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Shankar Barua jumps at the opportunity to address the participants gathering for the
'closed-door' meeting of the first day, accidentally exposing his bald patch to the
camera in the process

Graziano Kratli and others sneak off to check out the incident-catalogue instead

Emma Ota and Rashi Jain generously make a show of listening to the babble

Ingrid Lode clearly seems to be tired of it all already. Or, was she just bitten by a bug?

Joker Nies introduces himself into the circus, apparently triggering grave concern at this
on the part of Dafna Naphtali, at left

Bettina Wenzel disclaims all responsibility in the matter, even though it later
transpires that she's known Joker from before, in their hometown Cologne

Ima Pico, Dafna Napthali and Graziano Kratli urgently discuss the matter during a
tea break

Dafna Napthali and Hans Tammen's elder daughter Katya clearly has better things to
do with herself

Kurt Korthals threatens to let a genie out of his bottle, to the apparent trepidation
of Hans Tammen, at left

Lionel Dentan takes time out during a tea break to explain to Dhananjay Gadre that
smoking kills

Mohit Satyanand reminisces about the massive work-pressures of having been a
Founder-Trustee of The AeA through the course of the first two iterations of
The Carnival of e-Creativity

Parag Gandhi expresses brazen disbelief at there being any great work-pressure at all
involved in doing such things

Vidya Shah inquires of Mohit whether everthing has since been uphill or down

Preeti Monga and Mani Venugopal have themselves a little giggle at the goings-on

Shankar Barua reassures Rahul Dinakaran that things are not in fact on the verge of collapse

Shazeb Shaikh keeps all papers in hand, standing ready to launch litigation

Shankat Barua bursts out laughing as his robotic-drummer blows up on stage

Paola Lazo, Michael Ormiston (fine-tuning his Tibetan singing-bowl
with a quick glug of water from it), Aparna Panshikar and Jayen Varma, launch
into the first proper performance of CeC 2010, with Mangesh Dhaundiyal marshalling
audio, bottom-left

Dhananjay Gadre's heart gets all aglow in the course of his presentation

Emma Ota cooly projects her presentation directly onto a backdrop, since a proper
screen is not yet in place

Ima Pico manages just as well with a proper screen in place

'Intervolution' presents the first evening-performance, with
(from left to right, on stage), Lawrence Casserley processing voice-work
by Bettina Wenzel, Aparna Panshikar, Ingrid Lode, and multiple instrumentation by
Michael Ormiston

Lawrence Casserley snapped up in deep concentration by Ashok Mehta

Ingrid Lode seemed to be almost blushing as the gathering is enchanted by playback of
a recording of some of her mainstream singing

A scene outside the tent during a break between presentations/performances
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Abhinay Khoparzi in deep concentration during his performance
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Aparna Panshikar clearly delighted in performance with Kurt Korthals
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Preeti Monga delighting all in conversation with her computer

Dafna Napthali sweats through preparing a special patch to perform together with
Vidya Shah for the very first time, whilst Vidya's obviously got her mind and ears
elsewhere

Joker Nies gutsily exposes deep dark secrets in the art of circuit-bending
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Joy Sharma strips down to shirt-sleeves to set up his solenoid drummer,..
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.. before donning a butch leather jacket and dancing shoes to deliver his presentation
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Lionel Dentan snapped shortly before he ran out of hands enough to handle his
performance (upon which of course, feet came into play)

Manjula Jhunjhunwala restores some sense of seriousness into the proceedings

Ish Sherawat manfully manifests the Delhi Hairy Monster to be contrasted against
Dhanya Pilo's courageous role-playing of the Dimunitive Desi Mumbaiakar

Dhananjay Gadre draws an exclusive spell for Tara and Katya in the Swiss Audio
Zone, with a hands-on introduction to some of his electronics mischief

Vaishnavi Sundararajan very supportively providing a pretty picture

Ashok Mehta, caught at last without his camera, whilst preparing a slide-show with
which to close the whole circus

Dhanya Pilo joins Shankar Barua, the day after it was all over, in awarding Subhash
Chandra Arya the blanket he had stencilled for the Swiss Audio Zone
(the stencilling is on the hidden side of the blanket in this image)

A wee bit of press-coverage we discovered the circus to have received in far-off New Delhi
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