The Guru Purnima Parv will be observed in State capital for three days. The grand event will kickstart on Wednesday at Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum.
The Madhya Pradesh Culture Department will obserce the festival of dance, music, lectures and demonstrations will be held at 13 places in the State including Bhopal.
Taking a humble cultural initiative to show respect to the greatness of the Guru, the Government of Madhya Pradesh, Culture Department is going to organize "Guru Purnima Parv" on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, on the occasion of Guru Purnima.
Director, Culture Department Aditi Kumar Tripathi informed that this event would be organized simultaneously in 12 government fine arts and music colleges in different cities of the state working under the Department of Culture. In this event, apart from presentations by music, dance artists of the state and country, there will be lectures and demonstrations by experts. At the center of all presentations and lectures will be the glory of the Guru and the Guru-Shishya tradition.
On Wednesday under the event of Guru Purnima festival, there will be singing of famous Delhi singer Shashwati Mandal at Bhopal's MP Tribal Museum from 7 pm. This will be followed by group dance performances of Kathak and Bharatanatyam, which will be presented by Shalini Khare, Amrita Jagam and group.
On July 14, Bharatnatyam presentation will be given by Pradeep Krishnan of Bhopal, Salim Allawale of Bhopal and Sarangi playing by Abid Hussain of Bhopal at Sangeet Mahavidyalaya, Gwalior. Santoor will be played by Anil Kumar Dandotia of Jabalpur and Shri Satyendra Singh Solanki of Bhopal in Sangeet Mahavidyalaya, Mandsaur.
Sangeet Mahavidyalaya, Indore will see the singing of Sunanda Sharma of Delhi and the violin jugalbandi by Mahesh-Amit Malik of Bhopal. Sangeet Mahavidyalaya, Dhar will have singing by Jayshree Sawagunji of Bhopal and Kathak group dance by Mangala Bhatt and Raghav Raj Bhatt of Hyderabad.
Lecture and demonstration of Shashi Prabha Tiwari of Delhi at Lalit Mahavidyalaya, Gwalior, Lecture and demonstration of Ramchandra Kharatmal of Pune in Lalit Kala Mahavidyalaya, Jabalpur, Lecture and demonstration of Shri Mohan Vishwakarma of Indore in Lalit Kala Mahavidyalaya, Dhar and there will be a lecture and demonstration of Alok Sharma of Gwalior at Lalit Kala Mahavidyalaya, Indore.
In this sequence, on July 15 singing by Sudhakar Devle of Ujjain and Rajiv Singh of Bhopal will be held in Sangeet Mahavidyalaya, Narsinghgarh. Singing by Pawan Tiwari of Tikamgarh and Odissi dance performance by Kalyani-Videhi Fagre of Bhopal will be held at Sangeet Mahavidyalaya, Khandwa. Music College, Maihar will have Kathak dance by Ruparani Das Bora from Ghaziabad and Violin playing by Durga Sharma from Bangalore.