The SPARROW Tweets
50 women artists including Anju Dodiya, Anjana Mehra, Bharati Kapadia, Brinda Miller, Jyotee Kolte, Papri Bose Mehta, Sheetal Gattani, Tanujaa Rane, Vidya Kamat, Vipta Kapadia, Milburn Cherian, Kiyomi Talaulicar, Apnavi Thacker, Minal Damani, have contributed their paintings towards a charity raffle for SPARROW (Sound & Picture Archives for Research on Women) called ‘Songs of Sorrow, songs of Joy;’ ) to be held on Women’s Day - March 8, 2010.
Speaking exclusively to ME, Dr C S Lakshmi Director, Sparrow says, “SPARROW (Sound & Picture Archives for Research on Women) has been functioning from 1988 onwards. The Raffle for Art for initiative is one of the attempts to raise a corpus fund for SPARROW which will enable it to be financially free. We have planned a series of efforts to raise a corpus fund and this is the first effort towards that.
SPARROW had planned many exciting things in the past and this Raffle for Art is one more exciting project. In 1992 we planned a painting exhibition in which also many artists--both female and male-- participated. But planning this virtual women for women project has been much more exciting. Anupa Mehta conceived the idea and it has been an exciting journey since then.”
Intimate art works — water colours and artists’ books — have been donated by nearly 50 women artists for the cause. Raffle tickets are priced at an affordable Rs.25,000. A ticket could win you a painting by an eminent artist and the ticket amount would be treated as a donation and will qualify for income tax exemption under Sec.80G(1) of IT Act 1961.
This event for women and by women is conceived and managed by Anupa Mehta. Verve and The Bhau Daji Lad Museum are lending their support to this project.
Write to sparrow.raffleforart@gmail.com or call 2828 0895, 2896 5019, 3040 0166 or 2631 6911 for more details. ---FRANCIS H D’SA
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SPARROW’s objectives are to collect a variety of materials like oral history, audio-records, musical and other sound records, photographs, paintings, posters, drawings and audio- visuals connected with women’s lives and functioning and to generate and conduct oral history recording activities like making documentaries and audio-visuals linked with women’s lives, history and development.
