Cham: The Dance Meditation (With Video)
- by Sonam Lama
The festival of sacred dance known as “Cham” in Tibetan language, commemorates the birth of the lotus born Guru, Padmasambhava.
- by Sonam Lama
The festival of sacred dance known as “Cham” in Tibetan language, commemorates the birth of the lotus born Guru, Padmasambhava.
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The Karnali- Photo Exhibition hosted by Nepal River Conservation Trust (NRCT) began on March 16 at Nepal Art Council, Babermahal.
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Around 73 artworks including paintings, drawings and sculptures by late veteran artist Uttam Kharel is on display at Nepal Art Council, Babermahal. The exhibition began on March 17 and is organized by Sirjana College of Fine Arts.
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Little by little, they are beginning to ask questions and push boundaries. Without a doubt, life in Achham is not easy, and the patriarchy unabashedly cruel. Women are considered impure while they menstruate, and are banished to a rudimentary shed, the infamous chhau-goth, for 7 whole days of every month. For 7 days of every month, women are deemed untouchable.
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Artist/botanical illustrator Neera Joshi Pradhan recently conducted the series of Botanical art workshops for teachers and students of art and science. Pradhan was invited from Telangana State Museum, the Department of Heritage, Hyderabad, the Government of India. The workshops were organized from March 11 to 15, to coincide the ongoing historical exhibition of the archival botanical prints “Forests and Gardens of South India” from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.
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Gallery LA is hosting a group painting exhibition on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2019 at Boudha. The all women’s exhibition began on March 8. The exhibition includes seven women artists—Anamika Gautam, Anisha Maharjan, Deepmala Maharjan, Kunti Shree Thapa, Muna Bhadel, Namrata Singh and Sabita Dangol.
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Nritya Aagan is all set to organize 'Kadam: Celebrating the Arts', an annual fundraising event. The event is scheduled on March 17 at Sanskritik Sansthan, Naach Ghar, Jamal. The event aims to support the work of the nonprofit organization Srijanalaya and tickets are priced Rs 300, Rs 500 and Rs 1000.
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Though the gallery is congested and the wall is crowded with different sized paintings, it is definitely a platform to know women artists of Nepal and the forms and themes they work on.
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In the painting, there is a rhythm in the use of motifs and the color combination has a balance making it aesthetically appealing. Though having numerous things happening in the canvas, his skillful way to use positive and negative space has given a balance in the painting. This has led the viewers to get a clear picture of what the artist is trying to convey.
- by Aditya Neupane
Punjabis adorned in colorful traditional attire entered the stage carrying native musical instruments of Punjab like Chimta, Ektara, Dhol, Alghoza, Esraj, Sapp and Tumbi.
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Naresh Kuman KC’s directorial feature film ‘Dying Candle’ bagged ‘Best Feature Film’ and ‘Best Director’ at Nepal International Film Festival (NIFF).
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‘500 nudes’ is the series of drawings that contain different forms of human figures in terms of human day-to-day life activities, movements, and gestures. If you’re an art fanatic, 500 nudes by Kapil Mani Dixit is worth going exhibition.
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With an aim to promote the diverse culture of the country, SAB Public School organized a program in the occasion of SAB Cultural Diversity Day at its premises at Gattekulo, Dillibazar.
Bauddha Tamang Kalyan Guthi Organized the fifth edition of ‘Jesum Yatra’ to promote local culture and heritages.
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Ice and snow sculptures carved by nearly 10,000 artists in the city of Harbin have melted during a sudden warm spell, forcing the earliest closure of the main venue at China’s biggest winter festival.
In order to track down and gather information on the migrated Nepali arts and statues, Global Nepalimuseum.com is recently in operation. The launched website will keep the record of around 1000 Nepali artifacts that are located in many other countries.
- by Sangita Shrestha
Despite being the victims of conflict, because they are civilians, they never received compensations of any kinds from the government for what had happened to their lives and the lives attached to them. Though the civil war came to an end in 2006, the sufferings of the war-victims still have not finished. The various difficulties they face and how they are coping with their lives now are on an exhibition titled ‘14 Stories: Living Memories of War’. The exhibition kicked off on Tuesday at Staff College, Jawalakhel where it also features the audio along with photographs of survivors.
- by Shahin Sunuwar Rasaili
Siddhartha Art Gallery is garnered with enchanting paintings by Veteran artist SC Suman. The exhibition titled 'Songs of Innocence and Experience' that began on January 23 continues till Wednesday.
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American Visual Artist Maureen Drdak, while in Nepal as a Fulbright research fellow in 2011, she passed by an ancient and stately banyan tree nearby Department of Immigration office, Kalikasthan. She noticed that this tree was choked by encroaching development and deprived of room to grow naturally. Its aerial roots had been severely cropped to prevent their descent, resulting in masses of hanging gravid bundles. Drdak experienced these striking shapes as powerful yet poignant metaphors for development’s relentless strangulation of natural forces, she was inspired to explore their forms.
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A young couple with matching expressions stares nervously into the camera with deep brown eyes. He, a Vietnamese student, has just met the love of his life. She, a North Korean, is forbidden to love him back. It was 31 years after Pham Ngoc Canh, 69, took that first photo of Ri Yong Hui, before the two were finally allowed to get married in 2002 when North Korea took the rare step of allowing one of its citizens to marry a foreigner.