Jhalak, Jhankar, Jalwa
Festival
of India : Jhalak, Jhankar, Jalwa
Venue :
Holland Park, Surrey City Central
Date :
27th June, 2009
Timings
: 12.30 p.m. till 10.00 p.m.
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Vision, Aims & Objectives :
Jhalak, Jhankar, Jalwa is an unveiling of the life style of all the Asians living in
British Colombia the greatest place on the earth. The objective
of the festival is to create awareness about Asian art, food,
heritage, dresses, festivals, life style. This spectacular
multi-generational presentation will connect today's world with
the wonders of 5000 years of civilization, its ancient
traditions and modern influences. Our vision is not only to make
South Asians feel pride of their heritage but to make them proud
partners in Canadian culture. It provides a wonderful
opportunity to established and emerging artists in traditional
and contemporary spheres of music, dance, film, theatre,
literature and poetry, natural health practices, social issues,
cuisine, arts & crafts and much more. This presentation will
give many individuals an opportunity to promote themselves in
various fields, an appreciation by the people & will encourage
them in moving forward. This strong & vibrant presentation
will open doors to all of us to come closer & know each other,
to understand better in this today’s complex & stressful
environment. It will give insight, create awareness & will
remove all those self created barriers by individuals, because
of non reciprocity & relationship. This festival will give a
good cause to think about our neighborhood, to take everybody
along & feel pride about rich neighborhood. It will help us to
create a clean, doubtless & progressive society. It will be a
wonderful opportunity for our children to know about their
ancient culture & how they can better correlate in the present
circumstances. It will breakdown stereotypes & myths about Asian
culture, will paint fresh new images. Our doors are open to
cross cultural collaborations and diverse thinking.
Festival
would be inaugurated by the performance of one of the South
Asian Nation’s dance or musical along with performance of Native
Indians. Beside India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Fiji,
Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, East Africa, South Africa,
Malaysia, Hong Kong & people moved from Britain would be part of
this rich cultural mosaic. There would be art & craft displayed
around. Food stall of different communities, like a food
festival, stalls displaying dresses, social life, and live
models moving among audience interacting with invitees with
their traditional Hello- Bonjour, dresses. Food stalls would be
there to rather creating more awareness about food of that
region than having any commercial angle. There would be lots of
fun frolic for our children like Joy Rides, Clowns, Mehendi,
Jugglers, face painting etc. During the day there would be
cultural performances by various groups & individuals. There is
6-7 entries are confirmed so far, the response is overwhelming.
At the end there would be grand finale production of all the
groups. We are anticipating strong audiences. We are planning to
keep it a free entry for all.
We are
in contact with various communities about this initiative &
there is an amazing response & participation is already
confirmed with full strength. Local multicultural radio’s have
shown keen interest & are very enthusiastic about this fresh &
new consciousness. The
process of drafting letters to various multicultural media
channels to participate to create awareness about this
initiative & event is already commenced.
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