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SASHA, based in Kolkata, has been working for over 20 years with women's groups and craftspersons, reviving and sustaining crafts and eco-friendly products. The organisations' network of artisan groups from around the country is presenting an exhibition in Bangalore. Among other products are traditional terracotta from Orissa and West Bengal, textiles from Gujarat, Orissa, West Bengal and Karnataka using kantha aari embroidery, block prints, ikkat and Sambalpuri weaves. From May 3-9 at the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Kumara Park West (near Gandhi Bhavan).
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DOES anyone learn Esperanto these days? Ask Mr. Pradhan of the Bangalore Esperanto Centre and he will tell you staunchly, "It comes in useful when you're learning European languages." The Centre is offering a free one-week course in "Esperanto: the Universal Link Language" from May 5. Call 6782195 or 6341419.
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A WORKSHOP on "Science and the Creative Arts" is on offer for — guess who? Not post-graduates, not scientists and artists, but those aged between four and six years! The announcement goes: "Did you know that your preschooler is capable of understanding metamorphosis?" That should be enough to stop you in your tracks, but there's more. The workshop, which promises to give your child "the chance to discover the medium to express and enhance her cognitive prowess and social skills", covers dance and music. It includes areas such as rhythm composition, body co-ordination, and "introduction to the life sciences". From May 12-24, weekdays from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. At Vidya Niketan Montessori, Chico's Square, Hutchins Road. For details phone Rebecca on 5451244 or Lahari on 3536480.
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LOCAL news photographer Keshav Vitla has a photo-exhibition on dogs, "The Faithful", which is worth a family outing.
His subjects are not your stuck-up pedigreed canines but sturdy, loyal mongrels. Vitla is quite obsessed by them. He has had two earlier exhibitions on the same subject.
In the current exhibition, he has captured 70 of them (mostly street curs) on film, in various arresting attitudes.
On till today at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
C.K. MEENA
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