Program for Tuesday 26 November - GOA HERITAGE FESTIVAL 2002

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GOA HERITAGE FESTIVAL 2002,
CAMPAL HERITAGE PRECINCT,
CAMPAL, PANAJI,
Tuesday 26 NOVEMBER 2002 10 A.M. TO 9.P.M.
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The Goa Heritage Action Group and its festival partners
Panjim Municipal Council and the Department of Tourism,
Government of Goa is proud to announce the holding
of the second Goa Heritage Festival on 26 -27 November 2002.

This year we are holding the festival against the backdrop of the
beautiful Indian Art Deco residential bungalows at Campal, Panaji
in the lanes of the heritage precinct. The precinct is currently
in the process of being spruced up for the festival.

Trees in the precinct will be trimmed, the road where the festival
is to take place is going to be redone and garbage bins will be placed
at strategic intervals for the use of the visitors to the festival.

The Festival Organisers are proud to announce that the homeowners
in the precinct have themselves come forward to white wash
compound walls and front facades for the festival.

Since Mr. Derek Rebelo, one of the homeowners in
Campal Heritage Precinct has offered the first floor of his house
for the use of the exhibition the Goa Heritage Action Group
will whitewash the façade and the interior of the hall of this
particularly beautiful heritage home located in the heart of the precinct.

Pandals will be erected in the Festival area as lecture halls,
artisans? stalls and concert auditoriums. Banners will mark
the precinct venue.

At the lecture hall, academic discussions and lectures by experts
in the field of environment and heritage conservation will be held.
After the Inauguration Ceremony at 10 a.m. on the 26 November
2002, where Mr. Manohar Parrikar, Hon. Chief Minister of Goa
will light the traditional lamp, address the gathering and launch
the Group?s website, the lectures will begin at 11 a.m. with a keynote
address by Dr. Ashutosh Sohoni from Mumbai.

Dr. Sohoni is a noted conservation architect and will speak on
Making Conservation Sustainable. This will be followed by a lecture
on heritage being a showcase for tourism by noted Goan historian
Dr. Pratima Kamat.

Dr. Kasturi Desai will then speak on Goa?s golden heritage,
the sand dunes after the lunch break. Architect Harshad Bhatia
from Mumbai will then speak on the economic sense of conservation
followed by a glimpse into the eco-cultural heritage of Sattari district,
Goa by activist Rajendra Kerkar.

To close the academic session for the day, Dr. Maria Aurora Couto
will flag off the Open House Session, invite members of the audience
to participate in a lively discussion on the lectures heard during
the course of the day and other topics related to the problems
of heritage conservation in Goa.

In between every lecture there will be a break for about fifteen minutes
when guests to the Festival can walk up to any of the ten stalls set up
outside the lecture hall. Artisans and crafts people from Goa
will demonstrate their skills in these stalls. The Festival will showcase
Goan carpenters, potters, basket weavers, coppersmiths, silversmiths
and a gilder who works in gold.

The single food stall at the venue will offer traditional Goan dishes
including main meals and snacks throughout the day. A bookstall with
books on Goa will also be open right through the day at the venue.
The Group is also bringing out a publication titled Parmal (Fragrance)
on the occasion that will be available in the bookstall and at other
points in the Festival area.

The exhibition of Goan artifacts, cooking vessels and traditional
utility items will be open from 10 in the morning up till 7 p.m.
on both days in the first floor hall of the heritage home of
Mr. Derek Rebelo. Banners will make the heritage home
easy to identify.

The evenings on both days will see live performances on a stage
especially erected in the precinct. The first day will see the
Mussel Khel from Chandor from 7 p.m. to 7.45 p.m.
followed by the Francisco, Fernanda, Elaine and Anabel Colaço Group
from Margao with their exquisite songs for about 30 minutes.

The second half of the live performances will be folk dances from
Sattari performed by the Vivekanada Kala Sadarikaran Manch.
The evening performances will come to a close at 9.15 p.m.
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Source: GHAG Press Conference 15/11/02
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