ART CULTURE FESTIVAL

1. Art Culture And Festival For, we must celebrateart in our lives and revel in living traditions… Founded by a group of professionals who are also ardent art lovers, ArtCultureFestival is your gateway to the world of forms and traditions. A first in India, ACF provides a multi-dimensional platform that employs a holistic approach to showcase art and its forms. It brings together the three pillars of creativity and attempts to network the spaces in the creative ambit, promoting talents and connecting the various dots to complete a largerpicture. http://artculturefestival.in/

2. 1.IT’S NOT JUST A NOISE, IT’S OUR VOICE There have been discussions over nukkad natak claiming of losing their essence because of their changing perspective over the prevalent issue and their evolving skills. Even if people criticize, the thing which we cannot deny is that nukkad spirit can never die because they still haven’t forgotten SAFDAR HASHMI SAHAB who sacrificed his life while performing his street play HALLA BOL. It was his spirit for nukkad which made his wife go back to the same place and complete the play from where it was left and even today his sacrifice is considered to be a milestone which made today’s performers even more passionate for their love of street theatre. Including instruments presenting their play with pomp and show doesn’t mean they have forgotten the original concept but they stick to their core principles firmly yet bring out essence of freshness and originality. , props and

3. 2.SATTRIYA DANCE “Love Cultures differ but the passion for dance remains, and no border can define it. Dance is in the heart, and has a faith of its own” for dance is seamless. Recognized in 2000, Sattriya has gained its prominence as the eighth classical dance form of India. This innovative dance style symbolic of grace and beauty has been widely and warmly accepted by community .It is a gift of the great vaishnava Hastamudras: ‘Footworks’, and Music adding to the flair and artistry of this dance form. the dance saint, ‘Aharyas’,

4. 3.DANCING THE UNUSUAL WAY “ Dance is an expression of a man which gives landscape to his soul. Every movement reveals something wonderful a human can be..” Glorified in Natya Shastra, Indian Dance forms authenticity of Graceful body movements along with navras, brings out there essence. Talas, Mudras, Abhinaya and Nritya depict the beauty of dancing. With the magnificence in their elaborate make up and costume, combination of music, dance and acting, makes dynamic combination forms. maintain Indian the culture. imagination, it unique and art of

5. 4. FROM PALATE TO PALETTE: ART AND FOOD! Food, one doesn’t have to define how food has been an important part of our lives. One has read it in science books, how one cannot live without food but pages of 21st Century has defined it, in some other manner. A way in which one cannot refuse food, at any point of day, anywhere. The love given to food today, developed by taste buds and launched into the system of memory veins. Whereas, if we talk about art, one cannot define it in one line either. It’s an expression, unlike something you can smell or taste, it’s a healing tube of creativity on the wounds. The splashes and brush strokes on the sheets, with bubbles of colored ideas, riding along with the trail to destination – expression! blank canvas of

6. 5. KITSCH ART ON TRUCKS AND TAXIS Kitsch developed as a form of protest amidst many lanes and bylanes of art forms prevalent in the last century. Towards the end of the last century it got directed to being an extremely free expression of whatever we want to do on a canvas; that canvas anything – from a wall to a ceiling to even the sides of a truck or taxi! It was about making a statement to the world as to what you are thinking about a certain issue, or what your opinion is in that matter. It was all about letting go of inhibitions and using whatever material available to draw, sketch or even scratch a scene to depict or make a statement. can be

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