Kishore
Amati / Team Café
It
is that time of the year when most expect Goa to slip into slumber and await
the monsoons to pass. Doing just the opposite, the state is hosting a number of
art and theatre related events that will ensure that artists and art lovers have
a lot to do. Kalangan – Centre for performing arts, in association with
Ravindra Bhavan Margao and the Department of Art and Culture is organising
Kalarang – a five-day festival of music, theatre and dance for the fourteenth
year in succession and bringing some big names from different fields of art
from across the country to perform and enthrall the audience in Goa.
The
festival will be inaugurated today at Ravindra Bhavan Margao at the hands of
veteran actor Amol Palekar and will see performances from Pt Rahul Sharma on
Santoor, a Bharatanatyam performance by Kalvardhini and Kalangan students, a
Kathakali performance by Kerala Kalmandalam University for Art and Culture and,
possibly for the first time in Goa, a performance by actor Kulbhushan Kharbanda
on the concluding day of the festival.
Rajendra
Talak, President of Kalangan – Centre for Performing Arts, says, “Goa is the
land of artists who have contributed a lot to the field of art through music,
cinema, etc. We have an institute like Kalangan where 725 students are learning
performing arts. This gives us a chance to organise an event like this where
the students get exposed to the different art activities happening in the
country. The idea behind organising Kalarang is to produce more Amol Palekars
and Rahul Sharmas from Goa who will then perform at festivals in other parts of
the country and the world.”
Kalarang
will be held from September 4 – 8, 2014 at Ravindra Bhavan, Margao. The event
is open for all.
