The Tribal Art Museum, Bhopal organised a 15 day workshop "Bamboo in the Life and Culture of India" from January 10, 2017. This was followed up by the Lokrang Samaroh, Bhopal - an exhibition and cultural festival organized by Department of Culture, Madhya Pradesh, at the BHEL Dussehra Maidaan, Bhopal. It was held between January 26 and January 30, 2017.
Performers and artisans from all over India were invited to participate. Daricha Foundation was requested to send a few artists from West Bengal, and the artists we sent included including a group of Chadar Badoni performers and leaf ornament artist, Chhobi Besra from the Santal community, bamboo artisan, Shrinath Tudu, a Mahali from Malda, Masland mat artist from Medinipur and patua Bahar Chitrakar, from Pashchim Medinipur. Shrinath also participated in the workshop.
The Chadar Badar group performed around the mela grounds as well as on stage. Both artists and organizers were more than satisfied with the end results and we, Daricha Foundation, on our part, hope to be able to facilitate many more such events, and thus fulfill our mission of connecting our artists and their arts to a wider public.
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