Arts to be scared in Ahmedabad International Arts Festival
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- Pandora Box
- Sunday, 14 October 2012 20:41
- Published on Sunday, 14 October 2012 20:40
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Gujarat Global News Network, Ahmedabad
The third edition of Ahmedabad International Arts festival kicked off on Sunday here with a huge crowd at its inaugural function at Natrani.
19 events and nearly 100 artistes in 14 days will treat citizens to the theme “making scared”.
Exhibitions, workshops, performances and children’s workshops have been organised during the festival that will end on October 28. This year’s highlights include a performance by Shubha Mugdal, an exhibition of art from Kasturbhai Lalbhai collection, a festival of Sufi films and Sufi music concert featuring Shahi quawals from Ajmer Sharif and Siddi Gomas from Bharuch.
Anupa Mehta, organiser of the festival says that scared is something which has different meaning for each one of us. It is not only something religious but a sense a feeling. Clothes, installation, drawing, sculpture, painting anything can be scared.
This year’s theme looks at regenerative processes of love and healing. We explore this through language of the arts and literature, she says.
The events include scared cloths, a two day workshop on exhibition of carved blocks and ritual clothes, exhibition of limited edition serigraphs, workshop with local artists of traditional arts like Mata no Chandarvo, Ruhbaru, an exhibition of scared art and Islamic calligraphy and a walk that looks at the scared geometry within temples and mosques.
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