Date and Time: 21-22 March 2025
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Venue: Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003, India
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Area: Lodhi Road Area Events
Venue Locations: C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, Lounge Verandah and Fountain Lawns
Event Description: Vasant Utsav: A Festival of Folk Arts
A two-day festival of folk music and art, celebrating contemporary narratives in traditional folk art organised in collaboration with NCZCC, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India. The festival includes performances, exhibitions and screening of short and long documentary films. The performances include the best of folk music by renowned folk artistes – Megha Sriram Dalton from Jharkhand who is an MTV Coke-studio artist; and Mooralala Marwada, sufi folk singer from Janana village of Kutch district, Gujarat
Schedule:
21 and 22 March 2025 at 18:00 in the Lounge Verandah
Pattachitra tradition with Story Telling Session
An exhibition by Sahajan Chitrakar, Pattachitra artist from West Bengal who will exhibit traditional folk paintings and sing stories from the Ramayana and other deities depicted in the paintings.
The artist will continue to demonstrate and sing on the second day of the festival also.
21 March 2025 at 18:30 in the Fountain Lawns
A Desert Trail- Musical Journey
By Mooralala Marwada, celebrated folk singer from Gujarat, who belongs to a lineage of Meghwal singers who migrated from Rajasthan to Khadir Island in Kutch four centuries ago. With a rich repertoire of Nirguni bhajans, sufi kalaam and other traditional folk songs, Mooralala also plays the ‘santaar’, a traditional stringed instrument. He has performed in coke studios and with Indian classical vocalist, Nirali Kartik, gaining a YouTube viewership of 50 lakhs.
Aawazon ke Jaadugar
Bhairav Dutt Bhatt, 86-year-old voice mimickry artist from Uttarakhand who brings to live different sounds of birds, animals and humans, creating a rare experience will present this folk tradition.
22 March: 3pm onwards at C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium
Screening of Documentary Films on Folk Art & Music
Colours of Earth (64 mins; English)
Director: Shefali Bhushan
A unique film about the traditional music of India which takes viewers on a journey across rural India, situating folk music as it is traditionally performed in the villages and small towns of rural India. The film received an overwhelming response at each and every screening including those at the prestigious Smithsonian Center at Washington D.C., the University of Chicago, University of California, Los Angeles, Stanford University, California, among others. The film was an official entry at the Vitas Film and Folklore Festival held at UCLA, where it received the "Best Soundtrack Award".
Pabuji ka Phad (22 mins; English)
Director: Shammi Nanda
Produced by Films Division
Pabuji is believed to be an avtar of Laxman and is worshiped as a warrior saint in Rajasthan. The Bhopa's of the Bhil Community sing his story against the backdrop of a 15 feet long painting called a phad.
Unfolding the Pata Story (50 min; 2014; Bengali with English subtitles)
Director: Supriyo Sen
Produced by PSBT
Film on Rupban and other traditional scroll painters (Patuas) of Odisha and their struggles for a sustainable livelihood.
6:30pm:
Love Ballad of Jharkhand in the Fountain Lawns
By Megha Sriram Dalton, from Daltonganj, Jharkhand. Megha is today one of the most promising folk singers of the state. Apart from folk, she has also made her debut in Bollywood giving them the best songs. She was awarded a scholarship from H.R.D. Ministry, Govt. of India for working and promoting folk music of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Megha gained popularity following her coke studio performance with Shankar Mahadevan
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