Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya cordially invites you to Museum Popular Lecture and Documentary Screening of ‘From Earth to Earth: Devotion and Terracotta Offerings in Tamil Nadu’ a documentary on Ayyanar Dev.  French-American photographer, Julie Wayne has discovered, surveyed and documented more than seventy shrines of Ayyanar, participated in more than fifty festivals and spent countless hours watching and recording the potters and their sacred craft. Her visual and intellectual curiosity piqued, she began what became a ten-year journey, exploring and discovering both the material and immaterial aspects of this so little-known Ayyanar cult. On Monday, March 30, 2015 Ms. Wayne will screen her 35 mins long documentary ‘From Earth to Earth: Devotion and Terracotta Offerings in Tamil Nadu’ and will deliver a lecture on Ayyanar, at Rock Art Conference Hall of Manav Sangrahalaya from 3.30pm. 

Date: March 30, 2015