CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOPS
Basic Workshop
32 basic Capacity Building workshops with 1409 artists were organized in Coochbehar, Alipurduar, Jalpaiguri. Altogether to sharpen the skill of Bhawaiya artists. These trainings generated new interest and desire to learn and perform Bhawaiya songs on big stages. They learned many aspects of this traditional music such as tunes, rhythm, lyrics, correct pronunciation, voice modulation, the concept of scale etc. They learned technical details of performing on stage - such as using a microphone, tuning musical instruments with voice etc.
Eminent Bhawaiya gurus - Anil Majumder, Najrul Islam, Sabita Das, Chaitanyadeb Roy, Kumar Manabendra Narayan, Abinash Chandra Roy, Malati Narayan, Himadri Dewri, Fatik Chandra Ray, Bijan Kumar Ray and other folk experts like - Dipannita Acharya, Pranesh Som, Joysankar Choudhury, Subhrakamal Chattopadhyay, Deepmoy Das were present inthese workshops.
Advanced Workshop
A three days advance workshop with the trainers of Bhawaiya training schools took place at Ghughumari, Coochbehar from May 26 – 28, 2022 where 64 artists participated. On May 25, a meeting between the Gurus was held to discuss the Bhawaiya training process. Masters of Bhawaiya like Kumar Manabendra Narayan, Malati Narayan, Gidal Najrul Islam, Sukheswar Dewri, Himadri Dewri, Anil Majumder, Nagen Shil Sharma, Sunil Barman, Abinash Chandra Roy was present along with folk experts Dipannita Acharya, Tarun Chaudhury and Pranesh Som.
Performances at Festivals
Indian Music Experience, Bangalore has invited Bhawaiya team led by Himadri Dewri at the Freedom Festival in August.
