5. September - October 2010

NEWS and HAPPENINGS
Varsha
Kathmandu, 23 July 2010
With the onset of
monsoon, Nepal Academy
of Fine Arts (NAFA)
organised a Women
Art Exhibition entitled
‘Varsha’ with 112 female
painters and sculptors,
who displayed their art
from July 23 to August
7, 2010. The event,
as its title suggested,
celebrated art combined
with womanhood. The
exhibition aimed on
focusing folk art, and the
participants were from
different parts of the
country exhibiting the
essence of their folk art
and culture. The major
node of exhibition was
the sample of ‘Punjya’, the Newari folk art, and Mithila art; which
made the exhibition different from what is seen otherwise. Other
important highlights of ‘Varsha’ were the famous ‘Paubha art’, and
other contemporary realistic and abstract art and sculptures.
Portrait Expression
Kathmandu, 2 August 2010
Pramila Bajracharaya Shakya, one of
the members of the Kasthamandap Art
Studio, held her 8 th solo exhibition at the
Srijana Contemporary Art Gallery on the
2nd August 2010. Although her earlier
exhibition ‘My Collection’ were more
of landscape abstracts, the exhibition
this time focused on women feelings
in both joy and sorrow. Pramila is a
quiet, soft spoken girl and her paintings
reflect the softness as she experiments
with expressions of a single slit eyed
women, colour, cows and cacti – to
bring out her moods and feelings of joy
or sorrow of the moment; the sorrow
probably reflecting the recent loss of
her father.
SONA Goes Green
Kathmandu, 10 August 2010
Society of Nepalese Architects
(SONA) organized a conference
on Green Leed Certification
and other related issues on
Tuesday, 10 th of August 2010.
The conference which was
attended by many leading
architects of Nepal saw a
presentation by Mr. Pramod
Pandey, from Mahaphant
Group, Thailand, which focused
on green and environment
friendly construction
technology. Mr. Pandey also
presented related research on
the production/ installation/
maintenance and
waste management
of materials and
technology, all
important aspects for
the assessment of any
product as ‘green’.
In the same note, the
program highlighted
SHERA boards, an
environment friendly product
of Mahaphant Group. These
fibre-cement boards, which
can be used for cladding as well
as partitions are, claims to be
weatherproof, fire and termite
resistant, flexible and durable.
The program also included
a presentation by Mr. Binod
Shankar Pandey on rain water
along with remarks from Mr.
Niruman Shakya, Ambassador
of Green, SONA.
Also at the program, a
collaboration between Society
of Nepalese Architects (SONA)
and SPACES for the promotion
of architecture was officially
announced by Ar. Debesh
Bhattarai, General Secretary of
SONA.
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September-October 2010