Darjeeling: The hill town came up with a creative response to the problem of waste disposal at the World Environment Day celebrations that began here today.
A trip to Hayden Hall in the heart of the town brought one face to face with waste art as arc lights fell on geometric shapes created by upturned PET bottles hanging from the ceiling. In another part of the room, models of Second World War-era fighter planes made of waste plastic hovered over one’s head, suspended by strings.
Tara Gandhi, wife of Bengal governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi, inaugurated the Waste Art and Mixed Media Show at 1 pm. Around 30-40 people are taking part in the exhibition, which will run till Saturday. Hayden Hall currently houses curious exhibits like Ganesha figures built out of spare parts of automobiles.
From tomorrow, two artists will start working on an installation using recycled waste at the exhibition venue.
A section of the show had students trying their hand at art made of waste material. Works of professional photographers were also on display and they flew off the shelves, the buyers not deterred by the price tag of around Rs 5,000 per print. “This is amazing because photographers had never really caught the imagination of art connoisseurs in the hills till now,” said Samir Sharma, one of the organisers.
Later in the day, an adda session was held at Hayden Hall on Kiran Desai’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Inheritance of Loss. A group of around 60 people, mostly college students and young professionals, passionately discussed issues like multiculturalism, politicisation of identity and the freedom of authors. The novel’s take on the Gorkhaland agitation had ruffled quite a few feathers in the hills with its “fictionalised distortion of reality”, but participants at today’s session seemed ready to excuse Desai in the light of her right to freedom of expression.
A few more adda sessions, titled Din in the Den, on diverse topics have been scheduled for the next four days.
“This is perhaps the first time that adda sessions, which take place so frequently in the rest of the state, are being organised here. We want people to cultivate the habit of getting involved in stimulating discussions, which is a rarity in the hills,” said Sharma.
Source: The Telegraph
A trip to Hayden Hall in the heart of the town brought one face to face with waste art as arc lights fell on geometric shapes created by upturned PET bottles hanging from the ceiling. In another part of the room, models of Second World War-era fighter planes made of waste plastic hovered over one’s head, suspended by strings.Tara Gandhi, wife of Bengal governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi, inaugurated the Waste Art and Mixed Media Show at 1 pm. Around 30-40 people are taking part in the exhibition, which will run till Saturday. Hayden Hall currently houses curious exhibits like Ganesha figures built out of spare parts of automobiles.
From tomorrow, two artists will start working on an installation using recycled waste at the exhibition venue.
A section of the show had students trying their hand at art made of waste material. Works of professional photographers were also on display and they flew off the shelves, the buyers not deterred by the price tag of around Rs 5,000 per print. “This is amazing because photographers had never really caught the imagination of art connoisseurs in the hills till now,” said Samir Sharma, one of the organisers.
Later in the day, an adda session was held at Hayden Hall on Kiran Desai’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Inheritance of Loss. A group of around 60 people, mostly college students and young professionals, passionately discussed issues like multiculturalism, politicisation of identity and the freedom of authors. The novel’s take on the Gorkhaland agitation had ruffled quite a few feathers in the hills with its “fictionalised distortion of reality”, but participants at today’s session seemed ready to excuse Desai in the light of her right to freedom of expression.
A few more adda sessions, titled Din in the Den, on diverse topics have been scheduled for the next four days.
“This is perhaps the first time that adda sessions, which take place so frequently in the rest of the state, are being organised here. We want people to cultivate the habit of getting involved in stimulating discussions, which is a rarity in the hills,” said Sharma.
Source: The Telegraph
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