Bengaluru International Arts Festival 2014

Bengaluru International Arts Festival 2014 is now celebrating its 7th year in epitomizing “Celebration of Harmony through Artsâ€. Thought provoking and well curetted art presentations by artists from both India and abroad are being featured in BIAF 2014.

A seven year journey of art and culture, now bringing it to your nearby auditoriums, galleries and also public places, acknowledging arts for everybody! Creativity is unlimited, be it dancing, instruments, vocal or theatre!

This year BIAF has collaborated with various countries like Netherlands, Sri Lanka, France, Suriname, Rwanda to perform for Bengaluru audience. Folk groups are flying in from Sri Lanka, Odissa, Gujarat and North East.

Bengaluru Metro is one of the prime venues.

On the inaugural day, September 5th at 6:30 PM, we have GRAND FUSION CONCERT at Chowdiah Memorial Hallby Dr.Suma Sudhindra playing the Veena and Edward Ned McGowan on Western Flute, Violin by N.N.Ganesh Kumar,Mridangam & Konnakol by B.C.Manjunath, Tabla & Other Instruments by Anooru Anantha Krishna Sharma and Drums/percussions by Karthik Mani.

“BIAF was conceived & envisaged keeping in mind the need for an International Arts Festival in our country. Our endeavour is to showcase world class performances from legendary artists to the gen next. Over the last six years we have had artists from over 14 countries perform at our festival.

Harmony through Arts, has been our objective and we hope to continue to take this message across, especially in these current times. The support of the people of Bengaluru is vital to keep festivals like BIAF alive. I take this opportunity to invite the citizens of our city to come & enjoy the wonderful artists from across the globe over the next three weekends. Your support in invaluable to us.†added Dr Suma Sudhindra – Director of BIAF.

 

Veena Murthy Vijay, Director of BIAF, says “The power of the arts which brings harmony across the globe has inspired us to conduct Bengaluru International Arts Festival – 2014, for the seventh year†in truly international standards.

About AIM

AIM is headed by Dr. Suma Sudhindra and Veena Murthy Vijay. With their painstaking effort, this duo have conceived, curetted and successfully hosted the past 6 editions of the BIAF. AIM is a team of artists with a progressive attitude towards the arts. AIM has built up a rich treasury of experience in culture documentation for more than three decades, and aims to create a platform to celebrate Art in its multifaceted forms across different localities of Bengaluru and bring about social awareness through this medium.

Their “GO GREEN†campaign to sustain the garden city’s environ is one of their social awareness initiatives.