Volunteers Wanted for BorderSong Festival

[Team]

Bordersongs, organized by The Arshinagar Project
(facebook.com/thearshinagarproject)

to celebrate it's 2nd anniversary, is perhaps the country' s first totally

crowdfunded festival of alternative/ fringe performance. It features artists

from various Indian folk traditions, as well as those within the urban

sphere who are searching for something other than easy generalities, who

are asking questions and pushing the borders of their art. It is a unique

confluence of local, national and even international artists, such as

Prasthaan, Kolkata, Budhan Theatre, Ahmedabad, Inder Salim, Delhi, Maja

Drobac, Croatia, and more.

We need your support to make this unique, community supported festival

possible.


We need volunteers to:


- Host artists

- Help us with transportation and logistics (those with cars)

- Volunteer with backstage and ushering duties at events.

- Help with press and PR - spreading the word around!

- Help us with our ongoing fundraising effort through the crowdfunding

website Whshberry: wishberry.in/ The-Border- Songs-Festival- 16141

- (You can support us with as little as Rs. 500, so please consider

making a contribution today, and do motivate others to do so as well. )


We have a volunteers&# 39; meeting at Earthcare Bookstore and Resource Centre,

10, Middleton Street, this Saturday at 4 PM. Please call 9831731422 or mail

thearshinagarprojec t@gmail.com if you wish to attend.


Much Warmth,

The Arshinagar Project Team




facebook.com/ thearshinagarpro ject


The Arshinagar Project is envisioned as a collective of artists

and cultural practitioners from different traditional and contemporary

disciplines, as well as practitioners from other disciplines such as

anthropology, education and ecology, for research into performance

as transformational action.

'Arshinagar&# 39; means 'the city of mirrors' , and the name is derived

from a song by Lalon Phokir, one of the greatest masters among

the Bauls of Bengal - wandering mystical musician-performers who

through embodied practice attempt to touch the unbodied.The logo

represents the 'ektara&# 39; (literally 'one-stringed&# 39;) - a drone-like

instrument used in different forms and names in different Asian

cultures, which has come to symbolize the Bauls.

The Arshinagar Project aims to foster a spirit of freedom, respect for

human diversity, ecological harmony and love, among young adults,

youth in colleges and universities, educators and others, through

performances, immersive workshops in urban and natural settings

based on traditions of mystical performance and practice as well as

contemporary performance- craft, through lecture-demonstrati ons,

seminars, and journeys through inner and outer spaces.