An approach at Canada on Bhaona , a zeal to presentvSaint Xankaradeva Legacy to Gen next. Thanks to Mrs Geetashree Gogoi Apte & entire team involved
Together we can Satyen Sent from Satyen's iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: geetasree <geetas...@yahoo.co.uk> > Date: 29 April 2014 20:19:12 GMT+05:30 > To: SupportChild <supportachild-as...@yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [SupportAChild-Assam] Bhaona- first time in Canada [4 Attachments] > Reply-To: supportachild-as...@yahoogroups.com > > [Attachment(s) from geetasree included below] > Dear All > I am very happy and proud to announce that Calgary Assamese Raiz became > successful in staging 'Sakunir Pratixoodh'-Bhaona in Calgary Rongali Bihu on > April12th, 2014 and entered in the history by staging Bhaona first time in > Canada. Fifteen Assamese families from the city of Calgary worked very hard > to put things together to show the culture to the world which Mahapurukh > Srimanta Shankareva showed 600 years back in Assam. This small group of > people can make something from nothing. > Finding here an Ankia Naat, costumes,khool -taal, gayan and bayan is same > as trying to find water in a desert. But among this group if one wrote the > script of Sakunir Pratixoodh in a very simple way another did sound mixing to > get the feeling of mridanga,khool and taal. Some people made Gada and Dhanu > and some made crowns and costumes with jewels and stones. If one made > Sutradhar's costume,another made Krishna's costume from head to toe so that > we will not miss anything of original Bhaona. It is worth to say that this > Bhaona was made from the scratch by Calgary Assamese people. On the day of > performance some were fasting and some were having light food without non-veg > and broke the fast after having 'Mah Prashad and poka mithoi' to respect > Mahapurukh;s culture.Among the performers some were neither Assamese nor > follower of Hindu religion. One can see that in our cultural work on Bhaona > there were no bar of languages, casts, religions. It reminds me about > Chandsai tailor (in the story of Shankardeva) who actually was a follower of > Srimanta Shankardeva though observed Muslim religion. > When most of young as well as old generations here never experienced > Bhaona in their life, it was very difficult to imagine a Bhaona for them. > Therefor we had to keep the script in simple Assamese language so that > everyone can understand easily. Before staging the Bhaona one did Power Point > Presentation on life and work of Mahapurukh Shankardeva, explaining meaning > of Bhaona and the story of 'Sakunir Pratishood' in short. Though we had to > face many difficulties but finally we became succeeded in reaching our goal. > The group of young adults as well as children enjoyed and experienced Bhaona > first time in life.I enjoyed directing as well as taking initiative with this > wonderful group. > Though this Bhaona is not one hundred percent perfect but still we enjoy > showing it to people.Here is a link and some pictures of Bhaona. Hope you too > enjoy and put feedback on it. > http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAE2hXo7bV7RFnvaXkf-ZPikT95sP5UlS > with regards > Geetasree Gogoi Apte > Calgary,Canada > > __._,_.___ > Attachment(s) from geetasree | View attachments on the web > 4 of 4 Photo(s) > > Adinor Sambad (23.04.14).jpg > > AT.jpg > > AssamTribune.PNG > > IMG_0054.JPG > Reply via web post • Reply to sender > • Reply to group • Start a New Topic • Messages in > this topic (1) > VISIT YOUR GROUP > • _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
