Gandhi Jayanti special: Gandhi Films Foundation to open a painting competition, ‘How I see MY India@75’, on October 2

Gandhi Jayanti special: Gandhi Films Foundation to open a painting competition, ‘How I see MY India@75’, on October 2

Gandhi Films Foundation will tap 150+ Art schools to participate in a painting competition

 

As part of the celebrations to mark the 153rd birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on October 2, the Mumbai-based Gandhi Films Foundation will open a painting competition on the theme: ‘How I see MY India@75’.

Gandhi Films Foundation will invite entries from all over India on October 2, commemorated in India as Gandhi Jayanti.  Select work would be displayed in the Gandhi Films Foundation Art Gallery from 2nd November to 2nd December, 2022 and the Artists would be suitably felicitated said Nitin Potdar Chairman Gandhi Films Foundation.  Details can be found on www.gandhifilmsfoundation.org

Senior artist Prabhakar Kolte, one of the pioneers of abstract art, will inaugurate the competition on Sunday at the iconic Gandhi Exhibition Centre Art Gallery, dedicated to displaying arts of any form.

Upholding our Father of the Nation’s philosophy that art, like the beauty of nature, must be universal in its appeal, the exhibition will welcome presentations in painting, printmaking, digital art, mixed media, photography and sculpture in any size between 3’ x 3’.

Gandhi Films Foundation (www.gandhifilms.org) is a registered public trust created as part of the Gandhi National Memorial Fund formed on the death of Mahatma Gandhi in 1950 by the then Indian national leaders such as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel and Dr. Rajendra Prasad.

The objective of the Gandhi Films Foundation was to procure and acquire photographs and filmic material on Mahatma Gandhi from all over the world, so that his teachings and values remain under one roof.  

The foundation has a rich repository of audio and celluloid tapes of Gandhi’s speeches, meetings, etc., which were gathered by the British Raj during the pre-Independence period and was later recovered by the Government of India after Independence from a government-owned library in Shimla.

For details of the painting competition, write to kalavisharadevents@gmail.com or call +91-8779023704.

 

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Amy Wilson