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The MLSU Rediscovering Gavari Symposium
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 […]
Guiding for Gavari workshop for tourism professionals
Rediscovering Gavari 2018 announces September 11th & 17th Gavari training sessions for Mewar guides and tour operators
Bhiyawad – creative Gavari workshop debut
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 […]
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“Gauri Dancers” – First Gavari art book published
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 […]
Powerful new Gavari intro film launched internationally
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 […]
New English-Hindi edition of Gavari introduction launched
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 […]
Press coverage of MLSU Gavari Symposium
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 […]