Wednesday 13 June 2012

Gond Painting @ Silent Theatre Laboratory's Summer Cart (Camp)2012

The Gond painting transports you to the seamless world of the imaginative and the surprising. Like most other tribal communities, the Gonds (hill people) are artistically gifted and possess astounding creative vision. Traditionally, their paintings on mud wall houses relied on shared symbols within a local community context. More recently they have taken to painting on canvas or paper using new colours and new themes.

One of the largest tribal communities in South Asia and perhaps the world, the Gonds, are mainly found in Madhya Pradesh and its surrounding States.

Gond paintings in their singular, “two-dimensional” style cover numerous themes – folk stories, religion, nature etc. They may be bursting with flamboyant hues or more controlled, in the simple sophistication of black and white. Though similar in style, they are individual in expression and interpretation.

It is interesting to observe that Gond paintings bear a remarkable likeness to Australian aboriginal art as both forms use dots or lines as fillers.

The Gond tribe, one of the famous tribes belonging to the Mandala region of Madhya Pradesh, has a typical style of painting, known as Gond paintings. Painted freehand, these two dimensional paintings reflect their perception of life. The third dimension, the depth is always lacking in these paintings reflecting the simplicity of the artist. Sometimes these paintings also tell how colorful their imagination can be. They put colors to the blandest creations of the nature at times. For example you can see the lizard here in our collection with colorful stripes and dots. They can be treated as the expression of their desire to color the nature as well, if we think philosophically.

Thursday 24 May 2012

Some Clicks of Summer Cart (Camp) @ Salarpuria Sanctity, Surjapura Bangalore

Thursday 17 May 2012

Madhubani @ Summer Cart of Silent Theatre Laboratory, Bangalore

Madhubani painting or Mithila painting is a style of Indian painting, practiced in the Mithila region of Bihar state, India and the adjoining parts of Terai in Nepal. Painting is done with fingers, twigs, brushes, nib-pens, and matchsticks, using natural dyes and pigments, and is characterized by eye-catching geometrical patterns. There are paintings for each occasion and festival such as birth, marriage, holi, surya shasti, kali puja, Upanayanam (sacred thread ceremony), and durga puja.

The origins of Madhubani painting or Mithala Painting are shrouded in antiquity and mythology.

Madhubani painting has been done traditionally by the women of villages around the present town of Madhubani (the literal meaning of which is forests of honey) and other areas of Mithila. The painting was traditionally done on freshly plastered mud walls and floors of huts, but now they are also done on cloth, hand-made paper and canvas.

Madhubani paintings are made from the paste of powdered rice. Madhubani painting has remained confined to a compact geographical area and the skills have been passed on through centuries, the content and the style have largely remained the same.

Madhubani paintings also use two dimensional imagery, and the colors used are derived from plants. Ochre and lampblack are also used for reddish brown and black respectively.

Madhubani paintings mostly depict nature and Hindu religious motifs, and the themes generally revolve around Hindu deities like Krishna, Ram, Shiva, Durga, Lakshmi, and Saraswati. Natural objects like the sun, the moon, and religious plants like tulsi are also widely painted, along with scenes from the royal court and social events like weddings. Generally no space is left empty; the gaps are filled by paintings of flowers, animals, birds, and even geometric designs. Objects depicted in the walls of kohabar ghar (where newly wed couple see each other in the first night) are symbols of sexual pleasure and procreation.

Traditionally, painting was one of the skills that was passed down from generation to generation in the families of the Mithila Region, mainly by women.

Friday 11 May 2012

Summer Cart @ May Flower

Mime

A mime artist is someone who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art, involving miming, or the acting out a story through body motions, without use of speech.

Thursday 10 May 2012

Silent Theatre Laboratory's Summer Cart (Camp) @ Salarpuria Sanctity,Bangalore

Kalamkari or Qalamkari is a type of hand-painted or block-printed cotton textile, produced in parts of India. The word is derived from the Persian words kalam (pen) and kari (craftmanship), meaning drawing with a pen.

@May Flower, Sarjapur

@Salarpuria Sanctity

Salarpuria!!!

Tuesday 1 May 2012

Summer Cart (Summer Camp) admission open for 2nd Batch- Bangalore

Summer Cart @ May Flower

Summer Cart @ Salarpuria Sanctity

Details About "Summer Cart"

This summer vacation we will connect your children to the mother earth; let your child’s hand get dirty by loving the soil, let your child have fun with our own folk culture, let your child have an experience of playing the forgotten games of yesteryears, let your child enjoy the colors of life, all these will be your child’s cherished memory for life. Silent Theatre Laboratory has taken an initiative to create these kinds of memories for children through the project called

“Summer Cart”

What kind of workshops?

Theatre	Painting	Folk	Craft

Team Building	Oil Paintings	Dance	Pot Making
Trust Building Games	Acrylic	Chouka Baraa	Sculpture
voice Modulation	Water Painting	Kunta Pille	coloring pot
Body Language	Charcoal	(Squares on the marble)	Paper crafts
coordination	Pencil	Chowka-bara	clay works
Nine Keys for Acting	pastel	(Ancient Indian Board Game)
		Kavade (Cowries Shells)

As we believe these activities will get back your childhood days through your children and let them play and learn about the culture with the nature, your children will be nourished from the roots of our culture.

For this workshop:

1. The children age between 5-16 are welcome.

2. The timing of the workshop would be 10am to 1pm

3. Camp runs from Monday, April 30th through Friday, May 26th

CAMP RULES & REGULATIONS

1. All the materials will be provided from the organization (STL) end.

2. Any kind of wastage will not be entertained.

3. All students are expected to arrive 15 mins earlier and remain for entire class

4. Please don’t send any valuable accessories; we will not be responsible of any loss.

5. No profanity or fighting will be tolerated in the camp. Disciplinary action for violation of camp rules lie with the

Center Director or Assistant Director.

6. Workshop fees must be paid full in advance. Workshop fees are not refundable

7. Comfortable clothes should be worn all times as all campers will participate in dance

Classes. Flip flops and jeans are not allowed for class time

8 Parents must sign their child(ren) in and out daily.

Medications: If your child has medication he/she must take on a regular basis, If the child cannot take the medication on his/her own, please make camp administration aware and they will distribute as necessary.

Wednesday 18 April 2012

Summer Cart (Camp) @ Salaruria Sanctity Day 8

Pata Kunitha in Karnataka is a popular folk-dance form extremely popular among the inhabitants of the Mysore region.

Although there was some kind of an original religious significance to Pata Kunitha at Karnataka, it is now largely lost.

However, it is still considered to be a largely ritualistic performance. The elaborately decorated bamboo poles could have had some kind of totemic significance. However it is the visual delight of the dance that now characterizes this extremely popular folk dance form in Karnataka. Team Silent Theatre Laboratory is trying to give some knowledge about Pata Kunitha and children are really curious to learn such folk dances and they are practicing it regularly to give a final day Program at the camp, However STL's Folk based Summer Cart (Camp) is going well and day by day it is getting popular...