The Karnataka Lalitkala Academy and Karnataka Sahitya Academy have envisaged various programmes to mark their golden jubilee year. Both institutions are planning to mark their 50-year journey by bringing out landmark publications.
Though the sahitya academy completed 50 years in 2011, the institution could not celebrate then owing to the apathy of the previous State government in filling the post of Chairperson and releasing funds for the celebration. According to sahitya academy chairperson Malathi Pattanshetty, it has been decided to translate 100 landmark Kannada short stories and poems into other Indian languages to mark the occasion. “Our priority is to organise a function to mark the occasion at the earliest.”
Funds soughtLalitkala academy Chairperson M.S. Murthy said a volume to document the 50-year journey of the academy would be brought out on the occasion. “We have sought Rs. 12 crore from the government to take up various projects and programmes to mark the occasion,” he said.
A publication committee comprising noted artists and art historians S.G. Vasudev, K.V. Subrahmanya and Pramila Lochan has been formed to bring out the volume in English and Kannada. It would be a kind of ready-reckoner on local, national and international artists the State has produced, he said.
With an intention of getting clarity on whether the artists are pro-society or individualistic in their approach, seminars, discussions and art camps would be organised. There is a plan to invite artists of national and international repute, and to launch Grama Jatre-Kala Yaatre. Artists would be asked to visit rural areas across the State to understand rural culture and use that to depict diversified culture.
