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Posted
on 09-Aug-02 04:15 AM
▫ ◦ ▫ YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ▫ ◦ ▫
BICHALIT BARTAMAN
(the disillusioned present)
a multimedia arts event
to raise creative voices in solidarity against the country's deterioration
Saturday, August 17, 2002
Basantapur Dabali
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12:00 noon -- launch and photo exhibition
12:45 pm -- poetry reading, visual artists begin work
2:00 pm -- drama
3:00 pm -- song and music concert
4:00 pm -- visual art exhibition
5:00 pm -- conclusion
This program is organized by the 'Bichalit Bartaman Organization Committee Nepal,' a voluntary group of artists and art promoters, in partnership with the following institutions and individuals:
INSTITUTIONS: Aarohan, Abhiyan Sahitya Pratisthan, Asmita, CWIN, INSEC, Martin Chautari, Naad Samuha, National Forum of Photo Journalists, Photographic Society of Nepal, Pragatisheel Lekhak Sangh, Pratibimba, Sahitya-Sandhya Nepal, SAP Nepal, Sarvanam, Siddhartha Art Gallery, Sisnupani Nepal, Srijana Chaitra Teen, suskera.com and Yamini4Arts.
INDIVIDUALS: Surya Chataut, Kumar Deuja/NYO, Soham Dhakal, Aishwarya Gurung, Reuban Gurung, Prasoon Khanal, Surendra Lawoti, Pratik Lohani/Kshiteez, Bishal Maskey, Thomas A. Nowak, Sagar Onta/SEBS NA Chapter, Robin Pandey/chakrapath.com, Satyendra Patrabansh, Biswo N. Poudel, Rabin Pradhan, Tikajit Rai, Anil Rimal, Milan Shrestha, Rohit Shrestha, Surya Shrestha, Amina Singh, Kiran Sitoula/SEBS NA Chapter, Sunil Sitaula, Puru Subedi, Katie Swanson, Sharda Thapa/ANMA, Rajesh Tuladhar, Swarnim Wagle and an anonymous donor.
BICHALIT BARTAMAN ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE NEPAL: Govinda Bartaman, Purna Basnet, Ramesh Bhattarai, Lucia de Vries, Rajendra Maharjan, Chatyang Master, Sarita Mishra, Sunil Pokharel, Ashmina Ranjit, Khagendra Sangraula, Nabin Subba, Anup Subedi, Kedar Sharma, Basanta Thapa, Manjushree Thapa, Usha Titikchhu, Ashutosh Tiwari, Sudha Tripathi.
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| Nepe |
Posted
on 10-Aug-02 12:28 AM
As I am anticipating this art event Bichalit Bartman is going to leave a deep mark in the conscience of Nepali civil society forcing it to reflect and gain new oorja, I am proud and thrilled to see the names of three of my favorite hastis from Sajha organizing/participating in the event. I am sure other fellow Sajhaites are also participating. My best wishes for the grand success of the event.
Now, some minor comment about linguistics of the naming. As Gokulji had pointed out in a thread, the English translation ‘Disillusioned Present’ given by the organizers does not exactly correspond to the Nepali name ‘Bichalit Bartaman’. However, if we are to focus more on the message than the linguistic, then it is fine. Yet, I wonder whether the same kind of picture is provoked by these qualifiers in minds of each of us. I wonder what exactly organizers meant it to be. Take Bichalit bartaman, for example. If it means ‘deviated’ present, then It implies that we were in the right track for good sometime and we are now briefly off-the-track. The truth is we are still struggling to find the right track. I would like to quote from Gokul’s poem by the same title, which paints the picture of our present so precisely.
Aunsi maa junkiri khojdai gareko,
Ani marusthala maa paniko thopo,
Dagdha, Stabdha, Trasit, Vichalit
Avyakta Peeda maa maun, vikalit.
I think here Gokul’s use of Vichalit goes with ‘startled’ as matched by other three preceding adjectives .. Dagdha, Stabdha, Trasit, Vichalit. Very true. Gokul’s poem does not make claim that we had/have found the right track. My own view is that our chaotic present is just the reflection of our inability to change, inability to initiate change, refusal to the change and the denial of our inertia. So appropriate is the name ‘disillusioned present’ (eluded present) for our time and the art event. Lets hope the event will encourage us to see the unseen, to realize the hidden, to question the unquestioned and to find the track. Astoo.
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