WORLD GOAN HERITAGE DAY .
GOA - 18th August 2002.
GOA HERITAGE ACTION GROUP invites you to join us at the Betim Cross
on Sunday 18th August, 2002 at 6 p.m. to celebrate World Goan Heritage Day.
Celebrations begin with a short play by the Mustard Seed Art Company,
a theatre group with Art as its middle name. The Company has performed
plays by writers, adapted film scripts or poems and has done mime shows
and musicals. The Company is made up of part-time theatre professionals
and is directed by Ms. Isabel St. Rita Vaz. The short play scheduled for the
18th revolves around a Goan and his love for the land.
There will be a coffee-break at the end of the Company's performance
and at 6.45 p.m. a reading of poems in Konkani by three Goan poets
who call themselves TRIVENI. This confluence of three rivers is made
up of Mrs. Nutan Arun Sakhardande whose first anthology of poems
"Kasturi" was published in 1995. Ms. Sakhardande has had her poems
translated in several major languages of the country. She is an activist and
an active participant of the Konkani movement. Ms. Maya Anil Kharangate,
the other river in TRIVENI had her book of poems published in 1989. Her
poems "Koledadachi palkhi", "Galivarachi bhovandi", a translation and
"Chitrabodh" and "Chowful" have been aired on All India Radio and
Doordarshan television. Ms. Nayana Adarkar is as well known as the
author of three books for young readers as for her book of poems
"Pratima". Ms. Adarkar is admired in literary circles outside Goa for
her sharp and incisive poem on the impersonality of the apartment block.
The celebrations are being held with the Betim Cross as a backdrop
as it was considered the most appropriate venue to reiterate our
commitment to preserving Goa's priceless heritage. The celebrations are also
expected to highlight the plight of this monument that is in urgent need
of restoration. Ketak Nachinolkar, a graduate of the Goa College of
Architecture with a
post graduate degree in conservation from the Delhi School of Planning and
Architecture
has been appointed by the Group to carry out the restoration work of this
exquisite piece
of heritage. Local residents and well wishers of the Cross have generously
donated a seed fund
to start the restoration. Additional funds are however urgently needed to
complete the
task the Group has undertaken for which the Group is working.
Ms Heta Pandit
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