Harmony Art Workshop 2022
Organized by Anthelion School of Art in association with Talon – The Right Brain Club. Our Associate Partners were Russia India Cultural Exchange.
Anthelion School of Art organized the “HARMONY 2022”, the second in the series of fusion art workshop on 15th April, 2022 at Jamini Roy Gallery, ICCR, Kolkata from 9.30 AM to 6.30 PM, marking the joint celebrations of World Art Day and the Bengali New Year (Poila Boisakh).
What is Harmony 2022 Art Workshop?
It was a One Day workshop cum exhibition, where the workshop was conducted by 8 senior-most artists of West Bengal and 2 junior upcoming artists for 37 students of Anthelion School of Art. The program was designed to experience the similar aspects of two Art-Forms – Theatre and Painting. While theatre represents complete form of Performing Arts involving Acting, Emotions, Body Movements, Rhythm, Dance, Poetry, Music and all forms of Performances possible. While Painting captures imaginations and feelings in the canvases through colours.
Harmony 2022 was, probably the first time in India, an effort to combine the two forms.
Shri Goutam Halder the renowned Theatre Thespian, Dramatist, Actor & Director (founder of Naye Notua and Ex-Key-Member of Nandikar) presented the various aspects of Dramatics and Theatre to the Workshop Participants and Artists in 20-minute slots and then for the next 20 minutes they created their compositions. The process repeated in 20-minute cycles and compositions evolved in the same size canvas of all participants over the 6 hours of workshop.
How the Harmony 2022 Art Workshop was Implemented?
The workshop started at 10 am, with Mr. Halder talking about Lines, Space Division and Movements in Theatre. Then he spoke about clashing energies that differentiate normal movements and acts from dramatics. Then he spoke about Groups and Leading – Acts with multiple persons. Finally, he spoke of emotions, expressions, and use of objects. He spoke of Theatric Moments and how subtle focus and changes and bring the extraordinary out from the ordinary.
Each of these components were presented through simple theatre games where various participants of the workshop took part in. The moments and feelings were captured in the minds of the participating artists and were then converted to Compositions for their Canvas under the guidance of senior Artists.
Each senior artist worked on a canvas of size 30 inches by 30 inches while every student participant worked on the canvas size of 18 inches by 24 inches. The final artworks once completed shall be put up in an exhibition.
The closure: Harmony 2022 Art Workshop
Public and Guests started to visit the venue from 3 pm and witnessed the Live Workshop & Exhibition. The closure was a One Hour Musical & Dance Program on Classical Indian & Folk with distribution of the certificates sponsored by Russia India Cultural Exchange.
The musical & dance program was organized by Talon – The Right Brain Club for a melodious and harmonious beginning of the Bengali New Year 1429. There were the following components to the program –
- Classical Vocal and Baul by Dr. Partha Krishna Ghosh (our Student).
- Rabindra Sangeet & Bengali Folk by Shri Subrata Ghosh (eminent Artist).
- Self-Written Poetry Recitation by Debopriya Das Barik (our student).
- Violin Instrumental by Shri Amitava Ghosh.
- Odissi Dance by Srishtika Majumder
- Self-Written Poetry Recitation and Bihu Dance by our student Monalisha Boruah (our student from Assam).
The mesmerizing musical and dance evening was enjoyed by an audience of about 100 people. A truly cultural enigma was in display over the entire venue. The experience and confidence of the participating students were enhanced as recorded in their own words and social media posts.
Some memorable moments of the events are –
