The city - sliced, diced and served with a dash of sauce
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The cat’s out of the frame
A woman displays how not to wear a mask as she walks past a mural of a tiger exiting a frame on a wall in Worli, on Wednesday.
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Embrace the calm
Bandra’s Pali Hill’s recent new art installation has been creating quite a buzz. Titled, Let Silence Speak, the 3.5-foot sculpture has been painstakingly crafted using 20,000 brass nuts. “When we were approached to design a piece, we realised that the neighbourhood was leafy and quite scenic. We wanted to, therefore, encourage passers-by to become one with their surroundings and use this opportunity to listen to their subconscious mind.
We decided to use nuts to mimic the many different thoughts that race through our minds at any given time. Our remit was to use a relatively simple shape that would not be distracting to motorists, while also conveying a unique message,” Abhishek Kumar Singh (inset), who curated the piece, shared. The imagery of a girl clad in a school uniform is a call-to-action for educating female children. The piece was sculpted by Praful Singh. Check it out.
Turn on, tune in, pay up
While everyone was affected by the pandemic last year, people in the informal sector were especially badly hit, as was evidenced during the migrants’ crisis. The Indian wing of the United Nations Development Programme has now stepped in to lend them a helping hand. They are organising a digital concert on March 13, titled Open Up India, with the profits being directed to affected informal-sector workers.
Nikhil Chinappa is the host for the show, which features Lucky Ali (below), Raghav Meattle, Zephyrtone and Vasu Raina. Meattle (inset) told this diarist, “I came on board when I heard that Lucky Ali is part of the line-up because I have been a big fan of his for a long time. But I hope that this is one of the last few digital gigs I perform in, since India is truly opening up again.”
Little steps
A pre-pandemic music gig at The Steps, near St Stephen’s Church in Bandra
Ever since The Steps opened up in Bandra, it offered people in the neighbourhood access to a public space with a shared sense of community, where regular events are held. But there was a lull during the pandemic, though now, events have been started there again. The latest is an upcoming art exhibition organised by children, for children. “We will display art only by people less than 12 years of age. The exhibits will be up on the walls from 4 pm to 6 pm on March 13,” informed organiser Anca Florescu Abraham, adding that 10-year-old Anvi Kalothia is a co-curator for the show. Interested kids can drop in two pieces of artwork at Mcubed Library in Bandra by March 10.
Connecting through art
Representation pic
Parag, a Delhi-based initiative that promotes the habit of reading among children, constituted Big Little Book Award (BLBA) in 2015. With the event having turned five in December 2020, the team is organising a celebratory art exhibition online. The show will feature the works of five illustrators who have won BLBA, and unpublished entries are also being invited from artists in two age groups — six to 14 years, and 18 to 30 years. “The exhibition is about connecting through art, displaying the visual craft of telling stories and bringing together different stakeholders,” shared Swaha Sahoo, head, Parag. Email one illustration to hello@biglittlebookaward.in by March 15 if you feel that you have what it takes.
Tales about Tata
Pic courtesy/@ratantata on Instagram
Tata Group founder Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata was born on March 3, 1839, and Ratan Tata, the current chairman emeritus, reached Jamshedpur, the city named after the founder, yesterday to mark the occasion. He also shared a photo on Instagram of the time when he and JRD Tata, whom he called his mentor, were at the same place, in front of Jamsetji’s statue. The caption said that he remembers JRD fondly on this day. We guess that the moral of the story is to find a mentor and keep him close, like Ratan Tata did.
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