Karnataka Fine Arts Council- Youth Festival- Kalavanta

[kssr]

Ten of the major music sabhas of bangalore have come together and formed a new Cultural Service Organisation- Karnataka Fine Arts Council. The first event of this new entity is a 14- Concert Youth Festival cum competition. ADMISSION FREE.

Karnataka Fine Arts Council

(Constituents: Ananya, Bharatiya Saamagaana Sabha, BTM Cultural Academy, M A Narasimhachar Foundation, Nadasurabhi, Ranjani Fine Arts, SGBS Trust, Sri Rama Lalitha Kala Mandira, Gayana Samaja and Vishesha Fine Arts)

Cordially invites you to the Weeklong
Youth Festival and Competition
“Kalavanta 2014”

Venue: Bangalore Gayana Samaja, K.R.Road, Bangalore.560 004.

18.5.2014 5.00 PM to 6.30 PM Kum. Ishwarya Vidya Raghunath- Vittal Rangan – Akshay Anand
Sunday 6.45 PM to 8.15 PM Karthik Narayan – Dileep K.J. – K.H. Vineet

19.5.2014 5.00 PM to 6.30 PM Apoorva Krishna – Violin solo – N.C. Bharadwaj
Monday 6.45 PM to 8.15 PM N.J. Nandini of Kerala – R. Rahul – Akshay Ram

20.5.2014 5.00 PM to 6.30 PM Vivek Sadashivam – M.P. Aditya – Trichy Aravind
Tuesday 6.45 PM to 8.15 PM Sriranjani Santhanagopalan – Akkarai Swarnalatha – Arjun Ganesh

21.5.2014 5.00 PM to 6.30 PM M.B. Ramya and Ambarish Amaravadi Veena duet – Anoor Vinod Shyam.
Wednesday6.45 PM to 8.15 PM S.R. Vinay Sharva - Mysore N. Karthik – B.S. Prashanth

22.5.2014 5.00 PM to 6.30 PM Heramba and Hemanth Flute duet – Aditi Krishnaprakash – Sunil Subramanyam
Thursday 6.45 PM to 8.15 PM Shraddha Mohan - M. Rajeev – Praveen Kumar

23.5.2014 5.00 PM to 6.30 PM R. Ashwath Narayan– Sri Ram Sridhar– Sumesh Narayan
Friday 6.45 PM to 8.15 PM Manda Sruti Ravali– K.P. Nandini – V.S. Raghavan

24.5.2014 5.00 PM to 6.30 PM Soumya Sridhar– Apoorva Ravindran-Adamya
Saturday 6.45 PM to 8.15 PM Priyanka Prakash – H.M. Smitha – L. Subramanyam

25.5.2014 Sunday 10 AM Valedictory Function and Prize and Award Distribution

Title of "Kalavanta" along with a citation and cash awards of Rs.50000 to the Best Main Artist and Rs.25,000 each for the Best Violin and Mridangam accompanying artist will be presented by the Council on 25th May 2014.

[rajeshnat]

Kssr,
The venue is Bangalore Gayana samajA and all concerts are held only there. What is it that 10 sabhas are conducting together ?? Just curious there on what exactly 10 sabhas are doing together in this one, please do throw some light there.

Best wishes for all artists and nice line up of all artists. Keep up your good work.

[arasi]

Rajesh,
Sachi has recently posted a group photo of all the members of this admirable coming together of music organizers in Bengaluru. kssr is also there, representing Nadasurabhi...

Kssr,
Happy to hear about the youth festival.

[kssr]

Kssr,
The venue is Bangalore Gayana samajA and all concerts are held only there. What is it that 10 sabhas are conducting together ?? Just curious there on what exactly 10 sabhas are doing together in this one, please do throw some light there.

Best wishes for all artists and nice line up of all artists. Keep up your good work.

The "organiser" of the event is Karnataka Fine Arts Council. The Founder Trustees are the 10 organisations. This event is a maiden Youth Festival. Others that follow under the banner may be conducted in different venues.

The objectives are much broader than just to conduct concerts. All stake holders,artists, music organisations and rasikas (in particular) should benefit. Classical music does not get the recognition it deserves outside the niche rasika community. We hope that KFAC draws attention of general public, government and other agencies the vital role that the musicians, sabhas and rasikas play in the upliftment of culture, social values, artistic outlook, general sophistication and betterment in behaviour besides achieving spiritual development, in society. It is subtle; it is tough; it is intangible and achievements like this cannot be readily quantified compared to simple calculations of rupees and paise; it will take time; but no harm trying; the group is made up of an amazing broad minded experienced persons. It is still early days. Let us see how it shapes up.

[Rsachi]

Arasi,
Kssr is one of the prime-movers and he was kind enough to share the photo, too

[rshankar]

Nice!
Interesting choice for the name of the young awardees. KSSR, was the name any chance inspired by the 'kalAvantulu' of AP (the custodians of arts in AP, and if I understand correctly, like the dEvar aDiyAr of TN, they performed what is now called vilAsini nRtyam as part of ritual temple worship across AP)?

[kssr]

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