PREVIEW SHOW:
Inauguration: 28th February – Friday – 5:00 PM IST
Preview Show Venue: Kala Academy, Campal, Panjim, Goa
Preview Show Dates: 28th February to 3rd March – 10:00 AM IST to 7:00 PM IST
AUCTION:
Inauguration: 8th March 2014 by the Governor of Goa, H.E. Shri Bharat
Vir Wanchoo
Auction Venue: Goa Marriott Resort & Spa, Miramar, Goa
Auction Date: 8th March 2014 – Saturday – 6:30 PM IST to 10:30 PM IST
The Tara Trust Art Auction is
planned and conceived as a Charity Fundraiser to enable Tara Trust raise funds
for their free weekly art workshops for underprivileged Children in Goa and
various other parts of India.
ART HEALS
With this motto in mind and
through this event, Tara Trust wants to raise awareness amongst the Art
Community, Artist Groups and Philanthropists in order to garner support for
their work.
Around 60 artists from Goa and
other parts of India have donated their works to the trust, either as a 100%
donation or on a 50%-50% share, to help the trust collect funds for their free
art workshops.
Subodh Kerkar, one of Goa’s
famous artists, along with Dr. Katharina Poggendorf-Kakar, Founder-Director of
Tara Trust, who is an artist, activist, writer herself, shall be curating the show.
Mr. Angira Arya, one of India’s best auctioneers is conducting the show, and
also bringing rare works of art from famous artists like Francis Newton Souza,
S. H. Raza, Jamini Roy, M.F. Husain for the auction. Some of the works that
shall be put on auction have never been seen in Goa before, as it is their
endeavor to also promote the arts and artists through this charity event.
This initiative is being
conceptualized with its sponsors and partners, to make it into an annual event
engaging India's artist community to the overall mission of the organization.
Their main event sponsor; Goa
Marriott Resort & Spa, is hosting and sponsoring the complete event, along
with the beverage partner, ABSOLUT. Tara
Trust, Opposite Holy Trinity Church, San Joao Holiday Homes, Mazilwaddo,
Benaulim, - 403716, Goa, India +91 8322770233 Icontact@taratrustindia.com www.taratrustindia.com
Kala Academy Goa has sponsored the preview Exhibition of the
works at their gallery space for 4 (four) days prior to the main auction event,
for public viewing.
Pragati
Offset, Hyderabad, has sponsored the printing of the catalogues for
distribution to the buyers.
The work of
fundraising post the main event will be continued by our partners Start Up Goa,
which is a fantastic Goa based platform, working with us to create our
online-catalogue and platform to highlight the works of the contributing
artists, long after the auction itself.
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NAMES OF
ARTISTS WHO HAVE DONATED THEIR WORK
Alka Kalra,
Amit Lodh, Archana Mishra, Balu Sadalge, Chailati Morajkar, Francis Desouza,
Jagesh Ekkad, Kalidas Mhamal, Kanika Shah, Kedar Dhondu, Kunal Naik, Loretti
Pinto, Megha Joshi, Nirali Lal, Pradeep Naik, Praveen Naik, Rahul Chauhan, Raj
More, Raj Bhandare, Rajesh Salgaonkar, Rakesh Bani, Ramdas Gadekar, Ranit
Datta, Ritu Kamath, Rosy Da Silva, Sachin Naik, Sanjay Sawant, Santosh
Morajkar, SC Ahuja, Seby Akkara, Seema Kohli, Shilpa Nasnolkar, Siddharth
Goswami, Subodh Kerkar, Subrata Ghosh, Suhas Shilker, Sweety Joshi, Tathi
Premchand, Vijay Bhandare, Vitesh Naik, and many more to come.
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ABOUT TARA
TRUST
Tara Trust is
a Goa based non-profit organization working in the area of education and
empowerment of underprivileged children. Established in 2008, the main
objective of the organization is to leverage the healing power of beauty and
art by bringing art based activities to underprivileged children.
Conceived of
by anthropologist Dr. Katharina Poggendorf-Kakar, Tara Trust's activities are
overseen by a board of directors including psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar,
psychologist Amrita Narayanan, businessman Vikram Lal, writer Siddharth Dube
and philanthropist Shefali Malhoutra. The management and work is conducted by a
team of very well qualified employees and volunteers.
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