Workshop on Art Reporting IGNCA Kalanidhi and Media Centre organises workshop on art and culture reporting
IBNS/Delhi: Understanding the various dimensions of art and reporting about it in the media is an important part of creating awareness about the art forms and enhancing their popularity.
Delhi-based Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Kalanidhi Division and Media Centre organised a ‘Workshop on Art and Culture Reporting’ to address the various aspects of art review and criticism.
The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) was established in 1987 as an autonomous institution under the Union Ministry of Culture, as a centre for research, academic pursuit and dissemination in the field of the arts.
The inaugural session of the three-day workshop took place on February 10.
Sandhya Purecha, Chairman, Sangeet Natak Akademi, and a well-known classical dancer, was the chief guest at the session.
She reminded the participants that art criticism in India can be traced back to the ancient days.
Purecha referred to the aspects of art criticism as mentioned in the Natyashastra of Bharatmuni and said that journalism should be rooted in knowledge and any argument is worthy only when it is the voice emanating out of knowledge.
The session was chaired by Dr. Sachidanand Joshi, Member Secretary, IGNCA and while Prof. Ramesh Chandra Gaur, HoD, Kalanidhi, IGNCA and Director, National School of Drama, New Delhi delivered the welcome address.
Dr. P. Harsha Bhargavi, Assistant Director (Public Relations), NGMA, New Delhi, introduced the main features of the workshop.
The main objective of the workshop was to provide an understanding and vision on how to report better about the various dimensions of arts.
Dr. Joshi while addressing the participants of the workshop said that when one goes for reporting, one should do their homework about the subject, its genre.
He said that key to art and culture reporting is knowing the fundamentals of the subject.
He said if one is reporting on drama, then one should know how many types of drama are there, how many types of theatre are there, what are the dimensions of acting.
He reminded that Bharatmuni has not only described about the various dimensions of drama in Natyashastra but has also elaborated on how the auditorium should be, where the fire exit should be in it.
Dr. Joshi said that etiquette and civility should also be taken care of while reporting art.
The three-day workshop had 12 sessions, in which senior poet and art critic Prayag Shukla, senior writer and journalist Vinod Bhardwaj, senior journalist and editor of Panchjanya weekly, Hitesh Shankar, senior art critic Anil Goyal led the various discussions.
In the second session of the day, Dr. Santosh Shukla, Dean, School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, gave his views on ‘Indian Knowledge Tradition: Art and Culture’.
In the third session, Sujata Prasad, retired IAS officer and author, art columnist and advisor to National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), spoke on ‘Importance of Forms and Colors in Communicating Indian Culture’.
The first day ended with the screening of the short film “Kashi Ganga Vishwasaraya” produced by IGNCA and directed by Radhika Chandrasekhar.
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