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Kala Ghoda – The Festival Of Arts at Fort Mumbai

“Since 1999, their are thousands of people from Mumbai and outside visits the famous Kala Ghoda Arts Festival located at Fort in South Mumbai. Specialty of this city festival in all art areas related to Children, Film, Music, Dance, Street and Visual Arts and Literature. Many reputed sponsors and supporters are ready every year to help and promote this art festival events..”

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About Kala Ghoda Festival Of Arts

Its almost 14 years now, the foundation of Kala Ghoda at Fort with this famous festival of Mumbai being celebrated. People sometimes gets confused with the name, So why named Kala Ghoda ? and the small historic story behind this festival name is that when Mumbai was known as ‘Bombay’ which is decades ago, in this area of fort, south of Mumbai, their was a huge statue of king Edward 8 on a dark black horse (which is called ‘Kala Ghoda’ in Hindi language), now since at that time their was no huge development and street names with sign boards, the locals in Bombay city started knowing this area as pointing towards that Black horse. And since then the location was called ‘kala Ghoda’ which is now officially used in Mumbai.

Now as this moved on, since 1999 the association and commitee members who has this idea of having the biggest art festival of India in Mumbai, named it accordingly. This art festival is a stage for talents for all those youth who specialize or want to get a head start in various fields of Art and related sectors like Music, Dance and Literature, Film or visual or street art are all welcomed to perform and show the unique art work which is appreciated by thousands and lacs of people in Mumbai and internationally, for which they specially visit Mumbai.

Since Kala ghoda’s rampart row location is a silence zone, and few residents have complaints against the festival and disturbance related, this year 2012 festival faced some hurdles, and so are they asking people on thier website about continuing or not in future.

Annual Events Since Years

Children Events : Various workshops related to Drawing, Craft work, Painting, Dance and related art works.

Workshops : Every year different themes are welcomed for different workshops. Any workshop that is related to art is welcomed in this festival. Their should be a theme, some positive information related, be it a lifestyle, digital media, food, photography, therapy or health and wellness.

Literature : If you are good at writing, the literature section is for you. Be it a television serial or any drama. The art of writing is what it focuses on. Yet literature is not limited to TV or film writing, it can be any thing else like story telling, poem writing, group discussion and editorial and more.

Heritage Walk : Lets get back to the past of Mumbai in this art festival, Know how the historic Mumbai was, what it use to look like, the monuments and old structure during those British and Portuguese time and lots more.

Film : Another name of Film in Mumbai festival is Bollywood, let not limited to Bollywood films. The Film art is something versatile in nature, show your film and related art like acting, singing, dancing, direction, photography, art direction and lots more. This festival platform can be a head start of your film career be you the future director or super star, show your clip, art movie or self potraid video on scting and drama here at Kala Ghoda festival and you are quite near to Mumbai’s own bollywood.

Theater : Dance and Drama theaters are also one of the mass media entertainment channel. From Gujarati Drama (Also called ‘Natak’ in hindi) to those emotional and funny Marathi stage acting, your talent will be quite appreciated in this art festival if you perform well live in front.

Music : The industry is huge to sing, compose music be it Hindi, Marathi, Bengali or any other regional language. Kala Ghoda festive is your platform like those you see on reality shows in tv. Give you best and go ahead.

Visual Arts : Every thing starts first in Mind, The art of visualizing things is one of the best ways to success. Yet visual art is little different, the creative mind can almost do anything you want and so is the 3D, animations and those street arts all some or other ways related to visual arts. this festival is one of the best for same.

Street Arts : What kind of performer are you ? The street dancer, or a martial arts expert ? This is another interesting section of Kala Ghoda fest which attracts youth crowd who has some or other talent. Thank to this and such other festival world wide you have a platform where you can perform to reach the world.

Dance : India is one of those only countries with many variations in dance, the classic like kathak and bharat natyam, contemporary and salsa are still live with those hip hop, jives and discos which is all you can see here. Every year Kala Ghoda commitee welcomes international companies and performers to show their talents here in Mumbai.

2012 Year Dates and Events

Festival dates for year 2012 is 4th February to 12th February and some of the schedule events are as :

Street Visual Art : Performance by Guinness World Record holder and famous for 3D street art, ‘Tracy Lee Stum’.
Folk dance and Music Session : This will be conducted at Rampart Row.
Sitar Music : By Singer Niladri Kumar and Susheela Raman.
Culinary Workshop : By One of the famous chef in India.

Sponsors Partners and Collaborators of Festival

Many sponsors, advertisers and collaborator partners are with Kala Ghoda since years, to name the few who keep the finance floating since years are ‘The Times Of India’, ‘British Council’, ‘MTNL’, ‘Crossword’, ‘American Center’, ‘The Museum’, ‘Air India’, ‘Hiranandani Builders’, ’70 Event Media Group’ to list the few.

Address and Contact Details

Kala Ghoda Association
C/o A.T.E. Enterprises Private Limited,
4th Floor, Dr. V B Gandhi Marg,
Fort,
Mumbai : Pincode 400023
Telephone : +91-22-65055034
Telefax : +91-22-22885972
Email: mail@kalaghodaassociation.com

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