
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Fans of anime can organise
a cosplay party where guests
come dressed as their
favourite character. Here,
a cosplay fan dresses as
Ryuk, a god of death.
Pass on
the love
of stories
to your
children,
or make
new
friends
over old
favourites
BOOK EXCHANGE
CLUB OF MUMBAI
MUMBAI
Juhu
Andheri
Small Tales
session, Khar
Bandra
Ghatkopar
Worli
Lower
Parel
Nariman
Point
Fort
Book Exchange Club of Mumbai
This club has 1,150 members and
holds meet-ups on weekends.
Membership is free and open to
all adults. In addition to exchanging books and discussing what
you read, you can also join field
trips to literature festivals and
book donation drives for underprivileged children. This weekend, the group is organising a
discussion of An Ideal Wife with
first-time author Sanjay Grover,
who will discuss the challenges
of finding a publisher.
ing from 10 to 40. Tanya
Shringarpure, 26, a veterinarian
and administrator of the group,
also provides costumes, wigs and
props on rent for cosplay.
TO SIGN UP for free or organise
a hangout, go to Facebook.com/
groups/macmum
FOR COSPLAY SUPPLIES,
go to facebook.com/syrinxscosplaysupplies
SMALL TALES
Small Tales, an offshoot of the
Tall Tales storytelling
platform, will hold an
WHERE: Laugh Out Loud
event titled ‘On Your
Ventures, opposite
Mark. Get Set. Story!’,
Andheri (East) railway
for children aged 8 to
station, on May 30, from
14, this weekend. The
10 am to 1 pm. Book lovthree-hour event will
ers can also exchange
use story cubes, cards,
books at the club’s open
props and games to
shelves in cafés across
encourage the creativithe city (see map)
THINKSTOCK
ty of the young particiFOR MORE INFORMApants and get each of them to
TION, or to register, log on to
spin a yarn. The meet will be conmeetup.com/book-exchangeducted by founder Michael Burns,
club-of-mumbai or facebook.
a filmmaker, and professional stocom/bookexchangeclubofmumbai
ryteller Gayatri Aptekar.
MUMBAI ANIME CLUB
From art competitions to cosplay,
choreographed fights, auctions,
quizzes, karaoke nights and card
games, the Mumbai Anime Club
is a dynamic club for lovers of
the Japanese animation form.
The club has 2,500 members on
Facebook, in an age group rang-
WHERE: The Hive, off Union
Park, Khar (West)
WHEN: May 31, 11 am to 2 pm
CALL: 98205-86083; COST: Rs 1,500
per child (including lunch)
TO REGISTER, go to talltales.in/
smalltales.html or on.fb.
me/1JCLPIG, or email smalltales@talltales.in
ON SUNDAY, CHECK OUT
HELICOPTER JOYRIDE
Soar hundreds of feet above
the city and see its stunning
coastline from an all-new
perspective. Noon to 1 pm,
at Pawan Hans, Juhu
RUNNING AND LIVING
Run for 5 and 10 km, make new
friends, explore your neighbourhood and your city.
Assemble at 6.15 am at the
Aarey Chhota Kashmir lake
parking lot, Juhu Chowpatty
or Mahalaxmi racecourse
BMX STUNT BIKE SHOW
Watch professional stunt performers perform daring stunts.
9 am to 10 am, at National
Sports Club of India, Worli
WINE TASTING BY
ALL THINGS NICE
Set out on a wine trail with
sommelier Nikhil Agarwal
and taste an assortment of
varieties and styles from
around the world. 7.30 pm to
8.30 pm, at Shiro, Worli
TOTAL FOOTBALL AND
CARD GAMES FOR KIDS
Form teams, strategise and
play on an astroturf football
field and outdoor futsal
facility. 4 pm to 6 pm, at
Kick, Powai
To register or view the full list of events,
go to notvday.hindustantimes.com
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