The Chitpur Walk
The Chitpur Local at the Oriental Seminary
Once a part of the East india Company's property, it was often considered off limits and beyond the ‘Maratha Ditch’ (now A J C Bose Road).
Hamdasti, an artists’ partnership, is involved in transforming relationships between people, communities and the city through collective cultural practices, will conduct this walk.
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5-6 pm:
Group One (30 participants) - walk from Jorasanko to Chaitnya Library. This walk has been designed by the students from Bidya Niketan School, and Ruchira Das (artists) who worked with them, will map sites of interest along this route, and recreate an alternative map.
[Participants will be given maps so that they can individually explore the neighbourhood].
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Group Two (30 participants) will use Nilanjan’s (artist) map created with the Orientation Seminary School students, to explore the locality around the Oriental Seminary School, Diamond Library, Chitrpur Jatra para (neighbourhood).
Everyone has individual maps, and will get a good sense of the area.
Two artists from Hamdasti along with volunteers will accompany the smaller groups to guide them, answer questions and make sure they don’t loose their way!
The final meeting point for both walks will be Chaitanya Library.
6 -7 pm:
Presentation of the Chitpur Local journey at Chaitnya Library by Ruchira Das (abour Ruchira). In this presentation she will cover a brief history of Chitpur, a more detailed description of the places we see through our walks, our understanding of social art practice and a summary of our work in the locality.
We end with some CHAI and samosa from the area.
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