What we should do?
1-
Bhubaneswar
Art Bazar: Artist and Artisan Community of Bhubaneswar City/Odisha could
persuade State Government to facilitate an arrangement where “Bhubanswar
Art Bazar” could operate once in a month initially for 2-3 days in a
week end/ 7 days a month in peak tourist season. Bhubaneswar Art Bazar could be
designed like “Puskar Festival” of Jaipur in Rajasthan. BAB
could offer Artist Institutions and Individuals to participate free of cost to
show case & sale their art work and provision for live art work on theme
selected by art lovers and Art Buyers, Provision for Portrait making, Pictures
of God and Goddesses, Statutes and even
installations. State Govt. and Artist Collectives should rope in private
corporate and public sector organizations to source their annual purchase of
gift items from the Bhubaneswar Art Bazar. If it receives appropriate public
patronage; then, Artist and Art Galleries
from the country and abroad would be keen to participate at a cost; while,
attracting tourist and facilitating cultural tourism in which our State has
distinct advantage. Ideally, this should be done at a place that naturally
attracts public foot fall like IG PARK/BIJU PATNAIK PARK.
2-
Statues: on
the eve of 22nd AAC at
Kalinga stadium Odisha Govt. taken initiative to inundate the city with “wall
Art” which makes this city beautiful; to continue this creative Initiative
forward for a larger cause; artist collectives & all organizations working
in the creative arena should persuade the State Govt. and Private Corporate in
the city to fund the plan to “Install Modern Statues” at important &
near busy traffic junctions of Tourist Triangle—Puri-Konark-Bhubaneswar. Let us
do this in such a manner that it beats our legacy in public art and Kalinga
Style of Temple Architecture .
We can also provide Important Social Message through modern
architectural pieces. Once again we should do this in such an austentious &
a very loud manner that the World Community would sit down and take notice and
even talk about this.
This activity eventually would make
Bhubaneswar/Odisha an attractive Tourist destination; while, making other
cities in the country and abroad competing to follow in the foot steps of our
SMART CITY BHUBANESAWR and our Artist &
Artisans would receive work from across the world making the city truly a
Global Art Hub. #Can We? # Should We?
3-
Patho Ustavs: This
novel concept enunciated in the SMART CITY
BHUBANESWAR and executed impeccably; that has won the adulation of general
public and fun loving children of our city. Can we extend this concept to other
localities/street corners of Tourist Triangle----Puri-Konark-Bhubaneswar in
collaboration with respective cultural association with some amount of both
Government and Corporate patronage only in the Peak Tourist Season
(October-January)?Our Ambition should be to design and execute this in a better
manner than Puskar Festival of Jaipurin Rajasthan.
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This will become a great Tourist
Attraction as the Words Spread and International Media Highlight this Unique
Concept of our Cultural Tourism.
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