The International Dance Festival, ‘Greenwood Udbhav Festival’, jointly organized by Udbahv Cultural and Sports Society and Greenwood Public School will be inaugurated by Hans Joachim Holz, vice president of the prestigious International Organization of Folk Art (IOV).
The inaugural function on October 26 will be chaired by Sant Kripl Singh. The chief guest of the programme will be the famed German author and publisher, Ulrika Rainha.
The chief guest at the concluding ceremony on October 29 will be Samargiul Adamkulova, Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan. The closing ceremony will be presided over by Vivek Shewalkar, the Mayor of Gwalior.
The chief guest of the programme will be Prof SG Deshmukh, Director of ABP Triple ITM.
Speaking at the press conference, Keshav Pandey, chairman of Udbhav Cultural and Sports Society and Kiron Bhadouria Chairperson of Greenwood Public said that it was due to the international exposure and importance of the festival that Hans Joachim Holz, vice president of the prestigious International Organization of Folk Art (IOV) agreed to come to the function. The International Organization of Folk Art (IOV) is the premier organization for the development of arts and culture, working under the guidance of UNESCO. This organization has its activities spread in more than 120 countries. The chairperson of the organization is Ali Abdullaha Khalifa of Bahrain, while the vice president is Hans Holz of Belgium. In his free time, Hans has been an activist in choir music and folk culture. He founded the 3 AndorfChoirs, a male-, a mixed- and a youth choir.
Between 1982 and 2003 he went on many concert tours with them around the world to present choir music from old Austrian and European masters, international folksongs, Austrian folk music and folk dance.
For all his lifeachievements in culture and folk culture he was thankfully honored by his hometown Andorf, by the federal government ofUpper Austria and most ofall by the president ofAustria with the title, “Professor”in 2014.
Speaking to the press Deepak Tomar, the general secretary of UdbhavCultural and Sports society said that Ms Ulrika Rainha is a famous German author and publisher. Discovery and Geography channels have aired documentaries on her activities and accomplishments. She is the first woman author to have interviewed Steve Jobs. She has also worked for NATO and Barrack Obama, the former president ofthe USA is her follower on Twitter. She has visited more than a hundred countries and has visited many places in India.
The closing ceremony of the Greenwood Udbhav International Festival will held at the open theatre of the ABP Triple ITM on October 29. The chief guest of the program will be Samargiul Adamkulova, Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan. The closing ceremony will be presided over by Vivek Shewalkar, the honourable Mayor of Gwalior. The chief guest of the program will be Prof SG Deshmukh, director of ABP Triple ITM.
The internationally reputed ‘Greenwood Udbhav Dance Festival’ will have over two hundred participants from Slovakia, Bulgaria, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Iran, Sri lanka and Bangladesh. Apart from this over a thousand artists from Karnataka, Jammu & Kashmir,
Maharashtra, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh will take part in the event.
Those who addressed the press conference were- Manoj Agarwal, Surendra Pal Singh, Praveen Sharma, Alok Dwivedi, Ajay Singh Parihar, Sharad Saraswat, Monu Rana, Sharad Yadav, Sahil Khan, Pradeep Bisaria, Suresh Varma, Umesh Sharma and Yogendra Sikarwar.