Monday 1 October 2012

Street Art Festival

   India is still an enigma for me. It's been nearly three years I am experiencing its sunny days, but everything is new to me. I haven't seen much of India yet, only few cities in the North. The city I live in is quiet diverse and actively promotes any kind of interaction between its citizens. Last weekend we went to The Street Art Festival which took place near the lake. The Street Arts festival is held every year and gathers all those who is willing to show the art forms they work in. The whole street was banned for cars to come and you could just walk on the road and view what was going on. And there was something to see. Any fair, any concert, any festival organized in the city, attracts loads of people thus such events are usually crowded and very loud. I don't like them much, but the curiosity and wish to explore new things take me and my husband there. 
  The festival presents many types of arts. You can see that India is not only about dancing and singing. I was pleased to find many artists, sculptors and musicians there.  
    Music is of course, one of the parts of nations' culture. There were performing Punjabi with a bagpipe and drums. There were other traditional instruments and dancing. My husband couldn't say where those guys in orange clothing belonged to, but they looked like Rajasthani to me.

   The traditional Indian Doll theater was one of the shows I liked very much. The doll  was "playing" very realistically.

  By the way, about the dolls... There were huge dolls hanging from the lampposts along the lake. Neither me nor my D had seen so big dolls before, they however looked a little weird hanging up there.

The next picture represents the diversity of modern Indian culture: graffiti on the walls with traditional rangoli decorations, clay work by one of the artists... all is blended up!

  When the street of the street art finished, we proceeded towards the lake and found (to my husband's pleasure) some stalls with variety of food. There were such specialties of Indian kitchen like Amritsari kulcha, Rajastani kachori and others.
  By the time we tried some food the full moon rose and lit the lake. Isn't nature magical?

Hope you had a lovely colorful weekend too :)

13 comments:

  1. What fun and great art! I would love to visit an art fair like this.

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    1. You are welcome to India, you will definitely see such festivals and even more colorful performances:)

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  2. Hindi, so colorful and powerful! I love festivals too much ...

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  3. Hi dear, I was glad to have stumbled across your blog. I liked the name of your blog and the way you portray Indian culture. I can see that you like India and I hope you are loving your stay here. I am your latest follower from Ahmedabad. Would definitely like to know more about you.
    Love and hugs.
    Sangeetha
    crochetkari.com

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    1. Hi, Sangeetha! Glad you supporting my blog and thanks for leaving a sweet comment! Yes, I like being in India as my husband is very supportive, and it contributes:) Have a lovely day!

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  4. I have never been to such occasions. I too hate noisy crowds.

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  5. Is that Chandigarh, Punjab? I love this city. We used to live here(if you are talking about CHD), years ago, when my dad was in Air Force, before moving in to N.Delhi, permanently. We do visit the city and its still so warm and happy and colorful.

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    1. hello! Yes, you are absolutely right! It's Chandigarh, union territory :)Well, we can meet some day :)The city is also very beautiful as it's supposed to be, so many gardens are here! Do visit me some day too :))Thanks for stopping by!

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  6. I hope you try to find out what the dolls are all about. They look uncanny. I would love to know ;-)

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    1. Hello, Magaly! Thanks so much for joining my blog, i am very glad to have among my readers:)
      Those dolls is an enlarged version of the small Rajasthani (Indian) dolls which usually are sold in pairs: male and female. So they were hung there as representation of hand made art:)hope you find my reply useful.

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    1. Hi, Shikha!!!! I am so surprised to get an award!!! My first one moreover! Thanks so so much! I appreciate you chose my blog too :)

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