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ART AND CULTURE - January 2019

Jan 2019

Mar 13, 2019

Gurugram Kala Utsav

  •  Gurugram Kala Utsav was started in 2017 to celebrate the Indian classical art forms. In its third year now, the annual festival is a cultural amalgam of classical Indian dance forms, such as kathak, bharatnatyam, kuchipudi and odissi, folk music, and Hindustani vocal and instrumental renditions.
  • Incidentally the festival falls on the same weekend as the popular Gurgaon Utsav, a festival that brings Sufi and fusion music, poetry and dramatic performances to city audiences.
  • The festival will take place at the Aravalli Biodiversity Park.
  • The two-day fest is being organised by an Odissi dance academy, and a not-for-profit organisation and supported by the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram.

Thakurani Jatra Festival

  •  Preparations for the famous biennial Thakurani Jatra festival in Odisha's Berhampur began with the hoisting of the holy mast or 'shubha khunti'.
  • According to Desibehera P. Durgaprasad, the traditional head of this festival, the celebrations will start from March 29 and continue for 32 days.
  • Goddess Budhi Thakurani is the traditional deity of silk handloom weavers or the Dera community of Berhampur.
  • On the night of March 29, an earthen pot representing the deity would be carried in a procession from the permanent temple to her temporary abode at Desibehera Street.

Jan 30, 2019

150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi

  •  The 20th edition of Bharat Rang Mahotsav will celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi with four plays on his life, philosophy, and principles.
  • Organised by National School of Drama (NSD), the "largest theatre festival in Asia" will open in Delhi on February 1 with "Karanth Ke Rang", a performance directed by Amod Bhatt based on songs composed by late B V Karanth, a stalwart of Kannada and Hindi theatres.
  • The plays , "Bapu" by Samir Biswas, "Stay Yet a While" by M K Raina, "Satya Ke Prayog" by Devendra Raj Ankur, and "Hind Swaraj" by Arjun Deo Charan will pay tribute to the father of the nation.
  • The festival will host 69 Indian and 15 foreign plays in addition to nine folk productions, five plays by the institute's diploma students, one production from the Sikkim centre of National School of Drama, three plays by the National School of Drama Repertory as well as five invitee plays by eminent theatre practitioners.
  • The festival also has eight folk performances.
  • International productions from countries such as Bangladesh, Poland, Russia, Sri Lanka, the Czech Republic, Italy, Nepal, Romania and Singapore are lined up for the Bharat Rang Mahotsav .
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