Worldwide Fest ‘Unurum’ begins at FM College

BHUBANESWAR: The three-day worldwide competition ‘Unurum’ to have fun artwork, literature and tradition was kicked off at Fakir Mohan College Balasore on Thursday. Artists from India and overseas attended the operate.
On the inaugural day, Nancy Pop, an artist from the USA, Mohan Kant Gautam, a professor from Netherlands and Chandini Kasturi Arachchi, dancer and maestro from Sri Lanka mentioned the socio-cultural worth of tribal folks and their lifestyle.
College vice-chancellor Santosh Kumar Tripathy mentioned the educating and studying course of shouldn’t be confined to the 4 partitions of a classroom. “It must be taken exterior of it and an academic environment might be created with nice imaginative and prescient. Artwork, tradition and literature play very important roles in an individual’s life,” he added.

Unurum, a phrase collected from Mundari tribal neighborhood, means identification. Purpose of the competition is to scout for hidden abilities within the subject of artwork, dance, language and literature. This yr the competition will showcase such arts in its full glory.
Official sources mentioned classical dances and the performing arts are well-known all through the size and breadth of India. However folks arts, folks dances, literature and languages want promotion, preservation and publicity. As a result of these are the dwelling traditions, mentioned a professor on the college.
So, this occasion is to get collectively a few of the artwork practitioners to share their thought course of and lots of extra are blurring the hole between the artwork and cutting-edge expertise with their inter/multidisciplinary approaches of their artwork practices.
From this competition, contributors can count on a burst of color, full of life dance and music performances, dialogue periods on arts, poetry, story and movies, e book launch, an exhibition of conventional handicrafts, up to date artwork like efficiency artwork, video artwork, set up artwork, movie screening and a plethora of occasions.
Aside from exhibition of artwork and handicrafts, 4 workshops shall be performed on portray, palm leaf engraving, Jau Kandhei and theatre until November 26.
Chandini Kasturi Arachchi dance group from Sri Lanka, Bharatanatyam dancer Sudipa Sain Seal from Kolkata, Odissi dancer Jyotipriya Khuntia from Delhi, Mayurbhanj Chhau Chhauni, tribal dance group from Dambrughati in Odisha, Chadheia Chadheiani dance group from Balasore and Sadashiba Pradhan Chhau dance group from Bhubaneswar are performing within the competition.