Kannada Rajyotsava Celebrations at Rangoli Metro Art Centre.

List of events as part of the Kannada Rajyotsava Celebrations at RMAC on 1st November 2013
Book Fair,
Writer’s Meet,
Young Kannada Poets and Writers conducting Kavya Sanje
Students Participating in Kannada related activities.
A Postcard – Dialogue with Mahatma Gandhi
Bangalore Picturesque – An Exhibition
Bangalore – A Remembered City – A Panel Discussion (on 10th November 2013)

Book Fair :
Kannada publishers and book sellers have been invited to showcase, exhibit and sell Kannada books and also the translation of Kannada novels and poetry into other languages.

Writer’s meet :
Eminent writers in Kannada residing at Bangalore have been requested to visit Rangoli on 1st November 2013 between 5 & 7 pm for an informal chat with public as well as the Kannada Community. The Conversation is organized at the Bayalu.

Young Kannada Poets and writers:
Rangoli has been conduction ‘Kavya Sanje’ once a month and 5 poetry sessions have been held so far. This poetry reading has generated lot of interest and active participation among college students and Lecturers. Many young poets and writers have been invited to take active part. They will recite, read Poems, Writings as well as interact with the audience at various spaces of RMAC.

Students Participation :
Students from different Colleges and Universities have been invited to participate and observe the Kannada related activities.

“A Postcard – Dialogue with Mahatma Gandhi”
During the Gandhi Jayanthi celebrations, RMAC in association with the Postal Department had setup a special counterfor the visitiors to post a card to “Mahatma Gandhi C/o Rangoli Metro Art Centre” expressing the concern they want to share with the Mahatma “A Letter to Gandhi” project was conceptualized inhouse by Rangoli Metro Centre. This event generated a huge interest and nearly 1500 post card have been posted at the new letter box installed permanently at Rangoli. On 1st November about 500 letters posted by Children, Students, Parents, Artists and foreign tourists will be exhibited at Gallery-Belaku.

‘Bangalore-Picturesque’
Bangalore-Picturesque a huge project is curated from a popular facebook group, Bangalore Photos from a bygone age and is an online momentum. The exhibition is a collaborative work put together by Surekha, Curator, RMAC and members of the facebook group, Bangalore Photos from a bygone age – CN Kumar, Suresh Jayaram, Meera Iyer, Aliyeh Rizvi, Mansoor Ali and Kiran Natarajan. It is the first in this series and hopes to develop in scope and imagination through continued contributions to the archive.
The images are a visual archive of Bangalore with a strong local identity that co-existed in parallel with its distince colonial heritage. Through the exhibition, the past has been captured to repeat a time and landscape of Bangalore thus thus becoming a historical record of life and built heritage in the city. These set of images are markers of time, visual narrative that evokes nostalgia and nurtures conversations about the past in the present.

The exhibition also raises many questions about the heritage management and a critical need for archiving city history. It invites participation from the public, through their contributions of images and stories and opens a dialogue with our past and our future. Bangaloreans are requested to contribute images to the archive, with all the contributors being duly catalogued and acknowledged in subsequent showings. Visitors can also contribute personal stories and their experience of the city to the ‘Memoryscapes’ wall at the venue.

Bangalore – A Remembered City.
on 10th November 2013 at the Rangasthala Auditorium, Rangoli 6pm to 7pm
Bangaloreans are invited to a Panel discussion on ‘Finding the Past in the Present’, a conversation with eminent chroniclers of city history – Mr.Chiranjiv Singh, Ms.Maya Jayapal, Mr.Suresh Moona and Mr.M.Bhaktavatsala. Dr.Chandrashekar Balachandran will be the moderator. The Panel Discussion will be followed by Question answer session.

Date : Friday, 1st November 2013
Venue :
Rangoli Metro Art Center,
MG Road,
Boulevard,
Bangalore.