Creative Global Hub

BHUBANESWAR ART BAZAR

Bhubaneswar City become No-1 in the SMART CITY sweep stakes in the country. A great deal of brainstorming has gone inside Government and equally or more outside. You will be surprised even at an ordinary tea stall at Patia in C.S.Pur,  a few auto drivers and Ola Cab drivers and a few morning walkers were discussing seriously about SMART CITY; what should be done and how it should look like. If they had a specific opinion on such an intricate issue; then, it would be better if we, project Bhubaneswar SMART CITY as a “Creative Global Hub”. Apart from increasing job prospects for our Artist and Artisans; this would promote cultural tourism in Odisha through Word of Mouth Publicity.

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 22^nd 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.

·       This will become a great Tourist Attraction as the Words Spread and International Media Highlight this Unique Concept of our Cultural Tourism.   

Bikash Choudhury Mobile: 9853426657 Email: streben.market@gmail.com

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