Mewar Gavari

On Saturday, Oct 6th from 1:00 to 6:00 pm, Mohanlal Sukhadia University’s College of Social Science & Humanities & RGP 2018 will host the world’s first interdisciplinary seminar on Gavari culture. This unprecedented event will feature a broad array of authoritative (and entertaining!) voices as well as original Gavari photography & mixed media creations from […]

Rediscovering Gavari 2018 announces September 11th & 17th  Gavari training sessions for Mewar guides and tour operators 

To help our long-term Rediscovering Gavari program, West Zone Cultural Centre has generously sponsored a creative Gavari workshop & performance experiment that will debut (informally) at 7:30 pm, May 12 (Sat) at Shilpgram’s Darpan Auditorium.   ​ The Bhiyawad story adapted for this presentation exemplifies Gavari ritual artistry and celebrates the primacy of Goddess energy in protecting […]

Portraits of performers shot by Waswo at his studio in Varda, on the outskirts of Udaipur.   (Photographs courtesy: Waswo X Waswo (with Rajesh Soni) Gauri: The enigmatic opera  Sep 2019 by Avantika Bhuyan   Sourced from Livemint.com A new book by Waswo X. Waswo, published by Mapin, documents the little-known world of Gauri performers The only English-language […]

Stephen Kries is a gifted German photographer and documentarian on a mission to unveil, celebrate and preserve extraordinary indigenous cultures. The RGP team invited him to Udaipur during the 2018 Gavari season and the festival instantly enchanted him. During his brief visit he captured Gavari’s essential magic and now plans to return and create a […]

  The Rediscovering Gavari Project’s (RGP) team’s new bilingual Gavari introduction was launched by Rajasthan Minister of Tribal Affairs Arjun Singh  Bamniya, local MLAs and other dignitaries at Mohanlal Sukhadia University on February 17, 2019. The launch took place during the Mewar-Vagad-Malva Janjatiya Vikas Sansthan’s tribal award event, which is annually staged to celebrate outstanding achievements […]

Udaipur Shines for Culture | World’s first interdisciplinary Gavari seminar held at MLSU By UdaipurTimes Team on October 10, 2018 MLSU’s College of Social Sciences & Humanities hosted an unprecedented Gavari symposium featuring a broad array of Gavari authorities & enthusiasts and MLSU VC J.P. Sharma to inaugurate their new academic assembly hall on October 6th. Aditi […]