Saturday, 28 May 2011

Documents of Santali Marraige Dance(Santali Anec) and Rituals

SANTALI MARRAIGE DANCE
Documented by Baidyanath Murmu,Santiniketan,Birbhum ,West Bengal, 2011

SANTALI MARRAIGE RITUALS





The above documents have been collected by Baidyanath Murmu from his friends wedding in Dumka,Jharkhand

Friday, 27 May 2011

Mural workshop in Fuldanga


Wall Painting workshop  with children of Fuldanga village conducted by Baidyanath Murmu




As part of the Negotiating Routes: Ecologies Of the Byways project supported by Khoj International artists organisation as part of the second phase of Coomunity based art activities in Fuldanga Baidyanath and myself we conducted a drawing workshop with chidren of Fuldanga about their immediate environment












 Baidyanath initiated the workshop by painting a wall mural referring to the different steps of making paper from bamboo leaves.After the initial drawing workshop the children were invited to paint the walls of the workshop space to transform those initial paper drawings into a painted mural.The intention was to draw a map of the village of Fuldanga through the memories of children to locate the changing images of village life in Fuldanga..

Ingya Aura,My Home-II

Drawings by children of Fuldanga village ,Santiniketan














Drawings of children of the age group-5 to 15 years

Monday, 23 May 2011

Ingya Aura-My Home

Mapping your environment-A Draw workshop with children from Fuldanga village,Santiniketan















After the initial bamboo leaf paper making workshop,as preparation for the second phase was  going on,we decided to conduct a drawing workshop with the e children of Fuldanga on mapping their own village .In this respect we decided to invite children from the age group of five, six to 13,14 and asked them to mapp their own home with specific reference to trees and objects in the premises.The idea was afer some initial exercise the walls around the workshop space will be covered by a painted mural by the children and draw a pictorial map of the village of Fuldanga.Before the drwaing workshop baidyanath Murmu who is passout from Kala Bhavana made a painted mural on one of the walls of the workshop space about the different steps of the bamboo leaf paper making.

Children from Fuldanga village participation in the drawing workshop

This drew many of the children into the space to observe the process of painting on the wall.Then initially smallcrads were distributed and later on the children drew on bigger sheets.
Finally after the two days of drawing workshop the children were introduced to the walls.The painting workshop are primarily conducted by Baidjanath murmu who is one of the collaborator in this project and lives in Fuldanga.So in the afternoon time children from different age group joined in for the workshop.