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ART AND CULTURE - June 2019

Jun 2019

Nov 24, 2019

Union Min Inaugurated Destination North East Festival At Varanasi

The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Dr Jitendra Singh will inaugurate the 'Destination North East' Festival at IIT BHU grounds in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh on 23 November 2019. The festival is being organised by the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), Government of India. The Secretary (DoNER)Inderjit Singh and Secretary (NEC) K Moses Chalai will also attend the event.
Singh recently launched the theme song of the festival. This is going to be a four-day event from 23 to 26 November. The previous editions of 'Destination North East' were held in Delhi and Chandigarh. Destination North East 2019 will provide live experience to the audience. All 8 states will be present at the event along with their handicrafts, handloom, organic products and cultural troupes.

Egypt Animal Mummies Showcased At Saqqara Near Cairo

In Egypt, a large cache of mummified animals, found in an ancient Egyptian necropolis, have been displayed for the first time near the Capital Cairo.
Archaeologists discovered the trove last year, near the Step Pyramid of Saqqara, south of the capital. They uncovered hundreds of artefacts, including masks, statues and mummified cats, crocodiles, cobras and birds.
Egypt's Ministry of Antiques said, tests are being carried out to verify whether two of the mummified animals are lion cubs.
Unlike mummified cats, which are frequently found by archaeologists, the discovery of intact lions is considered rare.

IFFI 2019: Masterclass On The Art Of Visual Effects Conducted By V Srinivas Mohan

The international film festival of India, IFFI, is going ahead full throttle in Goa. Delegates have enjoyed almost a week of films and filmmaking activities.
A session on Visual effects held today in Panjim - a Masterclass on The Art of Visual Effects was conducted this afternoon by National award-winning Visual effects designer, V Srinivas Mohan. He has worked for films like 2.0 and Baahubali. He was addressing an audience full of film students as he told them about modern techniques. In the film 2.0, the virtual camera was used and operated remotely to get stunning effects.

Nov 23, 2019

Carved Rock Found in Jordan may be the Oldest known Chess Piece

A palm-sized sandstone object found in 1991 at an Early Islamic trading outpost in what's now southern Jordan appears to be the oldest known chess piece.
This roughly 1,300-year-old rectangular piece of rock with two hornlike projections on top resembles several rooks, also known as castles, that have been found at other Islamic sites in the region.
But those other rooks date to a century or more later, John Oleson, an archaeologist at the University of Victoria in Canada, said.
He presented his analysis of the carved rock on November 21, 2019 at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research.

50th IFFI Introduces Section on Silent Film Viewing with Live Music

The International Film Festival of India is celebrating its Golden Jubilee Edition in seaside Goa. The Festival witnessed the inauguration of a specially curated section which pays tribute to silent films viewing with live music.
The 50th IFFI has introduced a section on silent film viewing with live music. Live music with silent films has its own history. Earlier, films would be conceptualized as a visual spectacle without sound.
The only sound would be the live music which would accompany a particular film's screening at a particular place by an esteemed music composer. With the advent of sound films, this feature of the film viewing experience soon faded out.
This year's IFFI will witness the very significance that a silent film plays. The specially curated section which pays tribute to this lost form of film viewing was inaugurated at Kala Academy, Panaji. The inauguration was followed by the screening of the 1925 Soviet film Battleship Potemkin.

Jal Shakti Minister Releases Short Documentary Film on Water Conservation named 'SHIKHAR SE PUKAR'

Union Minister for Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat released a short documentary film on Water Conservation named 'SHIKHAR SE PUKAR' in New Delhi.
The film has been made to promote 'Jalshakti Abhiyan' and is based on the Journey of an IAS Officer Ravindra Kumar, who climbed Everest in 2019 to attract the attention of people from top of the Everest on the serious issue of Water Conservation and stopping Water Pollution.
Film also gives a glimpse on the significance of Himalaya as the main source of water needs of India by means of the river. It also picturizes the difficulties and challenges in climbing the highest peak of the world.

Nov 22, 2019

World's First Muslim Yoga Camp Starts At Kotdwar

The first Muslim Yoga Sadhna camp in the world began at Kotdwar. Kotdwar would be renamed Kanvanagari Kotdwar.
Rawat inaugurated the five-day Yoga camp for Muslims at the Kotdwar Vedic Ashram Gurukul Mahavidyalay on the occasion of the institution's golden jubilee. More than 500 Muslim women and men from across India and abroad are participating in the event.

Nov 21, 2019

Single Window System Will Attract More International Filmmakers To India: Javadekar

The Golden Jubilee Edition of International Film Festival of India (IFFI) got off to a mesmeric start at Panaji in Goa. A galaxy of stars from the Indian and world film industry were present at the grand opening ceremony which was hosted by the master of entertainment Karan Johar.
Mega star Amitabh Bachchan and renowned Super star Rajinikanth announced the festival open, in the presence of Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar.
Speaking at the inaugural ceremony, Mr Javadekar said, government is now preparing for single window arrangement through which all the permissions required to shoot a film in the country will be granted.
The Minister said, the single window system introduced by the government will attract more international filmmakers to shoot their films in India.
At the event, actor Rajinikanth was bestowed with the Icon of the Jubilee Award.
200 movies from 76 countries are expected to be screened during the 50th International Film Festival of India. Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner Amitabh Bachchan's movies will also be screened during the course of the film festival.

Ministry Of Culture Is Promoting Indian Literature Through Sahitya Academy

For the promotion of Indian Literature in foreign countries, the Sahitya Akademi, an autonomous organization working under the Ministry of Culture, under its Cultural Exchange Programme with different countries had sent the following delegations to different countries:
Sahitya Akademi's participation in Vishwa Hindi Sammelan, Mauritius (18-20 August 2018).
Sahitya Akademi's participation in Sharjah International Book Fair (31 October – 09 November 2018).
Indian writers' delegation to Nepal to participate in Festivalof India in Nepal (19-21 March 2019).

Nov 19, 2019

France Returns Omar Tall's Sword To Senegal

France has restored to Senegal a sabre that belonged to a 19th Century Islamic scholar and ruler.
It is part of a commitment to return to its former West African colonies key items of their cultural heritage.
The artefact originally belonged to the revered west African leader Omar Saidou Tall, who led an anti-colonial struggle against the French.
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe handed the sword to Senegal's President Macky Sall in a ceremony in Dakar.
In 2018, a group of experts commissioned by France's President Emmanuel Macron recommended that African treasures in French museums be returned to their countries of origin.

Rare Charlotte Bronte Book Coming Home After Museum's Auction Success

A book written by Charlotte Bronte at the age of 14 will return home after being bought by the Bronte Society at auction in Paris.
The miniature work, called The Young Men's Magazine, will go to the Parsonage Museum in the Brontes' old home in Haworth, West Yorkshire.
It was bought for €600,000 (£512,970) after a fundraising campaign by the Bronte Society, which runs the museum.
The museum lost out on the book when it last went under the hammer in 2011.
The total price including buyer's premium was €780,000 (£666,790).
The work is one of six "little books" written by Charlotte, the eldest of the three sisters, in 1830. Five are known to survive, and the Bronte Parsonage Museum already holds the other four.
The works were created for Charlotte's toy soldiers and document an imaginary world created by the family called Glass Town.
Charlotte is best known for her 1847 classic novel Jane Eyre.

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