Volunteers Wanted for BorderSong Festival
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.