Gallery Threshold presents "The Lost Sparrow" workshops for school children & art exhibition at Visual Arts Gallery, IHC, Lodhi Road > 7th-11th Setpember 2011

Time : 10:00 am - 8:00 pm

Entry : Free

Place : Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre ( IHC ), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1 to 3 ( Cars ), Gate No. 2 ( Bikes & Bicycles )

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Event Details : Gallery Threshold presents 'The Lost Sparrow' workshops for school children & art exhibition.

Waking up to the chirping of sparrows is a part of everyones childhood memory. Once abundant in human habitat, these birds are hardly seen today and need our help to popularize their cause. The reasons for the dwindling population of sparrows ranges from chemical pollution and radiation from mobile towers to overuse of pesticides and changes in architecture. Using art as an active tool for social change we aim at initiating a public art project for ecological awareness. By following an out of the gallery format to get the word out on the street via children by conducting art and awareness workshops with schools and NGOs, our objective is to create a ripple effect to sensitize the public to the cause of the "Lost Sparrow". Corporate backing and tying up with Media partners will then help spread the message through hoardings and newspaper articles. Our goal is to help create awareness and start a conservation movement to save our birds which are a vital part of our ecosystem. This movement is only a stepping stone to bridge the growing disconnect between humans and nature but its a start. Lets all pitch in to bring back our chirpy little friends from the brink of extinction !
There is a whole generation of Urban Children Growing up without seeing a Sparrow , I wonder how many of us have realised the implications of this?
Against a backdrop of a landscapes show , and using the sparrow as a metaphor, Gallery Threshold  is conducting workshops for school children titled  The Lost Sparrow , focussing on ecological issues. The workshops and discussion would give the students opportunity to interact with some leading Indian Contemporary Artists and exhibit their works alongside . Bombay Natural History Society will provide content for the talk and slide show. Mr Dilawar Mohammed of Nature Forever Society, an NGO Specializing in Sparrows, will give a talk on the 8th at Habitat Centre . The Vasant Valley School , Pathways ( Gurgaon) , The Mother’s International School, Modern School, Mirambika , The Sriram School , Modern School , DPS are some of the participating schools.
Using art as an active tool for social change ,the idea is to create a ripple effect where these children will take on the role of spreading the word by adopting another less priveleged school/ community  and within there own societies . A Carpentry and pottery project to create and distribute bird houses is also planned.
Participating Artists
1.        Anjolie Ela Menon                                                              
2.        Paramjit Singh                                                              
3.        Rajendra Dhawan
4.        Ranbir Kaleka
5.        Manu Parekh
6.        Suryaprakash
7.        Seema Kohli
8.        Chris Elliot
9.        Jayashree Chakravorty
10.     Sebastian Varghese
11.     Gurdip Singh
12.     Bhagat Singh
13.     Nabonita Saha
14.     Aruna Vasudev
15.     Piyali Ghosh
16.     Chameli Ramachandran
17.     Nirmaljeet Kaur
18.     Rajan M Krishnan
19.     Arun Kumar HG
20.     Manjunath Kamat
21.     HarshaVardhan
22.     Sudhanshu Sutar
23.     Pooja Iranna
24.     Krishna Murari

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