"Art for Life 2" Music Concert & Art exhibition to raise funds for Uttarakhand Survivors at DLF City Club V, Golf Course Road, Gurgaon > 18th, 19th & 20th October 2013

Time : 
18th October : 
8:00 pm - Inauguration by HE Dr. Aziz Qureshi, Governor of Uttarakhand
8:30 pm: Performance by Ustad Amjad Ali Khan along with Amaan Ali and Ayaan Ali Khan
19th October : 
8:00 pm: Music performance by Ghazal Maestro and Sufi singer Jaswinder Singh and Aalok Shrivastav will recite special poetry for Uttarakhand.  
18th to 20th October : 11:00 am - 9:00 pm - Exhibition on View

Entry : by reservations only, Limited seats available, please contact Kanika Tokas : 
Email at tokas-kanika@dlf.in or call at 9711824552 

Place : DLF Phase 5 Club, Golf Course Road, Gurgaon - 122002
Landmark : Opp. Trinity Tower, Near to Princeton & Wellington Buildings
Venue Info : www.thecityclub.in | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Huda City Centre(Yellow Line)'

Event Description : DLF 5 and DLF Foundation In Association With AAPSA ART Present 'Art for Life 2' Music Concert & a group art exhibition of 27 very known artists to raise funds for Uttarakhand Survivors. 

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It is said that an artist normally creates works only for his or her own satisfaction, but as the nineteenth century American author Albert Pike said, “What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” 

That is the philosophy which moves Aapsa Arts, who are now on the threshold of their second Art for Life programme which will feature not only the works of more than thirty artists, but also performances by some very eminent musicians.

This year’s Art for Life is a charitable fund-raising art event for the victims of the holocaust which hit Uttarakhand in the form of ravaging floods. Part of the proceeds of the event organized by Aapsa Art and sponsored by DLF5 and DLF Foundation from 18 to 20 October at DLF Club 5, Phase V in Gurgaon, will go towards the relief and rehabilitation of the victims of the floods.

The eminent artists whose art works will be on display during the Art for Life Festival will include renowned names like M F Hussain, S H Raza, Arpana Caur, KR Santhana, Manu Parekh, Paresh Maity, Chintan Upandhyay, Roy Thomas, Manish Pushkale, Prashant Sahu, Rajendra Kapse, Sanjeev Sonpimpare, Sidharth, Vijendra Sharme, Pratul Dash, Avijit Dutta, S. Harashvardhan, Dileep Sharma, Birendra Pani, Chandra Bhattacharjee, Farhad Hussain and Murali Cheeroth.   

In addition, there will be works of art by Dharmendra Rathore, who created Aapsa Arts with a vision for creating a platform for new media art, and is a room for creative endeavour, aesthetic exploration and visual dialogue. It attempts to discover established and emerging artists, and promote art in rural India, apart from creating social awareness of art. It also looks at ways to create acceptance and greater synergies among artists.

Clearly believing in the philosophy of being humanitarian and not just human, Aapsa has organized blood donation camps in association with Red Cross, taken the initiative to remove social evils like casteism from villages and rural areas, provided medicines and funds to pregnant poor women during the last month of pregnancy, and given funds to provide the mother and the child proper food and care in addition to providing scholarship to poor and hardworking students in the rural areas, especially girls. It has also worked to save the environment by taking the initiative of planting trees in the neighbourhood.

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