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Lokkala 2020: Daily online performances to showcase folk artistes from Pune region
SPPU has come upwardly with a unique 20-day programme to help folk artistes get a platform for their performances
Hindustan Times, Pune | Prachi Bari
The Lalit Kala Kendra of the section of performing arts, Savitribai Phule Pune University(SPPU) has come up with a unique 20-day program to help folk artistes get a platform for their performances.
Through the online platform, Lokkala 2020, students and faculty members selected xx troupes from villages near Pune and will begin showcasing folk dances, music and other styles online for 20 minutes from 8pm starting November 30. This will go on till Dec nineteen. The programme is being conducted under the National Eye for Folk Performing Arts Studies, Research and Welfare Eye, which has been gear up by SPPU two-and-a-one-half years agone.
"The folk artistes have not been able to perform due to the Covid-nineteen pandemic since the last eight months. Most of the artistes perform via invitations to hamlet jatra, weddings, or whatever other auspicious events, only due to the pandemic, traditional folk artistes are struggling to survive," said Praveen Bhole, head of section, Lalit Kala Kendra.
"When the lockdown was implemented, Lalit Kala Kendra forth with Tech Mahindra Foundation helped 350 folk artistes with groceries and a ration, but that could not sustain them for so long. Also, with a ban on large gatherings, it is hard for many of these folk artistes to earn their livelihood," Bhole added.
The students spent a month and one-half scouting for such artistes in villages near Pune. "The accent was on providing a platform to endangered forms of performing folk art like Waru, Bharadi, songs of Lakhabai, among others. A five-member team of Bhushan Bhingarkar, Suraj Shinde, Bipin Ghobale, Pratik Halge and Unmesh Dhore scouted villages like Donde, Dhamni, Loni, Belhe and Narayangaon to meet these folk artistes personally.
"Initially, information technology was difficult to convince these artistes as they thought that we were but making fun of their sustenance. However, after two to 3 personal meetings forth with a letter of the alphabet from our department, nosotros got the folk artistes to agree to the program," said Bhushan Bhingarkar, a educatee specialising in theatre at the Lalit Kala Kendra.
The performers will be getting a royalty for their performances of Rs 5,000 from the Welfare Centre along with the online platform to showcase their talent.
Nandarani Bhokate, a Lavani singer and Tamasha artiste from Sakurdi village, Khed Taluka, said, "I am then happy that nosotros finally get to showcase our kala (talent). The last eight months take been difficult for us. I have been role of a Tamasha pati (group) since the age of 7. Performing artistes become work only through invitations and with the lockdown, there has been no work. To set up one pati of Tamasha for 2 months of shows, we need at to the lowest degree Rs 5 to six lakh. This yr, we have not performed at all. These students and their professors take given usa a ray of promise and also a platform to appeal to the government to besides expect after us."
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