Aise dinan barkha ritu aayi - Qawwali by Janab Haider Baksh Warsi & Party скачать в хорошем качестве

Aise dinan barkha ritu aayi - Qawwali by Janab Haider Baksh Warsi & Party

PROJECT NAME : ARTIST SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM CONCEPTUALISED BY : MANJARI CHATURVEDI EXECUTED BY : SUFI KATHAK FOUNDATION DATE OF START : PANDEMIC 2021 In this performance Janab Haider Baksh Warsi, with his group led by Ghulam Jilani, Gufran Aslami and Niyaz Warsi, bring to you their performance live from Chowk, Lucknow. The artists make an outreach to you through their music and in these difficult times we would like you to make an outreach to them and extend financial support to help us bring these performances to you. We shall acknowledge the support in the videos. The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted us to rethink several aspects of life – for artistes all over the nation, performance has become a thing of the past, at least for now. But small town performance artists have been struggling to survive, and hardly anyone is aware of their distress. The Sufi Kathak Foundation is associated with over 400 performance artist all over the county. The calls that we are fielding at the Foundation from most artists are growing more and more desperate by the day. These artists have grown up living and breathing music as their art, their livelihood, their ancestral tradition, but the pandemic has cut off their access to this vital part of their lives. Most have been struggling to feed their families or pay for their children’s continued education. The Sufi Kathak Foundation has been raising funds for Qawwali artistes and other performers who can no longer rely on their usual mode of livelihood: live performances at shrines and other venues and recordings. Our “Support An Artist” program has collected donations and provided financial support since April 2020 to the families of 150 artists. These families are from small towns that are affected the worst, where help wouldn’t reach them – Kakori, Barabanki, Badaun, even Lucknow, Sitapur, Khairabad, Fatehpur Sikri, Jhansi, Verka (Punjab). Our efforts have received some press coverage, which can be seen at the links attached But now we want to take this opportunity to provide more robust and long lasting support to these keepers of our nation’s rich cultural heritage, and also to rethink the paradigm around performance in light of the pandemic. These performance artists are brilliant musicians and yet not tech-savvy enough to keep up in the world of online events and performances. This is where we can help them. Our project “Artist Sustainability Program” proposes to document the Qawwali groups performing in the dargahs or other spaces where they are used to performing every day, and bring these via live broadcast or recording from their own small towns and villages to audiences across the world. The artistes will be adequately compensated for the show and their work will be shared on social media and YouTube, thus bringing them visibility that most of them have never enjoyed. We had appealed on social media for the Government to release cultural program funds to support these artistes: you can see the appeal   / 10220974693651650   And yet even after thousands of shares, no action was taken. So now we are turning to external sources of support for these musicians who carry on this country’s spectacular poetic and musical heritage every day. These musicians come from families where artistic knowledge and practice has been passed down for generations like a precious heirloom. It would be an unspeakable loss to our country if the pandemic forced them to abandon their art and take up other work, as is already starting to happen. We must prevent this crisis and do whatever we can to protect their livelihood, which is our national heritage. Not only is this a financial crisis for them, it is also a mental health crisis. Art is how they connect with themselves, their communities, and their sense of spiritual purpose – losing the avenue to perform has taken a serious toll on them and it’s clear that many are developing what we would call depression. It would be a great tragedy if we lost our nation’s brilliant artists to this debilitating condition. MANJARI CHATURVEDI www.sufikathakfoundation.com