Kolkata hosts Ladies Study Group Charitable Trust Annual Award

This year too Ladies Study Group on Friday celebrated the annual awards day by bestowing its token and recognizing Sundarban Rural Development and Training Centre, for its outstanding contribution towards tribal welfare at The Crystal Hall, Taj Bengal.

The Ladies Study Group (LSG) Charitable Trust Annual Award Scheme initiated by the LSG members since 1975 has been conferring awards of recognition to charitable organizations and NGOs working towards community development. Present at the occasion was Guest of Honour, Bikram Ghosh.

The award ceremony was followed by a stimulating panel discussion on ‘Celebrating Art in the Arts’ with Film Director & Producer Shoojit Sircar, Indian Classical Danseuse Vani Ganpathy, and Noted Art critic, Curator, Art Historian and Writer Alka Pande.

The afternoon rendezvous saw an artistic exploration and fusion of various art forms. The brimming ballroom with the Ladies Study Group members got an insight of the harmonious coexistence of art forms which the panellists represented – film, dance, music and visual arts.

Vani Ganpathy, the celebrated Bharatanatyam dancer talked about her tryst with film as an art form. Shoojit Sircar, one of the current young brigades of Indian celluloid talked about depicting fine arts in films, which is a much more contemporary form of art.

Speaking on this occasion, Mukul Agarwal, President, Ladies Study Group stated, “As we know art is everywhere, we just need to be aware. Through this discussion we want that even those who are not initiated into art also feel comfortable with it. At the same time serious art cannot be trivialised. Art does not only mean paintings and sculptures - it is in dance, in singing, in film making, in the cover of a book. Art is in the design of a coffee mug – where function of the item is very important; art has two aspects – the function and the visual.”

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