Day 3 at Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2010 – an melting pot of Cultural Influences…
Hey Gang, Nitesh here. Hope you are enjoying following our daily updates of this years
Kala Ghoda Festival.
On Day 3 we were witness to some of the most spectacular visual arts and craft installations. The Eiffel Tower and the Tree of Light were amongst our personal favourites. (Pictures Below)
We are lucky enough to catch a potter at work on his latest masterpiece and managed to get a quick video of the same. (Video Below)
There were 3 dance performances setup for the evening and must I say each of them was fabulous. We specially loved the “Maharashtrachi Parampara presented through dance” which had these small kids from the suburbs performing the traditional Maharashtrian Lavni and Kohli dance. This was followed by a traditional Kathak dance by a group named Urrmee based in Pune. The last performance of the night was a Bharata Natyam dance by Nateshwar Nritya Kala Mandir, Mumbai.
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Maharashtrachi Parampara through dance, day 3 at Kala Ghoda fest 2010 |
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Earlier during the day there were a host of Children’s programmes like “Box Making using corrugated Paper”, Ready…Steady…PLAY! and Lighting up our Lives!. The literature section saw the big launch of the book “Neti Neti” by Chandrahas Chaudhury at the David Sassoon Library Garden.
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Kala Ghoda Festival 2010 has also focussed on some really beautiful and meaningful cinema thus earning it the nickname of ‘Kala Ghoda Film Festival’. Well, today saw the screenings of Japanese film ‘Ran’, Korean movie Ghost Taxi, French movie ‘Love on the Run’ amongst others.
On the whole it was an eventful day leaving us craving more some beer towards the end.
Our favourite bits had to be the fabulous Arts & Crafts Installations, Life size animal installations, and the Maharashtrian dance performances by the children.
And, here are some of the other unique installations that caught our eye.
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P.S.: There was a lot of confusion around what the “Jumbo” Glass of sugarcane juice meant. So, this time we got a volunteer to demonstrate the difference between the normal large and Jumbo glass.
3 comments:
can you plz put these pictures in an album format..
Thnx
Hi Vaastav,
Thanks for Visiting Kala Ghoda Festival Now website. This site is hosted on the Blogger platform which does not provide any album functionality unlike wordpress. But, we are planning to upload all pictures to a flickr account soon. Will announce when that is done.
BTW, checked out your blog its pretty Kool!
If my husband would ever meet a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would fall over in a dead faint.
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