Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya would organise a three-day festival on cultural traditions of North-East and Eastern India, named as ‘Sanskriti Sandarbh’ from August 24 to 26.
The major attractions of this multidimensional cultural fest are lecture, Seminar, Exhibition, Cultural performances, Craft demonstration and food festival.
The programme will commence with inauguration of a seminar on ‘Oral and Expressive tradition of the indigenous people: Perspectives from Eastern and North Eastern India’ by chief guest Pankaj Rag, Joint Secretary in Union Ministry of Culture.
Thereafter, ‘Prof BK Roy Burman Memorial lecture’ will be organised, where SB Chakravarty (General Secretary, Asiatic Society of India, Kolkata) will speak on ‘Prof BK Roy Burman: A crusader in Anthropological research in India’. later, ‘Kritika’ a demonstration workshop on indigenous Art and Craft will be inaugurated.
In the afternoon, ‘Swad’ a three days long food festival, where ethnic cuisine of Manipur, West Bengal and Jharkhand will be available to visitors at reasonable price.
The ethnic food festival will be organised at Veethi Sankul from August 24 to 26, 2016 daily 1:30 pm to 4 pm.
Sangrahalaya in collaboration with Directorate of Culture of Madhya Pradesh government is organising ‘Nirjhara’ a special programme of folk and classical music of Northeast at Ravindra Bhawan from 6:30pm.
In this programme artists from Assam will present Jugalbandi of Satriya and Kathak Dance. Entries to all the programmes are free of cost.