Ahimsa! The Power of the Powerless, A Celebration of Gandhi & JLF Colorado

1535 Spruce Street,Boulder CO 80302

16 September, 2022

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JLF Colorado, the Colorado Chapter of the Jaipur Literature Festival, in partnership with Teamwork Arts, has added an additional day to its festival’s lineup with a Kickoff Fundraising Gala on Friday, September 16th, 2022!Featuring the Colorado Premiere of the internationally acclaimed film, AHIMSA –Gandhi: The Power of the Powerless, the gala will take place at eTown, located at 1535 Spruce Street in Boulder, Colorado. Celebrate Non-Violence and Peace with dinner, wine, and the Colorado premiere of Ahimsa Gandhi. Wear your Indian finest!Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, will introduce the film and share how his grandfather was a positive influence and inspiration to Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S., and Nelson Mandela’s fight against injustice in South Africa. Gopalkrishna Gandhi will also speak on his recent book, Scorching Love: Letters from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to His Son, Devadas, at JLF Colorado on Saturday, September 17th from 10:45 – 11:45 am, in the Skyscapes Venue at the Boulder Public Library.Filmmaker, Ramesh Sharma, describes the importance of this film as a global arc, “The word ‘AHIMSA’ remains the most powerful word for conflict resolution. To Gandhi, ‘AHIMSA’ was ‘love in action.’” Martin Luther King, Jr. is also quoted in the film, referring to Gandhi’s approach to non-violence, “The choice is no longer between violence and non-violence, it is between non-violence and non-existence.”