Interview with Ramsons Kala Pratisthana
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- Title (dcterms:title)
- Interview with Ramsons Kala Pratisthana
- Type (dcterms:type)
- Video recording
- Creator (dcterms:creator)
- Adrija Mukherjee
- Date (dcterms:date)
- 13 February 2025
- Description (dcterms:description)
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Interview with R.G. Singh and Raghu Dharmendra describing the initiation of interest in preserving boardgames.
Ramsons Kala Pratishtana (RKP) is a not-for-profit art foundation based in Mysore, Karnataka, India. RKP was established in 1995 to commemorate the 25th year anniversary of Handicrafts Sales Emporium (largest and finest handicrafts store in Mysore founded by D. Ram Singh in 1970).
RKP is a research, training, design, development and conservation centre for art and craft forms with special emphasis on Mysore and its culture. The main objective of RKP is to develop the art and craft forms by providing research based designs to the artisans and also creating a market to the products produced thereof. RKP aims to be proactive towards the sustainability of craft forms by providing them with new impetus in the face of globalisation and industrialisation.
The mantra is 'Art, craft and traditions have to reinvent themselves in order to be relevant with the times'
RKP conducts several annual exhibitions
'Kreedaa Kaushalya' an exhibition of traditional board games of India, in summer.
'Bombe Mane' an exhibition of traditional dolls on the occasion of Dasara.
'Deepa Soundarya' an exhibition of traditional lamps for Deepavali.
Chairman: D. Ram Singh. Executive Trustee: M.B. Singh. Secretary: R.G. Singh. Curator: Raghu Dharmendra See less - Format (dcterms:format)
- Video
- Language (dcterms:language)
- English
- Place (dcterms:spatial)
- Mysore
- Contributor (dcterms:contributor)
- Raghu Dharmendra, R.G. Singh
