The Bali-India Foundation will hold another round of the International Yoga Festival that will be joined by some 1,500 Yogis from all over the world. The second international yoga event will be held from March 3-10, and the chairman of the Bali-India Foundation Dr. Somvir stated that half of the 1,500 participants would come from India, European countries, the USA, and Asian regions. The other half of the participants will consist of yoga lovers and yoga development center managers from various places in Indonesia. The annual yoga event will be themed "Yoga and Global Warming Issues". Dr. Somvir mentioned that participants from foreign countries like India, Germany and Singapore had confirmed their participation and each country would send some 50 participants. All of the International Yoga Festival will take place in North Bali at the Markandeya Yoga City Banjar Gunung Sari, Tegal Linggah village, Sukasada sub-district, Buleleng district, about 80 km north of Denpasar. The location is a village that is surrounded by hills and becomes a historic village for Hindu and Islamic development. The second Bali-India International Yoga Festival is expected exceed the success of first event that involved some 1,000 participants in March of 2009 in Denpasar.

Bali India Foundation
Jl. Dr. Muwardi No. 3, Denpasar
(0361) 224-299; www.yogabaliindia.com

Ganesha Gallery presents an exhibition featuring the works of Nyoman Sujana Kenyem through April 5. Born in Ubud, Kenyem belongs to a small circle of contemporary artists whose work, while modern in spirit and execution, still retains the lyricism of traditional art. Notably he is one of the most prominent members of a new generation of artists who chose to study in the late 1990s in the newly opened Balinese branch of the Indonesian art academy (STSI) rather than in Yogyakarta or Bandung. Since his appearance on the scene in the 1990s, Kenyem has won praise for the poetic beauty of his canvasses. The subject of each of his images, mirrored in titles like 'Touch', 'Smile' and 'Nostalgia' are inevitably highly personal visualizations of emotions.

Ganesha Gallery
Four Seasons Resort Bali at Jimbaran Bay
(0361) 701-010; www.fourseasons.com/jimbaranbay

Tony Raka Gallery iwill be holding two exhibitions this month, a solo and a group exhibition. "Nowhere Else," a solo exhibition by Samarpan, is being held from March 5 to April 5. Samarpan has created abstract compositions that radiate in intense color and present a vivid world, a cosmos of color. His paintings hold all the mystery of the changing light in a stained glass window. "Return to the Abstraction" is an exhibition of at least 25 painters held from March 18 to April 10. The Balinese artists' awareness of space and composition exist through the tradition or pre-modern works to the present. The presentation of their works represents symbolic values, as well as metaphor. Through this exhibition, the concepts and ideas of Balinese abstract painting will be traced.

Tony Raka Art Gallery
Jl. Raya Mas No. 86 Mas, Ubud
(0361) 781-6785; www.tonyrakaartgallery.com

An exposition will be held to commemorate 100 years since France's first Bande Dessinée or comics, entitled Exposition: 100 years of French Comics. The expo will exhibit 35 original art paper collections issued by the International Association for Comics and Drawings. These collections will take you back to times when history spoke about the phases of art, recognized world-wide for its uniqueness in France, Europe, and all parts of the world. Just to mention, some of the collections are from Caran D'ache – a surprisingly modern practitioner for mute story telling until art collections from Nicolas de Crécy – with its impressive technique mastering, a creation well known for more than a century in countries like France and Belgium. The exhibition will take place in Alliance Française Denpasar, through March 31.

Alliance Française de Denpasar
Jl. Raya Puputan I, No. 13A, Denpasar
(0361) 234-143; www.afdenpasar.org

This workshop at Gaya will explore the kiss of flame and the natural glaze effects of atmospheric wood firing in Gaya CAC's new anagama (Japanese-style wood kiln), with wood fire specialist Dave Hanley. Participants will experiment with the variables of clay bodies and flashing slips, surface texture and vessel shape as design factors influencing the subtle and dramatic effects of a natural ash surface. Instructors Dave Hanley and Hillary Kane provide courses at the workshop through April 3.

Gaya Ceramic Arts Center
Jl. Raya Sayan, Ubud,(0361) 745-1413
www.gayafusion.com/ceramic

Hanna Artspace hosts the painting exhibition "Bali from Beyond" through April 8. This event will visualize the expression of the expatriate artists during their stay in Bali. The artists presented are Arie Smitt (Holland), Han Snel (Holland), Rudolf Bonnet (Holland), Marc Jurt (Switzerland), Pieter Deiman (Holland), Shant F. Clergue (France), Emilie Pauline Sermet (France), Razcel Jan LS (Philippines), Anja Zwanenburg , Margareta (Norway), Patrick Okorokoff (France), and more.

Hanna Artspace
Jln. Raya Pengosekan, Ubud
(0361) 978-216; www.hannaartspace.blogspot.com