PANAJI
As part of Purple Kaleidoscope, various art activities were oragnised at the Art garden at Entertainment Society of Goa were held on Saturday. The event was facilitated by Alpna Kale, an artist with Locomotor disability, included community painting on canvas, poster making, craft, and origami.
Elizabeth Kurian, secretary of Towards Inclusion Everywhere in Society (TIES), said, “Art is a medium of peace, and it is therapeutic and can bring about inclusion. So as a parent and an architect, I suggested that we should have an art gallery at the Purple Fest to showcase talent of people with various disabilities.”
The art gallery,divided into three sections included art by people with different disabilities, tactile paintings for people with visual impairment with QR codes and products of artwork by talented children. On exhibit are paintings and other forms of art done by 18 artists with various disabilities, which are on sale too.
At the accessible art section, there is set of tactile paintings curated by ‘Access for All’ and some of these artworks bear QR codes that can help the visually impaired to see the painting. The gallery is also hosting live activities by artists. Besides, guest artists have been conducting daily sessions too. Paintings by students of Disha School for Special Children are on display.
There will be inclusive art workshops at the Art Pavillion curated by Siddhant Shah from Access for All, for anyone and everyone who is interested, but with priority to students from various special schools and other similar learning centres.
The art installation at Promenade focuses on photo exhibits and a ramp created by Salil Chaturvedi, an author, poet and artist based in Goa. Chaturvedi who uses a wheelchair and has campaigned for disability issues for the past several years.
