Convivial

21-28 February 2026, Live Talks @aurovilletimelines

Auroville Convivial: Live Talks is a week-long international gathering during Auroville Week (21–28 February 2026). It is conceived as an invitation to step into a shared, live space to speak about and around Auroville. Together, we seek to reopen dialogue on how this ongoing experiment engages with the wounds of the world, as well as its own lived successes, setbacks, and unfolding possibilities to reflect the prismatic nature of Auroville.

We invite you to the Auroville Convivial: Live Talks , streaming live on the Auroville Timelines YouTube channel!
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Auroville Convivial Live Talks 2026
An Auroville Timelines Initiative

We warmly invite you to join Convivial Live Talks, a series of conversations, reflections, and shared explorations bringing together diverse voices from Auroville and beyond. Across these sessions, speakers will share lived experiences, creative journeys, and insights into community, culture, and consciousness while opening a space for dialogue, listening, and collective reflection.

Speakers to join the following link –
https://meet.google.com/jgo-tndr-zth

For Viewers’ Registrations:
https://forms.gle/GVo8Ho7sxWFE1Bro9

To watch live online:
https://www.youtube.com/@aurovilletimelines

This is an invitation to gather, listen, and reflect together in the spirit of conviviality.
Bonne volonté à tous!

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SCHEDULE :

21 February – The Mother’s Birthday

3:30 – 4:30 PM (IST)
Invocation to the Mother by Jaya & others (from Unity Pavillion)

7:30 – 8:30 PM (IST)
Patrick Beldio
Title: “Planning the Unplannable: Auroville and the Mother’s Vision of Transformation”

9:30 – 11:00 PM (IST)
Reminiscing The Mother
A space for those who met Her to share lived memories and sustain Her grace.
All are welcome with their presence.

22 February

6:30 – 7:30 PM (IST)

Ashish Kothari
Title: Eco-swaraj: Radical pathways to Human and Planetary Rights

7:30 – 8:00 PM (IST)
Gijs Spoor
Title: Does the Earth still need Auroville?

8:30 – 9:30 PM (IST)
Debashish Banerji
Title: The City the Earth Needs: A Posthuman Polis of Spiritual Anarchism

23 February

3:30 – 5:30 PM (IST)
Gabi Gillessen
Title: Personal Reflections as a member of the IAC
&
Mamata Dash
Title: Awakening Aspiration: Invocation and Reflections on Auroville
&
Christian Feuilllette 
Title: Victory is for the most enduring

6.30 – 8.30 PM (IST)

Paulette Hadnagy 
Title: Matrimandir’s roof: those full moon concreting determined my destiny
&
Jocelyn Janaka 
Title: A dream that wished but knew not how to be
&
Hans
Title: Human Unity: Lessons and Insights from CIRHU

24 February

03:30 – 05:30 PM (IST)
Srijita Roy
Title:THE AUROVILLE ADVENTURE – Living and working in Auroville
&
Suhasini 

Title: Change is the only constant

6:30 – 8.30 PM (IST)
Manoj Pavitran 
Title: The Soul of Certainty in Uncertain Times
&
Satprem maini

Title: Auroville, the City the Earth needs or the Earth the City needs

25 February

6:30 – 8.00 PM (IST)
Grace
Title: Kolam as a teacher of spaces sacred and profane
&
Sophie
Title: Living in Auroville: A Leap of Faith?
&
Matilde
Title: Twenty-eight intense and beautiful years of our lives
8:00 – 9.00 PM (IST)

Daniel Greenberg
Title: Auroville as a laboratory of imagination

26 February

3:30 – 4.00 PM (IST)
Bala Bhaskar
Title: Eight Years with the Auroville Foundation

4:00 – 5.00 PM (IST)
Giovanni, Radhika & Kaia
Title: From Inner Work to Collective Intelligence — How Communities Flourish 

5:00 – 5.30 PM (IST)
Vajrasara 
Title: Auroville- the power of the idea: an analysis of Auroville as a model of anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist resistance

6:30 – 7.30 PM (IST)

Samrat
Title: Auroville, a microcosm within the macrocosm

7.30 – 8.30 PM (IST)
Henrik Dutz (Aurovilian)
Title: How can collective Wisdom go beyond polarization and the Tyranny of the Majority?
&
Vaishnavi Presingu

Title: A Call to Progress: Auroville as a Field of Sādhanā

27 February

3.30 – 4.30 PM (IST)
Divyanshi Chugh
Title: The Joy of No Possession: Experiments in Collective
&
Sanjana Reddy
Title: What Does It Mean to Live in a City in Service of Truth?

4.30 – 5.30 PM (IST)
Rama Narayana
Title: Is Auroville the Chariot of Jagannath?

6:30 – 7.30 PM (IST)

Frederick
Title: Bridge
Larry
&
B aka William Sullivan
Title: The Spirit of Auroville

28 February

3:30 – 5.30 PM (IST)
Min
Title: Building the City: From Units to Working Groups
&
Lalit
Title: Auroville: Experiments Beyond Wellbeing and the Good Life Towards Planetary Unity

6:30 – 8.30 PM (IST)
Devdip Ganguli
Title: Auroville as Living Experiment: Integrating Multiplicity in a Fractured World
&
Michel Danino
Title: Conditions for Auroville’s fulfilment

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